Deaths in 2023

The following is a list of deaths that happened in July 2023. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.
Each listing of death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, where they came from, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known), and a source.
July
1
Meg Johnson, 86, English actress (Coronation Street, Brookside, Emmerdale).
2
Susan Love, 75, American surgeon.
3
Leon Gautier, 100, French soldier, France's last surviving D-Day veteran.
Greig Oliver, 58, Scottish rugby union player (national team) and coach (Munster), paragliding accident.
4
Denise Bombardier, 82, Canadian journalist.
5
Aleksey Kuznetsov, 82, Russian actor (The Green Flame, D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers, Dark Eyes).
Jacob Larsen, 44, Danish cricketer (national team).
Coco Lee, 48, Hong Kong-American singer-songwriter (Singer), suicide.
6
Gary Allen, 63, American football.
7
Neusa Maria Faro, 78, Brazillian actress.
8
Srdan Koljevic, 56, Serbian screenwriter and film director (The Red Colored Grey Truck, The Woman with a Broken Nose, The Man Who Defended Gavrilo Princip).
Gloria Mange, 92, Mexican actress (?Que te ha dado esa mujer?, If I Were a Congressman, The Unknown Mariachi).
K. Ravindranathan Nair, 90, Indian film producer (Kanchana Sita, Kummatty, Elippathayam).
Adrian Tan, 57, Singaporean novelist (The Teenage Textbook, The Teenage Workbook) and lawyer, president of the law society (since 2022), cancer.
Ozkan Ugur, 69, Turkish musician (MFO) and actor (A.R.O.G, Arif V 216), lymphoma.
9
Manny Coto, 62, Cuban television
Roger Gnoan M'Bala, 80, Ivorian film director (Ablakon, Bouka, Adanggaman).
10
Randy Fullmer, 73, American animator (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Beauty and the Beast) and film producer (The Emperor's New Groove).
11
George Armstrong, 60, British actor (Grange Hill, Tucker's Luck), leukaemia.
Milan Kundera, 94, Czech-born French writer (The Unbearable Lightness of Being).
Mirsad Tuka, 58, Bosnian actor (Cirkus Columbia, Ja sam iz Krajine, zemlje kestena, Holiday in Sarajevo).
12
Larisa Marshalova, 44, Belarusian actress.
John Nettleton, 94, English actor (Yes Minister, Black Beauty, Oliver Twist).
13
Josephine Chaplin, 74, American actress (The Canterbury Tales, Escape to the Sun, Nuits Rouges).
Ewen Jones, 63, Australian politician.
14
Kazimierz Klimczak, 109, Polish soldier (Warsaw Uprising).
Ralston Otto, 65, Antiguan cricket.
15
Billy MacMillian, 80, Canadian Olympic.
16
Luigi Bettazzi, 99, Italian roman
Jane Birkin, 76, English-French singer and actress (La Piscine, Evil Under the Sun, Death on the Nile).
Ricky Rivero, 51, Filipino actor (Do Re Mi, Petrang Kabayo, Yorme: The Isko Domagoso Story) and director.
17
Mangala Narlikar, 80, Indian Mathematician.
18
Oommen Chandy, 79, Indian politician.
19
Lajos Balazsovits, 76, Hungarian actor (Bizalom, Milarepa, Mary, Mother of Jesus), theatre director and manager.
Mark Thomas, 67, British film composer (Twin Town, The Final Curtain, Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London).
20
Merrill J. Fernando, 93, Sri Lankan businessman.
Rachid Sfar, 89, Tunisian politician, prime minister (1986-1987), minister of finance (1986) and defence (1979-1980).
21
Tony Bennett, 96, American singer ("I Left My Heart in San Francisco", "Rags to Riches", "Because of You"), 20-time Grammy winner.
Juliette Mayniel, 87, French actress (Les Cousins, The Fair, Eyes Without a Face).
Brian Taber, 83, Australian cricketer.
Jane Tehira, 95, New Zealand sportsperson.
22
Arthur Rubin, 97, American actor and singer.
23
Pamela Blair, 73, American actress (A Chorus Line, Annie, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America). (death announced on this date)
Raymond Froggatt, 81, English songwriter ("Callow-la-vita", "Big Ship", "Rachel") and singer.
Roy Swetman, 89, English cricketer (Surrey, Nottinghamshire, national team). (death announced on this date)
24
Jayant Savarkar, 87, Indian actor (Vaastav: The Reality, Singham, Rocky Handsome).
25
Julian Barry, 92, American screenwriter (Lenny, The River, Rhinoceros).
Bo Goldman, 90, American screenwriter (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Melvin and Howard, Scent of a Woman), Oscar winner (1975, 1980).
Shirish Kanekar, 80, Idaian writer.
26
Jean-Jacques Honorat, 92, Haitian politician, minister of foreign affairs (1991) and prime minister (1991-1992).
