# Deaths in April 2016
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2016.
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.

## April 2016
### 1

* Karl-Robert Ameln, 96, Swedish sailor (1948 and 1952 Olympics).
* Aleksander Arkuszyński, 98, Polish brigadier general, WWII veteran.
* Pratyusha Banerjee, 24, Indian actress, suicide by hanging.
* Alan Carter, 86, British civil servant, Director of Immigration of Hong Kong (1983–1989).
* Tom Coughlin, 67, American business executive and convicted fraudster (Walmart).
* George Curry, 71, American football coach, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Mame Younousse Dieng, 76, Senegalese writer.
* Alberto Fontanesi, 87, Italian footballer.
* Artur Górski, 46, Polish politician, member of Sejm (since 2005), leukemia.
* Kao Ching-yuen, 87, Taiwanese businessman (Uni-President Enterprises Corporation). (death announced on this date)
* Richard S. Kem, 89, American army Major-General.
* Emil Keres, 90, Hungarian actor and theatre director.
* Clarence Makwetu, 88, South African politician.
* Herbert Theodore Milburn, 84, American judge.
* John Minney, 76, English cricketer (Cambridge University, Northamptonshire).
* Wiebe Nijenhuis, 61, Dutch sportsman.
* Carl Nordling, 85, Swedish physicist.
* Marjorie Peters, 97, American baseball player (AAGBPL).
* Fausto Puccini, 83, Italian Olympic equestrian.
* Patricia Thompson, 89, American philosopher.
* André Villers, 85, French photographer.
* Tony Whittaker, 83, British solicitor and politician.
* Ron Wicks, 76, Canadian NHL ice hockey referee, liver cancer.

### 2

* Gato Barbieri, 83, Argentine jazz saxophonist, pneumonia.
* Rick Bartow, 69, American artist, heart failure.
* Moreese Bickham, 98, American convicted murderer and anti-death penalty activist.
* Sergio Ferrari, 72, Italian footballer.
* Gallieno Ferri, 87, Italian comic book artist (Zagor, Mister No).
* Boris Hybner, 74, Czech actor and mime artist.
* Gareth Jones, 85, British legal academic.
* Martin Lampkin, 65, English motorcycle trials rider, cancer.
* Nabil Nosair, 77, Egyptian footballer (Zamalek).
* Amber Rayne, 31, American pornographic actress, accidental drug overdose.
* Dennis Riggin, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).
* László Sárosi, 84, Hungarian football player and coach.
* Thomas Zeng Jing-mu, 95, Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Yujiang (1988–2012).
* Soldiers killed in the Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes:
** Robert Abajyan, 19, Armenian (Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army).
** Samid Imanov, 34–35, Azerbaijani (Special Forces).
** Samir Kachayev, 22, Azerbaijani.
** Murad Mirzayev, 40, Azerbaijani (Special Forces).
** Kyaram Sloyan, 19, Armenian (Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army).

### 3

* Abu Firas al-Suri, 65, Syrian al-Nusra Front senior official, air strike.
* Phanor Arizabaleta-Arzayus, 78, Colombian criminal, heart attack.
* John C. Baldwin, 67, American cardiac surgeon, drowned.
* John Vane, 11th Baron Barnard, 92, British peer.
* Erik Bauersfeld, 93, American radio dramatist (KPFA) and voice actor (Star Wars, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Crimson Peak).
* Ward Crutchfield, 87, American politician, member of the Tennessee Senate (1985–2007).
* Bob Ellis, 73, Australian writer (Newsfront, My First Wife) and journalist, liver cancer.
* Bas van Erp, 36, Dutch wheelchair tennis player, Paralympic bronze medalist (2004).
* Leopoldo Flores, 82, Mexican artist.
* Don Francks, 84, Canadian jazz vocalist and actor (La Femme Nikita, Inspector Gadget, I'm Not There), lung cancer.
* Robert Guinan, 82, American painter, lymphoma.
* Lars Gustafsson, 79, Swedish writer and scholar.
* Rowley Habib, 82, New Zealand writer.
* Henry Harpending, 72, American anthropologist, stroke.
* Bill Henderson, 90, American jazz vocalist and actor (Clue, City Slickers, White Men Can't Jump), cancer.
* Dick Hodgins, Jr., 84, American cartoonist.
* Ross Honsberger, 87, Canadian mathematician.
* Stephen Jacobsen, 75, American bioengineer.
* Alex de Jesús, 33, Puerto Rican professional and Olympic lightweight boxer (2004), shot.
* Cesare Maldini, 84, Italian football player and manager.
* Joe Medicine Crow, 102, American Crow historian.
* Ronald Mulkearns, 85, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ballarat (1971–1997), colon cancer.
* Whai Ngata, 74, New Zealand Māori broadcaster, journalist and lexicographer.
* Noh Jin-kyu, 23, South Korean short track speed skater, world champion (2011, 2012), osteosarcoma.
* Lola Novaković, 80, Serbian singer.
* Ian Robinson, 69, Zimbabwean cricket umpire, lung cancer.
* Jules Schelvis, 95, Dutch historian and Holocaust survivor.
* Kōji Wada, 42, Japanese singer ("Butter-Fly", "All of My Mind"), nasopharynx cancer.
* John Waite, 74, English footballer (Grimsby Town).
* Clarence Clifton Young, 93, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Nevada's at-large congressional district (1953–1957), Nevada Senate (1966–1980) and Supreme Court (1985–2002).

