2023 Deaths: Part 2

2023 Blog Deaths: Part 2

June

1^st: Margit Carstensen, 83, German actress (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Martha, Possession).

1^st: Philippe Pozzo di Borgo, 72, French businessman (Pommery), subject of The Intouchables.

5^th: Astrud Gilberto, 83, Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer ("The Girl from Ipanema"), Grammy winner (1965).

5^th: Robert Hanssen, 79, American FBI agent and convicted spy.

5^th: Lilita Ozoliņa, 75, Latvian actress (Oļegs un Aina, Unfinished Supper, Double Trap).

7^th: Baena Soares, 92, Brazilian diplomat, secretary general of the Organization of American States (1984–1994).

8^th: Charles Kimberlin Brain, 92, South African paleontologist, director of the Transvaal Museum (1965–1991).

8^th: Pat Robertson, 93, American televangelist (The 700 Club), founder of CBN and Regent University.

8^th: Carlos Sada, 70, Mexican politician and diplomat, ambassador to the United States (2016–2017).

10^th: Ted Kaczynski, 81, American mathematician and domestic terrorist (Unabomber Manifesto), suicide.

10^th: Hassana Alidou, 60, Nigerien diplomat, ambassador to the United States (2015–2019).

12^th: Silvio Berlusconi, 86, Italian politician, three-time prime minister, MP (1994–2013, since 2022) and twice MEP, leukemia.

12^th: Treat Williams, 71, American actor (Hair, Prince of the City, Everwood), traffic collision.

14^th: Jordi Porta i Ribalta, 86, Spanish Catalan cultural activist, president of Òmnium Cultural (2002–2010).

14^th: Kjell Rasmussen, 95, Norwegian diplomat, ambassador to Greece (1981–1986), Libya (1984–1986), and Finland (1989–1994).

15^th: Glenda Jackson, 87, English actress (Women in Love, Sunday Bloody Sunday, A Touch of Class) and politician, MP (1992–2015), Oscar winner (1970, 1973).

16^th: Daniel Ellsberg, 92, American whistleblower (Pentagon Papers), pancreatic cancer.

16^th: Sir Ben Helfgott, 93, Polish-born British Holocaust survivor (Buchenwald and the Windermere Children) and Olympic weightlifter (1956, 1960).

17^th: Grigory Klinishov, 92, Russian physicist, co-creator of the RDS-37 hydrogen bomb, suicide.[361] (body discovered on this date).

21^st: Ali Duba, 89, Syrian intelligence officer, head of the Military Intelligence Directorate (1973–2000).

23^rd: Margia Dean, 101, American beauty queen and actress (The Quatermass Xperiment, I Shot Jesse James, The Baron of Arizona).

24^th: Raymond Cassagnol, 102, Haitian Air Force officer (Tuskegee Airmen.)

24^th: Dodie Heath, 96, American actress (Brigadoon, The Diary of Anne Frank, Seconds).

25^th: John B. Goodenough, 100, American materials scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (2019).

25^th: Edward Turay, 77, Sierra Leonean diplomat, high commissioner to the United Kingdom (since 2010).

26^th: Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, 86, Barbadian politician, prime minister (1987–1994).

27^th: Lilli Vincenz, 85, German-born American gay rights activist (the Mattachine Society.)

28^th: Soumia Benkhaldoun, 60, Moroccan women's rights activist.

28^th: Sue Johanson, 93, Canadian sex educator.

29^th: Alan Arkin, 89, American actor (Little Miss Sunshine, Argo, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter), Oscar winner (2006), heart failure.

29^th: Anita Wood, 85, American singer and actress, pneumonia.

30^th: Murat Karagöz, 55, Turkish diplomat, ambassador to Mongolia (2013–2016), Jordan (2016–2019), and Portugal (since 2023), heart attack.

 

July

1^st: Victoria Amelina, 37, Ukrainian writer, injuries sustained in missile strike.

