Deaths in October 2017

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2017.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and reference.

October 2017

1

• Olivier Baudry, 44, French footballer (Sochaux), cancer.
• Hansje Bunschoten, 59, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1972) and television presenter, complications from breast cancer.
• Pierluigi Cappello, 50, Italian poet, Viareggio Prize laureate (2010).
• Dao Shixun, 89, Chinese politician.
• Bob Deacon, 73, British social scientist.
• Edward B. Giller, 99, American USAF major general.
• Robert D. Hales, 85, American religious leader (LDS Church).
• Andy Hopkins, 67, American football player (Hamilton Tiger-Cats).
• Arthur Janov, 93, American psychologist (The Primal Scream), complications from a stroke.
• Hugh Kearney, 93, British historian.
• Butch Lenton, 61, Australian councillor and community advocate, mayor of the Shire of Winton (since 2012), cancer.
• František Listopad, 95, Czech-born Portuguese poet, prose writer and director.
• Donald James Mackinnon, 88, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Box Hill (1976–1982).
• Edmond Maire, 86, French labor union leader, secretary general of CFDT (1971–1988).
• István Mészáros, 86, Hungarian Marxist philosopher (Socialism or Barbarism) and professor (University of Sussex).
• Muktar Muhammed, 72, Nigerian military officer, Governor of Kaduna (1977–1978), cancer.
• Angelika Muharukua, 59, Namibian Herero politician, MP (since 1995).
• Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., 89, American publisher (Advance Publications) and businessman.
• Stephen Paddock, 64, American gunman (2017 Las Vegas shooting), suicide by gunshot.
• José Pratas, 59, Portuguese football referee.
• Philippe Rahmy, 52, Swiss poet and writer, Swiss Literature Awards laureate (2017).
• Eliu Rivera, 73, Puerto Rican activist and politician.
• Dave Strader, 62, American sportscaster (Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings, Phoenix Coyotes), cholangiocarcinoma.
• John Swinburne, 87, Scottish politician, founder of SSCUP and member of Parliament (2003–2007).
• Larissa Volpert, 91, Russian-Estonian philologist and chess Woman Grandmaster, Soviet women's chess champion (1954, 1958, 1959).

2

• Peter Burke, 90, New Zealand rugby union player (Taranaki, national team).
• Warren Burton, 72, American actor (All My Children, Gettysburg, Green Lantern).
• Slip Capone, 38, American rapper.
• Evangelina Elizondo, 88, Mexican actress, artist and singer.
• Robert Elsie, 67, Canadian-born German Albanologist, linguist and translator, motor neuron disease.
• Solly Hemus, 94, American baseball player and manager (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies).
• Klaus Huber, 92, Swiss composer and academic.
• Azra Kolaković, 40, Bosnian pop singer, uterine cancer.
• Edwin N. Lightfoot, 92, American biochemical engineer.
• Friedrich von Löffelholz, 62, German Olympic time trials cyclist (1976) and university lecturer.
• Norma Male, 101, Australian government administrator.
• Hanumant Moreshwar Marathe, 77, Indian writer and journalist.
• Edward Mhinga, 89, South African politician, Chief Minister of Gazankulu (1993).
• Øyvin Norborg, 78, Norwegian newspaper editor.
• Simon Ostrach, 93, American scientist.
• Paul Otellini, 66, American businessman, CEO of Intel (2005–2013).
• Antonio Pantojas, 68, Puerto Rican actor, dancer, playwright and female impersonator, heart attack.
• Jim Patterson, 67, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (since 2010), heart attack.
• Marcel Germain Perrier, 84, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pamiers (2000–2008).
• Tom Petty, 66, American Hall of Fame musician (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Traveling Wilburys) and voice actor (King of the Hill), accidental drug overdose.
• Jean Roesser, 87, American politician, member of the Maryland Senate (1995–2003), complications of leukemia.
• Patrocinio Samudio, 42, Paraguayan footballer, heart attack.
• Neil Smelser, 87, American sociologist.
• Barbara Tisserat, 66, American lithographer, lung cancer.
• Robert Yates, 74, American racing team owner (Yates Racing), NASCAR Winston Cup champion (1999), liver cancer.

3

• Rodney Bickerstaffe, 72, British trade unionist, General Secretary of NUPE (1982–1993) and UNISON (1996–2001).
• Robert Henry Bragg Jr., 98, American physicist.
• Ming Chang, 85, Chinese-born American naval officer.
• David Dolbin, 85, American football player and coach.
• Curtis Ford Jr., 95, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives (1953–1957).
• Bob Gannon, 58, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (since 2015).
• Chittani Ramachandra Hegde, 84, Indian Yakshagana artist, stroke.
• John Herrnstein, 79, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, Atlanta Braves).
• Hornsby Howell, 90, American football player and coach.
• Norm Jamison, 67, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (1990–1995), liver cancer.
• Ninja Jorgensen, 77, American Olympic volleyball player.
• Michel Jouvet, 91, French oneirologist and neurobiologist, developer of Modafinil and discoverer of REM sleep.
• Isabella Karle, 95, American scientist, brain tumor.
• Kim Un-yong, 86, South Korean sports administrator, President of World Taekwondo Federation (1973–2004).
• Jack Laver, 100, Australian cricketer.
• André Lévy, 91, French sinologist and translator.
• Victorino Martín Andrés, 88, Spanish breeder of fighting bulls, stroke.
• Francesco Martino, 80, Italian politician, President of Sicily (1993–1995).
• Les Mutrie, 66, English footballer (Hull City), cancer.
• Dieter Nörr, 86, German scholar of ancient law.
• Lance Russell, 91, American professional wrestling announcer and commentator (CWA, USWA, WCW), complications from a broken hip.
• Jalal Talabani, 83, Iraqi-Kurdish politician, Prime Minister (2003) and President (2005–2014), cerebral hemorrhage.
• Norma Williams, 88, New Zealand swimmer, British Empire Games silver medallist (1950).