### 4

* Ranjan Baindoor, 66, Indian cricketer.
* Jarle Bondevik, 81, Norwegian philologist.
* Archie Dees, 80, American basketball player (Cincinnati Royals, Detroit Pistons).
* Eric Dott, 89, American game designer.
* Georgi Hristakiev, 71, Bulgarian footballer, Olympic silver medalist (1968).
* Shahidul Islam Khokon, 59, Bangladeshi filmmaker, motor neuron disease.
* Chus Lampreave, 85, Spanish actress (Belle Époque, Volver).
* Carlo Mastrangelo, 78, American bassist and doo-wop singer (The Belmonts).
* Getatchew Mekurya, 81, Ethiopian jazz saxophonist.
* John Miller, 68, American politician, member of the Virginia Senate (since 2008).
* Royston Nash, 82, English conductor (D'Oyly Carte Opera Company).
* George Radosevich, 88, American football player (Baltimore Colts).
* Mike Sandlock, 100, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
* Abe Segal, 85, South African tennis player, cancer.
* Song Soo-kwon, 76, South Korean writer.
* Ken Waterhouse, 86, English footballer (Preston North End, Rotherham United).

### 5

* John Carlson, 82, American sportscaster.
* Michael Earls-Davis, 95, English cricketer.
* Zyta Gilowska, 66, Polish politician, Minister of Finance (2006, 2007), Deputy Prime Minister (2006, 2007).
* Roman Gribbs, 90, American politician, Mayor of Detroit (1970–1974).
* Leon Haywood, 74, American funk and soul singer.
* Ed Johnson, 71, American basketball player.
* Koço Kasapoğlu, 80, Turkish footballer.
* George Gelaga King, Sierra Leonean judge.
* Zena Latto, 90, American jazz saxophonist.
* Kerrie Lester, 62, Australian painter, leukaemia.
* Elsie Morison, 91, Australian soprano.
* E. M. Nathanson, 88, American author (The Dirty Dozen), heart failure.
* Cornel Patrichi, 72, Romanian ballet dancer, choreographer and actor, lung cancer.
* Mick Sullivan, 82, English rugby league footballer (Wigan), world champion (1954, 1960).
* Ahmed Refai Taha, 61, Egyptian terrorist, leader of al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, air strike.
* Barbara Turner, 79, American actress (Soldier Blue) and screenwriter (Georgia, Pollock, The Company).
* Frank Wainright, 48, American football player (Miami Dolphins, Baltimore Ravens), NFL champion (2000).

### 6

* Orison Rudolph Aggrey, 89, American diplomat, Ambassador to the Gambia (1973–1977), Senegal (1973–1977) and Romania (1977–1981).
* Joe Freeman Britt, 80, American attorney and death penalty advocate.
* Dennis Davis, 64, American drummer (David Bowie, Stevie Wonder), cancer.
* Jaime Pedro Gonçalves, 79, Mozambican Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Beira (1976–2012).
* Adrian Greenwood, 42, British art dealer and author, stabbed.
* Merle Haggard, 79, American singer-songwriter ("Okie from Muskogee", "The Fightin' Side of Me", "Carolyn"), Grammy winner (1984, 1998, 1999), complications from pneumonia.
* Darrell Hogan, 89, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
* Bernd Hoss, 76, German football manager.
* Garry Jones, 65, English footballer (Bolton Wanderers).
* Joel Kurtzman, 68, American economist, cancer.
* Robert MacCrate, 94, American lawyer, President of the American Bar Association (1987–1988).
* Ogden Mills Phipps, 75, American horse breeder.
* Josef Toms, 94, Czech Olympic basketball player.
* Pablo Lucio Vasquez, 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Murray Wier, 89, American basketball player (Tri-Cities Blackhawks, Waterloo Hawks).

### 7

* László Bárczay, 80, Hungarian chess Grandmaster (FIDE, ICCF).
* Freda Briggs, 85, English-born Australian professor and child protection expert, Senior Australian of the Year (2000).
* A. V. Christie, 53, American poet, breast cancer.
* Frank E. Denholm, 92, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from South Dakota's 1st congressional district (1971–1975).
* Marcel Dubé, 86, Canadian playwright.
* Hendrikje Fitz, 54, German actress (In aller Freundschaft), cancer.
* Theodore van Houten, 63, Dutch–British author and journalist.
* Vladimir Kagan, 88, American furniture designer.
* Cyril Edel Leonoff, 91, Canadian civil engineer and historian.
* Carlo Monti, 96, Italian athlete, Olympic bronze medalist (1948).
* Blackjack Mulligan, 73, American professional wrestler (WWWF, JCP, CWF).
* Charles Thomas, 87, British archaeologist.
* Jimmie Van Zant, 59, American singer, songwriter and guitarist, liver cancer.
* Chuck Waseleski, 61, American baseball statistician (Boston Red Sox).
* Ruth Westbrook, 85, English cricket player and coach (national team).
* Sir John Yocklunn, 82, Australian–Papua New Guinean librarian and government advisor.

