Deaths in February 2014

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2014.

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.

February 2014

1

• Floyd Adams, Jr., 68, American politician, Mayor of Savannah, Georgia (1996–2003).
• Antone S. Aguiar, Jr., 84, American judge and politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1965–1982).
• Orlanda Amarílis, 89, Cape Verdean author.
• Luis Aragonés, 75, Spanish football player and manager.
• Prospero Nale Arellano, 77, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Prelate of Libmanan (1989–2008).
• Elisabetta Barbato, 92, Italian opera singer.
• Stefan Bozhkov, 90, Bulgarian football player and manager.
• John J. Cali, 95, American real estate developer.
• Gunnar Hallkvist, 95, Swedish Olympic speed skater (1952).
• Tony Hateley, 72, English footballer.
• Ronald McLelland, 87, Canadian politician.
• Vasily Petrov, 97, Russian military officer, Marshal of the Soviet Union.
• Meine Pit, 82, Dutch politician, Senator (1987–1991, 1993–1999).
• Dave Power, 85, Australian Olympic bronze-medalist athlete (1960).
• Rene Ricard, 67, American poet, painter and art critic, cancer.
• Maximilian Schell, 83, Austrian-Swiss actor (Judgment at Nuremberg, Julia, Deep Impact), Oscar winner (1962), pneumonia.
• Ullal Thangal, 95, Indian Sunni Muslim scholar.
• Henri Wassenbergh, 89, Dutch academic.
• Gordon Zacks, 80, American businessman and presidential advisor, prostate cancer.

2

• Gerd Albrecht, 78, German conductor, chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic (1993–1996).
• Tommy Aquino, 21, American motorcycle racer, training collision.
• Karl Erik Bøhn, 48, Norwegian teacher, team handball player and coach, leukemia.
• Keith Bradshaw, 74, Welsh rugby union player.
• Nicholas Brooks, 73, English medieval historian.
• Bunny Rugs, 65, Jamaican reggae musician (Third World).
• Eduardo Coutinho, 80, Brazilian film director, stabbed.
• Cecil Franks, 78, British politician, MP for Barrow and Furness (1983–1992).
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, American actor (Capote, Magnolia, Doubt), Oscar winner (2006), mixed drug intoxication.
• Werner Husemann, 94, German Luftwaffe night fighter pilot, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (1944).
• Craig Lahiff, 66, Australian film director.
• J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, 83, Nigerian photographer.
• Sibusiso Papa, 26, South African footballer, traffic collision.
• Michel Pastor, 70, Monacan business executive, Chairman of AS Monaco FC (2004–2008).
• Luis Raúl, 51, American Puerto Rican actor and comedian, bilateral pneumonia.
• Yves Ryan, 85, Canadian politician, Mayor of Montreal North (1963–2001), heart disease.
• Alfredo Sinclair, 98, Panamanian artist, heart failure.
• Eric O. Stork, 87, American civil servant (E.P.A.).
• Al Vandeweghe, 93, American football player (Buffalo Bisons).
• Nigel Walker, 54, English footballer.
• Clifford Williams, 74, Welsh rugby player.

3

• Rosendo Álvarez Gastón, 87, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jaca (1984–1989) and Almería (1989–2002).
• Louise Brough, 90, American Hall of Fame tennis player, ranked No. 1 (1955).
• Richard Bull, 89, American actor (Little House on the Prairie, High Plains Drifter), natural causes.
• Isaac de Vega, 93, Spanish Canarian writer.
• Nel Garritsen, 80, Dutch Olympic swimmers (1952).
• Óscar González, 23, Mexican super bantamweight and featherweight boxer, brain injury sustained in bout.
• Mircea Grosaru, 61, Romanian politician and jurist, MP (since 2000), cardiac arrest.
• Max Howell, 86, Australian educator and rugby union player, cancer.
• Thomas P. Hughes, 90, American historian of technology.
• Alister Leat, 28, New Zealand judoka, suicide.
• Gloria Leonard, 73, American pornographic actress and magazine publisher (High Society), complications from a stroke.
• Chiwanki Lyainga, 30, Zambian international footballer, stabbed.
• Joan Mondale, 83, American arts advocate, Second Lady of the United States (1977–1981), Alzheimer's disease.
• Helmut Niedermeyer, 87, Austrian businessman, heart attack.
• John F. Rockart, 83, American organizational theorist.
• Barry Rubin, 64, American-born Israeli academic and writer, cancer.
• Ricardo Sepúlveda, 72, Chilean football player and manager.
• Bill Sinkin, 100, American equality and alternative energy activist.
• Pål Skjønberg, 94, Norwegian actor (Hunger).
• Hiroyuki Suzuki, 68, Japanese architectural historian, pneumonia.

4

• Richard Aldridge, 68, British palaeontologist.
• Keith Allen, 90, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (Philadelphia Flyers), dementia.
• Eugenio Corti, 93, Italian writer (The Red Horse).
• Dennis Lota, 40, Zambian footballer.
• Hubert Luthe, 86, German Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Essen (1991–2002).
• R. Ellen Magenis, 89, American pediatrician and geneticist.
• Ed McKitka, 75, Canadian politician, Mayor of Surrey, British Columbia (1975–1977), traffic collision.
• Peter Moreth, 72, German politician.
• Anirudh Lal Nagar, 83, Indian econometrician.
• Minus Polak, 85, Dutch politician and judge, member of the Senate (1976–1977) and Council of State (1985–1995), heart attack.
• Hazel Sampson, 103, American Klallam elder and linguist, last native speaker of the Klallam language.
• Ștefan Stoica, 37, Romanian politician, Senator (since 2012), cancer.
• Józef Trojak, 47, Polish footballer, heart failure.
• David Wasawo, 91, Kenyan zoologist.
• Wu Ma, 71, Chinese-born Hong Kong actor and director, lung cancer.
• Alfred S. Yue, 95, American engineer and professor emeritus.

