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

## October 2016
### 1

* Edda Heiðrún Backman, 58, Icelandic actress (101 Reykjavík), motor neurone disease.
* Brian Bell, 86, New Zealand ornithologist.
* Bobby Burnett, 73, American football player (Buffalo Bills), pancreatic cancer.
* William Dumbrell, 90, Australian biblical scholar.
* David Herd, 82, Scottish footballer (Arsenal, Manchester United, national team).
* Anton Jeyanathan, 68, Sri Lankan politician, traffic collision.
* Jagoda Kaloper, 69, Croatian actress (W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism).
* Erol Keskin, 89, Turkish footballer (Fenerbahçe, Adaletspor, national team).
* Daphne Odjig, 97, Canadian First Nations artist.
* Vittorio Scantamburlo, 86, Italian football manager and scout.
* Roger Theder, 77, American football player and coach, Parkinson's disease.
* Lowell Thomas Jr., 92, English-born American film producer and politician, member of the Alaska Senate (1967–1974), Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (1974–1978).
* Toni Williams, 77, Cook Islands-born New Zealand singer.

### 2

* David Abdulai, 65, Ghanaian physician.
* Georg Apenes, 76, Norwegian politician and jurist.
* Walter Darby Bannard, 82, American painter.
* Betty Blayton-Taylor, 79, American artist, arts administrator, and co-founder of the Studio Museum in Harlem.
* Steve Byrd, 61, English guitarist (Gillan, Kim Wilde), heart attack.
* Gordon Davidson, 83, American stage and film director.
* Pierre Durand Sr., 84, French Olympic equestrian.
* Mary Hesse, 91, British academician and educator.
* Ed McHugh, 86, American Olympic soccer player.
* Sir Neville Marriner, 92, British conductor (Amadeus), founder of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
* Bobby Molloy, 80, Irish politician, TD (1965–2002).
* Jeroen Oerlemans, 46, Dutch photojournalist, shot.
* Gary Reed, 60, American comic book writer (Deadworld, Baker Street), heart attack.
* Thomas Round, 100, British opera singer.
* Hanna Zora, 77, Iraqi-born Iranian-Canadian Chaldean Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Ahwaz (1974–2011) and Mar Addai of Toronto (2011–2014).

### 3

* Cai Qirui, 102, Chinese chemist, educator and academician (Chinese Academy of Sciences).
* Alain Chevallier, 68, French motorcycle designer, cancer.
* Ljupka Dimitrovska, 70, Macedonian-born Croatian singer.
* Isobel Finnerty, 86, Canadian politician, Senator (1999–2005).
* Anthony Goodman, 80, British medieval historian.
* K. David van Hoesen, 90, American bassoonist.
* Ahmad Salama Mabruk, 59, Egyptian leader of Jabhat al-Nusra, drone strike.
* Andrew Vicari, 84, British painter.
* Mário Wilson, 86, Portuguese football player and manager (Sporting, Académica, Benfica).

### 4

* Gair Allie, 84, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), heart disease.
* Mario Almada, 94, Mexican actor (La Viuda Negra).
* Kenneth Angell, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Burlington (1992–2005).
* Yusuf Arakkal, 70, Indian painter.
* Bertrand M. Bell, 86, American physician, key figure in the Libby Zion Law legislation, kidney failure.
* Terry Butler, 58, Australian rugby league player, lung cancer.
* Elaine Lustig Cohen, 89, American graphic designer.
* Caroline Crawley, 53, British singer and musician (Shelleyan Orphan, This Mortal Coil).
* Stephen de Mowbray, 91, British counterintelligence officer.
* Melvin M. Grumbach, 90, American pediatrician.
* Brigitte Hamann, 76, German-Austrian historian and author.
* Pieter Hintjens, 53, Belgian software developer, euthanasia.
* Merfyn Jones, 85, Welsh footballer (Scunthorpe United, Crewe Alexandra, Chester City).
* Hso Khan Pha, 78, Burmese-born Canadian geologist and exiled prince of Yawnghwe.
* Ivan C. Lafayette, 86, American soldier, civic activist and politician.
* Fred Osam-Duodu, 78, Ghanaian football manager.
* Jim Parrott, 74, Canadian politician, MLA for Fundy-River Valley (2010–2014).
* Doug Slaten, 36, American baseball player.
* Bing Thom, 75, Hong Kong-born Canadian architect, brain aneurysm.
* Harsh Vardhan, 68, Indian politician.
* Donald H. White, 95, American composer.

