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

## September 2016
### 1

* Raymond Daveluy, 89, Canadian composer, organist, music educator and arts administrator.
* Thomas G. Doran, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rockford (1994–2012).
* Frederick Drandua, 73, Ugandan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Arua (1986–2009), diabetes.
* Fred Hellerman, 89, American folk singer (The Weavers), guitarist, producer and songwriter.
* Kerson Huang, 88, Chinese-born American theoretical physicist.
* Ruth Hubbard, 92, Austrian-born American biologist.
* Kacey Jones, 66, American singer-songwriter ("I'm the One Mama Warned You About"), producer and humorist, cancer.
* Len Maddocks, 90, Australian cricketer.
* Leif Mæhle, 89, Norwegian literary historian.
* Zahid Malik, 78, Pakistani journalist and editor.
* William Ole Ntimama, 88, Kenyan politician, MP (2007–2014).
* Jon Polito, 65, American actor (Miller's Crossing, The Rocketeer, Homicide: Life on the Street), multiple myeloma.
* Emilio Prini, 73, Italian artist.
* Frans ten Bos, 79, Scottish rugby union player (national team).

### 2

* Nalinidhar Bhattacharya, 94, Indian poet and literary critic.
* Neville Crowe, 79, Australian footballer.
* Gary D., 52, German trance producer and DJ, pulmonary embolism.
* Blackie Gejeian, 90, American race car driver and hot rod builder.
* Jerry Heller, 75, American music manager (N.W.A), heart attack.
* John Hostetter, 69, American actor (Murphy Brown, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Heartbreak Ridge), complications from cancer.
* Islam Karimov, 78, Uzbek politician, President (since 1991), stroke.
* Gerald Lehner, 48, Austrian football referee.
* Don Minnick, 85, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
* Margrit Mondavi, 91, Swiss-born American businesswoman, Vice President of Cultural Affairs at Robert Mondavi Winery.
* David Morgan, 56, Northern Irish television presenter and journalist.
* Antonina Seredina, 87, Soviet Russian sprint canoeist, Olympic champion (1960).
* Joseph Whitney, 87, British-born Canadian geographer.
* Daniel Willems, 60, Belgian Olympic cyclist (1976).
* Chilla Wilson, 85, Australian rugby union player.
* Eileen Younghusband, 95, British World War II officer and author.

### 3

* Jack Aiken, 98, Australian politician.
* Mir Quasem Ali, 63, Bangladeshi businessman, politician and war criminal, execution by hanging.
* Maria Isabel Barreno, 77, Portuguese writer.
* Kalthoum Bornaz, 71, Tunisian screenwriter, film editor and director.
* Jane Brick, 74, Swedish journalist, brain tumor.
* Carlos Bulgheroni, 71, Argentine businessman, CEO of Bridas.
* Claudio Olinto de Carvalho, 74, Brazilian football player and coach (Cagliari).
* Anna Dewdney, 50, American children's author and illustrator, brain cancer.
* John W. Drummond, 96, American politician, member of the South Carolina Senate (1966–2008).
* Albert Hofstede, 75, American politician, Mayor of Minneapolis (1974–1975, 1978–1979), respiratory illness.
* Sam F. Iacobellis, 87, American engineer.
* Jaakko Kolmonen, 75, Finnish chef.
* Pran Kurup, 49, Indian entrepreneur and author, heart failure.
* Norman Kwong, 86, Canadian football player (Calgary Stampeders, Edmonton Eskimos) and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (2005–2010).
* Leslie H. Martinson, 101, American film and television director (Batman: The Movie, CHiPs, Fantasy Island).
* Fred McFarlane, 55, American songwriter ("Show Me Love", "Don't Wanna Go Home"), record producer and musician.
* Dabney Montgomery, 93, American pilot (Tuskegee Airmen), bodyguard of Martin Luther King Jr.
* Jan Nilsen, 79, Norwegian footballer (Fredrikstad FK, national team).
* Peter Oresick, 60, American poet, brain cancer.
* Johnny Rebel, 77, American country singer.
* Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, 79, American culinary anthropologist/griot, food writer and broadcaster on public media.
* Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, 59, French mathematician.

### 4

* Adam Bielański, 103, Polish chemist and professor.
* Bob Bissonnette, 35, Venezuelan-born Canadian singer, ice hockey player (Hull Olympiques, Acadie–Bathurst Titan) and baseball team owner (Québec Capitales), helicopter crash.
* Frank J. Barbaro, 88, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (1973–1996), heart failure.
* Gintautas Iešmantas, 86, Lithuanian politician.
* Zvonko Ivezić, 67, Serbian footballer (Vojvodina, Sochaux, RC Paris).
* Peter Janich, 74, German philosopher, cancer.
* David Jenkins, 91, English cleric and theologian, Bishop of Durham (1984–1994).
* Klaus Katzur, 73, German swimmer, Olympic silver medalist (1972).
* Novella Matveyeva, 81, Russian poet and singer-songwriter.
* Richard Neville, 74, Australian writer and editor (Oz).
* Isidore Okpewho, 74, Nigerian novelist and critic.
* Cyril C. Perera, 93, Sri Lankan author.
* Clifford S. Perlman, 90, American businessman, CEO of Caesars Palace.
* Melvyn Pignon, 86, English field hockey player.
* Clarence D. Rappleyea Jr., 82, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (1973–1995).
* Zoran Šami, 67, Serbian politician, speaker at the Parliament of Serbia and Montenegro.
* Klaus Traube, 88, German mechanical engineer and anti-nuclear power activist.
* Yang Jingnian, 107, Chinese economist.

