2023

2023 (MMXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2023rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 23rd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2020s decade.

The year 2023 saw the decline in severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the WHO (World Health Organization) ending its global health emergency status in May. Catastrophic natural disasters included the fifth-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead, Cyclone Freddy – the longest-lasting recorded tropical cyclone in history in the Indian Ocean – leading to over 1,400 deaths in Malawi and Mozambique, Storm Daniel, which became the deadliest cyclone worldwide since Cyclone Nargis after killing at least 11,000 people in Libya, a major 6.8 magnitude earthquake striking western Morocco, killing 2,960 people, and a 6.3 magnitude quadruple earthquake striking western Afghanistan, killing over 1,400 people.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and Myanmar civil war continued in 2023, and a series of coups, several armed conflicts, and political crises broke out in numerous African nations, most notably a war in Sudan. The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict ended after over 100,000 Armenians fled the region after an Azeri military invasion. A major escalation of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict occurred in October when Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, led a major attack on Israel, leading the latter to both declare war on Hamas and invade the Gaza Strip. The Israeli aerial bombardment campaign killed 20,000 Palestinians within two months and caused a humanitarian crisis, leading to allegations of genocide that formed the basis of an ICJ case brought by South Africa that December.

A banking crisis resulted in the collapse of numerous American regional banks as well as the buyout of Credit Suisse by UBS in Switzerland. The two largest American banks to collapse were Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic Bank, two of the three largest banking collapses in US history. The most notable of numerous acquisitions in various industries included October's energy acquisitions with ExxonMobil and Chevron buying Pioneer Natural Resources and Hess respectively, the luxury fashion holding company Tapestry (Coach New York and Kate Spade New York) announcing its purchase of Capri Holdings (Michael Kors and Versace), and the closure of Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

In the realm of technology, 2023 saw the continued rise of generative AI models, with increasing applications across various industries. These models, leveraging advancements in machine learning and natural language processing, had become capable of creating realistic and coherent text, images, and music. An AI arms race between private companies has continued since the late 2010s, with Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google owner Alphabet today most dominant among firms.

Events

January

• January 1 – Croatia adopts the euro and joins the Schengen Area, becoming the 20th member state of the Eurozone and the 27th member of the Schengen Area. This is the first enlargement of the Eurozone since Lithuania's entry in 2015, and the first enlargement of the Schengen Area since Liechtenstein's entry in 2011.
• January 5 – The funeral of Pope Benedict XVI is held at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican City. The funeral was attended by an estimated 50,000 people.
• January 8
  • The 2023 Beninese parliamentary election is held, with the Progressive Union for Renewal party winning a plurality of seats.
  • Following the 2022 Brazilian general election and the inauguration of Lula da Silva as president of Brazil, supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro storm the Brazilian National Congress, the Supreme Federal Court and the Presidential Palace of Planalto.
• January 9 – Juliaca massacre: At least 18 people are killed and over 100 others are injured when the Peruvian National Police fire upon demonstrations in Juliaca.
• January 10–17 – A cold snap in Afghanistan kills 166 people and nearly 80,000 livestock.
• January 15 – Yeti Airlines Flight 691 crashes during final approach into Pokhara, Nepal, killing all 72 people on board.
• January 16 – Tigray War: Amharan Special Forces withdraw from the Tigray Region in line with an African Union-backed peace agreement between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front.
• January 17 – Nguyễn Xuân Phúc resigns as President of Vietnam amid several recent scandals in the government.
• January 18 – A helicopter crash in Brovary near Kyiv, Ukraine kills 14 people including Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Denys Monastyrsky.
• January 20 – The Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago elects former senate president, minister and lawyer Christine Kangaloo as president in a 48–22 vote.
• January 21
  • Burkina Faso requests French forces to withdraw from its territory after suspending a military accord that allowed the presence of French troops in the country.
  • Tigray War: Eritrean forces withdraw from Shire and other major towns in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.
• January 25 – Chris Hipkins succeeds Jacinda Ardern as Prime Minister of New Zealand, six days after she announced her resignation.
• January 27 – Widespread unrest erupts in Israel following an Israeli military raid in Jenin the previous day which killed nine Palestinians. Incendiary air balloons are launched into Israeli-populated areas following it. Israel responds with targeted airstrikes. Later the same day, seven Jewish civilians are killed in a synagogue in Neve Yaakov in a terrorist attack.
• January 27–28 – The second round of the 2023 Czech presidential election is held, with Petr Pavel declared winner.
• January 30
  • A Jamaat-ul-Ahrar suicide bombing inside a mosque in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, kills 84 people and injures over 220 others.
  • Prime Minister of Fiji Sitiveni Rabuka confirms that Kiribati will rejoin the Pacific Islands Forum after leaving the organization the previous year.

