# Deaths in May 2015
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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2015.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

## May 2015
### 1

* Stephen Milburn Anderson, 67, American film director, writer and producer, throat cancer.
* Jamie Bishop, 44, Welsh cricketer (Glamorgan).
* Pete Brown, 80, American professional golfer.
* José Canalejas, 90, Spanish actor (Django, The Ugly Ones, The Mercenary).
* Ray Ceresino, 86, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).
* Amitabha Chowdhury, 87, Indian journalist.
* David Day, 63, Australian radio broadcaster (Triple M Adelaide).
* Petro Didyk, 54, Ukrainian footballer, traffic collision.
* Geoff Duke, 92, British motorcycle racer, six-time Grand Prix world champion.
* Harry Geisinger, 81, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1969–1974, since 2005), leukemia.
* Dave Goldberg, 47, American executive (SurveyMonkey, LAUNCH Media), head trauma from treadmill fall.
* Vafa Guluzade, 74, Azerbaijani diplomat and political scientist.
* Leonard Haber, 82, American psychologist, politician and radio show host, Mayor of Miami Beach, Florida (1977–1979).
* John Hansen, 97, American politician.
* Alexander Kok, 89, South African-born British cellist.
* Amar Laskri, 73, Algerian film director.
* Paul Walter Myers, 82, British classical record producer.
* Phyllis Rutledge, 83, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates (1968–1972, 1988–1994).
* María Elena Velasco, 74, Mexican actress, comedian and film producer (La India María), stomach cancer.
* Bob Wareing, 84, British politician, MP for Liverpool West Derby (1983–2010).
* Colin Whitaker, 82, English footballer (Shrewsbury Town, Oldham Athletic).
* Grace Lee Whitney, 85, American actress (Star Trek, Irma la Douce, Some Like It Hot).
* Beth Whittall, 78, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1956), double Pan American champion (1955).

### 2

* Stuart Archer, 100, British army colonel, recipient of the George Cross (1941).
* Michael Blake, 69, American author and screenwriter (Dances with Wolves), Oscar winner (1991).
* Guy Carawan, 87, American folk singer and civil rights activist.
* José María Castiñeira de Dios, 94, Argentine poet, pneumonia.
* Sarah Correa, 22, Brazilian swimmer, South American Games champion (2010), hit by car.
* Philip S. Goodman, 89, American director, screenwriter and producer (We Shall Return, Profiles in Courage).
* Konstantyn K. Kuzminsky, 75, Russian performance poet.
* Ma Shui-long, 75, Taiwanese composer.
* John Mahaffy, 96, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers).
* Ryan McHenry, 27, Scottish film director and social media personality (Vine), bone cancer.
* Nick Mead, 93, British World War II Royal Navy officer.
* Martin Nag, 88, Norwegian writer, stroke.
* Rex Percy, 81, New Zealand rugby league player (Auckland, Balmain, national team).
* Maya Plisetskaya, 89, Russian prima ballerina, heart attack.
* Ruth Rendell, 85, English crime novelist (Inspector Wexford), stroke.
* Bob Schmidt, 82, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Washington Senators, Cincinnati Reds).
* Frank Snow, 74, American politician, lung cancer.
* Norman Thaddeus Vane, 86, American screenwriter and film director (Frightmare).
* Yu Pengnian, 93, Chinese real estate magnate and philanthropist.

### 3

* Abdul Wahid Aresar, 65, Pakistani politician.
* Revaz Chkheidze, 88, Georgian film director (Father of a Soldier, The Saplings).
* Thomas A. Constantine, 76, American police superintendent, Administrator for the Drug Enforcement Administration (1994–1999).
* John Elders, 84, English rugby union player (Leicester).
* Margaret Garwood, 88, American opera composer, acute heart failure.
* André Gruchet, 82, French Olympic cyclist (1956, 1960).
* Alan Hall, 62, British cell biologist.
* Bruce Barrymore Halpenny, 78, English military historian and author.
* Danny Jones, 29, English rugby league footballer, heart attack.
* Symphorian Thomas Keeprath, 84, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jalandhar (1971–2007).
* Zoran Lalović, 65, Serbian musician.
* Lu Ping, 87, Chinese politician and diplomat, cancer.
* Harry Martin, 95, American judge.
* Elizabeth Raybould, 89, British nurse and nursing educator.
* Warren Smith, 99, American professional golfer.
* Su Wenmao, 86, Chinese xiangsheng actor.
* Per Sundberg, 65, Swedish Olympic fencer.
* Abdul Basit Usman, 40–41, Filipino fugitive, shot.
* Tung Jeong, 84, Chinese-born American physicist.

