# Deaths in January 2017
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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2017.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## January 2017
### 1

* Sir Tony Atkinson, 72, British economist, multiple myeloma.
* Hilarion Capucci, 94, Syrian Melkite Catholic hierarch, Patriarchal Vicar of Jerusalem (1965–1974).
* Jewel Plummer Cobb, 92, American biologist.
* Bill Craig, 71, American swimmer, Olympic champion (1964), complications from pneumonia.
* Yvon Dupuis, 90, Canadian politician.
* Peter Farmer, 75, British set designer.
* Karl Gerstner, 86, Swiss typographer.
* Stuart Hamilton, 87, Canadian pianist, vocal coach and broadcaster, prostate cancer.
* Aleksander Jackowski, 96, Polish anthropologist and ethnographer.
* Jean Le Lan, 79, French cyclist.
* Lorne Loomer, 79, Canadian rower, Olympic champion (1956).
* Mel Lopez, 81, Filipino politician.
* Bill Marshall, 77, Canadian film and theatre producer, co-founder of the Toronto International Film Festival, cardiac arrest.
* George Miller, 87, Scottish cricketer (national team).
* Memo Morales, 79, Venezuelan singer, heart attack.
* Moruca, 84, Spanish football player and coach (Racing de Santander).
* Yaakov Neeman, 77, Israeli lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice (1996, 2009–2013) and Finance (1997–1998).
* Emmanuel Niyonkuru, 54, Burundian politician, Senator (since 2015) and Minister of Water and Environment (since 2015), shot.
* Derek Parfit, 74, English philosopher (Reasons and Persons).
* Sir Jeremy Reilly, 82, British army general.
* Abis Rizvi, 49, Indian businessman and film producer (Roar: Tigers of the Sundarbans), shot.
* Samuel Schweber, 80, Argentinian chess player, International Master.
* Jeremy Stone, 81, American scientist and arms control activist.
* Aleksander Tšutšelov, 83, Estonian sailor, Olympic silver medalist (1960).
* Talat Tunçalp, 101, Turkish Olympic racing cyclist (1936) and president of the Turkish Cycling Federation (1950–1968).
* Abu Omar al-Turkistani, Chinese Islamist militant.
* Bogdan Tuszyński, 84, Polish sports journalist and reporter (Polskie Radio).
* Sylvester Uphus, 89, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1983–1993).
* Robert Vallée, 94, French mathematician.
* Alfonso Wong, 93, Hong Kong cartoonist (Old Master Q), organ failure.

### 2

* Auriel Andrew, 69, Australian country singer.
* René Ballet, 88, French journalist and author.
* John Berger, 90, English art critic and painter.
* Albert Brewer, 88, American politician, Governor of Alabama (1968–1971).
* François Chérèque, 60, French labor unionist (CFDT), leukemia.
* Ian Davison, 79, English cricketer (Nottinghamshire).
* Barbara Fei, 85, Hong Kong opera singer.
* Richard Gee, 83, Australian federal judge, Family Court (1980–1999), drowning.
* Tom Harpur, 87, Canadian classicist, theologian, priest, and journalist.
* Travis Hirschi, 81, American sociologist.
* Richard Machowicz, 51, American Navy SEAL and television host (Future Weapons, Deadliest Warrior), brain cancer.
* Daryl Spencer, 88, American baseball player (New York/San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals).
* István Tatár, 58, Hungarian Olympic sprinter (1980, 1988).
* Viktor Tsaryov, 85, Russian football player and coach (Dynamo Moscow, Soviet Union national team).
* Jean Vuarnet, 83, French alpine skier, Olympic champion (1960), stroke.
* Brian Widlake, 85, British broadcaster (The Money Programme).

### 3

* Vida Alves, 88, Brazilian actress (Sua Vida Me Pertence), multiple organ failure.
* Augusto Barreto, 93, Portuguese Olympic fencer (1952).
* Enzo Benedetti, 85, Italian footballer (Palermo).
* Rodney Bennett, 81, British television director (Doctor Who).
* Martin Brandtner, 78, American Marine Corps general.
* Ivo Brešan, 80, Croatian writer (How the War Started on My Island).
* Mike Buchanan, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).
* Kevin Casey, 40, Irish broadcaster (WLR FM), cancer.
* Charles J. Colgan, 90, American politician, member of the Virginia Senate (1976–2016), vascular ailment.
* J. Dewey Daane, 98, American economist.
* George M. Dennison, 81, American university administrator, President of the University of Montana (1990–2010), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
* Cecilia González Gómez, 55, Mexican politician, Deputy of Congress (2012–2015), heart attack.
* Russ Gorman, 90, Australian politician, MHR for Chifley (1983–1984) and Greenway (1984–1996).
* Shigeru Kōyama, 87, Japanese actor (Samurai Rebellion, Black Rain, Beyond Outrage), complications from pneumonia.
* Gilberto Martínez, 82, Colombian Olympian
* Rolf Noskwith, 97, German-born British businessman and codebreaker (World War II).
* Peter Pollen, 89, Canadian politician, Mayor of Victoria, British Columbia (1971–1975, 1981–1985).
* H. S. Mahadeva Prasad, 58, Indian politician, MLA (since 1994), heart attack.
* Rosemary Stevenson, 80, American baseball player (Grand Rapids Chicks).
* Alan Surgal, 100, American screenwriter (Mickey One).
* Igor Volk, 79, Ukrainian-born Russian cosmonaut and test pilot (Soyuz T-12).

### 4

* Hisham Al-Otaibi, 70, Kuwaiti politician, Minister of Finance (1998–1999).
* Heinz Billing, 102, German physicist and computer scientist.
* William J. Cason, 92, American politician, member of the Missouri Senate (1960–1976).
* John Cummings, 73, British politician, MP for Easington (1987–2010), lung cancer.
* Willie Evans, 79, American football player (University at Buffalo).
* Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, 89, Indian sitar player and composer, cardiac arrest.
* Bruce Hugo, 71, American politician, member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1983–1993).
* Bade Fateh Ali Khan, 82, Pakistani singer, lung disease.
* Sandra Landy, 78, British contract bridge player, meningitis.
* Carl E. Misch, 69, American prosthodontist, cancer.
* Jordi Pagans i Monsalvatje, 84, Spanish painter.
* Ezio Pascutti, 79, Italian footballer (Bologna).
* Art Pennington, 93, American baseball player (Chicago American Giants, Birmingham Black Barons).
* Georges Prêtre, 92, French orchestral and opera conductor.
* Lois Rice, 83, American business executive.
* Milt Schmidt, 98, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player, coach and general manager (Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals), stroke.
* Anna Senkoro, 54, Tanzanian politician.
* Gabriel Tang, 66, South Sudanese rebel leader, killed in Civil War.
* Vlastimir Trajković, 69, Serbian composer.
* Anthony Tu Shihua, 97, Chinese prelate from Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, illegitimate Bishop of Hanyang (since 1959).
* Veronica Steele, 69, Irish cheesemaker.
* Sir Douglas Wass, 93, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury (1974–1983).
* Paul Went, 67, English footballer (Charlton Athletic, Leyton Orient, Portsmouth).
* Wayne Westner, 55, South African golfer, suicide by gunshot.