February

• February 1 – Lebanese liquidity crisis: The central bank of Lebanon devalues the Lebanese pound by 90% amid an ongoing financial crisis.
• February 2
  • Israel and Sudan announce the finalization of an agreement to normalize relations between the two countries.
  • The European Central Bank and Bank of England raise their interest rates by 0.5 percentage points to combat inflation, one day after the US Federal Reserve raises its federal funds rate by 0.25 percentage points.
• February 3
  • The US announces it is tracking alleged Chinese spy balloons over the Americas, later announcing that the balloons did not collect any information. One balloon drifts from Yukon to South Carolina before being shot down the next day, and a second hovers over Colombia and Brazil. This event is followed by subsequent detections and shootdowns of high-altitude objects elsewhere.
  • A Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous materials derails in East Palestine, Ohio. Multiple train cars burn for more than two days, followed by emergency crews conducting a controlled burn of several additional cars, releasing hydrogen chloride and phosgene into the atmosphere.
• February 4 – Cyclone Freddy forms in the Indian Ocean. It would become the longest lasting tropical cyclone in history and cause over 1,400 deaths and countless injuries and property damage across southeastern Africa.
• February 5 – The 2023 Cypriot presidential election is held, with Nikos Christodoulides elected president.
• February 6 – A 7.8 M_ww earthquake strikes southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria followed by a 7.7 M_ww  aftershock on the same day, causing widespread damage and at more than 59,000 fatalities and 121,000 injured.
• February 13 – The 2023 Bangladeshi presidential election scheduled for 19 February is held, with Shahabuddin Chuppu of the Awami League, the only nominated candidate, elected unopposed.
• February 14 – The European Parliament approves a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles in the European Union from 2035, citing the need to combat climate change in Europe and promote electric vehicles.
• February 16 – Lawmakers in the Russian State Duma vote to withdraw Russia from 21 conventions of the Council of Europe.
• February 17 – The South African Navy hosts a ten-day joint military exercise in the Indian Ocean with Russia and China.
• February 19 – Libyan Crisis: The African Union announces the organization of a peace conference to address the instability in Libya.
• February 21 – Vladimir Putin announces that Russia is suspending its participation in New START, a nuclear arms reduction treaty with the US.
• February 23 – Oman opens its airspace to Israeli airlines for the first time, in an upgrade of bilateral relations.
• February 25 – 2023 Nigerian general election: Bola Tinubu is elected as Nigeria's president, defeating former vice president Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi.
• February 27 – The United Kingdom and the European Union reach an agreement surrounding modifications to the Northern Ireland Protocol.
• February 28 – A train crash in Thessaly, Greece, kills 57 people and injures dozens. The crash leads to nationwide protests and strikes against the condition of Greek railways and their mismanagement.

March

• March 2 – The National Assembly of Vietnam declares Võ Văn Thưởng as the country's new president after receiving 98.38% votes from the Vietnamese parliament.
• March 4
  • UN member states agree on a legal framework for the High Seas Treaty, which aims to protect 30% of the world's oceans by 2030.
  • Kivu conflict: Burundi deploys 100 troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to help fight insurgencies by militias, including M23.
• March 5 – The 2023 Estonian parliamentary election is held, with two centre-right liberal parties gaining an absolute majority for the first time.
• March 8–21 – The 2023 World Baseball Classic is held in, and won by, Japan.
• March 8 – Allied Democratic Forces jihadist insurgents use machetes to kill about 35 people in the village of Mukondi, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• March 10
  • The 2023 Chinese presidential election is held with the National People's Congress unanimously re-electing Xi Jinping as the President of the People's Republic of China to an unprecedented third term.
  • Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to resume diplomatic relations which were severed in 2016, at talks mediated by China.
  • Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest bank in the United States, fails, creating then the largest bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis, affecting companies around the world.
  • Kivu conflict: Angola announces the deployment of troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, following the failure of a ceasefire between government forces and M23 rebels in North Kivu.
• March 14 – OpenAI launches GPT-4, a large language model for ChatGPT, which can respond to images and can process up to 25,000 words.
• March 17 – The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russian Commissioner for Children's Rights, marking the first arrest warrant against a leader of a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
• March 19 – In a deal brokered by the Swiss government, investment bank UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse for CHF 3 billion (US$3.2 billion) in an all-stock deal.
• March 20 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the synthesis report of its Sixth Assessment Report on climate change.
• March 23 – World Athletics, the global governing body for athletics, bans trans women who have gone through male puberty from competing in female events.
• March 24–27 – A tornado outbreak kills at least 26 people in Mississippi and Alabama. This includes a violent tornado which devastated the city of Rolling Fork and the town of Silver City in Mississippi, killing 16 people and injuring 165 others.
• March 26
  • Honduras switches its formal diplomatic recognition of "China" from the Republic of China to the People's Republic of China.
  • 2023 Israeli judicial reform protests: Large-scale spontaneous protests erupt across Israel in the wake of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu firing his defense minister who criticized the government's judicial overhaul plan.
• March 29
  • Brazil and China sign an agreement to trade in their own currencies, ceasing the usage of the United States dollar as an intermediary.
  • Burkina Faso formally resumes diplomatic relations with North Korea after suspending them in 2017.
• March 30 – The International Court of Justice rules that the United States violated its Treaty of Amity with Iran when it allowed its domestic courts to freeze assets held by Iranian companies.
• March 31 – April 1 – A historic and widespread tornado outbreak occurs in the United States, killing 33 people, injuring more than 218 others, and caused over $5.4 billion in damage. This tornado outbreak produced 147 tornadoes, making it the third largest tornado outbreak in history.

