Deaths in April 2016

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2016.

Entries for each day are listed <u>alphabetically</u> 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.

April 2016

1

• Karl-Robert Ameln, 96, Swedish sailor (1948 and 1952 Olympics).
• Aleksander Arkuszyński, 98, Polish brigadier general, WWII veteran.
• Pratyusha Banerjee, 24, Indian actress, suicide by hanging.
• Alan Carter, 86, British civil servant, Director of Immigration of Hong Kong (1983–1989).
• Tom Coughlin, 67, American business executive and convicted fraudster (Walmart).
• George Curry, 71, American football coach, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Mame Younousse Dieng, 76, Senegalese writer.
• Alberto Fontanesi, 87, Italian footballer.
• Artur Górski, 46, Polish politician, member of Sejm (since 2005), leukemia.
• Kao Ching-yuen, 87, Taiwanese businessman (Uni-President Enterprises Corporation). (death announced on this date)
• Richard S. Kem, 89, American army Major-General.
• Emil Keres, 90, Hungarian actor and theatre director.
• Clarence Makwetu, 88, South African politician.
• Herbert Theodore Milburn, 84, American judge.
• John Minney, 76, English cricketer (Cambridge University, Northamptonshire).
• Wiebe Nijenhuis, 61, Dutch sportsman.
• Carl Nordling, 85, Swedish physicist.
• Constance-Anne Parker, 94, British sculptor.
• Marjorie Peters, 97, American baseball player (AAGBPL).
• Geoff Portz, 85, British professional wrestler.
• Fausto Puccini, 83, Italian Olympic equestrian.
• Patricia Thompson, 89, American philosopher.
• André Villers, 85, French photographer.
• Tony Whittaker, 83, British solicitor and politician.
• Ron Wicks, 76, Canadian NHL ice hockey referee, liver cancer.

2

• Gato Barbieri, 83, Argentine jazz saxophonist, pneumonia.
• Rick Bartow, 69, American artist, heart failure.
• Don Beery, 96, American basketball player.
• Moreese Bickham, 98, American convicted murderer and anti-death penalty activist.
• Sergio Ferrari, 72, Italian footballer.
• Gallieno Ferri, 87, Italian comic book artist (Zagor, Mister No).
• Rona M. Fields, 83, American psychologist.
• Boris Hybner, 74, Czech actor and mime artist.
• Gareth Jones, 85, British legal academic.
• Martin Lampkin, 65, English motorcycle trials rider, cancer.
• Nabil Nosair, 77, Egyptian footballer (Zamalek).
• Amber Rayne, 31, American pornographic actress, accidental drug overdose.
• Dennis Riggin, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).
• László Sárosi, 84, Hungarian football player and coach.
• Aleksandar Vasin, 82, Serbian Olympic fencer.
• Thomas Zeng Jing-mu, 95, Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Yujiang (1988–2012).
• Soldiers killed in the Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes:
• Robert Abajyan, 19, Armenian (Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army).
• Samid Imanov, 34–35, Azerbaijani (Special Forces).
• Samir Kachayev, 22, Azerbaijani.
• Murad Mirzayev, 40, Azerbaijani (Special Forces).
• Kyaram Sloyan, 19, Armenian (Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army).

3

• Abu Firas al-Suri, 65, Syrian al-Nusra Front senior official, air strike.
• Phanor Arizabaleta-Arzayus, 78, Colombian criminal, heart attack.
• John C. Baldwin, 67, American cardiac surgeon, drowned.
• John Vane, 11th Baron Barnard, 92, British peer.
• Erik Bauersfeld, 93, American radio dramatist (KPFA) and voice actor (Star Wars, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Crimson Peak).
• Jesse L. Cooksey, 83, American politician.
• Ward Crutchfield, 87, American politician, member of the Tennessee Senate (1985–2007).
• Bob Ellis, 73, Australian writer (Newsfront, My First Wife) and journalist, liver cancer.
• Bas van Erp, 36, Dutch wheelchair tennis player, Paralympic bronze medalist (2004).
• Leopoldo Flores, 82, Mexican artist.
• Don Francks, 84, Canadian jazz vocalist and actor (La Femme Nikita, Inspector Gadget, I'm Not There), lung cancer.
• Robert Guinan, 82, American painter, lymphoma.
• Lars Gustafsson, 79, Swedish writer and scholar.
• Rowley Habib, 82, New Zealand writer.
• Henry Harpending, 72, American anthropologist, stroke.
• Bill Henderson, 90, American jazz vocalist and actor (Clue, City Slickers, White Men Can't Jump), cancer.
• Dick Hodgins Jr., 84, American cartoonist.
• Ross Honsberger, 87, Canadian mathematician.
• Stephen Jacobsen, 75, American bioengineer.
• Alex de Jesús, 33, Puerto Rican professional and Olympic lightweight boxer (2004), shot.
• Cesare Maldini, 84, Italian football player and manager.
• Joe Medicine Crow, 102, American Crow historian.
• Ronald Mulkearns, 85, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ballarat (1971–1997), colon cancer.
• Don Narrell, 87, American football player (Edmonton Eskimos).
• Whai Ngata, 74, New Zealand Māori broadcaster, journalist and lexicographer.
• Noh Jin-kyu, 23, South Korean short track speed skater, world champion (2011, 2012), osteosarcoma.
• Lola Novaković, 80, Serbian singer.
• Ian Robinson, 69, Zimbabwean cricket umpire, lung cancer.
• Jules Schelvis, 95, Dutch historian and Holocaust survivor.
• Kōji Wada, 42, Japanese singer ("Butter-Fly", "All of My Mind"), nasopharynx cancer.
• John Waite, 74, English footballer (Grimsby Town).
• Clarence Clifton Young, 93, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Nevada's at-large congressional district (1953–1957), Nevada Senate (1966–1980) and Supreme Court (1985–2002).