4

• Davoud Ahmadinejad, 67, Iranian politician, heart attack.
• Lawrence Argent, 60, British-born American sculptor, cardiac arrest.
• Atiqa Bano, 77, Indian educationist and curator.
• Vivian Castleberry, 95, American journalist and newspaper editor.
• Bronisław Chromy, 92, Polish sculptor (Wawel Dragon).
• Liam Cosgrave, 97, Irish politician, Taoiseach (1973–1977).
• Lyudmila Gureyeva, 74, Ukrainian-born Russian volleyball player, Olympic silver medalist (1964).
• Rufus Hannah, 63, American advocate for homeless rights, traffic collision.
• Janis Hansen, 74, American singer and author, myelofibrosis and acute myeloid leukemia.
• Karel Kolář, 61, Czech athlete, European Indoor champion (1979).
• Edward Mazurek, 78, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives (2004–2012), and Maine Senate (2012–2014).
• John Miller, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Washington's 1st congressional district (1985–1993), cancer.
• Jesús Mosterín, 76, Spanish anthropologist and philosopher of science, lung cancer.
• Richard Paris, 75, Australian Olympic cyclist (1964).
• Jerry Ross, 84, American producer and songwriter ("I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"), founder of Heritage and Colossus Records, prostate cancer.
• Keith Schmidt, 95, Australian cricketer.
• Yosihiko H. Sinoto, 93, Japanese-born American anthropologist (Hane excavation).
• William Tepper, 69, American actor (Bachelor Party, Drive, He Said) and screenwriter (Grilled), heart attack.
• Barry Thomas, 85, American sound engineer (Days of Heaven, Witness, 7th Heaven), stroke.
• Harry Wikman, 88, Finnish Olympic rower.

5

• Georges Baert, 91, Belgian Olympic basketball player.
• Heley de Abreu Silva Batista, 43, Brazilian teacher (Janaúba Tragedy), burns.
• Armin Delong, 92, Czech physicist.
• Ruth Escobar, 81, Portuguese-born Brazilian actress (The Jew) and politician, founder of Teatro Ruth Escobar.
• Kelly Gage, 92, American attorney and politician, member of the Minnesota Senate (1967–1972).
• Toon Geurts, 85, Dutch sprint canoer, Olympic silver medalist (1964).
• Georges Griffiths, 27, Ivorian footballer (Lombard-Pápa, Diósgyőr, national U-23 team), shot.
• Ted Haley, 96, American politician and surgeon.
• Dan Hanganu, 78, Romanian-born Canadian architect.
• Nora Johnson, 84, American author.
• John Knott, 78, British metallurgist.
• Eberhard van der Laan, 62, Dutch politician and lawyer, Minister for Housing, Communities and Integration (2008–2010), Mayor of Amsterdam (since 2010), lung cancer.
• António de Macedo, 86, Portuguese filmmaker, esotericism writer and professor.
• Trevor Martin, 87, Scottish actor (Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday, Coronation Street, Babel).
• Jan McLelland, 60, English dermatologist.
• Kurt Mislow, 94, German-born American chemist.
• Peter Plouviez, 86, British trade union leader, General Secretary of Equity (1974–1991).
• Giorgio Pressburger, 80, Hungarian-born Italian writer, Viareggio Prize laureate (1998).
• Anna Stewart, 53, British businesswoman, CEO of Laing O'Rourke (2013–2015), non-executive director of Babcock International (since 2012).
• Sylke Tempel, 54, German journalist and writer, struck by a tree.
• Myles Tierney, 80, American mathematician.
• François Xavier Nguyễn Văn Sang, 85, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Thái Bình (1990–2009).
• Bilat Paswan Vihangam, 77, Indian writer and politician.
• Anne Wiazemsky, 70, French actress (Au hasard Balthazar, La Chinoise) and writer, breast cancer.

6

• Roberto Anzolin, 79, Italian footballer (Juventus, national team).
• Tarnia Baker, 50, South African politician, member of the National Assembly (since 2014), traffic collision.
• Brian Bannon, 87, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Rockdale (1959–1986).
• Holly Block, 58, American museologist, gallery director in Art in General (1988–2004) and Director of Bronx Museum of the Arts (since 2006), breast cancer.
• William Arthur Cochrane, 91, Canadian physician.
• Terry Downes, 81, British boxer, world champion (1961–1962) and actor (The Fearless Vampire Killers, Caravaggio).
• Darsi Ferrer Ramírez, 47, Cuban journalist, doctor and Castro dissident, prisoner of conscience (2009–2010).
• Gao Mang, 90–91, Chinese translator.
• Lou Gare, 78, English jazz saxophonist.
• Marek Gołąb, 77, Polish weightlifter, Olympic bronze medalist (1968).
• Connie Hawkins, 75, American Hall of Fame basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters, Pittsburgh Pipers, Phoenix Suns).
• Hervé L. Leroux, 60, French fashion designer, founder of Hervé Leger, ruptured aneurysm.
• David Marks, 64, British architect and entrepreneur, co-designer of London Eye and British Airways i360 observation tower.
• Ralphie May, 45, American comedian (Last Comic Standing), cardiac arrest.
• Ian McNeill, 85, Scottish football player (Aberdeen) and manager (Ross County, Wigan Athletic).
• Mary Moore, 87, British author and diplomat.
• Angelo Munzone, 84, Italian politician, Mayor of Catania (1982–1984).
• Dick Roeding, 86, American politician, member of the Kentucky Senate (1991–2009).
• Bunny Sigler, 76, American songwriter and record producer (The O'Jays, The Roots, Patti LaBelle), heart attack.
• Judy Stone, 93, American film critic and author (San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times).
• Ray Turnbull, 78, Canadian curler, world championship silver medalist (1965), pneumonia.

7

• Kazys Almenas, 82, Lithuanian physicist, engineer and publisher.
• Hugo Budinger, 90, German field hockey player, Olympic bronze medalist (1956).
• George Dempsey, 88, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors).
• Hugo Dollheiser, 90, German field hockey player, Olympic bronze medalist (1956).
• Harald E. Esch, 85, German-born American biologist.
• Robert Honeysucker, 74, American operatic baritone.
• Vyacheslav Ivanov, 88, Russian philologist and semiotician, co-developer of glottalic theory.
• Jan Arvid Johansen, 70, Norwegian musician, cancer.
• Ole Krarup, 82, Danish politician, MEP (1994–2007).
• Jim Landis, 83, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox), cancer.
• Óscar Lara Aréchiga, 65, Mexican politician.
• Cosimo Mele, 60, Italian politician, Deputy (2006–2008), Mayor of Carovigno (2013–2015), stroke.
• Patrick Nair, 85, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Meerut (1974–2008).
• Antun Rudinski, 80, Serbian football manager and player (Red Star Belgrade).
• Konstantin Sarsania, 49, Russian football player and manager.
• Kundan Shah, 69, Indian film director (Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro), heart attack.
• Gaya Singh, 74, Indian politician, Senator (1992–2004).
• Jane Slowey, British charity worker, cancer.
• Wacław Świerzawski, 90, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sandomierz (1992–2002).
• Washington SyCip, 96, Filipino accountant, founder of the Asian Institute of Management and SGV & Company.
• Myra Brooks Turner, 81, American composer.
• Joan Zamboni, 83, American ice dancer.

