Deaths in December 2020

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2020.

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), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

December 2020[edit]

1[edit]

• Loris Abate, 92, Italian jewelry designer.^[1]
• Norman Abramson, 88, American engineer and computer scientist, developer of ALOHAnet, skin cancer.^[2]
• Faustino Amiano, 76, Spanish Olympic coxswain (1960).^[3]
• G. Ross Anderson, 91, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for South Carolina (1980–2009).^[4]
• Hasna Begum, 85, Bangladeshi philosopher and feminist, COVID-19.^[5]
• June Rose Bellamy, 88, Burmese aristocrat and socialite, first lady (1976–1977).^[6]
• Abhay Bharadwaj, 66, Indian politician, MP (since 2020), COVID-19.^[7]
• Keith Buckley, 79, English actor (Dr. Phibes Rises Again, The Eagle Has Landed, Sky Bandits).^[8]
• Russell Catley, 47, English cricketer (Suffolk).^[9]
• Jean Cottard, 94, French fencer and fencing master.^[10]
• Eric Engstrom, 55, American software engineer (DirectX).^[11]
• Todd Gibson, 83, American racing driver.^[12]
• Judy Gordon, 72, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1993–2004).^[13]
• Luciano Guerzoni, 82, Italian politician, deputy (1983–1992, 1994–1996).^[14]
• Juan Hormaechea, 81, Spanish politician, president of Cantabria (1987–1990, 1991–1995) and mayor of Santander (1977–1987).^[15]
• Maria Itkina, 88, Russian Olympic runner (1956, 1960, 1964).^[16]
• Nina Ivanova, 86, Russian actress (Once There Was a Girl, Spring on Zarechnaya Street, There Is Such a Lad).^[17]
• Brian Kerr, Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore, 72, British jurist, lord chief justice of Northern Ireland (2004–2009) and justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (2009–2020).^[18]
• Mana Kinjo, 24, Japanese actress (Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger).^[19]
• Jean-Pierre Lola Kisanga, 51, Congolese politician.^[20]
• Paul Kishindo, 68, Malawian sociologist.^[21]
• Evelyn Konou, 72, Marshallese politician.^[22]
• Frank Kramer, 73, Dutch footballer (FC Volendam, Telstar), television presenter and football commentator.^[23]
• Li Guanxing, 80, Chinese nuclear material engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.^[24]
• Eduardo Lourenço, 97, Portuguese philosopher and writer.^[25]
• Mohammad Maleki, 87, Iranian academic, chancellor of the University of Tehran (1979).^[26]
• Denis Menke, 80, American baseball player (Milwaukee / Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reds).^[27]
• Leonardo Fernandes Moreira, 46, Brazilian politician, Minas Gerais MLA (2003–2011), heart attack.^[28]
• Nomula Narsimhaiah, 64, Indian politician, Telangana MLA (since 2018), complications from COVID-19.^[29]
• Timoteo Ofrasio, 72, Filipino Jesuit priest and liturgist, COVID-19.^[30]
• Thelma Pepper, 100, Canadian artist.^[31]
• Thomas Morrow Reavley, 99, American politician and jurist, secretary of state of Texas (1955–1957) and judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (since 1979).^[32]
• Arnie Robinson, 72, American athlete, Olympic champion (1976), COVID-19.^[33]
• Erlend Rian, 79, Norwegian politician, mayor of Tromsø (1980–1995).^[34]
• Alan Sanchez, 32, American soccer player (Real Maryland, Charlotte Eagles).^[35]
• Tommy Sandt, 69, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics) and coach (Pittsburgh Pirates).^[36]
• Kelvin Scarborough, 56, American basketball player (New Mexico Lobos).^[37]
• Joseph Sledge, 76, American wrongly imprisoned prisoner.^[38]
• Hanna Stadnik, 91, Polish World War II combatant (Warsaw Uprising), acting president of World Association of Home Army Soldiers (since 2020).^[39]
• Henri Teissier, 91, French-Algerian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Algiers (1988–2008), stroke.^[40]
• Sol Tolchinsky, 91, Canadian Olympic basketball player (1948), complications of COVID-19.^[41]
• Raymond Wolters, 82, American historian.^[42]

2[edit]

• Mohamed Abarhoun, 31, Moroccan footballer (Moghreb Tétouan, Moreirense, national team), stomach cancer.^[43]
• Jean René Allard, 90, Canadian politician, member of the Manitoba Legislature (1969–1973).^[44]
• Warren Berlinger, 83, American actor (The Joey Bishop Show, The Cannonball Run, The World According to Garp), cancer.^[45]
• Frank Carney, 82, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Pizza Hut, pneumonia.^[46]
• Richard Corben, 80, American illustrator and comic book artist, complications from heart surgery.^[47]
• Bronisław Dankowski, 76, Polish politician and trade union activist, member of the Sejm (1997–2005).^[48]
• Koba Davitashvili, 49, Georgian politician, MP (1999–2016), ankylosing spondylitis.^[49]
• Franco Giraldi, 89, Italian film director (Seven Guns for the MacGregors, Sugar Colt, Up the MacGregors!) and screenwriter, COVID-19.^[50]
• Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 94, French politician, president of France and co-prince of Andorra (1974–1981), minister of the economy and finance (1962–1966, 1969–1974), complications from COVID-19.^[51]
• Satpal Gosain, 85, Indian politician, Punjab MLA (1997–2012).^[52]
• Kazuo Hiramatsu, 73, Japanese accountant, president of the Kwansei Gakuin University (2002–2008).^[53]
• Zafarullah Khan Jamali, 76, Pakistani politician, prime minister (2002–2004) and chief minister of Balochistan (1988, 1996–1997), heart attack.^[54]
• Rafer Johnson, 86, American athlete and actor (The Sins of Rachel Cade, None but the Brave, Licence to Kill), Olympic champion (1960), complications from a stroke.^[55]
• Kenneth V. Jones, 96, British composer, conductor and music teacher.^[56]
• Hugh Keays-Byrne, 73, English-Australian actor (Mad Max: Fury Road, Stone, Farscape).^[57]
• Sergey Kiselnikov, 62, Russian footballer (Dynamo Vologda, Amur Blagoveshchensk).^[58]
• Alanna Knight, 97, British writer.^[59]
• Alfred Kucharczyk, 83, Polish Olympic gymnast (1960, 1964), COVID-19.^[60]
• David C. Lewis, 85, American medical researcher.^[61]
• Karin Lindberg, 91, Swedish gymnast, Olympic champion (1952).^[62]
• Enrique Lingenfelder, 92, Argentine Olympic rower (1948).^[63]
• Geoffrey Massey, 96, Canadian architect, pneumonia.^[64]
• Aldo Moser, 86, Italian racing cyclist, COVID-19.^[65]
• Pat Patterson, 79, Canadian-American Hall of Fame professional wrestler (BTW, AWA) and producer (WWF), liver failure.^[66]
• Boris Plotnikov, 71, Russian actor (The Ascent, The Cold Summer of 1953, Heart of a Dog), COVID-19.^[67]
• Karim Salman, 55, Iraqi Olympic footballer (1988), COVID-19.^[68]
• David Sheehan, 82, American reporter, prostate cancer.^[69]
• Bill Spanswick, 82, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).^[70]
• Lalit Surjan, 74, Indian journalist and editor (Deshbandhu), stroke.^[71]
• Pamela Tiffin, 78, American actress (One, Two, Three, Harper, Summer and Smoke) and model.^[72]
• Bernard Vogler, 85, French historian and academic.^[73]
• Walter E. Williams, 84, American economist and academic.^[74]

3[edit]

• Noah Creshevsky, 75, American composer, cancer.^[75]
• Fred DeBernardi, 71, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs) and discus thrower, cancer.^[76]
• Bill Fitsell, 97, Canadian sports journalist and historian.^[77]
• Paudie Fitzgerald, 87, Irish racing cyclist.^[78]
• Maria Fyfe, 82, Scottish politician, MP (1987–2001).^[79]
• André Gagnon, 84, Canadian pianist, composer and conductor, Lewy body dementia.^[80]
• Dharampal Gulati, 97, Indian spice executive, CEO of MDH (since 1959), cardiac arrest.^[81]
• Dadang Hawari, 80, Indonesian psychiatrist, COVID-19.^[82]
• Mian Muhammad Afzal Hayat, Pakistani politician, chief minister of Punjab (1996–1997).^[83]
• Steve Heimkreiter, 63, American football player (Baltimore Colts), cancer.^[84]
• Bill Holmes, 94, English footballer (Blackburn Rovers, Bradford City).^[85]
• Volodymyr Huba, 81, Ukrainian composer and poet.^[86]
• Kaj Ikast, 84, Danish politician, MF (1993–2005), minister of transport (1990–1993).^[87]
• Adil Ismayilov, 63, Azerbaijani lawyer, jurist, and investigator, COVID-19.^[88]
• William King, 90, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (1972–1983).^[89]
• Kiptarus Arap Kirior, Kenyan politician, MP (1983–1988, 1992–1997).^[90]
• Jutta Lampe, 82, German actress (Schaubühne, Marianne and Juliane, The Distant Land).^[91]
• Alison Lurie, 94, American novelist (Foreign Affairs, The War Between the Tates), Pulitzer Prize winner (1984).^[92]
• Mario Maraschi, 81, Italian football player (Lazio, Lanerossi Vicenza, Fiorentina) and manager.^[93]
• Marv Marinovich, 81, American football player (Oakland Raiders).^[94]
• Patricia Marmont, 99, American-born British actress (Helen of Troy).^[95]
• Ron Mathewson, 76, Scottish jazz double bassist and bass guitarist, COVID-19.^[96]
• Dronamraju Krishna Rao, 83, Indian geneticist.^[97]
• Albert Salvadó, 69, Andorran writer and industrial engineer.^[98]
• Scott Marshall Smith, 62, American screenwriter (Men of Honor, The Score, When the Game Stands Tall).^[99]
• Bill Spencer, 84, American Olympic biathlon skier (1964, 1968).^[100]
• Betsy Wade, 91, American journalist, colon cancer.^[101]
• Bobby Wishart, 87, Scottish footballer (Aberdeen, Dundee, Raith Rovers).^[102]
• Ian Yule, 87, British-born South African actor (Zulu Dawn, The Wild Geese, Shamwari).^[103]

4[edit]

• Josette Banzet, 73, French-American actress (Rich Man, Poor Man, The Other Side of Midnight).^[104]
• Franco Bolignari, 91, Italian singer.^[105]
• Peter DiFronzo, 87, American mobster, complications from COVID-19.^[106]
• Larry Dixon, 78, American politician, member of the Alabama Senate (1983–2011) and House of Representatives (1978–1982), COVID-19.^[107]
• Ole Espersen, 85, Danish politician, minister of justice (1981–1982).^[108]
• Gérard Gourgue, 95, Haitian politician, member of the National Council of Government (1986).^[109]
• Cliff Green, 85, Australian screenwriter (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Break of Day, Summerfield).^[110]
• Goldie Hershon, 79, Canadian civil rights activist, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress (1995–1998).^[111]
• Narinder Singh Kapany, 94, Indian-American physicist.^[112]
• William Kittredge, 88, American writer.^[113]
• Grace Knowlton, 88, American sculptor, complications from dementia.^[114]
• David Lander, 73, American actor (Laverne & Shirley, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down), complications from multiple sclerosis.^[115]
• François Leterrier, 91, French film director (A King Without Distraction, Slices of Life) and actor (A Man Escaped).^[116]
• Antonín J. Liehm, 96, Czech writer, publisher and translator, founder of Lettre International.^[117]
• Madeleine Mathiot, 93, American linguist.^[118]
• Larry Mavety, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (Los Angeles Sharks, Philadelphia Blazers) and coach (Belleville Bulls).^[119]
• Jayant Meghani, 82, Indian book editor and translator.^[120]
• Alexander Nikolayevich Mikhailov, 69, Russian politician, deputy (1993–2000) and governor of Kursk Oblast (2000–2018).^[121]
• James Odongo, 89, Ugandan Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Tororo (1999–2007).^[122]
• Huba Rozsnyai, 77, Hungarian Olympic sprinter (1964), COVID-19.^[123]
• Bassam Saba, 61, Lebanese musician, complications from COVID-19.^[124]
• Jackie Saccoccio, 56, American abstract painter, cancer.^[125]
• Anatoly Samoilenko, 82, Ukrainian mathematician, director of the NASU Institute of Mathematics (since 1988).^[126]
• Victor Scantlebury, 75, Ecuadorian bishop.^[127]
• John Sherwood, 87, English physical chemist.^[128]
• Suhaila Siddiq, 71, Afghan politician, minister of public health (2001–2004), complications from COVID-19.^[129]
• Dineshwar Sharma, 66, Indian police officer, director of the Intelligence Bureau (2015–2017) and administrator of Lakshadweep (since 2019), lung disease.^[130]
• Anand Singh, 72, Fijian politician, MP (1999–2006) and attorney general (1999–2000).^[131]
• Kinuko Tanida, 81, Japanese volleyball player, Olympic champion (1964), brain hemorrhage.^[132]
• Ferenc Tóth, 69, Hungarian politician, MP (1998–2014), COVID-19.^[133]
• Weston E. Vivian, 96, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1965–1967).^[134]
• Neville Wanless, 89, English broadcaster (ITV Tyne Tees).^[135]
• Ed Xiques, 81, American jazz saxophonist.^[136]