4

• Ranjan Baindoor, 66, Indian cricketer.
• Jarle Bondevik, 81, Norwegian philologist.
• Archie Dees, 80, American basketball player (Cincinnati Royals, Detroit Pistons).
• Eric Dott, 89, American game designer.
• Aubrey Finlay, 78, Irish cricketer.
• Georgi Hristakiev, 71, Bulgarian footballer, Olympic silver medalist (1968).
• Shahidul Islam Khokon, 59, Bangladeshi filmmaker, motor neuron disease.
• Doug Kraner, 65, American production designer (Uncle Buck, Lean on Me, Miracle on 34th Street), cancer.
• Rita Lafontaine, 76, Canadian actress, complications following surgery.
• Chus Lampreave, 85, Spanish actress (Belle Époque, Volver).
• Carlo Mastrangelo, 78, American bassist and doo-wop singer (The Belmonts).
• Getatchew Mekurya, 81, Ethiopian jazz saxophonist.
• John Miller, 68, American politician, member of the Virginia Senate (since 2008).
• Royston Nash, 82, English conductor (D'Oyly Carte Opera Company).
• George Radosevich, 88, American football player (Baltimore Colts).
• Mike Sandlock, 100, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
• Abe Segal, 85, South African tennis player, cancer.
• Song Soo-kwon, 76, South Korean writer.
• Ted Toles Jr., 90, American baseball player.
• Geoff Vanderfeen, 86, Australian rules footballer (Footscray).
• Ken Waterhouse, 86, English footballer (Preston North End, Rotherham United).

5

• Monica Asman, 95, American nun and research scientist.
• John Carlson, 82, American sportscaster.
• Richard G. Dupont, 72, American politician.
• Michael Earls-Davis, 95, English cricketer.
• Zyta Gilowska, 66, Polish politician, Minister of Finance (2006, 2007), Deputy Prime Minister (2006, 2007).
• Roman Gribbs, 90, American politician, Mayor of Detroit (1970–1974).
• Leon Haywood, 74, American funk and soul singer.
• Ed Johnson, 71, American basketball player.
• Koço Kasapoğlu, 80, Turkish footballer.
• George Gelaga King, Sierra Leonean judge.
• Zena Latto, 90, American jazz saxophonist.
• Kerrie Lester, 62, Australian painter, leukaemia.
• Elsie Morison, 91, Australian soprano.
• E. M. Nathanson, 88, American author (The Dirty Dozen), heart failure.
• Cornel Patrichi, 72, Romanian ballet dancer, choreographer and actor, lung cancer.
• Mick Sullivan, 82, English rugby league footballer (Wigan), world champion (1954, 1960).
• Ahmed Refai Taha, 61, Egyptian terrorist, leader of al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, air strike.
• Barbara Turner, 79, American actress (Soldier Blue) and screenwriter (Pollock, The Company).
• Frank Wainright, 48, American football player (Miami Dolphins, Baltimore Ravens), NFL champion (2000).

6

• Orison Rudolph Aggrey, 89, American diplomat, Ambassador to the Gambia (1973–1977), Senegal (1973–1977) and Romania (1977–1981).
• Joe Freeman Britt, 80, American attorney and death penalty advocate.
• Marjorie V. Butcher, 90, American mathematician.
• Dennis Davis, 64, American drummer (David Bowie, Stevie Wonder), cancer.
• Jaime Pedro Gonçalves, 79, Mozambican Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Beira (1976–2012).
• Adrian Greenwood, 42, British art dealer and author, stabbed.
• Merle Haggard, 79, American singer-songwriter ("Okie from Muskogee", "The Fightin' Side of Me", "Carolyn"), Grammy winner (1984, 1998, 1999), complications from pneumonia.
• Darrell Hogan, 89, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
• Wolfgang Horak, 63, German Olympic rower.
• Bernd Hoss, 76, German football manager.
• Garry Jones, 65, English footballer (Bolton Wanderers).
• Esa Kervinen, 86, Finnish Olympic sport shooter.
• Joel Kurtzman, 68, American economist, cancer.
• Robert MacCrate, 94, American lawyer, President of the American Bar Association (1987–1988).
• Tomohiro Osawa, 47, Japanese Olympic sprinter.
• Ogden Mills Phipps, 75, American horse breeder.
• Norm Rowe, 90, Canadian Olympic rower.
• Prasan Suvannasith, 82, Thai Olympic footballer.
• Sherwyn Thorson, 75, American football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
• Josef Toms, 94, Czech Olympic basketball player.
• Pablo Lucio Vasquez, 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Murray Wier, 89, American basketball player (Tri-Cities Blackhawks, Waterloo Hawks).

7

• László Bárczay, 80, Hungarian chess Grandmaster (FIDE, ICCF).
• Freda Briggs, 85, English-born Australian professor and child protection expert, Senior Australian of the Year (2000).
• A. V. Christie, 53, American poet, breast cancer.
• Frank E. Denholm, 92, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from South Dakota's 1st congressional district (1971–1975).
• Marcel Dubé, 86, Canadian playwright.
• Hendrikje Fitz, 54, German actress (In aller Freundschaft), cancer.
• Theodore van Houten, 63, Dutch–British author and journalist.
• John J. Johnson, 89, American politician.
• Vladimir Kagan, 88, American furniture designer.
• Cyril Edel Leonoff, 91, Canadian civil engineer and historian.
• Harry Mazer, 90, American author.
• Carlo Monti, 96, Italian athlete, Olympic bronze medalist (1948).
• Blackjack Mulligan, 73, American professional wrestler (WWWF, JCP, CWF).
• Barbara Sosgórnik, 81, Polish Olympic hurdler.
• Charles Thomas, 87, British archaeologist.
• Jimmie Van Zant, 59, American singer, songwriter and guitarist, liver cancer.
• Chuck Waseleski, 61, American baseball statistician (Boston Red Sox).
• Ruth Westbrook, 85, English cricket player and coach (national team).
• Sir John Yocklunn, 82, Australian–Papua New Guinean librarian and government advisor.