5

• Joop Ave, 79, Indonesian government official, Minister of Tourism, Post and Telecommunication (1993–1998).
• Roderick Bain, 91, American army officer (Easy Company).
• Suzanne Basso, 59, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Carlos Borges, 82, Uruguayan footballer.
• Robert A. Dahl, 98, American political scientist and professor emeritus (Yale University).
• Gary Giles, 74, New Zealand cricketer.
• Richard Hayman, 93, American conductor (St. Louis Symphony).
• Samantha Juste, 69, British television personality (Top of the Pops), stroke.
• Alfred Kadushin, 98, American academic social worker.
• John S. Pickett, Jr., 93, American politician.
• Árpád Prandler, 83, Hungarian jurist, judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (2006–2013).
• Mirkka Rekola, 82, Finnish writer.
• Juthika Roy, 93, Indian bhajan singer.
• Tom Sandberg, 60, Norwegian art photographer.
• Edward B. Sell, 71, American taekwondo instructor.
• Rama Varma Kochaniyan Thampuran, 101, Indian royal (Cochin royal family).
• Tzeni Vanou, 74, Greek singer, cancer.

6

• Harmodio Arias Cerjack, 57, Panamanian politician, Foreign Minister (2003–2004).
• Claire Betz, 93, American baseball team owner (Philadelphia Phillies).
• Vasiľ Biľak, 96, Czechoslovak politician, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (1968–1988).
• Cornelius Botha, 81, South African politician, Administrator of Natal Province (1990–1994), heart failure.
• Tommy Dixon, 84, English footballer (West Ham United).
• Lester Goran, 85, American novellist (The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue).
• Alison Jolly, 76, American primatologist and author.
• Ralph Kiner, 91, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates) and announcer (New York Mets), natural causes.
• Maxine Kumin, 88, American poet and author, Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry (1973).
• Bob McQuillen, 90, American contra dance musician.
• Tōru Mori, 78, Japanese baseball player, hepatocellular carcinoma.
• Peter Philipp, 42, German writer and comedian.
• Marty Plissner, 87, American political commentator (CBS News), coined "too close to call" phrase, lung cancer.
• Sandeep Singh, 25, Indian cricketer.
• Ingemar Ståhl, 75, Swedish economist.
• John Vockler, 89, Australian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Polynesia (1962–1968).
• Vaçe Zela, 74, Albanian singer and guitarist, recipient of the Merited Artist of Albania (1973) and the People's Artist of Albania (1977).

7

• David Alexander-Sinclair, 86, British Army general (1st Armoured Division).
• Christopher Barry, 88, British television director (Doctor Who).
• Terje Bergstad, 75, Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
• Kenneth Francis Brown, 94, Hawaiian politician.
• S. M. H. Burney, 90, Indian civil servant.
• Chriselliam, 3, Irish-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, foot infection.
• Claire Duhamel, 88, French actress (Stolen Kisses).
• Hasjrul Harahap, 82, Indonesian government official, Minister of Forestry (1988–1993).
• Daniel J. Harrington, 73, American Jesuit priest, biblical scholar and professor (Boston College), cancer.
• Georgina Henry, 53, British journalist, deputy editor of The Guardian (1995–2006), sinus cancer.
• Arthur J. Hubbard, Sr., 102, American Navajo Code Talker and politician, Arizona State Senator (1972–1984).
• Mohamed Guessous, 76, Moroccan sociologist and politician.
• Ernie Lyons, 99, Irish motorcycle racer.
• Murray Mendenhall, Jr., 88, American basketball player (Anderson Packers) and coach.
• Hylton Mitchell, 87, Trinidad Olympic cyclist.
• Doug Mohns, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks).
• Bill Ritchie, 86, Canadian politician.
• J. Mack Robinson, 90, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Tado, 39, Filipino comedian, traffic collision.

8

• Terry Adkins, 60, American conceptual artist, heart failure.
• Ernst Bakker, 67, Dutch politician, Mayor of Hilversum (1998–2011).
• Richard Battin, 88, American electrical engineer (Apollo Guidance Computer).
• Dick Berk, 74, American jazz drummer and bandleader.
• Els Borst, 81, Dutch politician, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport (1994–2002), Deputy Prime Minister (1998–2002), Minister of State (since 2012), suspected homicide.
• Deogratias Muganwa Byabazaire, 72, Ugandan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hoima (since 1991).
• Michael Denborough, 84, Australian medical researcher, founder of the Nuclear Disarmament Party.
• Finbarr Dwyer, 67, Irish accordion player.
• Bernard Hedges, 86, Welsh cricketer (Glamorgan).
• Nancy Holt, 75, American land artist.
• Keith Hughes, 45, American basketball player (Rutgers University).
• Abdul Salam Kanaan, 83, Jordanian politician.
• Philippe Mahut, 57, French footballer (national team).
• Mike Melluish, 81, English cricket player and administrator, President of the Marylebone Cricket Club (1991–1992).
• Andy Paton, 91, Scottish footballer.
• Sir Richard Peirse, 82, British air marshal.
• Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, 25, Brazilian footballer, traffic collision.
• John Ikataere Rarikin, 70, Tuvaluan Roman Catholic prelate, Superior of Funafuti (since 2010).
• Thee Kian Wie, 78, Indonesian economist (LIPI).
• Nishioka Tsuneo, 90, Japanese martial artist.
• Abe Woodson, 79, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).