1^st: Paul David Manson, 88, Canadian general, chief of the Defence Staff (1986–1989).

2^nd: Milan Milutinović, 80, Serbian politician, president (1997–2002) and minister of foreign affairs of Yugoslavia (1995–1998).

3^rd: Michael Baden-Powell, 4th Baron Baden-Powell, 82, Australian scouting leader.

3^rd: James Dobbins, 81, American diplomat, ambassador to the European Union (1991–1993) and Afghanistan (2001–2002), complications from Parkinson's disease.

3^rd: Léon Gautier, 100, French soldier, France's last surviving D-Day veteran.

3^rd: Carlos Raffo Dasso, 95, Peruvian diplomat and politician, ambassador to the United Kingdom (1986–1989) and minister of industry (1989–1990).

6^th: Jimmy Weldon, 99, American voice actor (The Yogi Bear Show, Challenge of the Superfriends, Shirt Tales), ventriloquist and television host.

9^th: Michel Dupuy, 93, Canadian politician, minister of multiculturalism and citizenship (1993–1996) and communications (1993–1996), ambassador to the UN (1980–1981).

9^th: Leroy W. Stutz, 84, American Air Force officer, pilot, and prisoner of war for 2,284 days during the Vietnam War.

13^th: Sérgio Amaral, 79, Brazilian diplomat and politician, minister of development (2001–2003) and ambassador to the United States (2016–2019).

13^th: Carlin Glynn, 83, American actress (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Sixteen Candles, The Trip to Bountiful), Tony winner (1979), Mother of actress Mary Stuart Masterson. complications from dementia and cancer.

14^th: Kazimierz Klimczak, 109, Polish soldier (Warsaw Uprising).

14^th: Hettie Simmons Love, 100, American graduate, one of the first African Americans to earn an Ivy League MBA.

15^th: Sergei Godunov, 93, Russian mathematician (Godunov's theorem, Godunov's scheme), member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

21^st: Tony Bennett, 96, American singer ("I Left My Heart in San Francisco", "Rags to Riches", "Because of You"), 20-time Grammy winner.

21^st: Isabelle Choko, 94, Polish Holocaust survivor (Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen) and chess champion.

22^nd: Viive Aamisepp, 87, Estonian actress.

23^rd: Pamela Blair, 73, American actress (A Chorus Line, Annie, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America).

23^rd: Kostiantyn Tyshchenko, 81, Ukrainian linguist, teacher and translator.

26^th: Sinéad O'Connor, 56, Irish singer ("Nothing Compares 2 U") and songwriter ("Mandinka", "The Emperor's New Clothes"), Grammy winner (1991).

30^th: Paul Reubens, 70, American actor (Pee-wee's Playhouse, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Blow), cancer.

 

August

1^st: William Edward Bauer, 97, Canadian diplomat, ambassador to South Korea (1981–1984).

1^st: Dương Văn Ngộ, 93, Vietnamese postal worker and letter writer.

2^nd: Vincent Speranza, 98, American World War II veteran.

2^nd: Delano Lewis, 84, American diplomat, ambassador to South Africa (1999–2001).

2^nd: Élisabeth de Chimay, 97, French-born Belgian princess and writer.

3^rd: Nechama Tec, 92, Polish-American sociologist and writer and Holocaust Survivor.

5^th: Martin Povejšil, 62, Czech diplomat and ambassador.

7^th: William Friedkin, 87, American film director (The French Connection, The Exorcist, To Live and Die in L.A.), Oscar winner (1971), heart failure and pneumonia.

8^th: Yuliya Borisova, 98, Russian actress (The Ambassador of the Soviet Union, The Idiot).

10^th: Aleksandr Viktorenko, 76, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3, Soyuz TM-8, Soyuz TM-14).

14^th: James Bartleman, 83, Canadian diplomat, lieutenant governor of Ontario (2002–2007), ambassador to the European Union (2000–2002) and permanent representative to NATO (1990–1994).