### 5

* David Alexander, 90, British Royal Marines general.
* Graham Atkinson, 73, English footballer (Oxford United), cancer.
* Spartak Belyaev, 93, Russian theoretical physicist.
* Leonardo Benevolo, 93, Italian architect and city planner.
* Géori Boué, 98, French operatic soprano.
* Luc Coene, 69, Belgian economist.
* Tullio De Mauro, 84, Italian linguist and politician, Minister of Education (2000–2001).
* Paul Goble, 83, English-born American author and illustrator (Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters, The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses), Parkinson's disease.
* Gangmumei Kamei, 77, Indian academic and politician.
* Gerald E. McClearn, 89, American behavior geneticist.
* Frank Murphy, 69, Irish Olympic middle-distance runner (1968, 1972), European Championship silver medalist (1969).
* Alfonso Humberto Robles Cota, 85, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tepic (1981–2008).
* Stanley Russ, 86, American politician, member of the Arkansas Senate (1975–2001), myeloid leukemia.
* Jorge Sanguinetti, 82, Uruguayan politician, Minister of Transport (1985–1989).
* Jill Saward, 51, British sexual assault awareness campaigner, subarachnoid haemorrhage.
* Marzio Strassoldo, 77, Italian politician, President of the Province of Udine (2001–2007).
* Rafiq Subaie, 86, Syrian actor, writer and director.
* Harry Taylor, 81, English footballer (Newcastle United).
* Christopher Weeramantry, 90, Sri Lankan judge, vice-president of the International Court of Justice (1997–2000).
* Peter Weston, 72, British science fiction fanzine editor, cancer.
* Kurt Wigartz, 83, Swedish Olympic gymnast (1952, 1956, 1960).
* John Wightman, 78, American politician, Mayor of Lexington, Nebraska (1992–1995), member of the Nebraska Legislature (2007–2015).

### 6

* Yaron Ben-Dov, 46, Israeli footballer (Ironi Rishon LeZion, Maccabi Netanya, Hapoel Tel Aviv).
* Audrey Grevious, 86, American civil rights activist.
* Awad Moukhtar Halloudah, 85, Egyptian Olympic swimmer.
* John Hubbard, 85, American-born British artist.
* Greg Jelks, 55, American-Australian Olympic baseball player (2000), (Philadelphia Phillies).
* Kosei Kamo, 84, Japanese tennis player, winner of the 1955 U.S. Open, heart attack.
* Una Kroll, 91, British nun and Anglican priest.
* Les Lazarowitz, 75, American sound mixer (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Groundhog Day), cancer.
* Joseba Leizaola, 86, Spanish politician, President of the Basque Parliament (1990–1998).
* Octavio Lepage, 93, Venezuelan politician, Acting President (1993).
* Ivar A. Mjør, 83, Norwegian dental researcher.
* Ramón Martínez Pérez, 87, Spanish footballer (Sevilla, Granada, national team).
* Bayezid Osman, 92, Turkish royal, 44th Head of the Imperial House of Osman (since 2009).
* Ghaith Pharaon, 76, Saudi businessman.
* Ricardo Piglia, 75, Argentine author, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Sylvester Potts, 78, American singer and composer (The Contours).
* Om Puri, 66, Indian actor (Ardh Satya, City of Joy, East Is East), heart attack.
* Bob Sadowski, 79, American baseball player (Los Angeles Angels, Chicago White Sox).
* Tilikum, 35, American-held orca, subject of Blackfish, bacterial infection.
* Gavin Whittaker, 46, Australian rugby league footballer (Canterbury Bulldogs, Gold Coast Chargers), stomach cancer.
* Francine York, 80, American actress (Days of Our Lives, Batman, The Family Man), cancer.

### 7

* Cheick Fantamady Camara, 57, Guinean film director (Il va pleuvoir sur Conakry).
* Bill Champion, 69, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies).
* Lucina da Costa Gomez-Matheeuws, 87, Dutch Antillean politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles (1977).
* John Deely, 74, American philosopher, cancer.
* Ramanuja Devanathan, 57, Indian Sanskrit scholar.
* Refik Erduran, 88, Turkish playwright, columnist and writer.
* Carlos Fernández Gondín, 78, Cuban politician, Minister of the Interior (since 2015).
* Stein Gauslaa, 68, Norwegian journalist and civil servant.
* Nat Hentoff, 91, American political philosopher, columnist and music critic (The Village Voice, Down Beat).
* Eddie Kamae, 89, American ukuleleist (Sons of Hawaii).
* Jerzy Kossela, 74, Polish guitarist and vocalist (Niebiesko-Czarni, Czerwone Gitary).
* Lelio Lagorio, 91, Italian politician, President of Tuscany (1970–1978), Minister of Defence (1980–1983) and Sport and Spectacles (1983–1986).
* Abdul Hafeez Lakho, 87, Pakistani lawyer.
* Betty Lasky, 94, American film historian, pneumonia.
* Mildred Meacham, 92, American baseball player (AAGBPL).
* Mike Ovey, 58, British Anglican clergyman and academic administrator (Oak Hill College), heart attack.
* Einfrid Perstølen, 99, Norwegian psychiatrist and language proponent.
* Murray Ryan, 94, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (1969–1999).
* Michael Scanlan, 85, American Roman Catholic priest and academic administrator.
* Sir Bruce Slane, 85, New Zealand public servant, Privacy Commissioner (1993–2003).
* Mário Soares, 92, Portuguese politician, President (1986–1996) and Prime Minister (1976–1978, 1983–1985).
* Lech Trzeciakowski, 85, Polish historian.
* Alice Whitty, 82, Canadian Olympic high jumper (1956).
* Laurel Woodcock, 56, Canadian artist and academic.

### 8

* Dominique Appia, 90, Swiss painter.
* Buddy Bregman, 86, American arranger, producer, and composer.
* Jackie Brown, 73, American baseball player and coach (Texas Rangers).
* James C. Christensen, 74, American fantasy artist, cancer.
* Colin Cameron Davies, 92, Spanish-born Kenyan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ngong (1964–2002).
* Jerry DeLucca, 80, American football player (Boston Patriots, Buffalo Bills, Philadelphia Eagles).
* Klaib Al-Fawwaz, 66, Jordanian diplomat and politician, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs (2011–2012).
* Nicolai Gedda, 91, Swedish operatic tenor.
* Miriam Goldberg, 100, American newspaper publisher (Intermountain Jewish News).
* Mary Ann Green, 52–53, American tribal leader and politician, Chairperson of the Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians (1988–2016).
* Svennik Høyer, 85, Norwegian political scientist.
* Roy Innis, 82, American civil rights activist, Parkinson's disease.
* Elspeth Kennedy, 85, New Zealand sharebroker and community leader.
* Abdulkadir Kure, 60, Nigerian politician, Governor of Niger State (1999–2007).
* Sir James Mancham, 77, Seychellois politician, President (1976–1977).
* Rod Mason, 76, British jazz trumpeter.
* Jovanka Nikolić, 64, Serbian writer.
* Zacharie Noah, 79, Cameroonian footballer (Stade Saint-Germain, Sedan-Torcy).
* Ruth Perry, 77, Liberian politician, interim Head of State as Chairwoman of the Council of State (1996–1997).
* Pioneer Cabin Tree, c.1000, American giant sequoia tree, storm damage.
* Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 82, Iranian politician, President (1989–1997).
* Peter Sarstedt, 75, English singer-songwriter ("Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?"), progressive supranuclear palsy.
* Colin Shortis, 82, British army general.
* Nigel Spearing, 86, British politician, MP for Acton (1970–1974) and Newham South (1974–1979), Alzheimer's disease.
* Laurie Topp, 93, English footballer (Hendon).
* Eli Zelkha, 66, Iranian-born American entrepreneur, inventor of ambient intelligence.

