2019 Deaths: Part 2

Deaths in 2019: Part 2

July:

1st: Jackie Mekler, 87, South African long-distance runner, British Empire and Commonwealth silver medalist (1954).

1st: Sid Ramin, 100, American composer (West Side Story, Too Many Thieves, Stiletto), Oscar (1961) and Grammy winner (1961).

2nd: Leila Leah Bronner, 89, American Jewish historian and Bible scholar.

2nd: Lee Iacocca, 94, American automobile executive (Ford Motor Company, Chrysler) and writer (Where Have All the Leaders Gone?), complications from Parkinson's disease.

3rd: Arte Johnson, 90, American comedian and actor (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), Emmy Award winner (1969), bladder and prostate cancer.

3rd: Malva Landa, 100, Ukrainian-born Russian geologist and human rights activist.

4th: Bob Gilliland, 93, American pilot, first to fly SR-71 Blackbird.

4th: Eva Mozes Kor, 85, Romanian-born American Holocaust survivor and author, founder of CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center.

5th: Neil Davey, 98, Australian public servant, oversaw currency decimalisation.

5th: Klaus Sahlgren, 90, Finnish diplomat.

5th: Sam Schulman, 90, American sailor, last living American member of the crew of the SS Exodus.

6th: Cameron Boyce, 20, American actor (Jessie, Grown Ups, Descendants), epileptic seizure.

6th: Eddie Jones, 84, American actor (Lois & Clark, A League of Their Own, The Terminal).

6th: Arman Kirakossian, 62, Armenian diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1992–1993), ambassador to the United States (1999–2005) and United Kingdom (since 2018).

7th: Jean Buckley, 87, American baseball player (Kenosha Comets, Rockford Peaches).

7th: Ora Namir, 88, Israeli politician and diplomat, member of the Knesset (1973–1996), Minister of Labor (1992–1996), ambassador to China and Mongolia (1996–2000).

9th: Ross Perot, 89, American billionaire businessman, philanthropist and presidential candidate, founder of Electronic Data Systems and the Reform Party, leukemia.

9th: Rip Torn, 88, American actor (Cross Creek, The Larry Sanders Show, Men in Black), Emmy winner (1996).

10th: Denise Nickerson, 62, American actress (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Dark Shadows, Smile), seizure.

11th: Vincent Lambert, 42, French quadriplegic and vegetative state right-to-die figure, court assisted starvation.

13th: Richard Carter, 65, Australian actor (Mad Max: Fury Road, The Great Gatsby, Rafferty's Rules).

14th: Hussain Muhammad Ershad, 89, Bangladeshi military officer and politician, Chief of Army Staff (1978–1986) and President (1983–1990), Leader of the Opposition (since 2019), myelodysplastic syndrome.

15th: Bruce Laingen, 96, American diplomat, Ambassador to Malta (1977–1979), captive during the Iran hostage crisis, complications from Parkinson's disease.

18th: David Hedison, 92, American actor (The Fly, Live and Let Die, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea).

19th: Alois Dubec, 96, Czech WWII airman, the Order of the White Lion recipient.

19th: Rutger Hauer, 75, Dutch actor (Blade Runner, Nighthawks, The Hitcher).

21st: Yelena Grigoryeva, 41, Russian LGBT activist, stabbed and strangled.

21st: Francisco Grau, 72, Spanish military officer and composer, Director of the Musical Unit of the Royal Guard (1988–2008).

22nd: Christopher C. Kraft Jr., 95, American aerospace engineer, Director of Johnson Space Center (1972–1982).

23rd: Chaser, 15, American Border Collie with the largest-tested non-human memory.

24th: Trudy, 63, American gorilla, world's oldest gorilla in captivity.

25th: Georg, Duke of Hohenberg, 90, Austrian aristocrat, Head of the House of Hohenberg (since 1977).

26th: Russi Taylor, 75, American voice actress (Disney's House of Mouse, The Simpsons, DuckTales), colon cancer.

28th: Richard Stone, 90, American politician, U.S. senator (1975–1980), Secretary of State of Florida (1971–1974) and Ambassador to Denmark (1991–1993).

31st: Hamza bin Laden, 29–30, Saudi jihadist (al-Qaeda).[593] (death announced on this date).

August:

1st: Ian Gibbons, 67, English keyboardist (The Kinks), bladder cancer.

1st: Annemarie Huber-Hotz, 70, Swiss politician, Federal Chancellor (2000–2007) and President of the Swiss Red Cross (since 2011), heart attack.

2nd: Alexandra Strelchenko, 82, Russian folk singer, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1984).