8

• Henedina Abad, 62, Filipino politician, member of the House of Representatives for Batanes (2004–2007, since 2010), cancer.
• Coriún Aharonián, 77, Uruguayan electroacoustic music composer and musicologist.
• Loula Anagnostaki, 88, Greek dramatist.
• László Aradszky, 82, Hungarian pop singer.
• Aldo Biscardi, 86, Italian football broadcaster (Il processo di Biscardi).
• Mike Boland, 62, Canadian ice hockey player (Kansas City Scouts, Buffalo Sabres).
• Gianni Bonagura, 91, Italian actor and voice actor (Sherlock Holmes, In Prison Awaiting Trial).
• Slim Chaker, 56, Tunisian politician, Minister of Youth and Sports (2011), Minister of Finance (2015–2016) and Minister of Public Health (since 2017), heart disease.
• Lee Delano, 86, American actor (The Birdcage).
• Mlondi Dlamini, 20, South African footballer (Maritzburg United), traffic collision.
• Edna Dummerth, 93, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
• Darryl Edestrand, 71, Canadian ice hockey player (Pittsburgh Penguins, Boston Bruins, Los Angeles Kings).
• Merrill Heatter, 91, American screenwriter and producer (Hollywood Squares, Wacky Races, Gambit).
• Mark S. Joshi, 48, British mathematician, heart attack.
• Jerry Kleczka, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Wisconsin's 4th congressional district (1984–2005).
• Don Lock, 81, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Philadelphia Phillies).
• Gary Lowe, 83, American football player (Detroit Lions, Washington Redskins).
• Michel, 36, Brazilian footballer (SK Slavia Prague), leukemia.
• Beverly Reid O'Connell, 52, American federal judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (2013–2017).
• Grady Tate, 85, American jazz drummer and singer (Schoolhouse Rock!).
• Y. A. Tittle, 90, American football player (Baltimore Colts, San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants).
• Birgitta Ulfsson, 89, Finnish-Swedish actress (Rederiet).

9

• Manuel Busto, 85, French racing cyclist.
• Armando Calderón Sol, 69, Salvadoran politician, President (1994–1999), lung cancer.
• Tony Calvento, 63, Filipino journalist (Calvento Files), multiple organ failure.
• Allan Chumak, 82, Russian faith healer.
• Michel Diefenbacher, 70, French politician.
• Gary Flather, 80, English judge and disability rights campaigner.
• ElizaBeth Gilligan, 55, American fantasy author, cancer.
• Dale Hagerman, 90, American pharmacist, co-founder of Diplomat Pharmacy.
• Roy Hawes, 91, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
• Ben Hawkins, 73, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).
• Hessie, 81, Cuban-born French-Montenegrin textile artist.
• Gordon S. Kino, 89, Australian-born British-American inventor and electrical engineer.
• Yoji Kondo, 84, Japanese astrophysicist and author.
• Vincent La Selva, 88, American conductor, complications of dementia.
• Robin Ling, 90, British orthopaedic surgeon.
• Rafe Mair, 85, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (1975–1981).
• Victor Malu, 70, Nigerian military officer, Chief of Army Staff (1999–2001).
• Mike McQueen, 67, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds).
• Larry Paul, 65, British boxer.
• Sergei Prigoda, 59, Russian football player (USSR national team) and manager.
• Bill Puterbaugh, 81, American racing driver (USAC).
• M. V. S. Haranatha Rao, 70, Indian playwright and actor, heart attack.
• Jimmy Reid, 81, Scottish footballer (Dundee United).
• Jean Rochefort, 87, French actor (Lost in La Mancha, The Phantom of Liberty, Mr. Bean's Holiday).
• Ralph Salisbury, 91, American poet.
• Robert F. Schoultz, 92, American vice admiral.
• Fernando de Szyszlo, 92, Peruvian painter, sculptor and printmaker.
• József Tóth, 88, Hungarian footballer (Csepel, national team).

10

• Kassim Ahmad, 84, Malaysian writer and politician, lung illness.
• David Chapman, 42, American handball player.
• Cho Jin-ho, 44, South Korean football player (Pohang Atoms, national team) and manager (Daejeon Citizen), heart attack.
• Charles E. Gibson Jr., 91, American lawyer, Attorney General of Vermont (1963–1965).
• Pentti Holappa, 90, Finnish poet and writer.
• A. Daniel O'Neal, 81, American executive.
• Sandra Ruddick, 85, American Olympic artistic gymnast (1956).
• Bob Schiller, 98, American screenwriter (I Love Lucy, All in the Family, The Carol Burnett Show), Emmy winner (1971, 1978).
• Lawrence Spence, 85, English cricketer (Leicestershire).
• Alma Staudinger, 96, Austrian Olympic diver.
• Stack Stevens, 77, English rugby union player.

11

• Emmanuel Borlaza, 81, Filipino film director (Bituing Walang Ningning, Dyesebel, Darna) and writer, heart attack.
• Trevor Byfield, 73, English actor (The Bill, Yesterday’s Dreams, GoldenEye), pneumonia.
• Tom Christie, 90, British Olympic rower.
• Don Pedro Colley, 79, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard, THX 1138, Beneath the Planet of the Apes), cancer.
• John Fitzallen, 82, Australian football player (Longford).
• James R. Ford, 91, American politician, Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida (1972–1986).
• Chikara Hashimoto, 83, Japanese baseball player and actor (Fist of Fury), lung cancer.
• Dick Hewitt, 74, English footballer (Barnsley, York City).
• Paul Hufnagle, 81, American politician and businessman, Member of Minnesota House of Representatives (1991–1993).
• Sir Clifford Husbands, 91, Barbadian politician and judge, Governor-General (1996–2011).
• Jeremy, 2, British left-coiled snail.
• Gloria Johnson-Powell, 81, American child psychiatrist.
• Lika Kavzharadze, 57, Georgian actress (The Wishing Tree).
• Lawrence H. Keeley, 69, American archaeologist and author (War Before Civilization).
• Karl-Heinz Kipp, 93, Swiss-German billionaire department store and hotel owner.
• Paolo Lunardon, 87, Italian clergyman, Abbot of San Paolo fuori le mura (1997–2005).
• Betty Moczynski, 91, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
• Christiane Mora, 78, French politician and historian, MP (1981–1992) and Mayor of Loches (1989–1995).
• Nélio José Nicolai, 77, Brazilian electrotechnician, inventor of Caller ID.
• Shen Zuyan, 82, Chinese physicist.
• Sir Richard Swinburn, 79, British army general, Commander UK Field Army (1994–1995).