### 5

* Girma Asmerom, 66, Eritrean politician.
* Georges Balandier, 95, French sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist.
* Jarlath Carey, 74, Irish Gaelic football player.
* Pompeiu Hărășteanu, 81, Romanian opera singer.
* Dick Haugland, 73, American biochemist, brain cancer.
* Michal Kováč, 86, Slovak politician, President (1993–1998), complications of Parkinson's disease.
* György Márkus, 82, Hungarian philosopher.
* Luisa Massimo, 87, Italian pediatrician.
* Yasmin Modassir, Indian zoologist.
* Conxita Mora Jordana, 61, Andorran politician and businesswoman, Mayor of Andorra la Vella (1999-2003) and MP (2009-2011).
* Cameron Moore, 25, American basketball player (Reyer Venezia Mestre).
* Arthur Z'ahidi Ngoma, 69, Congolese politician, vice-president of the transitional government (2003–2007).
* Donald M. Phillips, 87, Canadian politician, MLA for South Peace River.
* Josh Samman, 28, American mixed martial artist (UFC).
* Michiyo Yasuda, 77, Japanese animator (Spirited Away, Grave of the Fireflies, Princess Mononoke).
* Brock Yates, 82, American automotive journalist (Car and Driver) and screenwriter (Smokey and the Bandit II, The Cannonball Run), Alzheimer's disease.

### 6

* Hans W. Becherer, 81, American businessman, president of John Deere (1987).
* James Colaianni, 94, American lay theologian.
* Peter Denton, 70, English footballer (Coventry, Luton).
* Walter Greiner, 80, German theoretical physicist.
* Hidipo Hamutenya, 77, Namibian politician, Foreign Minister (2002–2004).
* Alan Hodgson, 64, English cricketer (Northamptonshire).
* Heisnam Kanhailal, 75, Indian art theatre personality.
* Eva Lokko, Ghanaian engineer and politician.
* Tony Mottram, 96, British tennis player.
* Barbara Oliver Hagerman, 73, Canadian music teacher and public servant, Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island (2006–2011), cancer.
* George Pernicano, 98, American businessman, co-owner of the San Diego Chargers.
* Marina Sanaya, 57, Russian Olympic figure skater (1972).
* Fred Slaughter, 74, American college basketball player (UCLA).
* Nello Sforacchi, 94, Italian cyclist
* Mike Tomkies, 88, British nature writer.

### 7

* John Gleeson, 78, Australian Test cricketer.
* Ross Higgins, 85, Australian actor (Kingswood Country, Bullpitt!).
* Lyudmila Ivanova, 83, Russian actress (Office Romance).
* Barbara Kisseler, 67, German culture manager and politician.
* Frederick C. Neidhardt, 85, American microbiologist.
* Anne Pashley, 80, British athlete and opera singer, Olympic silver medalist (1956).
* Gonzalo Peralta, 36, Argentine footballer (Almirante Brown, Platense), cancer.
* Martha Roth, 84, Italian-born Mexican actress (A Family Like Many Others).
* Wolfgang Suschitzky, 104, Austro-Hungarian-born British photographer and cinematographer (Get Carter).
* Alistair Urquhart, 97, Scottish author and soldier (Gordon Highlanders).
* Bill Warren, 73, American film historian and critic.
* Rebecca Wilson, 54, Australian sports journalist, breast cancer.

### 8

* Peter Allen, 96, American radio broadcaster, host of Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts (1975–2004).
* Helmut Anschütz, 84, German Olympic fencer (1960).
* Guillaume Bieganski, 83, French footballer (Lens).
* Stephen Bollenbach, 74, American businessman, CEO of Hilton (1996–2007).
* Lyn Chevli, 84, American underground comics artist (Tits & Clits Comix).
* Don Ciccone, 70, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Critters, The Four Seasons, Tommy James and the Shondells).
* Ray William Clough, 96, American engineer.
* Gary Dubin, 57, American actor (The Partridge Family, The Aristocats, Jaws 2), bone cancer.
* Maximiliano Giusti, 25, Argentine footballer, traffic collision.
* Alina María Hernández, 46, Cuban-American transsexual actress.
* Mayer Hersh, 90, Polish survivor of Auschwitz.
* Dickie Jeeps, 84, English rugby union player (Northampton Saints) and administrator (Sports Council).
* Klaus Kertess, 76, American curator, art gallerist and writer, complications from Alzheimer's.
* Kuo Chin-fa, 72, Taiwanese Hokkien pop singer, cardiorespiratory failure.
* Wojciech Kurpiewski, 50, Polish sprint canoer, Olympic silver medalist (1992).
* Luc Mbassi, 58/59, Cameroonian Olympic footballer (1984).
* Michael Horace Miller, 88, British Royal Air Force officer.
* Jacob Neusner, 84, American academician and Judaica scholar.
* Stylianos Pattakos, 103, Greek military officer and coup leader, Deputy Prime Minister (1967–1973).
* Giovanni Scognamillo, 87, Turkish film critic.
* Pierre Tchernia, 88, French screenwriter and voice actor (Asterix).
* Anton Winkler, 62, German luger, Olympic bronze medalist (1980).

