2018 Deaths

                                                                  2018 Deaths 

January:

1st: Jon Paul Steuer, 33, American actor (Grace Under Fire, Little Giants, Star Trek: The Next Generation) and singer, suicide by gunshot.

2nd: Sauryavong Savang, 80, Laotian prince.

3rd: Donal Barrington, 89, Irish judge, member of the Supreme Court (1996–2000).

4th: Brendan Byrne, 93, American politician, Governor of New Jersey (1974–1982), lung infection.

4th: Bruce Halle, 87, American auto parts executive and philanthropist, founder of Discount Tire.

4th: Owen Hardy, 95, New Zealand WWII air force pilot.

4th: Philipp Jenninger, 85, German politician, President of the Bundestag (1984–1988).

4th: Harry Landers, 96, American actor (Ben Casey).(death announced on this date).

4th: Jack N. Merritt, 87, American army general.

5th: Thomas Bopp, 68, American astronomer, co-discoverer of Comet Hale–Bopp, liver failure.

5th: Jerry Van Dyke, 86, American actor and comedian (My Mother the Car, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Coach), heart failure.

5th: John Young, 87, American astronaut (Apollo 16, STS-1), pneumonia.

6th: Elza Brandeisz, 110, Hungarian dancer and teacher, conferred Righteous Among the Nations.

7th: Anna Mae Hays, 97, American military officer and nurse, Chief of Army Nurse Corps (1967–1971), first female U.S. General, complications from a heart attack.

7th: Antoni Subirà, 77, Spanish politician, member of Parliament of Catalonia (1980–1993) and co-founder of Democratic Convergence of Catalonia.

7th: Doug Young, 98, American voice actor (Quick Draw McGraw, The Flintstones, Jonny Quest).

8th: George Maxwell Richards, 86, Trinidadian politician, President (2003–2013), heart failure.

9th: Odvar Nordli, 90, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister (1976–1981), prostate cancer.

9th: Alexander Vedernikov, 90, Russian singer and teacher, Bolshoi Theatre soloist (1958–1990), People's Artist of the USSR (1976).

10th: Doreen Tracey, 74, English-born American actress (The Mickey Mouse Club), cancer and pneumonia.

12th: Ilkka Pastinen, 89, Finnish diplomat.

14th: Max Labovitch, 93, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers).

15th: Mathilde Krim, 91, Italian-born American HIV/AIDS researcher.

15th: Dolores O'Riordan, 46, Irish singer and guitarist (The Cranberries, D.A.R.K.).

16th: Kingdon Gould Jr., 94, American diplomat, Ambassador to Luxembourg (1969–1972) and the Netherlands (1973–1976), pneumonia.

16th: John Spellman, 91, American politician, Governor of Washington (1981–1985), pneumonia.

18th: John Barton, 89, British theatre director, co-founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

18th: Stansfield Turner, 94, American admiral, Director of Central Intelligence (1977–1981).

19th: Olivia Cole, 75, American actress (Roots, Backstairs at the White House, Brewster Place), Emmy Award winner (1977), heart attack.

19th: Maurice Couture, 91, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Québec (1990–2002).

19th: Dorothy Malone, 93, American actress (Written on the Wind, Peyton Place, Too Much, Too Soon), Oscar winner (1956).

20th: John Coleman, 83, American meteorologist, co-founder of The Weather Channel.

20th: Naomi Parker Fraley, 96, American naval machinist, inspiration for the "We Can Do It!" poster.

20th: Jim Rodford, 76, English bassist (Argent, The Kinks, The Zombies), injuries from a fall.

20th: Doron Rubin, 74, Israeli military officer.

21st: Connie Sawyer, 105, American actress (Dumb and Dumber, Pineapple Express, When Harry Met Sally...), heart attack.

22nd: K. B. Asante, 93, Ghanaian diplomat, Ambassador to Switzerland (1967–1972) and the European Economic Community (1976–1978).

22nd: Ian Bennett, 69, Canadian civil servant, President of the Royal Canadian Mint (2006–2014).