### 8

* Nicolas Abu Samah, 76–77, Lebanese actor and director.
* Dick Alban, 87, American football player (Washington Redskins, Pittsburgh Steelers).
* Mircea Albulescu, 81, Romanian actor and writer, heart failure.
* Harry Apted, 90, Fijian cricketer.
* Victoria Chitepo, 88, Zimbabwean politician.
* Anatol Ciobanu, 81, Moldovan linguist, writer and university professor.
* David Dore, 75, Canadian figure skating competitor, judge and official, President (1980–1984) and Director General (1986–2004) of the CFSA.
* Phoebus Dhrymes, 82, American economist.
* Doug France, 62, American football player (Los Angeles Rams).
* Paul Fung Jr., 93, American cartoonist (Blondie).
* Mildred Gordon, 92, British politician, MP for Bow and Poplar (1987–1997).
* William Hamilton, 76, American cartoonist, traffic collision.
* Jack Hammer, 90, American musician and songwriter ("Great Balls of Fire").
* Charles Hirsch, 79, American forensic pathologist.
* Julien Hoferlin, 49, Belgian tennis coach (national team), cancer.
* George Ilsley, 88, Australian football player (Carlton).
* Grace Lotowycz, 99, American botanist.
* Fred Middleton, 85, English footballer (Lincoln City).
* Elizabeth Roemer, 87, American astronomer.
* Erich Rudorffer, 98, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
* Gene Salvay, 96, American aircraft engineer.
* David Swift, 85, British actor (Drop the Dead Donkey).
* Wei Chueh, 88, Taiwanese Buddhist monk, founder of the Chung Tai Shan.
* Nigel Paulet, 18th Marquess of Winchester, 74, British peer, member of the House of Lords (1968–1999).

### 9

* Frederic W. Allen, 89, American judge.
* Arthur Anderson, 93, American actor (Courage the Cowardly Dog, Midnight Cowboy), voice of Lucky Charms leprechaun.
* Frank Baron, 93, Dominican politician.
* Duane Clarridge, 83, American CIA official, complications from esophageal cancer.
* Tony Conrad, 76, American avant-garde musician, composer, video artist and professor (University at Buffalo), pneumonia.
* Juris Ekmanis, 74, Latvian academic, President of Latvian Academy of Sciences (2004–2012).
* Finn Hodt, 96, Norwegian Olympic speed skating competitor (1956) and coach.
* J. Vinton Lawrence, 76, American CIA paramilitary officer, acute myeloid leukemia.
* Bea Maddock, 81, Australian artist.
* Lucas Martínez Lara, 70, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Matehuala (since 2006).
* Patrick J. O'Donnell, 68, Scottish academic.
* Martin Roberts, 48, English rugby union player (Gloucester Rugby).
* Derrick Rochester, 76, Jamaican politician and trade unionist, MP for South East St Elizabeth (1972–1980, 1989–2002), member of the Senate (1980–1983).
* Will Smith, 34, American football player (New Orleans Saints), Super Bowl champion (2010), shot.

### 10

* Alec Crikis, 71, Australian Olympic sports shooter.
* John Ferrone, 91, American book editor (The Color Purple), complications from Parkinson's disease.
* Louis Gladstone, 88, American politician.
* Nicholas Hood, 92, American politician and civil rights activist, Detroit City Councilman (1965–1993).
* Irene Maguire, 86, American figure skater, heart failure.
* Howard Marks, 70, Welsh cannabis smuggler, writer and legalisation campaigner, colorectal cancer.
* Thomas Kwaku Mensah, 81, Ghanaian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Obuasi (1995–2008) and Archbishop of Kumasi (2008–2012).
* Wayne Southwick, 93, American surgeon and academic.
* Henryk Średnicki, 61, Polish Olympic boxer (1976, 1980), amateur World Champion (1978).
* N. H. Wadia, 91, Indian neurologist.

### 11

* Tony Ayers, 82, Australian public servant.
* Helen Bailey, 51, British author, suffocated.
* Doug Banks, 57, American radio personality (The Doug Banks Radio Show), diabetes.
* João Carvalho, 28, Portuguese mixed martial arts fighter, injuries sustained in match.
* Albert Filozov, 78, Russian actor.
* Emile Ford, 78, Saint Lucian singer ("What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?") and sound engineer.
* Hokie Gajan, 56, American football player and broadcaster (New Orleans Saints), liposarcoma.
* Mohsen Gheytaslou, 25–26, Iranian soldier (65th Airborne Special Forces Brigade).
* Ruth Gilbert, 99, New Zealand poet.
* Yura Halim, 92, Bruneian politician, Chief Minister (1967–1972) and lyricist (national anthem).
* Anne Gould Hauberg, 98, American arts patron, founder of the Pilchuck Glass School.
* Alan Hurd, 78, English cricketer.
* Peter J. Jannetta, 84, American neurosurgeon (Allegheny General Hospital).
* Dame Marion Kettlewell, 102, British naval officer, Director of the Wrens (1966–1970).
* Huntly D. Millar, 88, Canadian medical technology executive.
* Miss Shangay Lily, 53, Spanish drag queen, pancreatic cancer.
* Édgar Perea, 81, Colombian politician and football commentator.
* Steve Quinn, 64, British rugby league player (York, Featherstone Rovers).
* Richard Ransom, 96, American businessman (Hickory Farms).
* Ed Snider, 83, American sports executive (Comcast Spectacor, Philadelphia Flyers, Philadelphia 76ers), bladder cancer.
* A. R. Surendran, Sri Lankan lawyer, President's Counsel (2004).
* Bounama Touré, 63, Senegalese Olympic wrestler.

