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

## May 2016
### 1

* Hamzat Ahmadu, 91–92, Nigerian diplomat, Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Netherlands, Cameroon, the Bahamas, and the United States.
* Richard Gilpin, 76, British Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Totnes (1996–2005).
* Jean-Marie Girault, 90, French politician, Mayor of Caen (1970–2001).
* Solomon W. Golomb, 83, American mathematician and engineer.
* Madeleine Lebeau, 92, French actress (Casablanca, 8½), complications from a broken thigh bone.
* Merv Lincoln, 82, Australian Olympic middle-distance runner (1956, 1960).
* Sydney Onayemi, 78, Nigerian-born Swedish DJ.
* Doug Raney, 59, American jazz guitarist, heart failure.
* Swasti Mitter, 76, Indian development economist.

### 2

* Balwantrai Bhatt, 94, Indian composer and musician.
* Basil Blackshaw, 84, Northern Irish artist.
* Tobias de Boer, 85, Dutch scientist.
* Jonathan Cainer, 58, British astrologer (Daily Mail), heart failure.
* Richard Davis, 66, English radio astronomer.
* Walter Dürst, 89, Swiss ice hockey player, Olympic bronze medalist (1948).
* Mozibur Rahman Fakir, 69, Bangladeshi politician, cardiac arrest.
* Al Ferrari, 82, American basketball player (St. Louis Hawks, Chicago Zephyrs).
* John Kaye, 60, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (since 2007), cancer.
* Jacky Lee, 77, American football player (Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs), Alzheimer's disease.
* Balraj Madhok, 96, Indian politician, President of Bharatiya Jana Sangh (1966–1967).
* Tomohiro Matsu, 43, Japanese light novel writer (Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!, Mayoi Neko Overrun!), liver cancer.
* Paul McDowell, 84, British actor and singer (The Temperance Seven).
* Myles McKeon, 97, Irish-born Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bunbury (1969–1982).
* Roger Millward, 68, British rugby league player (Hull Kingston Rovers, Castleford Tigers, national team).
* Karel Pečko, 95, Slovenian artist.
* Stasys Petronaitis, 83, Lithuanian actor.
* Afeni Shakur, 69, American businesswoman (Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts, Amaru Entertainment, Makaveli Branded) and political activist (Black Panthers).
* Fernando Soto Aparicio, 82, Colombian author.
* Wilfried Straub, 77, German football official.
* Gordie Sundin, 78, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).

### 3

* Charlie Beamon, 81, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).
* Paul Boutelle, 81, American politician, Socialist Workers candidate for U.S. Vice President (1968), kidney cancer.
* Ian Deans, 78, Canadian politician, MP (1980–1986), Parkinson's disease.
* Kristian Ealey, 38, British actor (Brookside, Hollyoaks).
* Fan Lichu, 82, Chinese bridge structural engineer and academician (Chinese Academy of Engineering).
* Abel Fernandez, 85, American actor (The Untouchables, Pork Chop Hill).
* Marianne Gaba, 76, American model and actress (Missile to the Moon, The Choppers, The Beverly Hillbillies), brain cancer.
* Gao Shan, 53, Chinese geochemist and academician (Chinese Academy of Science).
* Tadeusz Gocłowski, 84, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Gdańsk (1992–2008), stroke.
* Sarah D. Grant, 72, American judge.
* Sunil Gudge, 56, Indian cricketer (Maharashtra), heart attack.
* Kaname Harada, 99, Japanese World War II flying ace, multiple organ failure.
* Frank Levingston, 110, American supercentenarian, nation's oldest World War II veteran.
* Thomas W. Libous, 63, American politician, member of the New York State Senate (1989–2015), cancer.
* Karol Machata, 88, Slovak actor (St. Peter's Umbrella).
* Graeme McCall, 78, Australian Olympic rower.
* Allan L. McCutcheon, 66, American sociologist and statistician.
* Nicolas Noxon, 79, American filmmaker (Secrets of the Titanic), pancreatic cancer.
* Ian Quigley, 84, New Zealand politician, MP for Otago Central (1972–1975).
* Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, 81, Swedish artist (Non-Violence), pneumonia.
* Ian Sander, 68, American producer and director (Ghost Whisperer, Profiler, I'll Fly Away), heart attack.
* Domingo Siazon Jr., 76, Philippine politician and diplomat, Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1995–2001), ambassador to Austria and Japan.
* Jadranka Stojaković, 65, Bosnian singer-songwriter, motor neuron disease.
* Gordon Strachan, 68, Scottish rugby union player, cardiac amyloidosis.
* Janusz Tazbir, 87, Polish historian.

### 4

* Tutty Alawiyah, 74, Indonesian politician, Minister for Women's Affairs (1998–1999).
* Ángel de Andrés López, 64, Spanish actor (What Have I Done to Deserve This?, 800 Bullets, Taxi).
* Blas Avena, 32, American mixed martial artist (WEC), suicide.
* Sir Jack Baer, 91, British art dealer.
* Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, 69, Burundian politician, President (1976–1987).
* Bob Bennett, 82, American politician, U.S. Senator from Utah (1993–2011), pancreatic cancer and stroke.
* Gaetan Boucher, 59, Canadian-born Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1988), (HC Villars).
* Karl Butzer, 81, German-born American geographer.
* Michael Caborn-Waterfield, 86, British businessman (Ann Summers).
* Giuseppe Faraca, 56, Italian racing cyclist.
* Howard King, 83, American public address announcer (Michigan Stadium).
* Olle Ljungström, 54, Swedish singer and guitarist.
* Ursula Mamlok, 93, German-born American composer.
* James Oyedeji, 63, Ghanaian sports historian.
* Paul A. Paddock, 41, American artist.
* Jordan Parsons, 25, American mixed martial artist (Bellator), traffic collision.
* Rita Renoir, 82, French strip-teaser and actress.
* Friedrich Schattleitner, 92, Austrian Olympic sport shooter (1968).
* Ret Turner, 87, American fashion designer (Cher, Dolly Parton, Carol Burnett).
* Adlan Varayev, 54, Russian wrestler, Olympic silver medalist (1988), drowned.
* John Wright, 75, British Army officer and polo administrator.