### 9

* Susan Aceron, 44, Canadian actress, voice actress and businesswoman (Sailor Moon, Beyblade, The In-Laws), nasopharynx cancer.
* René Avilés Fabila, 75, Mexican author, heart attack.
* Worth H. Bagley, 92, American admiral.
* Bored Nothing, 26, Australian musician, suicide.
* Mamadou Dembelé, 82, Malian physician and politician, Prime Minister (1986–1988).
* Santo DiPietro, 81, American businessman and politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives (1989–1996) and mayor of South Portland, Maine (1986–1987).
* Francis Duteil, 69, French Olympic cyclist.
* Donn Fendler, 90, American wilderness survivor.
* Sir Anthony Grant, 91, British politician, MP (1964–1997).
* David Konstant, 86, English Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Leeds (1985–2004).
* El Mongol, 86, Mexican professional wrestler (GCW).
* Zara Nutley, 90, New Zealand-born British actress.
* Aaron Pryor, 60, American light-welterweight boxer, WBA/IBF world champion (1980–1985), heart disease.
* Bilge Tarhan, 75, Turkish Olympic footballer.
* Kenneth P. Thompson, 50, American lawyer, Kings County District Attorney (since 2014), cancer.
* Andrzej Wajda, 90, Polish film director (Ashes and Diamonds, Man of Iron, Katyń), pulmonary failure.

### 10

* Tony Adamowicz, 75, American racing driver (IMSA GT, Trans Am Series), brain cancer.
* Issa Bagayogo, 54, Malian musician.
* Leo Beranek, 102, American acoustics expert (BBN Technologies).
* Christian Erlandsen, 90, Norwegian politician, MP (1977–1985).
* Lorenzo Freeman, 52, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Giants).
* Parmeshwar Godrej, 70, Indian socialite, businesswoman, and AIDS activist.
* Gerry Gow, 64, Scottish footballer (Bristol City, Manchester City, Rotherham), cancer.
* Graham C. Greene, 80, British publisher (Jonathan Cape).
* Tamme Hanken, 56, German television personality (Der XXL-Ostfriese).
* Marnix Kappers, 73, Dutch actor, suicide.
* Hans Petter Langtangen, 54, Norwegian computer scientist.
* Drew Nelson, 60, Northern Irish solicitor, politician, and Grand Secretary of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland.
* Eddie O'Hara, 80, Scottish footballer (Falkirk, Everton, Barnsley).
* Maulwi Saelan, 88, Indonesian Olympic footballer (1956).
* Ram Ekbal Singh Warsi, 94, Indian politician, MLA (1969–1972).
* Kazunari Tanaka, 49, Japanese voice actor (Gundam, Planetes, InuYasha), intracerebral hemorrhage.
* John Vaughn, 88, American religious leader, Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor (1979–1991).
* Gonzalo Vega, 69, Mexican actor (Life Is Most Important, The Place Without Limits).

### 11

* David Antin, 84, American poet and performance artist.
* Tom Barnes, 70, American journalist (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
* Patricia Barry, 93, American actress (All My Children, The Guiding Light, Days of Our Lives).
* Ricky Callan, 54, Scottish actor.
* Emerson Stephen Colaw, 94, American theologian and prelate, Bishop of the United Methodist Church.
* Richard Fry, 92, British WWII army officer.
* Matti Hagman, 61, Finnish ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Edmonton Oilers, HIFK).
* Pia Hallström, 55, Swedish politician, MP for Värmland (since 2010), breast cancer.
* Lars Huldén, 90, Finnish writer and translator.
* Dick Israel, 68, Filipino actor, complications from a stroke.
* Steve Lemmens, 44, Belgian snooker player, suicide by train.
* Antero Lumme, 82, Finnish racing cyclist.
* Marju, 28, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse. (death announced on this date)
* Jan Matocha, 93, Czechoslovak Olympic sprint canoer (1948, 1952).
* Peter Reynolds, 58, Welsh composer.
* Don Ringe, 70, American journalist and documentary filmmaker.
* Pero Simić, 70, Bosnian Serb journalist and historian.
* Teatao Teannaki, 80, I-Kiribati politician, Vice-President (1979–1991) and President (1991–1994), heart attack.
* Gurcharan Virk, 48, Indian Punjabi writer, director, lyricist and producer, heart attack.
* Ewen Whitaker, 94, British astronomer.

### 12

* Reinhart Ahlrichs, 76, German theoretical chemist.
* Des Ball, 69, Australian security and defence expert, cancer.
* Shahlyla Baloch, 20, Pakistani footballer (national team), traffic collision.
* Robert Bateman, 80, American songwriter and record producer ("Please Mr. Postman"), heart attack.
* Beata Bergström, 95, Swedish photographer.
* Pietro Diana, 84, Italian artist.
* Frank Fischl, 89, American air force pilot and politician, Mayor of Allentown, Pennsylvania (1978–1982).
* Thomas Mikal Ford, 52, American actor (Martin, Harlem Nights, Across the Tracks) and comedian, stomach aneurysm.
* Jack Greenberg, 91, American lawyer and civil rights activist.
* Rick Gudex, 48, American politician, member of the Wisconsin Senate (since 2013), suicide by gunshot.
* Leo Harrison, 94, English cricketer (Hampshire).
* Ma Jiang Bao, 74, Chinese martial arts teacher.
* Renato Ongari, 81, Italian Olympic sprint canoeist (1960).
* Bryan Pearson, 82, British-born Canadian politician.
* Dylan Rieder, 28, American skateboarder and model, leukemia.
* Sonny Sanders, 77, American songwriter, arranger and record producer.
* Kemal Unakıtan, 70, Turkish politician, Minister of Finance (2002–2009).
* Fulton Walker, 58, American football player (Miami Dolphins, Los Angeles Raiders).
* Gerhard Wimberger, 93, Austrian composer.

