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

## October 2014
### 1

* Michel Baranger, 87, Franco-American theoretical physicist.
* Lynsey de Paul, 66, English singer-songwriter ("Sugar Me", "Won't Somebody Dance with Me"), brain haemorrhage.
* H. Patrick Glenn, 74, Canadian legal scholar.
* Sir Maurice Hodgson, 94, British business executive.
* Greg Hyder, 66, American basketball players (Cincinnati Royals).
* Shlomo Lahat, 86, Israeli general and politician, Mayor of Tel Aviv (1974–1993), lung infection.
* José Martínez, 72, Cuban baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), coach (Kansas City Royals, Chicago Cubs) and executive (Atlanta Braves).
* Oluremi Oyo, 61, Nigerian journalist, cancer.
* Charlie Paulk, 68, American basketball player (Milwaukee Bucks, New York Knicks), heart attack.
* Matilde Pérez, 97, Chilean painter and kinetic artist.
* Jerome Reppa, 89, American politician, member of the Indiana House of Representatives (1972–1990).
* Hans Sauter, 89, Austrian Olympic gymnast.
* George Savage, 72, British politician, MLA for Upper Bann (1998–2003, 2007–2011).
* Robert Serra, 27, Venezuelan politician, MLA for Caracas, stabbed.
* Guido van Gheluwe, 88, Belgian lawyer, founded Orde van den Prince.
* James I. West Jr., 84, American politician.
* Bob Young, 81, Scottish cricketer.

### 2

* David Banfield, 81, British priest.
* Fyodor Bogdanovsky, 84, Russian weightlifter, Olympic champion (1956).
* André Buffière, 91, French Olympic basketball player (1948, 1952).
* Priscilla Coolidge, 72–73, American recording artist, shot.
* Bill Crane, 90, Australian footballer.
* Harold "Deacon" Duvall, 97, American football coach.
* Herbert Eiteljörge, 79, German football player.
* Robert Flower, 59, Australian Hall of Fame VFL footballer (Melbourne).
* Michael Goldberg, 55, American screenwriter (Cool Runnings, Snow Dogs, Little Giants), brain and sinus cancer.
* Joanne M. Holden, 68, American nutritionist, cancer.
* Vaughn O. Lang, 86, American Army lieutenant general.
* György Lázár, 90, Hungarian politician, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1975–1987).
* Carlos Lopez, 25, American stunt performer (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, John Wick), fall.
* N. Mahalingam, 91, Indian businessman.
* Pedro Peña, 88, Spanish actor (Médico de familia), Alzheimer's disease.
* Carolyn Rovee-Collier, 72, American professor of psychology, breast cancer and multiple sclerosis.
* Yoshikazu Sakamoto, 87, Japanese political scientist, heart failure.
* Fred Sommers, 91, American philosopher.
* The Spaceape, 44, British poet and disc jockey, cancer.

### 3

* Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby, 83, British aristocrat and politician.
* Peer Augustinski, 74, German actor and German-language dub artist (Robin Williams), complications from epilepsy.
* Nati Cano, 81, Mexican-born American mariachi musician (Mariachi los Camperos), recipient of the National Heritage Fellowship (1990).
* Comer Cottrell, 82, American businessman and baseball team part-owner (Texas Rangers).
* Gordon Younger Craig, 89, Scottish geologist.
* George DeCicco, 84, American mobster.
* Bill Fiore, 74, American actor (The Corner Bar).
* ʻElisiva Fusipala Vahaʻi, 65, Tongan royal.
* Ewen Gilmour, 51, New Zealand comedian.
* Benedict Groeschel, 81, American Roman Catholic priest, author and television host, a founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal.
* Alan Henning, 47, British humanitarian aid worker and ISIS hostage, beheading. (death reported on this date)
* Seaborn Jones, 71, American poet.
* Peter Knecht, 78, American defense attorney, cancer.
* Jean-Jacques Marcel, 83, French footballer (Olympique de Marseille).
* Kevin Metheny, 60, American radio executive (WNBC (AM), WGN (AM)), heart attack.
* Ward Ruyslinck, 85, Belgian author, Alzheimer's disease.
* Lori Sandri, 65, Brazilian football manager, brain tumor.
* Christopher van Wyk, 57, South African writer.

### 4

* Louise Terry Batties, 103, American clubwoman.
* Konrad Boehmer, 73, German-born Dutch composer and writer, stroke.
* Hugo Carvana, 77, Brazilian actor (Entranced Earth, Antonio das Mortes) and director (Casa da Mãe Joana).
* Fyodor Cherenkov, 55, Russian footballer (FC Spartak Moscow, Soviet national team).
* Dorothy Davids, 91, American educator and activist.
* Thom Dickerson, 65, American journalist.
* Jean-Claude Duvalier, 63, Haitian politician, President (1971–1986), heart attack.
* Judith Edelman, 91, American architect, heart attack.
* Herman Mandui, 45, Papua New Guinean archaeologist.
* Joan Molina, 73, Spanish actor (Doctor Mateo).
* Suhailah Noah, 82, Malaysian public figure, Spouse of the Prime Minister of Malaysia (1977–1981), widow of Hussein Onn.
* Gholamali Pouratayi, 73, Iranian musician.
* Paul Revere, 76, American musician, cancer.
* Rajesh Sanghi, 42, Indian cricketer, heart attack.
* William Shija, 67, Tanzanian politician, Secretary General of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (since 2007).
* Silver Deputy, 29, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
* Gertjie Williams, 73, South African cricketer.