8

• Nicolas Abu Samah, 76–77, Lebanese actor and director.
• Dick Alban, 87, American football player (Washington Redskins, Pittsburgh Steelers).
• Mircea Albulescu, 81, Romanian actor and writer, heart failure.
• Harry Apted, 90, Fijian cricketer.
• Victoria Chitepo, 88, Zimbabwean politician.
• Anatol Ciobanu, 81, Moldovan linguist, writer and university professor.
• Richard D. Dean, 86, American brigadier general.
• David Dore, 75, Canadian figure skating competitor, judge and official, President (1980–1984) and Director General (1986–2004) of the CFSA.
• Phoebus Dhrymes, 82, American economist.
• Doug France, 62, American football player (Los Angeles Rams).
• Paul Fung Jr., 93, American cartoonist (Blondie).
• Mildred Gordon, 92, British politician, MP for Bow and Poplar (1987–1997).
• William Hamilton, 76, American cartoonist, traffic collision.
• Jack Hammer, 90, American musician and songwriter ("Great Balls of Fire").
• Charles Hirsch, 79, American forensic pathologist.
• Mimi Hirsh, 68, American author.
• Julien Hoferlin, 49, Belgian tennis coach (national team), cancer.
• George Ilsley, 88, Australian football player (Carlton).
• Grace Lotowycz, 99, American botanist.
• Fred Middleton, 85, English footballer (Lincoln City).
• Elizabeth Roemer, 87, American astronomer.
• Erich Rudorffer, 98, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
• Gene Salvay, 96, American aircraft engineer.
• David Swift, 85, British actor (Drop the Dead Donkey).
• Mehmetbulent Torpil, 50, Turkish Olympic sport shooter.
• Wei Chueh, 88, Taiwanese Buddhist monk, founder of the Chung Tai Shan.
• Nigel Paulet, 18th Marquess of Winchester, 74, British peer, member of the House of Lords (1968–1999).

9

• Frederic W. Allen, 89, American judge.
• Arthur Anderson, 93, American actor (Courage the Cowardly Dog, Midnight Cowboy), voice of Lucky Charms leprechaun.
• Frank Baron, 93, Dominican politician.
• Paul E. Bierley, 90, American music historian.
• Duane Clarridge, 83, American CIA official, complications from esophageal cancer.
• Tony Conrad, 76, American avant-garde musician, composer, video artist and professor (University at Buffalo), pneumonia.
• Juris Ekmanis, 74, Latvian academic, President of Latvian Academy of Sciences (2004–2012).
• Finn Hodt, 96, Norwegian Olympic speed skating competitor (1956) and coach.
• J. Vinton Lawrence, 76, American CIA paramilitary officer, acute myeloid leukemia.
• Bea Maddock, 81, Australian artist.
• Lucas Martínez Lara, 70, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Matehuala (since 2006).
• Patrick J. O'Donnell, 68, Scottish academic.
• Martin Roberts, 48, English rugby union player (Gloucester Rugby).
• Derrick Rochester, 76, Jamaican politician and trade unionist, MP for South East St Elizabeth (1972–1980, 1989–2002), member of the Senate (1980–1983).
• Harriet Shorr, 76, American artist and writer.
• Will Smith, 34, American football player (New Orleans Saints), Super Bowl champion (2010), shot.

10

• Connie M. Borror, 49, American statistician and industrial engineer.
• Alec Crikis, 71, Australian Olympic sports shooter.
• John Ferrone, 91, American book editor (The Color Purple), complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Louis Gladstone, 88, American politician.
• Nicholas Hood, 92, American politician and civil rights activist, Detroit City Councilman (1965–1993).
• Irene Maguire, 86, American figure skater, heart failure.
• Jesse Mann, 93, American philosopher.
• Howard Marks, 70, Welsh cannabis smuggler, writer and legalisation campaigner, colorectal cancer.
• Thomas Kwaku Mensah, 81, Ghanaian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Obuasi (1995–2008) and Archbishop of Kumasi (2008–2012).
• Wayne Southwick, 93, American surgeon and academic.
• Henryk Średnicki, 61, Polish Olympic boxer (1976, 1980), amateur World Champion (1978).
• N. H. Wadia, 91, Indian neurologist.

11

• Tony Ayers, 82, Australian public servant.
• Helen Bailey, 51, British author, suffocated.
• Doug Banks, 57, American radio personality (The Doug Banks Radio Show), diabetes.
• Elsie Charles Basque, 99, Canadian Mi’kmaq educator.
• João Carvalho, 28, Portuguese mixed martial arts fighter, injuries sustained in match.
• Suzanne Clauser, 86, American television writer (Bonanza).
• Albert Filozov, 78, Russian actor.
• Emile Ford, 78, Saint Lucian singer ("What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?") and sound engineer.
• Hokie Gajan, 56, American football player and broadcaster (New Orleans Saints), liposarcoma.
• Mohsen Gheytaslou, 25–26, Iranian soldier (65th Airborne Special Forces Brigade).
• Ruth Gilbert, 99, New Zealand poet.
• Yura Halim, 92, Bruneian politician, Chief Minister (1967–1972) and lyricist (national anthem).
• Anne Gould Hauberg, 98, American arts patron, founder of the Pilchuck Glass School.
• Alan Hurd, 78, English cricketer.
• Peter J. Jannetta, 84, American neurosurgeon (Allegheny General Hospital).
• Dame Marion Kettlewell, 102, British naval officer, Director of the Wrens (1966–1970).
• Huntly D. Millar, 88, Canadian medical technology executive.
• Miss Shangay Lily, 53, Spanish drag queen, pancreatic cancer.
• Édgar Perea, 81, Colombian politician and football commentator.
• Steve Quinn, 64, British rugby league player (York, Featherstone Rovers).
• Richard Ransom, 96, American businessman (Hickory Farms).
• Ed Snider, 83, American sports executive (Comcast Spectacor, Philadelphia Flyers, Philadelphia 76ers), bladder cancer.
• A. R. Surendran, Sri Lankan lawyer, President's Counsel (2004).
• Bounama Touré, 63, Senegalese Olympic wrestler.