5[edit]

• Peter Abbs, 78, English poet and academic.^[137]
• Peter Alliss, 89, English Hall of Fame golfer and commentator, British PGA champion (1957, 1962, 1965).^[138]
• Pierre Bernard, 86, French politician, deputy (1980–1993).^[139]
• Mickaël Bethe-Selassié, 69, Ethiopian-born French sculptor.^[140]
• Belinda Bozzoli, South African politician, MP (since 2014), cancer.^[141]
• Robert Castel, 87, French actor (The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Two Men in Town, Je suis timide mais je me soigne).^[142]
• Dolf de Vries, 83, Dutch actor (Turkish Delight, Soldier of Orange, Black Book).^[143]
• Des Ferrow, 87, New Zealand cricketer.^[144]
• John Harvey, 82, Australian racing driver, Bathurst 1000 winner (1983), lung cancer.^[145]
• Paul Howard, 70, American football player (Denver Broncos).^[146]
• Louis Iribarne, 80, American-born Canadian translator.^[147]
• Ron Irwin, 84, Canadian politician and diplomat, minister of Indian and Northern Affairs (1993–1997), ambassador to Ireland (1998–2001), MP (1980–1984, 1993–1997).^[148]
• Henryk Kukier, 90, Polish Olympic boxer (1952, 1956, 1960), COVID-19.^[149]
• Anusuya Prasad Maikhuri, 59, Indian politician, Uttarakhand MLA (2002–2007, 2012–2017), complications from COVID-19.^[150]
• Sherbaz Khan Mazari, 90, Pakistani politician, leader of the opposition (1975–1977).^[151]
• Sakae Menda, 95, Japanese exonerated prisoner and anti-death penalty activist.^[152]
• Ildikó Pécsi, 80, Hungarian actress (Tales of a Long Journey, A Strange Role, Just like Home) and politician, MP (1994–1998).^[153]
• Viktor Ponedelnik, 83, Russian football player (Rostov, SKA Rostov-on-Don, Soviet Union national team) and manager.^[154]
• Martin Sandoval, 56, American politician, member of the Illinois Senate (2003–2020), COVID-19.^[155]
• Erode Soundar, 63, Indian film writer and director, kidney-related illness.^[156]
• Xu Shousheng, 67, Chinese politician, governor of Gansu (2007–2010), governor (2010–2013) and Communist Party secretary (2013–2016) of Hunan.^[157]
• Mincho Yovchev, 78, Bulgarian politician, deputy prime minister (1989–1990).^[158]
• Wojciech Zabłocki, 89, Polish architect and fencer, Olympic silver (1956, 1960) and bronze (1964) medalist.^[159]
• Theodore Ziolkowski, 88, American scholar.^[160]

6[edit]

• Neil Armstrong, 87, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey linesman.^[161]
• Kent R. Brown, 79, American playwright.^[162]
• Jairo Castillo, 31, Dominican baseball player and scout, COVID-19.^[163]
• Dejan Dabović, 76, Montenegrin water polo player, Olympic champion (1968), COVID-19.^[164]
• Muslihan DS, 74, Indonesian army officer and politician, regent of North Bengkulu (2001–2006) and Rejang Lebong (1994–1999), COVID-19.^[165]
• T. B. Ekanayake, 66, Sri Lankan politician, MP (since 1994).^[166]
• Jaromír Kohlíček, 67, Czech politician, MP (1998–2004), MEP (2004–2014, 2016–2019).^[167]
• László Kuncz, 63, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic bronze medallist (1980).^[168]
• Li Ligong, 95, Chinese politician, member of the Central Committee (1982–1992), delegate to the National People's Congress (1988-1998) and CCP Party Chief of Shanxi (1983–1991).^[169]
• Monu Mukhopadhyay, 90, Indian actor (Neel Akasher Neechey, Ganadevata, Ganashatru).^[170]
• Soedardjat Nataatmadja, 82, Indonesian politician, MP (1997–1999), vice governor of Irian Jaya (1989–1993) and regent of Bogor (1983–1988).^[171]
• Klaus Ofczarek, 81, Austrian actor (Klimt, North Face) and opera singer.^[172]
• Ravi Patwardhan, 84, Indian actor (Yeshwant, Thakshak, Grahan).^[173]
• Jacques Puisais, 93, French oenologist, COVID-19.^[174]
• Dennis Ralston, 78, American Hall of Fame tennis player, Davis Cup winner (1963, 1972), cancer.^[175]
• Džej Ramadanovski, 56, Serbian singer.^[176]
• Neil Robbins, 91, Australian Olympic steeplechase runner (1956).^[177]
• Paul Sarbanes, 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1971–1977) and Senate (1977–2007), Chair of the Senate Banking Committee (2001–2003).^[178]
• Jack Scarbath, 90, American Hall of Fame football player (Washington Redskins, Pittsburgh Steelers, Maryland Terrapins).^[179]
• Paul W. Schroeder, 93, American historian.^[180]
• Eugenia Tsoumani-Spentza, Greek lawyer and politician, MP (2009–2012).^[181]
• Tabaré Vázquez, 80, Uruguayan politician, president (2005–2010, 2015–2020), president pro tempore of UNASUR (2015–2016) and Intendant of Montevideo (1990–1994), lung cancer.^[182]
• Senta Wengraf, 96, Austrian actress (Two Times Lotte, Voices of Spring, Sissi – The Young Empress).^[183]
• Ali-Asghar Zarei, 64, Iranian military officer and politician, MP (2008–2016).^[184]

7[edit]

• Udyavara Madhava Acharya, 79, Indian writer and poet.^[185]
• Fred Akers, 82, American football coach (Texas Longhorns, Wyoming Cowboys, Purdue Boilermakers).^[186]
• Dick Allen, 78, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago White Sox).^[187]
• Akito Arima, 90, Japanese nuclear physicist (Interacting boson model) and politician, MP (1998–2004).^[188]
• Tihomir Arsić, 63, Serbian actor (The Promising Boy, Great Transport, Battle of Kosovo).^[189]
• Joseph Arvay, 71, Canadian lawyer, heart attack.^[190]
• LD Beghtol, 55, American musician (Flare Acoustic Arts League, LD & the New Criticism, Moth Wranglers) and writer.^[191]
• Divya Bhatnagar, 34, Indian actress (99), COVID-19.^[192]
• Joselyn Cano, 29, American model, complications from cosmetic surgery.^[193]
• Jean-François Charbonnier, 61, French footballer and manager (Paris Saint-Germain F.C., Paris FC).^[194]
• Natalie Desselle-Reid, 53, American actress (B.A.P.S., Eve, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella), colon cancer.^[195]
• Pumza Dyantyi, 72, South African politician and anti-apartheid activist, MP (since 2019) and Eastern Cape MPL (2014–2019).^[196]
• Clem Eischen, 93, American Olympic middle-distance runner (1948).^[197]
• Phyllis Eisenstein, 74, American science fiction author, stroke complications and COVID-19.^[198]
• Eduardo Galvão, 58, Brazilian actor (Porto dos Milagres, O Beijo do Vampiro, Bom Sucesso), COVID-19.^[199]
• Aleksandr Gordon, 88, Russian film director and actor (The Killers, There Will Be No Leave Today).^[200]
• İrfan Gürpınar, 77, Turkish politician, minister of tourism (1995, 1995–1996), COVID-19.^[201]
• Sheila A. Hellstrom, 85, Canadian military officer.^[202]
• Walter Hooper, 89, American literary editor, complications from COVID-19.^[203]
• Zar Wali Khan, 67, Pakistani Islamic scholar.^[204]
• Masao Komatsu, 78, Japanese actor (Kaiju funsen–Daigoro tai Goriasu, Pink Lady no Katsudō Daishashin, Izakaya Chōji) and comedian, liver cancer.^[205]
• Katarzyna Łaniewska, 87, Polish actress (Nikodem Dyzma, Klan) and political activist.^[206]
• Marilyn Lewis, 89, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1979–1982).^[207]
• Dawn Lindberg, 75, South African folk singer, actress and theatre producer, COVID-19.^[208]
• Mrigendra Nath Maiti, 77, Indian politician, West Bengal MLA (since 2011).^[209]
• Sean Malone, 50, American progressive metal bassist (Cynic, Gordian Knot, Aghora).^[210]
• Lidia Menapace, 96, Italian partisan and politician, senator (2006–2008), COVID-19.^[211]
• Roger Moret, 71, Puerto Rican baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Atlanta Braves, Texas Rangers), cancer.^[212]
• Vadim Petrov, 88, Czech composer and pianist.^[213]
• Joseph Sanda, 35, Cameroonian racing cyclist.^[214]
• Janusz Sanocki, 66, Polish politician and journalist, mayor of Nysa (1998–2001), deputy (2015–2019), COVID-19.^[215]
• Doug Scott, 79, English mountaineer and philanthropist, cerebral lymphoma.^[216]
• Malcolm Simpson, 87, New Zealand Olympic cyclist (1952).^[217]
• Ildegarda Taffra, 86, Italian Olympic cross-country skier (1952, 1956), COVID-19.^[218]
• Tasiman, Indonesian politician, regent of Pati (2001–2011), COVID-19.^[219]
• Howard Wales, 77, American keyboardist ("Truckin'"), cerebral hemorrhage.^[220]
• Gary Wisener, 82, American football player (Dallas Cowboys, Houston Oilers).^[221]
• Chuck Yeager, 97, American Hall of Fame pilot, first person to exceed the speed of sound.^[222]

8[edit]

• Phil Albert, 76, American football coach (Towson Tigers), cancer.^[223]
• Arthur, Ecuadorian stray dog.^[224]
• Gladys Beckwith, 91, American academic and women's rights activist, COVID-19.^[225]
• Harold Budd, 84, American avant-garde composer and poet, complications from COVID-19.^[226]
• John Cash, 84, Scottish physician, president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1994–1997).^[227]
• Lay Nam Chang, 77, American theoretical physicist, COVID-19.^[228]
• Tony Curcillo, 89, American football player (Ohio State Buckeyes, Chicago Cardinals, Hamilton Tiger Cats), complications from COVID-19.^[229]
• Aslanbek Fidarov, 47, Ukrainian Olympic wrestler (1996), COVID-19.^[230]
• Johnny Jacobsen, 65, Danish footballer (Fremad Amager, Feyenoord, national team).^[231]
• Goo Kennedy, 71, American basketball player (San Antonio Spurs, Spirits of St. Louis, Houston Rockets).^[232]
• Sidney Knott, 87, South African cricketer (Border).^[233]
• Walter Lechner, 71, Austrian racing driver.^[234]
• Tom Louderback, 87, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills).^[235]
• Jordi Nadal, 91, Spanish historian and economist.^[236]
• Klaus Pagh, 85, Danish actor (Soldaterkammerater rykker ud, Sunstroke at the Beach Resort, Me and the Mafia).^[237]
• Shankar Painter, 74, Indian poet.^[238]
• Raffaele Pinto, 75, Italian rally driver, European Rally champion (1972).^[239]
• Elmira Ramazanova, 86, Azerbaijani geologist, member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.^[240]
• Alejandro Sabella, 66, Argentine football player (River Plate, Estudiantes) and manager (national team), heart failure.^[241]
• Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, 78, Russian military officer, minister of defence (1991–1992), commander-in-chief of the Air Force (1990–1991) and secretary of the SCRF (1993), COVID-19.^[242]
• Anthony Veasna So, 28, Cambodian-American writer.^[243]
• Kurt Stettler, 88, Swiss footballer (FC Basel, Young Fellows Zürich, national team), COVID-19.^[244]
• Gerard Stokes, 65, New Zealand rugby league player (Workington Town, national team) and coach (Canterbury Bulls), brain cancer.^[245]
• Sudjati, 66, Indonesian politician, regent of Bulungan (since 2016), COVID-19.^[246]
• Graeme Tarr, 84, New Zealand cricketer.^[247]
• Siraj Kassam Teli, 67, Pakistani industrialist, pneumonia.^[248]
• Allen Trovillion, 94, American politician.^[249]
• Roberto Ulloa, 96, Argentine politician and naval officer, governor of Salta Province (1977–1983, 1991–1995).^[250]
• Ralph K. Winter Jr., 85, American jurist, judge (since 1981) and chief judge (1997–2000) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.^[251]
• Wang Yupu, 64, Chinese oil executive and politician, minister of emergency management (since 2018), chairman of Sinopec (2015–2017) and member of the CAE, cancer.^[252]