### 4

* Eva Aeppli, 90, Swiss artist.
* Ann Barr, 85, British writer (The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook).
* William Bast, 84, American screenwriter and author, Alzheimer's disease.
* Ellen Albertini Dow, 101, American actress (The Wedding Singer, Patch Adams, Wedding Crashers), pneumonia.
* Zhivko Gospodinov, 57, Bulgarian footballer.
* Jesús Hermida, 77, Spanish journalist and broadcaster, stroke.
* Marv Hubbard, 68, American football player (Oakland Raiders, Detroit Lions), prostate cancer.
* Claude LaForge, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Philadelphia Flyers, Montreal Canadiens).
* Andrew Lewis, 44, Guyanese Olympic boxer (1992) and WBA welterweight champion (2001-2002), traffic collision.
* Joshua Ozersky, 47, American food writer, drowned.
* James Ritter, 84, American politician.
* Matti Viljanen, 77, Finnish politician, MP (1979–1991).
* William Willson, 93, British businessman (Aston Martin).
* Vicente Joaquim Zico, 88, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, coadjutor Archbishop (1980–1990) and Archbishop of Belém do Pará (1990–2004).

### 5

* Jobst Brandt, 80, American author and cyclist.
* Michael Burns, 54, Irish Gaelic football player (Cork).
* Jon Castañares, 90, Spanish economist and politician.
* Gerard Davison, 47, Northern Irish Provisional IRA commander, shot.
* Craig Gruber, 63, American rock musician (Rainbow, Bible Black), prostate cancer.
* Oscar Holderer, 95, German-born American engineer, worked on Saturn V project.
* Hans Jansen, 72, Dutch politician, MEP (since 2014), stroke.
* Jimmy Jones, 87, English footballer.
* Ralph Lainson, 88, British parasitologist.
* Odd Lie, 88, Norwegian Olympic gymnast.
* Bruce G. Lindsay, 68, American statistician, cancer.
* Des O'Hagan, 81, Northern Irish politician (Workers' Party).

### 6

* Novera Ahmed, 85, Bangladeshi sculptor.
* Richard J. Bartlett, 89, American legislator, New York State Chief Administrative Judge of the Courts (1974–1979).
* William Bronder, 84, American actor (Stand by Me, CHiPs).
* Errol Brown, 71, Jamaican-born British singer (Hot Chocolate), liver cancer.
* Jerome Cooper, 68, American jazz drummer, multiple myeloma.
* Graham Harcourt, 81, British Olympic gymnast.
* Nicolas Huỳnh Văn Nghi, 88, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Phan Thiết (1975–2005).
* Denise McCluggage, 88, American racing car driver, journalist, author and photographer.
* Michael O'Brien, 67, British historian of the Southern United States, cancer.
* Anson D. Shupe, 67, American sociologist.
* Janko Vranyczany-Dobrinović, 95, Croatian politician and diplomat.
* Jim Wright, 92, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 12th district (1955–1989), Speaker of the House (1987–1989).

### 7

* Asim Thahit Abdullah al Khalaqi, 47, Saudi Arabian Guantanamo Bay detainee, kidney failure.
* Michael Barratt Brown, 97, British economist and political activist.
* Joey Brush, 59, American politician, member of the Georgia State Senate (1996–2004), traffic collision.
* Víctor de la Lama, 95, Mexican Olympian
* Frank DiPascali, 58, American financier and fraudster, lung cancer.
* John Dixon, 86, Australian cartoonist (Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors), stroke.
* Sir Sam Edwards, 87, Welsh physicist.
* Arieh Elias, 94, Israeli actor (Kazablan, The Boy Across the Street).
* Sir Maurice Flanagan, 86, British businessman (Emirates).
* Rigby Graham, 84, British painter.
* Amalendu Guha, 91, Indian historian.
* Thomas F. Lamb, 92, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania Senate (1969–1974) and House of Representatives (1959–1966).
* Gilbert Lewis, 74, American actor (Pee-wee's Playhouse, Don Juan DeMarco, Candyman).
* Józef Pazdur, 90, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław (1984–2000).
* Jean de Croutte de Saint Martin, 82, French Olympic equestrian.

### 8

* Zeki Alasya, 72, Turkish actor and director, liver disease.
* Sir Edward Burgess, 87, British army general, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1984–1987).
* Chuck Dow, 83, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives (1971–1980) and Senate (1983–1990).
* Thomas Herlihy, 58, American politician, State Senator for Connecticut's 8th District (1999–2009).
* Mwepu Ilunga, 66, Congolese footballer.
* Menashe Kadishman, 82, Israeli artist, recipient of the Israel Prize (1995).
* Adriana Maraž, 84, Slovene graphic artist.
* Bob Sandberg, 93, Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
* Juan Schwanner, 94, Hungarian-Chilean football player and coach.
* Atanas Semerdzhiev, 90, Bulgarian politician, vice-president (1990–1992).
* Phil Skoglund, 77, New Zealand lawn bowls player, triples world champion (1988).
* Myriam Yardeni, 83, Israeli historian.
* Notable people killed in the 2015 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash:
** Leif Holger Larsen, 61, Norwegian diplomat, Ambassador to Pakistan (since 2014).
** Domingo Lucenario, Jr., 54, Filipino diplomat, Ambassador to Pakistan (since 2013).