9

• Pius Suh Awa, 83, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Buéa (1973–2006).
• Gabriel Axel, 95, Danish film director (Babette's Feast) and actor.
• Eric Bercovici, 80, American screenwriter and producer (Shōgun), heart attack.
• Ranjit Bhatia, 77, Indian Olympic long-distance runner (1960).
• Serafin R. Cuevas, 85, Filipino jurist, Secretary of Justice (1998–2000).
• William Goodreds, 93, English cricketer.
• Jan Groenendijk, 67, Dutch footballer (Utrecht), esophageal cancer.
• Joseph Harb, 70, Lebanese writer and poet.
• Hal Herring, 89, American football player and coach.
• Sir Graham Hills, 87, Scottish chemist.
• Eddie Holding, 83, English football player and manager, prostate cancer.
• Florentina López de Jesús, 74, Mexican weaver.
• La Cucaracha, 12, British Thoroughbred racehorse
• Marius, 2, Danish giraffe, considered unsuitable for breeding, shot.
• Roland Oliver, 90, British academic and professor emeritus.
• Harald Øveraas, 86, Norwegian trade unionist.
• Mauro Pane, 50, Italian racing driver and stuntman (Rush), traffic collision.
• Antanas Račas, 73, Lithuanian politician.
• Logan Scott-Bowden, 93, British military officer, first commander of the Ulster Defence Regiment (1970–1971).
• Fazal Shahabuddin, 78, Bangladeshi poet and journalist.
• Sverre Solberg, 54, Norwegian actor.
• Sir John Stibbon, 79, British military officer, Master-General of the Ordnance (1987–1991).
• Roger Tomlinson, 80, British geographer.
• AKM Yusuf, 87, Bangladeshi politician.

10

• Robert Bell, 87, American politician and lawyer.
• Carlos Capriles Ayala, 90, Venezuelan historian and diplomat.
• Len Chalmers, 77, English footballer (Leicester).
• Mike Cottell, 82, British civil engineer.
• Stuart Hall, 82, Jamaican-born British cultural theorist.
• Gordon Harris, 73, English footballer, cancer.
• Doug Jarrett, 69, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers), cancer.
• Betty Jaynes, 68, American Hall of Fame basketball coach (James Madison University).
• Olga Jevrić, 91, Serbian sculptor.
• Alan R. Katritzky, 85, British chemist.
• Nenad Lukić, 45, Serbian footballer (Obilić).
• Ronnie Masterson, 87, Irish actress (Angela's Ashes).
• Ian McNaught-Davis, 84, British television presenter and mountaineer, President of the UIAA (1995–2004).
• Albin W. Norblad, 74, American attorney and jurist, Oregon Circuit Court Judge (since 1973), brain hemorrhage.
• Christian Patria, 69, French politician, MP (2002–2005, 2007–2010).
• Tomaž Pengov, 64, Slovenian singer-songwriter, guitarist, lutist and poet.
• Bolesław Polnar, 61, Polish artist.
• Boris Romanov, 76/77, Soviet Olympic cyclist.
• Shirley Temple, 85, American actress and diplomat, Ambassador to Ghana (1974–1976); Czechoslovakia (1989–1992), COPD.
• Pere Tena Garriga, 85, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Barcelona (1993–2004).
• Hōzan Yamamoto, 76, Japanese musician.

11

• Roy Alvarez, 63, Filipino actor, cardiac arrest.
• Aslan, 83, French artist.
• Alice Babs, 90, Swedish singer and actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Tito Canepa, 97, Dominican painter.
• Peter Desbarats, 80, Canadian author, playwright and journalist (Globe and Mail).
• John Fichter, 79, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1993–2006).
• Lewis Gunn, 95, Canadian cricket player.
• Fernando González Pacheco, 81, Colombian television personality.
• Léon Hégélé, 89, French Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Strasbourg (1985–2000).
• Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz, 42, Mexican journalist and photographer, murdered. (death announced on this date)
• Max McLeary, 66, American minor league baseball umpire.
• Amadou Meïté, 64, Ivorian Olympic sprinter (1972, 1976).
• Seán Potts, 83, Irish musician (The Chieftains).
• Stan Rickaby, 89, English footballer (West Bromwich Albion).
• Skënder Sallaku, 79, Albanian comic and actor.
• Kayman Sankar, 87, Guyanese rice farmer and politician.
• Rolf Clemens Wagner, 69, German terrorist (Red Army Faction).
• Emory Williams, 102, American businessman.