17^th: Karol J. Bobko, 85, American astronaut (STS-6, STS-51-D, STS-51-J).

18^th: Ray Hildebrand, 82, American singer (Paul & Paula) and songwriter ("Hey Paula", "Young Lovers").

19^th: John Warnock, 82, American computer scientist, co-founder of Adobe Inc.

19^th: Howard James Hubbard, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Albany (1977–2014), stroke.

19^th: Ron Cephas Jones, 66, American actor (This Is Us, Luke Cage, Mr. Robot), Emmy winner (2018, 2020), lung disease.

20^th: Vladimir E. Zakharov, 84, Russian mathematician and physicist (Zakharov system, Zakharov–Schulman system).

20^th: Harry Smith, 90, Australian army lieutenant colonel, recipient of the Military Cross.

23^rd: Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62, catering executive and mercenary leader, co-founder of Wagner Group.

23^rd: Hersha Parady, 78, American actress (Little House on the Prairie, Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star, CBS Afternoon Playhouse).

24^th: Keith Spicer, 89, Canadian public servant, commissioner of official languages (1970–1977).

25^th: Juliana Jirousová, 79, Czech painter and dissident (Charter 77).

25^th: Andrii Pilshchykov, 30, Ukrainian fighter pilot, plane crash.

26^th: Bob Barker, 99, American game show host (The Price Is Right, Truth or Consequences) and animal welfare activist, 18-time Emmy winner, complications from Alzheimer's disease.

September

1^st: Dennis Austin, 76, American computer programmer, co-creator of Microsoft PowerPoint, lung cancer.

1^st: Jimmy Buffett, 76, American singer-songwriter ("Margaritaville", "Cheeseburger in Paradise"), founder of Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville, Merkel-cell carcinoma.

1^st: Raymond Moriyama, 93, Canadian architect (Canadian War Museum, Embassy of Canada, Tokyo).

1^st: Bill Richardson, 75, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1983–1997), UN ambassador (1997–1998), governor of New Mexico (2003–2011).

3^rd: Carme Junyent, 68, Spanish Catalan linguist, pancreatic cancer.

4^th: Wilma Briggs, 92, American baseball player (Fort Wayne Daisies, South Bend Blue Sox).

4^th: Gary Wright, 80, American singer-songwriter ("Dream Weaver", "Love Is Alive") and musician (Spooky Tooth), Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia.

5^th: Otta Bednářová, 96, Czech journalist and dissident (Charter 77), co-founder of VONS.

5^th: Shabtai Shavit, 84, Israeli intelligence officer, director of Mossad (1989–1996).

7^th: Oded Eran, 82, Israeli diplomat, ambassador to Jordan (1997–2000) and the European Union (2002–2007), head negotiator for the Israeli–Palestinian peace process (1999–2000).

7^th: Enver Mamedov, 100, Russian diplomat and mass media manager, first deputy chairman of the State Committee of Television and Radio Broadcasting of the Soviet Union (1962–1985).

10^th: Sir Ian Wilmut, 79, British embryologist (Dolly), complications from Parkinson's disease.

11^th: Éva Fahidi, 97, Hungarian Holocaust survivor of Auschwitz and author.

13^th: Mircea Snegur, 83, Moldovan politician, president (1990–1997) and MP (1990, 1998–2001), cancer.

13^th: Roger Whittaker, 87, British singer-songwriter ("Durham Town (The Leavin')", "I Don't Believe in If Anymore", "The Last Farewell").

15^th: Alexander Shishlyannikov, 72, Tajik military officer, minister of defence (1993–1995).

16^th: Abdul Ati al-Obeidi, 83, Libyan politician and diplomat, prime minister (1977–1979), head of state (1979–1981) and twice minister of foreign affairs, heart attack.

19^th: Sir John Ure, 92, British diplomat, ambassador to Cuba (1979–1981), Brazil (1984–1987) and Sweden (1987–1991).