### 9

* Buddy Corlett, 93, Canadian-born New Zealand softball and basketball player.
* Russell Dermond, 78, American Olympic sprint canoer (1956).
* Berry Avant Edenfield, 80, American federal judge and politician, U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of Georgia (1978–2006), member of the Georgia State Senate (1965–1966), lung cancer.
* Edward W. Estlow, 95, American football player, journalist and businessman (E. W. Scripps Company).
* Kenan Evren, 97, Turkish military officer and coup leader, Chief of the General Staff (1978–1983), President (1980–1989).
* Johnny Gimble, 88, American country music fiddler.
* Igor Gorynin, 89, Russian metallurgist.
* Ton Hartsuiker, 81, Dutch pianist and director of music academies.
* Alexandre Lamfalussy, 86, Hungarian-born Belgian economist.
* Lo Wing-lok, 60, Hong Kong politician, member of the Legislative Council for Medical (2000–2004), lung cancer.
* Michael MacKellar, 76, Australian politician, MP for Warringah (1969–1994).
* Odo Marquard, 87, German philosopher.
* Đorđe Pavlić, 76, Serbian Yugoslav footballer.
* Ragne Tangen, 88, Norwegian children's television presenter.
* Elizabeth Wilson, 94, American actress (The Birds, The Graduate, 9 to 5), Tony Award winner (1972).
* Christopher Wood, 79, English novelist and screenwriter (Moonraker, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, The Spy Who Loved Me).

### 10

* Chukwuma Azikiwe, 75, Nigerian politician.
* Ray Baillie, 80, Canadian football player (Montreal Alouettes), fall.
* Ninad Bedekar, 65, Indian historian and writer.
* Jack Body, 70, New Zealand composer.
* Chris Burden, 69, American artist, melanoma.
* Al Cartwright, 97, American sportswriter.
* William T. Cooper, 81, Australian bird illustrator.
* Mario Da Vinci, 73, Italian Canzone Napoletana singer and actor.
* Jerry Dior, 82, American graphic designer, creator of the Major League Baseball logo, colorectal cancer.
* Juan Emery, 82, Spanish footballer.
* Luiz Henrique da Silveira, 75, Brazilian politician, Senator (since 2011), Governor of Santa Catarina (2003–2006, 2007–2010), Minister of Science and Technology (1987–1988), heart attack.
* Kim Kyok-sik, 76, North Korean military officer, Defence Minister (2012–2013), acute respiratory failure.
* Donald Neff, 84, American journalist and author, coronary heart disease and diabetes.
* James F. Rinehart, 64, American academic.
* Mario Rodríguez, 77, Argentine footballer (Chacarita Juniors, Independiente).
* Jindřich Roudný, 91, Czech Olympic steeplechase athlete (1952).
* Rachel Rosenthal, 88, French-born American performance artist, heart failure.
* Victor Salvi, 95, American-born Italian harpist and harp maker.
* Barbara Turnbull, 50, Canadian journalist and disability campaigner.
* Davey Whitney, 85, American Hall of Fame basketball coach (Alcorn State).

### 11

* Maggie Black, 85, American ballet instructor, heart failure.
* Alan Borovoy, 83, Canadian human rights activist and lawyer.
* Donna Jean Christianson, 83, American politician, cancer.
* Stan Cornyn, 81, American record label executive.
* Pierre Daboval, 96, French artist.
* Peter Füri, 77, Swiss footballer (Concordia Basel, F.C. Basel), heart failure.
* Jef Geeraerts, 85, Belgian author, heart attack.
* Kay Heim, 97, Canadian baseball player (Kenosha Comets).
* John Hewie, 87, Scottish footballer (Charlton Athletic, Arcadia Shepherds).
* Olavi Lanu, 89, Finnish sculptor.
* Bob Light, 88, American college basketball coach (Appalachian State).
* Frank Matich, 80, Australian racing car driver.
* Leonardo Neher, 92, American diplomat.
* Glen Orbik, 51, American artist.
* Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou, 75, Iranian poet.
* Gideon Singer, 88, Israeli actor and singer.
* Eldridge Small, 65, American football player (New York Giants).
* Frankie Sodano, 84, American Olympic boxer (1948).
* Isobel Varley, 77, British tattooed woman, world's most tattooed senior, Alzheimer's disease.
* Derek Walker, 85, British architect.
* Sir John Watts, 93, Grenadian politician, President of the Senate (1988–1990, 1995–2004).
* Richard W. Winder, 91, American LDS church elder.

### 12

* Cecil Jones Attuquayefio, 70, Ghanaian football player and coach, throat cancer.
* Tony Ayala Jr., 52, American light middleweight boxer.
* Suchitra Bhattacharya, 65, Indian novelist, left ventricular failure.
* Mervyn Burtch, 86, Welsh composer.
* John Colenback, 79, American actor (As the World Turns), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
* John Dewes, 88, English cricketer (Middlesex, national team).
* Sir Peter Fry, 83, British politician, MP for Wellingborough (1969–1997).
* Peter Gay, 91, German-born American historian.
* Bill Guthridge, 77, American college basketball coach (University of North Carolina).
* Rachel Jacobs, 39, American entrepreneur, injuries sustained in a train derailment.
* Bobby Jameson, 70, American pop singer and songwriter.
* Syd Lieberman, 71, American storyteller.
* William MacDonald, 90, English-born Australian serial killer.
* Evany José Metzker, 67, Brazilian journalist, homicide.
* Saulat Mirza, 43–44, Pakistani convicted murderer and political activist, execution by hanging.
* Ruth Mompati, 89, South African politician (1956 Women's March).
* Robin Page, 82, British artist.
* John Slater, 63, Canadian politician, MLA for Boundary-Similkameen (2009–2013).
* Neranjan Wickremasinghe, 53, Sri Lankan politician.
* Anthony C. Yu, 76, American translator (Journey to the West) and literature scholar, heart failure.
* William Zinsser, 92, American writer.

