Deaths in February 2016

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

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

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

February 2016

1

• Wasil Ahmad, 11, Afghan child soldier, shot.
• Israr Ali, 88, Pakistani Test cricketer.
• Ali Beratlıgil, 84, Turkish football player and coach.
• Francis Buckley, 94, Canadian business executive (Buckley's).
• Jon Bunch, 45, American rock musician (Sense Field, Further Seems Forever), suicide by drug overdose.
• Miguel Gutiérrez, 84, Mexican footballer (Club Atlas).
• Li Xiuren, 94, Chinese politician.
• Murray Louis, 89, American modern dancer and choreographer.
• Kelly McGarry, 33, New Zealand mountain biker, cardiac arrest.
• Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores, 85, Guatemalan military officer and politician, President (1983–1986).
• Francis Ormsby-Gore, 6th Baron Harlech, 61, British peer, member of the House of Lords (1985–1999).
• Bernard Piras, 73, French politician, member of the Senate for Drôme (1996–2014), Mayor of Bourg-lès-Valence (2001–2014), cancer.
• Paul Pholeros, 62, Australian architect.
• Jaime Powell, 63, Argentine paleontologist.
• Tom Pugh, 78, English cricketer.
• Kunigal Ramanath, 83, Indian actor.
• Thomas Tigue, 70, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1981–2006), lung cancer.
• Dušan Velkaverh, 72, Slovenian lyricist.
• Sir Peter Whiteley, 95, British general in the Royal Marines, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (1979–1984).

2

• Robert Beiner, 65, American television sports director.
• Heinz Bohlen, 80, German microwave electronics and communications engineer (Bohlen–Pierce scale).
• Seth Cardew, 81, English studio potter.
• Abram Cohen, 91, American Olympic fencer (1956).
• Bob Elliott, 92, American comedian (Bob and Ray) and actor (Get a Life), throat cancer.
• Jim Goode, 71, American restaurateur.
• Dag Gundersen, 88, Norwegian linguist and lexicographer.
• Halling, 24, American racehorse.
• Intizar Hussain, 92, Pakistani writer.
• Chris Kenny, 78, Irish-born New Zealand boxing coach.
• Luiz Felipe Lampreia, 74, Brazilian diplomat, Minister of External Relations (1995–2001).
• Aldo Bufi Landi, 92, Italian actor (Four Flies on Grey Velvet, The Magliari, The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo).
• Gérald Laniel, 91, Canadian politician, MP for Beauharnois—Salaberry (1962–1984).
• Rebecca Masika Katsuva, 49, Congolese women's rights activist.
• Mubeen Mughal, 23, Pakistani cricketer.
• Yasushi Nirasawa, 52, Japanese concept designer and illustrator (Kamen Rider Kabuto, Hellboy, Soulcalibur), kidney failure.
• Mike Oehler, 78, American author.
• Manuel Tenenbaum, 81, Uruguayan historian, President of the Latin American Jewish Congress (1978–2007).
• Marcus Turner, 59, New Zealand folk singer and television presenter.

3

• Ernesto Alais, 86, Argentine Olympic sports shooter.
• Joe Alaskey, 63, American voice actor (Looney Tunes, Rugrats, Casper), cancer.
• Big Kap, 45, American hip hop DJ (Tunnel), heart attack.
• Mark Farren, 33, Irish football player (Derry City), brain cancer.
• Richie Giachetti, 76, American boxing trainer.
• John Hirst, 73, Australian historian.
• Balram Jakhar, 92, Indian politician, Speaker of the Lok Sabha (1980–1989).
• Michał Janiszewski, 89, Polish politician and army officer.
• Brandon Astor Jones, 72, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.
• József Kasza, 70, Serbian politician and economist.
• Suat Mamat, 85, Turkish footballer (Galatasaray, national team).
• K. S. Paripoornan, 83, Indian judge, multiple organ failure.
• Valery Postnikov, 70, Russian ice hockey player and coach.
• Mercedes Richards, 60, Jamaican astronomer and physicist.
• John P. Riley Jr., 95, American ice hockey player (national team) and coach (1960 Olympic Champions US national team).
• Edith Skom, 86, American novelist.
• Alba Solís, 88, Argentine singer and actress.
• Saulius Sondeckis, 87, Lithuanian violinist and conductor.
• Andy Thompson, 91, Canadian politician, Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party (1964–1966).
• Arnold Weiberg-Aurdal, 90, Norwegian politician.

4

• Leslie Bassett, 93, American composer, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music (1966).
• Sonia Borg, 85, Austrian-born Australian screenwriter (Women of the Sun, Storm Boy).
• Marlow Cook, 89, American politician, Senator from Kentucky (1968–1974), complications from a heart attack.
• Don Davis, 82, American gun shop owner.
• Joe Dowell, 76, American pop singer ("Wooden Heart"), heart attack.
• William Gaskill, 85, British theatre director.
• Harry Glasgow, 76, Scottish footballer (Clyde).
• Harry Harpham, 61, British politician, MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough (since 2015), cancer.
• Bob Harrison, 78, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).
• Jimmie Haskell, 79, American composer and orchestrator (The Color Purple, Big, Land of the Lost).
• Paddy Kehoe, 93, Irish Gaelic football and hurling manager and player.
• Galina Leontyeva, 74, Russian volleyball player, Olympic champion (1968, 1972).
• Katie May, 34, American model, stroke.
• Kristine Miller, 90, American actress (I Walk Alone, Jungle Patrol, Too Late for Tears). (death announced on this date)
• Dave Mirra, 41, American BMX rider, X Games winner (1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005), suicide by gunshot.
• Edgar Mitchell, 85, American astronaut (Apollo 14).
• Sir Jeremy Morse, 87, British banker and crossword compiler.
• Miguel Roa, 72, Spanish conductor.
• Axl Rotten, 44, American professional wrestler (ECW), heroin overdose.
• Haro Senft, 87, German filmmaker (Kahl).
• David Sloan, 74, Northern Irish footballer (Scunthorpe United, Oxford United, Walsall).
• Ulf Söderblom, 85, Finnish conductor.
• Howard G. Swafford, 96, American politician.
• Dimitris Tsaloumas, 94, Greek-born Australian poet.
• Lorna Jorgenson Wendt, 72, American women's equality advocate.
• Edgar Whitcomb, 98, American politician, Governor of Indiana (1969–1973).
• Maurice White, 74, American songwriter and musician (Earth, Wind & Fire), complications from Parkinson's disease.