### 5

* John Ball, 81, English Anglican prelate, Assistant Bishop of Central Tanganyika.
* Arif Beg, 81, Indian politician, Bharatiya Janta Party leader.
* Gilbert Chapron, 83, French boxer, Olympic bronze medalist (1956).
* She'ar Yashuv Cohen, 88, Israeli chief rabbi of Haifa.
* Duane Graveline, 85, American astronaut.
* Sir Fred Holliday, 80, British marine biologist.
* Jaroslav Jareš, 86, Czech football player and manager (Slavia Prague).
* Joe Hosteen Kellwood, 95, American World War II veteran, Navajo code talker.
* George McLeod, 83, Scottish footballer.
* Max Murray, 80, Scottish footballer (Rangers, West Bromwich Albion).
* Hugh O'Brian, 91, American actor (The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, The Shootist, Twins).
* Rudolph T. Randa, 76, American judge, U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (since 1992), brain cancer.
* Donald Ranvaud, 62, Italian-born British journalist and film producer (The Constant Gardener, Central Station, City of God), heart attack.
* Phyllis Schlafly, 92, American constitutional lawyer, conservative activist and author, cancer.
* Karl Schlechta, 94, Austrian football player and coach (Austria Wien, Sturm Graz, Rapid Wien).
* Michael Spindler 73, German businessman, CEO of Apple (1993–1996).
* Lindsay Tuckett, 97, South African Test cricketer.
* Israfil Yilmaz, 29, Turkish-born Dutch ISIS trainer, militant and blogger, airstrike.

### 6

* Richard Beeman, 74, American historian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Cary Blanchard, 47, American football player (Indianapolis Colts, New York Jets).
* John Royston Coleman, 95, American university president (Haverford College), Parkinson's disease.
* Emlyn Davies, 94, Welsh rugby union player (Swansea, Aberavon, national team).
* H. Joel Deckard, 74, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana's 8th congressional district (1979–1983).
* Raymond Hide, 87, British physicist.
* Michael Ibru, 86, Nigerian businessman (Ibru Organization).
* Edward J. Lofgren, 102, American physicist.
* Nauyane Ariyadhamma Mahathera, 77, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and author.
* Lewis Merenstein, 81, American record producer (Van Morrison), pneumonia.
* Dave Pacey, 79, English footballer (Luton Town).
* Alfredo Peña, 72, Venezuelan journalist and politician.
* Bernard Planque, 84, French Olympic basketball player
* Darren Seals, 29, American activist (Black Lives Matter), shot.
* Andrzej Szymczak, 67, Polish handball player, Olympic bronze medalist (1976).
* Robert Timberg, 76, American journalist (The Baltimore Sun) and writer (The Nightingale's Song).
* Lilian Uchtenhagen, 87, Swiss economist and politician.
* Koos van Ellinckhuijzen, 74, Namibian artist.
* Offlee Wild, 16, American Thoroughbred racehorse, heart attack.

### 7

* António Barbosa de Melo, 83, Portuguese lawyer and politician.
* José Barluenga, 76, Spanish chemist.
* D. J. Cameron, 83, New Zealand sports journalist.
* Bobby Chacon, 64, American boxer, world champion (1974–1975, 1982–1983), fall.
* Maria Costa, 89, Italian poet.
* Clifford Curry, 79, American beach music and R&B singer ("She Shot a Hole in My Soul").
* Bob Dailey, 63, Canadian ice hockey player (Vancouver Canucks, Philadelphia Flyers), cancer.
* Ignacy Dybała, 90, Polish footballer
* Massimo Felisatti, 84, Italian author and screenwriter (Silent Action, The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave).
* Ken Higgs, 79, English cricketer.
* Peter Kavanagh, 63, Canadian radio producer, creator of Canada Reads, heart attack.
* Joseph Keller, 93, American mathematician.
* Shyamala Pappu, 82, Indian lawyer.
* Norbert Schemansky, 92, American weightlifter, Olympic champion (1952).
* Jean-Louis Schneiter, 83, French politician, Mayor of Reims (1999–2008).
* Farhang Sharif, 84–85, Iranian musician and tar player.
* Graham Wiggins, 53, American musician.
* Kitty Xu Ting, 25, Chinese actress, lymphoma.
* Ye Xiushan, 81, Chinese philosopher.
* Vincent Zhu Wei-Fang, 90, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Yongjia (since 2007).