12

• Derek Blackburn, 83, Canadian politician, MP for Brant (1971–1993).
• Joan Blos, 89, American author.
• Simon Clarke, 79, English rugby union player (national team).
• Muntaka Connmassie, 71, Nigerian jurist, Supreme Court (2008–2016).
• Margarita D'Amico, 79, Venezuelan journalist and academic.
• Keith Doyle, 92, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Vaucluse (1965–1978).
• Grape-kun, 21, Japanese Humboldt penguin.
• Bo Holmström, 78, Swedish journalist (SVT, TV4).
• Hu Bo, 29, Chinese novelist and film director, suicide.
• Ed Long, 83, American politician, member of the Oklahoma Senate (1988–1996).
• Andy McGhee, 89, American jazz saxophonist.
• Erwin Moser, 63, Austrian author.
• Vladimír Novák, 69, Czech Olympic judoka.
• Horst Posdorf, 69, German politician, MEP (2005–2009).
• Robert Lynn Pruett, 38, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Glen Richardson, 90, American baseball player (New York Black Yankees).
• Derek Steward, 89, New Zealand sprinter.
• Carlos Visentín, 98, Argentine Olympic water polo player.
• Emmy Werner, 87-88, American developmental psychologist.

13

• Bernd Bonwetsch, 76, German historian, founding director of German Historical Institute Moscow.
• Betty Campbell, 82, Welsh community activist and head teacher.
• Satish Chandra, 94, Indian historian (medieval India).
• Lady Jean Fforde, 96, British aristocrat and codebreaker.
• Pierre Hanon, 80, Belgian footballer (national team, Anderlecht).
• William Lombardy, 79, American chess grandmaster, heart attack.
• Ted Z. Robertson, 96, American judge, Texas Supreme Court justice (1982–1988).
• Iain Rogerson, 56, British actor (Coronation Street), complications from diabetes.
• P. S. Soosaithasan, 83, Sri Lankan politician, MP for Mannar (1977–1983).
• Albert Zafy, 90, Malagasy politician, President (1993–1996), stroke.

14

• Wolfgang Bötsch, 79, German politician, MP (1976–2005) and Federal Minister of Post and Telecommunications (1993–1997).
• Lazhar Bououni, 69, Tunisian politician and professor, Minister of Higher Education and Research (2004–2010) and Justice (2010–2011), President of University of Sousse (1990–1995) and University of Manouba (1991–2001).
• Emmanuel Aboagye Didieye, 40, Ghanaian politician, MP for Afram Plains North (2009–2017).
• Patrick Haslam, 69, British racehorse trainer, motor neurone disease.
• Inside Information, 26, American racehorse.
• Fulgence Werner Le Roy, 93, Belgian-born South African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Polokwane (1988–2000).
• Yambo Ouologuem, 77, Malian writer.
• Lourdes Quisumbing, 96, Filipino politician, Secretary of Education, Culture and Sports (1986–1989).
• Marian Cannon Schlesinger, 105, American artist and author.
• Murray Seeman, 103, American lawyer and politician.
• Marjorie Taylor, Jamaican politician, MP (1993–1997).
• Daniel Webb, 28, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox), ATV collision.
• Richard Wilbur, 96, American poet and literary translator, Pulitzer Prize winner (1957, 1989).

15

• Chinggoy Alonzo, 67, Filipino actor, cancer.
• Dave Bry, 46, American music journalist and editor (Vibe, Spin, The Awl), cancer.
• Deng Ken, 105, Chinese politician and younger brother of former Paramount leader of China Deng Xiaoping.
• Bill Donakowski, 61, American long-distance runner.
• Cathy Elliott, 60, Canadian playwright, actress and composer, traffic collision.
• Choirul Huda, 38, Indonesian footballer (Persela Lamongan), cardiac arrest due to collision with teammate.
• Burrhead Jones, 80, American professional wrestler (WWWF, CCW, CWA).
• Shamsher Khan, 84, Indian Olympic swimmer (1956).
• Boris Lindqvist, 76, Swedish rock singer.
• Peter Lumsden, 88, British racing driver.
• Gonzalo Martínez Corbalá, 89, Mexican politician and diplomat, MP (1964–1967, 1988–1990), Senator (1982–1988), Governor of San Luis Potosí (1991–1992).
• Sir Bert Massie, 68, British disability rights campaigner, Chairman of Disability Rights Commission (2000–2007), cancer.
• Hamish McNeill, 82, Scottish footballer (Colchester United).
• Xavier Johnsai Munyongani, 67, Zimbabwean Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Gweru (since 2013).
• Miloš Radulović, 88, Montenegrin politician, President of Yugoslavia (1993).
• Alison Robins, 97, British military communications listener (Y-stations).
• Rose Schwarz, 82, German missionary.
• Hernán Silva, 68, Chilean football referee.
• Herbert Suchiang, 86, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
• János Szabó, 72, Hungarian Olympic runner.
• Lekh Tandon, 88, Indian film director (Professor, Ek Baar Kaho, Amrapali) and actor (Swades, Chennai Express).
• Serge Thion, 75, French sociologist and Holocaust denier, member of French National Center for Scientific Research (1971–2000).
• William Turnage, 74, American conservationist, business manager of Ansel Adams, cancer.
• Wayne Velicer, 73, American psychologist.