### 12

* James Bond, 70, Australian navy officer.
* Aquilino Bonfanti, 73, Italian footballer.
* Robbie Brennan, 68–69, Irish musician (Skid Row, Auto Da Fé, Grand Slam).
* Hector A. Cafferata Jr., 86, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
* Paul Carey, 88, American radio broadcaster (Detroit Tigers), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
* Gianroberto Casaleggio, 61, Italian entrepreneur, co-founder of Five Star Movement.
* Pedro de Felipe, 71, Spanish footballer (Real Madrid, Espanyol).
* David Gest, 62, American TV producer (Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special) and reality show contestant (I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, Celebrity Big Brother UK), stroke.
* Gib Guilbeau, 78, American musician (The Flying Burrito Brothers) and composer (Boxcar Bertha).
* Anne Jackson, 90, American actress (The Shining, Folks!, Dirty Dingus Magee).
* Bryce Jordan, 91, American academic administrator, President of the Pennsylvania State University (1983–1990).
* Alexander Kanengoni, 65, Zimbabwean writer, heart failure.
* Alan Loveday, 88, New Zealand-born British violinist (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields).
* Balls Mahoney, 44, American professional wrestler (ECW, WWE, SMW), heart attack.
* André Mayamba Mabuti Kathongo, 85, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Popokabaka (1979–1993).
* Tōru Ōhira, 86, Japanese voice actor (Super Sentai, One Piece).
* Tibor Ordina, 45, Hungarian Olympic track and field athlete (1996), brain cancer.
* Tomaž Pandur, 53, Slovenian theatre director.
* Spec Richardson, 93, American baseball executive (Houston Astros).
* Agha Saleem, 81, Pakistani writer.
* Sir Arnold Wesker, 83, British playwright.
* Said Zahari, 88, Singaporean journalist and political prisoner.

### 13

* Srinivas Aravamudan, 54, Indian-born British academic.
* Márton Balázs, 86, Romanian mathematician.
* Jackie Carter, 62, American children's author, lymphoma.
* Julio García Espinosa, 89, Cuban film director and screenwriter (The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin).
* Nuri Gezerdaa, 56, Abkhaz politician.
* Kurtis Haiu, 31, New Zealand rugby union player (Auckland, Blues), bone cancer.
* Earl B. Hunt, 83, American psychologist.
* Matthias Joseph Isuja, 86, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Dodoma (1972–2005).
* Robert W. Lundeen, 94, American executive (Tektronix).
* Mariano Mores, 98, Argentine tango composer and pianist.
* Eeti Nieminen, 89, Finnish Olympic Nordic skier (1952).
* Rex Patterson, 89, Australian politician, MP for Dawson (1966–1975).
* Jock Scot, 63, Scottish poet and recording artist, cancer.
* Manouchehr Sotoudeh, 102, Iranian geographer and scholar of Persian literature, lung infection.
* Jeremy Steig, 73, American jazz flutist.
* Gareth Thomas, 71, Welsh actor (Blake's 7, Children of the Stones, Star Maidens), heart failure.
* Gwyn Thomas, 79, Welsh poet and academic, National Poet (2006–2008).
* Ray Thornton, 87, American attorney and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas's 4th and 2nd congressional districts (1973–1979, 1991–1997).
* Nera White, 80, American Hall of Fame basketball player.
* Bernard B. Wolfe, 101, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1965–1974).
* Pete Yellin, 74, American jazz saxophonist and educator.
* Sayed Zayan, 72, Egyptian actor.

### 14

* Nguyen Anh 9, 76, Vietnamese songwriter and pianist.
* Ahmed Brahim, 69, Tunisian politician.
* David Collischon, 78, British executive (Filofax).
* Martin Fitzmaurice, 75, English darts personality.
* Gaetano Gagliano, 98, Canadian entrepreneur.
* Francesco Guarraci, 61, Italian-born American mobster.
* Hector Hatch, 80, Fijian boxer (1956 Olympics), politician and civil servant.
* Fred Hayman, 90, Swiss-born American fashion retailer (Giorgio Beverly Hills) and entrepreneur, helped develop Rodeo Drive.
* James W. Huston, 62, American author and lawyer.
* Dan Ireland, 57, Canadian-born American film producer and director (Jolene, The Whole Wide World, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont).
* Ilija Ivezić, 89, Croatian film actor (Last of the Renegades, The Golden Years, Marshal Tito's Spirit).
* Colin Knight, 81, New Zealand educationalist, principal of Christchurch Teachers' College (1986–1995).
* Liang Sili, 91, Chinese missile control scientist and academician (Chinese Academy of Sciences), vice-president of the International Astronautical Federation.
* Sir David MacKay, 48, British author, physicist and professor (University of Cambridge), stomach cancer.
* Rod Reyes, 80, Filipino broadcast executive and journalist (The Standard), heart failure.
* Phil Sayer, 62, British voice artist, oesophageal cancer.
* Malick Sidibé, 80, Malian photographer.
* Xu Caidong, 97, Chinese metallurgist and academician (Chinese Academy of Sciences), vice-governor of Guizhou.
* Ron Theobald, 72, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers).
* Carl M. Vogel, 61, American politician, member of the Missouri Senate (2003–2011), pancreatic cancer.

### 15

* Orville Gilbert Brim, Jr., 93, American social psychologist.
* Anne Grommerch, 45, French politician, member of the National Assembly (since 2008), Mayor of Thionville (since 2014), breast cancer.
* Byrle Klinck, 81, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player, bronze medallist (1956).
* Laura Liu, 49, American state judge, Cook County Circuit Court judge (2010–2014), Illinois Appellate Court judge (since 2014), breast cancer.
* Frederick Mayer, 94, German-born American spy (OSS).
* Derek Mayers, 81, English footballer (Preston North End).
* A. A. Raiba, 94, Indian painter.
* Harold Shillinglaw, 88, Australian football player and cricketer.
* Morag Siller, 46, British actress (Emmerdale, Memphis Belle, Casualty), breast cancer.
* Richard Smith, 84, British painter, heart failure.
* Lars-Inge Svartenbrandt, 70, Swedish criminal, apartment fire.
* Louis Van Geyt, 88, Belgian politician, chairman of Communist Party of Belgium (1972–1989).
* Guy Woolfenden, 78, English composer and conductor.