12

• Luigi Balzarini, 78, Italian footballer.
• Thomas Borcherding, 74, American economist.
• Sid Caesar, 91, American Emmy-winning comedian and actor (Your Show of Shows, Grease, Silent Movie).
• Aldo Colombini, 63, Italian magician.
• Sir Diarmuid Downs, 91, British automotive engineer (Ricardo).
• Maggie Estep, 50, American poet and writer (Love is a Dog From Hell), heart attack.
• Santiago Feliú, 51, Cuban singer-songwriter, heart attack.
• Jean-Louis Giasson, 74, Canadian-born Honduran Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Yoro (2005–2014).
• Theodor Kleine, 89, German Olympic canoer (1956).
• John Pickstone, 69, British science historian.
• John Poppitt, 91, British footballer.
• Josef Röhrig, 88, German footballer (Köln).
• William Zeckendorf, Jr., 84, American real estate developer.

13

• John Bagonzi, 83, American author, baseball player and coach.
• Gordon Bell, 79, British cartoonist (The Dandy).
• Lorna Casselton, 75, British biologist.
• Tommy Cooke, 99, Irish hurler (Limerick).
• Piero D'Inzeo, 90, Italian Olympic show jumper (1956, 1960, 1964, 1972), European champion (1959).
• Drew Denson, 48, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Chicago White Sox), complications from amyloidosis.
• King Kester Emeneya, 57, Congolese singer, heart failure.
• Charles J. Fillmore, 84, American linguist.
• Rose Finn-Kelcey, 68, British artist, motor neurone disease.
• Seyed Kazem Ghiyassian, 74, Iranian footballer (Aboumoslem, Payam Mashhad).
• Raymond Heimbecker, 91, Canadian cardiovascular surgeon.
• Jimmy Jones, 85, Northern Irish footballer.
• Ken Jones, 83, British actor (Porridge, The Squirrels), bowel cancer.
• Balu Mahendra, 74, Indian National Film Award-winning filmmaker, cinematographer, screenwriter and editor (Kokila, Moondram Pirai).
• Georgy Martyniuk, 73, Russian actor, People's Artist of Russia (2003).
• Ernest Mead, 95, American academic (University of Virginia).
• John Mortimore, 80, English cricketer.
• Louis Nganga a Ndzando, 90–91, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lisala (1964–1997).
• Richard Møller Nielsen, 76, Danish football player and manager, brain tumour.
• Zbigniew Romaszewski, 74, Polish politician, Senator (1989–2011).
• Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz, 74, Indian Sufi musician.
• René Teulade, 82, French politician, Social Affairs Minister (1992–1993), Senator (since 2008).
• Marty Thau, 75, American rock and roll entrepreneur and music producer, renal failure.
• Michael J. Wagner, 72, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1974–1977) and Senate (1978–1994), cancer.
• Ralph Waite, 85, American actor (The Waltons, Roots, NCIS, Cliffhanger).
• Ken'ichi Yamamoto, 57, Japanese novelist, winner of the Naoki Prize (2009), lung cancer.
• Uanhenga Xitu, 89, Angolan writer and politician.

14

• George Anastaplo, 88, American law professor (Loyola University Chicago School of Law), prostate cancer.
• Francisco José Arnáiz Zarandona, 88, Spanish-born Dominican Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Santo Domingo (1988–2002).
• Matthías Bjarnason, 92, Icelandic politician.
• Marshall Browne, 78, Australian banking executive and crime novelist, cancer.
• James Cahill, 87, American art historian, authority on Chinese art, prostate cancer.
• Remo Capitani, 86, Italian actor (They Call Me Trinity).
• James Condon, 90, Australian actor (Neighbours, Prisoner).
• José Darcourt, 55, Cuban baseball player, colon cancer.
• William Duff, 91, Scottish banker and Arabist.
• Sir Thomas Finney, 91, English footballer (Preston North End).
• Jim Fregosi, 71, American baseball player (California Angels) and manager (Philadelphia Phillies), complications from a stroke.
• Robert M. Fresco, 83, American documentary filmmaker (Czechoslovakia 1968).
• Martha Goldstein, 94, American harpsichordist.
• Sally Gross, 60, South African anti-apartheid and intersex activist.
• John Henson, 48, American puppeteer (The Muppets), heart attack.
• Ferry Hoogendijk, 80, Dutch journalist (Elsevier) and politician, member of the House of Representatives (2002–2003).
• Chad Kellogg, 42, American mountaineer, rock fall.
• Chris Pearson, 82, Canadian politician, Premier of Yukon (1978–1985).
• Benny Reynolds, 77, American rodeo performer, PRCA All-Around Cowboy Champion (1961), heart attack.
• Patrick Scott, 93, Irish artist.
• Mike Stepovich, 94, American politician, Governor of the Territory of Alaska (1957–1958), head injury following a fall.
• Edward J. Walsh, 71, American journalist (The Washington Post), lung cancer.
• John Wilson, 2nd Baron Moran, 89, British diplomat and peer.
• Clifford Wright, 91, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Monmouth (1986–1991).