### 13

* Bhumibol Adulyadej, 88, Thai monarch, King (since 1946)
* William Gilbert Chaloner, 87, British palaeobotanist.
* Delia Davin, 72, English pioneer of Chinese women's studies, cancer.
* Curt Engelhorn, 90, German billionaire businessman.
* Dario Fo, 90, Italian playwright, Nobel Literature Prize laureate (1997).
* Robert Haszeldine, 91, British chemist.
* Andrzej Kopiczyński, 82, Polish actor (Czterdziestolatek).
* Richard A. Pittman, 71, American marine, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
* Booneua Prasertsuwan, 97, Thai politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (1995–1996).
* Jim Prentice, 60, Canadian politician, Premier of Alberta (2014–2015), MP for Calgary Centre-North (2004–2010), plane crash.
* Primo Sentimenti, 89, Italian footballer (Lazio, Parma).
* Louis Stettner, 93, American photographer.
* Tonino Valerii, 82, Italian film director (My Name Is Nobody, A Girl Called Jules, Sahara Cross).

### 14

* Jean Alexander, 90, English actress (Coronation Street, Last of the Summer Wine).
* Cirilo R. Almario, 85, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Malolos (1977–1996).
* Lucy Baxley, 78, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alabama (2003–2007).
* Klim Churyumov, 79, Soviet and Ukrainian astronomer, co-discoverer of the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
* Brajbir Saran Das, 90, Indian politician, Chief administrative officer of Sikkim (1973-1974).
* Kathryn Adams Doty, 96, American actress (Saboteur).
* Pierre Étaix, 87, French clown, comedian and film director (Heureux Anniversaire, Yo Yo, Le Grand Amour), Oscar winner (1963), complications from intestinal infection.
* Edward Gorman, 74, American writer, multiple myeloma.
* Kamal Habibollahi, 86, Iranian politician and admiral.
* Avis Higgs, 98, New Zealand artist.
* Thom Jones, 71, American writer.
* Helen Kelly, 52, New Zealand trade unionist, lung cancer.
* Brigit Pegeen Kelly, 65, American poet.
* Werner Lämmerhirt, 67, German singer-songwriter and guitarist.
* John Mone, 87, Scottish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Paisley (1988–2004).
* Farouk Shousha, 80, Egyptian poet.
* Song Yeong, 76, South Korean writer.
* Aleksandr Syomin, 73, Soviet Azerbaijani footballer (Neftçi).

### 15

* Doug Anderson, 89, New Zealand rugby league player (Auckland, national team).
* Marcel Berger, 89, French mathematician.
* Hans Bruggeman, 89, Dutch activist and politician, member of the House of Representatives (1963–1967).
* Dennis Byrd, 50, American football player (New York Jets), traffic collision.
* Colin George, 87, Welsh actor (Coronation Street) and director.
* Quentin Groves, 32, American football player (Jacksonville Jaguars, Oakland Raiders, Cleveland Browns), heart attack.
* Teodor Laço, 80, Albanian politician, diplomat and author.
* Jossy Mansur, 82, Aruban editor.
* Bruce Marshall, 54, American ice hockey coach (Connecticut Huskies, Franklin Pierce Ravens).
* Octagonal, 24, New Zealand-bred Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
* Frank Peers, 98, Canadian broadcaster and political scientist. (death announced on this date)
* Yangthang Rinpoche, 86, Indian Buddhist teacher.
* Barbara Romack, 83, American golfer.
* John Spanswick, 83, English cricketer (Kent).
* Haruo Tomiyama, 81, Japanese photographer.
* Per Rune Wølner, 67, Norwegian footballer (Strømsgodset), cancer.

### 16

* Mickey Byrne, 93, Irish hurler (Tipperary).
* Maggie Diaz, 91, American-born Australian photographer.
* Anthony Foley, 42, Irish rugby union player and coach (Munster), acute pulmonary oedema.
* Tony Golab, 97, Canadian football player (Ottawa Rough Riders).
* Calvin Gotlieb, 95, Canadian professor and computer scientist.
* Cecilia Hart, 68, American television and stage actress (Paris), ovarian cancer.
* Valerie Hunter Gordon, 94, British inventor of disposable nappies.
* Jia Jia, 38, Chinese giant panda, euthanized.
* Kigeli V, 80, Rwandan monarch, King (1959–1961).
* Ted V. Mikels, 87, American filmmaker (Girl in Gold Boots, The Astro-Zombies, The Doll Squad), colon cancer.
* Stephen Moorbath, 87, German-born British geologist.
* Arsen Pavlov, 33, Russian military officer, participant in the War in Donbas, IED explosion.
* George Peebles, 80, Scottish footballer (Dunfermline, Stirling Albion).
* Lucia Perillo, 58, American poet and novelist.
* Juras Požela, 34, Lithuanian politician, Minister of Health (since March 2016), pancreatitis.
* Juan Radrigán, 79, Chilean writer, cancer.
* Molly Rose, 95, British World War II aviator.
* Alfred P. Smyth, 74, Irish historian.
* Joseph A. Suozzi, 95, Italian-born American judge and politician.
* Geoffrey Yeh, 85, Hong Kong businessman.
* Viktor Zubkov, 79, Russian basketball player, Olympic silver medalist (1956, 1960).