12

• Ruthven Blackburn, 102, Australian physician.
• James Bond, 70, Australian navy officer.
• Aquilino Bonfanti, 73, Italian footballer.
• Robbie Brennan, 68–69, Irish musician (Skid Row, Auto Da Fé, Grand Slam).
• Hector A. Cafferata Jr., 86, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Paul Carey, 88, American radio broadcaster (Detroit Tigers), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Gianroberto Casaleggio, 61, Italian entrepreneur, co-founder of Five Star Movement.
• Pedro de Felipe, 71, Spanish footballer (Real Madrid, Espanyol).
• David Gest, 62, American TV producer (') and reality show contestant (I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, Celebrity Big Brother UK), stroke.
• Gib Guilbeau, 78, American musician (The Flying Burrito Brothers) and composer (Boxcar Bertha).
• Anne Jackson, 90, American actress (The Shining, Folks!, Dirty Dingus Magee).
• Bryce Jordan, 91, American academic administrator, President of the Pennsylvania State University (1983–1990).
• Alexander Kanengoni, 65, Zimbabwean writer, heart failure.
• Alan Loveday, 88, New Zealand-born British violinist (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields).
• Balls Mahoney, 44, American professional wrestler (ECW, WWE, SMW), heart attack.
• André Mayamba Mabuti Kathongo, 85, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Popokabaka (1979–1993).
• Tōru Ōhira, 86, Japanese voice actor (Super Sentai, One Piece).
• Tibor Ordina, 45, Hungarian Olympic track and field athlete (1996), brain cancer.
• Tomaž Pandur, 53, Slovenian theatre director.
• Vagn Peitersen, 91, Danish Olympic field hockey player.
• Spec Richardson, 93, American baseball executive (Houston Astros).
• Agha Saleem, 81, Pakistani writer.
• Sir Arnold Wesker, 83, British playwright.
• Said Zahari, 88, Singaporean journalist and political prisoner.

13

• Srinivas Aravamudan, 54, Indian-born British academic.
• Márton Balázs, 86, Romanian mathematician.
• Jackie Carter, 62, American children's author, lymphoma.
• Julio García Espinosa, 89, Cuban film director and screenwriter (The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin).
• Nuri Gezerdaa, 56, Abkhaz politician.
• Kurtis Haiu, 31, New Zealand rugby union player (Auckland, Blues), bone cancer.
• Earl B. Hunt, 83, American psychologist.
• Matthias Joseph Isuja, 86, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Dodoma (1972–2005).
• Lyle Jones, 92, American psychologist.
• Robert W. Lundeen, 94, American executive (Tektronix).
• Mariano Mores, 98, Argentine tango composer and pianist.
• Eeti Nieminen, 89, Finnish Olympic Nordic skier (1952).
• Rex Patterson, 89, Australian politician, MP for Dawson (1966–1975).
• Jock Scot, 63, Scottish poet and recording artist, cancer.
• Manouchehr Sotoudeh, 102, Iranian geographer and scholar of Persian literature, lung infection.
• Jeremy Steig, 73, American jazz flutist.
• Gareth Thomas, 71, Welsh actor (Blake's 7, Children of the Stones, Star Maidens), heart failure.
• Gwyn Thomas, 79, Welsh poet and academic, National Poet (2006–2008).
• Ray Thornton, 87, American attorney and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas's 4th and 2nd congressional districts (1973–1979, 1991–1997).
• Nera White, 80, American Hall of Fame basketball player.
• Bernard B. Wolfe, 101, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1965–1974).
• Pete Yellin, 74, American jazz saxophonist and educator.
• Sayed Zayan, 72, Egyptian actor.

14

• Nguyễn Ánh 9, 76, Vietnamese songwriter and pianist.
• Ahmed Brahim, 69, Tunisian politician.
• David Collischon, 78, British executive (Filofax).
• Rada Dyson-Hudson, 85, American anthropologist.
• Martin Fitzmaurice, 75, English darts personality.
• Gaetano Gagliano, 98, Canadian entrepreneur.
• Francesco Guarraci, 61, Italian-born American mobster.
• Hector Hatch, 80, Fijian boxer (1956 Olympics), politician and civil servant.
• Fred Hayman, 90, Swiss-born American fashion retailer (Giorgio Beverly Hills) and entrepreneur, helped develop Rodeo Drive.
• Mary Holda, 100, American baseball player (South Bend Blue Sox).
• James W. Huston, 62, American author and lawyer.
• Dan Ireland, 57, Canadian-born American film producer and director (Jolene, The Whole Wide World, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont).
• Ilija Ivezić, 89, Croatian film actor (Last of the Renegades, The Golden Years, Marshal Tito's Spirit).
• Colin Knight, 81, New Zealand educationalist, principal of Christchurch Teachers' College (1986–1995).
• Liang Sili, 91, Chinese missile control scientist and academician (Chinese Academy of Sciences), vice-president of the International Astronautical Federation.
• Sir David MacKay, 48, British author, physicist and professor (University of Cambridge), stomach cancer.
• Rod Reyes, 80, Filipino broadcast executive and journalist (The Standard), heart failure.
• Phil Sayer, 62, British voice artist, oesophageal cancer.
• Malick Sidibé, 80, Malian photographer.
• Xu Caidong, 97, Chinese metallurgist and academician (Chinese Academy of Sciences), vice-governor of Guizhou.
• Ron Theobald, 72, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers).
• Carl M. Vogel, 61, American politician, member of the Missouri Senate (2003–2011), pancreatic cancer.

15

• Orville Gilbert Brim Jr., 93, American social psychologist.
• Anne Grommerch, 45, French politician, member of the National Assembly (since 2008), Mayor of Thionville (since 2014), breast cancer.
• Janet Hodgson, 56, English artist and filmmaker, cancer.
• Peter Janson-Smith, 93, British literary agent (Ian Fleming).
• Byrle Klinck, 81, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player, bronze medallist (1956).
• Laura Liu, 49, American state judge, Cook County Circuit Court judge (2010–2014), Illinois Appellate Court judge (since 2014), breast cancer.
• Frederick Mayer, 94, German-born American spy (OSS).
• Derek Mayers, 81, English footballer (Preston North End).
• A. A. Raiba, 94, Indian painter.
• Harold Shillinglaw, 88, Australian football player and cricketer.
• Morag Siller, 46, British actress (Emmerdale, Memphis Belle, Casualty), breast cancer.
• Richard Smith, 84, British painter, heart failure.
• Lars-Inge Svartenbrandt, 70, Swedish criminal, apartment fire.
• Louis Van Geyt, 88, Belgian politician, chairman of Communist Party of Belgium (1972–1989).
• Guy Woolfenden, 78, English composer and conductor.