### 5

* Wan Mohammad Khair-il Anuar, 56, Malaysian politician, MP (since 2013), Chairman of Malaysian Palm Oil Board, helicopter crash.
* Benito Cocchi, 81, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Modena-Nonantola (1996–2010).
* Bentot Jr., 46, Filipino actor.
* Rollin Dart, 90, American banker (Dart National Bank).
* Matt Irwin, 36, British celebrity photographer, suicide by GHB overdose.
* Noriah Kasnon, 52, Malaysian politician, MP (since 2004), helicopter crash.
* Sylvia Kauders, 94, American actress (Inside Llewyn Davis, Witness, Predator 2), heart attack.
* Bill MacDermott, 79, American CFL coach (Edmonton Eskimos).
* Anne Atai Omoruto, 59, Ugandan physician, cancer.
* Romalı Perihan, 74, Turkish actress and singer.
* Fred C. Robinson, 85, American academic.
* Siné, 87, French political cartoonist.
* Gabriel Thohey Mahn-Gaby, 88, Burmese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Yangon (1971–2002).
* Isao Tomita, 84, Japanese synthesizer musician, composer and arranger (Snowflakes Are Dancing), heart failure.
* Martha Seim Valeur, 93, Norwegian politician, Deputy MP (1993–1997).
* Nancy Zahniser, 67, American pharmacologist, glioblastoma.

### 6

* Klaus Ampler, 75, German Olympic racing cyclist (1968).
* Johannes Bauer, 61, German trombonist.
* Nico de Bree, 71, Dutch footballer (NEC, Anderlecht), cancer.
* Scott Burgess, 57, Australian actor, (Water Rats), heart attack.
* Patrick Ekeng, 26, Cameroonian footballer (Le Mans, Dinamo București, national team), heart attack.
* Dick Estell, 90, American radio host (The Radio Reader).
* Roberta Gellis, 88, American author.
* Reg Grundy, 92, Australian television production mogul (Reg Grundy Organisation).
* David Hall, 85, American politician, Governor of Oklahoma (1971–1975), stroke.
* Lakshmi Holmström, 81, Indian-born British author and translator.
* Margot Honecker, 89, East German politician, Minister of People's Education (1963–1989), First Lady (1976–1989).
* Johnny Joannou, 76, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1976–1983, 1998–2016) and Senate (1984–1992), lung cancer.
* Candye Kane, 54, American blues singer-songwriter and pornographic actress, pancreatic cancer.
* Li Wanheng, 92, Chinese soldier, commander of the 67th Army of the People's Liberation Army (1981–1983).
* George Mandler, 91, American psychologist.
* Pierre, 33, American penguin, renal failure.
* Larry Pinto de Faria, 83, Brazilian footballer (Sport Club Internacional).
* Niklaus Schilling, 72, Swiss filmmaker (The Expulsion from Paradise).
* Kōjō Tanaka, 91, Japanese photographer.
* Abu Waheeb, 29–30, Iraqi field commander (ISIL) and prison escapee (Camp Bucca), airstrike.
* Christopher Wathes, 64, British research scientist.
* Valeriy Zuyev, 63, Ukrainian football player (Dynamo Kyiv) and manager.

### 7

* Fernando Álvarez de Miranda, 92, Spanish politician, President of the Congress of Deputies (1977–1979).
* Comply or Die, 16, British thoroughbred racehorse, won the Grand National (2008).
* Ann Day, 77, American politician, member of the Arizona Senate (1990–2000), traffic collision.
* Merritt Green, 85, American lawyer and judge.
* Michael S. Harper, 78, American poet.
* Mohammad-Ali Hosseinzadeh, 39, Iranian politician, traffic collision.
* John Krish, 92, British film director.
* Gonzalo López Marañon, 82, Spanish-born Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of San Miguel de Sucumbíos (1970–2010).
* José Roberto Marques, 70, Brazilian footballer (São Paulo).
* Chris Mitchell, 27, Scottish footballer (Queen of the South, Clyde), suicide by train.
* Bernardo Ribeiro, 26, Brazilian footballer (Skënderbeu, Newcastle Jets, IFK Mariehamn), cardiac arrest.
* George Ross, 73, Scottish footballer (Preston North End).
* John Stabb, 54, American punk singer (Government Issue), stomach cancer.
* Nikita Struve, 85, French literary critic and publisher.
* Anne van den Ban, 88, Dutch agricultural economist.
* Khurram Zaki, 40, Pakistani rights activist, shot.