23rd: Robert Dowdell, 85, American actor (Stoney Burke, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea).

23rd: Galen L. Stone, 96, American diplomat, Ambassador to Cyprus (1978–1981), lymphoma.

24th: Gonzalo Facio Segreda, 99, Costa Rican politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1970–1978), President of the Legislative Assembly (1953–1956), Ambassador to the United States (1956–1958, 1962–1966, 1990–1994).

29th: Ion Ciubuc, 74, Moldovan politician, Prime Minister (1997–1999).

30th: Louis Zorich, 93, American actor (Mad About You, Brooklyn Bridge, The Muppets Take Manhattan).

31st: Dan Alon, 72, Israeli Olympic fencer (1972) and survivor of the Munich massacre, cancer.

31st: Ann Gillis, 90, American actress (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Bambi, 2001: A Space Odyssey).

31st: Leonid Kadeniuk, 67, Ukrainian first cosmonaut (STS-87).

February:

1st: Dennis Edwards, 74, American Hall of Fame soul and R&B singer (The Contours, The Temptations), complications from meningitis.

1st: Barys Kit, 107, Belarusian rocket scientist.

2nd: Dave Barrett, 87, Canadian politician, Premier of British Columbia (1972–1975), Alzheimer's disease.

4th: Gregor Dorfmeister, 88, German writer and journalist (Die Brücke, Town Without Pity).

4th: John Mahoney, 77, English-American actor (Frasier, In the Line of Fire, Say Anything...), complications from throat cancer.

7th: Nabi Şensoy, 72, Turkish diplomat, ambassador to the United States (2006–2009).

8th: Ben Agajanian, 98, American football player (New York Giants, Green Bay Packers), NFL Champion (1956, 1961).

9th: John Gavin, 86, American actor (Psycho, Spartacus, Imitation of Life) and diplomat, Ambassador to Mexico (1981–1986), pneumonia.

12th: Leo Falcam, 82, Micronesian politician, President of the Federated States of Micronesia (1999–2003), Vice President (1997–1999), Governor of Pohnpei (1979–1983).

13th: James W. Downing, 104, American naval officer and author, commanding officer of USS Patapsco, complications from heart surgery.

13th: Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, 83, French-born Danish royal, Consort (since 1972), complications from pneumonia.

14th: Lois Barker, 94, American baseball player (AAGPBL).

14th: Pyotr Bochek, 92, Ukrainian military officer, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945).

14th: Ruud Lubbers, 78, Dutch politician and diplomat, Prime Minister (1982–1994), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2001–2005).

14th: Morgan Tsvangirai, 65, Zimbabwean politician and opposition leader, Prime Minister (2009–2013), colorectal cancer.

16th: Deryck Stapleton, 100, British Royal Air Force officer.

22nd: Valentin Falin, 91, Russian Soviet-era diplomat and politician.

24th: Kalman Aron, 93, Holocaust survivor and artist.

27th: Gertrude Alderfer, 86, American baseball player (AAGPBL).

28th: Antonio García-Trevijano, 90, Spanish lawyer, politician, philosopher and anti-Francoist activist.

March:

1st: Colin Campbell, 81, English actor (A Family at War, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries).

3rd: David Ogden Stiers, 75, American actor (M*A*S*H, Beauty and the Beast, The Dead Zone), bladder cancer.

4th: Javed Abidi, 52, Indian disability rights activist, chest infection.

4th: Russell Solomon, 92, American retail executive, founder of Tower Records.

5th: Uri Lubrani, 91, Israeli diplomat and military official.

7th: Charles Thone, 94, American politician, Governor of Nebraska (1979–1983), member of the US House of Representatives for Nebraska's 1st district (1971–1979).

9th: Adam Ostrowski, 99, Polish World War II RAF officer.

9th: Millie Dunn Veasey, 100, American civil rights activist.

11th: Baltasar Corrada del Río, 82, Puerto Rican judge and politician, Mayor of San Juan (1985–1989) and Secretary of State (1993–1995).

11th: Peter H. Dailey, 87, American advertising executive and diplomat, Ambassador to Ireland (1982–1984).