5

• Markand Bhatt, 87, Indian theatre director and actor.
• Bill Birchfield, 80, American politician, member of Florida House of Representatives for the 21st district (1971–1974).
• Ciriaco Cañete, 96, Filipino martial artist, prostate cancer.
• Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, 86, American judge, District Court for the Southern District of New York (1986–1998), stroke.
• Ray Colcord, 66, American film and television composer (Boy Meets World, The Facts of Life, Dinosaurs), pancreatic cancer.
• Leo Foley, 87, American politician, Minnesota State Senator (1997–2011).
• Bodil Malmsten, 71, Swedish poet and novelist.
• John Lewis Mitchell, 97, British Royal Air Force pilot.
• Tayeb Saddiki, 77, Moroccan playwright.
• C. V. Subramanian, 91, Indian scientist.
• Carl E. Wang, 85, Norwegian politician.

6

• Milton V. Backman, 88, American historian.
• Alastair Biggar, 69, Scottish rugby union player (national team, British and Irish Lions, London Scottish), cancer.
• Jules Boes, 88, Belgian Olympic basketball player.
• Luciano Conati, 65, Italian racing cyclist.
• David John de Laubenfels, 90, American botanist.
• Robin Chandler Duke, 92, American social advocate and diplomat, Ambassador to Norway (2000–2001).
• Dan Gerson, 49, American screenwriter (Monsters, Inc., Big Hero 6, Chicken Little), brain cancer.
• Winifred Green, 78, American civil rights activist.
• Dan Hicks, 74, American singer-songwriter, liver cancer.
• York Larese, 77, American basketball player (Chicago Packers, Philadelphia Warriors) and coach (New York Nets).
• Anisa Makhlouf, 86, Syrian political matriarch, First Lady (1971–2000).
• James Moore, 99, American baseball player (Newark Eagles).
• Emanuel Parzen, 86, American statistician.
• Sam Spence, 88, American composer (NFL Films).
• Giacomo Tachis, 82, Italian oenologist (Super Tuscans).
• Sudhir Tailang, 55, Indian cartoonist, brain cancer.
• John L. Tishman, 90, American property developer (Tishman Realty & Construction).
• Eddy Wally, 83, Belgian singer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• David Weinrib, 91, American artist.

7

• Juliette Benzoni, 95, French novelist.
• Konstantinos Despotopoulos, 102, Greek philosopher and politician.
• Andrew Glaze, 95, American poet.
• Andrew Hintz, 52, New Zealand cricketer.
• Dogomar Martínez, 86, Uruguayan Olympic boxer.
• Emilyano Ochagaviya, 70, Russian theater actor.
• Redding Pitt, 71, American attorney and politician.
• Thomas Rea, 86, American dermatologist and leprosy researcher, cancer.
• Roger Willemsen, 60, German author, essayist and TV presenter.

8

• Sikiru Adesina, 44–45, Nigerian film actor and director.
• Amelia Bence, 101, Argentine actress (The Gaucho War, A Sangre Fría, Alfonsina).
• Jakov Bienenfeld, 67, Croatian executive.
• Michael Brick, 41, American journalist and songwriter, colon cancer.
• Charles C. Campbell, 68, American army general.
• Ken Delo, 77, American singer (The Delo and Daly Show).
• John Disley, 87, Welsh steeplechase runner, Olympic bronze medallist (1952) and co-founder of the London Marathon.
• Johnny Duncan, 92, American actor (Batman and Robin).
• Nida Fazli, 77, Indian poet, respiratory problems.
• Giuliano Ferraris, 80, Italian Olympic ice hockey player (1956).
• Luigi Ferrari Bravo, 82, Italian academic and judge, International Court of Justice (1995–1997).
• Margaret Forster, 77, English novelist (Georgy Girl) and biographer, cancer.
• Norman Hudis, 93, English screenwriter (Carry On).
• August P. Mardesich, 95, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1950–1963) and Senate (1963–1978).
• Samuel Rappaport, 83, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1971–1984).
• Willie Richardson, 76, American football player (Jackson State, Baltimore Colts, Miami Dolphins).
• Viggo Rivad, 93, Danish photographer.
• Roy Señeres, 68, Filipino politician and diplomat, Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (1994–1998), complications of diabetes.
• William Donald Stiehl, 90, American federal judge, District Court for the Southern District of Illinois (1986–1996).
• William Stowe, 75, American rower, Olympic champion (1964).
• Zdravko Tolimir, 67, Bosnian Serb military commander in the Bosnian War.
• Violette Verdy, 82, French ballerina.
• Leon Vilaincour, 92, Polish-born British painter.