9[edit]

• Christopher Campling, 95, British Anglican priest, dean of Ripon (1984–1995).^[253]
• V. J. Chitra, 28, Indian actress (Mannan Magal, Chinna Papa Periya Papa, Darling Darling), suicide.^[254]
• Osvaldo Cochrane Filho, 87, Brazilian Olympic water polo player (1964), COVID-19.^[255]
• Manglesh Dabral, 72, Indian poet, complications from COVID-19.^[256]
• Nabil Farouk, 64, Egyptian novelist (Ragol Al Mostaheel, Malaf Al Mostakbal, Cocktail 2000), heart attack.^[257]
• Gordon Forbes, 86, South African tennis player, COVID-19.^[258]
• Dick Hinch, 71, American politician, member (since 2008) and speaker (since 2020) of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, COVID-19.^[259]
• Raymond Hunter, 86, Northern Irish cricketer (all-Ireland national team) and rugby union player (all-Ireland national team).^[260]
• Alan Igbon, 68, British actor (Boys from the Blackstuff, The Professionals, Coronation Street).^[261]
• Vyacheslav Kebich, 84, Belarusian politician, prime minister (1991–1994), COVID-19.^[262]
• Phil Linz, 81, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets).^[263]
• Mungo Wentworth MacCallum, 78, Australian political journalist and commentator.^[264]
• John J. McNichols, 93, American politician.^[265]
• Marc Meneau, 77, French chef.^[266]
• Brian H. Murdoch, 90, English-born Irish mathematician.^[267]
• Alex Olmedo, 84, Peruvian-American Hall of Fame tennis player.^[268]
• Ray Perkins, 79, American football player (Baltimore Colts) and coach (New York Giants, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), heart disease.^[269]
• Paolo Rossi, 64, Italian footballer (Lanerossi Vicenza, Juventus, national team), world champion (1982), lung cancer.^[270]
• Vishnu Savara, 70, Indian politician, Maharashtra MLA (2014–2019), cirrhosis.^[271]
• Jason Slater, 49, American rock bassist (Third Eye Blind, Snake River Conspiracy, Brougham), liver failure.^[272]
• Stanley Smith, 71, American racing driver, interstitial pneumonia.^[273]
• Mohammad Yazdi, 89, Iranian Islamic cleric, chairman of the Assembly of Experts (2015–2016), chief justice (1989–1999) and MP (1980–1988), digestive disease.^[274]
• Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf, 80, Bangladeshi politician, MP (1991–2006), minister of disaster management (2001–2006) and food (2004–2006), COVID-19.^[275]

10[edit]

• Maroof Afzal, Pakistani civil servant, cabinet secretary (2019–2020), COVID-19.^[276]
• Kenneth Alwyn, 95, English conductor (BBC Radio 2, London Symphony Orchestra).^[277]
• Brandon Bernard, 40, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[278]
• Wallace Barnes, 94, American politician, member of the Connecticut Senate (1959–1971).^[279]
• Rafael Ramón Conde Alfonzo, 77, Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Maracay (2008–2009) and Margarita (1999–2008), pancreatic cancer.^[280]
• Don Marion Davis, 103, American child actor (The Star Boarder, Down on the Farm, Percy).^[281]
• Astad Deboo, 73, Indian dancer and choreographer, subdural haematoma.^[282]
• Billy DeMars, 95, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns) and coach (Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds).^[283]
• Dudu Duswara, 69, Indonesian jurist, justice of Supreme Court (since 2011), COVID-19.^[284]
• Jim Fleming, 78, Scottish footballer (Partick Thistle, Luton Town, Wigan Athletic).^[285]
• Cal Hockley, 85, Canadian ice hockey player (Trail Smoke Eaters).^[286]
• João Jens, 76, Brazilian Olympic volleyball player (1968, 1972).^[287]
• Tommy Lister Jr., 62, American actor (Friday, The Fifth Element, No Holds Barred) and professional wrestler, cardiovascular disease.^[288]
• Rita Martinez, 65, Chicana activist, COVID-19.^[289]
• Nemanja Miljković, 30, Serbian basketball player (Zemun Lasta, BC Vienna, Pärnu).^[290]
• Victor Newman, Ghanaian politician.^[291]
• Juan Pérez-Giménez, 79, American jurist, judge (since 1979) and chief judge (1984–1991) of the U.S. District Court for Puerto Rico.^[292]
• Ram Lal Rahi, 86, Indian politician, MP (1977–1984, 1989–1996) and minister of state for home affairs (1991–1996), complications from COVID-19.^[293]
• Odette Richard, 32, South African Olympic rhythmic gymnast (2008).^[294]
• Garry Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, 86, British historical sociologist.^[295]
• José Mario Ruiz Navas, 90, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Latacunga (1968–1989) and archbishop of Portoviejo (1989–2007).^[296]
• Joseph Safra, 82, Lebanese-Brazilian banker and venture capitalist, founder of Banco Safra.^[297]
• Iman Budhi Santosa, 72, Indonesian author, heart attack.^[298]
• Myriam Sienra, 81, Paraguayan actress (7 Boxes) and journalist.^[299]
• Andrzej Skowroński, 67, Polish Olympic rower (1980).^[300]
• Carol Sutton, 76, American actress (Steel Magnolias, Ray, Monster's Ball), complications from COVID-19.^[301]
• Bryan Sykes, 73, British geneticist.^[302]
• Dame Barbara Windsor, 83, English actress (EastEnders, Carry On, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), complications from Alzheimer's disease.^[303]
• Barry Wynks, 68, New Zealand lawn bowler.^[304]
• Rahnaward Zaryab, 76, Afghan novelist, journalist, and literary critic, COVID-19.^[305]

11[edit]

• Jim Burns, 75, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls, Dallas Chaparrals) and Illinois inspector general.^[306]
• Per Carlsen, 72, Danish diplomat, ambassador to Lithuania (1997–2001), Russia and Belarus (2005–2010) and Latvia (2010–2015).^[307] (death announced on this date)
• Artyom Chernov, 38, Russian ice hockey player (HC Vityaz, Metallurg Novokuznetsk), heart attack.^[308]
• Beryl Cunningham, 74, Jamaican actress and model.^[309]
• Farid Abraão David, 76, Brazilian politician, mayor of Nilópolis (2001–2009, 2017–2020), COVID-19.^[310]
• Roy Douglas, 95, British academic and political activist.^[311]
• D. E. Ethiraj, 86, Indian footballer (Mysore, national team).^[312]
• Gotthilf Fischer 92, German choral conductor (Fischer-Chöre).^[313]
• James Flynn, 86, American-born New Zealand intelligence researcher.^[314]
• Đurđa Ivezić, 84, Croatian actress (H-8, Back of the Medal, The Magician's Hat), COVID-19.^[315]
• Carol R. Johnson, 91, American landscape architect.^[316]
• Ian Johnston, 91, Canadian Olympic field hockey player.^[317]
• Boniface Kabaka, Kenyan politician, senator (since 2017), stroke.^[318]
• Kim Ki-duk, 59, South Korean film director (The Isle, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring, 3-Iron), complications from COVID-19.^[319]
• Alva Hugh Maddox, 90, American jurist, justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama (1969–2001).^[320]
• Malik, 72, Belgian comic book artist (Cupidon).^[321]
• Sam Nda-Isaiah, 58, Nigerian political columnist, entrepreneur and journalist, founder of Leadership.^[322]
• Joseph Nyagah, 72, Kenyan politician, COVID-19.^[323]
• Assad Rizk, 89, Lebanese physician and politician.^[324]
• Sven Sachsalber, 33, Italian artist.^[325]
• Lev Shcheglov, 74, Russian sexologist and psychotherapist, COVID-19.^[326]
• Charlotte Tillar Schexnayder, 96, American politician, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives (1985–1999).^[327]
• Mongkol Na Songkhla, 79, Thai politician, minister of public health (2006–2008), cancer.^[328]
• Andrzej Tomaszewicz, 77, Polish historian and politician, Solidarity activist, senator (1989–1991).^[329]
• Richard Tötterman, 94, Finnish diplomat.^[330]
• Leslie Ungerleider, 74, American experimental psychologist and neuroscientist.^[331]
• Irena Veisaitė, 92, Lithuanian theatre scholar and human rights activist, COVID-19.^[332]

12[edit]

• James Atwell, 74, British Anglican priest, dean of St Edmundsbury (2000–2006) and Winchester (2006–2016).^[333]
• Bird Averitt, 68, American basketball player (San Antonio Spurs, Kentucky Colonels, Buffalo Braves), ABA champion (1975).^[334]
• Ronald James Baker, 96, Canadian academic administrator, president of the University of Prince Edward Island (1969–1978).^[335]
• Claude Castonguay, 91, Canadian politician, educator and businessman, senator (1990–1992) and Quebec MNA (1970–1973).^[336]
• Nicolas Chumachenco, 76, Polish violinist.^[337]
• Escurinho, 90, Brazilian footballer (Villa Nova, Fluminense, national team).^[338]
• Valentin Gaft, 85, Russian actor (Hello, I'm Your Aunt!, Say a Word for the Poor Hussar, Forgotten Melody for a Flute), People's Artist of the RSFSR (1984).^[339]
• Alfonso Gagliano, 78, Canadian politician, MP (1984–2002), minister of labour (1996–1997) and public works and government services (1997–2002).^[340]
• Victor Gnanapragasam, 80, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic prelate, vicar apostolic of Quetta (since 2001), heart attack.^[341]
• Anneli Haaranen, 86, Finnish Olympic swimmer (1952).^[342]
• Terry Kay, 82, American author (To Dance with the White Dog), liver cancer.^[343]
• U. A. Khader, 85, Indian author, lung cancer.^[344]
• Damir Kukuruzović, 45, Croatian jazz guitarist, COVID-19.^[345]
• John le Carré, 89, British-Irish author (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Night Manager, The Little Drummer Girl), pneumonia.^[346]
• Motjeka Madisha, 25, South African footballer (Highlands Park, Mamelodi Sundowns, national team), traffic collision.^[347]
• John McSeveney, 89, Scottish football player (Newport County, Hull City) and manager (Barnsley).^[348]
• Janos Mohoss, 84, Swiss Olympic fencer (1972), COVID-19.^[349]
• Dick Murphy, 89, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs).^[350]
• Dennis Parmenter, 69, American politician.^[351]
• Ferruccio Pisoni, 84, Italian politician, deputy (1968–1983).^[352]
• Jerzy Mikułowski Pomorski, 83, Polish sociologist, rector of the Kraków University of Economics (1990–1996).^[353]
• Charley Pride, 86, American Hall of Fame singer ("Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'", "Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone") and baseball player (Memphis Red Sox), complications from COVID-19.^[354]
• Ann Reinking, 71, American choreographer and actress (Chicago, Fosse, Annie), Tony winner (1997).^[355]
• Jack Steinberger, 99, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1988).^[356]
• Alex Treves, 91, Italian-born American Olympic fencer.^[357]
• Gene Tyranny, 75, American avant-garde composer and pianist, diabetes.^[358]
• Gloria Vaughn, 84, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (1995–2010).^[359]
• John Ffowcs Williams, 85, British engineer.^[360]
• Fikre Selassie Wogderess, 75, Ethiopian politician, prime minister (1987–1989), complications from diabetes.^[361]
• Ruhollah Zam, 42, Iranian political activist and journalist, execution by hanging.^[362]

13[edit]