### 8

* Hannes Arch, 48, Austrian race pilot, world champion (2008), helicopter crash.
* Johan Botha, 51, South African operatic tenor, cancer.
* Inga Clendinnen, 82, Australian historian.
* Jacques Dominati, 89, French politician.
* Hazel Douglas, 92, British actress (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1).
* Sir Trevor Jones, 89, British politician.
* The Lady Chablis, 59, American actress (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil), pneumonia.
* Bert Llewellyn, 77, English footballer (Crewe, Port Vale, Wigan).
* William J. McCormack, 83, Mauritian-born Canadian police chief (Toronto Police Service).
* Antonio Nuzzi, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi-Conza-Nusco-Bisaccia (1981–1988) and Teramo-Atri (1988–2002).
* Dragiša Pešić, 62, Montenegrin politician, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (2001–2003).
* Prince Buster, 78, Jamaican ska musician ("One Step Beyond", "Al Capone").
* Roman Romanchuk, 37, Ukrainian-born Russian boxer and kickboxer, heart attack.
* John Watts, 69, British politician, MP for Slough (1983–1997).
* Greta Zimmer Friedman, 92, American dental assistant, subject in V-J Day in Times Square photo.

### 9

* Chad Brown, 68, American football official (National Football League).
* Sylvia Gore, 71, English football player (national team) and manager (Wales national team), cancer.
* Luke Herrmann, 84, German-born British art historian.
* James Blyden Jenkins-Johnston, 69, Sierra Leonean lawyer.
* Koichi Kato, 77, Japanese politician, pneumonia.
* Lord Littlebrook, 87, British midget wrestler, trainer and booking manager.
* Zdeněk Měřínský, 68, Czech archeologist and historian.
* Carl Miles, 98, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
* Bill Nojay, 59, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (since 2013), suicide by gunshot.
* Ben Press, 92, American tennis player, prostate cancer.
* James Siang'a, 67, Kenyan football player and manager (Gor Mahia, national team), diabetes.
* Mario Spezi, 71, Italian journalist and author (The Monster of Florence: A True Story).
* James Stacy, 79, American actor (Lancer, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Something Wicked This Way Comes), anaphylaxis.

### 10

* Robert Eugene Allen, 81, American business executive, CEO of AT&T (1988–1997), stroke.
* Horst Bergmann, 78, German Olympic wrestler.
* Giuliano Carnimeo, 84, Italian director (The Case of the Bloody Iris).
* Pyotr Devyatkin, 39, Kazakhstani Olympic ice hockey player (1998).
* Luis Eduardo González, 70, Uruguayan political scientist, cancer.
* Mahmut Hekimoğlu, 60, Turkish actor and film producer, prostate cancer.
* Väinö Koskela, 95, Finnish Olympic long-distance runner (1948, 1952), European championship bronze medalist (1950).
* Jutta Limbach, 82, German jurist and politician, President of the Federal Constitutional Court (1994–2002).
* Frank Masley, 56, American Olympic luger (1980, 1984, 1988), cancer.
* Jure Radić, 62, Croatian civil engineer and politician, gastric cancer.
* Chris Stone, 81, American recording studio owner (Record Plant) and entrepreneur, heart attack and stroke.
* Mojmír Stuchlík, 86, Czech Olympic ski jumper
* Vladimír Vacátko, 63, German Olympic ice hockey player (1980).
* Joy Viado, 57, Filipino comedian and actress, heart attack.
* Joe Zaleski, 89, American-born Canadian football player and coach (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).

### 11

* İshak Alaton, 89, Turkish businessman (Alarko Holding), heart failure.
* Valeri Alikov, 56, Russian Hill Mari poet.
* Alexis Arquette, 47, American actress (The Wedding Singer, Pulp Fiction, Lords of Dogtown), cardiac arrest.
* Geert Bekaert, 88, Belgian architectural critic.
* Michel Bergerac, 84, French executive (Revlon).
* Per Brandtzæg, 80, Norwegian physician.
* Lawrence D. Cohen, 83, American attorney, politician and judge, Mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota (1972–1976).
* Louis E. Crandall, 87, American printer and entrepreneur (Legend City).
* Beryl Crockford, 66, British rower, world champion (1985).
* Nelson Davidyan, 66, Armenian Soviet wrestler, Olympic silver medalist (1976).
* Ben Idrissa Dermé, 34, Burkinabe footballer (Sheriff Tiraspol, CA Bastia), heart attack.
* Mbaye-Jacques Diop, 80, Senegalese politician, member of the National Assembly (1983–2004), Mayor of Rufisque (1987–2002).
* Gavin Frost, 86, British Wiccan author.
* Let's Elope, 28, New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse, Melbourne Cup winner (1991).
* Norman May, 88, Australian sports broadcaster.
* Claude-Jean Philippe, 83, French film critic and filmmaker.
* Bruno Poromaa, 80, Swedish politician, MP (1982–1994), municipal commissioner for Kiruna (1994–1998).
* Dalmiro Sáenz, 90, Argentine playwright.
* Ken Sparkes, 76, Australian radio broadcaster, heart attack.
* Ricky Tosso, 56, Peruvian actor, cancer.
* Lyn Wilde, 93, American singer and actress.