### 9

* Qari Saifullah Akhtar, Pakistani Al-Qaeda militant.
* Zygmunt Bauman, 91, Polish-British sociologist.
* Jacques F. Benders, 92, Dutch mathematician.
* Rodney H. Brady, 83, American businessman (Deseret Management Corporation) and academic administrator (Weber State University).
* Charles Bragg, 85, American artist.
* Roberto Cabañas, 55, Paraguayan footballer (New York Cosmos, Boca Juniors), cardiac arrest.
* Michael Chamberlain, 72, New Zealand-born Australian pastor, exonerated in the death of Azaria Chamberlain, complications from leukaemia.
* Crazy Toones, 45, American hip-hop record producer and DJ, heart attack.
* Ugo Crescenzi, 86, Italian politician, first President of Abruzzo (1970–1972, 1973–1974), member of the Chamber of Deputies (1987–1992), kidney failure.
* Ulf Dinkelspiel, 77, Swedish politician, Minister of European Affairs and Foreign Trade (1991–1994), cancer.
* Patrick Flores, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of San Antonio (1979–2004), pneumonia and heart failure.
* Gerry Glaude, 89, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicoutimi Saguenéens).
* Daan van Golden, 80, Dutch artist.
* Mary Emily Gonsalves, 97, Pakistani Roman Catholic nun.
* Jens Christian Magnus, 96, Norwegian politician and resistance activist.
* Edward Margolies, 91, American author.
* Bob McCullough, 85, Australian sports administrator, President of the Australian Paralympic Committee (1994–1996).
* Terry Ramshaw, 74, English rugby league footballer (Featherstone Rovers, Wakefield Trinity).
* Gerry Rinaldi, 72, Canadian Olympic alpine skier (1968).
* John Sailhamer, 70, American evangelical Old Testament scholar, Parkinson's disease.
* Teresa Ann Savoy, 61, British-born Italian actress (Caligula, Salon Kitty), cancer.
* Ali Shariatmadari, 93, Iranian politician and academic, Minister of Culture (1979).
* Warren Allen Smith, 95, American author, atheist, and gay-rights activist, signatory of Humanist Manifesto II.
* Claude Steiner, 81, French-born American psychologist.
* René Thomas, 88, Belgian biologist.
* Russell Trood, 68, Australian politician and academic, Senator for Queensland (2005–2011), thyroid cancer.
* Brown Turei, 92, New Zealand Anglican co-primate, Archbishop and Pihopa o Aotearoa (since 2006).
* Timothy Well, 55, American professional wrestler (WWF, PNW, WCW), kidney failure.
* T. K. Whitaker, 100, Irish economist and public servant.

### 10

* Hiag Akmakjian, 91, American author, painter and photographer, lung cancer.
* Horst Astroth, 93, German Olympic racewalker (1960).
* Oddvar Barlie, 87, Norwegian Olympic sport wrestler (1960).
* Ronald Buxton, 93, British politician, MP for Leyton (1965–1966).
* Fernand Decanali, 91, French racing cyclist, Olympic champion (1948).
* Leonard French, 88, Australian glass artist.
* Steve Fryar, 63, American rodeo performer.
* William Goodhart, Baron Goodhart, 83, British lawyer and politician.
* Buddy Greco, 90, American singer, actor (The Girl Who Knew Too Much) and pianist.
* Josef Grumser, 82, Austrian Olympic boxer.
* Roman Herzog, 82, German politician, President (1994–1999), Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court (1983–1994).
* Clare Hollingworth, 105, British journalist (The Daily Telegraph), broke news of German invasion of Poland.
* Achmad Kurniawan, 37, Indonesian footballer (Arema Cronus), complications from a heart attack.
* Claude Lebey, 93, French food critic.
* Steven McDonald, 59, American police detective (NYPD), heart attack.
* Ryszard Parulski, 78, Polish fencer, Olympic silver medalist (1964).
* Võ Quý, 87, Vietnamese zoologist.
* Manlio Rocchetti, 73, Italian make-up artist (Driving Miss Daisy, Lonesome Dove, Gangs of New York), Oscar and Emmy winner (1989).
* Tony Rosato, 62, Italian-born Canadian actor (Saturday Night Live, SCTV, Night Heat), heart attack.
* Oliver Smithies, 91, British-American geneticist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2007).
* Kenny Wharram, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).

### 11

* Tommy Allsup, 85, American rockabilly and swing guitarist, complications from hernia surgery.
* Pierre Arpaillange, 92, French author, senior judge and politician, Minister of Justice (1988–1990).
* Tony Booth, 83, British poster artist (The Beatles), cancer.
* James Fairfax, 83, Australian business executive and philanthropist.
* Peter Fenix, 77, South African cricketer.
* James Ferguson-Lees, 88, British ornithologist (British Birds).
* Brian Fletcher, 69, British jockey, winner of the Grand National (1968, 1973, 1974), cancer.
* Henry Foner, 97, American social activist.
* Katherine Fryer, 106, British artist.
* Victor Griffin, 92, Irish Anglican clergyman and theologian.
* Conrad Hilberry, 88, American poet, complications from cancer and pneumonia.
* Mark Josephson, 73, American cardiologist, cancer.
* Victor Lownes, 88, American businessman (Playboy).
* Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell, 77, British peer.
* Arthur Manuel, 66, Canadian Neskonlith chief, indigenous rights and environmental activist.
* Nikolay Neprimerov, 95, Russian physicist.
* Robert Pierre Sarrabère, 90, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Aire and Dax (1978–2002).
* Adenan Satem, 72, Malaysian politician, Chief Minister of Sarawak (since 2014), heart attack.
* Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui, 78, Pakistani jurist and politician, Governor of Sindh (since 2016).
* Akio Takamori, 66, Japanese-born American sculptor, cancer.
* François Van der Elst, 62, Belgian footballer (Anderlecht, West Ham United, national team), heart attack.
* Christopher Chubasco Wilkins, 48, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Kenyon Wright, 84, Scottish Episcopal priest and political campaigner.