### 5

* John Best, 74, British-born American soccer player, coach and manager, lung infection.
* Al Bruno, 87, American CFL player (Toronto Argonauts) and coach (Hamilton Tiger-Cats), heart failure.
* Charlie Butler, 94, American basketball player.
* David Chavchavadze, 90, British-born American author and CIA officer.
* Andrea de Cesaris, 55, Italian racing driver (Formula One), traffic collision.
* Brahm Dutt, 88, Indian politician.
* Jimmy Feix, 83, American football player and coach.
* Anna Maria Gherardi, 74, Italian actress and voice actress (Lost Love, Petomaniac).
* Regis Groff, 79, American politician, member of the Colorado Senate (1974–1994).
* Göte Hagström, 96, Swedish steeplechase runner, Olympic bronze medalist (1948).
* Geoffrey Holder, 84, Trinidadian actor (Live and Let Die, Annie) and theatre director (The Wiz), Tony winner (1975), pneumonia.
* Philip Howard, 80, British journalist (The Times).
* Ike Jones, 84, American producer (A Man Called Adam) and actor (The Joe Louis Story, About Mrs. Leslie).
* Adalberto Lepri, 84, Italian Olympic wrestler.
* Yuri Lyubimov, 97, Russian stage actor and director, founder of the Taganka Theatre.
* Anna Przybylska, 35, Polish actress, pancreatic cancer.
* Ronnie Spafford, 86, British army officer and philatelist.
* Jack Turner, 84, American basketball player (New York Knicks).
* Misty Upham, 32, American actress (Frozen River, August: Osage County, Django Unchained), blunt force trauma.
* Tsai Wan-tsai, 85, Taiwanese financier.
* David Watson, 74, British-American actor (Beneath the Planet of the Apes), heart attack.

### 6

* King Block, 85, American football player.
* Veniamin Borisov, 79, Soviet Russian painter.
* Vic Braden, 85, American tennis player and instructor (University of Toledo), heart attack.
* Feridun Buğeker, 81, Turkish footballer.
* Bill Campbell, 91, American sportscaster.
* Philip J. Carroll, 76–77, American businessman.
* Chen Chi-lu, 91, Taiwanese politician, historian and anthropologist, multiple organ failure.
* Carlos César Delía, 91, Argentine equestrian and a brigade general.
* Denis Juneau, 89, Canadian painter, pneumonia.
* Andrew Kerr, 80, British festival organiser (Glastonbury Festival).
* Johnny Midnight, 73, Filipino radio and television host, prostate cancer.
* Igor Mitoraj, 70, Polish sculptor.
* Diane Nyland, 70, Canadian actress (The Trouble with Tracy), heart failure and COPD.
* Mikhail Potylchak, 42, Russian footballer, suicide by hanging.
* Marian Seldes, 86, American actress (A Delicate Balance, Affliction, August Rush), Alzheimer's disease.
* Apiwan Wiriyachai, 65, Thai politician, lung cancer.
* Serhiy Zakarlyuka, 38, Ukrainian football player (Dnipro, national team) and manager, traffic collision.

### 7

* Lloyd J. Andrews, 94, American politician and businessman.
* Walter Bockmayer, 66, German writer and film director, lung cancer.
* Federico Boido, 75, Italian actor and stuntman (Ace High, Superfly T.N.T.).
* Ugo Carrega, 79, Italian artist and poet.
* Cigar, 24, American thoroughbred racehorse, complications of neck surgery for osteoarthritis.
* Nuno Miguel Cerqueira Dias, 37, Portuguese swimmer.
* George Giokas, 90, Canadian football player (Regina Roughriders).
* John D. Jones, 91, American politician.
* Nika Kiladze, 25, Georgian footballer, traffic collision.
* Etsuko Komiya, 94, Japanese Olympic sprinter.
* Richard Laws, 88, British zoologist, Director of the British Antarctic Survey (1973–1987), Master of St Edmund's College, Cambridge (1987–1996).
* Siegfried Lenz, 88, German writer.
* Angus Macleod, 63, British journalist and editor, cancer.
* Paul Margulies, 79, American philosopher and advertising executive.
* Nancy Merki, 88, American Olympic swimmer.
* Amos Mkhari, South African footballer.
* David Samuel, 92, British-Israeli scientist and peer.
* Zilpha Keatley Snyder, 87, American writer (The Egypt Game), stroke.
* Brad Stanius, 68, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
* Soviet Star, 30, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
* Ivor Wilks, 86, British historian.
* Iva Withers, 97, Canadian-born American theatre actress and singer.

### 8

* Aleksandra Antonova, 92, Russian, Kildin Sámi teacher, writer, poet and translator.
* Mark Bell, 43, British musician and house music producer (LFO), complications from surgery.
* Gerardo Budowski, 89, German–Venezuelan chess master, natural causes.
* Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, Liberian courier, first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, Ebola virus disease.
* Dave Engellenner, 95, Australian footballer.
* Shon Harris, 46, American author.
* Morris Lurie, 75, Australian writer, cancer.
* Abdul Matin, 87, Bangladeshi language activist (Bengali Language Movement).
* Alden E. Matthews, 93, American missionary.
* Harden M. McConnell, 87, American chemistry professor (Stanford University).
* Angelo Mottola, 79, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop and diplomat.
* Helmut Ruge, 74, German comedian, actor, and cabaret writer.
* Jeen van den Berg, 86, Dutch Olympic speedskater (1956, 1960), winner of the Elfstedentocht (1954).
* Mike Waugh, 58, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania State Senate (1998–2014), cancer.