### 8

* Tom M. Apostol, 92, American analytic number theorist and professor.
* Philippe Beaussant, 86, French author.
* John Bradshaw, 82, American self-help writer, heart failure.
* Tonita Castro, 63, Mexican-born American actress (Dads, Funny People, The Book of Life), stomach cancer.
* Louisa Chase, 65, American painter.
* Sir Iain Glidewell, 91, British jurist, Lord Justice of Appeal (1985–1995).
* Ken Gorgal, 87, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Chicago Bears).
* Gareth Gwenlan, 79, British television producer (Only Fools and Horses).
* Joan Helpern, 89, American shoe designer.
* Nick Lashaway, 28, American actor (Girls, In Time, The Last Song), traffic collision.
* Elisa Mainardi, 85, Italian actress (Fellini Satyricon).
* Wolfgang Patzke, 57, German footballer.
* Geneviève Salbaing, 94, French-born Canadian dancer and choreographer.
* William Schallert, 93, American actor (The Patty Duke Show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, In the Heat of the Night), President of SAG (1979–1981).
* Rajesh Nandini Singh, 59, Indian politician, member of the Lok Sabha (2009–2014), heart attack.
* Friedrich von Huene, 87, German-born American woodwind maker.
* John Young, 67, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers), founder of Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities.
* Thomas Zhang Huai-xin, 90, Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jixian (since 1981).

### 9

* Chuck Curtis, 80, American football coach (University of Texas at Arlington).
* Andi Muhammad Ghalib, 69, Indonesian politician, Attorney General (1998–1999), Ambassador to India (2008–2013).
* Rex Hughes, 77, American basketball coach (Sacramento Kings).
* Walther Leisler Kiep, 90, German politician, member of the Bundestag (1965–1976, 1980–1982).
* Sandy Lewis, 85, Australian politician.
* Bill MacIlwraith, 88, British playwright and screenwriter (Two's Company).
* Karl Maramorosch, 101, Austrian-born American virologist, entomologist and plant pathologist.
* Dennis Nineham, 94, British theologian.
* Chennamaneni Rajeshwara Rao, 92, Indian politician.
* Kelly Stearne, 57, Canadian curler.
* Gijs Verdick, 21, Dutch professional cyclist, heart attack.
* Ronald W. Walker, 76, American historian, lymphoma.
* John Warr, 88, English cricketer.

### 10

* Mustafa Badreddine, 55, Lebanese military commander (Hezbollah, Syrian Civil War), convicted planner of 1983 Kuwait bombings, explosion.
* Heinz-Georg Baus, 82, German billionaire and businessman, owner of Bauhaus AG.
* Jack Boothman, 79, Irish sports administrator, President of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1994–1997).
* Sally Brampton, 60, British writer and magazine editor (Elle), suicide by drowning.
* Sarah Corp, 41, British television producer, lung cancer.
* Nicholas Fisk, 92, British children's author.
* Carlos García y García, 88, Peruvian politician, Second Vice President (1990–1992).
* Louis van Gasteren, 93, Dutch filmmaker and artist.
* Gene Gutowski, 90, Polish-born American film producer (The Pianist, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Cul-de-sac), pneumonia.
* Ilkka Hanski, 63, Finnish ecologist.
* Kang Young-hoon, 93, South Korean politician, Prime Minister (1988–1990).
* Mark Lane, 89, American lawyer, author (Rush to Judgment, Plausible Denial) and screenwriter (Executive Action), heart attack.
* Thomas Luckmann, 88, Slovene-born American sociologist (The Social Construction of Reality).
* François Morellet, 90, French painter, sculptor and light artist.
* Betty Sabo, 87, American artist.
* Shi Ping, 82, Chinese aircraft designer (Hongdu JL-8) and academic (Chinese Academy of Engineering).
* Steve Smith, 26, Canadian mountain biker, race collision.
* Riki Sorsa, 63, Finnish singer ("Reggae OK"), cancer.
* Margaret Walker, 91, British sprinter.

### 11

* Peter Behrens, 68, German drummer (Trio), multiple organ failure.
* Bobby Carroll, 77, Scottish footballer (Celtic).
* Tony Cozier, 75, Barbadian cricket writer and commentator.
* Katherine Dunn, 70, American writer (Geek Love), lung cancer.
* Abdul Baqi Jammoh, 93–94, Jordanian politician, Senator (1997–2001).
* David King, 73, British graphic designer, art collector and writer (The Commissar Vanishes).
* Promode Mankin, 77, Bangladeshi politician.
* Anton Muheim, 99, Swiss politician, President of the National Council (1973–1974).
* Motiur Rahman Nizami, 73, Bangladeshi politician and convicted war criminal, leader of Jamaat (since 2000), MP for Pabna (1991–1996, 2001–2006), execution by hanging.
* Herman Obermayer, 91, American journalist and publisher (Northern Virginia Sun).
* Jim Pothecary, 82, South African cricketer (Western Province, national team).
* Michael Ratner, 72, American lawyer, won right of habeas corpus for Guantanamo Bay detainees, complications from cancer.
* Majid al-Shibl, 80–81, Saudi Arabian announcer.
* Joe Temperley, 86, Scottish saxophonist (Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra), cancer.
* Jack L. Treynor, 86, American economist.