April

• April 2
  • The 2023 Bulgarian parliamentary election results in a GERB—SDS–PP–DB coalition government headed by Nikolai Denkov as prime minister, and ends two years of political deadlock.
  • The 2023 Montenegrin presidential election is held, with Jakov Milatović of the Europe Now! movement winning in the second round, becoming the first president not from the DPS party since the introduction of a multi-party system in 1990.
  • The 2023 Finnish parliamentary election is held, with the centre-right National Coalition led by Petteri Orpo receiving the most votes.
  • The 2023 Andorran parliamentary election is held, with the ruling Democrats for Andorra led by Prime Minister Xavier Espot winning the majority of the seats.
• April 4 – Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO, doubling the alliance's border with Russia.
• April 5 – Clashes between Palestinians and the Israeli police happen at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
• April 10 – Two document leaks from the Pentagon detailing foreign military aid relating to the Russian invasion of Ukraine are leaked onto the Internet.
• April 11 – Myanmar civil war: In the village of Pazigyi, at least 165 people are killed by the Myanmar Air Force during the opening celebrations of a People's Defence Force administration office.
• April 14 – Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) to search for life in the Jovian system, with an expected arrival date of 2031.
• April 15
  • Nuclear power in Germany ends after 50 years, with the closure of the final power plants.
  • Fighting breaks out across Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The RSF captures Khartoum International Airport, and the presidential palace in Khartoum.
• April 19 – At least 90 people are killed and another 322 injured in a crowd crush during a Ramadan charity event in Sanaa, Yemen.
• April 20 – SpaceX's Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, launches for the first time in a test flight from Texas. It explodes four minutes after launch.
• April 21 – The Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, representing a majority of the global Anglican population, reject the leadership of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby as the head of global Anglicanism over his support for same-sex marriage.
• April 25 – A mass cult suicide is uncovered in Shakahola forest in Kenya. 429 followers of the Good News International Ministries are found in shallow graves throughout the forest, with over 613 people missing.
• April 29 – The 2023 Niuean general election is held and incumbent Dalton Tagelagi is re-elected as Premier of Niue.
• April 30
  • The 2023 Paraguayan general election is held, with the Colorado Party candidate Santiago Peña being the president-elect of Paraguay, winning in a plurality.
  • The second round of the 2023 French Polynesian legislative election is held; the Tāvini Huiraʻatira party wins a majority of seats. Moetai Brotherson, Tāvini Huiraʻatira's deputy leader, is elected President of French Polynesia.

May

• May 1 – 2023 banking crisis: San Francisco-based First Republic Bank fails and is auctioned off by the US FDIC to JPMorgan Chase for $10.7 billion. The collapse surpasses March's collapse of Silicon Valley Bank to become the second largest in US history.
• May 3 – A school shooting occurs in Belgrade, Serbia. A second mass murder occurs the next day near Mladenovac and Smederevo. These events leave 19 people dead, causing the government to increase regulations on gun ownership and mass anti-government protests to begin.
• May 4 – A series of floods and landslides strikes villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in over 400 deaths.
• May 5 – The World Health Organization ends its declaration of COVID-19 being a global health emergency, but continues to refer to it as a pandemic.
• May 6 – The coronation of Charles III and Camilla as King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms is held in Westminster Abbey, London.
• May 7 – Syria is readmitted into the Arab League after being suspended since 2011.
• May 9 – Cyclone Mocha forms in the Indian Ocean, killing over 400 people and injuring over 700 as it strikes Myanmar and Bangladesh.
• May 9–13 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2023 is held in Liverpool, UK. Swedish contestant Loreen wins with the song "Tattoo".
• May 11 – The World Health Organization ends its declaration of mpox being a global health emergency.
• May 14
  • The 2023 Thai general election is held, with pro-democratic parties such as the Move Forward and Pheu Thai parties gaining a majority of seats in the House of Representatives while pro-military parties such as Palang Pracharat lost seats.
  • The 49th G7 summit takes place in Hiroshima, Japan. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives in Japan on the second day of the summit.
• May 21
  • The May 2023 Greek legislative election is held; the ruling New Democracy wins a plurality of seats in the Hellenic Parliament. Just days later, incumbent prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called for another snap election to be held in June.
  • The 2023 East Timorese parliamentary election is held, with the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction and Fretilin parties receiving the most votes. Xanana Gusmão is elected Prime Minister of East Timor.
• May 24 – Canada and Saudi Arabia agree to restore full diplomatic relations after a breakdown in relations in 2018 over the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi.
• May 25 – Russia and Belarus sign an agreement in Minsk allowing the stationing of Russian tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory.
• May 27 – The second round of the 2023 Mauritanian parliamentary election is held, with the ruling El Insaf Party receiving the most votes.
• May 28 – The second round of the 2023 Turkish presidential election is held; Recep Tayyip Erdoğan defeats Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu with 52.18% of the vote to win a third term as president.
• May 31 – The 2023 Latvian presidential election is held; Edgars Rinkēvičs is elected the President of Latvia.