### 12

* Giulio Angioni, 77, Italian writer (Le fiamme di Toledo, Assandira) and anthropologist.
* Meir Banai, 55, Israeli singer, cancer.
* Eduardo Blasco Ferrer, 60, Spanish-Italian linguist.
* William Peter Blatty, 89, American novelist and screenwriter (The Exorcist, Legion, A Shot in the Dark), Oscar winner (1974), multiple myeloma.
* Gerry Gersten, 89, American cartoonist.
* Robin Hyman, 85, British publisher.
* Anthony King, 82, Canadian-born British political scientist and commentator.
* Milton Metz, 95, American radio and television host.
* Karima Mokhtar, 82, Egyptian actress.
* Vsevolod Murakhovsky, 90, Ukrainian-born Russian politician, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (1985–1989).
* Jill Roe, 76, Australian historian and academic.
* Frank Spellman, 94, American weightlifter, Olympic champion (1948).
* Martha Swope, 88, American photographer, Parkinson's disease.
* Graham Taylor, 72, English football player and manager (Watford, Aston Villa, national team), heart attack.

### 13

* Gilberto Agustoni, 94, Swiss Roman Catholic cardinal, Prefect of Apostolic Signatura (1992–1998).
* Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, 86, English photographer and filmmaker.
* Walter Benz, 85, German mathematician.
* Jerome A. Berson, 92, American chemist.
* Hans Berliner, 87, German-born American computer scientist and chess player.
* Bernard d'Abrera, 76, Australian entomologist.
* Mark Fisher, 48, British writer, cultural theorist and music journalist (The Wire, Fact), suicide by hanging.
* Dick Gautier, 85, American actor and singer (Get Smart, Transformers, When Things Were Rotten).
* Horacio Guarany, 91, Argentine folkloric singer and writer, cardiac arrest.
* Sir John Hanson, 78, British diplomat and historian.
* Robert H. Hughes, 91, American politician.
* Alan Jabbour, 74, American fiddler and folklorist (Library of Congress).
* John Jacobs, 91, English golfer, founder of the PGA European Tour.
* Zainuri Kamaruddin, 50, Malaysian Islamist militant, air strike.
* Magic Alex, 74, Greek electronics engineer (The Beatles, Apple Electronics), complications from pneumonia.
* David Modell, 56, American businessman (Baltimore Ravens), lung cancer.
* Anton Nanut, 84, Slovenian conductor.
* Albert H. Owens Jr., 90, American oncologist.
* Ari Rath, 92, Austrian-born Israeli journalist (The Jerusalem Post).
* Nicodemo Scarfo, 87, American mobster, boss of the Philadelphia crime family (1981–1991).
* Fumiko Shiraga, 49, Japanese-German pianist, breast cancer.
* Jan Stoeckart, 89, Dutch composer, conductor and trombonist.
* Udo Ulfkotte, 56, German political scientist and journalist (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), heart attack.

### 14

* Surjit Singh Barnala, 91, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Punjab (1985–1987), Governor of Uttarakhand (2000–2003) and Tamil Nadu (2004–2011).
* John Boudreaux, 80, American drummer.
* Barry Cassin, 92, Irish actor (Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, The Count of Monte Cristo, Byzantium).
* Mohammed bin Faisal Al Saud, 80, Saudi royal and businessman.
* Alex Jones, 75, American Roman Catholic deacon.
* Eldar Kuliev, 65, Kyrgyz-born Russian screenwriter and author.
* Herbert Mies, 87, German politician, Chairman of the Communist Party (1973–1989).
* Deepal Silva, 49, Sri Lankan singer, heart attack.
* Kevin Starr, 76, American historian and librarian, heart attack.
* Yama Buddha, 29, Nepalese rapper, suicide by hanging.
* Yee Tit Kwan, 90, Singaporean Olympian
* Zhou Youguang, 111, Chinese linguist and supercentenarian, developed the pinyin romanization system.

### 15

* Isidro Baldenegro López, 50, Mexican Rarámuri farmer and environmental leader, shot.
* George Beall, 79, American attorney, prosecuted Spiro Agnew for corruption.
* Ciel Bergman, 78, American painter.
* Babette Cole, 66, English children's author.
* Terry Cryer, 82, British jazz and blues photographer.
* Roman Darowski, 81, Polish philosopher.
* John Davis, 78, British anthropologist.
* Richard Divall, 71, Australian conductor and musicologist.
* Aleksandr Ezhevsky, 101, Soviet engineer and statesman.
* Dermot Gallagher, 72, Irish civil servant and diplomat.
* Luis Gámir, 74, Spanish politician, Minister of Trade and Tourism (1980).
* Gorky González Quiñones, 77, Mexican potter.
* Han Peixin, 95, Chinese politician, Governor of Jiangsu (1982–1983).
* Kozo Kinomoto, 68, Japanese footballer and sports executive (Japan Football League), heart failure.
* Thandi Klaasen, 85, South African jazz singer, pancreatic cancer.
* Vicki Lansky, 75, American author and publisher, cirrhosis.
* Eddie Long, 63, American pastor (New Birth Missionary Baptist Church), cancer.
* Mieczyslaw Malinski, 93, Polish theologian.
* Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai, 99, Pakistani writer and poet.
* Erwin Obermair, 70, Austrian astronomer.
* Paul C. Paris, 86, American metallurgist.
* David Poythress, 73, American military officer and politician, Secretary of State of Georgia (1979–1983).
* Robert Rodman, 76, American computer scientist, complications from inclusion body myositis.
* Shutaro Shoji, 83, Japanese Olympic basketball player (1956, 1960).
* Dale Smith, 88, American rodeo performer.
* Jimmy Snuka, 73, Fijian-born American professional wrestler (WWF, AWA, PNW), stomach cancer.
* Jan Szczepański, 77, Polish boxer, Olympic champion (1972).
* Greg Trooper, 61, American singer-songwriter, pancreatic cancer.

### 16

* Carolyn Allport, 66, Australian historian and trade unionist.
* James R. Ambrose, 94, American aerospace executive (Ford Aerospace).
* Amin Nasir, 48, Singaporean football player (Woodlands Wellington, national team) and manager (Hougang United), colon cancer.
* Gene Cernan, 82, American astronaut (Apollo 10, Apollo 17), last person to walk on the Moon.
* Jack Eames, 94, Australian football player (Richmond).
* Roland Glavany, 94, French army general.
* Gerd Grochowski, 60, German opera singer.
* Phyllis Harrison-Ross, 80, American psychiatrist, lung cancer.
* William A. Hilliard, 89, American journalist (The Oregonian).
* Franz Jarnach, 73, German actor (Dittsche) and keyboardist (The Rattles), heart attack.
* Cuthbert Johnson, 70, British musician, liturgist and Benedictine abbot.
* Peter Jones, 83, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly (1974–1986).
* Kerry McNamara, 76, Namibian architect and political activist, cancer.
* Jiří Navrátil, 93, Czech Scout leader, President of Junák.
* Dan O'Brien Sr., 87, American baseball executive (Texas Rangers, Seattle Mariners, Cleveland Indians).
* William Onyeabor, 70, Nigerian singer-songwriter.
* Charles "Bobo" Shaw, 69, American jazz drummer.
* C. V. Vishveshwara, 78, Indian physicist.
* Brian Whitehouse, 81, English footballer (West Bromwich Albion, Crystal Palace).
* Steve Wright, 66, American bass guitarist (The Greg Kihn Band), heart attack.