### 9

* Les Angell, 92, English cricketer (Somerset).
* Tibor Badari, 66, Hungarian Olympic boxer.
* Henning Bjerregaard, 87, Danish footballer.
* John Patrick Boles, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, titular bishop of Nova Sparsa.
* Boris Buzančić, 85, Croatian actor and politician.
* Sir Sydney Chapman, 78, English politician and architect, MP for Birmingham Handsworth (1970–1974) and Chipping Barnet (1979–2005).
* Jan Hooks, 57, American comedian and actress (Saturday Night Live, Designing Women, Batman Returns), cancer.
* M. V. Kamath, 93, Indian journalist.
* Ana Karić, 73, Croatian actress.
* Carolyn Kizer, 89, American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, complications of dementia.
* Matthias Koehl, 79, American neo-Nazi.
* Kim Koscki, 50, American stunt performer (The Mighty Ducks, Contact, Apollo 13), cardiac arrest.
* Willy Matsanga, 45, Congolese politician.
* Ray Metzker, 83, American photographer.
* Peter A. Peyser, 93, American politician, member of the U.S. House for New York's 25th (1971–1973) and 23rd (1973–1977, 1979–1983) districts, Parkinson's disease.
* Tony Priday, 92, English bridge player.
* David Rayvern Allen, 76, English cricket historian, cancer.
* Style Scott, 58, Jamaican reggae drummer.
* Rita Shane, 78, American operatic soprano, pancreatic and liver cancer.
* Paul Allen Simmons, 93, American federal judge, U.S. District Court Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania (since 1978).
* Robert Sproull, 96, American educator and physicist.
* Sir Jocelyn Stevens, 82, English publishing executive.
* Connell Thode, 103, New Zealand naval officer (HMS Scythian) and yachtsman.
* Victor Winding, 85, British actor (Doctor Who, Emmerdale).

### 10

* Ivan Armstrong, 86, New Zealand field hockey player and coach, tennis umpire, and educator.
* Gaston Banda-Bafiot, 80, Central African engineer, diplomat, and politician, Minister of Mines and Geology (1981), Ambassador of the Central African Republic to the United States (1973-1975).
* Prue Barron, 97, Scottish surgeon.
* C. Curtis-Smith, 73, American composer and pianist.
* Olav Dale, 55, Norwegian composer and jazz saxophonist.
* Damiana Eugenio, 93, Filipino author and professor.
* Peter Jackson, 80, Irish tennis player.
* Valeri Karpov, 43, Russian Olympic ice hockey player (1994), world champion (1993), head injury.
* Lari Ketner, 37, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Indiana Pacers), colon cancer.
* Pavel Landovský, 78, Czech actor and dissident, heart attack.
* Roy Law, 77, English footballer (Wimbledon).
* Finn Lied, 98, Norwegian military researcher and politician.
* Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, 70, New Zealand art historian, curator and academic, pancreatic cancer.
* Geoff Miller, 72, Australian public servant.
* Amildo Morales, 76, Guatemalan politician, MP for Jalapa (since 2012), attacked by a bull.
* Ed Nimmervoll, 67, Australian music journalist and author, brain cancer.
* Ichirō Satake, 86, Japanese mathematician, respiratory failure.
* Marianne Sjöblom, 80, Finnish Olympic fencer (1952).
* John Westcott, 93, British computer scientist.
* Ernie Wiggs, 73, New Zealand rugby league player (Auckland, national team).
* Anatoly Yagudaev, 79, Russian sculptor.

### 11

* Abbas Ali, 94, Indian politician and independence activist.
* Anita Cerquetti, 83, Italian soprano.
* Tanhum Cohen-Mintz, 75, Israeli basketball player, cancer.
* Elbert Drungo, 71, American football player (Houston Oilers, Buffalo Bills), cancer.
* Walter Fitzgerald, 78, Canadian politician, Mayor of Halifax (1971–1974, 1994–1996), MLA for Halifax Chebucto (1974–1981).
* Donald Gauf, 87, Canadian Olympic champion ice hockey player (1952).
* Margaret Hillert, 94, American author.
* Jazil, 11, American thoroughbred racehorse, injuries sustained in paddock accident.
* Jason Jurman, 34, American actor (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Blue Bloods, Cougar Club).
* Brian Lemon, 77, British jazz pianist.
* Gary McLarty, 73, American stunt performer (The Terminator, Jurassic Park, Beverly Hills Cop), traffic collision.
* Bob Orrison, 86, American stunt performer (Stargate, Road House, Speed), traffic collision.
* Mats Rondin, 54, Swedish cellist and composer, heart attack.
* Carmelo Simeone, 80, Argentine footballer (Vélez Sarsfield, Boca Juniors).
* Bob Such, 70, Australian politician, member of the South Australian House of Assembly for Fisher (since 1989), brain tumour.

### 12

* Jack A. Apsche, 67, American psychologist.
* Cleo Baldon, 87, American architect, landscape architect, and furniture designer.
* Geoff Elliott, 83, British decathlete.
* Tony Hibbert, 96, British army officer.
* Louise Daniel Hutchinson, 86, American historian.
* Aki Jones, 31, American football player (Washington Redskins), car accident.
* Maurie Keane, 91, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Woronora (1973–1988).
* Bob Kelly, 78, American professional wrestler.
* Tommy Lewis, 83, American football player (University of Alabama, Ottawa Rough Riders).
* Lojze Logar, 70, Slovene artist.
* Tony Lynes, 85, British anti-poverty campaigner.
* Ali Mazrui, 81, Kenyan professor and political writer.
* Graham Miles, 73, English snooker player.
* Hussein Mjalli, 77, Jordanian lawyer and politician, involved in legal defence of Saddam Hussein, Justice Minister (2011), heart attack.
* Enrique Santiago Petracchi, 78, Argentine lawyer and judge, member of the Supreme Court (since 1983).
* Emilio Picasso, 87, Italian physicist.
* Robert Relf, 90, English political activist.
* Roberto Telch, 70, Argentine footballer (San Lorenzo, national team), heart attack.