June

• June 2 – A train collision in Odisha, India results in at least 296 deaths and more than 1,200 others injured.
• June 6
  • The 2023 Guinea-Bissau legislative election is held; the coalition Inclusive Alliance Platform – Terra Ranka led by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, wins a majority of seats.
  • The 2023 Kuwaiti general election is held; following the annulment of the results of the 2022 snap elections by the Constitutional Court. 38 members retained their seats from the annulled 2022 session, while two returned from the dissolved 2020 session. Ten new MPs were elected for the first time.
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine: The Nova Kakhovka dam in the Russian-controlled region of Kherson is destroyed, threatening the region with devastating floodwaters.
  • Due to smoke from wildfires in Canada, New York City in the United States is declared to have the worst air quality out of any city in the world.
• June 11 – Honduras opens its first embassy in Beijing, China, after breaking off relations with Taiwan in March.
• June 12 – Eritrea rejoins the Intergovernmental Authority on Development trade bloc after suspending its membership in 2007.
• June 13 – At least 106 people are killed when a wedding boat capsizes on the Niger River in Kwara State, Nigeria.
• June 14
  • Scientists report the creation of the first synthetic human embryo from stem cells, without the need for sperm or egg cells.
  • At least 82 people die and 500 are reported missing after a boat carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of the Peloponnese.
• June 18 – Titan submersible implosion: All five crew members of Titan, a deep-sea submersible exploring the wreck of the Titanic, are killed following a catastrophic implosion of the vessel.
• June 19
  • The United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopts the High Seas Treaty, the first treaty aimed towards marine conservation in international waters.
  • Qatar and the United Arab Emirates announce that they will restore diplomatic relations after relations were suspended during the Qatar diplomatic crisis.
• June 20 – At least 46 people are killed after a riot between MS-13 and Barrio 18 gang members at a women's prison near Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
• June 23 – Russian invasion of Ukraine: The Wagner Group, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, begins an armed conflict with the Russian military, seizing the city of Rostov-on-Don and portions of the Voronezh Oblast before withdrawing the next day, after a peace agreement brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
• June 25 – The June 2023 Greek legislative election is held; Kyriakos Mitsotakis becomes prime minister after his centre-right party, New Democracy, wins a majority of seats in the Greek parliament.
• June 28 – The 2023 Sierra Leonean general election is held; Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party is re-elected president.
• June 30 – The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to end MINUSMA, its peacekeeping mission in Mali.

July

• July 3
  • Indian oil refiners start payments for Russian oil imports in Chinese yuan as an alternative to the US dollar due to increasing sanctions against Russia.
  • In the largest incursion by Israel into the West Bank since the Second Intifada, the Israeli military deploys ground forces and armed drones into the Jenin camp, killing 13 and injuring more than 100. An attack claimed by Hamas as retaliation for the incursion, occurs in Tel Aviv the following day, injuring nine.
• July 4 – Iran joins the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, becoming the organization's ninth member.
• July 8 – In the Netherlands, the governing coalition collapses and Prime Minister Mark Rutte announces his upcoming resignation.
• July 9
  • The 2023 Uzbek presidential election is held; Shavkat Mirziyoyev is re-elected president of Uzbekistan.
  • New Zealand signs a free trade agreement with the European Union, increasing bilateral trade.
• July 10
  • China and the Solomon Islands sign a cooperation agreement between the People's Police and the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force in an upgrade of bilateral relations.
  • The European Commission and the U.S. government sign a new data communication agreement aimed at resolving legal uncertainties that European and American companies face when transferring personal data.
• July 13 – Pita Limjaroenrat fails to become Prime Minister of Thailand in a National Assembly vote after forming a coalition with pro-democracy parties following the 2023 Thai general election.
• July 14 – SAG-AFTRA announces it will begin a strike against the major film and TV studios in protest of low compensation, ownership of work, and generative AI.
• July 19 – Typhoon Doksuri forms in the eastern Pacific Ocean, going on to kill 137 people in Southeast Asia.
• July 20–August 20 – The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup is held in Australia and New Zealand. In the final, Spain wins 1–0 against England.
• July 20 – Bolivia and Iran sign a memorandum of understanding, in an upgrade of bilateral relations, expanding cooperation in the security and defense sectors.
• July 21 – The films Barbie and Oppenheimer open, while being paired as a major internet and cultural event, Barbenheimer.
• July 23
  • 2023 Greece wildfires: Tens of thousands of tourists flee Rhodes, Greece, amid wildfires and a major heatwave, in what officials say is the largest evacuation in the country's history.
  • Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard wins the Tour de France for the second consecutive time.
  • The 2023 Cambodian general election is held, with the dominant Cambodian People's Party retaining control of every seat in the National Assembly.
  • The 2023 Spanish general election is held, with the People's Party becoming the largest party in the Congress of Deputies.
• July 26 – President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger is toppled in a coup d'état after members of his presidential guard and the armed forces seize control of the country and install General Abdourahamane Tchiani as leader of a military junta.
• July 30 – 63 people are killed and over 200 are injured after a suicide bombing occurs in Khar, Pakistan; the Islamic State – Khorasan Province claims responsibility for the attack.