15

• Corrado Benedetti, 57, Italian footballer.
• Herbert Blöcker, 71, German Olympic equestrian (1992), cancer.
• Cliff Bole, 76, American television director (MacGyver, T.J. Hooker, Star Trek: The Next Generation).
• Federico Campbell, 72, Mexican writer, stroke following influenza.
• Mary Grace Canfield, 89, American actress (Green Acres, Bewitched, General Hospital), lung cancer.
• Jamie Coots, 41, American pastor, snake handler and reality television cast member, snakebite.
• Robert Descharnes, 88, French photographer and filmmaker, collaborator with Salvador Dalí.
• Thelma Estrin, 89, American computer scientist.
• Jean-Marie Géhu, 83, French botanist.
• Hans Gericke, 101, German architect and urban planner.
• Charles Hammock, 72, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1973–1976).
• Angelo Henderson, 51, American journalist (The Wall Street Journal) and radio personality (WCHB), Pulitzer Prize winner for Feature Writing (1999), coronary embolism.
• Jim Lacy, 87, American basketball player (Loyola University), melanoma.
• Christopher Malcolm, 67, Scottish actor (The Empire Strikes Back, Highlander, Absolutely Fabulous).
• Roy Oxlade, 85, British painter.
• Rajendran Raja, 65, Indian-born American physicist.
• Horst Rechelbacher, 72, Austrian-born American business executive, founder of Aveda, pancreatic cancer.
• Oliver Reynolds, 92, South African cricketer.
• Raghunath Seth, 83, Indian flautist and composer.
• Enyu Valchev, 78, Bulgarian Olympic medalist freestyle wrestler (1960, 1964, 1968).
• Dénes Zsigmondy, 91, Hungarian classical violinist and music educator.

16

• Ron Casey, 61, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives (2004–2012), complications from a fall.
• George Coates, 90, Australian football player (Fitzroy).
• Robert J. Conley, 73, American Cherokee author.
• Dimitar Drazhev, 89, Bulgarian alpine skier (1948 and 1952 Winter Olympics).
• Frank Espada, 83, American photojournalist.
• Ken Farragut, 85, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles), complications from diabetes.
• Raymond Louis Kennedy, 67, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer.
• Charlie Kraak, 81, American basketball player (Indiana University).
• Gert Krawinkel, 66, German musician (Trio).
• Jaroslav Krejčí, 98, Czech sociologist, academic and historian.
• Emmet G. Lavery, Jr., 86, American television executive and producer, natural causes.
• Parasram Maderna, 87, Indian politician, Rajasthan MLA for Jodhpur (1957–2003), respiratory failure.
• Jimmy Murakami, 80, American animator and film director (When the Wind Blows).
• Mbulelo Mzamane, 65, South African writer and academic.
• Jay S. Rosenblatt, 90, American psychoanalyst.
• Matti Ruohola, 73, Finnish comic actor.
• Israel Scheffler, 90, American philosopher.
• Michael Shea, 67, American science fiction author (Polyphemus).

17

• Joe Bell, 90, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers).
• Reza Berati, 23, Iranian architect and asylum-seeker, murdered.
• Richard N. Cabela, 77, American businessman, co-founder of Cabela's.
• Bob Casale, 61, American guitarist (Devo) and film score engineer (Happy Gilmore, Rugrats), heart failure.
• Makar Dhwaja Darogha, 81, Indian classical dancer.
• Frank Farmer, 89, American writer and author.
• Peter Florin, 92, German politician and diplomat, President of the United Nations General Assembly (1987, 1988).
• Mirza Ahmad Jamil, 92, Pakistani calligrapher.
• Ian Kagedan, 58, Canadian public servant.
• Per Källberg, 66, Swedish cinematographer.
• Amar Kant, 89, Indian author.
• Frankie Kao, 63, Taiwanese singer, leukemia.
• James McNaughton, 51, Irish hurler (Antrim).
• Tibor Perecsi, 72, Hungarian footballer.
• Dick Reynolds, 86, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives (1973–1977).
• Don Safran, 88, American screenwriter (Happy Days) and producer, heart failure.
• Wolfgang Schulhoff, 74, German politician.
• Kokichi Shimoinaba, 87, Japanese politician and police chief, Minister of Justice (1997–1998), sepsis.
• Wayne Smith, 48, Jamaican reggae musician ("Sleng Teng").
• R. K. Srikantan, 94, Indian Carnatic singer.
• Frank Wappat, 84, English radio personality (BBC Newcastle), heart failure.
• Arthur M. Wolfe, 74, American astrophysicist, cancer.
• Hanns Egon Wörlen, 98, German architect.

18

• Forman S. Acton, 93, American computer scientist.
• Isaiah Balat, 61, Nigerian politician, Senator for Kaduna South (2003–2007).
• Gordon Bowra, 77, British surgeon (British Antarctic Survey).
• Valeriy Brezdenyuk, 50, Ukrainian painter, shot.
• Yudhistir Das, 90, Indian politician, Odisha MLA for Kissan Nagar (1990–2000), Speaker of the Legislative Assembly (1990–1995).
• Peter Davies, 88, Welsh rugby player.
• Ounsi el-Hajj, 77, Lebanese poet.
• Mavis Gallant, 91, Canadian writer, Companion of the Order of Canada (1993).
• Kristof Goddaert, 27, Belgian professional cyclist, traffic collision.
• Al Greene, 59, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
• Cob Jarvis, 81, American college basketball player and head coach (University of Mississippi).
• Gregory Kane, 62, American newspaper columnist (Baltimore Sun), cancer.
• Buddy Leake, 80, American CFL football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
• George Lenne, 97, Australian football player (Melbourne).
• Herbert Martin, 86, Irish cricketer.
• Bernd Noske, 67, German musician (Birth Control).
• Michael Peterson, 72, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives (1979–1990, since 2005).
• Arthur Rowley, 80, English footballer (Liverpool).
• Nikhil Baran Sengupta, 70, Indian art director, production designer and actor.
• Margarita Stāraste-Bordevīka, 100, Russian-born Latvian author of children's books.
• Andrea Joyce Stone, 65, American Mayanist.
• Malcolm Tierney, 75, British actor (Doctor Who, Star Wars, Braveheart).
• Joy Todd, American casting director (Prince of the City, Moscow on the Hudson, Gettysburg), natural causes.
• Robbie van Graan, 74, South African cricketer.
• Viscera, 43, American professional wrestler (WWE), heart attack.
• Maria Franziska von Trapp, 99, Austrian-born American singer, portrayed in The Sound of Music.