12th: Oleg Tabakov, 82, Russian actor (War and Peace, Oblomov), artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre.

14th: David Wyman, 89, American historian (The Abandonment of the Jews).

16th: Dayton S. Mak, 100, American diplomat, Ambassador to Kuwait (1961–1963).

16th: Jane Moffet, 87, American baseball player (AAGPBL).

17th: Phan Văn Khải, 84, Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister (1997–2006).

18th: Barkat Gourad Hamadou, 88, Djiboutian politician, Prime Minister (1978–2001).

18th: Princess Mathilde of Saxony, 82, German royal princess.

18th: Georgi Mosolov, 91, Russian test pilot.

18th: Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, 85, British politician and diplomat, Lord Privy Seal (1997–1998), ambassador to UN (1974–1979), MP for Barons Court (1964–1974).

19th: Roger G. Barry, 82, British-born American geographer and climatologist, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (1976–2008).

19th: Madge Bester, 54, South African disability rights activist, once world's shortest woman.

22nd: Johan van Hulst, 107, Dutch politician, author and academic, awarded Righteous Among the Nations (1970), member of the Senate (1956–1981) and the European Parliament (1961–1968).

23rd: Zell Miller, 86, American politician, Governor of Georgia (1991–1999), member of the U.S. Senate (2000–2005), Parkinson's disease.

24th: Arnaud Beltrame, 44, French gendarme, stabbed.

April:

1st: Steven Bochco, 74, American television producer and writer (Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue), 10-time Emmy winner, leukemia.

1st: Avichai Rontzki, 66, Israeli general, Chief Military Rabbi of the Israel Defence Forces (2006–2010), colorectal cancer.

2nd: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, 81, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, MP (since 2009), complications of diabetes.

8th: Chuck McCann, 83, American voice actor (DuckTales, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Fantastic Four), heart failure.

11th: Robert Matthews, 56, British athlete, Paralympic champion (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000), brain tumor.

15th: R. Lee Ermey, 74, American soldier, military drill instructor, and actor (Full Metal Jacket, Toy Story, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), complications from pneumonia.

16th: Harry Anderson, 65, American actor (Night Court, Dave's World, It) and magician, stroke.

17th: Barbara Bush, 92, American political matriarch, First Lady (1989–1993) and Second Lady (1981–1989), complications from COPD and heart failure.

19th: Agnès-Marie Valois, 103, French nun and World War II nurse.

20th: Avicii, 28, Swedish electronic musician, DJ and record producer ("Wake Me Up", "Hey Brother", "Levels"), suicide by exsanguination.

21st: Verne Troyer, 49, American actor (Austin Powers, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone), alcohol poisoning.

23rd: Liri Belishova, 91, Albanian politician and resistance member during World War II.

24th: Christine Jewett, 91, Canadian baseball player (AAGPBL).

26th: Philip H. Hoff, 93, American politician, Governor of Vermont (1963–1969).

27th: Álvaro Arzú, 72, Guatemalan politician, President (1996–2000), Mayor of Guatemala City (1986–1990, since 2004), heart attack.

May:

1st: Phil Gowan, 65, American historian (RMS Titanic), cancer.

2nd: Wang Danfeng, 93, Chinese actress.

4th: Kenneth J. Thorneycroft, 90, Canadian military officer.

13th: Margot Kidder, 69, Canadian-American actress (Superman, The Amityville Horror, Black Christmas) and activist.

15th: Joseph G. Clemons, 90, American soldier, subject of Pork Chop Hill.

15th: Martin Hoffman, 88, Czech-born British bridge player, writer and Holocaust survivor.

16th: Zhao Kangmin, 81, Chinese archaeologist, discoverer of the Terracotta Army.

19th: Joseph Cassar, 71, Maltese diplomat, United Nations representative and Ambassador to Portugal, Italy, Libya and Russia.

19th: John Moorfield, 74, New Zealand Māori language academic, cancer.

20th: Ramón Chao, 82, Spanish anti-Francoist journalist (Le Monde, La Voz de Galicia) and writer.