### 13

* Earl Averill, Jr., 83, American baseball player (Los Angeles Angels, Chicago Cubs).
* Eric Bakie, 87, Scottish footballer (Dunfermline Athletic, Aberdeen).
* Kathryn I. Bowers, 72, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1995–2005) and Senate (2005–2007).
* Derek Davis, 67, Irish broadcaster (Live at 3).
* Gill Dennis, 74, American screenwriter (Walk the Line, Return to Oz).
* Robert Drasnin, 87, American composer and clarinet player, complications from a fall.
* Lucy Fabery, 84, Puerto Rican jazz singer.
* Romolo Ferri, 86, Italian motorcycle racer.
* Joseph Fidel, 91, American politician.
* Ed Fouhy, 80, American journalist and television news executive (ABC, CBS, NBC), complications from cancer.
* George W. Haley, 89, American politician and diplomat.
* Bert Hitchen, 76, English railway preservationist and racing cyclist.
* Anna Levinson, 76, German zoologist.
* Nina Otkalenko, 86, Russian athlete.
* Bob Randall, c. 81, Australian Indigenous musician and author.
* David Sackett, 80, Canadian physician.
* Gainan Saidkhuzhin, 77, Russian Soviet Olympic cyclist (1960, 1964), heart attack.
* Stanley Sproul, 95, American politician, Mayor of Augusta, Maine (1971–1974), member of the Maine House of Representatives (1973–1974).
* Marisa Volpi, 86, Italian art historian and writer.

### 14

* James H. Andreasen, 83, American judge.
* Geraldo Majela de Castro, 84, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Coadjutor Bishop (1982–1988) and Archbishop of Montes Claros (1988–2007).
* Charles Favre, 54, Swiss Olympic sailor.
* B.B. King, 89, American Hall of Fame blues guitarist, singer and songwriter ("The Thrill Is Gone"), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* Thomas Lothian, 86, American politician and academic.
* Micheál O'Brien, 91, Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler (Meath).
* Stanton J. Peale, 78, American astrophysicist.
* Mariana Pfaelzer, 89, American federal judge, U.S. District Court Judge for the Central District of California (1978–1997).
* Jean Pliya, 83, Beninese playwright and short story writer.
* Franz Wright, 62, American poet, lung cancer.
* Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., 93, Polish art historian.

### 15

* Ortheia Barnes, 70, American R&B and jazz singer, heart failure.
* Elisabeth Bing, 100, German physical therapist, author and proponent of natural childbirth.
* Jackie Brookner, 69, American artist, cancer.
* Michael Campus, 80, American director, producer, and screenwriter (The Mack).
* Samih Darwazah, 85, Jordanian executive (Hikma Pharmaceuticals).
* Alfred DelBello, 80, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of New York (1983–1985), Westchester County Executive (1974–1982), Mayor of Yonkers, New York (1970–1974).
* Tommy Dunne, 83, Irish international footballer.
* Corey Hill, 36, American mixed martial artist (UFC), collapsed lung and heart attack.
* Bob Hopkins, 80, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals) and coach (Seattle SuperSonics), heart and kidney failure.
* John Jarvis-Smith, 93, British World War II naval officer and shipbroker.
* Jacob Jensen, 89, Danish industrial designer.
* Matulidi Jusoh, 57, Malaysian politician, MP for Dungun (2008–2013), diabetes.
* André Jean René Lacrampe, 73, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ajaccio (1995–2003) and Archbishop of Besançon (2003–2013).
* Claude Lajoie, 87, Canadian politician.
* John Lo Schiavo, 90, American Jesuit and educator, President of University of San Francisco (1977–1991).
* Flora MacNeil, 86, Scottish Gaelic singer.
* Carlos Maggi, 92, Uruguayan writer (Generación del 45).
* Valentina Maureira, 14, Chilean euthanasia advocate, cystic fibrosis.
* Didi Petet, 58, Indonesian actor.
* John Stephenson, 91, American voice actor (The Flintstones, The Transformers, Jonny Quest), Alzheimer's disease.
* James Takemori, 89, American judo coach.
* Donald Wrye, 77, American film director (Ice Castles).
* Garo Yepremian, 70, Cypriot-born American football player (Miami Dolphins), brain cancer.
* Renzo Zorzi, 68, Italian racing driver.