August

• August 1 – Global warming: The world's oceans reach a new record high temperature of 20.96 °C (69.73 °F), exceeding the previous record in 2016. July is also the hottest month on record for globally averaged surface air temperatures by a considerable margin (0.3 °C (32.5 °F)).
• August 8 – 2023 Hawaii wildfires: 17,000 acres of land are burned and at least 101 people are killed, with two others missing, when a series of wildfires break out on the island of Maui in Hawaii.
• August 10 – Tapestry, the holding company of Coach New York and Kate Spade, announces it will acquire Michael Kors' Capri Holdings, which also owns Versace and Jimmy Choo.
• August 16–21 – Hurricane Hilary, a Category 4 Pacific Hurricane, strikes the Baja California peninsula and later causes record flooding in Southern California.
• August 18 – American–Japanese–Korean trilateral pact: The United States, Japan, and South Korea agree to sign a trilateral pact.
• August 20 – 2023 Guatemalan presidential election: After two rounds of voting, Bernardo Arévalo of Semilla is elected with 58% of the vote.
• August 21
  • 2023 Canadian wildfires: 68% of the Northwest Territories are forced to evacuate to other parts of the country due to wildfires.
  • Saudi Arabia is accused of mass killing hundreds of African migrants attempting to cross its border with Yemen.
• August 22 – Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra returns to Thailand after 15 years of political exile.
• August 23
  • India's Chandrayaan-3 becomes the first spacecraft to land near the south pole of the Moon, carrying a lunar lander named Vikram and a lunar rover named Pragyan.
  • Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder Dmitry Utkin and eight others are killed when their plane crashes in Russia.
• August 30 – Following the announcement of incumbent president Ali Bongo Ondimba's reelection as President of Gabon after the 2023 presidential election, the military launches a successful coup d'état and creates the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions to govern the country, ending the rule of the Bongo family after 56 years in power.
• August 31 – 2023 Johannesburg building fire: 77 people are killed and more than 85 are injured in a fire in a building that had been taken over by gangs who rented it out to squatters.

September

• September 1 – 2023 Singaporean presidential election: Economist and former deputy prime minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam is elected president with a vote share of over 70%.
• September 2 – The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launches Aditya-L1, India's first solar observation mission.
• September 8 – October 28 – The 2023 Rugby World Cup is held in France. South Africa beat New Zealand 12–11 in the final at the Stade de France, claiming their 4th Rugby World Cup title.
• September 8 – 2023 Marrakesh–Safi earthquake: A 6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes Marrakesh–Safi province in western Morocco, killing at least 2,960 people and damaging historic buildings.
• September 9 – At the 18th G20 summit in New Delhi, the African Union is announced as the 21st permanent member of the G20.
• September 10 – Storm Daniel, a Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone, kills at least 5,000 people, with a further 10,000 to 100,000 reported missing. In the city of Derna in Libya, two dams collapse, resulting in a quarter of the city being destroyed.
• September 14 – The European Central Bank (ECB) raises eurozone interest rates to an all-time high of 4%, amid ongoing inflationary pressures across the continent.
• September 19 – Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: Azerbaijan launches a military offensive against the Armenia-backed Republic of Artsakh, which ends with a swift Azerbaijani victory. Protests erupt in Armenia, Artsakh announces the dissolution of government institutions, and over 100,000 ethnic Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh.
• September 20 – Archaeologists in Zambia find the world's oldest wooden structure, dating back 476,000 years, consisting of two interlocking wooden logs connected by a notch securing one perpendicular to the other.
• September 21 – Rupert Murdoch announces his retirement and passes his businesses on to his son Lachlan. Murdoch led News Corp and Fox, and formerly Sky Group.
• September 24 – 2023 Nigerien crisis: French President Emmanuel Macron announces that France will end its military presence in Niger and will recall its ambassador from the country.
• September 25 – An estimated 170 people are killed and over 300 are injured during a explosion at a gas station in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh.
• September 30 – 2023 Slovak parliamentary election: Smer, under the leadership of former prime minister Robert Fico, wins a plurality of seats in the National Council.