### 16

* Muhammad Ayyub, 64, Saudi Arabian imam and Islamic scholar.
* Ron Bonham, 73, American basketball player (Boston Celtics, Indiana Pacers), NBA champion (1965, 1966).
* Jeanette Bonnier, 82, Swedish media proprietor (Bonnier Group), journalist (Expressen) and author.
* David R. Brown, 93, American computer scientist.
* Miloud Chaabi, 86, Moroccan businessman.
* Rod Daniel, 73, American film director (Teen Wolf, K-9, WKRP in Cincinnati), Parkinson's disease.
* Donald B. Easum, 92, American diplomat.
* William M. Gray, 86, American meteorologist.
* Guan Guangfu, 84, Chinese politician, Communist Party Chief of Hubei.
* Bernhard Hassenstein, 93, German biologist and behaviorist.
* Charlie Hodge, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Vancouver Canucks) and scout.
* Clarence James, 84, Bermudian politician, Deputy Premier (1983–1989).
* Maurice Kenny, 86, American poet, heart ailment and kidney failure.
* Rubén Mendoza Ayala, 55, Mexican politician.
* Nathanael Orr, 98, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1976–1984).
* U Pandita, 94, Burmese Buddhist monk and meditation teacher.
* Louis Pilot, 75, Luxembourgish football player (Fola Esch, Standard Liège, Royal Antwerp) and manager (national team).
* Ilias Polatidis, 50, Greek politician.
* Ismael Quintana, 78, Puerto Rican singer and composer.
* Peter Rock, 70, Austrian-born Chilean rock musician.
* Helmut Rohde, 90, German politician.
* Kit West, 79, British special effects artist (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Dragonheart, Enemy at the Gates), Oscar winner (1982).

### 17

* Ken Aldred, 70, Australian politician, MP for Henty (1975–1980), Bruce (1983–1990) and Deakin (1990–1996).
* Tiga Bayles, 62, Australian radio presenter and indigenous rights activist, cancer.
* Kong Bunchhoeun, 77, Cambodian author and songwriter, cancer.
* Bettye Caldwell, 91, American educator (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) and child-development campaigner (NAEYC).
* Bob Charles, 79, American-born Australian politician, MP for La Trobe (1990–2004).
* Chyna, 46, American professional wrestler (WWF) and actress (1 Night in China, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Cougar Club), mixed drug intoxication.
* Clifton C. Garvin, 94, American businessman, CEO of Exxon (1975–1986).
* Luis Horacio Gomez González, 57, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Gaitán (2014–2016).
* Anthony Keane, 87, American Olympic fencer (1968).
* Toshiro Konishi, 63, Japanese-born Peruvian chef, pioneer of Japanese cuisine in Lima, cancer.
* Bruce Mansfield, 71, Australian radio and television personality, prostate cancer.
* Scott Nimerfro, 54, American writer and producer (Hannibal, Once Upon a Time, X-Men), angiosarcoma.
* Constantine Papastephanou, 92, Syrian Eastern Orthodox prelate, Metropolitan of Baghdad and Kuwait (1969-2014).
* Doris Roberts, 90, American actress (Everybody Loves Raymond, Remington Steele, Christmas Vacation), stroke.
* Trần Phước Thọ, 23, Vietnamese footballer (Long An, U23 national team), traffic collision.
* Nicolas Tikhomiroff, 89, French photographer.
* Yang Hongxun, 84, Chinese architect, architectural historian, and archaeologist.

### 18

* Brian Asawa, 49, American opera singer, heart failure.
* Paul Busiek, 93, American politician.
* Yuri Bychkov, 84, Russian art historian.
* William Campbell, 75, American business executive (Apple) and college football coach (Columbia University), cancer.
* Adrian Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose, 78, British journalist.
* Robert Christophe, 78, French Olympic swimmer (1956, 1960, 1964), European champion (1958, 1962).
* Barry Davies, 71, British soldier and author, heart attack.
* Rubén Héctor di Monte, 84, Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Mercedes-Luján (2000–2007).
* Marwan Dudin, 79–80, Jordanian politician, Minister of Agriculture (1980–1984) and Minister of State for the Occupied Territory Affairs (1986–1988).
* Hugh Faulkner, 83, Canadian politician, MP for Peterborough (1965–1979), complications from surgery.
* Ben-Zion Gold, 92, Polish-born American rabbi.
* Cox Habbema, 72, Dutch actress, theater director and manager.
* Eva Henning, 95, Swedish stage and movie actress.
* Fritz Herkenrath, 87, German footballer (Rot-Weiss Essen).
* Karina Huff, 55, British actress (The House of Clocks, Time for Loving, Voices from Beyond) and television personality, breast cancer.
* Proverb Jacobs, 80, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants).
* Sir John Leslie, 4th Baronet, 99, Anglo-Irish aristocrat and media personality.
* Arnulfo Mejía Rojas, 59, Mexican architect and Catholic priest.
* Johan van Minnen, 83, Dutch journalist and politician, member of the European Parliament (1979–1984).
* Vladimir Nemukhin, 90, Russian painter (Bulldozer Exhibition).
* Charles J. Pilliod Jr., 97, American business executive and diplomat, Ambassador to Mexico (1986–1989).
* Guy Prather, 58, American football player (Green Bay Packers), cancer.
* Fulvio Roiter, 89, Italian photographer, Prix Nadar winner (1956).
* Pál Sajgó, 93, Hungarian cross country skier and biathlete.
* Gert Schramm, 87, German Holocaust survivor.
* Zoltán Szarka, 73, Hungarian football player and coach, Olympic champion (1968).
* Tao Siju, 81, Chinese politician, minister of Public Security.