• Joseph Bachelder III, 88, American lawyer.^[363]
• Amedeo Baldizzone, 60, Italian football player (Atalanta, Cagliari, Piacenza) and coach.^[364]
• Frank Baumann, 87, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs).^[365]
• Laszlo Berkowits, 92, Hungarian-born American Reform rabbi and Holocaust survivor.^[366]
• Otto Barić, 87, Croatian football player (Lokomotiva Zagreb) and manager (Rapid Wien, national team), COVID-19.^[367]
• Robert Bloxom, 83, American politician, Virginia Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry (2005–2010) and member of the House of Delegates (1978–2004).^[368]
• Dirk Bolt, 90, Dutch architect and urban planner.^[369]
• Jorge Bruni, 79, Uruguayan politician and lawyer, minister of the interior (2009–2010).^[370]
• Greg Burdine, 61, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (2010–2014).^[371]
• Carlos Eduardo Cadoca, 80, Brazilian lawyer and politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies (1999–2019), COVID-19.^[372]
• Al Cohen, 94, American magician.^[373]
• Jimmy Collins, 74, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls) and coach (UIC Flames), complications from heart surgery.^[374]
• Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini, 52, Swazi politician, prime minister (since 2018), COVID-19.^[375]
• John H. Elliott, 85, American biblical scholar.^[376]
• Bannanje Govindacharya, 84, Indian literary scholar.^[377]
• R. Heli, 86, Indian agriculturalist and journalist, heart attack.^[378]
• Noer Muhammad Iskandar, 65, Indonesian Islamic cleric.^[379]
• Nur Hossain Kasemi, 75, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, co-chair of Al-Haiatul Ulya (since 2020), secretary general of Jamiat Ulema (since 2015) and Hefazat (since 2020), respiratory failure.^[380]
• Yevgeny Khoroshevtsev, 76, Russian announcer and actor, complications from COVID-19.^[381]
• P. Krishnamoorthy, 77, Indian art director (Swathi Thirunal, Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha, Vanna Vanna Pookkal) and costume designer.^[382]
• Pierre Lacroix, 72, Canadian ice hockey executive, president of the Quebec Nordiques and Colorado Avalanche (1994–2006), COVID-19.^[383]
• Catie Lazarus, 44, American comedian, writer, and podcaster (Employee of the Month), breast cancer.^[384]
• Shahid Mahmood, 81, Pakistani cricketer (Karachi Whites, national team).^[385]
• Minoru Makihara, 90, English-born Japanese business executive (Mitsubishi Corporation), heart failure.^[386]
• Philip Martin, 82, English television writer (Gangsters, Doctor Who, Z Cars).^[387]
• Jimmy McLane, 90, American swimmer, Olympic champion (1948, 1952).^[388]
• Helena de Menezes, 93, Brazilian Olympic sprinter.^[389]
• Jaroslav Mostecký, 57, Czech science fiction writer, COVID-19.^[390]
• Leith Mullings, 75, Jamaican-born American anthropologist, president of the American Anthropological Association (2011–2013), cancer.^[391]
• William Imon Norwood, 79, American pediatric cardiac surgeon and physician.^[392]
• Rose Ochi, 81, Japanese-American attorney and civil rights activist, complications from COVID-19.^[393]
• Rose Pere, 83, New Zealand educationalist and conservationist.^[394]
• Radhika Ranjan Pramanik, 87, Indian politician, MP (1989–2004).^[395]
• Sal Rocca, 74, Italian-born American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives (1975–1980, 1983–1994, 2001–2004), COVID-19.^[396]
• Barry Sonshine, 72, Canadian Olympic equestrian (1968).^[397]
• Pauline Anna Strom, 74, American electronic music producer.^[398]
• Paul Wass, 95, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1977–1990).^[399]
• Reginald Wilson, 93, American psychologist.^[400]

14[edit]

• Elbrus Abbasov, 69–70, Azerbaijani footballer (SKA Rostov-on-Don, Neftchi Baku PFC) and manager (Qarabağ), COVID-19.^[401]
• Benjamin Abeles, 95, Austrian physicist.^[402]
• Herman Asaribab, 56, Indonesian army officer, deputy chief of staff (since 2020), commander of Cendrawasih (2019–2020) and Tanjungpura (2019).^[403]
• Mamye BaCote, 81, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates (2004–2016).^[404]
• Claudio Baiocchi, 80, Italian mathematician.^[405]
• Marvin Bell, 83, American professor and poet, poet laureate of Iowa (2000–2004).^[406]
• Jim Berry, 75, Canadian soccer player (national team), Parkinson's disease and heart failure.^[407]
• Alpha Boucher, 77, Canadian actor, cancer.^[408]
• Don Calhoun, 68, American football player (New England Patriots, Buffalo Bills).^[409]
• Demetrios James Caraley, 88, American political scientist.^[410]
• Vera Carstairs, 95, British social scientist.^[411]
• Paul M. Cook, 96, American businessman, founder of Raychem.^[412]
• Eric Freeman, 76, Australian cricketer (South Australia, national team), heart attack.^[413]
• Joe Frickleton, 85, Scottish football player (East Stirlingshire) and manager (Highlands Park, Kaizer Chiefs), complications from dementia.^[414]
• Segundo Galicia Sánchez, 82, Peruvian professor and sociologist.^[415]
• Gérard Houllier, 73, French football manager (Liverpool, Lyon, national team), complications from heart surgery.^[416]
• Huang Zongying, 95, Chinese actress (Rhapsody of Happiness, Crows and Sparrows, Women Side by Side).^[417]
• Earl Hutto, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1979–1995) and Florida House of Representatives (1972–1976).^[418]
• Benichandra Jamatia, 90, Indian writer.^[419]
• Lamine Khene, 89, Algerian politician.^[420]
• Richard Laird, 81, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (1978–2014), COVID-19.^[421]
• Michael F. Land, 78, British neurobiologist.^[422]
• Piotr Machalica, 65, Polish actor (Hero of the Year, Dekalog: Nine, A Short Film About Love), COVID-19.^[423]
• Tony Morrin, 74, English footballer (Exeter City, Stockport County, Bury).^[424]
• Jeannie Morris, 85, American sports journalist (Chicago American, Chicago Daily News) and author, appendix cancer.^[425]
• Roddam Narasimha, 87, Indian aerospace engineer and fluid dynamicist, brain hemorrhage.^[426]
• Milomir Odović, 65, Bosnian football player (Željezničar Sarajevo, Linz) and manager (Slavija Sarajevo).^[427]
• Jack Page, 70, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (1993–2010), COVID-19.^[428]
• Paulo César dos Santos, 68, Brazilian musician (Roupa Nova), complications from COVID-19.^[429]
• Günter Sawitzki, 88, German footballer (VfB Stuttgart, national team).^[430]
• George Sharples, 77, English footballer (Blackburn Rovers, Everton, Southport), esophageal cancer.^[431]
• Hanna Stankówna, 82, Polish actress (The Real End of the Great War, Lokis, The Third Part of the Night).^[432]
• Dennis B. Sullivan, 93, American brigadier general.^[433]
• José María de la Torre Martín, 68, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Aguascalientes (since 2008), COVID-19.^[434]
• Totilas, 20, Dutch dressage horse, world championship winner (2010), colic.^[435]
• Darold Treffert, 87, American psychiatrist and research director.^[436]
• Seppo Vainio, 83, Finnish Olympic ice hockey player (1960).^[437]
• Marcelo Veiga, 56, Brazilian football player (Santos, Internacional) and manager (Bragantino), complications from COVID-19.^[438]
• Tarcisius Gervazio Ziyaye, 71, Malawian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Lilongwe (since 2001).^[439]

15[edit]

• John Aldred, 99, English sound engineer (Anne of the Thousand Days, Mary, Queen of Scots, Dr. Strangelove).^[440]
• Awesome Again, 26, Canadian Hall of Fame racehorse and sire.^[441]
• Ungku Abdul Aziz, 98, Malaysian economist, vice-chancellor of the University of Malaya (1968–1988).^[442]
• Irving Banister, 87, American guitarist.^[443]
• Anthony Casso, 78, American mobster (Lucchese crime family), COVID-19.^[444]
• Caroline Cellier, 75, French actress (This Man Must Die, L'emmerdeur, A Thousand Billion Dollars).^[445]
• Sudhir Chakraborty, 86, Indian anthropologist, heart attack.^[446]
• Frank Christopherson Jr., 93, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1959–1963) and the Senate (1963–1967).^[447]
• Manuel Costas, 78, Spanish footballer (Sevilla FC).^[448]
• Orlando Duarte, 88, Brazilian sports journalist, COVID-19.^[449]
• Feng Duan, 97, Chinese physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and delegate to the National People's Congress (1983–1994).^[450]
• Paul Foreman, 81, Jamaican Olympic long jumper (1960), Commonwealth Games gold medalist (1958).^[451]
• Donald Fowler, 85, American politician, chair of the Democratic National Committee (1995–1997), leukemia complicated by COVID-19.^[452]
• Jorge García, 63, Spanish footballer (Deportivo de La Coruña).^[453]
• George Gibbs, 83, British special effects artist (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Alien 3), Oscar winner (1985, 1989).^[454]
• Jim Gorst, 98, Canadian politician.^[455]
• Alejandro Grullón, 91, Dominican banker.^[456]
• Fati Habib-Jawula, 78, Ghanaian diplomat.^[457]
• James Havard, 83, American painter.^[458]
• Rita Houston, 59, American DJ (WFUV), ovarian cancer.^[459]
• Paul Lamey, 81, American Olympic bobsledder (1968, 1972).^[460]
• Jean-Pierre Lux, 74, French rugby union player (US Tyrosse, US Dax, national team) and administrator.^[461]
• Paul Nihill, 81, British race walker, Olympic silver medallist (1964), COVID-19.^[462]
• Tommy Ord, 68, English footballer (Rochester Lancers, Vancouver Whitecaps, Seattle Sounders).^[463]
• Zoltan Sabo, 48, Serbian-Hungarian football player (Vojvodina, Partizan) and manager (Hajduk Kula), pulmonary embolism.^[464]
• Noureddine Saïl, 73, Moroccan film critic and writer, COVID-19.^[465]
• Bruce Seals, 67, American basketball player (Seattle SuperSonics, Utah Stars).^[466]
• Lerrel Sharp, 87, Australian footballer (Collingwood).^[467]
• Charles Shere, 85, American composer.^[468]
• Petro Slobodyan, 67, Ukrainian football player (Dynamo Kyiv, Soviet Union national team) and manager (Obolon Kyiv).^[469]
• Saufatu Sopoanga, 68, Tuvaluan politician, prime minister (2002–2004).^[470]

16[edit]

• Yaakov Agmon, 91, Israeli theatre producer, manager and director.^[471]
• Ian Armstrong, 83, Australian politician, NSW MP (1981–2007) and deputy premier of New South Wales (1993–1995).^[472]
• Waldemaro Bartolozzi, 93, Italian racing cyclist.^[473]
• William Beaty Boyd, 97, American academic administrator, president of Central Michigan University (1968–1975) and University of Oregon (1975–1980).^[474]
• Emil Cadkin, 100, American composer (The Big Fix, The Killer Shrews).^[475]
• Jeff Clayton, 66, American jazz saxophonist, complications from kidney cancer.^[476]
• Flavio Cotti, 81, Swiss politician, president (1991, 1998) and member of the Federal Council (1986–1999), COVID-19.^[477]
• Marcus D'Amico, 55, German-born British actor (Tales of the City, Full Metal Jacket, Superman II), pneumonia.^[478]
• Tesfaye Gessesse, 83, Ethiopian actor, general director of the Hager Fikir Theatre (1974–1975).^[479]
• Jean Graetz, 90, American civil rights activist, lung cancer.^[480]
• Bill Holm, 95, American art historian and author.^[481]
• Irfan Husain, 76, Pakistani newspaper columnist (Dawn) and civil servant.^[482]
• Steve Ingle, 74, English footballer (Bradford City, Wrexham), COVID-19.^[483]
• Peter Yariyok Jatau, 89, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Kaduna (1975–2007).^[484]
• Lenn Keller, 69, American photographer and archivist, cancer.^[485]
• Valentyn Khodukin, 81, Ukrainian football player (Sokil Lviv) and manager (Skala Stryi, Dynamo Lviv).^[486]
• Joseph Kyeong Kap-ryong, 90, South Korean Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Daejeon (1984–2005).^[487]
• Leticia Lee, 56, Hong Kong pro-establishment activist, COVID-19.^[488]
• Otto Leodolter, 84, Austrian ski jumper, Olympic bronze medalist (1960).^[489]
• Carl Mann, 78, American rockabilly singer, COVID-19.^[490]
• Elizabeth Meckes, 40, American mathematician, colon cancer.^[491]
• Brian Pickworth, 91, New Zealand Olympic fencer (1960).^[492]
• Kálmán Sóvári, 79, Hungarian footballer (Újpesti Dózsa, national team).^[493]
• Wacław Szybalski, 99, Polish biotechnologist and oncologist.^[494]
• Lorenzo Taliaferro, 28, American football player (Baltimore Ravens), heart attack.^[495]
• Stephen Tjephe, 65, Burmese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Loikaw (since 2015).^[496]
• Adela de Torrebiarte, 71, Guatemalan politician, deputy (since 2020), president of the National Football Federation (2016–2017) and minister of the interior (2007–2008), lung cancer.^[497]
• Renê Weber, 59, Brazilian football player (Vitória de Guimarães, national team) and manager (Caxias), COVID-19.^[498]