16

• Hernán Agote, 80, Argentine Olympic bobsledder.
• John Andreason, 88, American politician, member of the Idaho Senate (1995–2012), liver cancer.
• D. J. Bartholomew, 86, British statistician.
• Glen Bonner, 65, American football player (San Diego Chargers).
• Kevin Cadle, 62, American-born British basketball coach (Kingston Kings, British national team) and presenter (Sky Sports).
• Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, Maltese blogger and journalist (Panama Papers), car bomb.
• Dharmakkan Dhanaraj, 67, Indian Christian theologian.
• Roy Dotrice, 94, British actor (Amadeus, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Game of Thrones), Tony winner (2000).
• John Dunsworth, 71, Canadian actor (Trailer Park Boys, Haven, The Shipping News), complications from thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.
• Fedor Glushchenko, 73, Russian conductor and violinist.
• Isnilon Hapilon, 51, Filipino Islamist militant (MNLF, Al-Qaeda, Abu Sayyaf), shot.
• Sean Hughes, 51, Irish comedian (Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Sean's Show) and actor (The Last Detective), cirrhosis.
• Koichi Kishi, 77, Japanese politician, Mayor of Kaneyama (1971–1998) and member of the House of Councillors (1998–2016).
• Ma Lin, 92, Hong Kong biochemist, Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1978–1987).
• Omar Maute, 37, Filipino Islamist militant (Maute group), shot.
• Ajmal Mian, 83, Pakistani jurist, Chief Justice (1997–1999).
• David Pettifor, 72, British metallurgist.
• Marvin Rodríguez, 82, Costa Rican football player and coach (national team, C.S.D. Municipal, Saprissa).
• Phillip V. Sanchez, 88, American diplomat, ambassador to Honduras (1973–1976) and Colombia (1976–1977).
• Iain Shedden, 60, Scottish-Australian musician (The Saints) and journalist (The Australian), laryngeal cancer.
• Anthony Simonds-Gooding, 80, Irish executive.
• Heather Slade-Lipkin, 70, English pianist, harpsichordist and music teacher.
• Harriette Thompson, 94, American pianist.
• Yan Shunkai, 80, Chinese comedian, actor (The True Story of Ah Q) and film director.

17

• Ed Barnowski, 74, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).
• Ian Baxter, 80, British army officer.
• Robert Butow, 93, American historian.
• John Crosby Jr., 66, American Olympic gymnast.
• Danielle Darrieux, 100, French actress (The Young Girls of Rochefort, Persepolis, The Earrings of Madame de...) and singer, complications from a fall.
• Gord Downie, 53, Canadian musician (The Tragically Hip) and activist (Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, residential school reconciliation), glioblastoma.
• Mychael Knight, 39, American fashion designer (Project Runway).
• Ryszard Kowalczyk, 80, Polish scientist and Soviet dissident.
• Ingvar Lidholm, 96, Swedish composer.
• Michele Marsh, 63, American television journalist, breast cancer.
• Giuseppe Massa, 69, Italian footballer (Inter Milan, S.S.C. Napoli).
• Julian May, 86, American science fiction writer (The Many-Colored Land).
• Dick Morley, 84, American electrical engineer, inventor of the programmable logic controller.
• Dunc Rousseau, 72, Canadian ice hockey player (Winnipeg Jets), cancer.
• Harry Stradling Jr., 92, American cinematographer (The Way We Were, Micki + Maude, 1776).
• Douglas H. Thayer, 88, American author.
• Baron von Lind, 79, American painter.
• Erik Wesdorp, 70, Dutch Olympic rower.
• Donald A. Yates, 87, American writer and translator.

18

• Gregory Baum, 94, Canadian theologian.
• Brent Briscoe, 56, American actor (Twin Peaks, A Simple Plan, Sling Blade) and screenwriter, complications from a fall.
• Eamonn Campbell, 70, Irish musician (The Dubliners).
• Arlie F. Culp, 91, American politician.
• Helen DeVos, 90, American philanthropist (Helen DeVos Children's Hospital), stroke complications.
• Jerry Helluin, 88, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Cleveland Browns).
• Phil Miller, 68, English guitarist, cancer.
• Dorothy Morrison, 98, American child actress (The Champeen, Seein' Things, Isn't Life Terrible?).
• Taizo Nishimuro, 81, Japanese businessman (Japan Post Holdings, Toshiba, Tokyo Stock Exchange).
• Eva Paulusová-Benešová, 80, Czech Olympic cross-country skier.
• Marino Perani, 77, Italian football manager and player (Bologna, national team).
• John Phillips, 83, English cricketer (Kent).
• Sir Christopher Pitchford, 70, British jurist, Lord Justice of Appeal (2010–2017), motor neurone disease.
• Unity Spencer, 87, British artist.
• Ricardo Vidal, 86, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal, Archbishop of Lipa (1973–1981) and Cebu (1981–2010), President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference (1986–1987), sepsis.
• Ram Singh Yadav, 74, Indian politician, heart attack.
• Yeoh Tiong Lay, 87, Malaysian businessman (YTL).
• Issam Zahreddine, 56, Syrian Republican Guard major general (Siege of Deir ez-Zor), landmine explosion.

19

• Jeanne Brousse, 96, French resistance member.
• Edmund Cotter, 90, New Zealand mountaineer.
• Dick DiBiaso, 76, American college basketball coach (Stanford).
• Ken Gowers, 81, English rugby league player (Swinton, Great Britain).
• David E. Gratz, 90, American engineer.
• Calvin Hultman, 76, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate (1973–1991).
• Willie Lee, 67, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs), heart attack.
• Umberto Lenzi, 86, Italian film director (Cannibal Ferox, Nightmare City, Eaten Alive!).
• Miguel Ángel Loayza, 77, Peruvian football player (FC Barcelona, Boca Juniors, Deportivo Cali).
• Castor Paul Msemwa, 62, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tunduru-Masasi (since 2005).
• Manuel de Oliveira, 76, Portuguese Olympic long-distance runner (1960, 1964, 1968).
• Michael Pitfield, 80, Canadian politician, Clerk of the Privy Council (1975–1979, 1980–1982) and Senator (1982–2010), Parkinson's disease.
• Brian Riley, 80, English footballer (Bolton Wanderers).
• Lewis Arthur Tambs, 90, American diplomat.