### 13

* Sir John Bradfield, 89, British biologist and entrepreneur, founder of Cambridge Science Park.
* Barrie Brown, 83, Australian footballer.
* Antonio Cafiero, 92, Argentine politician, Governor of Buenos Aires (1987–1991), Senator (1993–2005), pneumonia.
* Patricia Carson, 85, British historian and author.
* Mario Mellado García, 98, Mexican politician, Governor of Puebla (1972). (death announced on this date)
* Margaret Helen Harper, 95, American computer programmer.
* Tsutomu Katsuki, 68, Japanese organic chemist.
* Charles Lovell, 91, British trade unionist.
* Elizabeth Norment, 61, American actress (House of Cards, Party of Five, Doogie Howser, M.D.), cancer.
* Agnes Owens, 88, Scottish author.
* José Hernán Sánchez Porras, 70, Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Military Ordinariate (since 2001).
* Mohammad Sarengat, 74, Indonesian sprinter, Asian Games champion (1962), complications from a stroke.
* Pontus Segerström, 33, Swedish footballer (IF Brommapojkarna), cancer.
* Kapil Krishna Thakur, 74, Indian politician, MP for Bangaon.
* Deborah Warren, 55, Argentine actress, cancer.

### 14

* Tamar Ariel, 25, Israeli Air Force navigator, freezing.
* Art Best, 61, American football player (Chicago Bears).
* Mary Downer, 89, Australian arts patron.
* Eve Dutton, 86, Australian lecturer and politician.
* Encke, 5, American-bred British-trained thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
* Humberto Lara Gavidia, El Salvadoran baseball player.
* Ted Gullicksen, 60–61, American social justice activist.
* Doğan Güreş, 88, Turkish general and politician.
* A. H. Halsey, 91, British sociologist.
* Bertha George Harris, 101, American tribal elder and potter, was oldest member of the Catawba people.
* Paul Hubbert, 78, American educator and politician.
* Jean-Claude Lefebvre, 81, French cyclist.
* Leonard Liggio, 81, American libertarian author.
* Ron Loewinsohn, 76, American poet.
* Oriel Malet, 91, British novelist.
* Heidrun Mohr-Mayer, 73, German jeweller and philanthropist.
* Paul Muenzer, 82, American school administrator and politician, Mayor of Naples, Florida (1992–1996), liver and pancreatic cancer.
* Joe H. Mulholland, 80, American politician, Mississippi State Senator (1964–1968, 1976–1984), cancer.
* Bob Neilson, 91, New Zealand rugby league player (West Coast, national team).
* Paul J. Olscamp, 77, Canadian university administrator.
* Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, 39, American keyboardist, heart attack.
* Elizabeth Peña, 55, American actress (The Incredibles, Rush Hour, Jacob's Ladder), cirrhosis.
* Hans Ernst Schneider, 87, Swiss Olympic sprinter.
* John Stephenson, 77, Australian football player (Carlton), plane crash.
* Dharmaraj Thapa, 92, Nepali folk singer.
* Walter Victor, 97, American sports photographer.

### 15

* Sir James Balderstone, 93, Australian businessman and company director.
* João Corso, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Campos (1990–1995).
* Filipe Oliveira Dias, 50, Portuguese architect.
* Marie Dubois, 77, French actress (Shoot the Piano Player, Jules and Jim, Monte Carlo or Bust!), multiple sclerosis.
* James Semple Kerr, 82, Australian architectural historian.
* Christian Kinck, 58, French Olympic weightlifter.
* Mile Krajina, 90, Croatian gusle player.
* José Refugio Mercado Díaz, 72, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Tehuantepec (2003–2009).
* Giovanni Reale, 83, Italian philosophy historian.
* Giorgio Rebuffi, 85, Italian comic book artist (Tiramolla, Cucciolo).
* Jiří Reynek, 85, Czech graphic artist, poet and translator.
* William Ronan, 101, American public servant, first chairman of MTA.
* Sabir Shaikh, 71, Indian politician.
* Sir Christopher Staughton, 81, British jurist, Lord Justice of Appeal, President of the Court of Appeal of Gibraltar (2005–2006).
* Robert Tiernan, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House for Rhode Island's 2nd district (1967–1975).
* Nobby Wirkowski, 88, American football player (Toronto Argonauts) and coach (York University).

### 16

* Brian Bath, 67, South African cricketer.
* Ioannis Charalambopoulos, 95, Greek army officer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1985–1988).
* Laurence Clancy, 85, British aerodynamicist.
* Patrick Paul D'Souza, 86, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Varanasi (1971–2007).
* James E. Defebaugh, 87, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives (1971–1982).
* Ertuğrul Oğuz Fırat, 91, Turkish composer, painter, and poet.
* Allen Forte, 87, American music theorist and musicologist.
* Sumi Haru, 75, American actress (MASH), Interim President of the Screen Actors Guild (1995), emphysema.
* Tim Hauser, 72, American musician (The Manhattan Transfer), cardiac arrest.
* Seppo Kuusela, 80, Finnish basketball player.
* David Shepherd Nivison, 91, American sinologist.
* Shalom Schwarz, 63, Israeli footballer.
* John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, 88, British peer, custodian of Blenheim Palace.