9

• J. B. Danquah-Adu, 50, Ghanaian politician and MP, stabbed.
• Myer Bloom, 87, Canadian physicist.
• Vittorio Di Prima, 74, Italian actor and voice actor.
• Wayne England, 56, English artist (Magic: The Gathering).
• Claudie Flament, 85, French Olympic hurdler.
• Bob Halverson, 78, Australian politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (1996–1998), MP (1984–1998), cancer.
• Michael Hanlon, 51, British science journalist, heart attack.
• Roy Harris, 82, British folk singer.
• André van den Heuvel, 88, Dutch actor (Hamelen, De rode zwaan, Lifespan), two-time winner of the Louis d'Or.
• Sushil Koirala, 76, Nepalese politician, Prime Minister (2014–2015), President of Congress (since 2010), pneumonia.
• Edwin McDonough, 72, American actor (Kinsey, Reversal of Fortune).
• Alethea McGrath, 95, Australian actress (Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, Prisoner, Knowing).
• Graham Moore, 74, Welsh footballer (Charlton Athletic, Cardiff City).
• Quan Minyu, 12, Chinese singer, DIPG.
• Edgar Riek, 95, Australian entomologist and wine pioneer.
• Jagnandan Singh, 87, Kenyan Olympic hockey player.
• Elizabeth Joan Smith, 88, Canadian politician, MPP for London South (1985–1990), brain injury from fall.
• Donald E. Thorin, 81, American cinematographer (Thief, Purple Rain, Scent of a Woman).
• Leslie Thornton, 90, English sculptor.
• Jan Zoon, 92, Dutch politician, Senator (1969–1991).
• Alexandru Vulpe, 84, Romanian historian, archaeologist and academician (Romanian Academy).
• Nore Westin, 78, Swedish Olympic biathlete.

10

• Jakob Aano, 95, Norwegian politician, MP (1965–1985).
• David Boykett, 81, Australian rower, Olympic bronze medallist (1956).
• Claude Jeancolas, 66, French author.
• Ian Cowap, 65, English cricketer (Cheshire), cancer.
• Yuriy Dumchev, 57, Russian Olympic Soviet discus thrower (1980, 1988), world record holder (1983–1986).
• Leo Ehlen, 62, Dutch footballer (Roda JC).
• Hildesuse Gaertner, 93, German alpine skier and politician.
• Phil Gartside, 63, English businessman and football chairman (Bolton Wanderers), cancer.
• Rafiqul Hossain, 80, Bangladeshi politician, MP (1986–1988).
• Anatoli Ilyin, 84, Russian Soviet football player (Spartak Moscow), Olympic champion (1956).
• Bayard Johnson, 63, American screenwriter (Tarzan and the Lost City), cancer.
• Drew Lewis, 84, American business executive and politician, Secretary of Transportation (1981–1983), complications of pneumonia.
• Asami Nagakiya, 30, Japanese musician, strangled.
• Lennie Pond, 75, American race car driver, cancer.
• Eliseo Prado, 86, Argentine footballer (national team, Club Atlético River Plate).
• Christopher Rush, 50, American illustrator (Magic: The Gathering).
• Günter Schröter, 88, German football player and coach.
• John Spencer, 81, New Zealand businessman.
• Fatima Surayya Bajia, 85, Pakistani novelist.
• Richard Unis, 87, American judge, stroke.
• Bob Wielinga, 70, Dutch academic.
• Abdel-Bari Zamzami, 73, Moroccan religious leader, cancer.

11

• Warner Batchelor, 81, Australian Olympic boxer.
• Les Belshaw, 88, British rugby league player.
• Sir Timothy Bevan, 88, British banker, chairman of Barclays (1981–1987).
• Naushaba Burney, 83, Pakistani journalist.
• Jakob Denzinger, 91, Croatian concentration camp guard.
• John Gagnon, 84, American sociologist, pancreatic cancer.
• Charles Garabedian, 92, American artist, prostate cancer.
• William Haze, 49, American actor (One Tree Hill, The Punisher, Jeepers Creepers).
• Thomas N. Hibbard, 86, American computer scientist.
• Douglas Inman, 95, American oceanographer.
• Jung Byung-tak, 75, South Korean football player and manager.
• John Baptist Kakubi, 86, Ugandan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mbarara (1969–1991).
• Ellison Kelly, 80, American-born Canadian football player (Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Toronto Argonauts), heart failure.
• Philip A. Kuhn, 82, British-born American sinologist.
• Warren Manzi, 60, American playwright (Perfect Crime), pneumonia.
• Mildred Shapley Matthews, 100, American science writer.
• Juan Mujica, 72, Uruguayan football player and manager.
• Sohrab Rahimi, 53, Iranian-born Swedish poet.
• Kevin Randleman, 44, American mixed martial artist, UFC Heavyweight Champion (1999–2000), pneumonia and heart failure.
• Ferenc Rudas, 94, Hungarian football player and manager (Ferencvárosi TC).
• Arthur Tunstall, 93, Australian sports administrator.
• John Keith Wells, 94, American Marine platoon commander (2nd Battalion 28th Marines).
• Kim Williams, 68, American songwriter ("Three Wooden Crosses").
• Peter Wood, 90, English theatre director.
• Zeng Xuelin, 86, Chinese football player and manager (Tianjin, national team).