October

• October 3
  • Elected on January 8, Kevin McCarthy is removed as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, with Mike Johnson being elected new Speaker on October 25.
  • Sam Bankman-Fried, an American entrepreneur and founder of cryptocurrency exchange company FTX, is put on trial and later convicted on seven charges of fraud and conspiracy. His sentencing is scheduled for March 28, 2024.
• October 5 – November 19 – The 2023 Cricket World Cup is held in India, with Australia defeating India in the final.
• October 7
  • Israel–Hamas war: Hamas launches an incursion into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and taking about 240 hostages, prompting a military response from the Israel Defense Forces. Israel launches numerous air strikes on Lebanon after rockets are fired by Hezbollah and further attempts are made to penetrate Israel.
  • A series of earthquakes occur in Herat Province in Afghanistan, killing over 1,000 people and injuring nearly 2,000, with tremors felt in Iran and Turkmenistan. The earthquakes are the deadliest in the country since 1998.
• October 8 – Israel's Security Cabinet formally declares war for the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
• October 11 – ExxonMobil announces it will acquire Pioneer Natural Resources for $65 billion USD, the first of two major energy industry acquisitions of the month. The second occurs less than two weeks later on 23 October, where Hess announces it will be acquired by Chevron for $50 billion.
• October 13 – After British regulators' approval, Microsoft closes its $68.7 billion USD acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
• October 14
  • 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum: A majority of Australians vote against establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice in the constitution.
  • 2023 New Zealand general election: The National Party wins a plurality of seats under leader Christopher Luxon, while the Labour Party suffers the worst result for an incumbent ruling party in modern New Zealand history.
• October 15
  • In the second round of the 2023 Ecuadorian general election, Daniel Noboa of the National Democratic Action is elected as the youngest-ever President of Ecuador.
  • 2023 Polish parliamentary election: The Law and Justice party wins the most seats, but loses its majority, with its incumbent president Mateusz Morawiecki being succeeded by the Civic Platform party's Donald Tusk on 13 December.
• October 17 – An explosion occurs at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, where displaced Palestinians are taking refuge. Many fatalities are reported, but estimates vary significantly, from 100 to as many as 471, depending on the source.
• October 22 – 2023 Swiss federal election: The Swiss People's Party retains its majority in the National Council.
• October 25 – Hurricane Otis, an eastern Pacific tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Mexico near Acapulco, leaving at least 80 dead. It is the most powerful Eastern Pacific hurricane to make landfall in Mexico, with the highest winds reaching 165 mph, surpassing Hurricane Patricia's landfall in 2015.
• October 31 – Israel intercepted a Yemeni Houthi ballistic missile with its Arrow 2 missile defense system. The interception occurred above Earth's atmosphere above the Negev Desert, making it the first instance of space combat in history.

November

• November 1 – The first AI Safety Summit takes place in the United Kingdom, with 28 countries signing a "world first agreement" on how to manage the riskiest forms of artificial intelligence.
• November 2 – The Beatles release "Now and Then", the band's last ever song, featuring restored vocals by John Lennon (1940–1980), as well as guitar tracks by George Harrison (1943–2001).
• November 6 – Israel–Hamas war: The death toll in Gaza is reported to have passed 10,000. United Nations Secretary General António Guterres calls for a humanitarian ceasefire to increase the flow of aid to civilians.
• November 7 – The Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa announces his pending resignation. The President of Portugal decides to dissolve the parliament and call for early elections to be held on 10 March 2024.
• November 9 – U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announce the world's first whole eye transplant.
• November 10 – In the Falepili Union treaty, Australia grants "special" freedom of movement and defence rights to Tuvaluans for residence and employment for climate reasons.
• November 14–17 – President Biden hosts the APEC summit in San Francisco, which Chinese president Xi Jinping attends. Both countries, at the conclusion of the summit, agree to re-open suspended channels of military communications and to cooperate in their fight against climate change.
• November 17 – The global average temperature temporarily exceeds 2 °C above the pre-industrial average for the first time in recorded history.
• November 19 – 2023 Argentine presidential election: Following the first round on 22 October 2023, Javier Milei wins in the second round of the election, assuming office on 10 December with Victoria Villarruel as his vice president.
• November 20 – A Boeing P-8A Poseidon operated by the United States Navy overshot the runway at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Kaneohe, Hawaii. No one died.
• November 22
  • Israel and Hamas agree to a four-day ceasefire, the first pause in fighting since 7 October, during which many Israeli hostages will be released, in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
  • 2023 Dutch general election: Far-right Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom (PVV) wins the most seats.
• November 23 – Riots broke out in Dublin, Ireland after a mass stabbing on Parnell Square East which injured 4 people.
• November 24 – Somalia is admitted as the eighth member of the East African Community, having applied for membership in 2012.
• November 27 – After forming a coalition Government with the right-wing ACT and New Zealand First parties, Christopher Luxon is sworn in as the 42nd Prime Minister of New Zealand. The new administration opposes policies promoting Māori culture and addressing inequity between Māori and non-Māori, which leads to allegations of inflaming racial tensions.
• November 30 – Brazil announces it will join OPEC+ at a meeting of the organization to discuss oil output strategy in 2024. Brazil is the largest oil producer in South America, producing 4.6 million barrels per day of oil and gas.