### 17

* Shobha Abhyankar, 68, Indian musicologist and teacher, cancer.
* John Andrew, 83, British-born American Anglican priest.
* Edwards Barham, 77, American politician, Louisiana State Senator (1976–1980), plane crash.
* Gero Bisanz, 78, German football player and coach.
* Claude Brodin, 80, French Olympic fencer (1964).
* Robert Donald Cohen, 81, British physician.
* Alfred Croisetière, 92, Canadian politician.
* Bill Diachuk, 85, Canadian politician, MLA (1971–1986).
* Arif Doğan, 68–69, Turkish officer.
* Masaru Emoto, 71, Japanese author.
* Hermione Hobhouse, 80, British architectural historian.
* Joseph Hogan, 77, American politician, member of the Nevada Assembly (since 2005).
* Vladimír Hrivnák, 69, Slovak football player and manager.
* Leigh Kamman, 92, American radio host.
* José Luis Lobato, 76, Mexican politician, Senator for Veracruz (2006–2012), shot.
* G. Dean Loucks, 79, American college football coach (Fordham Rams).
* Mikhail Marynich, 74, Belarusian politician.
* Anna Nakagawa, 49, Japanese actress (A Sign Days, Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah), uterine cancer.
* Daisuke Oku, 38, Japanese footballer (Júbilo Iwata, Yokohama F. Marinos), traffic collision.
* Lawrence J. Quirk, 91, American writer, Hollywood reporter and film historian.
* Jon Ramstad, 89, Norwegian politician.
* Tom Shaw, 69, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Massachusetts (1995–2014), brain cancer.
* Berndt von Staden, 95, German diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1973–1979).

### 18

* Horst Arndt, 80, German Olympic silver medallist rower (1956).
* Robin Barbour, 93, Scottish minister and author.
* Joanne Borgella, 32, American singer (American Idol) and model (Mo'Nique's Fat Chance), endometrial cancer.
* Ralph Churches, 96, Australian soldier.
* Paul Craft, 76, American musician and songwriter ("Brother Jukebox").
* Choi Soon-dal, 83, South Korean scientist.
* Eduardo D'Angelo, 75, Uruguayan actor, comedian and impressionist.
* Jimmy Docherty, 83, Scottish rugby footballer.
* Efua Dorkenoo, 65, Ghanaian-born British campaigner against female genital mutilation, cancer.
* Sir Peter Downward, 90, British army general.
* Luigi Gnocchi, 81, Italian Olympic sprinter.
* Robert B. Grady, 71, American software engineer, ruptured aneurysm.
* Kenneth House, 78, English cricketer (Dorset).
* Danny Light, 66, English footballer (Crystal Palace, Colchester United).
* Lou Lucier, 96, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies).
* Rachel Makinson, 97, Australian research scientist.
* R. C. Mehta, 96, Indian musician and musicologist.
* Claude Ollier, 91, French nouveau roman author.
* Bruce Phillips, 85, Australian football player (St Kilda).
* Rick S. Piltz, 71, American climate analyst, metastasized liver cancer.
* Edward Regan, 84, American politician, New York State Comptroller (1979–1993).
* Mariano Lebrón Saviñón, 92, Dominican author and academic.
* Sidney Shapiro, 98, American-born Chinese author and translator.
* Melford Spiro, 94, American cultural anthropologist.
* Rebel Steiner, 87, American football player (Green Bay Packers).
* Veandercross, 26, New Zealand Thoroughbred horse.
* Paul Henry Walsh, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Rockville Centre (2003–2012).
* Mervyn Winfield, 81, English cricketer (Nottinghamshire).

### 19

* A. F. Salahuddin Ahmed, 90, Bangladeshi historian.
* Frank Barnes, 88, American Major League Baseball player.
* William Barrington-Coupe, 83, Welsh record producer.
* Lynda Bellingham, 66, Canadian-born British actress (Doctor Who, General Hospital, The Bill), colon cancer.
* Cecil Carston, 87, New Zealand cricketer.
* Gloria Casarez, 42, American civil rights activist, cancer.
* Kathryn Chaloner, 60, British-born American statistician, Professor of Biostatistics (University of Iowa).
* Leonore Davidoff, 82, American historian.
* Edward Donno, 79, American stunt performer (Daredevil, The Untouchables, Star Trek).
* Stuart Gallacher, 68, Welsh rugby player (national union and league teams) and executive.
* John Holt, 67, Jamaican singer (The Paragons) and songwriter ("The Tide Is High"), cancer.
* Ed Keegan, 75, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Kansas City Athletics).
* James Levesque, 52, American bassist (Agent Orange).
* Arnold Mitchell, 84, English footballer (Exeter City).
* Étienne Mourrut, 74, French politician, MP for Gard's 2nd constituency (2002–2012), Mayor of Le Grau-du-Roi (1983–2014).
* Francis Nkwain, 84, Cameroonian senator.
* Gerard Parkes, 90, Irish-born Canadian actor (Fraggle Rock, The Boondock Saints).
* Stephen Paulus, 65, American composer, complications from a stroke.
* Imre Pichler, 67, Hungarian politician, MP for Szigetvár.
* Don Ratcliffe, 79, English footballer (Stoke City).
* Raphael Ravenscroft, 60, British saxophonist ("Baker Street") and author, suspected heart attack.
* Miloslava Rezková, 64, Czech high jumper, Olympic champion (1968).
* Jim Sharkey, 80, Scottish footballer (Celtic).
* Serena Shim, 29, Lebanese-born American journalist (Press TV), traffic collision.
* Ken Short, 87, Australian Anglican prelate, Assistant Bishop of Sydney.
* Bob Spear, 94, American naturalist, founder of Birds of Vermont Museum.