12

• Eddie Barry, 96, American ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).
• Kekuni Blaisdell, 90, American Hawaii sovereign activist and professor of medicine, respiratory failure.
• Oscar Camilión, 86, Argentine lawyer and diplomat, Minister of Defense (1993–1996), Foreign Minister (1981).
• Dominique D'Onofrio, 62, Italian-born Belgian football coach.
• Kenny Easterday, 42, American actor and "man with half a body" due to sacral agenesis.
• Braulio Manuel Fernández, 74, Mexican politician.
• Robert Frederick Froehlke, 93, American lawyer, Secretary of the Army (1971–1973).
• Bergljot Hobæk Haff, 90, Norwegian novelist.
• Barbara Hardy, 92, British author.
• Keith Jeffery, 64, Northern Irish historian.
• Martin Jensen, 74, Norwegian triple jumper.
• Giannis Kalaitzis, 70, Greek cartoonist and caricaturist.
• Sossen Krohg, 92, Norwegian actress (Hotel Cæsar).
• Johnny Lattner, 83, American football player (Notre Dame, Pittsburgh Steelers), mesothelioma.
• Yvonne Porcella, 79, American quilt artist.
• Bennie Purcell, 86, American basketball player (Murray State University, Washington Generals) and tennis coach.
• Henri Rey, 83, French Olympic basketball player.
• Hugo Tassara, 92, Chilean football manager.
• George Tipton, 84, American composer and arranger.
• Yan Su, 85, Chinese playwright and lyricist, cerebral infarction.
• Xymena Zaniewska-Chwedczuk, 91, Polish scenographer, architect and fashion designer.

13

• Angela Bairstow, 73, English badminton player.
• Nathan Barksdale, 54, American heroin dealer, dramatized in The Wire.
• Yvonne Barr, 83, Irish virologist, discovered Epstein–Barr virus.
• Avigdor Ben-Gal, 79, Israeli general, GOC Northern Command (1977–1981).
• Flakey Dove, 30, British racehorse, winner of the 1994 Champion Hurdle, euthanized.
• Robin Ghosh, 76, Bangladeshi composer.
• Trifon Ivanov, 50, Bulgarian footballer (national team), heart attack.
• Barry Jones, 74, New Zealand Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Christchurch (since 2007).
• O. N. V. Kurup, 84, Indian poet, recipient of the Jnanpith Award (2007).
• Edward J. McCluskey, 86, American electrical engineer.
• Rafael Moreno Valle, 98, Mexican military physician and politician, Governor of Puebla (1969–1972), Secretary of Health (1964–1968).
• Giorgio Rossano, 76, Italian Olympic footballer (1960).
• Slobodan Santrač, 69, Serbian football player (Yugoslavia) and manager, heart attack.
• Antonin Scalia, 79, American judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (since 1986).
• Mike Shepherdson, 85, Malaysian Olympic hockey player (1956) and cricketer (national team).
• Bořek Šípek, 66, Czech architect and designer, cancer.
• Bud Webster, 63, American science fiction and fantasy writer.
• Sir Christopher Zeeman, 91, British mathematician.

14

• Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury, 87, British politician, MP for Orpington (1962–1970), acute myeloid leukaemia.
• Peter Bottome, 78, Venezuelan businessman (Empresas 1BC).
• Ali Brownlee, 56, English radio sports broadcaster (Middlesbrough F.C. on BBC Tees), bowel cancer.
• Muriel Casals i Couturier, 70, Spanish economist and Catalan independence leader, President of Òmnium Cultural (2010-2015), Catalonia MP (since 2015), brain injury.
• Joanne M. Cohoon, 61, American sociologist.
• Max Gruenberg, 72, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (1985–1993, since 2003).
• Drewe Henley, 75, British actor (Star Wars, Hell Boats, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth), asphyxiation.
• David Hey, 77, English historian, brain tumor.
• Mitchell Higginbotham, 94, American World War II veteran, member of the Tuskegee Airmen.
• Anselmo López, 81, Venezuelan bandola player.
• Wiesław Rudkowski, 69, Polish boxer, Olympic silver medalist (1972).
• Steven Stucky, 66, American classical music composer, brain tumor.
• L. C. Ulmer, 87, American blues musician.

15

• Paul Bannon, 59, Irish footballer (Carlisle United, Cork City).
• Paulo Barreto Menezes, 90, Brazilian civil engineer and politician, Governor of Sergipe (1971–1975).
• Piero Buscaroli, 85, Italian musicologist.
• Alcibíades Colón, 96, Dominican baseball player.
• Mary Dodson, 83, American art director (Murder, She Wrote, Full House, Taxi), complications from Parkinson's Disease.
• Lewis Feild, 59, American rodeo cowboy, pancreatic cancer.
• Edward T. Foote II, 78, American educator, President of the University of Miami (1981–2001).
• George Gaynes, 98, Finnish-born American actor (Police Academy, Punky Brewster, Tootsie).
• Constance Glube, 84, Canadian judge, Chief Justice of Nova Scotia (1998–2004).
• Victor Goldbloom, 92, Canadian politician.
• Abdul Rahman Al-Hanaqtah, 52–53, Jordanian politician, member of the House of Representatives (2007–2013).
• Virgil Jester, 88, American baseball player (Boston Braves/Milwaukee Braves), pneumonia.
• Jerzy Kroh, 91, Polish chemist.
• Louis Lane, 92, American conductor.
• Walter McGowan, 73, Scottish boxer, world champion (1966).
• Muhayadin Mohamed, Somali politician, Defence Minister (2008), explosion.
• Salman Natour, 67, Israeli Palestinian author.
• W. F. H. Nicolaisen, 88, German-born Scottish scholar.
• Joyce Paul, 78, American country music singer.
• Carlos Quintero Arce, 96, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Hermosillo (1968–1996).
• Hans Posthumus, 68, Dutch footballer (Feyenoord, NEC).
• Jean Rabier, 88, French cinematographer (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg).
• Fighton Simukonda, 58, Zambian football player (Nkana Red Devils) and manager (national team), diabetes.
• Steve Thompson, 50, American football player.
• Vanity, 57, Canadian singer (Vanity 6), actress (The Last Dragon), and evangelist, renal failure.