### 17

* Rufin Anthony, 76, Pakistani Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Islamabad-Rawalpindi (since 2010).
* Eddie Applegate, 81, American actor (The Patty Duke Show, Easy A, A Ticklish Affair).
* Sandra Bartky, 81, American feminist philosopher.
* Vincenzino Culicchia, 84, Italian politician.
* Laurie Dwyer, 77, Australian football player (North Melbourne).
* Teodor Kufel, 96, Polish general.
* Rolf Lamers, 89, German Olympic athlete.
* Cephas Msipa, 85, Zimbabwean politician.
* Edgar Munhall, 83, American art historian, pancreatic and lung cancer.
* Elena Santonja, 84, Spanish television presenter.
* Irwin Smigel, 92, American dentist, pneumonia.
* Charles J. Stewart, 93, American actor.
* Morris Stroud, 70, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs), Super Bowl winner (1970).
* Rémy Vogel, 55, French footballer (Strasbourg).

### 18

* Anthony Addabbo, 56, American actor (Guiding Light, Generations, The Bold & the Beautiful).
* David Bunnell, 69, American businessman, writer and publisher (PC Magazine).
* Phil Chess, 95, Polish-born American record producer and company executive (Chess Records).
* Dave Colclough, 52, Welsh professional poker player, cancer.
* Alan Collins, 88, English sculptor.
* Anne Crookshank, 89, Irish art historian.
* Mike Daniels, 88, British jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
* Marianne de Trey, 102, British potter.
* Bobby Ellis, 84, Jamaican trumpeter, pneumonia-related illness.
* Francis Flood, 86, Irish racehorse trainer.
* Huw Jones, 82, Welsh Anglican bishop.
* Sergei Likhachev, 76, Azeri-born Russian tennis player and coach.
* William McKelvey, 82, British politician, MP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (1983–1997).
* Fred Roots, 93, Canadian geologist.
* Gary Sprake, 71, Welsh footballer (Leeds United, national team).
* Sir Sigmund Sternberg, 95, Hungarian-born British philanthropist, businessman and Labour Party donor.
* Turki bin Saud al-Kabir, Saudi prince and convicted murderer, executed by beheading.
* Ken Wiwa, 47, Nigerian journalist and author, stroke.

### 19

* Tommy Bartlett, 88, American tennis and basketball coach.
* Safet Berisha, 66, Albanian footballer (Partizani Tirana).
* Mark Birch, 67, British jockey.
* Radu Câmpeanu, 94, Romanian politician, Senator (1990–1992, 2004–2008).
* Milka Canić, 72, Serbian television presenter and academic.
* Yvette Chauviré, 99, French prima ballerina.
* Luis María Echeberría, 76, Spanish footballer (Athletic Bilbao, national team).
* Joe Kirrene, 85, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
* Fergus O'Brien, 86, Irish politician, TD (1973–1992), Lord Mayor of Dublin (1980–1981).
* Rough Quest, 30, British racehorse, winner of the 1996 Grand National, euthanised.
* Pat Scott, 87, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
* Mary Sheriff, 66, American art historian.
* Norman Sherry, 91, British author.
* Sammy Smyth, 91, Northern Irish footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.).
* Giovanni Steffè, 88, Italian Olympic rower.

### 20

* Achieng Abura, 50s, Kenyan musician.
* Edward A. Allworth, 95, American historian.
* Henry J. M. Barnett, 94, Canadian physician.
* David Bellini, 43, Italian screenwriter (Un medico in famiglia), lymphoma.
* Bob Blauner, 87, American sociologist.
* William G. Bowen, 83, American educator, President of Princeton University (1972–1988).
* Kenneth Brandt, 77, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1973-1990).
* Gail Cogdill, 79, American football player (Detroit Lions).
* Roy D'Andrade, 84, American psychological anthropologist.
* Uwe Dreher, 56, German footballer (Stuttgarter Kickers).
* Seiji Hirao, 53, Japanese rugby union player and coach, bile duct cancer.
* Kaneta Kimotsuki, 80, Japanese voice actor (Doraemon, Anpanman), pneumonia.
* Roger Lallemand, 84, Belgian lawyer and politician, President of the Senate (1988).
* Eric Harold Mansfield, 93, British aeronautical engineer.
* Michael Massee, 64, American actor (The Crow, 24, The Amazing Spider-Man), stomach cancer.
* Issifou Okoulou-Kantchati, 65, Togolese politician.
* Giorgos Pavlidis, 60, Greek politician, Governor of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (since 2014), cancer.
* Svetlana Penkina, 65, Belarusian actress.
* Benedict Read, 71, British art historian.
* Simone Schaller, 104, American hurdler.
* Stanley Silverstein, 91, American footwear manufacturer.
* Junko Tabei, 77, Japanese mountaineer, first woman to climb Mount Everest, peritoneal cancer.
* Mieke Telkamp, 82, Dutch singer.
* Robert Weber, 92, American cartoonist.