### 17

* M. M. Ruhul Amin, 74, Bangladeshi judge, Chief Justice (2008–2009).
* Brenda C. Barnes, 63, American businesswoman, CEO of PepsiCo (1996–1997) and Sara Lee (2005–2010), stroke.
* Philip Bond, 82, British actor (Doctor Who, The Onedin Line).
* David P. Buckson, 96, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Delaware (1960–1961).
* Tirrel Burton, 86, American football player and coach (Michigan).
* Colo, 60, American-bred western gorilla, oldest gorilla in captivity.
* Mario Fasino, 96, Italian politician, President of Sicily (1969–1972), President of the Sicilian Regional Assembly (1974–1976).
* Heng Freylinger, 90, Luxembourger wrestler, competitor at 1952 Summer Olympics.
* Pascal Garray, 51, Belgian comics artist (Benoît Brisefer, The Smurfs).
* Herbert Gauls, 86, German photographer.
* Alenka Goljevšček, 85, Slovenian writer.
* Tokio Kano, 82, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors (since 1998), heart failure.
* Lucy Killea, 94, American politician, member of the California State Senate (1982–1996).
* William Margold, 73, American pornographic actor and director.
* Kenneth McNenny, 81, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (1987–2000) and Senate (2005–2008).
* Gene Olaff, 96, American soccer player (Brooklyn Hispano).
* Malcolm Peat, 84, Canadian academic.
* Steven Plaut, 65, American-born Israeli economist and academic.
* Robert Timlin, 84, American federal judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (since 1994).
* Daniel Vischer, 67, Swiss politician, member of the National Council (2003–2015), cancer.

### 18

* Peter Abrahams, 97, South African-born Jamaican writer (Mine Boy).
* Red Adams, 95, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs) and coach (Los Angeles Dodgers).
* María Nsué Angüe, 71–72, Equatorial Guinean writer and politician.
* Yosl Bergner, 96, Austrian-born Israeli painter.
* Ion Besoiu, 85, Romanian actor (Toate pînzele sus).
* Obed Dlamini, 79, Swazi politician, Prime Minister (1989–1993).
* Ed Dyck, 66, Canadian ice hockey player (Vancouver Canucks, Indianapolis Racers), cancer.
* Ronan Fanning, 75, Irish historian, cancer.
* Gullow Gjeseth, 79, Norwegian military officer.
* Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, 77, English cricketer (women's national team), businesswoman and philanthropist.
* Zohurul Hoque, 90, Indian Islamic scholar.
* Yuji Ijiri, 81, Japanese-born American accounting academic.
* Jung Mikyung, 56, South Korean novelist.
* Mike Kellie, 69, English drummer (Spooky Tooth, The Only Ones) and record producer.
* Peter Kippax, 76, English cricketer (Yorkshire, MCC), Alzheimer's disease.
* Hanns Kreisel, 85, German mycologist.
* John Levee, 92, American painter.
* André Léveillé, 83, Canadian politician.
* John Little, 86, Canadian-born Scottish footballer (Rangers, Morton, Scotland national team).
* Hubert Lucot, 81, French author.
* Lawrence S. Margolis, 81, American judge, United States Court of Federal Claims (1982–1997).
* Władysław Markiewicz, 97, Polish sociologist.
* Harry Minor, 88, American baseball player and manager (New York Mets).
* Ymer Pampuri, 72, Albanian Olympic weightlifter (1972).
* Roberta Peters, 86, American coloratura soprano, Parkinson's disease.
* David Spicer, 70, American organist.
* Dick Starr, 95, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).
* Juan Thomas, 90, Spanish Olympic sports shooter.
* Samuel Widmer, 69, Swiss physician, psychiatrist and psychotherapist (psycholytic therapy).
* Ståle Wikshåland, 63, Norwegian musicologist, blood clot.

### 19

* Jalal Allakhverdiyev, 87, Azerbaijani mathematician.
* Hilary Bailey, 79, British writer.
* Wayne Barrett, 71, American journalist (The Village Voice), lung cancer.
* Loalwa Braz, 63, Brazilian singer-songwriter ("Lambada"), burns.
* Thibaut Cuisset, 58, French photographer.
* Miguel Ferrer, 61, American actor (RoboCop, Mulan, Twin Peaks), heart failure and complications of throat cancer.
* Eddie Filgate, 101, Irish politician, TD (1977–1982).
* Ralph F. Fiske, 85, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1970–1974).
* Roderick Ham, 91, British architect.
* Craig Howard, 64, American football coach (Oregon Tech, Southern Oregon).
* Roman Jarymowycz, 72, Austrian-born Canadian soldier and educator.
* Rafael Kadyrov, 47, Russian ice hockey referee, brain tumor.
* Jan Kruis, 83, Dutch cartoonist (Jack, Jacky and the Juniors).
* Ger van Mourik, 85, Dutch footballer (Ajax).
* Joyce Murland, 79, Canadian wheelchair athlete, Paralympic silver medalist (1972, 1976).
* Paul Ornstein, 92, Hungarian-born American psychoanalyst.
* Edwin Pope, 88, American journalist (The Miami Herald, Athens Banner-Herald), cancer.
* Walt Streuli, 81, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
* Guillaume Van Tongerloo, 83, Belgian Olympic cyclist.
* Giovanni Vastola, 78, Italian footballer (Vicenza, Bologna).
* James S. Vlasto, 82, American public servant.
* H. Boyd Woodruff, 99, American microbiologist.
* Teori Zavascki, 68, Brazilian Supreme Court judge, Operation Car Wash reporter, plane crash.

### 20

* Bruno Amoroso, 80, Italian-born Danish economist.
* Robert Anker, 70, Dutch writer.
* José Luis Astigarraga Lizarralde, 76, Spanish-born Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Yurimaguas (1991–2016).
* Jack August, 63, American historian, specialist in the history of Arizona, liver failure.
* Leendert Bosch, 92, Dutch biochemist.
* Hans Breukhoven, 70, Dutch businessman, founder of the Free Record Shop, pancreatic cancer.
* Joy Coghill, 90, Canadian actress (Da Vinci's Inquest), heart failure.
* Bill Fischer, 89, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).
* Ahmed Gailani, 84, Afghan Qadiriyya leader and politician, founded National Islamic Front of Afghanistan.
* Michael Goldberg, 73, American sports executive (NBCA).
* Judith Palache Gregory, 84, American writer.
* Klaus Huhn, 88, German sports journalist and writer.
* Naděžda Kavalírová, 93, Czech political prisoner and activist, head of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (2007–2013).
* Alec Devon Kreider, 25, American convicted murderer, suicide by hanging.
* Charles Liteky, 85, American military chaplain and peace activist.
* Harry J. Middleton, 95, American writer and library director.
* Joey Powers, 82, American singer-songwriter.
* Czesław Rajtar, 87, Polish footballer
* Sergio Reolon, 65, Italian politician.
* Colin Rushmere, 79, South African conservationist and cricketer.
* Carlos Alberto Silva, 77, Brazilian football manager (Guarani, Porto, national team).
* Chuck Stewart, 89, American jazz photographer.
* Tommy Tate, 72, American soul singer and songwriter.
* Emma Tennant, 79, British author, posterior cortical atrophy.
* Frank Thomas, 80, French songwriter.
* John Watkiss, 55, British comic artist (Deadman) and concept artist (Tarzan, Atlantis: The Lost Empire), cancer.