16

• Alisa Bellettini, 61, American television producer, creator of House of Style.
• Ronnie Blackman, 90, English footballer (Reading).
• Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 93, Egyptian politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations (1992–1996), complications from a fall.
• Eugenio Carmi, 95, Italian painter and sculptor.
• Fred V. Cherry, 87, American military pilot, POW during the Vietnam War, heart disease.
• Mircea Costache II, 75, Romanian handball player (Dinamo București, national team) and coach (Algeria, Portugal), world champion (1961, 1964).
• Srđan Dizdarević, 63, Bosnian diplomat and journalist.
• Jack Elrod, 91, American cartoonist (Mark Trail).
• Gustavo Julian Garcia, 43, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.
• Douglas Haynes, 80, Canadian abstract painter.
• Mahmudul Islam, 79, Bangladeshi lawyer, Attorney General (1998–2001).
• Gregorio Garavito Jiménez, 96, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Villavicencio (1969–1994).
• Mike Greenstein, 95, American strongman.
• Lou Holland, 74, American football player (Chicago Bears, British Columbia Lions) and investment management executive, Grey Cup champion (1964).
• Bernard Kirschenbaum, 91, American artist.
• Herbert Louis, 87, American orthopedic surgeon.
• Arman Manaryan, 86, Iranian-born Armenian film director.
• Belinda Nash, 69, Canadian-born American historian, cancer.
• Jim Pleass, 92, Welsh cricketer (Glamorgan).
• Jože Pogačnik, 83, Slovenian film director.
• Charles Caldwell Ryrie, 90, American theologian.
• Robert Walker, 87, American sailor, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (1975–1979).

17

• Arthur J. Aasland, 82, Norwegian executive (Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk).
• Gelu Barbu, 83, Romanian-born Spanish ballet dancer and choreographer.
• Jesús Barrero, 57, Mexican actor and voice actor (Saint Seiya), lung cancer.
• Eduardo Chirinos, 55, Peruvian poet.
• Elias P. Demetracopoulos, 87, Greek journalist and activist, involved in the Watergate scandal.
• François Fourquet, 76, French economist.
• Andy Ganteaume, 95, Trinidadian cricketer (West Indies).
• Alexander Gutman, 71, Russian film director (Journey Back to Youth).
• Eddie Haigh, 80, British trade unionist.
• Sophia Hawthorne, 39, New Zealand actress.
• Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, 92, Egyptian journalist, kidney disease.
• Noela Hjorth, 75, Australian artist.
• Michael Jaharis, 87, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Akbar Kakkattil, 61, Indian writer, lung cancer.
• Archie Lang, 95, American actor (Dallas, General Hospital).
• Liu Wan-lai, 89, Taiwanese translator.
• Brock Pemberton, 62, American baseball player (New York Mets).
• Tony Phillips, 56, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox), World Series champion (1989), heart attack.
• George Redmond, 92, Irish politician.
• Norbert Verougstraete, 81, Belgian Olympic cyclist.
• Ray West, 90, American sound mixer (Star Wars, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Caddyshack), Oscar winner (1978).
• Andrzej Żuławski, 75, Polish film director and writer, cancer.

18

• Victorico Chaves, 83, Filipino sports administrator and politician.
• Harold C. Conklin, 89, American anthropologist.
• Jim Davenport, 82, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants), heart failure.
• Sir Tony Durant, 88, British politician, MP (1974–1997).
• Jo-Ann Episkenew, 63, Canadian author and indigenous rights activist.
• Rosario Ferré, 77, Puerto Rican writer, poet, and essayist, First Lady (1970–1972).
• Rudolf Fischer, 92, Romanian historian and linguist.
• Paul Gordon, 52, American musician (New Radicals, The B-52's), complications from heart disease.
• Brendan Healy, 59, English actor and musician, cancer.
• Abdul Rashid Khan, 107, Indian Hindustani musician.
• Bruce Lacey, 89, British artist and actor.
• Horst Mittelstaedt, 92, German biologist.
• Johnny Miller, 65, English footballer (Ipswich), cancer.
• Tom Mullica, 67, American comedy magician and actor (Finding Forrester), complications from surgery.
• Cherussery Zainuddeen Musliyar, 78, Indian religious scholar.
• Pantelis Pantelidis, 32, Greek singer-songwriter, traffic collision.
• Sigmund Pritchard, 86, Bahamian Olympic sailor.
• Angela Raiola, 55, American television personality (Mob Wives, Big Ang), lung and throat cancer.
• John Reinhardt, 95, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Nigeria (1971–1975).
• Don Rossiter, 80, English footballer and politician.
• Karl Stirner, 92, German-born American sculptor.
• Thyge Thøgersen, 89, Danish Olympic runner.
• Giorgio Tinazzi, 81, Italian footballer.
• Yūko Tsushima, 68, Japanese author.
• Arumugam Vijiaratnam, 94, Singaporean athlete and Olympic hockey player (1956).

19

• Tamerlan Aguzarov, 52, Russian politician, Head of North Ossetia-Alania (since 2015), complications from pneumonia.
• Humbert Allen Astredo, 86, American actor (Dark Shadows).
• John Binotto, 96, American football player.
• Mary Groves Bland, 80, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives (1981–1998) and Missouri Senate (1998–2005), Alzheimer's disease.
• Din Joe Crowley, 70, Irish footballer (Rathmore, East Kerry).
• Harald Devold, 51, Norwegian jazz musician, cancer.
• Umberto Eco, 84, Italian philosopher and novelist (The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Numero Zero), pancreatic cancer.
• Ariel Forman, 72, Israeli actor and voice actor, lung cancer.
• Freddie Goodwin, 82, English football player (Manchester United, Leeds) and manager (Birmingham).
• Sir Anthony Hidden, 79, British judge.
• Harper Lee, 89, American author (To Kill a Mockingbird).
• Chiaki Morosawa, 56, Japanese anime screenwriter (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED), aortic dissection.
• Sir William O'Brien, 99, British admiral, Naval Secretary (1964–1966).
• Vi Subversa, 80, British musician (Poison Girls).
• Mutsuo Tahara, 72, Japanese judge.
• Charlie Tuna, 71, American radio personality.
• Samuel Willenberg, 93, Polish-born Israeli sculptor and painter, last survivor of the Treblinka extermination camp prisoners' revolt.
• Bruno Zuppiger, 63, Swiss politician.