3rd: Nikolai Kardashev, 87, Russian astrophysicist (SETI), developer of the Kardashev scale.

4th: Nuon Chea, 93, Cambodian politician, Acting Prime Minister (1976) and chief ideologist of Khmer Rouge.

5th: Toni Morrison, 88, American author (The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved), Nobel laureate (1993), Pulitzer Prize winner (1988).

6th: Krystyna Dańko, 102, Polish humanitarian, Righteous Among the Nations (1998).

8th: Theodore L. Eliot Jr., 91, American diplomat, Ambassador to Afghanistan (1973–1978), heart disease.

10th: Jeffrey Epstein, 66, American financier (Bear Stearns), philanthropist (Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation) and convicted sex offender, suicide by hanging.

10th: Jim Forbes, 95, Australian politician, MP (1956–1975), Minister for Health (1966–1971) and Immigration (1971–1972), Military Cross recipient.

10th: Jo Lancaster, 100, British RAF pilot.

12th: Danny Cohen, 81, Israeli-American Hall of Fame computer scientist.

15th: Glenn Tasker, 67, Australian sports administrator, President of the Australian Paralympic Committee (2013–2018).

16th: Princess Christina of the Netherlands, 72, Dutch royal, bone cancer.

16th: Peter Fonda, 79, American actor and screenwriter (Easy Rider, Ulee's Gold, 3:10 to Yuma), lung cancer.

19th: Jan Ruff O'Herne, 96, Australian comfort women rights activist.

21st: Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, 89, Jordanian princess, Queen consort (1955–1957).

22nd: Tim Fischer, 73, Australian politician and diplomat, Deputy Prime Minister (1996–1999), Ambassador to the Holy See (2009–2012), acute myeloid leukemia.

25th: Alfred C. Haynes, 87, American airline pilot, United Airlines Flight 232 crash survivor.

27th: Sir Dawda Jawara, 95, Gambian politician, Prime Minister (1962–1970) and President (1970–1994).

27th: Conchita Ramos, 94, Spanish-French Holocaust survivor and member of the French Resistance.

29th: Jim Leavelle, 99, American homicide detective, police escort for Lee Harvey Oswald, heart attack.

30th: Valerie Harper, 80, American actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, Valerie), Emmy Award winner (1971, 1972, 1973, 1975), leptomeningeal carcinomatosis.

31st: Immanuel Wallerstein, 88, American sociologist, developer of world-systems theory.

September:

1st: Ciaran McKeown, 76, Northern Irish peace activist.

2nd: Sergei Kirpichenko, 68, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to Egypt (since 2011).

3rd: Diet Eman, 99, Dutch Resistance fighter and writer. Eman received thanks from numerous leaders for her efforts, including General Eisenhower in 1946 and President Ronald Reagan in 1982. She was awarded the Righteous Among Nations award in 1998 by Yad Vashem.

3rd: Carol Lynley, 77, American actress (Harlow, Bunny Lake Is Missing, The Poseidon Adventure), heart attack.

3rd: Desmond Morton, 81, Canadian historian.

4th: Sir Hugh Beach, 96, British military officer, Master-General of the Ordnance (1977–1981).

4th: Gerardo Bujanda Sarasola, 100, Spanish Civil War veteran and Basque nationalist politician, Deputy (1977–1982).

6th: Robert Mugabe, 95, Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician, Prime Minister (1980–1987) and President (1987–2017).

8th: Marca Bristo, 66, American disability rights activist, cancer.

9th: Robert Frank, 94, Swiss-American photographer (The Americans) and documentary filmmaker (Cocksucker Blues).

10th: Lauren Bruner, 98, American Pearl Harbor survivor (USS Arizona).

10th: Albert Razin, 79, Russian language activist, self-immolation.

12th: Juanita Abernathy, 88, American civil rights activist (Montgomery Bus Boycott), complications from a stroke.

13th: Paul Cronin, 81, Australian actor (The Sullivans, Matlock Police, State Coroner).

13th: Eddie Money, 70, American singer ("Take Me Home Tonight") and songwriter ("Two Tickets to Paradise", "Baby Hold On"), complications from heart surgery.

13th: Brian Turk, 49, American actor (Carnivàle, Big Fat Liar, American Pie 2), brain cancer.

15th: David Hurst, 93, German-British actor (Star Trek: The Original Series, The Perfect Woman, Hello, Dolly!).

15th: Phyllis Newman, 86, American actress (Subways Are for Sleeping, Mannequin, To Find a Man) and singer.

15th: Azellia White, 106, American aviator and the first African-American woman to earn a pilot's license in Texas.