December

• December 3 – 2023 Guyana–Venezuela crisis: Venezuela votes in a symbolic referendum on whether voters agreed with creating a subdivision in the disputed territory of Guayana Esequiba currently under the control of neighboring Guyana. Analysts say the referendum's practical implications are likely to be minimal.
• December 6 – Google DeepMind releases the Gemini Language Model. Gemini will act as a foundational model integrated into Google's existing tools, including Search and Bard.
• December 10–12 – 2023 Egyptian presidential election: Incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi wins a third term with 89.6 percent of the vote in the election.
• December 12 – At the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, a consensus is reached for countries to "transition away" from fossil fuels, the first such agreement in the conference's 30-year history. The transition is specifically for energy systems, excluding plastics, transport or agriculture.
• December 16 – Emir of Kuwait Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah dies at the age of 86 and is succeeded by his half-brother Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.
• December 17 – The 2023 Serbian parliamentary election is held, with the SNS coalition, led by Miloš Vučević, winning 128 of 250 seats in the Serbian National Assembly.
• December 18 – A number of shipping companies announce a temporary suspension of their operations in the Red Sea due to continued attacks on vessels by Houthi rebels.
• December 20 – 2023 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election: Incumbent President Félix Tshisekedi wins re-election, defeating two major challengers.
• December 21
  • The European Court of Justice rules that threats by FIFA and UEFA to sanction football clubs that wish to join the European Super League are unlawful.
  • The deadliest mass shooting in the Czech Republic's history occurs at a Prague university, with 15 killed and 25 others wounded.
• December 22 – Israel–Hamas war: The death toll in Gaza is reported to have passed 20,000, almost 1 percent of its population and surpassing the casualties in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

• December 29
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russia launches the largest wave of drones and missiles on Ukrainian cities since the start of the war in a overnight assault, killing at least 39 people and injuring at least 160 others. Ukraine launches a drone assault the following day, killing at least 21 people, including three children, and injuring 110 others, including 17 children.
  • A genocide case against Israel is brought towards the International Court of Justice by South Africa for Israel's invasion and subsequent bombardment of the Gaza Strip, and its role in the subsequent humanitarian crisis.

• December 31 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark announces her abdication effective January 14, 2024, after 52 years on the throne.

January 2023

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• Mario Artali, 84, Italian businessman and politician, deputy (1972–1976).
• Gangsta Boo, 43, American rapper (Three 6 Mafia), accidental drug overdose.
• Francisco Bozinovic, 63, Chilean-Croatian biologist and academic, cancer.
• Derek Clark, 89, British politician, MEP (2004–2014).
• Martin Davis, 94, American mathematician (Davis–Putnam algorithm).
• N. C. Debbarma, 80, Indian politician, Tripura MLA (since 2018), stroke.
• Georg Eberl, 86, German Olympic ice hockey player (1960).
• Fan Weitang, 87, Chinese mining engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Tetsuo Hasegawa, 84, Japanese actor (Mito Kōmon).
• Viktor Ivanenko, 75, Russian security officer.
• Bob Jongen, 95, German-born Dutch footballer (Alemannia Aachen, Fortuna 54, Roda Sport).
• R. K. Krishna Kumar, 84, Indian entrepreneur (Tata Sons, Sir Dorabji Tata and Allied Trusts), heart attack.
• Kuo Nan-hung, 86, Taiwanese politician, minister of transportation and communications (1987–1990) and president of the NCTU (1979–1987), COVID-19.
• Ron Labinski, 85, American architect (Oracle Park, Raymond James Stadium, M&T Bank Stadium).
• Edith Lank, 96, American author and advice columnist.
• Elizabeth Livingstone, 93, English Anglican theologian.
• Kadri Mälk, 64, Estonian visual artist and jewellery designer.
• Frank McGarvey, 66, Scottish footballer (St Mirren, Celtic, national team), pancreatic cancer.
• Art McNally, 97, American Hall of Fame football official, director of officiating for the NFL (1968–1991).
• Kelly Monteith, 80, American comedian.
• Meenakshi Narain, 58, Indian-born American experimental physicist.
• Lise Nørgaard, 105, Danish journalist and writer (Matador).
• Edith Pearlman, 86, American short story writer.
• Apostolos Pitsos, 104, Greek industrialist and businessman.
• Sir Michael Rawlins, 81, British clinical pharmacologist, chair of the MHRA (2014–2020).
• Bohdan Rebryk, 84, Ukrainian political prisoner and politician, MP (1990–1994).
• Bobby Rivard, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Pittsburgh Penguins), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Mako Sajko, 95, Slovenian director and screenwriter.
• Dave Schubert, 49, American street photographer.
• Jacques Sereys, 94, French actor (On Guard, Chouchou, Towards Zero).
• Anjali Singh, 20, Indian motorist, traffic collision.
• Lázaro Valdés, 82, Cuban son and jazz musician.
• Wang Hao, 92, Chinese military officer.
• Fred White, 67, American Hall of Fame drummer (Earth, Wind & Fire).
• Zhu Zushou, 77, Chinese diplomat, ambassador to Hungary (2003–2007) and the Netherlands (2001–2003), COVID-19.