20

• Pia Bech Mathiesen, 54, Danish designer and businesswoman, cancer.
• Fernando Cardenal, 82, Nicaraguan priest and politician, Minister of Education (1984–1990).
• Kevin Collins, 69, American MLB baseball player (New York Mets, Montreal Expos, Detroit Tigers).
• Moisés Dagdug Lützow, 65, Mexican politician, stabbed.
• Ove Verner Hansen, 83, Danish actor and opera singer, heart attack.
• Kim Seong-jip, 97, South Korean weightlifter, Olympic bronze medalist (1948, 1952) and Asian Games champion (1954).
• Steven Pirika Kama, 54, Papua New Guinean Bougainvillean politician, member of the National Parliament (since 2008).
• Mike McCoy, 62, American football player (Green Bay Packers).
• Peter Mondavi, 101, American wine producing pioneer.
• José Moës, 92, Belgian footballer [1]
• Muhamed Mujić, 82, Bosnian Yugoslav footballer, Olympic silver medallist (1956).
• Dave Needle, 68, American computer engineer.
• Jon Rollason, 84, British actor (The Avengers, Coronation Street, Doctor Who).
• Pradeep Shakthi, 60, Indian actor and restaurateur.
• Renee Valente, 88, American film and television producer (A Storm in Summer), Emmy-winner (2001).
• Xie Jialin, 95, Chinese physicist and academician (Chinese Academy of Sciences).
• Nando Yosu, 76, Spanish football player and manager (Racing de Santander), Alzheimer's disease.

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• María Luisa Alcalá, 72, Mexican actress (El Chavo del Ocho, Dr. Cándido Pérez, Esmeralda).
• Akbar Ali, 90, Indian Kannada poet.
• Pascal Bentoiu, 88, Romanian composer.
• Eric Brown, 97, British test pilot.
• John Caldwell, 69, American comic strip artist and cartoonist (Mad), pancreatic cancer.
• Roger Chorley, 2nd Baron Chorley, 85, British peer.
• Chu Qing, 92, Chinese politician.
• Vlasta Dalibor, 94, Czech-born British puppeteer (Pinky and Perky).
• Jean-Pierre Detremmerie, 75, Belgian politician, suicide by hanging.
• David Duffield, 84, British sports commentator and cyclist, fall.
• George Robin Henderson, 74, Scottish mathematician.
• Andrew Herxheimer, 90, German-born British clinical pharmacologist.
• Patrick Hodgkinson, 85, British architect.
• Nina Hole, 75, Danish artist.
• Peter Marlow, 63, British news photographer, influenza contracted during a stem cell transplant.
• Harry Hulmes, 88, American football executive.
• Ivan M. Matheson, 89, American politician.
• René Matte, 81, Canadian politician.
• Kalanidhi Narayanan, 87, Indian classical dancer.
• Miroslav Nemirov, 54, Russian poet, cancer.
• Don Owen, 84, Canadian film director (The Ernie Game).
• Albert Rhoton Jr., 83, American neurosurgeon.
• Marcus George Singer, 90, American philosopher.
• Debbie Smith, 60, American politician, member of the Nevada Senate (since 2012), brain cancer.
• Richard Horner Thompson, 89, American army general.
• Betty Jane Watson, 94, American actress and singer.

22

• Christian Berg-Nielsen, 95, Norwegian diplomat.
• Barbara M. Clark, 76, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (since 1987).
• Wesley A. Clark, 88, American computer engineer (LINC), atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
• Cristiana Corsi, 39, Italian Olympic taekwondo martial artist (2000, 2004), European champion (2002).
• Eileen Foley, 97, American politician, Mayor of Portsmouth, New Hampshire (1968–1971, 1984–1985, 1988–1997), seven-term member of the New Hampshire Senate.
• Yolande Fox, 87, American beauty queen (Miss America 1951) and operatic soprano, lung cancer.
• Steve Harris, 52, American basketball player (Houston Rockets, Golden State Warriors, Detroit Pistons), colon cancer.
• Sonny James, 87, American country singer-songwriter ("Young Love").
• Cara McCollum, 24, American journalist and beauty queen, Miss New Jersey (2013), traffic collision.
• Hans Reffert, 69, German musician and composer.
• Douglas Slocombe, 103, British cinematographer (Indiana Jones, The Lion in Winter, Julia), complications from a fall.
• Yochanan Sofer, 93, Hungarian-born Israeli rabbi, Rebbe of Erlau, pneumonia.
• Lev Zbarsky, 84, Russian painter, lung cancer.