21st: Pedro Tenorio, 84, Northern Mariana Islander politician, Governor (1982–1990, 1998–2002).

21st: Faith Whittlesey, 79, American politician and diplomat, ambassador to Switzerland (1985–1988), cancer.

22nd: Tom Bernard, 86, American actor (Yankee Fakir, The Ruggles, Rebel Without a Cause).

24th: Jerry Maren, 98, American actor (The Wizard of Oz), heart failure.

26th: Alan Bean, 86, American astronaut (Apollo 12, Skylab 3), fourth person to walk on the Moon.

26th: Ted Dabney, 81, American electrical engineer, co-founder of Atari, esophageal cancer.

27th: Russell Nype, 98, American actor (Hello, Dolly!, Love Story, Call Me Madam) and singer, Tony winner (1951, 1959).

27th: Donald H. Peterson, 84, American astronaut (STS-6), Alzheimer's disease and bone cancer.

June:

1st: William Edward Phipps, 96, American actor (Cinderella, The War of the Worlds, Five), complications from lung cancer.

2nd: Mary Baumgartner, 87, American baseball player (AAGPBL).

7th: José Marfil Peralta, 97, Spanish soldier and Holocaust survivor.

7th: Gena Turgel, 95, Polish author, Holocaust survivor and educator.

8th: Eunice Gayson, 90, British actress (Dr. No, From Russia with Love, The Revenge of Frankenstein).

8th: Jackson Odell, 20, American actor (The Goldbergs, Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer, iCarly).

8th: Anthony Bourdain, 61, American chef, author and television host (No Reservations, Parts Unknown, The Layover), four-time Emmy winner, suicide by hanging.

17th: Andrei Ivanovich Stepanov, 88, Soviet-born Russian diplomat and author.

19th: Ivan Drach, 81, Ukrainian poet, screenwriter and politician, member of Verkhovna Rada (1990–1994, 1998–2000, 2002–2006).

19th: Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, 83, Danish princess.

19th: Koko, 46, American-bred Western lowland gorilla.

20th: Dante Caputo, 74, Argentine diplomat and politician, President of the United Nations General Assembly (1988–1989), Minister of Foreign Relations (1983–1989).

20th: Francisco Griéguez, 99, Spanish WWII soldier and Holocaust survivor.

20th: Bill Speakman, 90, British soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross.

22nd: Dick Leitsch, 83, American LGBT rights activist, liver cancer.

23rd: Kim Jong-pil, 92, South Korean politician, Prime Minister (1971–1975, 1998–2000).

23rd: Ronald Spadafora, 63, American firefighter (FDNY Chief of Fire Prevention), supervised rescue and recovery following 9/11, acute myeloid leukemia.

24th: Darryl N. Johnson, 80, American diplomat.

24th: Pavel Vranský, 97, Czech brigadier general and RAF radio operator, veteran of the siege of Tobruk, War Cross and Medal of Merit recipient.

27th: Joe Jackson, 89, American band manager (The Jackson 5), patriarch of the Jackson family, pancreatic cancer.

27th: Corran Purdon, 97, British army major general.

July:

2nd: Patrick Finnegan, 68, American Army General and lawyer, President of Longwood University (2010–2012), heart attack.

2nd: Henri Froment-Meurice, 95, French diplomat, Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1979–1981) and West Germany (1981–1983).

3rd: Lorraine Rodgers, 97, American WASP pilot.

5th: Claude Lanzmann, 92, French documentarian (Shoah, The Last of the Unjust, Pourquoi Israël).

6th: Kimishige Ishizaka, 92, Japanese immunologist, discovered the antibody class IgE, heart failure.

7th: Levko Lukyanenko, 89, Ukrainian political Soviet-era dissident and politician, Deputy (1990–1992, 1995–1998, 2002–2007).

7th: Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma, 92, French royal, soldier and race car driver.

8th: Tom Gallagher, 77, American diplomat.

8th: Tab Hunter, 86, American actor (Damn Yankees, Grease 2) and singer ("Young Love"), blood clot.