19

• Antonio Benítez, 62, Spanish footballer (Real Betis), complications from bladder cancer.
• Norbert Beuls, 57, Belgian footballer.
• Kresten Bjerre, 67, Danish footballer (Molenbeek), cancer.
• Génesis Carmona, 22, Venezuelan pageant winner, shot.
• Toshiko D'Elia, 84, Japanese-born American long-distance runner, brain cancer.
• Simón Díaz, 85, Venezuelan singer and composer.
• Dale Gardner, 65, American astronaut (STS-8, STS-51-A), brain aneurysm.
• John Henderson, 84, British footballer (Workington Town).
• Dick Hervey, 93, American businessman and mayor (College Station, Texas).
• Ced Hovey, 95, Australian footballer (Geelong).
• Valeri Kubasov, 79, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz 6, Apollo-Soyuz Test Project/Soyuz 19, Soyuz 36).
• Josefina Napravilová, 100, Czech social worker.
• Duffy Power, 72, English blues and rock and roll singer.
• P. R. Rajan, 75, Indian politician.
• Ivor Robinson, 89, British bookbinder and craftsman.
• Bernie Shannon, 85, Australian football player (Collingwood).
• Miroslav Štandera, 95, Czech World War II fighter pilot (Royal Air Force, French Air Force), recipient of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
• Toni Ucci, 92, Italian actor and comedian.
• Blanca Vela, 78, American politician, first female mayor of Brownsville, Texas (1999–2003).
• Jim Weirich, 57, American computer scientist, developer of Rake.

20

• Anthony Clifford Allison, 88, South African geneticist.
• Rafael Addiego Bruno, 90, Uruguayan jurist and politician, Constitutional President (1985).
• Walter D. Ehlers, 92, American World War II soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor (1944).
• Sir Samuel Falle, 95, British diplomat.
• Antoinette Fouque, 77, French feminist psychoanalyst.
• Roger Hill, 65, American actor (The Warriors, One Life to Live).
• Ustym Holodnyuk, 19, Ukrainian activist and Euromaidan, shot.
• Tea Ista, 81, Finnish actress.
• Ihor Kostenko, 22, Ukrainian journalist and student.
• Parvathi Krishnan, 94, Indian politician, MP for Coimbatore (1957–1962, 1974–1980).
• Reghu Kumar, 60, Indian composer, complications from kidney treatment.
• Lu Xuechang, 49, Chinese film director, natural causes.
• Sir Ian McKay, 84, New Zealand judge and lawyer, Judge of the Court of Appeal (1991–1997).
• Cuthbert A. Pattillo, 89, American Air Force military officer.
• Jorge Polaco, 67, Argentine filmmaker (En el nombre del hijo, Kindergarten, Siempre es difícil volver a casa), cardiac arrest.
• Peter A. Rona, 79, American oceanographer and professor (Rutgers University), multiple myeloma.
• Herman Shooster, 89, American businessman.
• Roy Simmons, 57, American football player (New York Giants), complications from pneumonia.
• Garrick Utley, 74, American television journalist (NBC News), prostate cancer.
• Anthony Whitaker, 69, New Zealand herpetologist.

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• Alphonse Arzel, 86, French politician, Senator for Finistère (1980–1998).
• Paul Bitz, 90, American politician, Indiana State Senator (1954–1962).
• Sakis Boulas, 59, Greek singer-songwriter and actor, cancer.
• Stanley Brotman, 89, American federal judge, District Court Judge for New Jersey (1975–2013) and the Virgin Islands (1989–1992).
• Bootsie Calhoun, 90, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1975–1977).
• Gene Carmichael, 86, American politician, South Carolina State Senator (1981–1993).
• Elaine Cassidy, 83, Australian politician.
• Rune Flodman, 87, Swedish Olympic shooter.
• Héctor Maestri, 78, Cuban baseball player (Washington Senators).
• Beatrix Miller, 89, British magazine editor (Vogue).
• George Modelski, 88, American political scientist.
• Roland Nilsson, 89, Swedish Olympic athlete (1948).
• Eddie O'Brien, 83, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
• Elaine O'Brien, 58, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (since 2010), glioblastoma.
• Georgette Rejewski, 104, Belgian-born Dutch actress.
• Matthew Robinson, 28, Australian Paralympic snowboarder, skiing accident.
• Đoko Rosić, 81, Serbian-born Bulgarian actor.
• Cornelius Schnauber, 74, German-born American academic, complications from a heart attack.
• Bob Sharpe, 88, British footballer (Darlington).
• John Strawson, 93, British Army officer.