23

• Waqar Ahmed, 68, Pakistani cricketer (Punjab).
• José Artecona, 83, Puerto Rican Olympic sports shooter.
• Jaime Ornelas Camacho, 95, Portuguese politician, President of Madeira (1976–1978).
• Rey Caney, 89, Cuban musician.
• Ramón Castro Ruz, 91, Cuban farmer and quartermaster (Cuban Revolution).
• Bill Carmody, 58, American Catholic priest, cancer.
• Lies Cosijn, 84, Dutch ceramist.
• Angel Gabriele, 60, American comic book artist and wrestler.
• Valérie Guignabodet, 50, French film director, cardiac arrest.
• László Gyöngyösi, 88, Hungarian Olympic swimmer.
• Antanas Janauskas, 78, Lithuanian animated film director.
• Slobodan Lang, 70, Croatian politician.
• Peter Lustig, 78, German television presenter and author.
• Luis Alberto Machado, 84, Venezuelan lawyer and politician.
• Madison Marye, 90, American politician, member of the Senate of Virginia (1973–2002).
• Jacqueline Mattson, 87, American baseball player (Kenosha Comets, Springfield Sallies).
• Havo Molisale, 53, Ni-Vanuatu politician, member of Parliament (since 2008), Foreign Minister (2015–2016), Deputy Speaker (since 2016).
• Burt Nodella, 91, American television producer (Get Smart).
• Tosun Terzioğlu, 74, Turkish mathematician.
• Joaquim Veà Baró, 57, Spanish Catalan primatologist.
• Donald E. Williams, 74, American astronaut.

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• A. K. N. Ahmed, 85, Bangladeshi economist and diplomat, Governor of Bangladesh Bank (1974–1976), Ambassador to Japan and South Korea, stroke.
• Lennie Baker, 69, American musician and singer (Sha Na Na).
• Ryszard Bender, 84, Polish politician and historian, Senator (2007–2011).
• Adriana Benetti, 96, Italian actress (Four Steps in the Clouds, Teresa Venerdì, Before the Postman).
• Carlos Cámara, 82, Dominican-born Mexican actor.
• Miguel Ángel Coria, 78, Spanish composer.
• Michael Atul D'Rozario, 90, Bangladeshi Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Khulna (1970–2005).
• Ronnie Edwards, 63, American politician and civil rights activist, pancreatic cancer.
• Eddie Einhorn, 80, American broadcasting (TVS, CBS Sports, Sportsvision) and baseball (Chicago White Sox) executive, complications from a stroke.
• Ken English, 89, New Zealand rugby league player (Wellington, national team).
• Ragnar Gustafsson, 85, Swedish Olympic equestrian.
• Rafael Iriondo, 97, Spanish international football player and manager.
• Colin Low, 89, Canadian filmmaker (Universe).
• Nabil Maleh, 79, Syrian film director.
• Ladislav Matetić, 88, Croatian Olympic rower.
• Jim McFadzean, 77, Scottish footballer (Kilmarnock, Heart of Midlothian).
• Peter van de Merwe, 74, Dutch footballer.
• S. F. C. Milsom, 92, English barrister and legal historian.
• Ove Bech Nielsen, 83, Danish footballer.
• George C. Nichopoulos, 88, American physician.
• Billie Nipper, 86, American painter.
• Northern Spur, 25, Irish-born French and American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of Prix du Lys (1994) and Breeders' Cup Turf (1995). (death announced on this date)
• James C. Russell, 87, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives (1962–1988), skin cancer.
• Yordan Sokolov, 83, Bulgarian politician, Chairperson of the National Assembly (1997–2001).
• Timber Country, 24, American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of Preakness Stakes (1995).

25

• Sam Beall, 39, American restaurateur (Blackberry Farm) and resort executive, blunt force trauma while skiing.
• Bob Bryant, 71, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives (since 2005).
• Tony Burton, 78, American actor (Rocky, Assault on Precinct 13, The Shining), pneumonia.
• John Chilton, 83, British jazz musician and writer.
• Jim Clark, 84, British film editor (The World Is Not Enough, The Killing Fields, Marathon Man), Oscar winner (1985).
• Ian Davis, 77, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Essendon (1992–1996).
• Brian Barnett Duff, 85, American judge and politician.
• François Dupeyron, 65, French film director and screenwriter (The Officers' Ward).
• Miloš Hájek, 94, Czech historian, signatory and spokesperson of Charter 77.
• Bhavarlal Jain, 78, Indian businessman (Jain Irrigation Systems).
• Sir Peter Kenilorea, 72, Solomon Islands politician, Prime Minister (1978–1981, 1984–1986).
• John Kidd, 69, Australian athlete, Paralympic silver medallist (1976).
• Gillis Lundgren, 86, Swedish furniture designer (IKEA).
• Alfred E. Mann, 90, American entrepreneur.
• Otto-Werner Mueller, 89, German conductor.
• Irén Psota, 86, Hungarian actress.
• Habib-ur-Rehman, 85, Pakistani actor, brain hemorrhage.
• William Schaap, 75, American lawyer, author and publisher (CovertAction Quarterly), pulmonary disease.
• Zdeněk Smetana, 90, Czech artist and animator.
• Mark Young, 48, American wrestler (WWE).

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• Mirza Mohammed Athar, 79, Indian Muslim cleric, pneumonia.
• Andy Bathgate, 83, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings).
• C. L. Blast, 81, American soul singer.
• William Y. Cooper, 82, American artist.
• Karl Dedecius, 94, Polish-born German translator.
• Nina Dorda, 91, Russian singer.
• Jack Forrest, 92, New Zealand rugby league player (West Coast, national team).
• B. K. Garudachar, 99, Indian cricket player.
• Don Getty, 82, Canadian football player (Edmonton Eskimos) and politician, Premier of Alberta (1985–1992), heart failure.
• Antony Gibbs, 90, British film editor (Tom Jones, Fiddler on the Roof, Dune).
• Eri Klas, 76, Estonian conductor.
• Ivan Kristoffersen, 85, Norwegian newspaper editor (Nordlys).
• Loh I-Cheng, 92, Taiwanese diplomat, Ambassador to Guatemala and South Africa (1990–1996).
• Michael S. Longuet-Higgins, 90, British mathematician and oceanographer (Cambridge University).
• Juan Conway McNabb, 90, American-born Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Chulucanas (1988–2000), heart failure.
• Thadeo Ouano, 71, Filipino politician, mayor of Mandaue (1998–2007).
• Robert Palladino, 83, American calligrapher and academic.
• Robert Struble Jr., 72, American historian and author.