8th: Robert D. Ray, 89, American politician, Governor of Iowa (1969–1983), Mayor of Des Moines (1997), and President of Drake University (1998), Parkinson's disease.

9th: Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, 99, British politician, Foreign Secretary (1979–1982), Secretary General of NATO (1984–1988).

13th: Thorvald Stoltenberg, 87, Norwegian politician, Minister of Defence (1979–1981), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1987–1989, 1990–1993).

14th: Sir Alan Donald, 87, British diplomat, Ambassador to China (1988–1991), prostate cancer.

14th: Theo-Ben Gurirab, 80, Namibian politician, Prime Minister (2002–2005), President of the UN General Assembly (1999–2000), Speaker of the National Assembly (2005–2015).

17th: Gary Beach, 70, American actor (The Producers, Beauty and the Beast, La Cage aux Folles), Tony winner (2001).

18th: Anne Olivier Bell, 102, English literary editor and art scholar, member of the Monuments Men Brigade.

18th: Adrian Cronauer, 79, American disc jockey (AFN), subject of Good Morning, Vietnam.

18th: Geoffrey Wellum, 96, British fighter pilot (Battle of Britain), member of The Few.

20th: Archduchess Maria of Austria, 82, German-born Austrian royal.

23rd: Duke Carl Gregor of Mecklenburg, 85, German royal and art historian.

24th: Mary Ellis, 101, British WWII era transport pilot (RAF, ATA).

24th: Isidor Levin, 98, Latvian folklorist.

26th: Robert Martin, 99, American fighter pilot (Tuskegee Airmen), pneumonia.

27th: Bernard Hepton, 92, British actor (Colditz, I, Claudius, Secret Army).

August:

1st: Alija Behmen, 77, Bosnian politician, PM of Bosnia and Herzegovina federation (2001–2003) and Mayor of Sarajevo (2009–2013).

1st: Jüri Rätsep, 83, Estonian politician and judge, magistrate of the Supreme Court (1993–2002).

1st: Nancy Tuckerman, 89, American secretary, White House Social Secretary (1963), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

3rd: Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski, 101, Ukrainian-born Polish Air Force officer (Warsaw Uprising) and brigadier general.

4th: Arsène Tchakarian , 101, Armenian-born French resistance fighter (FTP-MOI).

5th: Charlotte Rae, 92, American actress (The Facts of Life, Diff'rent Strokes, 101 Dalmatians: The Series), bone cancer.

6th: Margaret Heckler, 87, American politician and diplomat, Ambassador to Ireland (1986–1989), Secretary of Health and Human Services (1983–1985), member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1967–1983), cardiac arrest.

6th: Nicole Kullen, 38, Australian Paralympic equestrian, meningococcal disease.

8th: Philip Riteman, 96, Polish-born Canadian lecturer and Holocaust survivor.

8th: Amber Tatro, 42, American disability rights activist and plaintiff, infective complications from spina bifida.

10th: Andrey Budnik, 65, Soviet-Russian diplomat, Ambassador to Pakistan (2009–2013) and Nepal (since 2015).

14th: Sir Hugh Cortazzi, 94, British diplomat, Ambassador to Japan (1980–1984).

16th: Aretha Franklin, 76, American Hall of Fame singer ("Respect", "Chain of Fools", "A Natural Woman"), pianist and songwriter, 18-time Grammy winner, pancreatic cancer.

18th: Kofi Annan, 80, Ghanaian diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997–2006), Nobel Prize laureate (2001).

20th: Chicha Mariani, 94, Argentinian human rights activist, co-founder of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, stroke.

21st: Barbara Harris, 83, American actress (The Apple Tree, Freaky Friday, Nashville), Tony winner (1967), co-founder of The Second City, lung cancer.

24th: Princeton Lyman, 82, American diplomat, Ambassador to Nigeria (1986–1989) and South Africa (1992–1995), lung cancer.

24th: Robin Leach, 76, British writer and television host (Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous), complications from a stroke.

25th: Henryk Kucharski , 95, Polish firefighter, social worker and WWII veteran.