16

• Tom Benavidez, 77, American politician.
• Ron Bonham, 73, American basketball player (Boston Celtics, Indiana Pacers), NBA champion (1965, 1966).
• Jeanette Bonnier, 82, Swedish media proprietor (Bonnier Group), journalist (Expressen) and author.
• David R. Brown, 93, American computer scientist.
• Miloud Chaabi, 86, Moroccan businessman.
• Clare Crockett, 33, Northern Irish nun, earthquake.
• Rod Daniel, 73, American film director (Teen Wolf, K-9, Beethoven's 2nd), Parkinson's disease.
• Donald B. Easum, 92, American diplomat.
• William M. Gray, 86, American meteorologist.
• Guan Guangfu, 84, Chinese politician, Communist Party Chief of Hubei.
• Bernhard Hassenstein, 93, German biologist and behaviorist.
• Charlie Hodge, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Vancouver Canucks) and scout.
• Clarence James, 84, Bermudian politician, Deputy Premier (1983–1989).
• Maurice Kenny, 86, American poet, heart ailment and kidney failure.
• Rubén Mendoza Ayala, 55, Mexican politician.
• Nathanael Orr, 98, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1976–1984).
• U Pandita, 94, Burmese Buddhist monk and meditation teacher.
• Louis Pilot, 75, Luxembourgish football player (Fola Esch, Standard Liège, Royal Antwerp) and manager (national team).
• Ilias Polatidis, 50, Greek politician.
• Ismael Quintana, 78, Puerto Rican singer and composer.
• Peter Rock, 70, Austrian-born Chilean rock musician.
• Helmut Rohde, 90, German politician.
• Kit West, 79, British special effects artist (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Dragonheart, Enemy at the Gates), Oscar winner (1982).

17

• Ken Aldred, 70, Australian politician, MP for Henty (1975–1980), Bruce (1983–1990) and Deakin (1990–1996).
• Tiga Bayles, 62, Australian radio presenter and indigenous rights activist, cancer.
• Kong Bunchhoeun, 77, Cambodian author and songwriter, cancer.
• Bettye Caldwell, 91, American educator (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) and child-development campaigner (NAEYC).
• Bob Charles, 79, American-born Australian politician, MP for La Trobe (1990–2004).
• Chyna, 46, American professional wrestler (WWF) and actress (1 Night in China, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Cougar Club), mixed drug intoxication.
• William A. Enemark, 102, American major general.
• Clifton C. Garvin, 94, American businessman, CEO of Exxon (1975–1986).
• Luis Horacio Gomez González, 57, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Gaitán (2014–2016).
• Anthony Keane, 87, American Olympic fencer (1968).
• Toshiro Konishi, 63, Japanese-born Peruvian chef, pioneer of Japanese cuisine in Lima, cancer.
• Bruce Mansfield, 71, Australian radio and television personality, prostate cancer.
• Scott Nimerfro, 54, American television writer and producer (Hannibal, Once Upon a Time, Pushing Daisies), angiosarcoma.
• John R. Norton III, 87, American politician.
• Constantine Papastephanou, 92, Syrian Eastern Orthodox prelate, Metropolitan of Baghdad and Kuwait (1969-2014).
• Tyler Richards, 29, Canadian basketball player, shot.
• Doris Roberts, 90, American actress (Everybody Loves Raymond, Remington Steele, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation), five-time Emmy winner, stroke.
• Trần Phước Thọ, 23, Vietnamese footballer (Long An, U23 national team), traffic collision.
• Nicolas Tikhomiroff, 89, French photographer.
• Yang Hongxun, 84, Chinese architect, architectural historian, and archaeologist.

18

• Brian Asawa, 49, American opera singer, heart failure.
• Paul Busiek, 93, American politician.
• Yuri Bychkov, 84, Russian art historian.
• William Campbell, 75, American business executive (Apple) and college football coach (Columbia University), cancer.
• Adrian Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose, 78, British journalist.
• Robert Christophe, 78, French Olympic swimmer (1956, 1960, 1964), European champion (1958, 1962).
• Barry Davies, 71, British soldier and author, heart attack.
• Rubén Héctor di Monte, 84, Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Mercedes-Luján (2000–2007).
• Marwan Dudin, 79–80, Jordanian politician, Minister of Agriculture (1980–1984) and Minister of State for the Occupied Territory Affairs (1986–1988).
• Mikhail Farikh, 56, Russian helicopter pilot, helicopter crash.
• Hugh Faulkner, 83, Canadian politician, MP for Peterborough (1965–1979), complications from surgery.
• Ben-Zion Gold, 92, Polish-born American rabbi.
• Cox Habbema, 72, Dutch actress, theater director and manager.
• Eva Henning, 95, Swedish stage and movie actress.
• Fritz Herkenrath, 87, German footballer (Rot-Weiss Essen).
• Karina Huff, 55, British actress (The House of Clocks, Time for Loving, Voices from Beyond) and television personality, breast cancer.
• Proverb Jacobs, 80, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants).
• Sir John Leslie, 4th Baronet, 99, Anglo-Irish aristocrat and media personality.
• Larry Loyie, 82, Canadian Cree author and playwright.
• Arnulfo Mejía Rojas, 59, Mexican architect and Catholic priest.
• Johan van Minnen, 83, Dutch journalist and politician, member of the European Parliament (1979–1984).
• Daniel Moore, 75, American poet, cancer.
• Vladimir Nemukhin, 90, Russian painter (Bulldozer Exhibition).
• Charles J. Pilliod Jr., 97, American business executive and diplomat, Ambassador to Mexico (1986–1989).
• Guy Prather, 58, American football player (Green Bay Packers), cancer.
• Fulvio Roiter, 89, Italian photographer, Prix Nadar winner (1956).
• Guy Rouxel, 90, French footballer.
• Pál Sajgó, 93, Hungarian cross country skier and biathlete.
• Gert Schramm, 87, German Holocaust survivor.
• Zoltán Szarka, 73, Hungarian football player and coach, Olympic champion (1968).
• Tao Siju, 81, Chinese politician, minister of Public Security.
• John Zemanek, 94, American architect.