16th: Henry Buttelmann, 90, American fighter pilot of the United States Air Force in the Korean War and Vietnam War. He achieved seven victories over enemy aircraft in Korea, making him a flying ace. He gained his fifth kill on June 30, 1953, just after his 24th birthday, which made him the youngest ace of the war.

17th: Imata Kabua, 76, Marshallese politician, President (1997–2000).

17th: Cokie Roberts, 75, American journalist (ABC News, NPR), political commentator and author, complications from breast cancer.

19th: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 83, Tunisian military officer and politician, Prime Minister (1987) and President (1987–2011), prostate cancer.

19th: Marco Feingold, 106, Austrian Holocaust survivor.

19th: John Keenan, 99, American police officer, led Son of Sam manhunt, heart failure.

20th: Karl Muenter, 96, German war criminal (Ascq massacre).

21st: Aron Eisenberg, 50, American actor (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Horror Show, Prayer of the Rollerboys), heart attack.

21st: Sigmund Jähn, 82, German cosmonaut, first East German in space (Soyuz 31, Soyuz 29.)

22nd: Rosemarie Burian, 83, American humanitarian, founder of the Northern Illinois Food Bank.

26th: Jacques Chirac, 86, French politician, President and Co-Prince of Andorra (1995–2007), Prime Minister (1974–1976, 1986–1988) and Mayor of Paris (1977–1995).

26th: Gennadi Manakov, 69, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-10, Soyuz TM-16).

26th: Ronald L. Schlicher, 63, American diplomat, Ambassador to Lebanon (1994–1996) and Cyprus (2005–2008).

27th: Rob Garrison, 59, American actor (The Karate Kid, Iron Eagle, Prom Night).

27th: Joseph C. Wilson, 69, American writer (The Politics of Truth) and diplomat, Ambassador to Gabon (1992–1995), organ failure.

28th: Ismail Petra of Kelantan, 69, Malaysian royal, Sultan of Kelantan (1979–2010).

28th: Jan Kobuszewski, 85, Polish actor (Kwiecień, Alternatywy 4).

29th: Yuriy Meshkov, 73, Russian politician, Prime Minister (1994) and President of Crimea (1994–1995).

29th: Nguyễn Hữu Hạnh, 93, Vietnamese military officer (Army of the Republic of Vietnam – South Vietnam).

30th: Kornel Morawiecki, 78, Polish politician and theoretical physicist, Senior Marshal of the Sejm (since 2015) and Chairman of Freedom and Solidarity (since 2016), pancreatic cancer.

October:

1st: Anders Ferm, 81, Swedish diplomat, Ambassador to the United Nations (1982–1988).

1st: Karel Gott, 80, Czech singer, acute myeloid leukemia.

1st: Eric Pleskow, 95, Austrian-born American film producer, President of United Artists (1973–1978) and Orion Pictures (1978–1991).

1st: Wen Chuanyuan, 101, Chinese aeronautical engineer, designed China's first UAV and first flight simulator.

2nd: Julie Gibson, 106, American actress (Nice Girl?, The Feminine Touch, Lucky Cowboy) and singer.

3rd: Diogo Freitas do Amaral, 78, Portuguese politician, Acting Prime Minister (1980–1981), Minister of National Defence (1981–1983) and Foreign Affairs (1980–1981 and 2005–2006).

3rd: Hu Yamei, 96, Chinese physician and leukemia researcher, President of Beijing Children's Hospital (1982–1989).

3rd: Philip K. Lundeberg, 96, American naval historian and World War II veteran, last survivor of the USS Frederick C. Davis sinking.

4th: Diahann Carroll, 84, American actress (Julia, Dynasty, Claudine), Tony winner (1962), cancer.

4th: Stephen Moore, 81, British actor (A Bridge Too Far, The Last Place on Earth, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).

6th: Karen Pendleton, 73, American actress (The Mickey Mouse Club), heart attack.

6th: Rip Taylor, 88, American actor (The $1.98 Beauty Show, Chatterbox, Down to Earth) and comedian.

8th: Francis S. Currey, 94, American technical sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient.

9th: Richard Askey, 86, American mathematician, discoverer of Askey–Wilson polynomials, Askey scheme and Askey–Gasper inequality.

9th: Louis-Christophe Zaleski-Zamenhof, 94, Polish-born French civil engineer and Esperantist.

10th: Juliette Kaplan, 80, British actress (Last of the Summer Wine, Coronation Street), cancer.

11th: Mac Christensen, 85, American clothier, president of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (2000–2012).

11th: Robert Forster, 78, American actor (Jackie Brown, The Black Hole, Medium Cool), brain cancer.