### 16

* Jackie Basehart, 63, American-born Italian actor (The Inglorious Bastards).
* Prashant Bhargava, 42, American filmmaker, cardiac arrest.
* Nelson Doi, 93, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii (1974–1978).
* Ernesto Estrada, 65, Filipino basketball player, heart attack.
* Johannes Exner, 89, Danish architect.
* Elias Gleizer, 81, Brazilian actor, circulatory failure.
* Shikha Joshi, 40, Indian actress (B.A. Pass).
* Adam Kilgarriff, 55, English linguist.
* Moshe Levinger, 80, Israeli Orthodox rabbi.
* Dean Potter, 43, American rock climber, BASE-jumping accident.
* Adrian Robinson, 25, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Temple Owls), suicide by hanging.
* Abu Sayyaf, Tunisian senior ISIS commander, head of oil operations, shot.
* Peter Tallberg, 77, Finnish Olympic sailor (1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1980) and IOC member.
* Syd Tate, 90, Australian VFL football player (Geelong).
* John Templeton, Jr., 75, American physician and philanthropist, brain cancer.
* Raphael Tenthani, 43, Malawian journalist, traffic collision.
* Dominik Tóth, 89, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Bratislava (1990–2004).
* Yeung Kwong, 89, Hong Kong pro-communist activist.
* Ahmed Zanna, 60, Nigerian politician, Senator for Borno Central (since 2011).

### 17

* Claude Carliez, 90, French fencer and stunt director (Moonraker, A View to a Kill).
* Chinx, 31, American rapper, shot.
* Óscar Collazos, 72, Colombian writer.
* Sheshrao Deshmukh, 85, Indian politician.
* Margaret Dunning, 104, American philanthropist, fall.
* Rex Garner, 94, British actor and theatre director.
* Leo Honkala, 82, Finnish wrestler, Olympic bronze medalist (1952).
* Keiji Matsumoto, 65, Japanese racing driver.
* Nancy Masterton, 84, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives.
* Michael Alfred Peszke, 83, Polish-born American psychiatrist and historian.
* S. W. Schmitthenner, 87, American missionary, President of Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church (1969–1981).
* Gerald Steadman Smith, 85, Canadian artist.
* Don Smoothey, 96, British actor and comedian.
* Tranquility Bass, 47, American hip-hop musician.

### 18

* Frank Pierpoint Appleby, 101, Canadian politician.
* Norm Armstrong, 89, Australian football player.
* Halldór Ásgrímsson, 67, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister (2004–2006), heart attack.
* Tommy Bing, 83, English footballer (Margate).
* Dewi Bridges, 81, Welsh Anglican prelate, Bishop of Swansea and Brecon (1988–1998).
* Helen Davis, 88, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives and Senate.
* Raymond Gosling, 88, British scientist.
* Hasanuzzaman Khan, 88, Bangladeshi journalist.
* Steiner Arvid Kvalø, 92, Norwegian politician.
* Al Matsalla, 89, Canadian politician.
* Dick Mountjoy, 83, American politician, Mayor of Monrovia, California (1968–1976), member of the California State Assembly (1978–1995) and Senate (1995–2000), heart attack.
* Eli M. Pearce, 86, American chemist.
* Harald Seeger, 93, German football player (1. FC Union Berlin) and manager.
* Roland Sink, 89, American Olympic athlete.
* Jean-François Théodore, 68, French executive (Euronext).
* Elbert West, 47, American country music singer-songwriter ("Sticks and Stones").

### 19

* Ahmad Alaskarov, 79, Azerbaijani football player and manager.
* Jack Aspinwall, 82, British politician, MP (1979–1997), cancer.
* Joseph J. Barnicke, 92, Canadian real estate magnate.
* Joe Carr, 83, Scottish footballer (St Johnstone).
* James Findlay, 60, Australian Olympic swimmer.
* Sir Thomas Gault, 76, New Zealand jurist.
* Edmond J. Gong, 84, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1963–1966) and Senate (1967–1971).
* Gerald Götting, 91, German politician, President of the East German People's Chamber (1969–1976).
* Fahd Jaradat, 84–85, Jordanian politician, Finance Minister (1970).
* Bruce Lundvall, 79, American record executive (Blue Note Records), complications of Parkinson's disease.
* Ted McWhinney, 91, Australian-born Canadian politician and academic.
* Yevgeni Menshov, 68, Russian actor and presenter.
* Burhan Muhammad, 57, Indonesian diplomat, Ambassador to Pakistan (since 2012), burns from helicopter crash.
* Dale D. Myers, 93, American aerospace engineer, Deputy Administrator of NASA (1986–1989).
* S. V. Raju, 81, Indian politician.
* Happy Rockefeller, 88, American socialite and philanthropist, Second Lady of the United States (1974–1977), First Lady of New York (1963–1973).
* State of Bengal, 50, Bangladeshi-born British DJ and music producer.
* Roger J. Thomas, 73, American physicist.
* Robert S. Wistrich, 70, Kazakh-born Israeli-British history professor, heart attack.