### 12

* Mike Agostini, 81, Trinidadian-born Australian Olympic sprinter (1956), Commonwealth Games gold medalist (1954).
* Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, 91, Serbian royal.
* Denise Bernot, 94, French academic.
* Sidney Brazier, 96, British army bomb disposal officer.
* Ulf Grenander, 92, Swedish statistician.
* Denis Hardy, 80, Canadian politician, Vice President of the National Assembly of Quebec (1970–1973).
* Susannah Mushatt Jones, 116, American supercentenarian, world's oldest living person.
* Bohumil Kubát, 81, Czech wrestler, Olympic bronze medalist (1960).
* Julius La Rosa, 86, American pop singer ("Anywhere I Wander", "Eh, Cumpari!") and actor (Another World).
* Del Latta, 96, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio's 5th congressional district (1959–1989).
* Peter J. Liacouras, 85, American academic, President of Temple University (1981–2000).
* Giuseppe Maiani, 92, Sammarinese politician, Captain Regent (1955–1956, 1982).
* Tapio Mäkelä, 89, Finnish cross-country skier, Olympic gold medalist (1952).
* Giovanni Migliorati, 73, Italian-born Ethiopian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Awasa (since 2009).
* Yukio Ninagawa, 80, Japanese film and theatre director, pneumonia.
* Raghunath Patnaik, 89, Indian politician, heart disease.
* Georges Sesia, 91, French footballer.
* Hugh Smith, 81, American football player (Washington Redskins).

### 13

* Seiji Arikawa, 86, Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives (1990–1993).
* Bill Backer, 89, American advertising executive (McCann Erickson) and songwriter ("I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)").
* Ondrej Binder, 46, Slovak politician, member of the National Council (2016), traffic collision.
* Buster Cooper, 87, American jazz trombonist, prostate cancer.
* Karl Eigen, 88, German farmer and politician, member of the Bundestag (1972–1976, 1980–1990).
* Sammy Ellis, 75, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), cancer.
* Rodrigo Espíndola, 26, Argentine footballer (Nueva Chicago), shot.
* Makiko Futaki, 57, Japanese animator (Akira, Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro).
* David McNiven Garner, 87, New Zealand oceanographer.
* Blanche Hartman, 90, American Buddhist abbess.
* W. K. Hastings, 85, Canadian statistician.
* Doina Florica Ignat, 78, Romanian historian and politician, Senator (1992–1996).
* John Imbrie, 90, American paleoceanographer.
* Paul Jetton, 51, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals, New Orleans Saints).
* Lauri Kähkönen, 69, Finnish politician, MP for North Karelia (1999–2011).
* Rabbit Kekai, 95, American surfer.
* Jan Korger, 78, Czech physician and politician, member of the House of Peoples of the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia (1992).
* Engelbert Kraus, 81, German footballer (Kickers Offenbach).
* Mikio Kudō, 55, Japanese baseball player, liver failure.
* Dick McAuliffe, 76, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers), World Series winner (1968), Alzheimer's disease.
* Howard Meeks, 83, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Western Michigan (1984–1988).
* Fredrik Norén, 75, Swedish jazz drummer.
* Pinuccio Sciola, 74, Italian sculptor and muralist.
* James M. Shuart, 85, American academic administrator, President of Hofstra University (1976–2001), heart disease.
* Baba Hardev Singh, 62, Indian spiritual guru, traffic collision.
* Murray A. Straus, 89, American sociologist and professor (University of New Hampshire).

### 14

* Larry Barnes, 84, American football player.
* Tony Barrow, 80, British press officer (The Beatles).
* Balázs Birtalan, 46, Hungarian author, cancer.
* Darwyn Cooke, 53, Canadian comic book artist (Catwoman, The Spirit, DC: The New Frontier), cancer.
* John Coyle, 83, Scottish footballer (Dundee United).
* Ron Henry, 79, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins), cardiovascular and renal disease.
* Jesús Leguina, 73–74, Spanish jurist, justice of the Constitutional Court (1986–1992) and director of the Bank of Spain (1994–2001).
* Valerie Lush, 97, British actress.
* Jaroslav Malina, 78, Czech scenographer and painter, heart attack.
* Lasse Mårtenson, 81, Finnish singer ("Laiskotellen"), cerebral hemorrhage.
* Malachi Mitchell-Thomas, 20, English motorcycle racer, injuries sustained in race collision.
* Banza Mukalay, 63, Congolese politician, Minister of Culture (since 2014).
* Christy O'Connor Snr, 91, Irish golfer.
* Marjet Ockels, 72, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1991–1994).
* Kenneth Painter, 81, English archaeologist and curator.
* Johnny Seay, 75, American country music singer.
* Paul Smoker, 75, American jazz trumpeter.
* Monteagle Stearns, 91, American diplomat, Ambassador to Greece (1981–1985) and Ivory Coast (1976–1979).
* Charles R. Stelck, 98, Canadian geologist.
* Neculai Alexandru Ursu, 89, Romanian linguist, philologist and literary historian.
* André Wicky, 87, Swiss racing driver and team owner.
* Alvise Zorzi, 93, Italian journalist and author.

### 15

* Hakkı Akansel, 92, Turkish military officer and politician, Mayor of Istanbul (1980–1981).
* Oya Aydoğan, 59, Turkish actress, model and television presenter, aortic aneurysm.
* Erika Berger, 76, German television presenter and author.
* André Brahic, 73, French astrophysicist, discovered rings of Neptune, cancer.
* Ghulam Sadiq Khan, 76, Indian classical vocalist.
* Robert C. T. Lee, 92, Chinese-born American veterinarian.
* Jane Little, 87, American musician (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra).
* Clovis Maksoud, 89, American diplomat, Ambassador of the Arab League to the United Nations (1979–1990) and the United States (1979–1990), cerebral hemorrhage.
* Bobby McIlvenny, 89, Northern Irish footballer (Oldham Athletic).
* Cauby Peixoto, 85, Brazilian singer, pneumonia.
* Ken Ramos, 48, American baseball player (Houston Astros), suicide by gunshot.
* Michael Roberds, 52, Canadian actor (The New Addams Family, Elf, Hot Tub Time Machine).
* Marion Tournon-Branly, 91, French architect.