### 19

* Gerasimos Arsenis, 84, Greek politician, Minister for National Defense (1993–1996) and National Education and Religious Affairs (1996–2000).
* Patricio Aylwin, 97, Chilean politician, President (1990–1994).
* Estelle Balet, 21, Swiss snowboarder, world champion (2015, 2016), avalanche.
* Dud Beattie, 81, Australian rugby league footballer and selector (Queensland).
* Errikos Belies, 66, Greek translator and poet.
* Dorothy R. Burnley, 89, American politician, member of the North Carolina General Assembly (1980–1984).
* Eloy Casados, 66, American actor (Ishi: The Last of His Tribe, Walker, Texas Ranger).
* Russell Dove, 87, Australian Olympic sports shooter (1972).
* Harry Elderfield, 72, British geochemist and professor (University of Cambridge).
* Ronit Elkabetz, 51, Israeli actress and film director (Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem), lung cancer.
* Solveig Ericsson, 84, Swedish Olympic athlete.
* Karl-Heinz von Hassel, 77, German actor.
* Walter Kohn, 93, Austrian-born American theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate (1998), jaw cancer.
* Lord Tanamo, 81, Jamaican ska and mento musician.
* John McConathy, 86, American basketball player (Milwaukee Hawks, Northwestern State).
* Mehrdad Oladi, 30, Iranian footballer (Malavan), heart attack.
* Milt Pappas, 76, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs).
* Billy Redmayne, 25, Manx motorcycle racer, race collision.
* Igor Volchok, 84, Russian football manager.
* Pete Zorn, 65, American musician (Steeleye Span, Richard Thompson, The Albion Band), cancer.

### 20

* Solomon Blatt Jr., 94, American federal judge, U.S. District Court for South Carolina (since 1971).
* Cynthia Cooke, 96, British nurse, Matron-in-Chief of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service (1973–1976).
* Velda González, 83, Puerto Rican actress and politician.
* Guy Hamilton, 93, French-born British film director (James Bond, Battle of Britain, Evil Under the Sun).
* Avril Henry, 81, British academic, suicide.
* Dame Leonie Kramer, 91, Australian academic, author and university administrator.
* Attila Özdemiroğlu, 73, Turkish composer, lung cancer.
* Solly Pandor, 58, Zambian football manager.
* Harry Perkowski, 93, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds).
* Qi Benyu, 85, Chinese politician and propagandist, cancer.
* Jack Tafari, 69, British activist, liver failure.
* Giannis Voglis, 78, Greek actor.
* Dwayne Washington, 52, American basketball player (New Jersey Nets, Miami Heat, Syracuse University), brain cancer.
* Vern Wilson, 85, American Olympic athlete.
* Victoria Wood, 62, British comedian, writer and actor (Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV, dinnerladies, Housewife, 49), cancer.
* Yu Songlie, 95, Chinese agricultural scientist, educator and academician (Chinese Academy of Engineering).

### 21

* Frederick Bruce-Lyle, 62, Ghanaian-born Saint Vincentian judge in the Caribbean.
* Valeriu Cotea, 89, Romanian oenologist, member of Romanian Academy, cardiac arrest.
* Norbert Esnault, 87, French cyclist.
* Nade Haley, 68, American artist.
* Levi Karuhanga, 60, Ugandan major general.
* Per-Simon Kildal, 64, Swedish antenna specialist.
* Hans Koschnick, 87, German politician and diplomat, Bremen Senate president and mayor (1967–1985), President of the Bundesrat (1970–1971, 1981–1982), MP (1987–1998).
* Marco Leto, 85, Italian film and television director (Black Holiday, Al piacere di rivederla).
* Franz Lorette, 80, Belgian Olympic hockey player.
* Lonnie Mack, 74, American singer-guitarist (The Wham of that Memphis Man).
* Toshio Mashima, 67, Japanese composer, cancer.
* D. B. Nihalsinghe, 77, Sri Lankan filmmaker (Welikathara).
* Utako Okamoto, 98, Japanese medical scientist.
* Ferenc Paragi, 62, Hungarian Olympic javelin thrower (1976, 1980), world record holder (1980–1983).
* Prince, 57, American musician ("When Doves Cry", "Little Red Corvette", "Purple Rain") and actor, Oscar (1984) and four-time Grammy winner, accidental fentanyl overdose.
* Peter Ruckman, 94, American Independent Baptist pastor.
* Smoke Glacken, 22, American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Hopeful Stakes (1996).
* Dene Smuts, 66, South African politician, MP (1989–2014).
* John Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant, 93, British politician, member of the House of Lords (since 1989).

### 22

* David Beresford, 68, British journalist.
* Yvon Charbonneau, 75, Canadian politician, stroke.
* Rudolph Chimelli, 87, German journalist and author.
* Isabelle Dinoire, 49, French mauled woman, first person to undergo a partial face transplant.
* Rex Fell, 71, New Zealand Thoroughbred breeder.
* Ojārs Grīnbergs, 73, Latvian singer, lung cancer.
* Roger Khawam, 94, Egyptian antique dealer and Egyptologist.
* John Lumsden, 55, Scottish footballer (Stoke City).
* Ariffin Mohammed, 74, Malaysian cult leader (Sky Kingdom).
* Robert Price, 83, American attorney and political campaign manager.
* Jory Prum, 41, American audio engineer and video game developer (Adaptation, The Walking Dead, Brütal Legend), traffic collision.
* Manfred Rein, 68, Austrian politician (ÖVP).
* Peter Sellers, 94, New Zealand sports broadcaster.
* Soran Singh, Pakistani politician, member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly (since 2013), shot.
* Sir Denys Wilkinson, 93, British nuclear physicist.
* Anne Wolden-Ræthinge, 86, Danish author and journalist.