20^th: Yaacov Bergman, 78, Israeli conductor (Walla Walla Symphony).

20^th: Renée Hudon, 81, Canadian radio and television journalist (Radio-Canada).

20^th: Erwin Olaf, 64, Dutch photographer, complications from a lung transplant and emphysema.

20^th: Hollis Watkins, 82, American civil rights activist.

21^st: Yoel Alroy, 93, Israeli footballer (Maccabi Netanya) and politician, mayor of Netanya (1983–1993).

22^nd: Geir Lundestad, 78, Norwegian historian, member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute (1990–2014).

22^nd: Giorgio Napolitano, 98, Italian politician, president (2006–2015), minister of the interior (1996–1998) and president of the Chamber of Deputies (1992–1994).

22^nd: Boris Ostanin, 76, Russian writer and essayist, co-founder of the Andrei Bely Prize.

22^nd: Selwyn Romilly, 83, Canadian judge, justice of the Supreme Court (1995–2015) and Provincial Court (1974–1978) of British Columbia.

23^rd: Lucie Julia, 96, Guadeloupean writer, women's rights activist and social worker.

23^rd: Terry Kirkman, 83, American musician (The Association) and songwriter ("Cherish", "Everything That Touches You"), heart failure.

24^th: Barry Olivier, 87, American guitar instructor, founder of the Berkeley Folk Music Festival.

25^th: David McCallum, 90, Scottish actor (The Man from U.N.C.L.E., NCIS, The Great Escape) and musician.

27^th: Christoph Prinz zu Schleswig-Holstein, 74, German aristocrat, head of the House of Oldenburg (since 1980).

27^th: Sir Michael Gambon, 82, Irish-English actor (Harry Potter, Gosford Park, The Singing Detective), four-time BAFTA winner, pneumonia.

27^th: Aziz Pahad, 82, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, MP (1994–2008).

28^th: Sir Mervyn Brown, 100, British historian and diplomat, ambassador to Madagascar (1967–1970), high commissioner to Tanzania (1975–1978) and Nigeria (1979–1983).

October

1^st: Richard McSpadden, 63, American educator and USAF pilot, commander of Thunderbirds, plane crash.

1^st: Peter Penfold, 79, British diplomat, governor of the Virgin Islands (1991–1996) and high commissioner to Sierra Leone (1997–2000), cancer.

1^st: Claudius E. Watts III, 87, American Air Force general, president of The Citadel (1989–1996).

2^nd: Mel Fitzgerald, 70, Canadian wheelchair racer, three-time Paralympic champion (1980, 1984), cardiovascular disease.

2^nd: Firdaus Khisamitdinova, 73, Russian Bashkir linguist and politician, minister of education of Bashkortostan (1995–1998).

2^nd: Alice Shalvi, 96, German-born Israeli professor and educator.

3^rd: Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, 86, French journalist (France 2, France 3, Europe 1).

4^th: Tracey Freeman, 75, Australian athlete, six-time Paralympic champion (1972, 1976).

5^th: Kevin Coombs, 82, Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player.

6^th: Michael Chiarello, 61, American chef, anaphylaxis.

7^th: Izhar Peled, 61–62, Israeli assistant commissioner, commander of Israel Border Police in Judea and Samaria (2016–2020). Killed during the Hamas Terrorist Attack.

7^th: Roi Levy, 44, Israeli colonel, commander of the Multidimensional Unit (since 2023). Killed during the Hamas Terrorist Attack.

7^th: Yonatan Steinberg, 43, Israeli colonel, commander of the Nahal Brigade (since 2023). Killed during the Hamas Terrorist Attack.

9^th: Chau Cham-son, 91, Hong Kong town planner and civil servant, director of Buildings and Lands (1986–1989) and chief commissioner of the Scout Association (1985–1996).