### 16

* Hussein Sheikh Abdirahman, 75, Somali politician, Minister of Defense (1989–1990). (death announced on this date)
* Sir Gavyn Farr Arthur, 64, British judge, Lord Mayor of London (2002–2003).
* Moidele Bickel, 79, German costume designer (La Reine Margot).
* Anthony Bird, 85, British Anglican priest and academic.
* Ken Cameron, 74, Scottish trade union leader.
* Giovanni Coppa, 90, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio (1979–2001).
* Camille DesRosiers, 87, Canadian-born Tuvaluan Roman Catholic prelate, Superior of Funafuti (1986–2010).
* Huguette Dreyfus, 87, French harpsichordist.
* Robert Freeman, 82, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana (1980–1988).
* Romaldo Giurgola, 95, Italian-born American-Australian architect (Parliament House, Canberra).
* Aar de Goede, 87, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1967–1973), State Secretary of Finance (1973–1977), member of the European Parliament (1979–1984).
* Mitsuo Horiuchi, 86, Japanese politician.
* Sadek Khan, 82, Bangladeshi journalist and filmmaker.
* François Maistre, 91, French actor (Angélique, Marquise des Anges, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie).
* Jim McMillian, 68, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers, Buffalo Braves, New York Knicks), NBA champion (1972), complications from heart failure.
* Julia Meade, 90, American actress (The Ed Sullivan Show, Pillow Talk).
* Gillian Mears, 51, Australian writer (Foal's Bread), multiple sclerosis.
* Emilio Navaira, 53, American country and Tejano singer (Life Is Good), heart failure.
* Noriko Nishimoto, 75, Japanese-born Australian puppeteer, cancer.
* Michael Pope, 89, British Olympic hurdler.
* Mamie Rallins, 74, American hurdler, traffic collision.
* David Rendel, 67, British politician, MP for Newbury (1993–2005), cancer.
* Bjarne Saltnes, 82, Norwegian politician.
* Ivaylo Sharankov, 82, Bulgarian Olympic swimmer.
* Deepak Shodhan, 87, Indian cricketer, lung cancer.
* Lino Toffolo, 81, Italian actor (Yuppi du, Brancaleone at the Crusades) and singer.
* Jack Unruh, 80, American commercial illustrator.
* Oscar Whitbread, 86, English-born Australian television producer.

### 17

* Seán Ardagh, 68, Irish politician, TD (1997–2011).
* Guy Clark, 74, American folk singer-songwriter ("Desperados Waiting for a Train", "Workbench Songs", "My Favorite Picture of You"), Grammy winner (2014), cancer.
* Benjamin de Roo, 76, Dutch-born Australian Olympic gymnast (1960, 1964).
* Vinjamuri Seetha Devi, Indian folk singer.
* Paulo Emilio, 80, Brazilian football manager.
* Kim Jae-soon, 92, South Korean politician, Speaker of the National Assembly (1988–1990).
* Ed Kolenovsky, 87, American photographer (Associated Press).
* Alexandru Lăpușan, 61, Romanian politician, mayor of Dej (1991), MP (1992–1994) and Minister of Agriculture (1992–1996).
* Edmund V. Ludwig, 87, American federal judge, member of the District Court for the E.D. of Pennsylvania (since 1985).
* Yūko Mizutani, 51, Japanese voice actress (Digimon, Black Jack, Tenchi Muyo!), breast cancer.
* Xavier de Planhol, 90, French geographer.
* Arthur Provis, 91, English cinematographer and producer.
* Müzahir Sille, 84, Turkish wrestler, Olympic champion (1960).
* Yuri Volkov, 79, Russian ice hockey player (Krylya Sovetov Moscow, HC Dynamo Moscow, national team).

### 18

* Elaine Abraham, 86, American Tlingit elder and nurse.
* Luis H. Álvarez, 96, Mexican industrialist and politician, President of the National Action Party (1987–1993).
* Ethel Bush, 100, British police officer.
* Eduardo Castrillo, 73, Filipino sculptor, cancer.
* Adrian Flowers, 89, British photographer.
* Astrid Gunnestad, 77, Norwegian journalist.
* Ida Pedanda Gede Made Gunung, 63, Indonesian Hindu priest.
* Zygmunt Kukla, 68, Polish footballer.
* Adán Nigaglioni Loyola, 86, Puerto Rican doctor and educator.
* Kornél Pajor, 92, Hungarian Olympic speed skater (1948), world champion (1949).
* Sutham Phanthusak, 69, Thai businessman and politician.
* Michael Reichmann, 71, Canadian photographer and blogger.
* Boris Schnaiderman, 99, Ukrainian-born Brazilian translator, writer and essayist.
* Fritz Stern, 90, German-born American historian.
* Susan Tolchin, 75, American political scientist, ovarian cancer.
* Ian Watkin, 76, New Zealand actor (Braindead, Sleeping Dogs, Charlotte's Web).
* Doris Yankelewitz Berger, 82, Costa Rican artist and politician, First Lady (1982–1986).