17[edit]

• Namat Abdullah, 74, Malaysian footballer (Penang, national team), colorectal cancer.^[499]
• Franck Balandier, 68, French writer.^[500]
• Donato Bilancia, 69, Italian serial killer, COVID-19.^[501]
• Hacke Björksten, 86, Finnish-Swedish jazz bandleader and saxophonist.^[502]
• Paddy Blagden, 85, British army officer.^[503]
• Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, 88, Tunisian academic and sociologist.^[504]
• Jeremy Bulloch, 75, English actor (Star Wars, The Spy Who Loved Me, Mary, Queen of Scots), complications from Parkinson's disease.^[505]
• Krzysztof Bulski, 33, Polish chess player.^[506]
• Pierre Buyoya, 71, Burundian politician, president (1987–1993, 1996–2003), COVID-19.^[507]
• Kim Chernin, 80, American feminist writer and poet, COVID-19.^[508]
• Stanley Cowell, 79, American jazz pianist, co-founder of Strata-East Records, hypovolemic shock.^[509]
• Doug Crane, 85, American animator (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, The Smurfs, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America), cancer.^[510]
• Rod Crewther, 75, Australian physicist.^[511]
• Les Dicker, 93, English footballer (Chelmsford City, Tottenham Hotspur, Southend United).^[512]
• Allen Dines, 99, American politician, member of the Colorado House of Representatives (1957–1966), Senate (1966–1974) and speaker (1965–1966).^[513]
• Enrico Ferri, 78, Italian jurist and politician, minister of public works (1988–1989), deputy (1992–1994) and MEP (1989–2004).^[514]
• Jim Fives, 91, Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer.^[515]
• Maciej Grubski, 52, Polish politician, senator (2007–2019), COVID-19.^[516]
• Arnold D. Gruys, 92, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1967–1971), complications from COVID-19.^[517]
• Tom Hanneman, 68, American broadcaster (WCCO-TV, Fox Sports North) and sports commentator (Minnesota Timberwolves).^[518]
• Jacó Roberto Hilgert, 94, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Cruz Alta (1976–2002).^[519]
• W. Nathaniel Howell, 81, American diplomat, ambassador to Kuwait (1987–1991).^[520]
• John Barnard Jenkins, 87, Welsh nationalist.^[521]
• Ejner Jensen, 91, Danish footballer (Vanløse IF, national team).^[522]
• Valentin Kasabov, 62, Bulgarian politician, MP (since 2014), COVID-19.^[523]
• Hennadiy Kernes, 61, Ukrainian politician, mayor of Kharkiv (since 2010), complications from COVID-19.^[524]
• Iqbal Ahmad Khan, 66, Indian classical vocalist.^[525]
• Tuncay Mataracı, 85, Turkish politician, minister of customs and monopolies (1978–1979), COVID-19.^[526]
• Spencer MacCallum, 88, American anthropologist.^[527]
• Dawson McAllister, 74, American radio host and author.^[528]
• Leif Mills, 84, British trade unionist, president of the Trades Union Congress (1995), vascular disease.^[529]
• Lorraine Monk, 98, Canadian photographer.^[530]
• Benny Napoleon, 65, American police officer, sheriff of Wayne County, Michigan (since 2009), complications from COVID-19.^[531]
• Ed Nichols, 97, British-born New Zealand Paralympic alpine skier (1980).^[532]
• Tim de Paravicini, 75, English audio designer.^[533]
• Rod Perry, 86, American actor (S.W.A.T., The Black Godfather, The Black Gestapo).^[534]
• Ignaz Puschnik, 86, Austrian footballer (Kapfenberger SV, national team).^[535]
• Harold E. Robinson, 88, American botanist and entomologist.^[536]
• Christina Rodrigues, 57, Brazilian actress, complications from COVID-19.^[537]
• Giovanni Sacco, 77, Italian footballer (Juventus, Atalanta, Reggiana), COVID-19.^[538]
• Freddie Santos, 64, Filipino theatre and concert director.^[539]
• Srđan Savić, 89, Bosnian Olympic sprinter (1960).^[540]
• R. N. Shetty, 92, Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist, heart attack.^[541]
• Satya Deo Singh, 75, Indian politician, MP (1991–1998), cardiac arrest and COVID-19.^[542]
• Bolivia Suárez, 63, Venezuelan politician, deputy (since 2016), COVID-19.^[543]
• Bill Sveinson, 74, Canadian poker player and politician.^[544]
• Pelle Svensson, 77, Swedish wrestler and lawyer, Olympic silver medallist (1964), cancer.^[545]

18[edit]

• Roger Berlind, 90, American theatre producer (Amadeus, The Book of Mormon, Guys and Dolls), 25-time Tony winner, cardiopulmonary arrest.^[546]
• Charlie Brooker, 88, Canadian ice hockey player, Olympic bronze medallist (1956).^[547]
• Bill Bullard Jr., 77, American politician, member of the Michigan Senate (1996–2002) and House of Representatives (1983–1996), complications from COVID-19 and cancer.^[548]
• Pete Cassidy, 86, American college basketball coach (Cal State Northridge).^[549]
• William J. Castagna, 96, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Middle Florida (since 1979).^[550]
• Joan Dougherty, 93, Canadian politician, Quebec MNA (1981–1987), complications from COVID-19.^[551]
• Han Grijzenhout, 87, Dutch football manager (Cercle Brugge, Eendracht Aalst, K.A.A. Gent).^[552]
• John Harbison, 84, Irish pathologist.^[553]
• Armin Hofmann, 100, Swiss graphic designer.^[554]
• Michael Jeffery, 83, Australian military officer, governor of Western Australia (1993–2000) and governor-general (2003–2008).^[555]
• Eddie Lee Jackson, 71, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (2009–2017), COVID-19.^[556]
• Peter Lamont, 91, British art director and production designer (Goldfinger, Aliens, Titanic), Oscar winner (1998).^[557]
• Michał Marusik, 69, Polish politician, MEP (2014–2019).^[558]
• Aminul Islam Mintu, 81, Bangladeshi film editor (Goriber Bou, Ajante), COVID-19.^[559]
• Peter M. Neumann, 79, British mathematician, COVID-19.^[560]
• Rahah Noah, 87, Malaysian socialite, spouse of the deputy prime minister (1957–1970) and of the prime minister (1970–1976).^[561]
• John Obiero Nyagarama, 74, Kenyan politician, governor of Nyamira County (since 2013), COVID-19.^[562]
• Peter Takeo Okada, 79, Japanese Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Tokyo (2000–2017), esophageal cancer.^[563]
• José Vicente Rangel, 91, Venezuelan politician, vice president (2002–2007) and minister of foreign affairs (1999–2001), cardiac arrest.^[564]
• Òscar Ribas Reig, 84, Andorran politician, prime minister (1982–1984, 1990–1994).^[565]
• Jerry Relph, 76, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate (since 2017), complications from COVID-19.^[566]
• Ray Rogers, 89, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives (1984–2020).^[567]
• Aristóteles Sandoval, 46, Mexican politician, Governor of Jalisco (2013–2018), shot.^[568]
• Joseph L. Scanlan, 91, American film director.^[569]
• Robina Sentongo, Ugandan politician, MP (since 2016), COVID-19.^[570]
• Tim Severin, 80, British explorer, historian and writer, cancer.^[571]
• Valentin Shurchanov, 73, Russian politician and journalist, deputy (1999–2003, since 2007), COVID-19.^[572]
• Victor Snieckus, 83, Lithuanian-born Canadian synthetic organic chemist.^[573]
• Sun Weiben, 92, Chinese politician, Communist Party secretary of Liaoning (1982–1985) and Heilongjiang (1985–1994).^[574]
• William Winter, 97, American politician, governor (1980–1984) and lieutenant governor of Mississippi (1972–1976), member of the Mississippi House of Representatives (1947–1959).^[575]
• Yazid Zerhouni, 83, Tunisian-born Algerian politician.^[576]

19[edit]

• Shirley Abrahamson, 87, American jurist, justice (1976–2019) and chief justice (1996–2015) of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, pancreatic cancer.^[577]
• John Ahern, 86, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (2001–2009, 2011–2013).^[578]
• Doc Ayers, 98, American football coach (Piedmont College).^[579]
• Art Berglund, 80, American ice hockey coach and executive (national team).^[580]
• Anthony Birley, 83, British ancient historian and archaeologist (Vindolanda), lung cancer.^[581]
• Peter Boddington, 78, British boxer, COVID-19.^[582]
• Mile Bogović, 81, Croatian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Gospić-Senj (2000–2016), COVID-19.^[583]
• Barbara M. Byrne, 85, Canadian quantitative psychologist.^[584]
• Nedo Fiano, 95, Italian writer and Holocaust survivor.^[585]
• Joan Milke Flores, 84, American politician, member of the Los Angeles City Council (1983–1993), complications from myelodysplastic syndrome.^[586]
• David Giler, 77, American screenwriter (The Parallax View, The Money Pit) and film producer (Alien), cancer.^[587]
• Paul Hänni, 93, Swiss Olympic wrestler.^[588]
• Kirunda Kivejinja, 85, Ugandan politician, minister of East African Community Affairs (since 2016), COVID-19.^[589]
• Rosalind Knight, 87, British actress (Carry On, Tom Jones, Gimme Gimme Gimme).^[590]
• Marjan Lazovski, 58, Macedonian basketball player and coach (Vardar, AMAK SP, national team), COVID-19.^[591]
• Judith Loganbill, 67, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives (2001–2013).^[592]
• Sir Mekere Morauta, 74, Papua New Guinean politician, prime minister (1999–2002), cancer.^[593]
• Märta Norberg, 98, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (1952).^[594]
• Leo Panitch, 75, Canadian political philosopher, viral pneumonia from COVID-19.^[595]
• Maria Piątkowska, 89, Polish Olympic athlete (1952, 1960, 1964), COVID-19.^[596]
• Hermina Pipinić, 92, Croatian actress (Square of Violence, La steppa, Old Surehand).^[597]
• Eileen Pollock, 73, Northern Irish actress (Bread, Far and Away, Angela's Ashes).^[598]
• Carmen Quidiello, 105, Cuban-born Dominican playwright and poet, first lady of the Dominican Republic (1963).^[599]
• Mohan Rawale, 72, Indian politician, MP (1991–2009).^[600]
• Narindar Saroop, 91, Indian-born British businessman.^[601]
• Elaine Stack, 89, American judge, justice of the Supreme Court of New York (2000–2008), COVID-19.^[602]
• Margaret Tebbit, Lady Tebbit, 86, English nurse.^[603]
• Themie Thomai, 75, Albanian politician, minister of agriculture (1975–1989), COVID-19.^[604]
• Alberto Valdés Jr., 70, Mexican equestrian, Olympic bronze medallist (1980).^[605]
• Bram van der Vlugt, 86, Dutch actor (Pastorale 1943, Tropic of Emerald, Family), COVID-19.^[606]
• Elmar Zeitler, 93, German physicist.^[607]

20[edit]

• Samsuddin Ahmed, 75, Bangladeshi politician, MP (2001–2006), COVID-19.^[608]
• Raymon Anning, 90, British police officer, commissioner of police of Hong Kong (1985–1989).^[609]
• Doug Anthony, 90, Australian politician, deputy prime minister (1971–1972, 1975–1983) and MP (1957–1984).^[610]
• Anthony Banzi, 74, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Tanga (since 1994).^[611]
• Nicette Bruno, 87, Brazilian actress (Sétimo Sentido, Louco Amor, Perigosas Peruas), complications from COVID-19.^[612]
• Arthur Campbell, 95, New Zealand analytical chemist.^[613]
• Zee Edgell, 80, Belizean-born American novelist, cancer.^[614]
• Bill Groethe, 97, American photographer.^[615]
• Billy Harris, 77, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Royals).^[616]
• Svatopluk Karásek, 78, Czech Evangelical priest, politician, and dissident (Charter 77), deputy (2002–2006).^[617]
• Gogi Kavtaradze, 80, Georgian actor (Don't Grieve, Melodies of Vera Quarter, Wounded Game).^[618]
• David Knight, 92, American actor (The Newcomers).^[619]
• Delfino López Aparicio, 60, Mexican politician, deputy (since 2018), COVID-19.^[620]
• Susan Moore, 52, American physician, complications from COVID-19.^[621]
• Monzur-I-Mowla, 80, Bangladeshi poet, director general of the Bangla Academy (1982–1986), COVID-19.^[622]
• Inés Moreno, 88, Argentine actress (Behind a Long Wall).^[623]
• Florencio Olvera Ochoa, 87, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Cuernavaca (2002–2009).^[624]
• Rukhshana, 80, Afghan singer.^[625]
• Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, 72, Kuwaiti royal, minister of defense (2017–2019).^[626]
• Yvonne Sandberg-Fries, 70, Swedish politician, MEP (2003–2004), MR (1982–1996).^[627]
• Julius Schachter, 84, American microbiologist, COVID-19.^[628]
• Romolo Tavoni, 94, Italian motor racing executive (Ferrari).^[629]
• Richard Vande Hoef, 95, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate (1981–1993) and House of Representatives (1993–1999).^[630]
• Ezra Vogel, 90, American scholar (Japan as Number One: Lessons for America, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China), complications from surgery.^[631]
• Lee Wallace, 90, American actor (Batman, Private Benjamin, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three).^[632]
• Dame Fanny Waterman, 100, English pianist, founder of the Leeds International Piano Competition.^[633]
• Dietrich Weise, 86, German football player (Neckarsulm) and manager (Eintracht Frankfurt, Egypt national team).^[634]
• Peter Williams, 81, British motorcycle racer.^[635]
• Ned Wynn, 79, American actor (The Bellboy, Bikini Beach, Beach Blanket Bingo), complications from Parkinson's disease.^[636]