9^th:  Simone Chapuis-Bischof, 92, Swiss women's rights activist. She was an organizer for women's suffrage in Switzerland.

9^th: Volodymyr Vasylenko, 86, Ukrainian diplomat, ambassador to the United Kingdom (1998–2002).

11^th: Phyllis Coates, 96, American actress (Adventures of Superman, Superman and the Mole Men, Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn).

11^th: Abdul Fatah Dukhan, 87, Palestinian militant and co-founder of Hamas. He was killed in an Israeli Airstrike in retaliation for the October 7^th Hamas Terrorist Attack in Israel.

11^th: Rudolph Isley, 84, American Hall of Fame singer (The Isley Brothers) and songwriter ("It's Your Thing", "That Lady"), heart attack.

12^th: Remei Margarit, 87, Spanish Catalan singer-songwriter and writer, co-founder of Els Setze Jutges.

13^th: Frank A. Herda, 76, American army soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.

13^th: Princess India, 94, Afghan royal.

14^th: Piper Laurie, 91, American actress (Carrie, The Hustler, Children of a Lesser God), Emmy winner (1987).

15^th: Joanna Merlin, 92, American actress (Fiddler on the Roof, Mystic Pizza, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

15^th: Suzanne Somers, 76, American actress (Three's Company, Step by Step, She's the Sheriff), breast cancer.

16^th: Geri M. Joseph, 100, American diplomat, ambassador to the Netherlands (1978–1981).

18^th: Dwight Twilley, 72, American singer-songwriter ("I'm on Fire").

19^th: Serhiy Hladkov, 60, Ukrainian clown (Calambur), screenwriter and sound engineer.

21^st: Bill Hayden, 90, Australian politician, governor-general (1989–1996), minister for foreign affairs (1983–1988), and leader of the opposition (1977–1983).

21^st: Samantha Woll, 40, American synagogue leader, president of Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, stabbed.

23^rd: Luis González Vales, 93, Puerto Rican military officer and historian, adjutant general (1983–1985) and official historian (since 1997).

24^th: Niels Holst-Sørensen, 100, Danish Olympic athlete (1948) and air force officer.

24^th: Richard Roundtree, 81, American actor (Shaft, Se7en, Speed Racer), pancreatic cancer.

25^th: Wanda Półtawska, 101, Polish physician and Holocaust survivor.

26^th: Richard Moll, 80, American actor (Night Court, House, Batman: The Animated Series).

28^th: Matthew Perry, 54, American-Canadian actor (Friends, The Whole Nine Yards, Fallout: New Vegas), drowned.

29^th: Ramón Rodríguez Arribas, 89, Spanish judge, member (2004–2013) and vice president (2012–2013) of the Constitutional Court, justice of the Supreme Court (1978–1996).

31^st: Jaak Broekx, 109, Belgian centenarian, nation's oldest living man (since 2021).

31^st: Ken Mattingly, 87, American astronaut (Apollo 16, STS-4, STS-51-C).

31^st: Mel Sembler, 93, American diplomat, ambassador to Italy (2001–2005) and Australia (1989–1993).

November

1^st: Ady Barkan, 39, American political activist, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

1^st: Ageeda Paavel, 93, Estonian anti-Soviet activist.

1^st: Jaan Rannap, 92, Estonian children's writer.

1^st: Peter White, 86, American actor (The Boys in the Band, All My Children, Mr. Wrong), melanoma.

2^nd: Jack Bamford, 86, English George Cross recipient.

2^nd: Fung Ying Ki, 43, Hong Kong wheelchair fencer, Paralympic champion (2000, 2004).

5^th: Mitar Vasiljević, 69, Bosnian Serb convicted war criminal and paramilitary group member (White Eagles).

6^th: Bronius Kuzmickas, 87, Lithuanian politician and philosopher, signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment.

6^th: Antoni Martí, 60, Andorran architect and politician, twice prime minister, mayor of Escaldes-Engordany (2003–2011) and general councillor (1994–2003).