### 20

* Ox Baker, 80, American professional wrestler and actor (Escape from New York), heart attack.
* Gilbert Baumslag, 81, American mathematician.
* Raymond Beadle, 70, American Hall of Fame drag racer, heart attack.
* Dennis Biodrowski, 74, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs).
* Gerd Bonk, 63, German weightlifter, Olympic bronze (1972) and silver (1976) medalist.
* René Burri, 81, Swiss photographer, cancer.
* Lilli Carati, 58, Italian actress (Being Twenty, La compagna di banco), brain tumor.
* L. M. Kit Carson, 73, American screenwriter and actor (Paris, Texas, Running on Empty).
* Peter Daland, 93, American swimming coach (University of Southern California, 1964 Olympic women, 1972 Olympic men).
* Hayward H. Davis, 86, American politician.
* Bob Dawson, 90, American television personality, meteorologist, and producer.
* Jim Dunegan, 67, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).
* Robert Kevin Ellis, 60, British millionaire businessman, slashed.
* Rodney Fitch, 76, English designer, cancer.
* Sir John Hoskyns, 87, British businessman, policy advisor to Margaret Thatcher.
* Rajam Krishnan, 89, Indian writer.
* Ursula Lingen, 86, Austrian actress (The Model Husband).
* Pete Livermore, 73, American politician, member of the Nevada Assembly (since 2011), heart attack.
* David Malcolm, 76, Australian judge, Chief Justice of Western Australia (1988–2006).
* Christophe de Margerie, 63, French businessman, CEO of Total S.A. (since 2007), plane crash.
* Pavle Merkù, 87, Slovene composer.
* Gary Plauché, 68, American vigilante murderer, stroke.
* Oscar de la Renta, 82, Dominican fashion designer, cancer.
* Tom Slade Jr., 78, American lobbyist, Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida (1993–1999), member of the Florida Legislature, heart failure.
* John Solomon, 82, English croquet player.
* Arthur Trestrail, 93, Trinidadian cricketer.

### 21

* Jim Barrett Jr., 83, English footballer (West Ham).
* Sushil Biswas, Indian politician.
* Ben Bradlee, 93, American journalist, Executive Editor of The Washington Post (1968–1991), Alzheimer's disease.
* Otto Brolo, 85, Guatemalan sports shooter.
* Chen Ziming, 62, Chinese democracy activist, pancreatic cancer.
* Johnny Lee Clary, 55, American professional wrestler, preacher and reformed Ku Klux Klan leader.
* Roger Darvell, 83, English footballer, stroke.
* Dale Dorman, 71, American radio disc jockey (WODS).
* Laurențiu Dumănoiu, 63, Romanian volleyball player.
* Seth Gaaikema, 75, Dutch comedian and writer, heart failure.
* Nelson Bunker Hunt, 88, American oil company executive, cancer and dementia.
* Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani, 83, Iranian politician, Acting Prime Minister (1981), Minister of Interior (1980–1981), heart failure.
* George Kline, 93, American translator and philosopher.
* Yasumasa Narasaki, 86, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councilors (1992–1998), pneumonia.
* Jean Packard, 91, American politician.
* Joan Quigley, 87, American astrologer.
* Tuna Scanlan, 80, Samoan boxer.
* Rudolf Schmid, 63, Austrian luger, Olympic bronze medalist (1976), traffic collision.
* Peter Trotter, 58, Australian Paralympic wheelchair racer.
* Gough Whitlam, 98, Australian politician, Prime Minister (1972–1975).
* Catherine Mary Wisnicki, 95, Canadian architect.

### 22

* Murad Ashurly, 41, Azerbaijani mountaineer, fall from mountain.
* Gert Boshoff, 83, South African Army general.
* Martin Chalmers, 65, British translator.
* Anatoly Chertkov, 78, Russian footballer.
* Rhiannon Davies Jones, 92, Welsh novelist.
* Elizabeth Forbes, 90, British writer and musicologist.
* George Francis, 80, English footballer (Brentford).
* John-Roger Hinkins, 80, American author and public speaker, founder of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness.
* Ashok Kumar, 72, Indian cinematographer and film director (Abhinandana).
* Barry McSweeney, Irish scientist, Chief Science Advisor (2004–2005).
* Paul Nabor, 86, Belizean musician.
* John Postgate, 93, British microbiologist and writer, professor at University of Sussex.
* David Redfern, 78, English photographer, cancer.
* Sonia Rolt, 95, British canal conservationist.
* Rinnat Safin, 74, Soviet biathlete, Olympic champion (1972).

### 23

* Ghulam Azam, 91, Bangladeshi convicted war criminal, Emir of Jamaat-e-Islami (1969–2000), stroke.
* Jeanne Black, 76, American country singer.
* John Bramlett, 73, American football player (Boston Patriots).
* Clarence Addison Brimmer Jr., 92, American federal judge, Wyoming Attorney General (1971–1974).
* Robert C. Calfee, 81, American educational psychologist, stomach cancer.
* Spanky Davis, 71, American jazz trumpeter.
* Sir Ronald Grierson, 93, British banker.
* Hayden Howard, 88, American poet and author.
* Göran Johansson, 69, Swedish politician and union leader, Chairman of the Gothenburg Municipality Executive Board (1988–1991, 1994–2009), cancer.
* Terry Keenan, 53, American financial news anchor and journalist (CNN, FNC, New York Post), cerebral hemorrhage.
* Frederic S. Lee, 64, American economist.
* Clyde T. Lusk, 81, American coast guard officer, Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard (1988–1990).
* Frank Mankiewicz, 90, American journalist and political adviser, press secretary to Robert F. Kennedy.
* Bernard Mayes, 85, British-born American broadcaster and academic.
* André Piters, 83, Belgian footballer (Standard Liège).
* Tullio Regge, 83, Italian theoretical physicist.
* Denma Locho Rinpoche, 86, Tibetan lama.
* Alvin Stardust, 72, English singer ("My Coo Ca Choo").
* Raleigh Trevelyan, 91, British author.
* Alan Tyrrell, 81, British lawyer and politician, MEP (1979–1984).