21[edit]

• Hank Adams, 77, American Native American rights activist.^[637]
• Ronald Anderson, 79, American sociologist.^[638]
• Frederik Batti Sorring, 65, Indonesian politician, regent of North Toraja (2011–2016), COVID-19.^[639]
• Boris Bushmelev, 83, Russian film director (The Evening Labyrinth).^[640]
• Urso Chappell, 53, American graphic designer and world's fair historian, cirrhosis.^[641]
• Ikenwoli Godfrey Emiko, 65, Nigerian traditional ruler, olu of Warri (since 2015), COVID-19.^[642]
• Gilberto Ensástiga, 57, Mexican politician, MP (2003–2006), COVID-19.^[643]
• John Fitzpatrick, 74, Scottish footballer (Manchester United).^[644]
• Marcos Flegmann, 30, Mexican-born American rugby player, bone cancer.^[645]
• Donald A. S. Fraser, 95, Canadian statistician.^[646]
• Tadeusz Górczyk, 59, Polish politician and journalist, deputy (1991–1993).^[647]
• Sandy Grant Gordon, 89, Scottish distiller (Glenfiddich).^[648]
• Kevin Greene, 58, American Hall of Fame football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Los Angeles Rams) and coach (Green Bay Packers), heart attack.^[649]
• Dorothy Henry, 95, American newspaper artist and cartoonist.^[650]
• Sir John Hills, 66, British social scientist, cancer.^[651]
• Mark Joseph, 63, Filipino actor (Silip), skin cancer.^[652]
• Aleksandr Kurlyandsky, 82, Russian screenwriter (Well, Just You Wait!) and author.^[653]
• Tommie Lindström, 82, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1960).^[654]
• Hamish McLachlan, 53, Australian Olympic rower (1988) and stock market fraudster.^[655]
• Julian Moti, 55, Fijian-born Australian lawyer, attorney general of Solomon Islands (2006–2006, 2007–2007).^[656]
• K. T. Oslin, 78, American country singer-songwriter ("80's Ladies", "Do Ya", "I'll Always Come Back"), Grammy winner (1988, 1989), COVID-19.^[657]
• Kalsoom Perveen, 75, Pakistani politician, senator (since 2003), COVID-19.^[658]
• Richard Rominger, 93, American politician, heart attack.^[659]
• Karel Vachek, 80, Czech documentary film director and FAMU educator.^[660]
• Motilal Vora, 92, Indian politician, minister of health and family welfare (1988–1989), MP (2002–2020) and CM of Madhya Pradesh (1985–1988, 1989), complications from COVID-19.^[661]
• Eleanor Wadsworth, 103, English aviator.^[662]
• Sir Arnold Wolfendale, 93, British astronomer, Astronomer Royal (1991–1995).^[663]

22[edit]

• Karima Baloch, 37, Pakistani human rights activist.^[664]
• Joachim Bäse, 81, German footballer (Eintracht Braunschweig, West Germany national team).^[665]
• Wojciech Borowik, 64, Polish politician, Solidarity activist, deputy (1993–1997), COVID-19.^[666]
• Claude Brasseur, 84, French actor (Bande à part, Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me, A Simple Story).^[667]
• Norma Cappagli, 81, Argentine model, Miss World (1960), traffic collision.^[668]
• Pierre Chappuis, 90, Swiss poet.^[669]
• Edmund M. Clarke, 75, American computer scientist, COVID-19.^[670]
• James D. Fowler, 86, American politician.^[671]
• Ed Gomes, 84, American politician, member of the Connecticut State Senate (2005–2013, 2015–2019), injuries sustained in a traffic collision.^[672]
• Leo Goodman, 92, American statistician, COVID-19.^[673]
• Kevin Hartley, 86, Australian amateur golfer.^[674]
• Erkki Hytönen, 87, Finnish Olympic ice hockey player (1952).^[675]
• H. L. Jensen, 91, American politician.^[676]
• Lam Phương, 83, Vietnamese-American songwriter, complications from a stroke.^[677]
• Jack Lenor Larsen, 93, American textile designer.^[678]
• Paul Loridant, 72, French politician, mayor of Les Ulis (1977–2001).^[679]
• Ron Lurie, 79, American politician, mayor of Las Vegas (1987–1991), COVID-19.^[680]
• John Maltby, 84, English sculptor and potter.^[681]
• Muhammad Mustafa Mero, 79, Syrian politician, prime minister (2000–2003), COVID-19.^[682]
• Phil Rogers, 69, Welsh studio potter.^[683]
• George Spriggs, 83, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Royals).^[684]
• Özkan Sümer, 80, Turkish football player (Trabzonspor) and manager (Galatasaray, national team).^[685]
• Stella Tennant, 50, British model, suicide.^[686]
• Rubén Tierrablanca González, 68, Mexican-born Turkish Roman Catholic prelate, apostolic vicariate of Istanbul (since 2016), COVID-19.^[687]
• Tuck Tucker, 59, American animator (Hey Arnold!, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Simpsons).^[688]
• Antonio Vacca, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Alghero-Bosa (1993–2006), throat cancer.^[689]
• Jay Walljasper, 65, American writer and editor, kidney cancer.^[690]
• Alan Warren, 88, English priest.^[691]
• Dwight Wise, 90, American politician.^[692]

23[edit]

• Arkady Andreasyan, 73, Armenian football player (Ararat Yerevan, Soviet Union national team) and manager (Homenmen Beirut), Olympic bronze medallist (1972).^[693]
• Lars Arge, 53, Danish computer scientist, kidney cancer.^[694]
• Irani Barbosa, 70, Brazilian politician, deputy (1991–1995), COVID-19.^[695]
• Charles Campion, 69, English food critic (The Times, The Independent, MasterChef).^[696]
• Desmond Carnelley, 91, English archdeacon.^[697]
• Richard N. Cooper, 86, American economist.^[698]
• John Edrich, 83, English cricketer (Norfolk, Surrey, national team), Waldenström's macroglobulinemia.^[699]
• James E. Gunn, 97, American science fiction author (The Road to Science Fiction, Star Bridge, The Listeners).^[700]
• Lyle Hanson, 85, American politician, member of the North Dakota House of Representatives (1979–2012).^[701]
• Yehuda Henkin, 75, Israeli Orthodox rabbi and posek.^[702]
• Mannan Hira, 64, Bangladeshi playwright and film director, heart attack.^[703]
• Issaka Assane Karanta, 75, Nigerien politician, Mayor of Commune I (1996–1999) and Commune III (2010–2011) of Niamey, governor of Niamey Capital District (since 2018), COVID-19.^[704]
• Pero Kvrgić, 93, Croatian actor (Ne daj se, Floki, All for Free, Nausikaya).^[705]
• Lonnie Laffen, 62, American politician, member of the North Dakota Senate (2010–2018), heart attack.^[706]
• Rebecca Luker, 59, American actress (Mary Poppins, Show Boat, Not Fade Away), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[707]
• Makosso IV, 76, Congolese royal, king of Loango (since 2009).^[708]
• Santé Marcuzzi, 86, French Olympic rower (1956).^[709]
• Eddie McLaren, 91, Scottish footballer (Reading).^[710]
• Dave McNary, 69, American film journalist (Variety), complications from a stroke.^[711]
• Mićo Mićić, 64, Bosnian politician, mayor of Bijeljina (since 2004), COVID-19.^[712]
• Brian Morrison, 82, Australian footballer (Richmond).^[713]
• Loyiso Mpumlwana, South African politician, member of the National Assembly (2014–2019, since 2020), COVID-19.^[714]
• Rei Nakanishi, 82, Japanese novelist and songwriter, heart attack.^[715]
• Kay Purcell, 57, English actress (Emmerdale, Tracy Beaker Returns, Waterloo Road), liver cancer.^[716]
• Frankie Randall, 59, American boxer, WBC light welterweight champion (1994–1996).^[717]
• Madan Lal Sharma, 68, Indian politician, MP (2004–2014).^[718]
• Gilbert Shea, 92, American tennis player.^[719]
• Sugathakumari, 86, Indian poet and social activist, COVID-19.^[720]
• Swami Sundaranand, 94, Indian yogi, photographer, and mountaineer.^[721]
• Monika Tilley, 86, Austrian-born American fashion designer.^[722]
• Leslie West, 75, American singer and guitarist (Mountain, West, Bruce and Laing, The Vagrants), heart attack.^[723]
• Ron Widby, 75, American basketball and football player (Dallas Cowboys, Green Bay Packers).^[724]
• Joel Yanofsky, 65, Canadian novelist, cancer.^[725]
• Rika Zaraï, 82, Israeli singer and writer.^[726]

24[edit]

• Mouloud Achour, 76, Algerian writer.^[727]
• Mitsumasa Anno, 94, Japanese children's author and illustrator (All in a Day), cirrhosis.^[728]
• Mohamad Aziz, 80, Malaysian politician, MP (1999–2013) and Johor State MLA (1986–1999), kidney failure.^[729]
• Ben Binnendijk, 93, Dutch Olympic rower (1952).^[730]
• Benedicto Bravo, 58, Mexican footballer (Club León, Unión de Curtidores), COVID-19.^[731]
• Carl Olaf Bue Jr., 98, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Southern Texas (since 1970).^[732]
• Michael J. Byrne, 79, Australian physician.^[733]
• Vince Carillot, 93, American football coach.^[734]
• Roland Cedermark, 82, Swedish musician.^[735]
• Hubert Chesshyre, 80, British officer of arms, Clarenceux king of arms (1997–2010).^[736]
• John Cremona, 102, Maltese civil servant, chief justice (1971–1981) and acting president (1976).^[737]
• Braswell Deen Jr., 95, American politician.^[738]
• Ernie Duplechin, 88, American football coach (Basile HS, Eunice HS) and athletics administrator (McNeese State).^[739]
• Ivry Gitlis, 98, Israeli violinist.^[740]
• M. A. Hashem, 78, Bangladeshi businessman (Partex Group) and politician, MP (2001–2006), COVID-19.^[741]
• Danny Hodge, 88, American Hall of Fame wrestler (NWA) and boxer, Olympic silver medallist (1956), complications from Alzheimer's disease.^[742]
• AKM Jahangir Hossain, 66, Bangladeshi politician, MP (1991–2008, since 2014), complications from COVID-19.^[743]
• Thoriq Husler, 57, Indonesian politician, regent of East Luwu (since 2016), COVID-19.^[744]
• Aleksandar Ivoš, 89, Serbian footballer (Vojvodina, K. Beringen F.C., Yugoslavia national team).^[745]
• Milorad Janković, 80, Serbian footballer (Radnički Niš, Yugoslavia national team).^[746]
• Pir Noor Muhammad Shah Jeelani, 69, Pakistani politician, MNA (since 2013), COVID-19.^[747]
• Freshta Kohistani, 29, Afghan women's rights activist, shot.^[748]
• Ahmed Lemu, 91, Nigerian Islamic scholar and jurist.^[749]
• William Magee, 81, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (1991–2018).^[750]
• B. J. Marsh, 80, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives (1989–1993, 2001–2009), complications from COVID-19.^[751]
• Vincent Mhlanga, Swazi politician, acting prime minister (2018), COVID-19.^[752]
• Bernard Mvondo-Etoga, 37, Cameroonian Olympic judoka (2004).^[753]
• Jack Myers, 96, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).^[754]
• Adramé Ndiaye, 62, Senegalese Olympic basketball player (1980), COVID-19.^[755]
• Idongesit Nkanga, 68, Nigerian air officer and politician, COVID-19.^[756]
• Tho. Paramasivan, 69, Indian anthropologist, complications from diabetes.^[757]
• Thomas W. Parks, 81, American electrical engineer.^[758]
• Burt Pugach, 93, American lawyer and convicted felon.^[759]
• Armando Romero, 60, Mexican footballer (Cruz Azul, Club Toluca, Correcaminos UAT), complications from COVID-19.^[760]
• Benhur Salimbangon, 75, Filipino politician, member of the House of Representatives (2007–2019), cancer.^[761]
• Mojmir Sepe, 90, Slovenian composer ("Brez besed", "Pridi, dala ti bom cvet", "The Earth is Dancing") and conductor.^[762]
• Guy N. Smith, 81, British horror writer.^[763]
• Davie Sneddon, 84, Scottish footballer (Kilmarnock, Preston North End, Raith Rovers).^[764]
• Geoff Stephens, 86, English songwriter ("Sorry Suzanne", "Daughter of Darkness", "You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me") and record producer.^[765]
• Siv Widerberg, 89, Swedish writer and journalist.^[766]