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• Maurice Bessinger, 84, American restaurateur.
• Arduíno Colassanti, 78, Italian-born Brazilian actor.
• Zsuzsa Csala, 80, Hungarian actress.
• Richard Daugherty, 91, American archaeologist, led excavation of Ozette Indian Village, bone cancer.
• Charlotte Dawson, 47, New Zealand-born Australian television personality, suicide by hanging.
• Abdul-Karim Gharaybeh, 91, Jordanian historian, academic and politician, member of the Senate (2005–2007).
• Sir Richard Ground, 63, English judge and jurist, Chief Justice of the Turks and Caicos Islands (1998–2004) and Bermuda (2004–2012).
• Grigor Gurzadyan, 91, Armenian astronomer.
• Edith Kramer, 98, Austrian artist.
• Giancarlo Livraghi, 86, Italian author.
• Ivan Nagy, 70, Hungarian ballet dancer.
• Sigbert Prais, 85, German-born British economist
• Fred Sunnen, 74, Luxembourgian politician.
• Trebor Jay Tichenor, 74, American ragtime pianist and composer.
• Leo Vroman, 98, Dutch-American hematologist, poet and illustrator.
• Robert C. Wright, 69, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1981–1992), complications from Lyme disease and ALS.

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• Carla Accardi, 89, Italian painter.
• Ezio Bertuzzo, 61, Italian footballer.
• Keith Bridges, 84, British rugby league player.
• Charles Capps, 80, American Christian preacher.
• John Christoforou, 92, British painter.
• K. Alison Clarke-Stewart, 70, Canadian developmental psychologist.
• G. Bhuvaraghan, 86, Indian politician, MP for Cuddalore (1977–1980), Tamil Nadu MLA for Vridhachalam (1962–1971, 1989–1991).
• Ely Capacio, 58, Filipino basketball player, coach and executive, Board Governor of the Petron Blaze Boosters (since 2012), ruptured aneurysm.
• Chip Damiani, 68, American drummer (The Remains), massive brain hemorrhage.
• Penny DeHaven, 65, American country singer, cancer.
• John Grant, 83, Scottish children's author.
• Thomas M. Herbert, 86, American politician and judge (Supreme Court of Ohio).
• Alice Herz-Sommer, 110, Czech-British supercentenarian, world's oldest Holocaust survivor, subject of The Lady in Number 6.
• Roger Hilsman, 94, American government official, political scientist and author, Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1961–1963).
• John Koerner, 100, Czech-born Canadian artist.
• Mike Parker, 84, British-born American typographer and software executive, helped popularize use of Helvetica.
• Paul Pawlak, Sr., 96, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1961–1969, 1975–1979).
• Charlie Porter, 63, American mountaineer and climate change scientist.
• Piyush Sadhu, 36, Indian cricketer.
• Samuel Sheinbein, 34, American-Israeli convicted murderer, shot.
• William F. Thomas, 89, American newspaper editor (Los Angeles Times), oversaw 11 Pulitzer Prizes, natural causes.
• Eugene M. Wescott, 82, American scientist, artist, and traditional dancer.
• Norman Whiting, 93, English cricketer (Worcestershire).

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• Samuel Adesina, Nigerian politician, Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly.
• Ralph Bahna, 71, American business executive, CEO of Cunard Line (1980–1989), Chairman of Priceline.com (2004–2013).
• Franny Beecher, 92, American Hall of Fame guitarist (Bill Haley & His Comets).
• Wiel Bremen, 88, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1971–1981).
• Ted Connolly, 82, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), acute myelocytic leukemia.
• Eilert Eilertsen, 95, Norwegian politician and footballer.
• Lamar Davis, 92, American football player.
• Jerry Denbo, 63, American politician, member of the Indiana House of Representatives (1990–2007).
• Neil Harrison, 64, Canadian Hall of Fame curler, world champion (1983, 1990).
• Nicolae Herlea, 86, Romanian operatic baritone, recipient of the Order of the Star of Romania (2007).
• Valerie V. Hunt, 97, American scientist.
• Alexis Hunter, 65, New Zealand-born British painter and photographer.
• Vasile Huțanu, 59, Romanian Olympic ice hockey player (1976).
• Hamid Nawaz Khan, Pakistani military officer, Defence Secretary (2001–2005), Interior Minister (2007–2008).
• Prokash Karmakar, 81, Indian painter.
• Christopher Luxmoore, 87, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Bermuda (1984–1989).
• Carlos Páez Vilaró, 90, Uruguayan artist.
• Juan José Plans, 70, Spanish writer.
• Harold Ramis, 69, American writer, director and actor (Groundhog Day, Vacation, Ghostbusters), vasculitis.
• Günter Reisch, 86, German film director.
• Anna Reynolds, 82, English opera singer.
• Alex Russell, 91, Northern Irish footballer.
• Bhob Stewart, 76, American cartoonist and writer.