Randy Meisner, 77, American Hall of Fame musician (Eagles, Poco) and songwriter ("Take It to the Limit"), COPD.
Surinder Shinda, 70,Idaian singer.
Sinead O'Connor, 56, Irish singer.
27
Pierre Collin, 85, Canadian actor (Seducing Doctor Lewis, Aurore, Esimesac) and stage director.
Bapusaheb Parulekar, 94, Idaian politican.
28
Ali Ben Salen, 91, Tunisian rights activist.
Jim Parker, 88, British television composer (Midsomer Murders, House of Cards, Foyle's War).
Jana Sulcova, 76, Czech actress (I Enjoy the World with You, Horakovi, Fesak Hubert).
Jose Paulino Gomes, 127, Brazilian supercentenarian
29
Marc Gilpin, 56, American actor (Jaws 2, The Legend of the Lone Ranger, Earthbound), brain cancer.
Thomas Goltz, 68, American author.
Clive Rowlands, 85, Welsh rugby union player (Pontypool, national team) and coach.
30
David Albahari, 75,*Serbian
Betty Ann Bruno, 91, American journalist (KTVU) and actress (The Wizard of Oz, The Hurricane).
Paul Reubens, 70, American actor (Pee-wee's Playhouse, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Blow), cancer.
31
Rusi Cooper, 100, Indian cricketer (Parsis, Bombay, Middlesex).
Sophie Fillieres, 58, French film director (Good Girl, If You Don't, I Will) and screenwriter (Sombre).
Inga Landgre, 95, Swedish actress (The Seventh Seal, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Crisis).
August 2023
1
Henri Konan Bedie, 89, Ivorian politician, president (1993-1999).
Alexander Kolker, 90, Russian film composer (Private Life of Kuzyayev Valentin, Tomorrow, on April 3rd..., Three Men in a Boat).
David Le Batard, 50, American graphic artist.
2
Nitin Chandrakant Desai, 57, Indian art Director.
3
Ijaz Butt, 85, Pakistani cricket player (national team) and administrator, chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (2008-2011).
Carl Davis, 86, American-born British composer (The French Lieutenant's Woman, Pride and Prejudice, King David) and conductor, brain hemorrhage.
Irina Miroshnichenko, 81, Russian actress (Walking the Streets of Moscow, Mission in Kabul, Could One Imagine?).
Tane Norton, 81, New Zealand rugby union player (national team).
4
Luis Alarcon, 93, Chilean actor (Jackal of Nahueltoro, Julio comienza en julio, Three Sad Tigers).
Walter Charles, 78, American actor (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Fletch Lives, Prancer).
John Gosling, 75, English keyboardist (The Kinks).
5
Leonid Kozik, 75, Belarusian trade.
Arthur Schmidt, 86, American film editor (Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump), Oscar winner (1988, 1994).
Helene Carrere d'Encausse, 94, French historian
6
Gilles Gilbert, 74, Canadian ice hockey player.
7
Gillian Bibby, 77, New Zealand composer, pianist, and music teacher.
William Friedkin, 87, American film director (The French Connection, The Exorcist, To Live and Die in L.A.), Oscar winner (1971), heart failure and pneumonia.
Kostis Gimossoulis, 63, Greek poet.
Margit Saad, 94, German actress (Three Birch Trees on the Heath, The Criminal, The Magnificent Two).
8
Yuliya Borisova, 98, Russian actress (The Ambassador of the Soviet Union, The Idiot).
Julio Capote, 90, Cuban actor (The White Rose, Cara sucia, Gata Salvaje).
Johnny Hardwick, 64, American voice actor and television writer (King of the Hill), Emmy winner (1999).
Dusan Kapralik, 75, Slovak actor (The Teacher, Old-Timers)
Sixto Rodriguez, 81, American singer-songwriter ("Sugar Man"), subject of Searching for Sugar Man.
9
Ita Ever, 92, Estonian actress (Secret of the Blackbirds, Vana daami visiit).
Doreen Mantle, 97, South African-born British actress (One Foot in the Grave, Jam & Jerusalem, Yentl). (death announced on this date)
Robbie Robertson, 80, Canadian Hall of Fame musician (The Band), songwriter ("The Weight") and film composer (The Color of Money).
Robert Swan, 78, American actor (Hoosiers, Natural Born Killers, Backdraft), cancer.
Vera Vasilyeva, 97, Russian actress (Ballad of Siberia, Bride with a Dowry, Adventures of a Dentist).
10
Robert Arevalo, 85, Filipino actor (The Moises Padilla Story, Only the Brave Know Hell, Fuchsia).
Antonella Lualdi, 92, Italian actress (Miracle in Viggiu, Wild Love, Un caso di coscienza).
11
Mike Ahern, 81, Australian politician, premier of Queensland (1987-1989), cancer.
Carlos Camacho, 73, Puerto Rican singer (Los Hispanos) and pastor.
Ellen Casey, 91, American social advocate, first lady of Pennsylvania (19871995).