25th: John McCain, 81, American politician and Navy officer, member of the U.S. Senate (since 1987) and House of Representatives (1983–1987), glioblastoma.

31st: Alexander Zakharchenko, 42, Ukrainian separatist leader, President and Prime Minister of Donetsk People's Republic (since 2014), bombing.

September:

1st: Mykola Shytyuk, 64, Ukrainian historian, stabbed.

4th: Bill Daily, 91, American actor (I Dream of Jeannie, The Bob Newhart Show) and game show panelist (Match Game).

4th: Christopher Lawford, 63, American actor (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Thirteen Days, All My Children), memoirist and political activist, heart attack.

5th: Alan Peart, 96, New Zealand World War II fighter ace (Royal New Zealand Air Force).

5th: Freddie Oversteegen, 92, Dutch resistance member.

7th: Sheila White, 69, British actress (Oliver!) and singer, heart failure.

8th: Gennadi Gagulia, 70, Abkhazian politician, Prime Minister (1995–1997, 2002–2003, since 2018), traffic collision.

8th: Christopher Harper-Bill, 71, British medieval historian.

8th: Chelsi Smith, 45, American beauty pageant winner (Miss USA 1995, Miss Universe 1995), liver cancer.

8th: Richard Vincent, Baron Vincent of Coleshill, 87, British military officer and life peer.

10th: Peter Donat, 90, Canadian-born American actor (The Godfather: Part II, The X-Files, The China Syndrome), complications from diabetes.

10th: Albin F. Irzyk, 101, American military officer.

12th: Ronald Carter, 71, British linguist.

12th: Geoff Manning, 92, Australian historian.

13th: Sir William Kerr Fraser, 89, British civil servant, Chancellor of the University of Glasgow (1996–2006), Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Office (1978–1988).

13th: Marin Mazzie, 57, American actress and singer (Ragtime, Kiss Me, Kate, Passion), ovarian cancer.

14th: Rudolf Schieffer, 71, German historian.

15th: Irina Bessarabova, 57, Russian documentary film director and actress.

15th: Lady Elizabeth Cavendish, 92, British aristocrat and courtier.

15th: David Lowenthal, 95, American geographer and historian.

16th: Iris Acker, 88, American actress (Flight of the Navigator, Whoops Apocalypse, Cocoon: The Return), pancreatic cancer.

16th: Perry Miller Adato, 97, American documentary film director and producer.

16th: James B. Thayer, 96, American army brigadier general.

18th: James Allan, 86, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Mauritius (1981–1985) and ambassador to Mozambique (1986–1989).

18th: Lawrence Martin-Bittman, 87, Czech-born American artist, author and intelligence officer.

20th: Mohamed Sahnoun, 87, Algerian diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1984–1989).

21st: Vitaliy Masol, 89, Ukrainian politician, Prime Minister (1994–1995).

22nd: Dolly Niemiec, 87, American baseball player (AAGPBL).

25th: Ivan Kapitanets, 90, Russian military officer, Admiral of the Fleet.

27th: Marty Balin, 76, American Hall of Fame rock singer and musician (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship).

28th: Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, 76, Swazi politician, Prime Minister (1996–2003, 2008–2018).

28th: Sidney Shachnow, 83, Lithuanian-born American Army general and Holocaust survivor.

29th: Richard A. Searfoss, 62, American astronaut.

October:

1st: Do Muri, 101, Vietnamese politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party (1991–1997), Prime Minister (1988–1991), respiratory and kidney failure.

1st: Peggy Sue Gerron, 78, American namesake of songs "Peggy Sue" and "Peggy Sue Got Married".

1st: Darryl Greenamyer, 82, American aviator and record holder.

1st: Juan Romero, 68, American busboy, witness to the Robert F. Kennedy assassination, heart attack.

2nd: Jamal Khashoggi, 59, Saudi Arabian journalist, strangled.

4th: Sir John Swinton, 93, British military officer.

5th: Ed Kenney, 85, American singer and actor (Flower Drum Song).

6th: Quentin Kenihan, 43, Australian disability advocate and actor (Mad Max: Fury Road), asthma attack.