### 19

* Alexandre Astruc, 92, French film critic and director.
* Irving Benson, 102, American actor and comedian.
* Cook, 15, Spanish Jack Russell Terrier dog actor (Aquí no hay quien viva, La que se avecina, TV commercials of Loterías y Apuestas del Estado), cardiac arrest.
* Ronald C. Davidson, 74, Canadian physicist, complications from pneumonia.
* Jan Deutsch, 80, American philosopher and legal scholar.
* George Forty, 88, British Army officer and author.
* Jim Ray Hart, 74, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants).
* Hugh Honour, 88, British art historian.
* Hu Hongwen, 91, Chinese organic chemist and academician (Chinese Academy of Sciences).
* Cindy Nicholas, 58, Canadian long distance swimmer and politician, liver cancer.
* Rogelio Ordoñez, 75, Filipino author, liver cancer.
* N. S. Palanisamy, 75, Indian politician, complications from kidney failure.
* Laxminarayan Pandey, 88, Indian politician, member of the Lok Sabha for Mandsaur (1971–1979, 1989–2009).
* Marco Pannella, 86, Italian politician and civil rights activist, MEP (1979–2009).
* Morley Safer, 84, Canadian-born American journalist (60 Minutes), pneumonia.
* John Sisko, 57, American sculptor.
* Donald Snelgrove, 91, British Anglican clergyman, Bishop of Hull (1981–1994).
* Alan Young, 96, English-born Canadian-American actor (Mister Ed, The Time Machine, DuckTales).

### 20

* Gert Bals, 79, Dutch footballer (PSV, Ajax).
* Glen Clegg, 82, Canadian politician.
* Patricia M. Derian, 86, American human rights activist, Alzheimer's disease.
* Vasile Duță, 60, Romanian lawyer and politician, Senator (2000–2004), lung cancer.
* John David Jackson, 91, Canadian physicist.
* Gabriel, 75, Russian prelate, Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church.
* Brandon Grove, 87, American diplomat, ambassador to East Germany and Zaire, cancer.
* Rosanna Huffman, 77, American actress (Babe, Oliver & Company, Murder, She Wrote), pancreatic cancer.
* Kang Sok-ju, 76, North Korean diplomat and politician, Foreign Minister (2007), esophageal cancer.
* Pranlal Kharsani, 89, Indian actor.
* Kho Jabing, 32, Malaysian convicted murderer, executed by hanging.
* Tsuyoshi Makino, 70, Japanese author, critic and social activist.
* Joe McDonagh, 62, Irish sports administrator, President of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1997–2000).
* Audrey Purton, 90, British Women's Royal Army Corps officer.
* Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo, 84, Spanish journalist and athlete.
* Ádám Rajhona, 72, Hungarian actor.
* Lucille Stone, 90, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League), complications from hydrocephalus.
* Albert M. Sackett, 95, American Navy rear admiral.
* Yagya Datt Sharma, 80, Indian politician, member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
* Robyn Sisman, 66, American-born British publisher and author.
* Bogdan Ulmu, 65, Romanian theatre director, writer and publicist.
* Wheelock Whitney, Jr., 89, American sports executive (Minnesota Twins, Minnesota North Stars, Minnesota Vikings).

### 21

* Gaston Berghmans, 90, Belgian comedian and actor (The Silent Hedonist).
* Lorne Clarke, 87, Canadian lawyer, Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court (1985–1998).
* Andrea Maria Erba, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Velletri-Segni (1988–2006).
* Jane Fawcett, 95, British codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II, key figure in the sinking of the Bismarck.
* Sir Denys Henderson, 83, British businessman, chairman of ICI (1987–1995).
* Homeboykris, 9, American racehorse.
* Eddie Keizan, 71, South African racing driver.
* Tony Kriletich, 72, New Zealand rugby league player (Auckland, national team).
* Alan Lewis, 61, British footballer (Reading, Derby County, Peterborough United).
* Akhtar Mansour, c. 48, Afghan Islamist, Minister of the Emirate for Aviation and Tourism (1996–2001), leader of the Taliban (since 2015), airstrike.
* Nick Menza, 51, German-born American drummer (Megadeth), heart failure.
* Germán Serrano Pinto, 76, Costa Rican politician, Vice President (1990–1994).
* Norman Tait, 75, Canadian First Nations artist, cancer.
* Sándor Tarics, 102, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic gold medalist (1936).

### 22

* Lucjan Avgustini, 52, Albanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sapë (since 2006).
* Adolf Born, 85, Czech painter, illustrator, caricaturist and filmmaker.
* Malvina Cheek, 100, British war artist.
* Merv Cowan, 91, Australian WANFL footballer.
* Tom DeLeone, 65, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals), brain cancer.
* Intikhab, 22, American racehorse, heart disease.
* John Lyons, 90, British trade union leader.
* José Luis Romo Martín, 62, Mexican artist.
* Alexis Navarro, 69, Venezuelan politician and diplomat, Governor of Nueva Esparta (2000–2004), Ambassador to Russia (2005–2008), heart attack.
* Yasushi Niki, 90, Japanese baseball player.
* Leonorilda Ochoa, 76, Mexican actress (Los Beverly de Peralvillo), Alzheimer's disease.
* Subhash Pal, 40, Indian mountaineer.
* Arulraj Rosli, 75, Malaysian Olympic racing cyclist (1964).
* Velimir Sombolac, 77, Serbian-Yugoslav football player, Olympic champion (1960) and manager.
* George Wildman, 88, American cartoonist.
* Bata Živojinović, 82, Serbian actor (Walter Defends Sarajevo), complications from gangrene.