### 20

* Edward Adeane, 75, British courtier, Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales (1979–1985).
* Billy Baggett, 85, American football player (Dallas Texans).
* Bob Belden, 58, American musician, heart attack.
* Abdelaziz Bennani, 79, Moroccan army general.
* Sir Brian Cubbon, 87, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary of the Home Office (1979–1988), heart attack.
* Harald Eriksson, 93, Swedish cross-country skier, Olympic silver medalist (1948).
* Eileen Gray, 95, British bicycle racer.
* J. S. Harry, 76, Australian poet.
* Ebba Hentze, 84, Faroese writer.
* Kirsten Idebøen, 52, Norwegian financier (SpareBank 1).
* Sir John Lea, 91, British Royal Navy vice-admiral.
* Paul Liao, 67, Taiwanese entrepreneur, lung cancer.
* Chifita Matafwali, 55, Zambian politician, member of the National Assembly for Bangweulu (since 2011).
* Manfred Müller, 88, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg (1972–1982) and Bishop of Regensburg (1982–2002).
* Bob Priestley, 95, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).
* Jan Prochyra, 66, Polish actor.
* Femi Robinson, 74, Nigerian actor (The Village Headmaster).
* Sudha Shivpuri, 77, Indian actress (Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi), multiple organ failure.
* Mary Ellen Trainor, 62, American actress (Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, The Goonies), pancreatic cancer.
* Livien Ven, 81, Belgian Olympic rower.

### 21

* Jassem Al-Kharafi, 75, Kuwaiti magnate and politician, Speaker of the National Assembly (1999–2011), heart attack.
* Zaya Avdysh, 69, Ukrainian football player and manager.
* David Blake, 90, English cricketer (Hampshire).
* César Boutteville, 97, Vietnamese-born French chess player.
* Eduard Derzsei, 80, Romanian Olympic volleyball player.
* Joaquim Durão, 84, Portuguese chess player.
* Anne Duguël, 69, Belgian author.
* Fred Gladding, 78, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros).
* Ernie Hannigan, 72, Scottish footballer (Preston North End, Coventry City).
* Louis Johnson, 60, American bassist (The Brothers Johnson, Michael Jackson).
* Martin Kitcher, 53, British singer-songwriter.
* James McDuffie, 85, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate (1975–1987).
* Juan Molinar Horcasitas, 59, Mexican politician, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Marty Pasetta, 82, American television producer and director, traffic collision.
* Annarita Sidoti, 44, Italian race walker, world champion (1997), breast cancer.
* Ellen Tronnier, 87, American baseball player (South Bend Blue Sox).
* Twinkle, 66, British singer-songwriter ("Terry"), cancer.
* Alan Woodward, 68, English footballer (Sheffield United).

### 22

* Albert Baciocco, 84, American vice admiral.
* Marques Haynes, 89, American Hall of Fame basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters).
* Sir John Horlock, 87, British mechanical engineer and university vice-chancellor (Open University, University of Salford).
* Kevin Hunt, 66, American football player.
* Vladimir Katriuk, 93, Romanian-born Canadian alleged war criminal.
* Alan Koch, 77, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators).
* Michel Mortier, 90, French interior designer and architect.
* John Mosley, 93, American football player (Colorado A&M Aggies) and World War II RAF officer (Tuskegee Airmen).
* Radomir Naumov, 68, Serbian politician, Minister of Energy and Mining (2004–2007), Minister of Religion (2007–2008).
* Aminah Robinson, 75, American artist.
* Jean-Luc Sassus, 52, French football player, heart attack.
* Byron Sherwin, 69, American rabbi and theology scholar.
* Terry Sue-Patt, 50, British actor (Grange Hill). (body discovered on this date)
* Michael Osborne Waddell, 92, British World War II army officer and Military Cross recipient.

### 23

* Hugh Ambrose, 48, American historian and author (The Pacific), cancer.
* Marcus Belgrave, 78, American jazz trumpeter, heart failure.
* Leo Berman, 79, American businessman and politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives (1999–2013), lymphoma.
* Hugh Boyle, 79, Irish golfer.
* Moyra Caldecott, 87, South African-born British writer.
* John Carter, 87, American actor (Barnaby Jones, Scarface, Law & Order), pneumonia.
* Peter Corbett, 74, South African cricketer.
* Trojan Darveniza, 93, Australian football player.
* Zedi Feruzi, Burundian politician, shot.
* Boody Gilbertson, 93, American basketball player (Sheboygan Red Skins).
* Andy Hess, 91, American politician.
* Yrjö Mäkelä, 88, Finnish Olympic athlete.
* Anne Meara, 85, American comedian (Stiller and Meara) and actress (Archie Bunker's Place, The King of Queens, Like Mike).
* Aleksey Mozgovoy, 40, Ukrainian pro-Russian separatist.
* Alicia Nash, 82, Salvadoran-born American socialite and mental health care advocate, traffic collision.
* John Forbes Nash, Jr., 86, American mathematician, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Economics (1994), subject of A Beautiful Mind, traffic collision.
* Carl Nesjar, 94, Norwegian painter and sculptor.
* Asbjørn Øksendal, 92, Norwegian writer.
* Andres Ortiz, 28, Puerto Rican basketball player, traffic collision.
* Ali Raymi, 41, Yemeni boxer, air strike.
* Carole Seymour-Jones, 72, Welsh biographer.
* Joseph Velikonja, 92, Slovene-born American geographer.
* Carlos Irizarry Yunqué, 93, Puerto Rican judge, justice of the Supreme Court (1973–1986).