### 21

* Wally Argus, 95, New Zealand rugby union player (Canterbury, national team).
* Paweł Baumann, 33, Polish Olympic sprint canoer (2004, 2008), world championship silver medalist (2006, 2007).
* Margaret Benyon, 76, British hologram artist.
* Dave Cash, 74, British radio presenter.
* Richard Cavendish, 86, British occult writer.
* Mary Keating Croce, 87, American politician.
* Ted Follows, 89, Canadian actor.
* Constantin Frățilă, 74, Romanian footballer (FC Dinamo București).
* Frans Jozef van der Heijden, 78, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1982–1998), euthanasia.
* Roy Jennings, 84, English footballer (Brighton and Hove Albion).
* Dan Johnston, 77, American lawyer and politician.
* Satyadev Katare, 61, Indian politician.
* George Konik, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (Minnesota Fighting Saints, Pittsburgh Penguins).
* Kenji Kosaka, 70, Japanese politician, Minister of Education (2005–2006).
* Manfred Krug, 79, German actor (Tatort, Liebling Kreuzberg), singer, and author.
* Frenchy Martin, 69, Canadian professional wrestler and manager (WWF), bladder cancer.
* Bob McCord, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings).
* Kevin Meaney, 60, American comedian and actor (Big, Uncle Buck, Mad Jack the Pirate), heart attack.
* Clément Michu, 79, French actor (Commissaire Moulin, Thierry la Fronde).
* Paolo Micolini, 77, Italian politician.
* Moscow Flyer, 22, Irish racehorse, colic. (death announced on this date)
* Richard Nicoll, 39, British-Australian fashion designer, heart attack.
* Janet Patterson, 60, Australian costume designer (The Piano, Peter Pan, Bright Star).
* David Pope, 54, American basketball player (Kansas City Kings, Seattle SuperSonics).
* Jerry Rullo, 93, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors, Baltimore Bullets).
* Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer, 87, British socialite and politician.
* C. Peter Wagner, 86, American theologian and religious leader (New Apostolic Reformation).
* Robert Windom, 86, American physician.

### 22

* Martin Aitchison, 96, British illustrator.
* Anthony Bryer, 78, British historian.
* José Oscar Barahona Castillo, 77, Salvadoran Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of San Vicente (1983–2005).
* Steve Dillon, 54, English comic book artist (Preacher, The Punisher, Judge Dredd), appendicitis.
* Gordon Hamilton, 50, Scottish climate scientist, snowmobile crash.
* Gavin MacFadyen, 76, American investigative journalist (CIJ) and filmmaker.
* Mehar Mittal, 80, Indian Punjabi actor and producer.
* Monarchos, 18, American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 2001 Kentucky Derby.
* Antoon Postma, 87, Dutch anthropologist.
* Colin Snedeker, 80, British-born American chemist (Crayola), inventor of the washable crayon.
* Sheri S. Tepper, 87, American science fiction author.
* Frans Tutuhatunewa, 93, Indonesian politician, President in Exile of Republic of South Maluku (1993–2010).
* Bob Vanatta, 98, American college basketball coach (Missouri State, Memphis, Missouri).
* Valeriya Zaklunna, 74, Ukrainian actress and politician, Member of Verkhovna Rada (1998–2007).

### 23

* Mike Bolan, 83, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (1977–1981).
* Pete Burns, 57, English singer-songwriter (Dead or Alive), cardiac arrest.
* Jack Chick, 92, American cartoonist (Chick tracts) and fundamentalist Christian publisher.
* Tom Hayden, 76, American writer, politician and activist (Chicago Seven), member of the California State Senate (1992–2000).
* Mikijirō Hira, 82, Japanese actor (Rampo, 13 Assassins, Three Outlaw Samurai).
* Nerses Hovhannisyan, 78, Armenian film director, actor and screenwriter.
* Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, 84, Qatari monarch, Emir (1972–1995).
* William Löfqvist, 69, Swedish ice hockey player, Olympic bronze medalist (1980).
* Harold Mann, 78, Canadian boxer, Commonwealth Games gold medalist (1962).
* Jimmy Perry, 93, English actor and screenwriter (Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi!).
* Heinz Poenn, 82, Canadian Olympic slalom canoeist (1972).
* Bob Saunders, 87, American politician, member of the Florida Senate (1969–1971, 1973–1976).
* Jerzy Szymczyk, 74, Polish Olympic volleyball player.
* Haguroiwa Tomomi, 70, Japanese sumo wrestler, kidney failure.
* Wim van der Voort, 93, Dutch speed skater, Olympic silver medalist (1952).