### 21

* Marc Baecke, 60, Belgian footballer (Beveren, national team).
* Alexinia Baldwin, 91, American educator.
* Biruta Baumane, 94, Latvian artist.
* Mark Baumer, 33, American environmental activist, traffic collision.
* Erika Böhm-Vitense, 93, German-born American astronomer.
* Byron Dobell, 89, American editor and writer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
* Bernd Drechsel, 63, German Olympic wrestler (1972).
* Jamshid Giunashvili, 86, Georgian linguist and Iranologist.
* Vahit Melih Halefoğlu, 97, Turkish diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1983–1987).
* Phil Hill, 53, American bodybuilder, heart attack
* Yuri Karash, 53, Russian journalist, heart attack.
* José de Jesús Madera Uribe, 89, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Fresno (1980–1991) and Auxiliary Bishop for the Military Services, USA (1991–2004).
* Hiroki Matsukata, 74, Japanese actor (Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Shogun's Samurai), complications from lymphoma.
* Walter "Junie" Morrison, 62, American Hall of Fame musician (Ohio Players, Parliament-Funkadelic) and record producer.
* William Albert Norris, 89, American judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1980–1994).
* Shirley Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey, 92, British public servant and writer.
* Ernst Petzold, 87, German theologian.
* Maggie Roche, 65, American singer-songwriter (The Roches), cancer.
* Francesco Saverio Salerno, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Secretary of Apostolic Signatura (1998–2003).
* Dave Shipperley, 64, English footballer (Charlton Athletic, Gillingham).
* Harry E. T. Thayer, 89, American diplomat, Ambassador to Singapore (1980–1985), Director of the American Institute in Taiwan (1984–1986).
* Veljo Tormis, 86, Estonian composer.
* Ken Wright, 70, American baseball player (Kansas City Royals).

### 22

* Merete Armand, 61, Norwegian actress.
* J. S. G. Boggs, 62, American artist.
* Pietro Bottaccioli, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Gubbio (1989–2004).
* Dan Caspi, 71, Romanian-born Israeli media theorist and academic.
* İlhan Cavcav, 81, Turkish football executive, chairman of Gençlerbirliği S.K. (since 1978), brain hemorrhage.
* Chen Yu-mei, 50, Taiwanese politician.
* Giovanni Corrieri, 96, Italian bicycle racer.
* Søren Elung Jensen, 88, Danish actor (Det støver stadig, King Lear), lung cancer.
* Cristina Adela Foișor, 49, Romanian chess player, International Master.
* Jean Georgakarakos, 76, French music producer.
* Moshe Gershuni, 80, Israeli painter and sculptor.
* Aleksander Kan, 91, Russian-born Swedish historian.
* Evelyn Kawamoto, 83, American swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist (1952).
* Lisbeth Korsmo, 69, Norwegian speed skater, Olympic bronze medalist (1976).
* Jaki Liebezeit, 78, German drummer (Can), pneumonia.
* Naqsh Lyallpuri, 88, Indian poet and songwriter.
* Katharine Macmillan, Viscountess Macmillan of Ovenden, 96, British politician and aristocrat.
* Andy Marte, 33, Dominican baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, Arizona Diamondbacks), traffic collision.
* Masaya Nakamura, 91, Japanese businessman, founder of Namco.
* Lev Navrozov, 88, Russian writer, historian and dissident.
* Werner Nekes, 72, German film director.
* Glenn D. Paige, 87, American political scientist.
* Francisco Palmeiro, 84, Portuguese footballer (Benfica).
* József Torgyán, 84, Hungarian politician, Minister of Agriculture (1998–2001).
* Alexis S. Troubetzkoy, 82, Russian writer and educator.
* Yordano Ventura, 25, Dominican baseball player (Kansas City Royals), traffic collision.
* Pete Overend Watts, 69, English bass guitarist (Mott the Hoople), throat cancer.
* Rudolf Wille, 79, German mathematician.

### 23

* Volodymyr Bezkorovainy, 72, Ukrainian vice admiral, Commander of the Navy (1993–1996).
* Bimba Bosé, 41, Italian-born Spanish model, designer, singer and actress (El cónsul de Sodoma), breast cancer.
* Kay Cornelius, 84, American novelist.
* Preben Dabelsteen, 91, Danish badminton player, Thomas Cup silver medalist (1949).
* Earl Foreman, 92, American lawyer and sports executive (Washington Whips, Virginia Squires, Major Indoor Soccer League).
* Bobby Freeman, 76, American singer and songwriter ("Do You Want to Dance"), heart attack.
* Dmytro Grabovskyy, 31, Ukrainian bicycle racer, heart attack.
* Ralph Guglielmi, 83, American football player (Washington Redskins, New York Giants).
* Ted Haggis, 92, Canadian sprinter.
* Mustafa Imamović, 76, Bosnian historian.
* Kang Ki-sop, North Korean politician, Director of General Civil Aviation Administration (since 2010). (death announced on this date)
* Leon Katz, 97, American playwright.
* Gorden Kaye, 75, English actor ('Allo 'Allo!, Brazil, Coronation Street), kidney failure.
* Kudditji Kngwarreye, 78, Australian Aboriginal artist.
* Erland Kolding Nielsen, 70, Danish academic, Director General of the Royal Library.
* Leslie Koo, 62, Taiwanese business executive (Taiwan Cement Corporation), fall.
* Boško Krunić, 87, Serbian politician (League of Communists of Yugoslavia), Chairman of the Presidium (1987–1988).
* Li Kwan-ha, 79, Hong Kong police officer, Commissioner of the Royal Hong Kong Police (1989–1994), fall.
* Bernard Redmont, 98, American journalist.
* Douglas Reeman, 92, British author.
* Anatol Roshko, 93, Canadian-born American physicist and engineer.
* Ruth Samuelson, 57, American politician, member of the North Carolina General Assembly (2007–2015), ovarian cancer.
* David Sayer, 80, English cricketer (Kent).
* Franz Schelle, 87, German Olympic bobsledder (1956, 1964).
* Betty Tebbs, 98, British women's rights activist.
* Andrew Telegdi, 70, Hungarian-born Canadian politician, MP for Waterloo (1993–2008).
* Marvell Thomas, 75, American keyboardist.
* Serhiy Tovstoplet, 79, Ukrainian Olympic swimmer (1960).
* Jaroslav Vacek, 73, Czech Indologist.
* Herman Vanden Berghe, 83, Belgian geneticist.
* Mary Webster, 81, American actress (The Delicate Delinquent, The Tin Star, Master of the World).
* G. A. Wells, 90, British professor of German.