### 23

* Ron Brace, 29, American football player (Boston College, New England Patriots), apparent heart attack.
* Alfons Van den Brande, 88, Belgian cyclist.
* Carla Braan, 54, Dutch Olympic gymnast.
* Errol Crossan, 85, Canadian soccer player (Norwich City).
* Attila Ferjáncz, 69, Hungarian racing driver, Hungarian Rally champion (1976–1982, 1985, 1990).
* Luis González Seara, 79, Spanish politician.
* Inge King, 100, German-born Australian sculptor.
* Vjatšeslav Kobrin, 58, Russian guitarist and songwriter.
* Tom Muecke, 52, American CFL player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Edmonton Eskimos), heart attack.
* Tony Munro, 52, Australian sports journalist, stroke.
* Sir Richard Parsons, 88, British diplomat, Ambassador to Hungary, Spain and Sweden.
* Jacques Perry, 94, French novelist.
* Maurice Peston, Baron Peston, 85, English economist and politician, member of the House of Lords (since 1987).
* Miguel Picazo, 89, Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor (La Tía Tula).
* John Steven Satterthwaite, 87, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lismore (1971–2001).
* Bill Sevesi, 92, Tongan-born New Zealand musician.
* Madeleine Sherwood, 93, Canadian actress (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Flying Nun, Sweet Bird of Youth).
* Banharn Silpa-archa, 83, Thai politician, Prime Minister (1995–1996), asthma.
* Horace Ward, 88, American judge.
* Paul Hisao Yasuda, 94, Japanese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Osaka (1978–1997).

### 24

* Zafar Ishaq Ansari, 84, Pakistani Islamic scholar, heart attack.
* Paul Annear, 68, New Zealand jeweller.
* Nina Arkhipova, 94, Russian film and stage actress (Burnt by the Sun).
* Chen Shilu, 95, Chinese flight mechanic, educator and academician (Chinese Academy of Engineering).
* Manuel de la Torre, 94, Spanish-born American golf player and instructor.
* Robert Dolan, 87, American marine geologist.
* Walter Jackson Freeman III, 89, American biologist.
* Perry O. Hooper Sr., 91, American judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama (1995–2001).
* Steve Julian, 57, American radio host (KPCC), brain cancer.
* Kiviaq, 80, Canadian lawyer, politician, boxer and football player, cancer.
* Tommy Kono, 85, American weightlifter, Olympic champion (1952, 1956), world champion (1953–1959), complications from liver disease.
* Thinle Lhondup, 72, Nepalese actor (Himalaya), fall.
* Benjamin Manglona, 78, Northern Mariana Islands politician, Lieutenant Governor (1990–1994), stroke.
* Ricardo Torres Origel, 59, Mexican politician.
* Lizette Parker, 44, American politician, Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey (since 2014), respiratory illness.
* Billy Paul, 81, American R&B singer ("Me and Mrs. Jones"), pancreatic cancer.
* George Pieterson, 74, Dutch clarinetist.
* Terry Redlin, 78, American artist, Alzheimer's disease.
* Klaus Siebert, 60, German biathlon athlete and coach, world champion (1978, 1979), Olympic silver medalist (1980).
* Papa Wemba, 66, Congolese singer, seizure.
* George Alexis Weymouth, 79, American artist and conservationist, heart failure.

### 25

* Dumitru Antonescu, 71, Romanian footballer (Farul Constanța).
* Remo Belli, 88, American drummer, developed the synthetic drumhead (Remo), complications of pneumonia.
* Joe Blahak, 65, American football player (Minnesota Vikings).
* Nicolae Esinencu, 76, Moldovan screenwriter and writer.
* Göte Gåård, 84, Swedish Olympic sports shooter.
* Mel George, 80, American professor and twice interim president of the University of Missouri.
* Martin Gray, 93, Polish Holocaust survivor and writer.
* Michal Hornstein, 95, Polish-born Canadian executive.
* Tom Lewis, 94, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (1975–1976).
* Patrick Fabionn Lopes, 35, Brazilian football player, brain aneurysm.
* Xulhaz Mannan, 39, Bangladeshi editor, stabbed.
* Mei Baojiu, 82, Chinese Peking opera artist, bronchospasm.
* Poornima Arvind Pakvasa, 102, Indian social worker.
* Neculai Rățoi, 77, Romanian politician, mayor of Pașcani (1981–2008).
* John Ridsdel, 68, Canadian journalist (Calgary Herald), businessman (Petro-Canada) and Abu Sayyaf hostage, beheaded.
* Horst Sachs, 89, German mathematician.
* Samantha Schubert, 47, Malaysian actress and beauty queen, Miss Malaysia (1991), pancreatic cancer.
* Rudolf Wessely, 91, Austrian actor.

### 26

* Raymond Casey, 98, British geologist and philatelist.
* Vincent Darius, 60, Grenadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Saint George's in Grenada (since 2002), pneumonia.
* Arne Elsholtz, 71, German voice actor.
* Mark Farmer, 53, British actor (Grange Hill, Minder, Johnny Jarvis), cancer.
* Winston Hill, 74, American football player (New York Jets), Super Bowl winner (1968).
* William H. Jarvis, 85, Canadian politician.
* Amanullah Khan, 82, Pakistani Kashmir separatism activist (JKLF), COPD.
* Lucy Kibaki, 82, Kenyan teacher and socialite, First Lady (2002–2013).
* M. H. Mohamed, 94, Sri Lankan politician.
* Álvaro Pérez Treviño, 85, Mexican politician.
* Peter Propping, 73, German geneticist.
* Ozzie Silna, 83, American basketball owner (Spirits of St. Louis), cancer.
* Martin Szipál, 91, Hungarian photographer, prostate cancer.
* Masako Togawa, 85, Japanese feminist, singer, actress and novelist.
* Dorothy Warburton, 80, Canadian geneticist.
* James H. Ware, 74, American biostatistician, cancer.
* Willie L. Williams, 72, American police commissioner (Los Angeles, Philadelphia).
* Harry Wu, 79, Chinese human rights activist, founder of the Laogai Research Foundation.
* Vladimir Yulygin, 80, Russian football player and coach.