### 12

* Gunnila Bernadotte, 93, Swedish countess.
* Tor Brustad, 89, Norwegian biophysicist.
* Ellen Burka, 95, Dutch-born Canadian figure skater and coach, Dutch national champion (1946, 1947).
* Sándor Csoóri, 86, Hungarian poet, essayist, writer, and politician.
* Edmund D. Edelman, 85, American politician.
* Ali Javan, 89, Iranian-American physicist, heart attack.
* Hidayat Inayat Khan, 99, English-French composer and conductor.
* Peter Pettalia, 61, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives (since 2011), traffic collision.
* Tavin Pumarejo, 84, Puerto Rican actor, comedian and jíbaro singer.
* Fred Quillan, 60, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), NFL champion (1981, 1984).
* Arquimínio Rodrigues da Costa, 92, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Macau (1976–1988).
* Hans Rosander, 79, Swedish footballer (IFK Norrköping, national team), complications from heart surgery.
* William San Bento, 69, American politician, member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives (1993–2015).
* Stanley Sheinbaum, 96, American peace and human rights activist.
* Bob Wilkinson, 88, American football player (New York Giants), Parkinson's disease.

### 13

* Denis Atkins, 77, English footballer (Bradford City).
* Sunil Bardewa, 44, Nepalese pop singer.
* Artyom Bezrodny, 37, Ukrainian-born Russian footballer (Spartak Moscow), heart attack.
* Ottavio Bugatti, 87, Italian footballer (Napoli, Inter Milan).
* Matt Gray, 80, Scottish footballer (Third Lanark, Manchester City).
* Jack Hofsiss, 65, American stage director (The Elephant Man).
* Judith Jacobs, 77, American legislator, fall.
* Ermanno Rea, 89, Italian novelist, Viareggio Prize and Premio Campiello recipient.
* Jonathan Riley-Smith, 78, English medieval historian.
* Mike Roberts, 83, American radio sportscaster (New Mexico Lobos), cancer.
* Gérard Rondeau, 63, French photographer, cancer.
* Arnie Schmautz, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Unto Valpas, 72, Finnish politician, MP (1999–2011).

### 14

* Valeriy Abramov, 60, Russian long-distance runner.
* Dick Adams, 96, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
* Don Buchla, 79, American synthesizer designer.
* Agostino Cossia, 79, Italian Olympic boxer.
* Max Dunbier, 78, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Campbelltown (1968–1971).
* Sir George Engle, 90, British barrister and civil servant.
* Lady Caroline Faber, 93, British aristocrat.
* Eduard Gusev, 80, Russian Soviet Olympic cyclist (1956).
* Kim McGuire, 60, American actress (Cry-Baby), pneumonia.
* Karl Gunnar Persson, 73, Swedish economic historian.
* Dennis Shryack, 80, American screenwriter (Turner & Hooch, Pale Rider, Code of Silence), heart failure.
* Hilmar Thate, 85, German actor (Veronika Voss).
* Dean White, 93, American billionaire advertiser and hotel developer.
* Richard Whittington-Egan, 91, British writer and criminologist.
* Gareth F. Williams, 61, Welsh author, cancer.

### 15

* Vera Cosgrave, 90, Irish public figure.
* Haron Din, 76, Malaysian politician, spiritual leader of PAS (since 2014), heart illness.
* John Gudenus, 75, Austrian politician and convicted Holocaust denier.
* Deborah S. Jin, 47, American physicist, cancer.
* Greg Maher, 49, Irish Gaelic football player (Mayo).
* Rose Mofford, 94, American politician, Governor of Arizona (1988–1991).
* Domingos Montagner, 54, Brazilian actor (Velho Chico), drowning.
* Robert H. Scott, 86, American lacrosse player and coach (Johns Hopkins Blue Jays).
* Haakon Sørbye, 96, Norwegian engineer and resistance member.

### 16

* Tarık Akan, 66, Turkish actor (Yol), cancer.
* Edward Albee, 88, American playwright (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Delicate Balance, The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?), Tony (1963, 2002) and Pulitzer Prize winner (1967, 1975, 1994).
* Gabriele Amorth, 91, Italian Roman Catholic priest and exorcist, pulmonary disease.
* Don Bass, 70, American professional wrestler (CWA), cancer.
* Hagan Beggs, 79, Northern Irish-born Canadian actor (Danger Bay, Bordertown).
* Bill Bossio, 88, American Olympic boxer.
* Gilles Carpentier, 66, French author and editor.
* Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, 95, Italian banker and politician, President (1999–2006) and Prime Minister (1993–1994), multiple organ failure.
* Jerry Corbetta, 68, American musician (Sugarloaf), Pick's disease.
* Teodoro González de León, 90, Mexican architect.
* Reese Griffiths, 78, New Zealand rugby league player (West Coast, national team).
* Dorothy Cann Hamilton, 67, American chef and businesswoman, CEO of the International Culinary Center, traffic collision.
* Oļģerts Hehts, 84, Latvian basketball player.
* Charles H. Henry, 79, American physicist.
* Giancarlo Iliprandi, 91, Italian graphic designer.
* P. Kannan, 77, Indian politician.
* Todd Kimsey, 54, American actor (The Perfect Storm), lymphoma.
* W. P. Kinsella, 81, Canadian writer (Shoeless Joe), euthanasia.
* Norbert Kröcher, 66, German terrorist (2 June Movement), suicide by gunshot.
* Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, 84, French-born American businessman (Louis Dreyfus Company).
* Graeme MacKenzie, 81, Australian footballer, dementia.
* António Mascarenhas Monteiro, 72, Cape Verdean politician, President (1991–2001).
* John Bentley Mays, 75, Canadian journalist and novelist.
* Marvin Mottet, 86, American Roman Catholic priest.
* Gareth Powell, 82, Welsh writer.
* Qiao Renliang, 28, Chinese singer and actor, suicide by asphyxiation.
* Severino Santiapichi, 90, Italian magistrate and writer.
* Jean-Paul Sauthier, 74, French Olympic field hockey player
* Joe Seng, 69, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives (2001–2003) and Senate (since 2003), brain cancer.
* Hovhannes Tcholakian, 97, Turkish Armenian Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Istanbul (1967–2015).
* Bojja Tharakam, 77, Indian writer and social activist, brain tumour.
* Wang Mingfang, 63, Chinese politician, Chairman of CPPCC of Anhui Province (2011–2016).