11th: Alexei Leonov, 85, Russian cosmonaut (Voskhod 2), first person to walk in space.

12th: María Luisa García, 100, Spanish chef and cookbook author, proponent of Asturian cuisine.

14th: Emmett Chappelle, 93, American scientist (NASA) and World War II veteran (Buffalo Soldier), kidney failure.

16th: Leah Bracknell, 55, British actress (Emmerdale, Casualty 1900s, The Royal Today), lung cancer. (death announced on this date).

16th: Bernard Fisher, 101, American surgeon, pioneer in breast cancer treatment.

16th: John Tate, 94, American mathematician (Tate's thesis, Tate conjecture, Tate cohomology group), Abel Prize winner (2010).

17th: Márta Kurtág, 92, Hungarian pianist.

18th: Sir John Boyd, 83, British diplomat, Ambassador to Japan (1992–1996).

18th: William Milliken, 97, American politician, Governor of Michigan (1969–1983).

18th: Meir Shamgar, 94, Israeli lawyer and politician, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1983–1995).

19th: Salvador Giner, 85, Spanish sociologist, President of the Institute of Catalan Studies (2005–2013).

19th: Warren Rosenthal, 96, American restaurateur (Long John Silver's) and philanthropist.

21st: Lho Shin-yong, 89, South Korean politician, Prime Minister (1985–1987) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1980–1982).

22nd: Sadako Ogata, 92, Japanese academic and diplomat, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1990–2000).

23rd: Alfred Znamierowski, 79, Polish vexillologist.

25th: Rafael Ninyoles i Monllor, 76, Spanish Catalan sociolinguist.

26th: Gregory E. Pyle, 70, American politician, Chief of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (1997–2014).

27th: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, 48, Iraqi insurgent and cleric, Emir of the Islamic State of Iraq (2010–2013) and Leader of ISIL (since 2013), suicide by explosive vest.

29th: Gerald Baliles, 79, American politician, Governor (1986–1990) and Attorney General of Virginia (1982–1985), member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1976–1982), renal cell carcinoma.

29th: John Moon, 103, United States Marine Corps officer, oldest known survivor of the Battle of Iwo Jima.

30th: William J. Hughes, 87, American politician and diplomat, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1975–1995), Ambassador to Panama (1995–1998).

31st: Ann Crumb, 69, American actress (Anna Karenina) and singer, ovarian cancer.

November:

1st: Rudy Boesch, 91, American Navy SEAL, reality show contestant (Survivor: Borneo, Survivor: All Stars) and host (Combat Missions).

3rd: Yvette Lundy, 103, French Resistance member and Legion of Honour recipient.

3rd: Bob Norris, 90, American model (Marlboro Man).

4th: Anatoliy Nogovitsyn, 67, Russian military officer, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of Armed Forces (2008–2012).

6th: Jan Stráský, 78, Czech politician, Prime Minister (1992).

7th: Nik Powell, 69, British film producer and record executive, co-founder of Virgin Records, Director of the National Film and Television School (2003–2017).

8th: Verner Gustav Doehner, 89, German-born American last living survivor of the 1937 Zeppelin airship Hindenburg disaster.

11th: Tauba Biterman, 102, Polish-born American Holocaust survivor.

11th: Winston Lackin, 64, Surinamese politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2010–2015).

11th: Ralph T. O'Neal, 85, British Virgin Islands politician, Premier (1995–2003, 2007–2011).

12th: Baha Abu al-Ata, 41, Palestinian Islamic militant, air strike.

12th: Edwin Bramall, Baron Bramall, 95, British field marshal, Chief of the General Staff (1979–1982) and the Defence Staff (1982–1985).

13th: Niall Tóibín, 89, Irish comedian and actor (Ryan's Daughter, Far and Away, Veronica Guerin).

14th: Jean Fergusson, 74, British actress (Last of the Summer Wine, Coronation Street).

14th: Zwelonke Sigcawu, 51, South African royal, King of the Xhosa people (since 2006).

15th : Harrison Dillard, 96, American sprinter and hurdler, Olympic champion (1948, 1952), stomach cancer.

17th: Nicholas Amer, 96, English actor (Henry VIII and His Six Wives, The Draughtsman's Contract, A Man for All Seasons).

18th: Norodom Buppha Devi, 76, Cambodian royal and prima ballerina, Minister of Culture and Fine Arts (1998–2004).

18th: Sultan bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 62, Emirati royal, Deputy Prime Minister (1997–2009).

19th: D. M. Jayaratne, 88, Sri Lankan politician, Prime Minister (2010–2015) and MP (1989–2015).