6th: Victoria Marinova, 30, Bulgarian journalist and television presenter, strangled.

6th: Scott Wilson, 76, American actor (The Walking Dead, In Cold Blood, The Ninth Configuration), complications from leukemia.

9th: Heiki Arike, 53, Estonian politician, Minister of the Interior (1993–1994).

9th: Diane Jergens, 83, American actress (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Bob Cummings Show, Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color)

10th: Bill Corey, 101, Australian soldier (The Rats of Tobruk).

11th: Richard Brookins, 96, American soldier. Known as the “American Saint Nick” in Luxembourg during World War 2. 

12th: Pik Botha, 86, South African politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1977–1994).

12th: Colleen Conway-Welch, 74, American academic administrator (Vanderbilt School of Nursing), Nursing Living Legend, pancreatic cancer.

13th: Edgar S. Harris Jr., 93, American Air Force lieutenant general.

14th: Donald Stovel Macdonald, 86, Canadian politician and diplomat, MP (1962–1978), Government House Leader (1968–1970), and High Commissioner in the UK (1988–1991).

15th: William Thompson, 96, American admiral, led development of United States Navy Memorial, complications from cancer.

17th: Valters Frīdenbergs, 30, Latvian singer (Valters and Kaža), contestant in Eurovision Song Contest 2005, cancer.

17th: Fritz Wittmann, 85, German politician, MP (1971–1994, 1996–1998), president of the Federation of Expellees (1994–1998).

19th: Victor Marchetti, 88, American CIA agent and author (The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence), complications from dementia.

19th: Diana Sowle, 88, American actress (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Fallout 3).

20th: Gaétan Gervais, 74, Canadian historian and author, co-designer of the Franco-Ontarian flag.

21st: Earl Bakken, 94, American pacemaker inventor (Medtronic) and museum founder (Bakken Museum).

21st: Harry L. Ettlinger, 92, American engineer, member of the Monuments Men, Congressional Gold Medal recipient.

21st: Joachim Rønneberg, 99, Norwegian broadcaster (NRK) and military officer (Commander of Operation Gunnerside).

23rd: Melvin Cohn, 96, American immunologist, co-founder of the Salk Institute.

24th: Rudolf Gelbard, 87, Austrian Holocaust survivor.

26th: Nikolai Karachentsov, 73, Russian actor (Juno and Avos, The Dog in the Manger, A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines), People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989), kidney failure.

29th: Jane Actman, 69, American actress (The Paul Lynde Show, Room 222).

29th: Bernard Bragg, 90, American actor, co-founder of the National Theatre of the Deaf.

29th: Sir Nigel Broomfield, 81, British diplomat, Ambassador to Germany (1993–1997).

November

1st: Theodor Hoffmann, 83, German admiral, Chief of the Volksmarine (1987–1989) and East Germany Minister of Defense (1989–1990).

2nd: Robert F. Taft, 86, American Jesuit priest, Archimandrite of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

3rd: Janusz Bielański, 79, Polish Roman Catholic priest, rector of the Wawel Cathedral (1983–2007).

4th: Kateryna Handziuk, 33, Ukrainian politician, complications from an acid attack.

4th: Katherine Herring, 85, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).

4th: Juan Antonio Ramírez Sunyer, 71, Spanish judge (Operation Anubis, 2017 Catalan independence referendum).

6th: Bernard Landry, 81, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec (2001–2003).

8th: Bonnie Cooper, 83, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).

10th: Jan Petránek , 86, Czech journalist, commentator and dissident, Charter 77 signatory, heart failure.

11th: Paul Rausnitz, 90, Czech-American businessman and WWII veteran, Medal of Merit recipient.

12th: André da Costa Belo, 61, East Timorese independence war veteran, academic and politician, Minister of Veteran Affairs (2017–2018).

13th: Katherine MacGregor, 93, American actress (Little House on the Prairie).

14th: Rolf Hoppe, 87, German actor (I Was Nineteen, Tři oříšky pro Popelku, Mephisto).