### 17

* Theodore Wilbur Anderson, 98, American mathematician and statistician, heart failure.
* Clarence Brooks, 65, American football coach (Baltimore Ravens), esophageal and stomach cancer.
* Charmian Carr, 73, American actress and singer (The Sound of Music), complications from dementia.
* Desmond Clarke, 74, Irish philosopher.
* C. Martin Croker, 54, American voice actor and animator (Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Brak Show), sepsis.
* Bahman Golbarnezhad, 48, Iranian Paralympic racing cyclist (2012, 2016), race collision.
* Roman Ivanychuk, 87, Ukrainian writer.
* Rune Larsson, 92, Swedish athlete, Olympic bronze medalist (1948).
* Carmelo Morelos, 85, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Zamboanga (1994–2006).
* Hans Mühlethaler, 86, Swiss writer.
* Sigge Parling, 86, Swedish footballer (Djurgården), World Cup silver medalist (1958).
* Bob Suter, 88, Australian football player (Essendon).
* Rose Warfman, 99, French Holocaust survivor and member of the French Resistance.

### 18

* Stephanie Booth, 70, British hotelier, tractor collision.
* Joe Browder, 78, American environmental activist, cancer.
* Robert W. Cone, 59, American Army general, prostate cancer.
* John J. Craighead, 100, American wildlife scientist.
* Camille Dagenais, 95, Canadian engineer.
* Sir Nicholas Fenn, 80, British diplomat, High Commissioner to India (1991–1996).
* Robert L. Genillard, 87, Swiss businessman.
* Mary Grant, 88, Ghanaian politician.
* David Kyle, 97, American science fiction writer.
* Lee Ho-cheol, 84, South Korean writer.
* Mandoza, 38, South African kwaito musician, pharyngeal cancer.
* Tom Mintier, 68, American television journalist (CNN).
* Remigio Molina, 45, Argentine Olympic boxer (1992).
* Joan Patricia Murphy, 79, American politician, member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners (since 2002), breast cancer.
* Oddvar Nes, 77, Norwegian linguist.
* Rose Pak, 68, Chinese-born American political activist.
* András Prékopa, 87, Hungarian mathematician.
* Moïse Rahmani, 72, Belgian Sephardic author.
* Hassan Sharif, 65, Emirati artist, cancer.
* Tara Singh, 86, Indian sculptor.
* Lamuel A. Stanislaus, 95, Grenadian dentist and diplomat.
* Michel Vaxès, 75, French politician, member of the National Assembly for Bouches-du-Rhône (2007–2012).
* Wolfhart Zimmermann, 88, German physicist.

### 19

* Naser al-Raas, 33, Kuwaiti-born Canadian human rights activist, heart failure.
* Burhanettin Bigalı, 89, Turkish general.
* Karl Dietrich Bracher, 94, German political scientist and historian.
* Bobby Breen, 88, Canadian-born American actor and singer.
* Gerwald Claus-Brunner, 44, German politician, suicide.
* Voula Damianakou, 102, Greek writer, translator.
* Mike Fellows, 59, American politician, traffic collision.
* Bill Glassford, 102, American football player and coach.
* Amin Yunis al Husseini, 86, Jordanian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Social Welfare (1963–1965), Minister of Transport (1967–1970).
* Jan O. Karlsson, 77, Swedish politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs (2003), Minister for International Development Cooperation, Migration and Asylum Policy (2002–2003).
* Zerka T. Moreno, 99, Dutch-born American psychotherapist.
* Annie Pootoogook, 47, Canadian Inuk artist, drowned.
* Frank Raab, 95, American Naval officer and insurance executive.
* Jorge Rubinetti, 71, Argentine chess master.
* Fehmi Sağınoğlu, 78/79, Turkish footballer.
* Allister Sparks, 83, South African writer, journalist and political commentator.
* Frederick D. Tinsley, 76, American classical double bass player.
* Boris Trakhtenbrot, 95, Russian-Israeli mathematician.
* Amy van Singel, 66, American music journalist and radio host.