### 24

* Morris Beckman, 94, English writer and anti-fascist activist (43 Group).
* Dean Carroll, 52, English rugby league footballer.
* Krushna Ghoda, 61, Indian politician, MLA for Palghar (since 2014), heart attack.
* Cristian Gómez, 27, Argentine footballer (Club Atlético Paraná), heart attack.
* Vladimír Hagara, 71, Slovak footballer (FC Spartak Trnava).
* John H. Kerr III, 79, American politician.
* Sir Kenneth Jacobs, 97, Australian judge.
* Krzysztof Kąkolewski, 85, Polish writer.
* Tanith Lee, 67, British science fiction, horror and fantasy writer (Blake's 7), breast cancer.
* Daniel Meltzer, 63, American lawyer, legal adviser to Barack Obama, cancer.
* Guido Plante, 78, Canadian-born Honduran Roman Catholic prelate, Coadjutor Bishop (2004–2005) and Bishop of Choluteca (2005–2012).
* Pedro Roque, 47, Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler, world champion (1987), respiratory failure.
* Michael W. Ryan, 66, American convicted murderer.
* Jarmila Šťastná, 82, Czech Olympic speed skater.
* Bharat Raj Upreti, 63, Nepali judge, justice of the Supreme Court (2009–2013), suicide by hanging.
* Winged Love, 23, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, colic.

### 25

* George Braden, 65, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories (1979–1983), gastric cancer.
* Dien Cornelissen, 91, Dutch politician, member of the Senate (1969–1971) and House of Representatives (1971–1972, 1973–1986).
* Robert Lebel, 90, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Valleyfield (1976–2000).
* Nathan J. Lindsay, 79, American major general (USAF) and astronaut.
* Mary Ellen Mark, 75, American photographer, myelodysplastic syndrome.
* Moc Morgan, 86, Welsh fly fisherman and naturalist.
* John M. Murphy, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 16th (1963–1973) and 17th (1973–1981) districts.
* Bill O'Herlihy, 76, Irish sports broadcaster (RTÉ Sport).
* Jorge Salomão, 77, Brazilian Olympic boxer.
* Wallace Sampson, 85, American critic of alternative medicine.
* John Stubbs, 77, Australian political journalist.
* Zhanna Yorkina, 76, Russian Soviet cosmonaut.

### 26

* Vicente Aranda, 88, Spanish film director (Amantes).
* Walter Byers, 93, American college athletics executive (NCAA), urinary tract infection.
* Claudio Caligari, 67, Italian screenwriter and director (Toxic Love, The Scent of the Night).
* Harold F. Clayton, 61, American sculptor, lung cancer.
* William Davidson, 95, English cricketer (Sussex).
* Gottfried Diener, 88, Swiss bobsledder, Olympic champion (1956).
* Leo Drey, 98, American timber magnate.
* Rocky Frisco, 77, American pianist (JJ Cale Band).
* Thorbjørn Gjølstad, 72, Norwegian jurist and civil servant.
* Franklin P. Hall, 76, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1976–2009).
* Bob Hornery, 83, Australian actor (Neighbours, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, The Importance of Being Earnest).
* Les Johnson, 90, Australian politician, MP for Hughes (1955–1966, 1969–1983).
* Sverre Johan Juvik, 93, Norwegian politician.
* Robert Kraft, 87, American astronomer.
* João Lucas, 35, Portuguese footballer (Académica).
* Ubirajara Ribeiro Martins, 82, Brazilian entomologist.
* Edward Moylan, 91, American tennis player.
* John Pinder, 70, New Zealand-born Australian comedy producer.
* Cyril Roger, 93, English speedway rider.
* Art Thieme, 73, American folk musician.
* Aristidis Vlassis, 68, Greek painter.

### 27

* Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki, c. 71, Somali Islamist and Al-Shabaab leader, military leader of the Islamic Courts Union and Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya.
* Erik Carlsson, 86, Swedish rally driver.
* Nils Christie, 87, Norwegian criminologist.
* Cotton Coulson, 63, American filmmaker and photographer (National Geographic), scuba diving accident.
* Peter Celestine Elampassery, 76, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jammu-Srinagar (1998–2014).
* Vittorio Paolo Fiorito, 74, Italian Hall of Fame basketball referee.
* Bill Foster, 79, American college basketball coach (Miami Hurricanes, Clemson Tigers, Virginia Tech Hokies), Parkinson's disease.
* S. Parker Gilbert, 81, American financier, President of Morgan Stanley (1983–1990).
* Irvine B. Hill, 87, American politician, Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia (1974–1976).
* Sir Gordon Hobday, 99, British scientist and industrialist.
* Andy King, 58, English footballer (Everton), heart attack.
* Karsten Lund, 71, Danish footballer (Vejle Boldklub).
* Michael Martin, 83, American philosopher.
* John Miller, 81, American football player (Washington Redskins).
* William Newman, 80, American actor (Mrs. Doubtfire, The Tick), vascular dementia.
* Liam Ryan, 79, Irish theologian and hurler (Limerick GAA).
* Franca Sebastiani, 66, Italian singer, cancer.
* John Siegal, 97, American football player (Chicago Bears).
* Elisabeth Wiedemann, 89, German actress.
* Zhang Jieqing, 102, Chinese politician and writer.