19

• Gerasimos Arsenis, 84, Greek politician, Minister for National Defense (1993–1996) and National Education and Religious Affairs (1996–2000).
• William Ávila, 59, Costa Rican footballer.
• Patricio Aylwin, 97, Chilean politician, President (1990–1994).
• Estelle Balet, 21, Swiss snowboarder, world champion (2015, 2016), avalanche.
• Dud Beattie, 81, Australian rugby league footballer and selector (Queensland).
• Errikos Belies, 66, Greek translator and poet.
• Moysés Blás, 79, Brazilian Olympic basketball player.
• Dorothy R. Burnley, 89, American politician, member of the North Carolina General Assembly (1980–1984).
• Eloy Casados, 66, American actor (', Walker, Texas Ranger).
• Russell Dove, 87, Australian Olympic sports shooter (1972).
• Harry Elderfield, 72, British geochemist and professor (University of Cambridge).
• Ronit Elkabetz, 51, Israeli actress and film director ('), lung cancer.
• Solveig Ericsson, 84, Swedish Olympic athlete.
• Karl-Heinz von Hassel, 77, German actor.
• Walter Kohn, 93, Austrian-born American theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate (1998), jaw cancer.
• Lord Tanamo, 81, Jamaican ska and mento musician.
• John McConathy, 86, American basketball player (Milwaukee Hawks, Northwestern State).
• Mehrdad Oladi, 30, Iranian footballer (Malavan), heart attack.
• Milt Pappas, 76, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs).
• Billy Redmayne, 25, Manx motorcycle racer, race collision.
• Igor Volchok, 84, Russian football manager.
• Pete Zorn, 65, American musician (Steeleye Span, Richard Thompson, The Albion Band), cancer.

20

• Solomon Blatt Jr., 94, American federal judge, U.S. District Court for South Carolina (since 1971).
• Cynthia Cooke, 96, British nurse, Matron-in-Chief of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service (1973–1976).
• Velda González, 83, Puerto Rican actress and politician.
• Guy Hamilton, 93, French-born British film director (Goldfinger, Battle of Britain, Evil Under the Sun).
• Avril Henry, 81, British academic, suicide.
• Dame Leonie Kramer, 91, Australian academic, author and university administrator.
• Attila Özdemiroğlu, 73, Turkish composer, lung cancer.
• Solly Pandor, 58, Zambian football manager.
• Harry Perkowski, 93, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds).
• Qi Benyu, 85, Chinese politician and propagandist, cancer.
• Paul Selge, 94, American football player and coach.
• Paul Stahl, 75, Canadian Olympic sprint canoer.
• Richard Stansberry, 87, American politician.
• Jack Tafari, 69, British activist, liver failure.
• Giannis Voglis, 78, Greek actor.
• Mohamad Khadim Al Wajih, Yemeni politician.
• Dwayne Washington, 52, American basketball player (New Jersey Nets, Miami Heat, Syracuse University), brain cancer.
• Vern Wilson, 85, American Olympic athlete.
• Victoria Wood, 62, British comedian, writer and actor (', dinnerladies, Housewife, 49), cancer.
• Sakumi Yoshino, 57, Japanese manga artist.
• Yu Songlie, 95, Chinese agricultural scientist, educator and academician (Chinese Academy of Engineering).

21

• Frederick Bruce-Lyle, 62, Ghanaian-born Saint Vincentian judge in the Caribbean.
• Valeriu Cotea, 89, Romanian oenologist, member of Romanian Academy, cardiac arrest.
• Norbert Esnault, 87, French cyclist.
• Nade Haley, 68, American artist.
• Levi Karuhanga, 60, Ugandan major general.
• Per-Simon Kildal, 64, Swedish antenna specialist.
• Irvin Kipper, 99, American bomber pilot.
• Hans Koschnick, 87, German politician and diplomat, Bremen Senate president and mayor (1967–1985), President of the Bundesrat (1970–1971, 1981–1982), MP (1987–1998).
• Marco Leto, 85, Italian film and television director (Black Holiday, Al piacere di rivederla).
• Franz Lorette, 80, Belgian Olympic hockey player.
• Lonnie Mack, 74, American singer-guitarist (The Wham of that Memphis Man).
• Toshio Mashima, 67, Japanese composer, cancer.
• D. B. Nihalsinghe, 77, Sri Lankan filmmaker (Welikathara).
• Utako Okamoto, 98, Japanese medical scientist.
• Ferenc Paragi, 62, Hungarian Olympic javelin thrower (1976, 1980), world record holder (1980–1983).
• Prince, 57, American musician ("When Doves Cry", "Little Red Corvette", "Purple Rain") and actor, Oscar (1984) and four-time Grammy winner, accidental fentanyl overdose.
• Peter Ruckman, 94, American Independent Baptist pastor.
• Smoke Glacken, 22, American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Hopeful Stakes (1996).
• Dene Smuts, 66, South African politician, MP (1989–2014).
• John D. Travis, 75, American politician.
• John Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant, 93, British politician, member of the House of Lords (since 1989).

22

• David Beresford, 68, British journalist.
• Yvon Charbonneau, 75, Canadian politician, stroke.
• Rudolph Chimelli, 87, German journalist and author.
• Isabelle Dinoire, 49, French mauled woman, first person to undergo a partial face transplant.
• Rex Fell, 71, New Zealand Thoroughbred breeder.
• Ojārs GrÄ«nbergs, 73, Latvian singer, lung cancer.
• Roger Khawam, 94, Egyptian antique dealer and Egyptologist.
• John Lumsden, 55, Scottish footballer (Stoke City).
• Ayah Pin, 74, Malaysian cult leader (Sky Kingdom).
• Robert Price, 83, American attorney and political campaign manager.
• Jory Prum, 41, American audio engineer and video game developer (Adaptation, The Walking Dead, Brütal Legend), traffic collision.
• Manfred Rein, 68, Austrian politician (ÖVP).
• Peter Sellers, 94, New Zealand sports broadcaster.
• Soran Singh, Pakistani politician, member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly (since 2013), shot.
• Sir Denys Wilkinson, 93, British nuclear physicist.
• Anne Wolden-Ræthinge, 86, Danish author and journalist.