John Fielder, 73, American photographer, cancer.
Angela Flowers, 90, British gallerist, founder of the Flowers Gallery.
Julian Haviland, 93, British journalist, political editor of ITN (1975-1981) and The Times (1981-1986).
Tom Jones, 95, American lyricist (The Fantasticks, 110 in the Shade, I Do! I Do!), cancer.
Nikolay Marincheshki, 65, Bulgarian Olympic fencer (1980, 1988).
, 71, Greek singer, fall.
Alexandru Penciu, 90, Romanian rugby union player (Steaua Bucuresti, Rugby Rovigo, national team).
Ron Peno, 68, Australian singer-songwriter (Died Pretty), cancer.
Giora Romm, 78, Israeli Air Force officer, cancer.
Kourosh Safavi, 67, Iranian linguist.
Mere Samisoni, 85, Fijian entrepreneur and politician, MP (2018).
Bikash Sinha, 78, Indian nuclear physicist, director of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (2005-2009).
Shoji Tabuchi, 79, Japanese-American fiddler.
12
Joggie Viljoen, 78, South African rugby union player (national team). (death announced on this date)
13
Clarence Avant, 92, American Hall of Fame music executive and film producer (Save the Children, Jason's Lyric), founder of Sussex Records.
Patricia Bredin, 88, English actress (Left Right and Centre, The Treasure of Monte Cristo) and singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1957).
14
Rodion Amirov, 21, German ice hockey.
15
Lea Garcia, 90, Brazilian actress (Black Orpheus, Os Bandeirantes, The Greatest Love of All).
16
Jerry Moss, 88, American Hall of Fame recording executive, co-founder of A&M Records.
Sir Michael Parkinson, 88, English journalist and broadcaster (Parkinson).
17
Bobby Eli, American guitarist (MFSB), songwriter ("Love Won't Let Me Wait"), and record producer.
Gary Young, 70, American drummer (Pavement).
18
James L. Buckley, 100, American politician.
Ray Hildebrand, 82, American singer (Paul & Paula) and songwriter ("Hey Paula", "Young Lovers").
19
Michael Dilley, 84, English cricketer (Northamptonshire).
Igor Yasulovich, 81, Russian actor (Nine Days in One Year, The Diamond Arm, It Can't Be!), film director and pedagogue.
20
Naushad Ali, 79, Pakistani cricketer (national team).
Wahid Bouzidi, 45, French comedian and actor (Tellement proches, Case depart, Super-heros malgre lui), stroke.
21
Chris Martin, 59, New Zealand boxing manager and trainer.
Dun Mihaka, 81, New Zealand Maori activist and author. (death announced on this date)
22
Dan Green, 70, American comic book artist (Spider-Man, Wolverine, Doctor Strange). (death announced on this date)
Ron Palenski, 78, New Zealand journalist and cyclist, cancer.
Heath Streak, 49, Zimbabwean cricketer (Matabeleland, Ahmedabad Rockets, national team), cancer.
23
Bob Feldman, 83, American songwriter ("My Boyfriend's Back", "I Want Candy") and record producer ("Hang on Sloopy").
Hersha Parady, 78, American actress (Little House on the Prairie, Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star, CBS Afternoon Playhouse).
Notable people killed in the 2023 Tver plane crash:
Yevgeny Prigozhin. 62, Russian mercenary leader (PMC Wagner) and oligarch.
Dmitry Utkin, 53, Russian mercenary (PMC Wagner).
24
Bernie Marsden, 72, English rock guitarist (Whitesnake) and songwriter ("Fool for Your Loving", "Here I Go Again").
25
26
Bob Barker, 99, American game show host (The Price Is Right, Truth or Consequences) and animal rights activist.
Gleb Panfilov, 89, Russian film director and screenwriter (The Theme, Vassa, The Romanovs: An Imperial Family).
Andrzej Precigs, 74, Polish actor (Akcja pod Arsenalem).
Arleen Sorkin, 67, American actress (Days of Our Lives, Batman: The Animated Series, Duet).
27
Joe the Plumber, 49, American conservative activist and commentator, pancreatic cancer.
David McGee, 75, New Zealand lawyer and public servant, Clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives (1985-2007), King's Counsel (since 2000).
28
Roger Van Hool, 82, Belgian actor (Oscar, Woman Between Wolf and Dog, The Woman Next Door).
29
30
Jack Sonni, 68, American musician (Dire Straits), marketing executive and writer.
Months
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February
March
April
May
June
Related pages
Deaths in 2015
Deaths in 2016
Deaths in 2017
Deaths in 2018
Deaths in 2019
Deaths in 2020
Deaths in 2021
Deaths in 2022
References
Other websites
The Guardian, UK obituaries
The Telegraph obituaries
Obituaries, Chicago Tribune
Obituaries, Los Angeles Times
The New York Times, US obituaries
The Washington Post obituaries
The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian obituaries
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