### 24

* Esmeralda Agoglia, 91, Argentine prima ballerina and choreographer.
* Alagappa Alagappan, 88, Indian-born American official.
* Lorenzo Albacete, 73, American theologian and Roman Catholic priest.
* Kim Anderzon, 71, Swedish film and theatre actress (Göta kanal eller Vem drog ur proppen?, Rederiet), spinal cancer.
* Vic Ash, 84, English jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.
* Joseph Battisto, 83, American politician.
* Ted Beniades, 91, American actor (Scarface, Serpico, The Jackie Gleason Show).
* Robert Brink, 90, American violinist, conductor, and educator.
* Jacksel M. Broughton, 89, American air force officer and fighter pilot.
* Reuben Cohen, 93, Canadian lawyer, Chancellor of Dalhousie University (1990–1994).
* Jean-Michel Coulon, 94, French painter.
* Mike Dorsey, 84, English-born Australian actor (Number 96).
* Allison J. Doupe, 60, Canadian neuroscientist, cancer.
* Martin Garratt, 34, English footballer (York City).
* James F. Hastings, 88, American politician.
* Shirley Hooper, 78, American politician, Secretary of State of New Mexico (1979–1982).
* Jenny James, 87, Welsh swimmer.
* Gajanan Kathaley, 67, Indian cricketer.
* Gordon MacWilliam, 91, British Anglican priest.
* Pat McGlothin, 93, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
* Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, 34, South African middle-distance runner, Olympic silver medalist (2004), traffic collision.
* S. S. Rajendran, 86, Indian actor, lung infection.
* Creighton Robertson, 70, American prelate, Episcopal Bishop of South Dakota.
* Emily Ruto, 25, Kenyan cricketer (national women's team), leukemia.
* Marcia Strassman, 66, American actress (Welcome Back, Kotter, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, M*A*S*H) and singer, breast cancer.
* Malcolm Thompson, 68, English footballer (Scarborough).
* Tugela, 19, American-born Australian thoroughbred horse.

### 25

* Radmilo Bogdanović, 80, Serbian politician.
* Jack Bruce, 71, Scottish bassist (Cream, Manfred Mann) and composer, liver disease.
* Gerry Burrell, 90, Scottish football player.
* Oliver S. Crosby, 94, American diplomat.
* Buzz Emick, 75, American attorney and politician.
* Zbigniew Hnatio, 61, Polish footballer
* Ari Hoogenboom, 86, American historian.
* Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami, 93, Japanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Naha (1972–1997).
* Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, Iranian convicted murderer, subject of international campaign against her execution, execution by hanging.
* Peter Maxey, 83, British diplomat, Ambassador to the United Nations (1984–1986).
* Carlos Morales Troncoso, 74, Dominican politician, Vice President (1986–1994), Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1994–1996, 2004–2014), leukemia.
* Sheila Shulman, 77, American-born British rabbi.
* David Somerset, 84, British banker, Chief Cashier of the Bank of England (1980–1988).
* Jim Stangeland, 92, American football player and coach.

### 26

* Genpei Akasegawa, 77, Japanese author and artist, sepsis.
* Jamil Alibekov, 86, Azerbaijani writer and public figure.
* Vic Allen, 91, British academic, sociologist, historian and trade unionist (National Union of Mineworkers).
* David Armstrong, 60, American photographer, liver cancer.
* Françoise Bertin, 89, French actress.
* Mo Collins, 38, American football player (Oakland Raiders), kidney failure.
* Katrina Edwards, 46, American geomicrobiologist.
* Rémi Fraisse, 21, French botanist, hit by stun grenade.
* Germain Gagnon, 71, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks, Montreal Canadiens, New York Islanders).
* Michael Hawkins, 86, British actor (The Hound of the Baskervilles, Doctor Who).
* Cliff Hysell, 72, American football player and coach (Montana State Bobcats).
* Dudley Knowles, 67, British philosopher, cancer.
* Rod Love, 61, Canadian political strategist, cancer.
* Senzo Meyiwa, 30, South African footballer (Orlando Pirates, national team), shot.
* Brian Moore, 70, Australian rugby league player (Newtown Jets).
* Hisahiko Okazaki, 84, Japanese diplomat and political commentator.
* Oscar Orefici, 68, Italian journalist and writer.
* Manuel Revollo Crespo, 89, Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bolivian Military (2000–2012).
* Jeff Robinson, 52, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
* Gavin Smith, 59, American film studio executive, missing since 2012. (body discovered on this date)
* Gordy Soltau, 89, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).
* Oscar Taveras, 22, Dominican baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals), traffic collision.
* Antonio Terenghi, 92, Italian comic book artist (Pedrito el Drito, Tarzanetto).
* Sir Tay Wilson, 89, New Zealand sports official.
* Bob Wood, 93, American basketball player (Sheboygan Red Skins).

### 27

* Ron Adam, 80, Canadian football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders).
* Daniel Boulanger, 92, French actor and screenwriter.
* Norman Hansen, 90, American public official, Town Manager of Saugus, Massachusetts (1987–1992).
* Thurston Hopkins, 101, British photojournalist.
* Bob Kenney, 83, American basketball player, Olympic champion (1952).
* Doug Laing, 83, Australian Olympic water polo player.
* Kåre Langvik-Johannessen, 95, Norwegian philologist, literary historian and translator.
* Charles McCullough, 91, Northern Irish politician, member of the Senate (1968–1972).
* Ian Monro, 87, New Zealand naval officer (HMNZS Lachlan).
* Chris Nance, 74, American conductor.
* William Orchard, 84, Australian Olympic water polo player and psychiatrist.
* Dan Peters, 60, American college basketball coach (Youngstown State), pancreatic cancer.
* Lucio Sangermano, 82, Italian Olympic sprinter.
* Shin Hae-chul, 46, South Korean pop singer (N.EX.T), heart attack.
* Leif Skiöld, 79, Swedish footballer and ice hockey player.
* Richard Stretch, 61, South African cricketer.
* Reidar Sundby, 88, Norwegian footballer (Larvik Turn).
* Starke Taylor, 92, American politician, Mayor of Dallas (1983–1987).
* Dub Williams, 87, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (1995–2009).