23

• Ron Brace, 29, American football player (Boston College, New England Patriots), apparent heart attack.
• Alfons Van den Brande, 88, Belgian cyclist.
• Carla Braan, 54, Dutch Olympic gymnast.
• John Collins, 93, Canadian politician.
• Errol Crossan, 85, Canadian soccer player (Norwich City).
• Attila Ferjáncz, 69, Hungarian racing driver, Hungarian Rally champion (1976–1982, 1985, 1990).
• Patrick George, 92, English painter.
• Luis González Seara, 79, Spanish politician.
• Inge King, 100, German-born Australian sculptor.
• VjatÅ¡eslav Kobrin, 58, Russian guitarist and songwriter.
• Tom Muecke, 52, American CFL player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Edmonton Eskimos), heart attack.
• Tony Munro, 52, Australian sports journalist, stroke.
• Sir Richard Parsons, 88, British diplomat, Ambassador to Hungary, Spain and Sweden.
• Jacques Perry, 94, French novelist.
• Maurice Peston, Baron Peston, 85, English economist and politician, member of the House of Lords (since 1987).
• Miguel Picazo, 89, Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor (La Tía Tula).
• John Steven Satterthwaite, 87, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lismore (1971–2001).
• Bill Sevesi, 92, Tongan-born New Zealand musician.
• Madeleine Sherwood, 93, Canadian actress (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Flying Nun, Sweet Bird of Youth).
• Banharn Silpa-archa, 83, Thai politician, Prime Minister (1995–1996), asthma.
• Horace Ward, 88, American judge.
• Koji Yamamoto, 64, Japanese baseball player (Yomiuri Giants, Lotte Marines).
• Paul Hisao Yasuda, 94, Japanese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Osaka (1978–1997).

24

• Janette Ahrens, 90, American figure skater.
• Zafar Ishaq Ansari, 84, Pakistani Islamic scholar, heart attack.
• Paul Annear, 68, New Zealand jeweller.
• Chen Shilu, 95, Chinese flight mechanic, educator and academician (Chinese Academy of Engineering).
• Manuel de la Torre, 94, Spanish-born American golf player and instructor.
• Robert Dolan, 87, American marine geologist.
• Walter Jackson Freeman III, 89, American biologist.
• Ivan Goodingham, 90, Australian rules footballer (Essendon).
• Wouter van Harselaar, 86, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1968–1971).
• Perry Hooper Sr., 91, American judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama (1995–2001).
• Steve Julian, 57, American radio host (KPCC), brain cancer.
• Kiviaq, 80, Canadian lawyer, politician, boxer and football player, cancer.
• Tommy Kono, 85, American weightlifter, Olympic champion (1952, 1956), world champion (1953–1959), complications from liver disease.
• Thinle Lhondup, 72, Nepalese actor (Himalaya), fall.
• Benjamin Manglona, 78, Northern Mariana Islands politician, Lieutenant Governor (1990–1994), stroke.
• Zippy Morocco, 86, American athlete, suicide.
• Ricardo Torres Origel, 59, Mexican politician.
• Lizette Parker, 44, American politician, Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey (since 2014), respiratory illness.
• Billy Paul, 81, American R&B singer ("Me and Mrs. Jones"), pancreatic cancer.
• George Pieterson, 74, Dutch clarinetist.
• Terry Redlin, 78, American artist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Klaus Siebert, 60, German biathlon athlete and coach, world champion (1978, 1979), Olympic silver medalist (1980).
• Papa Wemba, 66, Congolese singer, seizure.
• George Alexis Weymouth, 79, American artist and conservationist, heart failure.

25

• Bill Allison, 85, American actor (Casino).
• Dumitru Antonescu, 71, Romanian footballer (Farul Constanța).
• Remo Belli, 88, American drummer, developed the synthetic drumhead (Remo), complications of pneumonia.
• Joe Blahak, 65, American football player (Minnesota Vikings).
• Nicolae Esinencu, 76, Moldovan screenwriter and writer.
• Göte Gåård, 84, Swedish Olympic sports shooter.
• Mel George, 80, American professor and twice interim president of the University of Missouri.
• Martin Gray, 93, Polish Holocaust survivor and writer.
• Michal Hornstein, 95, Polish-born Canadian executive.
• Tom Lewis, 94, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (1975–1976).
• Patrick Fabionn Lopes, 35, Brazilian football player, brain aneurysm.
• Xulhaz Mannan, 39, Bangladeshi editor, stabbed.
• Mei Baojiu, 82, Chinese Peking opera artist, bronchospasm.
• Poornima Arvind Pakvasa, 102, Indian social worker.
• Neculai Rățoi, 77, Romanian politician, mayor of Pașcani (1981–2008).
• John Ridsdel, 68, Canadian journalist (Calgary Herald), businessman (Petro-Canada) and Abu Sayyaf hostage, beheaded.
• Horst Sachs, 89, German mathematician.
• Samantha Schubert, 47, Malaysian actress and beauty queen, Miss Malaysia (1991), pancreatic cancer.
• Rudolf Wessely, 91, Austrian actor.

26

• Raymond Casey, 98, British geologist and philatelist.
• Vincent Darius, 60, Grenadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Saint George's in Grenada (since 2002), pneumonia.
• John Eiseman, 90, American Olympic sprint canoer.
• Arne Elsholtz, 71, German voice actor.
• Mark Farmer, 53, British actor (Grange Hill, Minder, Johnny Jarvis), cancer.
• Winston Hill, 74, American football player (New York Jets), Super Bowl winner (1968).
• William H. Jarvis, 85, Canadian politician.
• Amanullah Khan, 82, Pakistani Kashmir separatism activist (JKLF), COPD.
• Lucy Kibaki, 82, Kenyan teacher and socialite, First Lady (2002–2013).
• Ken Maeda, 44, Japanese comedian and actor, cardiopulmonary arrest.
• M. H. Mohamed, 94, Sri Lankan politician.
• Álvaro Pérez Treviño, 85, Mexican politician.
• Peter Propping, 73, German geneticist.
• Ozzie Silna, 83, American basketball owner (Spirits of St. Louis), cancer.
• Martin Szipál, 91, Hungarian photographer, prostate cancer.
• Masako Togawa, 85, Japanese feminist, singer, actress and novelist.
• Dorothy Warburton, 80, Canadian geneticist.
• James H. Ware, 74, American biostatistician, cancer.
• Stephen Wheatcroft, 94, British economist.
• Willie L. Williams, 72, American police commissioner (Los Angeles, Philadelphia).
• Harry Wu, 79, Chinese human rights activist, founder of the Laogai Research Foundation.
• Vladimir Yulygin, 80, Russian football player and coach.