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• Angèle Arsenault, 70, Canadian singer-songwriter, cancer.
• Juanita Bartlett, 86, American television producer (The Rockford Files, Scarecrow and Mrs. King).
• Pim Bekkering, 82, Dutch footballer.
• Wilfried Brauer, 76, German computer scientist.
• Jürgen Brümmer, 49, German Olympic gymnast (1988), suicide by jumping.
• Peter Callander, 74, British songwriter and record producer.
• Orlando Castro Llanes, 88, Venezuelan banker.
• Antonio Cermeño, 44, Venezuelan boxer, two-time world champion, shot.
• Mário Coluna, 78, Portuguese footballer, pulmonary infection.
• Ian Cuttler, 43, Mexican photographer and art director, traffic collision.
• Quentin Elias, 39, French actor, model and singer (Alliage), heart attack.
• Carlos Gracida, 53, Mexican polo player, brain injury from competition fall.
• George Guerieri, 86, American politician, Mississippi State Senator (1980–1992).
• Edward A. Irving, 86, Canadian geologist.
• Jim Lange, 81, American game show host and disc jockey (The Dating Game, Name That Tune), heart attack.
• Paco de Lucía, 66, Spanish flamenco guitarist, heart attack.
• Chokwe Lumumba, 66, American politician and lawyer, Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi (since 2013).
• Tom Margerison, 90, British science journalist and broadcaster, founder of New Scientist.
• David McKinney, 68, New Zealand author and journalist.
• Gordon Nutt, 81, English footballer (Coventry City).
• Emil Simon, 77, Romanian conductor and composer, cancer.
• Philip Smart, 53, Jamaican record producer, pancreatic cancer.
• Rick Smoliak, 70, American college baseball head coach (Stony Brook University, Northwood University).
• Lydia Stevens, 95, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1989–1993), pneumonia.
• Martin E. Sullivan, 70, American museum director (National Portrait Gallery, Heard Museum), renal failure.
• Dennis Turner, Baron Bilston, 71, British politician, MP for Wolverhampton South East (1987–2005).

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• K. S. Balachandran, 69, Sri Lankan actor.
• Chua Sian Chin, 80, Singaporean politician, Health Minister (1968–1974), heart failure.
• Joseph Dear, 63, American civil servant, Director of OSHA (1993–1997), CIO of CalPERS (since 2009), prostate cancer.
• Sorel Etrog, 80, Canadian sculptor, recipient of the Order of Canada (1994).
• Wayne Frye, 83, American Olympic champion rower (1952).
• Georges Hamel, 66, Canadian country music singer-songwriter.
• Phyllis Krasilovsky, 87, American children's author, stroke.
• Dezső Novák, 75, Hungarian Olympic champion football player (1964, 1968) and coach.
• Frank Reed, 59, American soul singer (The Chi-Lites).
• Frankie Sardo, 77, American rock and roll musician, cancer.
• Michael Taylor, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Tim Wilson, 52, American stand-up comedian and country music singer, heart attack.
• Irv Wisniewski, 89, American football and basketball player and coach.

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• Aaron Allston, 53, American game designer (Dungeons & Dragons) and sci-fi author (X-Wing), heart failure.
• Raymond James Boland, 82, Irish-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Birmingham (1988–1993) and Kansas City-St Joseph (1993–2005), lung cancer.
• Bryan Clarke, 81, British geneticist.
• Luis Díaz, 42, Cuban baseball player.
• Max Gors, 67, American judge, member of the South Dakota Supreme Court (2001–2002).
• Jan Hoet, 77, Belgian art critic and curator, heart attack.
• Tim Kehoe, 43, American author and toy inventor.
• Assad Kotaite, 89, Lebanese administrator, Secretary-General and Council President of the International Civil Aviation Organization (1976–2006).
• Eric Lockwood, 81, English rugby league player (Wakefield Trinity).
• Huber Matos, 95, Cuban dissident, activist and writer, heart attack.
• Arnstein Øverkil, 76, Norwegian police chief and jurist.
• Terry Rand, 79, American basketball player (Marquette Warriors), second round NBA draft pick (1956), heart attack.
• Richard Sacher, 71, Czech politician, Czechoslovak Interior Minister (1989–1990), member of the Federal Assembly (1990–1992).
• Wilford Scypion, 55, American boxer, Golden Gloves National Middleweight Champion (1978), complications from pneumonia.
• Chuner Taksami, 83, Russian ethnographer.
• Vicente T. Ximenes, 94, American civil rights activist.

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• Nadeem al-Zaro, 82, Jordanian politician, Minister of Transport and Minister of Interior, Mayor of Ramallah.
• Guy Alexandre, 68, Haitian diplomat, Ambassador to the Dominican Republic (1995–2003), heart attack.
• Juul Bjerke, 85, Norwegian economist.
• Kevon Carter, 30, Trinidadian footballer, suspected heart attack.
• Hugo Brandt Corstius, 78, Dutch author.
• Ophelia DeVore, 91, American businesswoman and model.
• Ruth Frith, 104, Australian masters athlete.
• Benjamín Galván Gómez, 41, Mexican politician and newspaper publisher.
• Tex Hill, 70, American actor and stuntman.
• Robert Holliday, 81, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates (1962–1968) and Senate (1969–1972, 1981–1994).
• David Holmes, 87, British journalist and broadcaster, BBC News Political Editor (1975–1980).
• Hansi Knoteck, 99, German actress.
• Jerzy Kolendo, 80, Polish historian and archaeologist.
• Lee Lorch, 98, American desegregation activist.
• Michio Mado, 104, Japanese poet.
• Ana María Moix, 66, Spanish writer, cancer.
• Donald Murdoch, 90, New Zealand cricketer.
• Karl Anton Rickenbacher, 73, Swiss conductor, heart attack.
• C. R. Simha, 71, Indian actor and director, prostate cancer.
• Gib Singleton, 78, American sculptor.
• James Tague, 77, American writer, key witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
• Randy Trautman, 53, American football player (Washington Redskins, Calgary Stampeders).
• Norman Yonemoto, 67, American video and visualization artist.