### 24

* Dan Adamescu, 68, Romanian businessman (Unirea Shopping Center).
* Fred André, 75, Dutch football player and manager (Telstar).
* Ronald Kent Campbell, 82, American politician.
* Chuck Canfield, 84, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Rochester, Minnesota (1996–2003).
* Lualemaga Faoa, American Samoan judge and politician, Paramount Chief of Aasu, Governor of Western District (since 2013).
* Robert Folsom, 89, American politician, Mayor of Dallas, Texas (1976–1981).
* Helena Kmieć, 25, Polish Roman Catholic missionary.
* Martin Nicholas Lohmuller, 97, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia (1970–1994).
* Manu Maniapoto, 81, New Zealand rugby union player (Bay of Plenty, Māori national team).
* Porfirio Méndez, 50, Paraguayan Olympic athlete.
* Gil Ray, 60, American drummer (Game Theory, The Loud Family), cancer.
* Butch Trucks, 69, American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band), suicide by gunshot.
* Carlos Verdejo, 82, Chilean footballer (Santiago Wanderers).
* Chuck Weyant, 93, American racecar driver.
* Adlyn White, 87, Jamaican religious leader.
* Peter Woodman, 73, Irish archaeologist.

### 25

* Arne Asper, 93, Norwegian businessman.
* William Lacy Carter, 91, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1970–1974).
* Stephen P. Cohen, 71, Canadian academic, male breast cancer.
* Ann Dandrow, 80, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1986–2002).
* Ronnie Davis, 66, Jamaican reggae singer.
* Đinh Xuân Lâm, 91, Vietnamese educator and historian.
* Buchi Emecheta, 72, Nigerian novelist (The Bride Price, The Joys of Motherhood, Gwendolen).
* Charles Reis Felix, 93, American writer.
* Shunji Fujimura, 82, Japanese actor (Monkey, Death Note, Black Butler), heart failure.
* Robert Garcia, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 21st congressional district (1978–1990), emphysema-induced infection.
* Kevin Geer, 64, American actor (Twelve Angry Men, The Pelican Brief, The Contender), heart attack.
* Sir John Hurt, 77, British actor (Alien, The Elephant Man, Hellboy), BAFTA winner (1979, 1981), pancreatic cancer.
* Jun Izumida, 51, Japanese professional wrestler (AJPW, Pro Wrestling Noah), heart attack.
* Katja of Sweden, 97, Swedish fashion designer.
* Jean-Pierre Sohahong-Kombet, 81, Central African diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1981), cancer.
* Nicolae Lupan, 95, Moldovan author and journalist.
* Harry Mathews, 86, American novelist and poet.
* Jack Mendelsohn, 90, American cartoonist and screenwriter (Yellow Submarine, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), lung cancer.
* Mary Tyler Moore, 80, American actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ordinary People), 7-time Emmy winner, cardiopulmonary arrest.
* Jacques Moreau, 83, French politician, MEP (1979–1984).
* Siewert Öholm, 77, Swedish journalist and television presenter, liver cancer.
* Arturo Pérez de Alejo Rodríguez, 66, Cuban dissident.
* Mike Peyton, 96, British cartoonist.
* Ivan Pritargov, 64, Bulgarian footballer (Chernomorets Burgas, CSKA Sofia, national team), stroke.
* Marcel Prud'homme, 82, Canadian politician, MP (1964–1993) and Senator (1993–2009).
* Sir Nigel Rodley, 75, British human rights professor and lawyer.
* Raúl Valerio, 90, Mexican actor.
* Margaret Wall, Baroness Wall of New Barnet, 75, British trade unionist and peer.

### 26

* Ramdas Agarwal, 79, Indian politician.
* Bakhti Belaïb, 64, Algerian politician, Minister of Trade (1996–1999, and since 2015), cancer.
* Anne-Marie Colchen, 91, French track and field athlete and basketball player, European high jump champion (1946) and basketball world championship bronze medalist (1953).
* Saloua Raouda Choucair, 100, Lebanese painter and sculptor.
* Mike Connors, 91, American actor (Mannix, The Ten Commandments, Tightrope!), leukemia.
* Sir Tam Dalyell, 84, Scottish politician, MP for West Lothian (1962–1983) and Linlithgow (1983–2005), Father of the House (2001–2005).
* Lindy Delapenha, 89, Jamaican football player (Middlesbrough) and sports broadcaster.
* Martin Froy, 90, British painter.
* Hal Geer, 100, American producer and filmmaker (Looney Tunes).
* Raynald Guay, 83, Canadian politician, MP (1963–1980).
* Barbara Hale, 94, American actress (Perry Mason, Airport, The Window), complications from COPD.
* Barbara Howard, 96, Canadian sprinter and educator.
* Montserrat Julió, 87, Spanish film and television actress (A Land for All).
* Alexander Kadakin, 67, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to India (1999–2004, since 2009), heart failure.
* Leonard Linkow, 90, American dentist.
* Paul Lanneau, 91, Belgian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen-Brussels (1982–2002).
* David Mantell, 82, English cricketer (Sussex).
* J. Kenyon Mason, 97, British medical and legal scholar.
* Fred Parslow, 84, Australian stage and television actor (Alvin Purple).
* Mario Quintero, 93, Cuban Olympic basketball player (1948, 1952).
* Luciano Ravaglia, 94, Italian engineer.
* Charles Recher, 66, American artist, stroke.
* David Rose, 92, British television producer (Z-Cars), founder of FilmFour.
* Dame Laurie Salas, 94, New Zealand women's rights and peace activist.
* Miikka Toivola, 67, Finnish footballer (HJK Helsinki, national team).
* Michael Tönnies, 57, German footballer (MSV Duisburg).

### 27

* Pierre Albertini, 75, French Olympic judoka.
* Wim Anderiesen Jr., 85, Dutch footballer (Ajax).
* Valery Bolotov, 46, Russian-born Ukrainian militant leader, Head of the Lugansk People's Republic (2014).
* Stan Boreson, 91, American comedian and television host.
* Bob Bowman, 86, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
* Henry-Louis de La Grange, 92, French musicologist, biographer of Gustav Mahler.
* Gwen Gillen, 76, American sculptor, dementia.
* Wanda Hjort Heger, 95, Norwegian resistance activist.
* Bob Holiday, 84, American actor (It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman).
* Atanas Kirov, 70, Bulgarian weightlifter, world champion (1973, 1974, 1975).
* Ján Kobezda, 41, Slovak ice hockey player and coach (HK Dukla Trenčín), heart attack.
* Petr Kop, 79, Czech volleyball player, Olympic silver medalist (1964).
* Robert Ellis Miller, 89, American film director (Reuben, Reuben, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Any Wednesday).
* Yevdokiya Pasko, 97, Russian military officer and pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union.
* Brunhilde Pomsel, 106, German broadcaster and secretary to Joseph Goebbels.
* Geoffrey Raisman, 77, British neuroscientist.
* Tatiana Repeikina, 43, Russian footballer (Ryazan VDV, Zvezda Perm).
* Emmanuelle Riva, 89, French actress (Amour, Thérèse Desqueyroux, Hiroshima mon amour), BAFTA winner (2013), cancer.
* Arthur H. Rosenfeld, 90, American physicist.
* Charles Shackleford, 50, American basketball player (New Jersey Nets, Philadelphia 76ers).
* Billy Simpson, 87, Northern Irish footballer (Linfield, Rangers).
* Gisella Sofio, 85, Italian actress (Accidents to the Taxes!!, La liceale, The Big Heart of Girls).
* Betty Stanhope-Cole, 79, Canadian golfer, cancer.
* Jack Thrasher, 80, American immunotoxicologist.
* Frank Tidy, 84, English cinematographer (The Duellists, Under Siege, Chain Reaction), dementia.