18th: Jennie Stoller, 72, British actress (The Good Father, Sapphire & Steel, King Ralph), cancer.

20th: Shlomo Erell, 98, Israeli military general, Commander of the Navy (1966–1968).

21st: Ray Chavez, 106, American Navy seaman, oldest US military survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

21st: Olivia Hooker, 103, American psychologist and yeoman, first African-American woman in the U.S. Coast Guard.

21st: Igor Korobov, 62, Russian intelligence officer, Director of the Main Intelligence Directorate (since 2016).

23rd: Betty Bumpers, 93, American childhood immunizations activist, First Lady of Arkansas (1971–1975), complications from dementia and a broken hip.

25th: Wright King, 95, American actor (A Streetcar Named Desire, Stagecoach to Fury, Planet of the Apes).

26th: Stephen Hillenburg, 57, American animator and director (SpongeBob SquarePants, Rocko's Modern Life), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

27th: Boris Aristov, 93, Russian politician, Soviet Ambassador to Finland (1988–1992) and Poland (1978–1983), Soviet Minister of Foreign Trade (1985–1988).

30th: George H. W. Bush, 94, American politician, President (1989–1993), Vice President (1981–1989), Director of Central Intelligence (1976–1977).

December

1st: Ken Berry, 85, American actor (F Troop, Mayberry R.F.D., Mama's Family).

1st: Ivan Katardžiev, 92, Macedonian historian.

1st: Scott Stearney, 58, American vice admiral, Commander of the Fifth Fleet (since 2018).

3rd: Philip Bosco, 88, American actor (Lend Me a Tenor, Working Girl, My Best Friend's Wedding), Tony winner (1989), complications from dementia.

3rd: Miguel Primo de Rivera y Urquijo, 84, Spanish aristocrat (Duke of Primo de Rivera) and politician, Mayor of Jerez (1965–1971) and Senator.

4th: Selma Engel-Wijnberg, 96, Dutch Holocaust survivor, escapee from Sobibor.

4th: Nika Rurua, 50, Georgian politician, Minister of Culture (2009–2012), heart attack.

5th: Alex Boraine, 87, South African politician, MP (1974–1986).

5th: Inge Johansen, 90, Norwegian engineer and educator, rector of the Norwegian Institute of Technology (1976–1984).

6th: Galina Anisimova, 89, Russian actress (All Remains to People).

6th: Joseph Joffo, 87, French author (A Bag of Marbles).

8th: Lyudmila Alexeyeva, 91, Russian human rights activist.

9th: Alexandra Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn, 72, British aristocrat.

9th: Gordon Scholes, 87, Australian politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (1975–1976), Minister for Defence (1983–1984) and Territories (1984–1987).

12th: James Lyons, 91, American admiral, Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (1985–1987).

12th: Pavle Strugar, 85, Montenegrin military officer (Yugoslav People's Army) and convicted war criminal.

13th: Seán Garland, 84, Irish politician, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Ireland (1977–1990).

13th: Nancy Wilson, 81, American jazz singer ("(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am"), Grammy winner (1965, 2005, 2007).

15th: Girma Wolde-Giorgis, 93, Ethiopian politician, President (2001–2013).

17th: Penny Marshall, 75 American actress (Laverne & Shirley” and director (A League Of Their Own), complications of diabetes.

18th: Tulsi Giri, 92, Nepali politician, Prime Minister (1963, 1964–1965, 1975–1977), liver cancer.

19th: Eva Tichauer, 100, German Holocaust survivor and author.

20th: Donald Moffat, 87, British-born American actor (The Thing, The Right Stuff, Clear and Present Danger), complications from a stroke.

22nd: Roberto Suazo Córdova, 91, Honduran politician, President (1982–1986).

22nd: Paddy Ashdown, 77, British politician, Leader of the Liberal Democrats (1988–1999), High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (2002–2006), MP (1983–2001), bladder cancer.

22nd:  Simcha Rotem, 94, Polish-Israeli resistance fighter (Warsaw Ghetto Uprising).

25th: Werner Braun, 100, Israeli photojournalist.