27

• Winston Blake, 75, Jamaican record producer.
• Michael Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 58, Scottish aristocrat, cancer.
• Dick Bradsell, 56, British bartender, brain cancer.
• James Z. Davis, 72, American judge, member of the Utah Court of Appeals (1993–2015).
• David Douglas, 52, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals, New England Patriots), brain cancer.
• Yushu Kitano, 85, Japanese wrestler, Olympic silver medalist (1952).
• Francisco Kraus Trujillo, 89, Spanish baritone.
• Lúcio Lara, 86, Angolan politician.
• Lee Khoon Choy, 92, Singaporean politician and diplomat, MLA (1959–1965), MP (1965–1984), ambassador to Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and Egypt.
• Claude Parent, 93, French architect.
• Vid Pečjak, 87, Slovene psychologist and writer.
• Peter N. Perretti Jr., 84, American lawyer, Attorney General of New Jersey (1989–1990).
• Rajesh Pillai, 41, Indian film director (Traffic), complications from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
• Steven Rumbelow, 66, British theatre and film director (Autumn), sepsis.
• Farajollah Salahshoor, 63, Iranian film director.
• Anna-Leena Siikala, 73, Finnish academic.
• Bob Spicer, 90, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics).
• Rian Sukmawan, 30, Indonesian badminton player, heart attack.
• Wiswa Warnapala, 79, Sri Lankan politician, MP (2004–2010).
• Elmer Wingate, 88, American lacrosse and football player (Baltimore Colts), Alzheimer's disease.
• Yi Cheol-seung, 93, South Korean politician.

28

• Sengai Aaliyan, 75, Sri Lankan author.
• Don Battye, 77, Australian composer and television producer.
• Didier Bellens, 60, Belgian businessman, CEO of Belgacom.
• Delmer Berg, 100, American resistance fighter (Spanish Civil War), last known American member of XV International Brigade.
• Moisés Julio Blanchoud, 92, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Salta (1984–1999).
• Honey Chhaya, 85, Indian film director and actor (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel).
• Stephen Clarkson, 78, Canadian political scientist and academic (University of Toronto), sepsis following influenza and pneumonia.
• Paul Colinvaux, 85, British ecologist and author (Fates of Nations).
• John Cameron, Lord Coulsfield, 81, Scottish judge (Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial), Senator of the College of Justice (1987–1992).
• Bram Goldsmith, 93, American banker, CEO and Chairman of City National Bank, philanthropist.
• John Johnson, 98, American athletics and football trainer (New York Giants).
• John Jones, 91, English author and academic.
• John Philip Kassebaum, 84, American attorney and art collector.
• Frank Kelly, 77, Irish actor (Father Ted, Emmerdale, Evelyn), heart attack.
• George Kennedy, 91, American actor (Cool Hand Luke, The Naked Gun, Airport), Oscar winner (1968), heart disease.
• Kumarimuthu, 76, Indian comedian and film actor.
• Jack Lindquist, 88, American child actor and theme park executive, President of Disneyland (1990–1993).
• Raúl Sánchez, 82, Chilean footballer (national team).
• Jan H van der Merwe, 94, South African physicist.
• Craig Windham, 66, American radio broadcaster (National Public Radio), pulmonary embolism.
• Liliane Wouters, 86, Belgian author.

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• Alice Arlen, 75, American screenwriter (Silkwood, The Weight of Water).
• Stuart Beck, 69, American-Palauan diplomat, Ambassador to the United Nations for Palau (2003–2013), renal cancer.
• Rudy Bukich, 85, American football player (Chicago Bears), NFL champion (1963).
• Wenn V. Deramas, 49, Filipino film and television director, heart attack.
• Helias Doundoulakis, 92, American Greek WWII resistance fighter.
• Gil Hill, 84, American police officer, actor (Beverly Hills Cop) and politician (Detroit City Council), pneumonia.
• John Hofsess, 77, Canadian writer and right to die activist.
• Fernand Jourdenais, 82, Canadian politician.
• Hannes Löhr, 73, German football player and manager.
• Josefin Nilsson, 46, Swedish singer, enlarged heart and barbiturate overdose.
• José Parra Martínez, 90, Spanish footballer (Espanyol).
• Francis Xavier Osamu Mizobe, 80, Japanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sendai (2000–2004) and Takamatsu (2004–2011).
• Mumtaz Qadri, 30–31, Pakistani convicted murderer (Salmaan Taseer), execution by hanging.
• Louise Rennison, 64, British author (Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging).
• Conrad Santos, 81, Filipino-born Canadian politician, MLA for Burrows (1981–1988), Broadway (1990–1999) and Wellington (1999–2007).
• Henry Snyder, 86, American historian.
• Shōichi Ueno, 79, Japanese newspaper publisher (Asahi Shimbun) and philanthropist, lung cancer.
• Nihal Ahmed Maulavi Mohammed Usman, 90, Indian politician, Maharashtra MLA (1960–1999), mayor of Malegaon.
• Ana Vieira, 76, Portuguese artist.
• Ranginui Walker, 83, New Zealand academic and writer.

References

External links

• List of February 2016 deaths at IMDb