### 24

* Jorge Batlle, 88, Uruguayan politician, President (2000–2005), cerebral hemorrhage.
* Gwanda Chakuamba, 82, Malawian politician.
* Eddy Christiani, 98, Dutch musician and songwriter.
* Benjamin Creme, 93, Scottish artist, author and esotericist.
* Roland Dobbs, 91, British physicist.
* Bill Duckworth, 98, Australian footballer.
* Herón Escobar, 62, Mexican politician, member of Congress (2009–2012).
* Bruce Goodluck, 83, Australian politician.
* Reinhard Häfner, 64, German footballer (Dynamo Dresden), Olympic champion (1976).
* Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, 90, Ukrainian-born Canadian economist.
* Siv Holma, 64, Swedish politician, MP for Norrbotten (1998–2014), cancer.
* W. Dudley Johnson, 86, American surgeon.
* Hellmut von Leipzig, 95, German soldier.
* Harry Merlo, 91, American business and sports executive.
* Vic Rapp, 86, American-Canadian football coach (BC Lions).
* Eugeniusz Rudnik, 83, Polish composer and sound engineer.
* Rolf Heinrich Sabersky, 96, German-born American mechanical engineer.
* Jack Sellers, 72, American race car driver.
* Johan Stølan, 77, Norwegian politician.
* Felix Ungacta, 78, Guamanian politician, Mayor of Hagåtña (1981–2005).
* Pierre Vallon, 89, French politician.
* Bobby Vee, 73, American pop singer ("Rubber Ball", "Take Good Care of My Baby", "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes") and actor, Alzheimer's disease.
* Charles Wolf Jr., 92, American economist, cardiac arrest.
* John P. Woodall, 81, British entomologist.

### 25

* Margaret Ashcroft, 85, British television actress (The Main Chance, The Brothers).
* Margit Bara, 88, Hungarian actress (Jacob the Liar).
* Kevin Curran, 59, American television writer (The Simpsons, Married... with Children, Late Night with David Letterman), cancer.
* Howard Davies, 71, British theatre and television director.
* Mel Haber, 80, American philanthropist, and hotel and restaurant proprietor.
* Safa Haeri, 79, Iranian-born French journalist.
* Mohamed Nadir Hamimid, 75, Algerian politician.
* Bob Hoover, 94, American Air Force test pilot.
* Bjørn Lidin Hansen, 27, Norwegian footballer (Tromsø, Lyn), suicide.
* Burnet R. Maybank Jr., 92, American lawyer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina (1959–1963).
* Krešo Omerzel, 59, Slovenian speedway rider and coach.
* Edouard Pliner, 80, Russian figure skating coach.
* Doug Pyzer, 93, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts).
* Thomas Rentschler, 84, American politician.
* Vaino Spencer, 96, American judge.
* Jerzy Szacki, 87, Polish sociologist.
* Georges Thines, 93, Belgian scientist.
* Carlos Alberto Torres, 72, Brazilian football player and manager, world champion (1970), heart attack.

### 26

* Melis Abzalov, 77, Uzbek filmmaker (Oʻtgan kunlar).
* Raj Begum, 89, Indian singer.
* Melpomeni Çobani, 88, Albanian actress.
* Filomeno Codiñera, 77, Filipino baseball and softball player.
* Tim Couzens, 72, South African historian.
* Kent Frizzell, 87, American attorney and politician.
* Arne Hartman, 76, Finnish diplomat.
* Mark Johnson, 65, American baseball umpire.
* Gérard Lamy, 97, Canadian politician.
* Birger Larsen, 54, Danish film director (Dance of the Polar Bears).
* William Eteki Mboumoua, 83, Cameroonian politician and diplomat.
* Donald C. Pogue, 69, American federal judge, U.S. Court of International Trade (1995–2014).
* Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi, 93, Iranian grand ayatollah.
* Luciano Rispoli, 84, Italian television and radio writer and presenter.
* Samuele Schiavina, 45, Italian racing cyclist.
* Ali Hussein Shihab, 55, Iraqi footballer (national team).
* Jack H. Schofield, 93, American politician.
* Yuichi Takai, 84, Japanese writer, heart failure.
* Notable American crime victims, shot:
** Nehemiah Kauffman, 20
** Sydney Land, 21

### 27

* João Lobo Antunes, 72, Portuguese neurosurgeon, melanoma.
* Victor Cannings, 97, English cricketer (Hampshire).
* René Chamussy, 79, French-Lebanese priest and rector.
* Jim Eddy, 80, American football coach (Saskatchewan Roughriders, Houston Oilers, Dallas Cowboys).
* Elda Grin, 88, Armenian writer and psychologist.
* Brian Hill, 75, English footballer (Coventry City).
* Ruben Hovsepyan, 77, Armenian author and politician.
* Jolanda Insana, 79, Italian poet and translator, Viareggio Prize recipient.
* Fatim Jawara, 19, Gambian footballer (national team), drowned.
* Susan Lindquist, 67, American biologist, cancer.
* Frank Marchlewski, 73, American football player.
* Bill Miller, 86, American javelin thrower, Olympic silver medalist (1952).
* Nelson Pinedo, 88, Colombian singer (Sonora Matancera), stroke.
* Hazel Shermet, 96, American comedienne, actress (Duffy's Tavern, New Zoo Revue, Jem) and singer.
* Pentti Siimes, 87, Finnish actor (The Unknown Soldier).
* Takahito, Prince Mikasa, 100, Japanese royal, heart failure.
* Francis Tong Hui, 83, Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Yan’an (1999–2011).
* David Tyack, 85, American historian, Parkinson's disease.
* Bobby Wellins, 80, Scottish jazz saxophonist.
* John Zacherle, 98, American television and radio personality and voice actor.
* Vladimir Zemlyanikin, 83, Russian film and theater actor (The House I Live In).