20

• Fay Chiang, 65, American poet, complications from cancer.
• Amal Datta, 84, Indian politician.
• Ugo Fangareggi, 79, Italian actor (For Love and Gold), voice actor and comedian, Parkinson's disease.
• Rudolf Gorenflo, 87, German mathematician.
• Stan Kowalski, 91, American professional wrestler (AWA, NWA Tri-State, Stampede Wrestling).
• Federico Luppi, 81, Argentine-Spanish actor (Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead, Pan's Labyrinth, Men with Guns).
• Russell Mawby, 89, American businessman, CEO of W. K. Kellogg Foundation (1970–1996).
• Judith McGrath, 70, Australian actress (Prisoner, A Country Practice, All Saints).
• Dick Noel, 90, American band singer ("Count Every Star").
• Justin Reed, 35, American basketball player (Ole Miss Rebels, Boston Celtics, Minnesota Timberwolves), angiosarcoma.
• Betty Bone Schiess, 94, American Episcopal priest.
• Roland Ströhm, 89, Swedish Olympic cyclist.
• Mustapha Tlili, 80, Tunisian novelist.
• Thuravoor Viswambharan, 74, Indian Vedic scholar and writer.

21

• Martin Eric Ain, 50, American-born Swiss bassist (Hellhammer, Celtic Frost) and entrepreneur, heart attack.
• Donald Bain, 82, American writer (Coffee, Tea or Me?), heart failure.
• Rosaura Barahona, 75, Mexican journalist and feminist writer, pulmonary disease.
• Denise P. Barlow, 67, British geneticist.
• Kazimierz Chodakowski, 88, Polish Olympic ice hockey player (1952, 1956), (ŁKS Łódź).
• Chuck Churn, 87, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians, Los Angeles Dodgers).
• Emilio D'Amore, 101, Italian politician, Deputy (1948–1958, 1963–1968).
• Robert Getchell, 81, American screenwriter (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Bound for Glory, The Client).
• Audrey Hancock, 98, British Olympic swimmer (1936).
• Nol Hendriks, 80, Dutch businessman and football executive (Roda JC), brain hemorrhage.
• Rosemary Leach, 81, English actress (A Room with a View, The Roads to Freedom, The Plague Dogs).
• Dave Leech, 90, New Zealand hammer thrower.
• John Morrow, 84, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Los Angeles Rams).
• Lech Ordon, 88, Polish actor (Letters to Santa).
• Max Pfister, 85, Swiss linguist.
• Juan de Dios Pueblos, 74, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kidapawan (1987–1995) and Butuan (since 1995).
• Herb Raybourn, 82, American baseball scout (New York Yankees).
• Pat Shovelin, 41, Irish Gaelic football coach (Donegal), cancer.
• Gilbert Stork, 95, American chemist.
• Herbert Strabel, 90, German art director (Cabaret, The NeverEnding Story, Enemy Mine), Oscar winner (1973).
• Tom van Vollenhoven, 82, South African rugby union (national team) and rugby league player (St Helens).

22

• Piergiuseppe D'Andreamatteo, 73, Italian politician, Deputy (1992–1994).
• G. N. Georgano, 85, British author.
• Christopher Grant, 81, English cricketer (Nottinghamshire).
• Atle Hammer, 85, Norwegian jazz musician.
• Al Hurricane, 81, American singer and songwriter, complications from prostate cancer.
• Emu Lehtinen, 70, Finnish record dealer, leukemia.
• Patricia Llewellyn, 55, British television producer (The Naked Chef, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares), BAFTA (2001, 2005, 2008) and Emmy winner (2006), breast cancer.
• Baldo Marro, 69, Filipino actor and director.
• Fred Miller, 86, American football player (Washington Redskins, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, BC Lions).
• Ram Mukherjee, 84, Indian film director (Hum Hindustani, Ek Bar Mooskura Do, Leader).
• Peadar O'Loughlin, 87, Irish musician.
• Darrell Osteen, 74, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Oakland Athletics).
• Fernand Picot, 87, French racing cyclist.
• Scott Putesky, 49, American guitarist (Marilyn Manson), colon cancer.
• Walter Babington Thomas, 98, New Zealand-born British army officer, GOC Far East Land Forces (1970–1971).
• Geraldo João Paulo Roger Verdier, 80, French-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guajará-Mirim (1980–2011), hemorrhagic stroke.
• Chuck Weber, 87, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Philadelphia Eagles).
• Paul J. Weitz, 85, American astronaut (Skylab 2, STS-6), myelodysplastic syndrome.
• George Young, 70, Scottish-born Australian musician (The Easybeats), songwriter ("Friday on My Mind", "Love Is in the Air"), and producer (AC/DC).

23

• Alinghi, 16, Australian racehorse, foaling complications.
• Corrado Böhm, 94, Italian computer scientist.
• Joe Corcoran, 77, Irish Gaelic football player (Mayo GAA).
• Reinhold Durnthaler, 74, Austrian bobsledder, world champion (1967), Olympic silver medallist (1964, 1968).
• Pyotr Gorelikov, 85, Russian Olympic sailor.
• Gordon A. Haaland, 77, American academic.
• Anthony Hallam, 83, British geologist.
• Mila Hernando, 60, Spanish diplomat, Ambassador to Lebanon (2012–2017), cancer.
• Athanassios Kalogiannis, 52, Greek Olympic hurdler (1984, 1992) and fashion photographer, pulmonary edema.
• Walter Lassally, 90, German-born British-Greek cinematographer (Zorba the Greek, Oedipus the King, Tom Jones), Oscar winner (1965).
• John Mattock, 91, British rose grower.
• John McCracken, 79, British historian.
• Joyce McLaughlin, 78, American mathematician.
• Hamid Ali Mirza, 77, Pakistani judge.
• Mary Nissenson, 65, American television journalist, septic shock.
• Gordon Ogilvie, 83, New Zealand historian (Canterbury region) and biographer (Richard Pearse, Denis Glover).
• Iona Opie, 94, British folklorist.
• Bob Richardson, 72, American politician.
• Mari Lyn Salvador, 74, American anthropologist and museum director (San Diego Museum of Man, Hearst Museum).
• Charles Sims, 80, American mathematician.
• Zenon Ważny, 87, Polish Olympic pole vaulter (1956).