### 28

* Kazem Afrandnia, 71, Iranian actor, stroke.
* Mohammed Bello Abubakar, 93, Nigerian Muslim preacher and polygamist.
* Sir Christopher Bland, 78, British-Irish businessman, Chairman of the BBC (1996–2001), and Olympic fencer, prostate cancer.
* Jean Bogaerts, 92, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Edgar Britt, 103, Australian jockey.
* Iain D. Campbell, 53, British religious leader (Free Church of Scotland), suicide by hanging.
* Renzo Canestrari, 92, Italian psychiatrist.
* Alexander Chancellor, 77, British journalist (The Spectator).
* Lubomír Doležel, 94, Czech literary theorist.
* Sabine Eggerth, 73, German actress.
* Jaakko Elo, 91, Finnish urologist.
* Guitar Gable, 79, American blues musician.
* Sang Chul Lee, 92, Canadian Christian minister, Moderator of the United Church of Canada (1988–1990).
* Charles LeMaistre, 92, American academic administrator, Chancellor of University of Texas System (1971–1978).
* Many Clouds, 9, Irish-bred British-trained racehorse, Grand National winner (2015), pulmonary haemorrhage.
* John N. Mather, 74, American mathematician.
* Bharati Mukherjee, 76, Indian-born American writer (Jasmine) and academic, complications from rheumatoid arthritis and takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
* Sterling Newberry, 101, American inventor.
* Geoff Nicholls, 68, English keyboardist (Black Sabbath, Quartz), lung cancer.
* Lennart Nilsson, 94, Swedish photographer.
* Anthony J. Perpich, 84, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate (1967–1976).
* Richard Portman, 82, American sound mixer (The Godfather, Star Wars, The Deer Hunter), Oscar winner (1979), complications from a fall.
* Günter Ropohl, 77, German philosopher of technology.
* William Schwarzer, 91, American federal judge.
* Thomas Joseph Simpson, 95, Canadian World War II veteran.
* Dan Spiegle, 96, American comic book artist (Hopalong Cassidy, Scooby-Doo, Jonah Hex).
* John J. Stamos, 92, American judge.
* Darryl Sutton, 64, Australian VFL footballer (North Melbourne), pneumonia.
* Salvatore Tatarella, 69, Italian politician, MEP (1994–1999).
* Alexander Tikhanovich, 64, Belarusian pop singer (Verasy).
* Stuart Timmons, 60, American gay historian and activist, cardiac arrest.
* Ion Ungureanu, 81, Moldovan actor (That Sweet Word: Liberty!) and politician, MP (1990–1994).

### 29

* Sir Harold Atcherley, 98, British businessman and arts administrator.
* Ruslan Barburoș, 38, Moldovan footballer (Sheriff).
* Oscar Bolaño, 65, Colombian footballer.
* Pat Corr, 89, Northern Irish footballer.
* Edmund Eiden, 95, American football player (Detroit Lions).
* Willy Fossli, 85, Norwegian footballer (Asker).
* Harald Friedrich, 69, German physicist.
* Joop Gouweleeuw, 76, Dutch Olympic judoka (1964).
* Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski, 86, Polish-French historian.
* Howard Frank Mosher, 74, American author (Where the Rivers Flow North), cancer.
* Ko Ni, 64, Burmese lawyer, shot.
* Boris Nikolov, 87, Bulgarian boxer, Olympic bronze medalist (1952).
* William Owens, 36, American Navy SEAL soldier, shot.
* Stanislaw Padewski, 84, Polish-Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia (2002–2009).
* Leonard H. Perroots, 83, American military officer, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (1985–1988).
* Michael Rainey, 76, Australian-born British fashion designer.
* Elkin Ramírez, 54, Colombian singer-songwriter (Kraken), brain cancer.
* Mario Reading, 63, British writer and translator, cancer.
* Olav Smidsrød, 80, Norwegian biochemist.
* Elliot Sperling, 66, American historian.

### 30

* Dore Ashton, 89, American writer and critic.
* Marta Becket, 92, American dancer.
* Winnett Boyd, 100, Canadian engineer.
* Don Coleman, 88, American football player (Michigan State).
* Carmen Contreras-Bozak, 97, American World War II veteran, first Puerto Rican woman to serve in the Women's Army Corps.
* Eiður Svanberg Guðnason, 77, Icelandic politician and diplomat, Ambassador to Australia (2003–2007).
* Walter Hautzig, 95, Austrian-born American pianist.
* Gilbert Henderson, 90, Canadian Olympic sports shooter (1960).
* Doris Lockness, 106, American aviation pioneer.
* Aito Mäkinen, 90, Finnish film director (Onnelliset leikit).
* Mario R. Ramil, 70, Filipino-born American justice, Associate Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court (1993–2002), cancer.
* Cesar C. Raval, 92, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bangued (1988–1992).
* Harold Rosen, 90, American electrical engineer, complications from a stroke.
* Johnny Wahlqvist, 43, Swedish powerlifter, heart illness.

### 31

* Konstantin Arsenović, 76, Serbian politician and military official.
* Thomas Barlow, 76, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 1st congressional district (1993–1995).
* Grethe Bartram, 92, Danish war criminal.
* John Beasley, 86, Australian racing cyclist.
* Matilde Capuis, 104, Italian organist, pianist and composer.
* Trice Harvey, 80, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1986–1996), injuries sustained in a fall.
* Kang Bong-kyun, 74, South Korean politician, Minister of Finance (1999–2000).
* Deke Leonard, 72, Welsh rock guitarist (Man).
* Paul McBlane, 53, Australian rugby league referee, heart attack.
* Jim Mitchener, 87, Canadian football player.
* Frank Pellegrino, 72, American actor (Goodfellas, The Sopranos) and restaurateur (Rao's), lung cancer.
* Annie Saumont, 89, French author and translator.
* John Schroeder, 82, British composer, songwriter and record producer (Helen Shapiro, Sounds Orchestral, Status Quo).
* David Shepard, 76, American film preservationist.
* Rob Stewart, 37, Canadian filmmaker (Sharkwater), drowned.
* Bobby Watson, 86, American basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats, Minneapolis Lakers, Milwaukee Hawks).
* John Wetton, 67, British singer-songwriter ("Only Time Will Tell", "Heat of the Moment") and bass guitarist (Asia, King Crimson), colorectal cancer.
* Tokitenkū Yoshiaki, 37, Mongolian sumo wrestler, lymphoma.