25[edit]

• Michael Alig, 54, American club promoter and convicted killer, heroin overdose.^[767]
• Djalma Bastos de Morais, 83, Brazilian politician, minister of communications (1993–1995) and president of CEMIG (1999–2015), COVID-19.^[768]
• William Bentsen, 90, American Olympic sailing champion (1972).^[769]
• Brian Binley, 78, British politician, MP (2005–2015).^[770]
• Ivan Bogdan, 92, Ukrainian wrestler, Olympic champion (1960).^[771]
• Soumaïla Cissé, 71, Malian politician, MP (since 2013) and minister of finance (1993–2000), COVID-19.^[772]
• Chico Ejiro, Nigerian film producer and director, seizure.^[773]
• Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, 85, Indian poet and literary critic.^[774]
• Reginald Foster, 81, American Roman Catholic priest and Latinist, complications from COVID-19.^[775]
• Antonio Gento, 80, Spanish footballer (Racing de Santander, Real Oviedo).^[776]
• Rich Herrin, 87, American college basketball coach (SIUC, Morthland College).^[777]
• Tomás Irribarra, 85, Chilean politician, mayor of Quirihue (1992–1996, 2008–2012) and deputy (1969–1973).^[778]
• Robin Jackman, 75, English cricketer (Surrey, Rhodesia, national team), complications from COVID-19.^[779]
• K. C. Jones, 88, American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach (Boston Celtics, Washington Bullets), Olympic champion (1956) and NBA champion (1959–1966, 1984, 1986).^[780]
• Ty Jordan, 19, American college football player (University of Utah), shot.^[781]
• Jamal Khwaja, 92, Indian philosopher and politician, MP (1957–1962).^[782]
• Oleg Kravchenko, 50, Belarusian diplomat, COVID-19.^[783]
• Martin Lambie-Nairn, 75, English graphic designer (BBC, Channel 4).^[784]
• Carlos Levy, 78, Argentine writer, narrator and editor, COVID-19.^[785]
• Barry Lopez, 75, American author (Arctic Dreams), prostate cancer.^[786]
• Edgar Meddings, 97, British Olympic bobsledder (1948).^[787]
• Genevieve Musci, 106, American internet celebrity (Gramma and Ginga).^[788]
• Anil Nedumangad, 48, Indian actor (Janaadhipan, Ayyappanum Koshiyum, Paapam Cheyyathavar Kalleriyatte), drowned.^[789]
• Engin Nurşani, 36, Turkish-German folk musician, lung infection and cancer.^[790]
• Jaan Rääts, 88, Estonian composer.^[791]
• Tony Rice, 69, American Hall of Fame bluegrass guitarist (New South, David Grisman Quintet, Bluegrass Album Band).^[792]
• Barbara Rose, 84, American art historian, breast cancer.^[793]
• Arne Skotte, 70, Swedish footballer.^[794]
• David Thorns, 77, British-born New Zealand sociologist.^[795]
• Maksim Tsyhalka, 37, Belarusian footballer (Dinamo-Juni Minsk, Dinamo Minsk, national team).^[796]
• Scott Vermillion, 44, American soccer player (Kansas City Wizards, Colorado Rapids), acute alcohol and prescription drug poisoning.^[797]

26[edit]

• Derek Aucoin, 50, Canadian baseball player (Montreal Expos), brain cancer.^[798]
• Milka Babović, 92, Croatian sprinter, hurdler and journalist, COVID-19.^[799]
• George Blake, 98, British spy and double agent.^[800]
• Leslie D. Campbell Jr., 95, American politician.^[801]
• George Robert Carruthers, 81, American physicist and inventor.^[802]
• Víctor Cuica, 71, Venezuelan saxophonist and actor.^[803]
• Pat Childers, 79, American politician, member of the Wyoming House of Representatives (1997–2013).^[804]
• Harper Davis, 95, American football player (Mississippi State Bulldogs, Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears).^[805]
• Johnson Gicheru, 79, Kenyan judge, chief justice (2003–2011).^[806]
• Patrick Harris, 86, English bishop.^[697]
• Kadambur R. Janarthanan, 91, Indian politician, MP (1984–1996, 1998–1999).^[807]
• Railey Jeffrey, 75, Malaysian politician, MP (1986–2004).^[808]
• Abdul Kader, 69, Bangladeshi actor (Kothao Keu Nei), cancer.^[809]
• Ubong King, 48, Nigerian business consultant, security expert and motivational speaker, COVID-19.^[810]
• Bronisława Kowalska, 65, Polish politician and political scientist, deputy (1993–2005), MEP (2004), COVID-19.^[811]
• Sir Peter Lachmann, 89, British immunologist.^[812]
• Brodie Lee, 41, American professional wrestler (AEW, WWE, ROH), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.^[813]
• Govind Prasad Lohani, 93, Nepali diplomat and economist, respiratory failure.^[814]
• Theodore Lumpkin, 100, American pilot (Tuskegee Airmen), complications from COVID-19.^[815]
• Jim McLean, 83, Scottish football player (Clyde, Hamilton Academical) and manager (Dundee United), complications from dementia.^[816]
• Chic McLelland, 67, Scottish football player (Aberdeen, Motherwell) and manager (Montrose).^[817]
• John Miller, 88, British journalist and author.^[818]
• Aubrey Mokoape, 76, South African anti-apartheid activist, COVID-19.^[819]
• Gilbert Naccache, 81, Tunisian writer and far-left militant.^[820]
• Cirilo Nelson, 82, Honduran botanist.^[821]
• Phil Niekro, 81, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Atlanta Braves, New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians), cancer.^[822]
• Maximiliano Pereira, 27, Uruguayan footballer (Miramar Misiones, Racing de Montevideo, Sport Boys), drowned.^[823]
• Sergio Pintor, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Ozieri (2006–2012).^[824]
• Tito Rojas, 65, Puerto Rican salsa singer, heart attack.^[825]
• Gregorio Salvador Caja, 93, Spanish linguist.^[826]
• Nomvuzo Shabalala, 60, South African politician, MP (since 2018), COVID-19-related illness.^[827]
• Bill Sheridan, 78, American basketball coach.^[828]
• Peter Schmidhuber, 89, German politician, deputy (1965–1969, 1972–1978).^[829]
• William Starr, 97, American violinist.^[830]
• Vic Stelly, 79, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1989–2005), COVID-19.^[831]
• Mike Sutton, 76, English footballer (Norwich City, Chester, Carlisle United), complications from dementia.^[832]
• Shirley Young, 85, American businesswoman.^[833]

27[edit]

• Rolf Aggestam, 79, Swedish poet and translator.^[834]
• Arthur Berckmans, 91, Belgian comics author (Sammy).^[835]
• Maria Gąsienica Bukowa-Kowalska, 84, Polish Olympic cross-country skier (1956).^[836]
• José Luiz Carbone, 74, Brazilian football player (Internacional, national team) and manager (Fluminense), liver cancer.^[837]
• Florentino Domínguez Ordóñez, 58, Mexican politician, deputy (2003–2006), COVID-19.^[838]
• Gus Ferguson, 80, Scottish-born South African poet and cartoonist.^[839]
• Ed Finn, 94, Canadian politician and trade unionist.^[840]
• Giorgio Galli, 92, Italian historian and political analyst.^[841]
• Yuichiro Hata, 53, Japanese politician, minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism (2012) and member of the House of Councillors (since 1999), COVID-19.^[842]
• Marian Jochman, 85, Polish Olympic long-distance runner (1960).^[843]
• Roberto Junguito, 77, Colombian economist, diplomat and politician, minister of finance and public credit (2002–2003) and of agriculture and rural development (1983–1984).^[844]
• Mustafa Kandıralı, 90, Turkish clarinetist.^[845]
• Sunil Kothari, 87, Indian dance historian, cardiac arrest.^[846]
• Saidu Kumo, 61, Nigerian politician, COVID-19.^[847]
• Vikram Lall, Indian architect.^[848]
• Li Guang, 106, Chinese military officer, founding major general of the PLA.^[849]
• William Link, 87, American television writer (Murder, She Wrote, Columbo, Mannix), Emmy winner (1970), heart failure.^[850]
• Manukura, 9, New Zealand North Island brown kiwi (hatched 2011).^[851]
• Klavio Meça, 24, Albanian swimmer.^[852]
• Mieczysław Morański, 60, Polish actor (Na dobre i na złe, Na Wspólnej, Plebania), COVID-19.^[853]
• Ladislav Mrkvička, 81, Czech actor (Atentát, Thirty Cases of Major Zeman), Thalia Award and Czech Lion winner.^[854]
• Gunga Mwinga, 45, Kenyan politician, MP (2013–2017).^[855]
• Mohamed El Ouafa, 72, Moroccan diplomat and politician, ambassador to India (2000–2004), Iran (2004–2006), and Brazil (2006–2012), minister of education (2012–2013), COVID-19.^[856]
• Loyd Phillips, 75, American Hall of Fame football player (Arkansas Razorbacks, Chicago Bears).^[857]
• Zbigniew Pocialik, 75, Polish footballer (KS Warszawianka, Gwardia Warsaw, Beveren).^[858]
• Germán Rama, 88, Uruguayan historian and academic.^[859]
• Osvaldo Rivera Cianchini, 80, Puerto Rican judge, COVID-19.^[860]
• Zouheïra Salem, 80, Tunisian singer.^[861]
• Harold Spinka, 75, American particle physicist.^[862]
• Seymour Van Gundy, 89, American nematologist.^[863]
• Ken Unwin, 94, English archdeacon.^[697]
• Antonio Velasco Piña, 85, Mexican novelist, spiritual writer and essayist.^[864]
• D. Yasodha, 74, Indian politician, Tamil Nadu MLA (1980–1989, 2001–2011).^[865]

28[edit]