24

• M. K. Anwar, 84, Bangladeshi politician, Minister of Agriculture (2001–2006).
• Ebrahim Ashtiani, 75, Iranian footballer (Persepolis, national team), heart disease.
• Sir Peter Bairsto, 91, British air marshal, Deputy Commander in Chief Strike Command (1981–1984).
• Glenn Barr, 75, Northern Irish politician (UDA) and advocate, member of Northern Ireland Assembly and Constitutional Convention.
• Amal Bayou, 58–60, Libyan microbiologist and politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Inga Borg, 92, Swedish writer (Plupp).
• Willie Chan, 76, Malaysian-born Hong Kong film producer and talent manager (Jackie Chan, Edison Chen).
• Ingetraut Dahlberg, 90, German information scientist and philosopher, developer of Information Coding Classification.
• Girija Devi, 88, Indian thumri singer, Padma Vibhushan (2016), cardiac arrest.
• Fats Domino, 89, American Hall of Fame pianist and singer-songwriter ("Blueberry Hill", "Ain't That a Shame", "I'm Walkin'").
• Michael Patrick Driscoll, 78, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Boise (1999–2014).
• Alan Eddy, 90, British biochemist.
• Fu Quanxiang, 94, Chinese Yue opera actress.
• Tony Garrett, 99, British executive, chairman of Imperial Tobacco (1973-1979).
• Virginia Grant, 80, Canadian Olympic swimmer.
• Robert Guillaume, 89, American actor (Benson, The Lion King, Sports Night), Emmy winner (1979, 1985), prostate cancer.
• Clayton Howard, 83, British make-up artist.
• Sana Iqbal, 29, Indian cross-country cyclist and anti-suicide activist, traffic collision.
• Jane Juska, 84, American writer.
• Brady Keys, 81, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Minnesota Vikings, St. Louis Cardinals) and businessman.
• Otto Kraus, 87, German arachnologist and myriapodologist.
• Eric Kipping, 92, Canadian politician.
• Andrew W. Lewis, 74, American medievalist.
• Peter Lötscher, 76, Swiss Olympic fencer.
• Sallie Morton, 91, American jeweler, mesothelioma.
• Brendan O'Kelly, 89, Irish Olympic footballer.
• Michael Proctor, 88, English botanist.
• Isabel Quintanilla, 79, Spanish visual artist.
• I. V. Sasi, 69, Indian film director (Devasuram), heart attack.
• Mahama Sawadogo, 63, Burkinabé politician, High Commissioner of Kadiogo Province (1984–1986) and member of the National Assembly (since 1992).

25

• Mohamed Abshir Muse, 91, Somali military officer, commander of Somali Police Force (1960–1969) and leader of SSDF (1991–1998).
• Jack Bannon, 77, American actor (Lou Grant, Petticoat Junction, Little Big Man).
• Robert Blakeley, 95, American graphic designer (fallout shelter sign).
• Vilnis Edvīns Bresis, 79, Latvian politician, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Latvian SSR (1988–1990).
• Ronald Breslow, 86, American chemist and professor (Columbia University), cancer.
• Roger Bullen, 83, Australian rules footballer (Geelong).
• Ian Cathie, 85, Australian politician, Victorian MLA (1976–1988).
• Maud Linder, 93, French journalist, film historian and documentary film director.
• Lu Guanqiu, 72, Chinese billionaire automotive manufacturer, chairman and co-founder of Wanxiang.
• Peter MacGregor-Scott, 69, British film producer (Batman Forever, The Fugitive, Still Smokin), injuries sustained in traffic collision.
• Joseph Mahn Erie, 92, Myanmar Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bassein (1968–1982).
• Sir John Manduell, 89, South African-born British composer and educator (Royal Northern College of Music).
• John Mollo, 86, British costume designer (Star Wars, Alien, Gandhi), Oscar winner (1978, 1983), vascular dementia.
• Donnchadh Ó Corráin, 75, Irish historian (vikings, Medieval ages, Hiberno-Normans).
• Pinito del Oro, 86, Spanish trapeze artist (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus).
• Ross Powell, 49, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros, Pittsburgh Pirates), carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Gas Ronda, 91, American drag racer.
• Ben Shephard, 69, English historian and writer.
• Vincent Warren, 79, American-Canadian dance historian and lecturer.
• Jim Welch, 79, American football player (Baltimore Colts).

26

• Ali Ashraf Darvishian, 76, Iranian writer and democracy activist.
• Awurama Badu, 72, Ghanaian highlife musician.
• George Conzemius, 81, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate (1967-1977).
• Fred Ray Dorsey, 87, American politician.
• Simon Fitzmaurice, 43, Irish filmmaker, motor neurone disease.
• André Gauthier, 82, Canadian monument sculptor and designer.
• Arnett Girardeau, 88, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1976–1982) and Senate (1983–1992).
• Juliette, 91, Canadian singer and television host.
• Sir Gavin Laird, 84, Scottish trade unionist.
• Ian McLeod, 63, South African football referee.
• Shea Norman, 45, American gospel singer, diabetes.
• Nelly Olin, 76, French politician, Mayor of Garges-lès-Gonesse and Senator (1995–2004), Minister of Environment (2005–2007).
• Linda Richardson, 62, American judoka.
• Barry Roberts, 84, Australian rugby union player (Manly RUFC).
• Richard M. Ryckman, 80, American psychologist.
• Sir Reginald Secondé, 95, British diplomat, Ambassador to Chile, Romania and Venezuela.
• Thomas Smales, 83, English rugby league player (national team) and coach (Castleford Tigers, Featherstone Rovers).
• Geoff Tootill, 95, British computer scientist.
• Abdul Karim Telgi, 56, Indian forger.
• Stephen Toulouse, 45, American policy specialist and public relations manager (Microsoft, Xbox Live), abdominal hemorrhage.

27

• Roger Carpenter, 72, English neurophysiologist.
• Lewis Golden, 94, English army officer and executive (Everest Home Improvement).
• Hans Kraay Sr., 81, Dutch football player (DOS) and manager (Feyenoord).
• Ladislav Kubík, 71, Czech-born American composer.
• Punathil Kunjabdulla, 77, Indian writer (Smarakasilakal).
• Dieter Kurrat, 75, German football player and manager (Borussia Dortmund).
• Peter Lawrenson, 84, British electrical engineer.
• Cecil Moss, 92, South African rugby union player (national team).
• Patrick Nagatani, 72, American photographer.
• David Reid, 84, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for Blackwood (1971–1972), Senator for Western Australia (1974).
• David Shedden, 73, Scottish rugby union player (national team).
• Digamber Singh, 66, Indian politician, cancer.
• Abdoulaye Soulama, 37, Burkinabé footballer (ASFA Yennenga, Denizlispor, national team).
• Deon Stewardson, 66, South African actor (Wild at Heart), suicide.
• Inkululeko Suntele, 23, Lesothan Olympic boxer, stabbed.
• Katalin Szőke, 82, Hungarian swimmer, Olympic champion (1952).
• Joe Taub, 88, American business executive (Automatic Data Processing) and co-owner of the New Jersey Nets.
• David Vaughan, 93, American dance historian, complications from prostate cancer.
• Göran Witting, 92, Swedish Olympic sailor.