### 28

* Ronald Norman Dalby, 85, Canadian engineer and academic administrator, Chancellor of the University of Alberta (1974–1978).
* Romualdas Granauskas, 75, Lithuanian writer.
* Mansour Hobeika, 72, Lebanese Maronite Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zahlé (since 2002).
* Koichiro Kimura, 44, Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler, pneumonia.
* Galway Kinnell, 87, American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, leukemia.
* James William Lair, 90, American CIA case officer.
* Nedo Logli, 91, Italian cyclist.
* John Ross Mackay, 98, Canadian geographer.
* Jim Paxson Sr., 81, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers, Cincinnati Royals).
* Eberhard Prüter, 69, German actor and voice actor.
* Michael Sata, 77, Zambian politician, President (since 2011), heart attack.
* Hans Schneider, 87, Austrian-born American mathematician and journal editor (Linear Algebra and its Applications), cancer.
* Clark S. Smith, 102, American politician.
* David Trendell, 50, British organist and musical director.
* Carroll Waller, 87, American historic preservationist, First Lady of Mississippi (1972–1976), restored the Mississippi Governor's Mansion, Alzheimer's disease.
* Charlie Watkins, 91, British audio engineer (Watkins Electric Music).

### 29

* Alfred Biehle, 87, German politician.
* Don Bracken, 52, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams), staph infection.
* Alan Dawson, 82, Australian rules footballer.
* Frans De Bruyn, 90, Belgian Flemish writer.
* Frank Domínguez, 87, Cuban composer and pianist.
* Dennis Duncan, 71, Canadian football player, Parkinson's disease.
* Thomas Dupuy, 32, French boxer, killed.
* Roger Freeman, 48, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives, colon cancer.
* Rainer Hasler, 56, Liechtenstein footballer.
* Roderick M. Hills, 83, American lawyer and business executive, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1975–1977), surgical complications.
* Klas Ingesson, 46, Swedish footballer (national team), multiple myeloma.
* Mary Jolliffe, 90, Canadian theatre publicist.
* H. Gary Morse, 77, American real estate developer (The Villages, Florida).
* Rosa Posada, 74, Spanish politician.

### 30

* Elijah Malok Aleng, 77, South Sudanese public servant.
* Renée Asherson, 99, English actress (Caesar and Cleopatra, Henry V, The Others).
* Joe Brown, 85, English football player and manager (Burnley).
* Geoffrey Chamberlain, 84, Welsh academic.
* Geoffrey Clarke, 89, British artist.
* Xavier de Villepin, 88, French politician.
* Harcourt Dowsley, 95, Australian cricketer and football player.
* Juan Flavier, 79, Filipino politician, Secretary of Health (1992–1995), member of the Senate (1995–2007), multiple organ failure.
* John Forzani, 67, Canadian businessman and football player, heart attack.
* Bob Geigel, 90, American professional wrestler and promoter (Central States Wrestling), Alzheimer's disease.
* Lucy Gwin, 71, American disability rights activist.
* Ed Hoffman, 89, American football coach.
* Max Homer, 79, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1969–1974).
* Mohamed Sheikh Ismail, 50s, Somali military commander, Chief of the Police Force (2014).
* Amin Kamil, 90, Indian poet.
* Don W. King, 72, American writer and gay rights activist, pancreatic cancer.
* Thomas Menino, 71, American politician, Mayor of Boston (1993–2014), cancer.
* Andy Natowich, 95, American football player.
* Ida Elizabeth Osbourne, 98, Australian radio broadcaster, founder of the ABC's Argonauts Club.
* Ann Paludan, 86, British author.
* Clay Stapleton, 93, American football player and coach (Iowa State Cyclones).
* Christopher J. Turner, 81, British diplomat, Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands (1982–1987) and Montserrat (1987–1990).

### 31

* David Manker Abshire, 88, American diplomat, Permanent Representative to NATO (1983–1987).
* Michael Alsbury, 39, American test pilot and engineer (Scaled Composites), spaceplane crash.
* Aden Robleh Awaleh, 72–73, Djiboutian politician.
* Tony Blake, 87, English footballer.
* José Manuel Briceño Guerrero, 85, Venezuelan writer, philologist and philosopher.
* Marina Cárdenas, 67, Nicaraguan bolero singer.
* Armando Cavazzuti, 85, Italian footballer.
* Ciguli, 57, Bulgarian Chalga singer.
* Pete Davis, 76-77, American archpriest.
* Carlos Duque, 84, Panamanian politician.
* Ian Fraser, 81, English composer and conductor (Scrooge, Christmas in Washington), cancer.
* Brad Halsey, 33, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics), climbing fall.
* Sir Henry Harris, 89, Australian cell biologist.
* Dick Hendley, 88, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
* Käbi Laretei, 92, Estonian concert pianist.
* Mal MacDougall, 86, American advertising executive and speechwriter.
* Hitoshi Motoshima, 92, Japanese politician, Mayor of Nagasaki (1979–1995).
* Sofron Mudry, 90, Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk (1997–2005).
* Walter H. North, 81, American politician, member of the Michigan Senate (1995–2002).
* Pat Partridge, 81, British football referee.
* Jim Sauter, 71, American stock car racing driver.
* Bibbi Segerström, 71, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1960).
* Renato Sellani, 88, Italian jazz pianist and composer.
* John V. Shields, 82, American chief executive (Trader Joe's).
* Ross H. Trower, 92, American naval officer, Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy (1979–1983).