### 20

* Bill Barrett, 87, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska's 3rd congressional district (1991–2001).
* Bernard Bergonzi, 87, British literary scholar.
* Betty Birch, 93, English cricketer.
* Curt Brunnqvist, 91, Swedish Olympic rower.
* Jean Chabbert, 95, French Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Perpignan-Elne (1982–1996).
* Alan Cousin, 78, Scottish footballer (Dundee, Hibernian, Falkirk).
* Richie Dunn, 59, American ice hockey player (Buffalo Sabres, Calgary Flames, Hartford Whalers).
* Garry Edmundson, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).
* Jack Garman, 72, American computer engineer and NASA official, key figure in the Apollo 11 mission, bone marrow cancer.
* Paule Gauthier, 72, Canadian lawyer.
* Peter Leo Gerety, 104, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Portland (1969–1974) and Archbishop of Newark (1974–1986), world's oldest living Catholic bishop.
* Erwin Hahn, 95, American physicist.
* Curtis Hanson, 71, American film director and screenwriter (L.A. Confidential, 8 Mile, Wonder Boys), Oscar winner (1998).
* Dennis M. Jones, 78, American businessman (Jones Pharma).
* Terry Kohler, 82, American businessman, CEO of Vollrath (since 1982).
* Clive Kolbe, 72, South African cricketer.
* Yuri Korablin, 56, Russian politician and businessman, owner of Venezia F.C.
* Agniva Lahiri, 37, Indian LGBT activist, liver failure.
* Micki Marlo, 88, American singer and model.
* David McCay, 72, South African cricketer.
* Foil A. Miller, 100, American chemist and philatelist.
* Geno Morosi, 96, American World War II veteran.
* Edmund F. O'Connor, 94, American air force officer.
* Victor Scheinman, 73, American inventor.
* R. Heiner Schirmer, 74, German biochemist.
* Jim Semple, 81, Northern Irish businessman.

### 21

* Mahmadu Alphajor Bah, 40, Sierra Leonean footballer (Lokeren, Chunnam, Xiamen and national team), traffic collision.
* Régis Barailla, 83, French politician, member of National Assembly (1983–1993).
* Rosemary Barrow, 48, Welsh art historian.
* Leonidas Donskis, 54, Lithuanian philosopher and politician.
* Giuseppe Drago, 60, Italian politician, President of Sicily (1998), lung infection.
* Ragnar Hvidsten, 89, Norwegian footballer (Sandefjord, Skeid, national team).
* Shawty Lo, 40, American hip-hop musician (D4L), traffic collision.
* John D. Loudermilk, 82, American singer and songwriter ("Tobacco Road", "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye", "Indian Reservation"), bone cancer.
* John Mulvaney, 90, Australian archaeologist.
* George T. Odom, 66, American actor (Straight Out of Brooklyn, The Hurricane, Law & Order).
* Kalervo Rauhala, 85, Finnish wrestler, Olympic silver medalist (1952).
* Jack Rawlings, 93, English footballer (Hayes, Hendon).
* Earl Smith Jr., 51, American acid house musician (Phuture), complications from stroke.
* Richard D. Trentlage, 87, American advertising executive and jingle writer (Oscar Mayer, V8, National Safety Council), heart failure.

### 22

* Kjell Albin Abrahamson, 71, Swedish journalist (Sveriges Radio), stroke.
* Walter Bush, 86, American Hall of Fame ice hockey administrator (USA Hockey).
* Georges Fonghoro, 58, Malian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mopti (since 1999).
* Leonard I. Garth, 95, American federal judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1973–1986), U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1969–1973).
* Joseph Harmatz, 91, Lithuanian World War II Jewish partisan fighter and anti-Nazi avenger.
* Svein Gunnar Morgenlien, 94, Norwegian trade unionist and politician, MP (1975–1981).
* George Hanson, 81, American basketball coach (Minnesota Golden Gophers)
* Gian Luigi Rondi, 94, Italian screenwriter and film director.
* John Siddons, 88, Australian politician, Senator (1981–1983, 1985–1987).
* Ed Temple, 89, American track and field coach (Tennessee State Lady Tigers, women's Olympic team).

### 23

* Marcel Artelesa, 78, French footballer (Monaco, Marseille).
* Yngve Brodd, 86, Swedish footballer (Toulouse, Sochaux-Montbéliard, IFK Göteborg).
* David Coleman, 74, English footballer (Colchester United), cancer.
* Peter Collingwood, 96, British-born Australian actor (Picnic at Hanging Rock).
* Frances Dafoe, 86, Canadian pair skater, Olympic silver medalist (1956), world champion (1954, 1955).
* Nan Fry, 71, American poet.
* Arnold Green, 83, New Zealand rugby league player (West Coast, national team).
* Carolyn Hardy, 86, British horticulturalist.
* Larry Harmon, 75, American soccer coach.
* Bill Johnson, 92, New Zealand actor.
* Stephen Lawn, 50, British medical researcher, glioblastoma.
* Rudi Lüttge, 93, German Olympic racewalker (1952).
* Jeff Mackintosh, 45, Canadian graphic artist and game designer (Sailor Moon, Silver Age Sentinels), glioblastoma multiforme.
* Max Mannheimer, 96, Czech-born German painter, author and Holocaust survivor.
* Herman Joseph Sahadat Pandoyoputro, 77, Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Malang (1989–2016).
* Michel Rousseau, 80, French cyclist, Olympic champion (1956).
* Andrzej Tarkowski, 83, Polish embryologist.