8^th: Valentina Ponomaryova, 90, Russian cosmonaut, pilot and scientist.

11^th:  Karel Schwarzenberg, 85, Czech politician, aristocrat and diplomat, senator (2004–2010), twice minister of foreign affairs and deputy (2010–2021), heart and kidney disease.

13^th: Maryanne Trump Barry, 86, American jurist and attorney, judge of the U.S. District Court of New Jersey (1983–1999) and Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1999–2019), cancer.

16^th: Sarah Louise Keys, 95, American civil rights activist.

17^th: Suzanne Shepherd, 89, American actress (The Sopranos, Goodfellas, Requiem for a Dream).

18^th: Princess Maria Cristina of Savoy-Aosta, 90, Italian princess.

19^th: Giuseppe Arzilli, 82, Sammarinese politician, captain regent (1986–1987, 1999–2000, 2004–2005).

19^th: Rosalynn Carter, 96, American mental health activist, first lady of the United States (1977–1981), and of Georgia (1971–1975), complications from dementia.

21^st: Jerónimo Saavedra, 87, Spanish politician, president of the Canary Islands (1982–1987, 1991–1993) and minister of education and science (1995–1996).

21^st: Francis R. Nicosia, 79, American historian.

21^st: Irene N. Watts, 92, German-born Canadian writer, educator and Holocaust Survivor (Kindertransport.)

22^nd: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, 94, French historian.

24^th: George Cohon, 86, American-born Canadian fast food executive, founder of McDonald's Canada and McDonald's Russia.

24^th: František X. Halas, 86, Czech historian of Christianity, academic and diplomat.

25^th: Ursula Bethell, Baroness Westbury, 99, British noblewoman and philanthropist.

26^th: Magda Hollander-Lafon, 96, Hungarian-born French Holocaust Survivor (Auschwitz) and psychologist.

26^th: Rudy Insanally, 87, Guyanese diplomat, minister of foreign affairs (2001–2008) and president of the United Nations General Assembly (1993–1994).

27^th: Mary L. Cleave, 76, American astronaut (STS-61-B, STS-30).

27^th: Frances Sternhagen, 93, American actress (Equus, ER, Misery), Tony winner (1974, 1995).

28^th: Julius W. Becton Jr., 97, American military officer, director of FEMA (1985–1989).

29^th: Henry Kissinger, 100, German-born American diplomat and politician, Holocaust Survivor, national security advisor (1969–1975), secretary of state (1973–1977) and Nobel Prize laureate (1973).

30^th: Mikhail Marov, 90, Russian astronomer.

December

1^st: Sandra Day O'Connor, 93, American jurist, associate justice of the Supreme Court (1981–2006), member of the Arizona Senate (1969–1975) and chancellor of the College of William & Mary (2005–2012), complications from dementia and respiratory illness.

2^nd: Faustin Twagiramungu, 78, Rwandan politician, prime minister (1994–1995).

2^nd: Medea Amiranashvili, 93, Georgian opera singer.

3^rd: Leontiy Sandulyak, 86, Ukrainian political figure, scientist, and diplomat, co-author of Ukraine’s Declaration of Independence.

4^th: Juanita Castro, 90, Cuban political dissident, Sister of Fidel and Raul Castro.

5^th: Norman Lear, 101, American Hall of Fame television writer and producer (All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons), cardiac arrest.

5^th: Prince Constantin of Liechtenstein, 51, Liechtensteiner royal.

6^th: Jack Hogan, 94, American actor (Combat!, The Bonnie Parker Story, Jake and the Fatman).

7^th: Guy Stern, 101, German-American intelligence officer (Ritchie Boys).

8^th: Ryan O'Neal, 82, American actor (Love Story, Barry Lyndon, Paper Moon) and boxer.

9^th: Larisa Gershtein, 72, Soviet-born Israeli politician, deputy mayor of Jerusalem (1993–2003).