### 23

* Nurjahan Begum, 90, Bangladeshi journalist.
* Jo Beverley, 68, British-born Canadian writer, cancer.
* John Brophy, 83, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (Birmingham Bulls, Toronto Maple Leafs, Hampton Roads Admirals), namesake of John Brophy Award.
* Joe Fleishaker, 62, American actor (Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV, Late Show with David Letterman), heart attack.
* Vera Henriksen, 89, Norwegian writer.
* Cedric McKinnon, 48, American football player (Cleveland Thunderbolts, Tampa Bay Storm).
* Zdeněk Mézl, 81, Czech print-maker.
* Sir Reginald Palmer, 93, Grenadian politician, Governor-General (1992–1996).
* Nanette Rainone, 73, American feminist and reporter.
* Arne Sandnes, 92, Norwegian politician.

### 24

* Ray Ash, 79, Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
* Suzanne Corkin, 79, American neuroscientist, liver cancer.
* Adelina Dematti de Alaye, 88, Argentinian human rights activist, founder of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.
* Khaleda Ekram, 65, Bangladeshi architect, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
* Lewis Fiander, 78, Australian actor (Pride and Prejudice, Who Can Kill a Child?, Bangkok Hilton), stroke.
* Maycie Herrington, 97, American historian and social worker.
* Buck Kartalian, 93, American actor (Planet of the Apes, Cool Hand Luke, The Rock).
* Malik Iqbal Mehdi Khan, 64, Pakistani politician, MP (since 2013), liver disease.
* Burt Kwouk, 85, British actor (The Pink Panther, Last of the Summer Wine, Goldfinger), cancer.
* Frankie Laine, 73, Canadian professional wrestler, multiple sclerosis.
* Mell Lazarus, 89, American cartoonist (Miss Peach, Momma).
* Anne-Marie Nzié, 84, Cameroonian singer.
* Hughes Oliphant Old, 83, American theologian.
* Leo Proost, 82, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Jorma Salmi, 83, Finnish Olympic ice hockey player (1960), (Ilves, Frölunda HC).
* Berrick Saul, 91, British economist and academic administrator.
* Soita Shitanda, 56, Kenyan politician, MP from Malava (since 1997).
* Bé Udink, 90, Dutch politician and CEO.

### 25

* Giacomo Barabino, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ventimiglia-San Remo (1988–2004).
* Horacio Ernesto Benites Astoul, 82, Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires (1999–2008).
* Cassandra Butts, 50, American lawyer.
* Lloyd Campbell, 101, Canadian curler.
* Nancy Dow, 79, American actress (The Ice House) and model.
* Ian Gibson, 73, Scottish footballer (Cardiff City, Coventry City, Middlesbrough).
* Gyula Kosice, 92, Czechoslovakian-born Argentine poet and sculptor.
* Ku Chin-shui, 56, Taiwanese Olympic decathlete (1984), plasma cell leukemia.
* Per Øien, 78, Norwegian flutist.
* Valentin Petry, 88, German racing cyclist.
* Bob Sorenson, 92, New Zealand rugby union player and coach (Auckland), and cricketer (Auckland).
* Peggy Spencer, 95, British dancer.
* József Tempfli, 85, Romanian-Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Oradea Mare (1990–2008).
* John Webster, 60, British theologian.
* Yang Jiang, 104, Chinese playwright, author, and translator.

### 26

* Kazimierz Barburski, 73, Polish fencer, Olympic bronze medalist (1968).
* Loris Francesco Capovilla, 100, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Prelate of Loreto (1971–1988).
* Esad Čolaković, 46, Macedonian footballer (FK Sloga Jugomagnat).
* Ted Dumitru, 76, Romanian football manager (Kaizer Chiefs, Mamelodi Sundowns, New York Apollo), heart attack.
* Steve Edwards, 85, American professor.
* Hedy Epstein, 91, German-born American Holocaust survivor and political activist (International Solidarity Movement), cancer.
* Lou Grasmick, 91, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies) and businessman.
* Noel Harding, 69, Canadian contemporary artist, heart failure.
* Iana Kasian, 30, Ukrainian prosecutor and murder victim.
* Robert O'Hearn, 94, American set designer.
* Gustav Meier, 86, Swiss-born American conductor, cancer.
* Wanaro N'Godrella, 66, French tennis player.
* Angela Paton, 86, American actress (Groundhog Day, American Wedding, Lolita), heart attack.
* Arturo Pomar, 84, Spanish chess grandmaster.
* Coe Swobe, 87, American politician, member of the Nevada Senate (1966–1974).
* Bob Williams, 86, American football player (Chicago Bears).