### 24

* Christoph Albrecht, 86, German organist and conductor.
* Donald Cartridge, 81, English cricketer (Hampshire).
* Mel Charles, 81, Welsh footballer (Swansea, Arsenal, national team).
* James Crowden, 88, British Olympic rower (1952).
* Andy Gambucci, 87, American ice hockey player, Olympic silver medallist (1952).
* Michael Kulich, 29, American adult entertainment executive.
* Vladimir Kuzmichyov, 37, Russian footballer, traffic collision.
* Wenche Lowzow, 90, Norwegian LGBT activist and politician, MP (1977–1985).
* Arne Melchior, 91, Danish politician, MP (1973–1975, 1977–2001), Transport Minister (1982–86).
* Klaus Moje, 79, German-Australian artist.
* Bill Mollison, 88, Australian researcher, author, teacher and biologist.
* Jack Nadel, 92, American entrepreneur and author.
* Bill Nunn, 63, American actor (Do the Right Thing, Spider-Man, Sister Act), leukemia.
* Matti Pulli, 83, Finnish ski jumping coach, Parkinson's disease.
* Jacek Andrzej Rossakiewicz, 59, Polish painter.
* Buckwheat Zydeco, 68, American accordionist and bandleader, lung cancer.

### 25

* Rudy Andabaker, 88, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
* Jean Boissonnat, 87, French journalist.
* David Budbill, 76, American poet and playwright, Parkinson's disease.
* Henning Enoksen, 80, Danish footballer, Olympic silver medalist (1960).
* José Fernández, 24, Cuban-born American baseball player (Miami Marlins), boat collision.
* Dawn Hampton, 88, American cabaret and jazz singer, saxophonist, dancer and songwriter (Malcolm X).
* Nahed Hattar, 56, Jordanian writer, shot.
* Peter Henderson, 87, Australian public servant.
* Hughie Jones, 89, British Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Loughborough (1986–1992).
* Kashif, 59, American musician (B.T. Express) and record producer.
* Hans Korte, 87, German actor (Spider's Web).
* Hagen Liebing, 55, German musician (Die Ärzte), brain tumour.
* K. Madhavan, 101, Indian politician.
* René Marsiglia, 57, French football player and manager (Lille, Nice).
* Victor Munden, 88, English cricketer (Leicestershire).
* David Padilla, 89, Bolivian politician, President (1978–1979).
* Arnold Palmer, 87, American Hall of Fame professional golfer.
* Jean Shepard, 82, American honky tonk singer-songwriter ("A Dear John Letter", "Slippin' Away"), Parkinson's disease.
* Sir Patrick Sissons, 71, British physician.
* Joseph Sitruk, 71, Tunisian-born French rabbi.
* Rod Temperton, 66, British songwriter ("Boogie Nights", "Always and Forever", "Thriller") and musician, cancer.
* Robert Weinberg, 70, American science fiction author.
* Anthony Xu Ji-wei, 81, Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Taizhou (since 2010).

### 26

* Taz Anderson, 77, American football player (St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons).
* Richard Bishop, 66, American football player (New England Patriots).
* Don Brothwell, 83, British archaeologist.
* Giambattista Capretti, 70, Italian Olympic boxer (1968, 1972).
* Joe Clay, 78, American rockabilly musician.
* Jack Cotton, 91, American basketball player (Denver Nuggets).
* Mark Dvoretsky, 68, Russian chess player and trainer.
* Giacomo Fornoni, 76, Italian racing cyclist, Olympic gold medalist (1960).
* Hans Hoffmeister, 80, German Olympic water polo player.
* Etim Inyang, 84, Nigerian policeman.
* Jack Kirrane, 88, American ice hockey player, Olympic gold medalist (1960).
* Lee Kwang-jong, 52, South Korean football player and coach, leukemia.
* Herschell Gordon Lewis, 90, American film director (Blood Feast, Two Thousand Maniacs!).
* Jens Lothe, 84, Norwegian physicist.
* Wilhelm Mohr, 99, Norwegian aviation officer.
* Ioan Gyuri Pascu, 55, Romanian singer, producer, actor and comedian, heart attack.
* Curtis Roosevelt, 86, American writer, heart attack.
* Jan van Ruiten, 85, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (2002–2003).
* Karel Růžička, 76, Czech jazz pianist, Anděl Award winner (1993).
* Jackie Sewell, 89, English footballer (Notts County, Sheffield Wednesday, Aston Villa).
* Toughie, Panamanian frog, last surviving of the Rabbs fringe-limbed treefrog.