### 28

* John Buckner, 67, American politician, member of the Colorado House of Representatives (since 2013), sarcoidosis.
* Jonas Čepulis, 75, Lithuanian heavyweight boxer, Olympic silver medalist (1968).
* Masayuki Imai, 54, Japanese actor, writer and director, colon cancer.
* Esther Ghan Firestone, 90, Canadian cantor.
* Steven Gerber, 66, American composer, cancer.
* Johnny Keating, 87, British musician ("Theme from Z-Cars").
* Skeeter Kell, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
* Ray Kennedy, 58, American jazz pianist, multiple sclerosis.
* Gyles Longley, 96, British World War II army officer and Military Cross recipient.
* Robert S. Morse, 90, American prelate, Archbishop of the Anglican Province of Christ the King.
* Reynaldo Rey, 75, American actor and comedian (227, Friday, White Men Can't Jump), stroke.
* Claire Kelly Schultz, 90, American information scientist.

### 29

* Martha Bachem, 90, Austrian Olympic figure skater.
* Arthur Bourns, 95, American chemist, President of McMaster University (1972–1980).
* Henry Carr, 73, American track and field athlete, Olympic champion (1964), cancer.
* Doris Hart, 89, American Hall of Fame tennis player.
* Willie Horgan, 71, Irish hurling referee.
* Tom Jones, 72, American racing driver.
* Chris Kohlhase, 47, New Zealand softball player (national team) and coach (Samoa national team), Parkinson's disease.
* Natalya Lagoda, 42, Ukrainian-born Russian singer and model (Playboy), bilateral pneumonia.
* Rashid Massumi, 89, Iranian-born American cardiologist.
* Wim van Norden, 97, Dutch journalist, director of Het Parool (1945–1979).
* Betsy Palmer, 88, American actress (I've Got a Secret, Mister Roberts, Friday the 13th).
* Bruno Pesaola, 89, Argentine-born Italian footballer.

### 30

* Michel Arpin, 79, French Olympic skier.
* Jim Bailey, 77, American singer, actor and impressionist (Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand).
* Beau Biden, 46, American politician, Attorney General of Delaware (2007–2015), brain cancer.
* Joël Champetier, 57, Canadian author, cancer.
* Jake D'Arcy, 69, British actor (Still Game, Gregory's Girl, Outnumbered).
* John Drinkall, 93, British diplomat, Ambassador to Afghanistan (1972–1976), High Commissioner to Jamaica (1976–1981).
* Ingeborg Mueller Fernlund, 80, Swedish publisher.
* Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths, 91, British jurist and law lord.
* Julie Harris, 94, British costume designer (A Hard Day's Night, Darling, Live and Let Die), Oscar winner (1966).
* Ivan Kochergin, 79, Russian Olympic wrestler.
* John L. Lumley, 84, American professor of aerospace engineering, brain cancer.
* Tony McNamara, 85, English footballer (Everton, Liverpool).
* Lennie Merullo, 98, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).
* Cornell Moss, 55, Bahamian Anglican prelate, Archbishop of Guyana (since 2009), heart failure.
* L. Tom Perry, 92, American apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, thyroid cancer.
* Michael Collins Piper, 54, American talk radio host and conspiracy theorist.
* Azmat Rana, 63, Pakistani cricketer, cardiac arrest.
* Somalatha Subasinghe, 78, Sri Lankan actress and theater director.
* Alvin P. Wegeman, 88, American Nordic combined skier.

### 31

* Iain Campbell, 87, English cricketer and headmaster.
* Nico Castel, 83, Portuguese-born American tenor.
* Will Holt, 86, American songwriter ("Lemon Tree") and playwright (Over Here!), Alzheimer's disease.
* Jonathan Howes, 78, American politician, Secretary of the NCDENR (1992–1997), Mayor of Chapel Hill, North Carolina (1987–1991), heart disease.
* Françoise-Hélène Jourda, 59, French architect.
* Hiroshi Koizumi, 88, Japanese actor (Mothra, Atragon), pneumonia.
* François Mahé, 84, French professional cyclist.
* Frank McKinnon, 80, Canadian sports executive.
* Pat Petersen, 55, American marathon runner, pancreatic cancer.
* Christina Reid, 73, Northern Irish playwright.
* Slim Richey, 77, American guitarist, lymphoma.
* Mario Saliwa, 31, South African first-class cricketer.
* Gladys Taylor, 97, Canadian writer and newspaper publisher.
* Karl Wlaschek, 97, Austrian executive, founder of Billa.