28

• Yvonne Baseden, 95, French-born British Special Operations Executive agent.
• Ronald Getoor, 88, American mathematician.
• Mary Kenner, 83, Canadian figure skater.
• Josaphat-Robert Large, 74, Haitian-American poet, novelist and art critic, Prix littéraire des Caraïbes (2003).
• Roger Lockyer, 89, British historian.
• Al Oster, 92, Canadian folk singer.
• Leif Ottersen, 88, Norwegian Lutheran priest.
• Mitchell Peters, 82, American timpanist.
• Bernard Roy, 83, French mathematician.
• Manuel Sanchís Martínez, 79, Spanish footballer (national team, Real Madrid).
• Willy Schroeders, 84, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Gaetano De Vescovi, 79, Italian Olympic wrestler.

29

• Muhal Richard Abrams, 87, American jazz pianist.
• Cecil Austen, 98, Australian cricketer and football player.
• Dennis Banks, 80, American indigenous activist and actor (Thunderheart, The Last of the Mohicans), co-founder of American Indian Movement, complications from heart surgery.
• Thelma Boughner, 99, Canadian Olympic diver (1936).
• Keith Briffa, 64, British climatologist, cancer.
• Richard E. Cavazos, 88, American army general, Commanding General of FORSCOM (1982–1984), Alzheimer's disease.
• Claude Dulong, 95, French historian.
• Metin Ersoy, 83, Turkish singer.
• Roly Green, 90, New Zealand rugby union player (South Canterbury).
• Richard Hambleton, 65, Canadian street artist, cancer.
• Frank Holder, 92, Guyanese jazz singer and percussionist.
• Władysław Kowalski, 81, Polish actor.
• Steve Landen, 64, American bridge player, hypothermia.
• Tony Madigan, 87, Australian boxer and rugby union player, Olympic bronze medalist (1960).
• Clay McShane, 73, American historian.
• Billy Mize, 88, American steel guitarist, band leader and vocalist.
• Herbert Morawetz, 102, Czech-born American chemical engineer.
• Didier Motchane, 86, French politician, MEP (1979–1989), cancer.
• Manfredi Nicoletti, 87, Italian architect (Helicoidal Skyscraper, Airport of Catania, Kazakhstan Central Concert Hall).
• Linda Nochlin, 86, American art historian.
• Juanita Quigley, 86, American child actress.
• Atluri Purnachandra Rao, 92, Indian film producer (Venky).
• Al Richter, 90, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).
• Peter Schutz, 87, German-born American businessman (Porsche), Alzheimer's disease.
• Sir Ninian Stephen, 94, Australian judge, Governor-General (1982–1989), Justice of the High Court (1972–1982).
• Daniel Te'o-Nesheim, 30, American Samoan football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Tampa Bay Buccaneers).

30

• Candy Atherton, 62, British politician, MP for Falmouth and Camborne (1997–2005).
• Fred Beckey, 94, American rock climber, mountaineer and author.
• Algimantas Butnorius, 70, Lithuanian chess Grandmaster (2007) and World Senior Champion (2007).
• Frank Doran, 68, British politician, MP for Aberdeen South (1987–1992) and Aberdeen North (1997–2015).
• János Halász, 88, Hungarian Olympic basketball player (1948).
• Kim Joo-hyuk, 45, South Korean actor (The Servant, My Wife Got Married, Confidential Assignment), traffic collision.
• Cornelius Korir, 67, Kenyan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Eldoret (since 1990).
• James D. Martin, 99, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Alabama's 7th congressional district (1965–1967).
• Judy Martz, 74, American politician, Governor of Montana (2001–2005), Olympic speed skater (1964), pancreatic cancer.
• Salvador Minuchin, 96, Argentine-American psychotherapist, developer of structural family therapy, heart disease.
• Eugène Parlier, 88, Swiss footballer (Servette, Urania Genève Sport, Biel-Bienne).
• Melanmai Ponnusamy, 66, Indian writer, heart attack.
• Mary Reveley, 77, British racehorse trainer.
• M. V. Sridhar, 51, Indian cricketer (Hyderabad), heart attack.
• Daniel Viglietti, 78, Uruguayan folk singer, guitarist, composer and political activist.
• Abbas Zandi, 87, Iranian Olympic freestyle wrestler (1948, 1952, 1956) and World champion (1954).

31

• Wolfgang Achtner, 60, German theologian, heart attack.
• Weston Bate, 93, Australian historian.
• William A. V. Cecil, 89, American businessman (The Biltmore Company).
• Mircea Drăgan, 85, Romanian film director (Setea, Lupeni 29, Explosion).
• Rolly Goldring, 80, Canadian Olympic basketball player.
• Norman Hardie, 92, New Zealand mountaineer.
• Fanya Heller, 93, Ukrainian-born American Holocaust survivor and author.
• Howard L. Kennedy, 89, American politician.
• Myron P. Lotto, 92, American politician, member of the Wisconsin Senate (1969-1973).
• Elaine Mazlish, 92, American author.
• Terry McCashin, 73, New Zealand businessman (McCashin's Brewery) and rugby union player (national team, Wellington).
• Clare McLaren-Throckmorton, 82, British barrister.
• Red Murrell, 84, American basketball player (Drake University), heart disease.
• Mario das Neves, 66, Argentine politician, Governor of Chubut (2003–2011, since 2015).
• Papi Oviedo, 79, Cuban tresero.
• Derek Robinson, 90, British trade unionist.
• Stefano Salvatori, 49, Italian footballer (Milan, Fiorentina), cancer.
• Colin Simpson, 86, English journalist and author.
• Bob Talbot, 89, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).
• James A. Williams, 85, American lieutenant general.
• Abubakari Yakubu, 35, Ghanaian footballer (Ajax, Vitesse, national team).

External links

• List of October 2017 deaths at IMDb