### 27

* Jamshid Amouzegar, 93, Iranian politician, Prime Minister (1977–1978), Minister of Finance (1965–1974).
* Jef Billings, 71, American costume designer.
* Jonathan David Brown, 60, American record producer and audio engineer.
* Jacob Buksti, 69, Danish politician, Minister of Transport (2000–2001).
* Randy Duncan, 79, American gridiron football player and lawyer.
* Syed Shamsul Haque, 81, Bangladeshi poet and writer.
* Ronald King Murray, Lord Murray, 94, Scottish politician and jurist, Lord Advocate (1974–1979).
* Paddy O'Flaherty, 73, Northern Irish broadcaster.
* Luis Ossio, 86, Bolivian politician, Vice President (1989–1993).
* Sebastian Papaiani, 80, Romanian film and television actor.
* Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa, 73, Malagasy Olympic athlete (1964, 1968, 1972).
* Charles Schultze, 91, American economist and public policy analyst, complications from sepsis.
* Hannan Shah, 74, Bangladeshi politician and army officer.
* Serigne Abdou Thiam, 21, Qatari footballer (Al-Khor), cancer.
* Haruko Wakita, 82, Japanese historian.
* Rod Woodward, 72, Canadian football player (Ottawa Rough Riders).

### 28

* Chamsulvara Chamsulvarayev, 32, Russian-born Azeri Olympic freestyle wrestler (2008) and ISIS terrorist, air strike.
* Joseph V. Charyk, 96, Canadian-born American engineer, Under Secretary of the Air Force (1960–1963).
* Seamus Dunne, 86, Irish footballer (Luton Town, national team).
* Ann Emery, 86, British actress (Billy Elliot, Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde).
* Johan Fischerström, 72, Swedish Olympic handball player.
* Werner Friese, 70, German footballer (GDR national team).
* Gary Glasberg, 50, American television producer and writer (NCIS, Crossing Jordan, Bones).
* John F. Good, 80, American FBI agent who created the Abscam sting operation.
* Graham Hawkins, 70, English football player (Wolverhampton Wanderers, Blackburn Rovers) and manager.
* Michael Javaid, 65, Pakistani politician, heart attack.
* Malcolm Lucas, 89, American judge, Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court (1987–1996), U.S. District Court Judge for the Central District of California (1971–1984).
* Larkin Malloy, 62, American actor (The Edge of Night, Guiding Light, All My Children) and announcer, complications from a heart attack.
* Sreten Mirković, 58, Serbian boxer, lung cancer.
* Gloria Naylor, 66, American novelist (The Women of Brewster Place), heart attack.
* Agnes Nixon, 93, American television writer and producer (One Life to Live, All My Children, Guiding Light).
* Shimon Peres, 93, Polish-born Israeli statesman, President (2007–2014), Prime Minister (1977, 1984–1986, 1995–1996), Nobel Laureate (1994), stroke.
* Timothy Pesci, 72, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1989-2000).
* Max Walker, 68, Australian Test cricketer and football player, myeloma.

### 29

* Raúl Águila, 86, Chilean footballer.
* Terence Brady, 77, British writer (Upstairs, Downstairs) and actor.
* Cheng Yu-tung, 91, Hong Kong businessman (Chow Tai Fook).
* Nora Dean, 72, Jamaican singer.
* Miriam Defensor Santiago, 71, Filipino politician and judge, Senator (1995–2001, 2004–2016), International Criminal Court Judge (2012–2014), lung cancer.
* Gilles Dubé, 89, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens).
* Hidden Lake, 23, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
* Shirley Jaffe, 93, American painter and sculptor.
* Jim Kilroy, 94, American sport-sailor and maxi yacht racer.
* Joni Madraiwiwi, 59, Fijian lawyer and politician, Vice President of Fiji (2004–2006), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nauru (since 2014).
* Herbert Martin, 91, German footballer (1. FC Saarbrücken, Saarland national team).
* Sandra Morgen, 66, American feminist anthropologist.
* Ashok Pai, 69, Indian psychiatrist and film producer, cardiac arrest.
* Isabel Piczek, 88, Hungarian ecclesiastical artist.
* Joseph Verner Reed Jr., 78, American banker and diplomat.
* Mark Ricks, 92, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Idaho (2006–2007) and State Senator (1979–1994).
* Anthony Ryle, 89, English medical doctor.
* Otto ter Haar, 73, Dutch Olympian
* Laura Troschel, 71, Italian actress (Four Flies on Grey Velvet), singer, and model.
* Ralph V. Whitworth, 60, American businessman, cancer.
* Brahim Zniber, 96, Moroccan businessman and vintner.

### 30

* George Barris, 94, American photographer (Marilyn Monroe).
* Ted Benoit, 69, French comics artist and graphic novelist.
* Gordon Borrie, Baron Borrie, 85, English lawyer and life peer.
* Charles Brading, 81, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1993–2000).
* Oscar Brand, 96, Canadian-born American folk singer-songwriter, author and radio broadcaster (WNYC).
* Michael Casswell, 53, English guitarist, drowned.
* Herawati Diah, 99, Indonesian journalist.
* Paul Frantz, 89, French football player and manager (Strasbourg).
* Frederic C. Hamilton, 89, American oilman and arts philanthropist.
* Hanoi Hannah, 85, Vietnamese radio personality.
* Arthur Harnden, 92, American sprinter, Olympic gold medalist (1948).
* Bjarni Jónsson, 96, Icelandic mathematician.
* Lilleba Lund Kvandal, 76, Norwegian opera singer.
* Mike Towell, 25, Scottish professional boxer, injuries sustained in a bout.
* Jim Zapp, 92, American baseball player (Baltimore Elite Giants).