### 28

* Gillon Aitken, 78, English literary agent.
* Melhem Barakat, 71, Lebanese singer.
* Sir Nicholas Brathwaite, 91, Grenadian politician, Prime Minister (1990–1995), Chairman of the Interim Advisory Council (1983–1984).
* H. Kay Hedge, 88, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate (1989-2001).
* Shashikala Kakodkar, 81, Indian politician.
* Angeline Kopka, 100, American politician, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives (2002–2010, 2012–2014).
* Bumphen Luttimol, 86, Thai footballer
* Henk Zwartepoorte, 67, Dutch herpetologist.

### 29

* Robert Belfanti, 68, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1979–2010).
* Norman Brokaw, 89, American talent agent (Marilyn Monroe, Clint Eastwood, Andy Griffith).
* Nguyễn Văn Chính, 92, Vietnamese politician.
* Paul Demers, 60, Canadian singer-songwriter, mesothelioma.
* Roland Dyens, 61, French classical guitarist and composer.
* Tony Gauci, 75, Maltese businessman, witness in the Lockerbie bombing case.
* Christiane Gilles, 86, French trade unionist
* Raymond Gilmour, 56 or 57, Northern Irish undercover agent, infiltrated INLA and PIRA. (death announced on this date)
* E. Lee Hennessee, 64, American hedge fund manager.
* John Hicks, 65, American football player (New York Giants), diabetes.
* Francis Huxley, 93, British anthropologist.
* Stefan Jentsch, 61, German biologist.
* Dave Lanning, 78, English sports commentator.
* Paul Luebke, 70, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives (since 1991), lymphoma.
* Thorvald Mellingen, 81, Norwegian engineer.
* Fernando Moresi, 46, Argentine Olympic field hockey player (1996), Pan American champion (1995).
* Kalle Reichelt, 82, Norwegian physician.
* John D. Roberts, 98, American chemist.
* Geraldo Scarpone Caporale, 88, American-born Honduran Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Comayagua (1979–2004).
* Pen Sovan, 80, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister (1981).
* Barry Stout, 79, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1971–1976) and Senate (1977–2010).
* Tom Weal, 87, New Zealand politician.

### 30

* Törner Åhsman, 85, Swedish Olympic boxer (1956).
* Pablo Ansaldo, 81, Ecuadorian footballer.
* Reg Boorman, 80, New Zealand politician, MP for Wairarapa (1984–1988).
* Jack Braughton, 95, British Olympic long-distance runner (1948).
* Fausto Cayambe, 40, Ecuadorian politician.
* James Galanos, 92, American fashion designer.
* Tammy Grimes, 82, American actress (The Unsinkable Molly Brown, High Spirits, Look After Lulu!).
* Barney Hartman, 99, Canadian skeet shooter.
* Imre Józsa, 62, Hungarian actor.
* Betty Ann Kennedy, 86, American bridge player.
* Gil Krueger, 87, American football coach (Northern Michigan).
* Don Marshall, 80, American actor (Land of the Giants, Star Trek).
* David Nash, 77, Welsh rugby union player.
* Otaru Salihu Ohize, 63, Nigerian politician.
* Curly Putman, 85, American songwriter ("Green, Green Grass of Home", "D-I-V-O-R-C-E", "He Stopped Loving Her Today").
* Simon Relph, 76, British film producer and assistant director (Reds, The Ploughman's Lunch), pneumonia.
* René Velázquez Valenzuela, Mexican suspected hitman, leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, shot.

### 31

* Natalie Babbitt, 84, American children's author and illustrator (Tuck Everlasting), lung cancer.
* Eric Christiansen, 79, British medieval historian.
* Abdul Majid Cockar, 93, Kenyan judge, Chief Justice (1994–1997).
* Paul Detienne, 91, Belgian Jesuit priest, scholar and writer of Bengali literature.
* Silvio Gazzaniga, 95, Italian sculptor (FIFA World Cup Trophy).
* Jimmy Gray, 90, English cricketer (Hampshire).
* Andy Hill, 54, American politician, member of the Washington Senate (since 2011), lung cancer.
* Huo Xuan, 28, Chinese volleyball player (national team), heart attack.
* Gene La Rocque, 98, American rear admiral.
* Stanley Leavy, 101, American psychoanalyst.
* Ray Mabbutt, 80, English footballer, heart attack.
* Reynaldo Miravalles, 93, Cuban actor.
* Abdel Kader Morchid, 77–78, Moroccan footballer.
* Lionel Morrison, 81, South African-born British journalist and trade unionist.
* Number 16, 43, Australian trapdoor spider, longest-lived spider on record, parasitic wasp sting. (death discovered on this date)
* Klaus Schulten, 69, German-American physicist.
* Patrick Sharkey, 85, Irish Olympic boxer (1956).
* Vladimir Zeldin, 101, Russian theater and film actor (Desyat Negrityat), People's Artist of the USSR.