• Arun Alexander, 47, Indian actor (Maanagaram, Kolamavu Kokila, Master), heart attack.^[866]
• Csaba Ali, 74, Hungarian Olympic swimmer (1964).^[867]
• Jack Arthurs, 98, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1971–1978).^[868]
• Marc Basnight, 73, American politician, President pro tempore (1993–2011) and member (1985–2011) of the North Carolina Senate, progressive bulbar palsy.^[869]
• John R. Bentson, 83, American neuroradiologist, complications from COVID-19.^[870]
• Moshe Brawer, 101, Israeli geographer.^[871]
• Romell Broom, 64, American convicted murderer, COVID-19.^[872]
• Johnny Clark, 73, British boxer, European bantamweight champion (1973).^[873]
• Othón Cuevas Córdova, 55, Mexican politician, deputy (2006–2009), COVID-19.^[874]
• S. L. Dharmegowda, 65, Indian politician, deputy chairman of the Karnataka Legislative Council (since 2018), suicide by train.^[875]
• Paul-Heinz Dittrich, 90, German composer.^[876]
• Tom Docherty, 96, English footballer (Lincoln City, Newport County).^[877]
• Jean-Marc Forneri, 61, French financier, heart attack.^[878]
• Fou Ts'ong, 86, Chinese-born British pianist, COVID-19.^[879]
• H. Jack Geiger, 95, American physician.^[880]
• Christopher Greet, 88, Sri Lankan-born British actor (Dinnerladies, The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time).^[881]
• Paul Sueo Hamaguchi, 72, Japanese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Oita (since 2011).^[882]
• Jyrki Heliskoski, 75, Finnish football coach (HJK, national team).^[883]
• Paul Heller, 93, American film producer (Enter the Dragon, The Wilby Conspiracy, The Pack).^[884]
• George Hudson, 83, English footballer (Peterborough United, Coventry City, Tranmere Rovers).^[885]
• Roy B. B. Janis, 63, Indonesian politician, MP (1992–1997, 1999–2005).^[886]
• Valentin Lazarov, 89, Bulgarian Hall of Fame basketball referee.^[887]
• Armando Manzanero, 85, Mexican singer-songwriter ("Somos Novios (It's Impossible)", "Mía", "Adoro"), Grammy winner (2014), COVID-19.^[888]
• Frank Hampton McFadden, 95, American jurist, judge (1969–1982) and chief judge (1973–1982) of the U.S. District Court for Northern Alabama.^[889]
• David Medalla, 82, Filipino sculptor.^[890]
• Luis Enrique Mercado, 68, Mexican writer, journalist (El Economista) and politician, deputy (2009–2012), COVID-19.^[891]
• Cy McClairen, 89, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), coach (Bethune-Cookman) and administrator.^[892]
• Nolan Mettetal, 75, American politician, member of the Mississippi State Senate (1996–2012) and House of Representatives (2012–2020), COVID-19.^[893]
• Wilma Pelly, 83, Canadian actress (North of 60, Fargo, Mixed Blessings).^[894]
• John Fulton Reid, 64, New Zealand cricketer (Auckland, national team).^[895]
• Madelyn Reiter, 78, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate (2001–2007).^[896]
• Les Riggs, 85, English football player (Gillingham, Newport County) and manager (Margate).^[897]
• Adele Rose, 87, English television writer (Coronation Street, Z-Cars, Byker Grove), pneumonia.^[898]
• Arianna W. Rosenbluth, 93, American physicist, complications from COVID-19.^[899]
• Mahinder Watsa, 96, Indian sexologist.^[900]
• Colin Withers, 80, English footballer (Birmingham City, Aston Villa).^[901]
• Zou Deci, 86, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.^[902]

29[edit]

• Hatem Ali, 58, Syrian television director (Salah Al-deen Al-Ayyobi, Seraa Ala El Remal, Omar) and actor, heart attack.^[903]
• Claude Bolling, 90, French jazz pianist and composer (Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio).^[904]
• David Britton, 75, British author and publisher (Meng and Ecker).^[905]
• Jessica Campbell, 38, American actress (Election).^[906]
• Pierre Cardin, 98, French-Italian fashion designer.^[907]
• Richard Choruma, 42, Zimbabwean footballer (Highlanders, Bloemfontein Celtic, national team), kidney failure.^[908]
• Joe Louis Clark, 82, American school principal, subject of Lean on Me.^[909]
• Hugh Davidson, 92, American football player (Colorado Buffaloes), coach (Montana Grizzlies), and head scout (Denver Broncos).^[910]
• Josefina Echánove, 93, Mexican actress (El hombre de los hongos, The Children of Sanchez, Cabeza de Vaca), model and journalist.^[911]
• Norman Golb, 92, American Semitics scholar.^[912]
• Agitu Ideo Gudeta, 42, Ethiopian goat breeder and activist, beaten.^[913]
• Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Machado, 60, Mexican politician, deputy (2003–2006), COVID-19.^[914]
• James Hardy, 64, American basketball player (Utah Jazz, Udinese, Olympique Antibes), heart attack.^[915]
• Arne A. Jensen, 66, Norwegian media and corporate executive, CEO of TV 2 (1993–1999) and Braathens (1999–2001).^[916]
• Michael Julien, 93, British songwriter ("Let's Live for Today", "Kiss Me, Honey Honey, Kiss Me", "Boom Bang-a-Bang"), COVID-19.^[917]
• Dzhambulat Khatokhov, 21, Russian sumo wrestler and record holder, world's heaviest child, kidney failure.^[918]
• Yevheniia Kucherenko, 98, Ukrainian pedagogue.^[919]
• Alexi Laiho, 41, Finnish death metal singer-songwriter and guitarist (Children of Bodom, Sinergy, The Local Band), alcohol-related cirrhosis and pancreatitis.^[920]
• Joey LaMotta, 95, American boxer and manager.^[921]
• Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio, 90, Filipino puppeteer, National Artist of the Philippines.^[922]
• Luke Letlow, 41, American politician, U.S. Representative-elect, complications from COVID-19.^[923]
• Hugh X. Lewis, 90, American country singer, complications from COVID-19.^[924]
• Gösta Linderholm, 79, Swedish singer and composer (Rasmus på luffen), stroke.^[925]
• René Lotti, 91, French Olympic rower.^[926]
• Elaine McCoy, 74, Canadian politician, Senator (since 2005) and Alberta MLA (1986–1993).^[927]
• Phyllis McGuire, 89, American singer (The McGuire Sisters).^[928]
• Simo Mfayela, South African politician, member of the National Council of Provinces (since 2019).^[929]
• Nikhil Nandy, 88, Indian Olympic footballer (1956).^[930]
• Jerry O'Riordan, 81, Irish Gaelic footballer (Glenbeigh-Glencar, Kerry).^[931]
• Gregory Ochiagha, 89, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Orlu (1980–2008).^[932]
• Corrado Olmi, 94, Italian actor and comedian (Wake Up and Die, Scandal in the Family, Madly in Love), COVID-19.^[933]
• Daniel S. Paletko, 70, American politician, mayor of Dearborn Heights, Michigan (since 2004), member of the Michigan House of Representatives (2003–2004), COVID-19.^[934]
• Serafim Papakostas, 61, Greek Orthodox prelate, metropolitan of Kastoria (since 1996), COVID-19.^[935]
• John Paul Jr., 60, American racing driver and convicted criminal, Huntington's disease.^[936]
• Geoffrey Robinson, 83, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Sydney (1984–2004).^[937]
• Vincenzo Rosito, 81, Italian footballer (Potenza, Pistoiese, Mantova).^[938]
• Howard J. Rubenstein, 88, American lawyer and public relations expert.^[939]
• Rudy Salas, 71, American musician (El Chicano, Tierra).^[940]
• Shabba Doo, 65, American dancer (The Lockers) and actor (Breakin', Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo).^[941]
• Luigi Snozzi, 88, Swiss architect, COVID-19.^[942]
• Jeanine Toulouse, 97, French Olympic sprinter (1948).^[943]
• Tommy Turtle, 70, British soldier, cancer.^[944]
• Jean Valentine, 86, American poet, New York State Poet Laureate (2008–2010), complications from Alzheimer's disease.^[945]
• Indira Joseph Venniyoor, 94, Indian broadcaster (All India Radio).^[946]
• Kees Verkade, 79, Dutch sculptor and artist.^[947]
• John Waine, 90, English bishop.^[948]
• Sofia Zhukova, 81, Russian serial killer, COVID-19.^[949]

30[edit]

• Aldo Andretti, 80, Italian-born American racing driver, COVID-19.^[950]
• Guillem Areny, 89, Andorran politician, mayor of La Massana (1962–1963) and member of the Council General (1966–1969, 1974–1981).^[951]
• Ronald Atkins, 104, British politician, MP (1966–1970, 1974–1979).^[952]
• Brenda Banks, 72, American animator (King of the Hill, The Lord of the Rings, The Smurfs).^[953]
• Ivan Baumgartner, 86, Australian footballer.^[954]
• Bob Bessoir, 88, American college basketball coach (Scranton Royals).^[955]
• George Blasse, 86, Dutch chemist.^[956]
• Jos Compaan, 62, Dutch Olympic rower (1980, 1984, 1988).^[957]
• Josep Corominas i Busqueta, 81, Spanish doctor and politician, deputy (1989–2000) and grand master of the Grand Lodge of Spain (2002–2006).^[958]
• Peter Craze, 74, British actor (Doctor Who).^[959]
• Seaman Dan, 91, Australian musician.^[960]
• Eugene Peyton Deatrick, 96, American Air Force colonel and test pilot.^[961]
• Grace L. Drake, 94, American politician, member of the Ohio Senate (1984–2000).^[962]
• Robert A. Frosch, 92, American scientist, administrator of NASA (1977–1981).^[963]
• Gaztelu, 74, Spanish footballer (Real Sociedad).^[964]
• Andrew Han Jingtao, 99, Chinese Roman Catholic clandestine prelate, bishop of Sipingjie (since 1982).^[965]
• Frank Kimbrough, 64, American post-bop jazz pianist.^[966]
• Samuel Little, 80, American serial killer.^[967]
• Milan Lučanský, 51, Slovak police general, president of the Slovak Police Force (2018–2020), suicide by hanging.^[968]
• Yehoshua Matza, 89, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1984–2002).^[969]
• Metin Orgarun, 60, Turkish Olympic judoka (1984).^[970]
• Panusunan Pasaribu, 74, Indonesian civil servant and politician, regent of Central Tapanuli (1995–2001).^[971]
• Stephen Prince, 65, American film critic and historian.^[972]
• Alto Reed, 72, American saxophonist (Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, Little Feat, Grand Funk Railroad), colon cancer.^[973]
• LaWanna Shurtliff, 85, American politician, member of the Utah House of Representatives (1999–2008, since 2019), pneumonia.^[974]
• Lois Sasson, 80, American jewelry designer and gay rights activist, complications from COVID-19.^[975]
• Alexander Spirin, 89, Russian biochemist.^[976]
• Victor Stacey, 76, Irish Church of Ireland clergyman, dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin (2012–2016).^[977]
• Gennady Strakhov, 76, Russian freestyle wrestler, Olympic silver medalist (1972), COVID-19.^[978]
• Anton Strout, 50, American author and podcaster.^[979]
• Dawn Wells, 82, American actress (Gilligan's Island, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, Return to Boggy Creek), COVID-19.^[980]
• Richard Gilbert West, 94, British botanist and geologist.^[981]
• Eugene Wright, 97, American jazz bassist (The Dave Brubeck Quartet).^[982]

31[edit]

• Constantin Bosânceanu, 54, Romanian footballer (Bucovina Suceava, Oțelul Galați, Rocar București).^[983]
• Jeremy Burnham, 89, British television actor and screenwriter.^[984]
• Ralph C. Capparelli, 96, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1971–2004).^[985]
• John Cardos, 91, American film director (Kingdom of the Spiders, Outlaw of Gor, The Day Time Ended) and actor.^[986]
• Maxine Cheshire, 90, American journalist (The Washington Post), cardiovascular disease.^[987]
• Tommy Docherty, 92, Scottish football player (Preston North End) and manager (Chelsea, national team).^[988]
• Paul Etiang, 82, Ugandan politician, deputy prime minister (1996–1999), COVID-19.^[989]
• Jolanta Fedak, 60, Polish politician, minister of family, labour and social policy (2007–2011) and member of the Sejm (since 2019).^[990]
• Ernesto Gismondi, 89, Italian designer, founder of Artemide.^[991]
• Robert Hossein, 93, French film director (Les Misérables, Cemetery Without Crosses), actor (Angélique, Marquise des Anges) and writer, COVID-19.^[992]
• Dušan Jovanović, 81, Serbian-born Slovene theatre director, playwright, and essayist.^[993]
• Richard Maxwell Kenan, 80, American politician.^[994]
• Michael Kindo, 73, Indian field hockey player, Olympic bronze medallist (1972).^[995]
• Gary Howard Klar, 73, American actor (Day of the Dead, Married to the Mob, Cadillac Man).^[996]
• Emília Kováčová, 89, Slovak economist and academic, first lady (1993–1998).^[997]
• Narendra Kumar, 87, Indian military officer and mountaineer.^[998]
• Maureen Lee, 88, British author.^[999]
• Olli Lehto, 95, Finnish mathematician.^[1000]
• Marian Leszczyński, 84, Polish Olympic rower (1964).^[1001]
• Inke Maris, 72, Indonesian journalist.^[1002]
• Muladi, 77, Indonesian jurist and politician, justice of the Supreme Court (2000–2001), minister of justice (1998–1999), MP (1997–1998), COVID-19.^[1003]
• Joe Neal, 85, American politician, member of the Nevada Senate (1972–2004).^[1004]
• Olivier Royant, 58, French journalist, director of Paris Match (since 2006).^[1005]
• Johnny Sands, 87, Canadian Olympic speed skater (1956, 1960).^[1006]
• Joan Micklin Silver, 85, American film director (Hester Street, Crossing Delancey, Between the Lines), vascular dementia.^[1007]
• Dick Thornburgh, 88, American lawyer and politician, U.S. Attorney General (1988–1991) and governor of Pennsylvania (1979–1987).^[1008]
• Narsing Yadav, 57, Indian actor (Kshana Kshanam, Gaayam, Shankar Dada M.B.B.S.), kidney disease.^[1009]

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