### 27

* Chen Nengkuan, 93, Chinese metal and detonation physicist and academician (Chinese Academy of Sciences).
* Michael Dann, 94, American television executive (CBS).
* Jean-Claude Decaux, 78, French billionaire advertiser, CEO of JCDecaux.
* Louise Erickson, 86, American baseball player (Racine Belles, Rockford Peaches).
* Gaylord T. Gunhus, 76, American army officer, Chief of Chaplains of the United States Army (1999–2003).
* Gerhard Harpers, 88, German footballer (Sodingen, national team).
* Kai G. Henriksen, 60, Norwegian businessman (Vinmonopolet).
* R. G. Jadhav, 83, Indian literary critic.
* František Jakubec, 60, Czech football player.
* Marshall "Rock" Jones, 75, American bass player (Ohio Players).
* George Klir, 84, Czech computer scientist.
* Bonnie Law, 47, Hong Kong singer and actress (Happy Ghost), heart attack.
* Leroidesanimaux, 15, Brazilian-born American racehorse, Eclipse Award winner, complications from accident.
* Petro Herkulan Malchuk, 50, Moldovan-born Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Kyiv-Zhytomyr (since 2011), heart attack.
* Jaap Metz, 74, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1982–1986).
* Frank Modell, 98, American cartoonist (The New Yorker).
* Henrietta Phipps, 84, British landscape gardener.
* La Ferne Price, 90, American ballplayer (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
* Girolamo Prigione, 94, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio (1968–1997).
* Ivor Robinson, 92, British-born American physicist.
* Rocco Sollecito, 67, Italian-born Canadian gangster (Rizzuto crime family), shot.
* Wang Shizhen, 100, Chinese nuclear medicine physician and academician (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Father of Chinese nuclear medicine.
* Wang You-theng, 89, Taiwanese entrepreneur (Rebar), traffic collision.
* Morton White, 99, American philosopher and historian.

### 28

* Giorgio Albertazzi, 92, Italian actor (Last Year at Marienbad) and film director.
* Stanley Burke, 93, Canadian television journalist (The National News).
* David Cañada, 41, Spanish cyclist, race collision.
* Alexander DeConde, 95, American historian.
* Bryce Dejean-Jones, 23, American basketball player (New Orleans Pelicans), shot.
* Peter DeTroy, 68, American attorney, heart attack.
* M. Brendan Fleming, 90, American politician, Mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts (1982–1984).
* John Willison Green, 89, Canadian journalist.
* Harambe, 17, American-bred western lowland gorilla, shot.
* C. Michael Harper, 88, American executive (ConAgra Foods).
* Christian Kay, 76, British lexicographer.
* Joanneke Kruijsen, 47, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (2003–2006).
* Marion Lambert, 73, Belgian-born Swiss art collector, injuries sustained in traffic collision.
* Michael McCurdy, 74, American illustrator and publisher.
* Patrick Neill, Baron Neill of Bladen, 89, British barrister and life peer.
* Eddie O'Hara, 78, British politician, MP for Knowsley South (1990–2010).
* Wolf-Dieter Oschlies, 63, German Olympic rower.
* Floyd Robinson, 83, American country singer.
* Devarakonda Vittal Rao, 68, Indian politician.

### 29

* Kenne Fant, 93, Swedish actor, director and author, President of Svensk Filmindustri (1963–1980).
* T. Marshall Hahn, 89, American academic administrator, President of Virginia Tech (1962–1974).
* Henryk Kempny, 82, Polish footballer.
* Ralph Ketner, 95, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Food Lion, colon cancer.
* Svetozar Koljević, 85, Serbian author, historian, translator and professor.
* Mathew Mattam, 65, Indian Malayalam author.
* Don McNay, 57, American financial author.
* Edward Morris, 75, British art historian.
* K. P. Noorudeen, 76, Indian politician, cerebral hemorrhage.
* André Rousselet, 93, French businessman and politician, member of the National Assembly (1967–1968).
* David Tod Roy, 83, American sinologist and translator (Jin Ping Mei).

### 30

* Jan Aas, 72, Norwegian footballer (Fredrikstad).
* Gérson Bergher, 91, Brazilian politician.
* Boniface Choi Ki-San, 68, South Korean Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Incheon (since 2002).
* Javare Gowda, 100, Indian writer, heart failure.
* James Knepper, 84, American politician.
* Tom Lysiak, 63, Canadian ice hockey player (Atlanta Flames, Chicago Blackhawks), leukemia.
* Rick MacLeish, 66, Canadian ice hockey player (Philadelphia Flyers), meningitis and multiple organ failure.
* Erkin Vohidov, 79, Uzbek poet, playwright and translator.

### 31

* Mohamed Abdelaziz, 68, Sahrawi politician, President (since 1976), lung cancer.
* Corry Brokken, 83, Dutch singer ("Net als toen"), Eurovision Song Contest 1957 winner.
* Jules Browde, 97, South African lawyer and human-rights activist.
* James Campbell, 81, English historian.
* Jan Crouch, 78, American televangelist and broadcasting executive (Trinity Broadcasting Network), complications from a stroke.
* Olav Djupvik, 85, Norwegian politician.
* Reshad Feild, 82, English mystic and musician (The Springfields).
* Sergio Adolfo Govi, 81, Italian Central African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bossangoa (1978–1995).
* Antonio Imbert Barrera, 95, Dominican politician, President (1965).
* Carla Lane, 87, English television writer (The Liver Birds, Butterflies, Bread).
* Gene Logsdon, 84, American farmer and author.
* Rupert Neudeck, 77, German journalist and humanitarian (Cap Anamur), complications from heart surgery.
* Peter Owen, 89, German-born British publisher.
* Rudra Madhab Ray, 78, Indian politician, kidney disease.
* Ghislaine Roquet, 90, Canadian nun and academic.
* Pam Royds, 91, British publisher.