19th: Fazlollah Reza, 104, Iranian professor, scientist and scholar, ambassador to UNESCO (1969–1974) and Canada (1974–1978).

20th: Mari-Luci Jaramillo, 91, American diplomat, ambassador to Honduras (1977–1980).

20th: Amos Lapidot, 85, Israeli fighter pilot, Commander of the Israeli Air Force (1982–1987).

20th: Michael J. Pollard, 80, American actor (Bonnie and Clyde, Scrooged, House of 1000 Corpses), cardiac arrest.

21st: Donna Carson, 73, American folk singer (Hedge and Donna).

23rd: Nick Clifford, 98, American construction worker, last surviving Mount Rushmore carver.

23rd: Barbara Hillary, 88, American adventurer, first black woman to reach both poles.

24th: Lyudmila Verbitskaya, 83, Russian linguist, Rector (1994–2008) and President (since 2008) of Saint Petersburg State University.

25th: Goar Vartanian, 93, Soviet-Armenian spy, uncovered Operation Long Jump.

28th: Dorcas Hardy, 73, American administrator, Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (1986–1989).

29th: Irving Burgie, 95, American Hall of Fame songwriter ("Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", "Jamaica Farewell", "In Plenty and In Time of Need").

December

1st: Shelley Morrison, 83, American actress (Will & Grace, The Flying Nun, General Hospital), heart failure.

2nd: Robert K. Massie, 90, American Romanov historian, Pulitzer Prize winner (1981).

2nd: Roderick Strohl, 97, American veteran (Band of Brothers).

3rd: Ragnar Ulstein, 99, Norwegian journalist and resistance fighter.

4th: Chen Xingbi, 88, Chinese electronics engineer, inventor of the superjunction power semiconductor device.

5th: Robert Walker, 79, American actor (Ensign Pulver, The Ceremony, Star Trek).

6th: Ron Leibman, 82, American actor (Angels in America, Norma Rae, Kaz), Tony winner (1993), complications from pneumonia.

6th: Maurice Mounsdon, 101, British WWII RAF pilot.

8th: René Auberjonois, 79, American actor (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, MASH, Benson), Tony winner (1970), lung cancer.

8th: Caroll Spinney, 85, American puppeteer (Sesame Street, Shalom Sesame, Follow That Bird), cartoonist and author.

9th: Ben Turok, 92, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, member of the National Assembly.

10th: Yury Luzhkov, 83, Russian politician, Mayor of Moscow (1992–2010), complications during heart surgery.

10th: Philip McKeon, 55, American actor (Alice) and brother of actress Nancy McKeon.

11th: Sir John Graham, 4th Baronet, 93, British diplomat, ambassador to Iraq (1974–1977), Iran (1979–1980) and NATO (1982–1986).

11th: William S. McFeely, 89, American historian, Pulitzer Prize recipient (1982), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

12th: Danny Aiello, 86, American actor (Do the Right Thing, The Godfather Part II, Moonstruck).

13th: Sheila Mercier, 100, English actress (Emmerdale).

14th: Felix Rohatyn, 91, Austrian-born American banker and diplomat, Ambassador to France (1997–2000).

15th: Chuy Bravo, 63, Mexican-American actor and television personality (Chelsea Lately).

17th: Virgilio Fernández del Real, 100, Spanish doctor and Civil War veteran (XIII International Brigade).

20th: Marko Orlandić, 89, Montenegrin politician, Prime Minister (1974–1978) and President (1983–1984).

21st: James H. Shepherd, 68, American medical researcher and rehabilitation executive, co-founder and chairman of Shepherd Center.

23rd: Mustafa Mujezinović, 64, Bosnian politician, Prime Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2009–2011).

23rd: Georgeta Snegur, 82, Romanian-born Moldovan socialite, First Lady (1990–1997).

25th: Ari Behn, 47, Norwegian author, member of the royal family (2002–2017), suicide.

25th: Táňa Fischerová, 72, Czech actress (Hotel for Strangers), civic activist and politician, MP (2002–2006).

25th: Makhmut Gareev, 96, Russian military officer, Deputy Chief of the Soviet General Staff (1984–1992).

26th: Galina Volchek, 86, Russian actress (Don Quixote, Beware of the Car, Autumn Marathon) and film director, People's Artist of the USSR (1989), pneumonia.

27th: Don Imus, 79, American radio personality (Imus in the Morning).

27th: J. Charles Jones, 82, American civil rights activist, co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

28th: Erzsébet Szőnyi, 95, Hungarian composer and music pedagogue, vice-president of the International Society for Music Education (1970–1974).

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