27

• James Arvaluk, 68, Canadian politician.
• Edward H. Burtt Jr., 68, American ornithologist.
• James Carroll, 60, American-born Canadian actor (Wind at My Back, Red Dead Redemption, Death to Smoochy), small cell lung cancer.
• Harold Cohen, 87, British computer artist (AARON).
• Angela Flanders, 88, British perfumer.
• Viktor Gavrikov, 58, Lithuanian-Swiss chess Grandmaster.
• Herta Groves, 96, Austrian-born British milliner, traffic collision.
• Ivanelle Hoe, 78, American swimmer.
• Philip Kives, 87, Canadian marketing entrepreneur, founder of K-tel.
• Julio Xavier Labayen, 89, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, territorial prelate of Infanta (1966–2003).
• Liu Lianman, 82, Chinese mountain climber, made the first ascent of Muztagh Ata.
• Umberto Magnani, 75, Brazilian theater producer and actor (História de Amor, Cabocla, Páginas da Vida), stroke.
• Robert C. Mathis, 88, American air force general.
• Chris Parkinson, 74, New Zealand broadcaster, co-founder of Radio Hauraki.
• Ray Salazar, 85, American politician, Mayor of El Paso, Texas (1977–1979).
• Gabriele Sima, 61, Austrian opera singer.
• Toms, 87, Indian cartoonist (Boban and Molly).

28

• Anderson Agiru, 54, Papua New Guinean politician.
• Óscar Álvarez, 67, Argentine footballer (Panathinaikos).
• Sir Edward Ashmore, 96, British officer in the Royal Navy, First Sea Lord (1974–1977).
• Conrad Burns, 81, American politician, Senator from Montana (1989–2007).
• Enrique Cal Pardo, 93, Spanish priest, teacher and writer.
• Ed Davender, 49, American basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats).
• Jenny Diski, 68, English writer (Nothing Natural, Rainforest, London Review of Books), lung cancer.
• Joe Durham, 84, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Cardinals).
• Igor Fesunenko, 83, Russian journalist, foreign affairs writer and teacher (MGIMO).
• Charles Gatewood, 73, American photographer, suicide by jumping.
• Fredrik Grønningsæter, 92, Norwegian priest, Bishop of Sør-HÃ¥logaland (1982–1992).
• René Hausman, 80, Belgian comic book writer and illustrator.
• Barry Howard, 78, English actor (Hi-de-Hi!), blood cancer.
• Georg Kronawitter, 88, German politician, Mayor of Munich (1972–1978, 1984–1993).
• Ingram Olkin, 91, American statistics professor, colorectal cancer.
• David Page, 55, Australian composer, musical director of Bangarra Dance Theatre.
• Mohamed Roushdi, 94, Egyptian gymnast.
• Blackie Sherrod, 96, American sportswriter.

29

• Tim Bacon, 52, British restaurateur and actor.
• Alyson Bailes, 67, British diplomat, Ambassador to Finland (2000–2002).
• DeCorsey E. Bolden, 91, American politician.
• Sherry Cassuto, 59, American Olympic rower.
• Chen Zhongshi, 73, Chinese writer, oral cancer.
• Jok Church, 66, American cartoonist (You Can with Beakman and Jax).
• Renato Corona, 67, Filipino jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (2010–2012), complications from a heart attack.
• Patrick Deuel, 54, American reality TV star.
• Erediauwa, 92, Nigerian traditional royal, Oba of Benin (since 1979). (death announced on this date)
• Harry Falk, 83, American television director (Three's a Crowd, The Streets of San Francisco, The Colbys).
• Bob Fitch, 76, American photojournalist.
• Sarah Gordon, 52, Irish Olympic equestrian.
• Dmytro Hnatyuk, 91, Ukrainian baritone opera singer.
• Hilarius Moa Nurak, 73, Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pangkal-Pinang (since 1987).
• Dave Robinson, 67, English footballer (Birmingham City, Walsall). (death announced on this date)
• Jigdal Dagchen Sakya, 86, Tibetan Buddhist teacher.
• Don White, 89, American stock car racing driver.
• Wojciech Zagórski, 87, Polish actor.

30

• Daniel Aaron, 103, American writer and academic (Harvard University), co-founder of the Library of America.
• Michael Edward Ash, 88, British brewer.
• Viktor Barinov, 77, Russian Olympic rower.
• Daniel Berrigan, 94, American Jesuit priest, poet, peace activist and ex-convict (Catonsville Nine).
• Wayne Crawford, 69, American actor, writer and producer (Valley Girl, Jake Speed).
• Alphonsus F. D'Souza, 76, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Raiganj (since 1987), heart attack.
• Franco Di Giacomo, 83, Italian cinematographer.
• Marisol Escobar, 85, French-born American sculptor.
• Uwe Friedrichsen, 81, German actor (Faust, Schwarz Rot Gold, Sesamstraße).
• Guido Gillarduzzi, 76, Italian Olympic speed skater.
• Fritz Janschka, 97, Austrian-born American artist.
• Sir Harry Kroto, 76, British chemist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1996).
• Réjean Lafrenière, 80, Canadian politician, member of the Quebec National Assembly (1989–2007).
• Ellen Niit, 87, Estonian children's writer, poet and translator.
• Scott Rains, 59, American travel writer, brain tumor.
• Phil Ryan, 69, Welsh keyboardist (Man).
• Tracy Scott, 46, American script supervisor (Whiplash, Concussion, Garden State), cancer.
• Jervis Stokes, 88, Australian rules footballer (Richmond).
• Peter Thomas, 91, American narrator (Nova, Forensic Files).
• Vasily Zvyagintsev, 71, Russian science fiction author.

References

External links

• List of April 2016 deaths at IMDb