10^th: Mark Villiger, 73, Swiss judge, justice of the European Court of Human Rights (2006–2015).

11^th: Eduard Rius, 70, Spanish physician, minister of health and social assistance of Catalonia (1996–2002) and member of the Catalan parliament (1996–2003).

11^th: Paulin Obame-Nguema, 88, Gabonese politician, prime minister (1994–1999).

11^th: Andre Braugher, 61, American actor (Homicide: Life on the Street, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Glory), Emmy winner (1998, 2006), lung cancer.

12^th: Yitzhak Ben-Bashat, 44, Israeli IDF officer (Yiftach Brigade, Paran Brigade), killed in action.

12^th: Babken Ararktsyan, 79, Armenian politician, president of the National Assembly (1995–1998) and chairman of the Supreme Council (1991–1995).

14^th: Qapik Attagutsiak, 103, Canadian Inuit World War II war effort contributor.

15^th: Steve Halliwell, 77, English actor (Emmerdale, Coronation Street) and singer (The Woolpackers).

16^th: Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 86, Kuwaiti royal, emir (since 2020).

16^th: Colin Burgess, 77, Australian rock drummer (The Masters Apprentices, AC/DC).

17^th: James McCaffrey, 65, American actor (Max Payne, Rescue Me, Viper), multiple myeloma.

17^th: Maureen Flavin Sweeney, 100, Irish postmistress, took weather observations that were reported to Allied forces during the Second World War. In 2021, She was honoured by the United States Congress for her role in the Second World War. Her name was entered into the Congressional Record and she received a medal from the House of Representatives.

18^th: Dan Greenburg, 87, American writer (How to Be a Jewish Mother, The Zack Files, Maximum Boy), complications from a stroke.

19^th: Sir Norman Arthur, 92, British military officer and Olympic equestrian (1960), GOC Scotland (1985–1988) and Lord Lieutenant of Kirkcudbright (1996–2006). (death announced on this date)

21^st: Robert Solow, 99, American economist, Nobel Prize recipient (1987).

21^st: Alexei Starobinsky, 75, Russian astrophysicist and cosmologist (Starobinsky inflation).

21^st: John C. Kornblum, 80, American diplomat, ambassador to Germany (1997–2001).

22^nd: Laura Lynch, 65, American musician (Dixie Chicks), traffic collision.

22^nd: Jorge Cauas, 89, Chilean economist and politician, minister of finance (1974–1976) and ambassador to the United States (1977–1978).

23^rd: Mike Nussbaum, 99, American actor (Fatal Attraction, Field of Dreams, Men in Black).

23^rd: Roman Krutsyk, 78, Ukrainian politician, MP (1994–1998), director of Museum of Soviet Occupation (since 2007).

23^rd: Fredrik Heffermehl, 85, Norwegian peace activist, president of the Norwegian Peace Council (1988–2004).

24^th: Harry Rosen, 92, Canadian menswear retailer, founder of Harry Rosen Inc..

24^th: Kamar de los Reyes, 56, Puerto Rican actor (One Life to Live, Sleepy Hollow, Call of Duty: Black Ops II), cancer.

25^th:  Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, 95, Israeli geographer, rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1993–1997).

25^th: Richard Franklin, 87, English actor (Doctor Who, Crossroads, Emmerdale), writer and director.

26^th: Riaz Khokhar, 80, Pakistani diplomat, foreign secretary (2002–2005), ambassador to the United States (1997–1999) and China (1999–2002).

26^th: Tom Smothers, 86, American comedian, musician (Smothers Brothers) and actor (Get to Know Your Rabbit, Serial), lung cancer.

27^th: Jacques Delors, 98, French economist and politician, minister of finance (1981–1984), MEP (1979–1981) and president of the European Commission (1985–1995).

27^th: Gaston Glock, 94, Austrian engineer and weapons industry executive, founder of Glock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_deaths_in_2023