### 27

* James Arvaluk, 68, Canadian politician.
* James Carroll, 60, American-born Canadian actor (Wind at My Back, Red Dead Redemption, Death to Smoochy), small cell lung cancer.
* Harold Cohen, 87, British computer artist (AARON).
* Angela Flanders, 88, British perfumer.
* Viktor Gavrikov, 58, Lithuanian-Swiss chess Grandmaster.
* Herta Groves, 96, Austrian-born British milliner, traffic collision.
* Philip Kives, 87, Canadian marketing entrepreneur, founder of K-tel.
* Julio Xavier Labayen, 89, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, territorial prelate of Infanta (1966–2003).
* Liu Lianman, 82, Chinese mountain climber, made the first ascent of Muztagh Ata.
* Robert C. Mathis, 88, American air force general.
* Chris Parkinson, 74, New Zealand broadcaster, co-founder of Radio Hauraki.
* Ray Salazar, 85, American politician, Mayor of El Paso, Texas (1977–1979).
* Gabriele Sima, 61, Austrian opera singer.
* Toms, 87, Indian cartoonist (Boban and Molly).

### 28

* Anderson Agiru, 54, Papua New Guinean politician.
* Óscar Marcelino Álvarez, 67, Argentine footballer (Panathinaikos).
* Sir Edward Ashmore, 96, British officer in the Royal Navy, First Sea Lord (1974–1977).
* Conrad Burns, 81, American politician, Senator from Montana (1989–2007).
* Enrique Cal Pardo, 93, Spanish priest, teacher and writer.
* Ed Davender, 49, American basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats).
* Jenny Diski, 68, English writer (Nothing Natural, Rainforest, London Review of Books), lung cancer.
* Joe Durham, 84, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Cardinals).
* Igor Fesunenko, 83, Russian journalist, foreign affairs writer and teacher (MGIMO).
* Charles Gatewood, 73, American photographer, suicide by jumping.
* Fredrik Grønningsæter, 92, Norwegian priest, Bishop of Sør-Hålogaland (1982–1992).
* René Hausman, 80, Belgian comic book writer and illustrator.
* Barry Howard, 78, English actor (Hi-de-Hi!), blood cancer.
* Georg Kronawitter, 88, German politician, Mayor of Munich (1972–1978, 1984–1993).
* Ingram Olkin, 91, American statistics professor, colorectal cancer.
* David Page, 55, Australian composer, musical director of Bangarra Dance Theatre.
* Mohamed Roushdi, 94, Egyptian gymnast.
* Blackie Sherrod, 96, American sportswriter.

### 29

* Tim Bacon, 52, British restaurateur and actor.
* Alyson Bailes, 67, British diplomat, Ambassador to Finland (2000–2002).
* Sherry Cassuto, 59, American Olympic rower.
* Chen Zhongshi, 73, Chinese writer, oral cancer.
* Jok Church, 66, American cartoonist (You Can with Beakman and Jax).
* Renato Corona, 67, Filipino jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (2010–2012), complications from a heart attack.
* Patrick Deuel, 54, American reality TV star.
* Bob Fitch, 76, American photojournalist.
* Erediauwa, 92, Nigerian traditional royal, Oba of Benin (since 1979). (death announced on this date)
* Dmytro Hnatyuk, 91, Ukrainian baritone opera singer.
* Hilarius Moa Nurak, 73, Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pangkal-Pinang (since 1987).
* Dave Robinson, 67, English footballer (Birmingham City, Walsall). (death announced on this date)
* Jigdal Dagchen Sakya, 86, Tibetan Buddhist teacher.
* Don White, 89, American stock car racing driver.
* Wojciech Zagórski, 87, Polish actor.

### 30

* Daniel Aaron, 103, American writer and academic (Harvard University), co-founder of the Library of America.
* Michael Edward Ash, 88, British brewer.
* Daniel Berrigan, 94, American Jesuit priest, poet, peace activist and ex-convict (Catonsville Nine).
* Wayne Crawford, 69, American actor, writer and producer (Valley Girl, Jake Speed).
* Alphonsus F. D'Souza, 76, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Raiganj (since 1987), heart attack.
* Franco Di Giacomo, 83, Italian cinematographer.
* Marisol Escobar, 85, French-born American sculptor.
* Uwe Friedrichsen, 81, German actor (Faust, Schwarz Rot Gold, Sesamstraße).
* Guido Gillarduzzi, 76, Italian Olympic speed skater.
* Fritz Janschka, 97, Austrian-born American artist.
* Sir Harry Kroto, 76, British chemist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1996).
* Réjean Lafrenière, 80, Canadian politician, member of the Quebec National Assembly (1989–2007).
* Ellen Niit, 87, Estonian children's writer, poet and translator.
* Scott Rains, 59, American travel writer, brain tumor.
* Phil Ryan, 69, Welsh keyboardist (Man).
* Tracy Scott, 46, American script supervisor (Whiplash, Concussion, Garden State), cancer.
* Peter Thomas, 91, American narrator (Nova, Forensic Files).
* Vasily Zvyagintsev, 71, Russian science fiction author.