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• Alain Acart, 71, French Olympic sprint canoer (1972, 1976), heart attack.
• Lincoln Almond, 86, American politician and lawyer, governor of Rhode Island (1995–2003), U.S. attorney for the district of Rhode Island (1969–1978, 1981–1993).
• Ken Block, 55, American rally driver (Rally America, Global Rallycross), co-founder of DC Shoes, snowmobile rollover.
• Molly Corbett Broad, 81, American academic administrator, president of University of North Carolina (1997–2006) and the American Council on Education (2008–2017).
• Frank Cameron, 90, New Zealand cricketer (Otago, national team).
• Suzy McKee Charnas, 83, American novelist (The Kingdom of Kevin Malone, The Holdfast Chronicles) and short story writer ("Boobs").
• Alford Corriette, 74, Montserratian cricketer (Combined Islands, Leeward Islands, national team).
• Catherine David, 73, French-American literary critic and novelist.
• Roxanne Donnery, 79, American politician, cancer.
• Andrew Downes, 72, British classical composer.
• Cai Emmons, 71, American author and blogger, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Viktor Fainberg, 91, Russian philologist and Soviet dissident.
• Frank Galati, 79, American theatre director (The Grapes of Wrath, Ragtime) and screenwriter (The Accidental Tourist), Tony winner (1990), cancer.
• Cliff Gustafson, 91, American Hall of Fame baseball coach (Texas Longhorns), heart failure.
• Richard H. Hanson, 91, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1967–1968).
• Nikos Hatzigiakoumis, 93, Greek Olympic rower (1956).
• Bobby Hogue, 83, American politician, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives (1979–1998).
• Kurt Horres, 90, German theatre director (Deutsche Oper am Rhein).
• Hu Fuming, 87, Chinese philosopher and politician, COVID-19.
• Thomas L. Hughes, 97, American government official, director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1963–1969).
• John Huo Cheng, 96, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Fenyang (since 1991).
• Mubasshar Hussein, 79, Bangladeshi architect and independence activist.
• Amélie Kuhrt, 78, British historian.
• Jean Nehr, 93, French actor (Summer of '62, Plus belle la vie).
• King Phojanakong, 54, American chef, granulomatous amoebic encephalitis.
• Dumitru Radu Popescu, 87, Romanian novelist and poet.
• Marilyn Stafford, 97, American-born British photographer.
• Robert Stephan, 89, American lawyer and politician, Kansas attorney general (1979–1995).
• Siddeshwar Swami, 82, Indian Hindu religious leader.
• Kajsa Thoor, 51, Swedish television presenter, apartment fire.
• Vasil Timkovič, 99, Czechoslovak soldier.
• Abderrahim Tounsi, 86, Moroccan comedian.
• Wang Zhiliang, 94, Chinese translator.

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• Keenan Anderson, 31, American hit-and-run suspect, complications from tasering.
• Jean-Marie André, 78, Belgian scientist.
• Armand Joel Banaken Bassoken, 39, Cameroonian footballer (Persewangi Banyuwangi, Persijap Jepara, PSPS Pekanbaru), traffic collision.
• Karim Bennani, 87, Moroccan painter.
• Alberto Borin, 82, Belgian politician, senator (1987–1991, 1994–1995) and MP (1995–1999).
• James D. Brubaker, 85, American film producer (Rocky, Bruce Almighty, Gia), multiple strokes.
• Danièle Brun, 84, French academic and psychologist.
• Ib Christensen, 92, Danish politician, MP (1973–1975, 1977–1981), MEP (1984–1994).
• Theo Coetzee, 74, South African politician, MP (2009–2014), cancer.
• Walter Cunningham, 90, American astronaut (Apollo 7), complications from a fall.
• Mohamed Enani, 83, Egyptian writer and translator.
• Kathy Hite, 74, American professional golfer.
• Elena Huelva, 20, Spanish influencer and writer, Ewing sarcoma.
• Laxman Pandurang Jagtap, 59, Indian politician, Maharashtra MLA (since 2009), cancer.
• Ruslan Khasbulatov, 80, Russian economist and politician, chairman of the Supreme Soviet (1991–1993).
• Greta Kiernan, 89, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1978–1980).
• Joseph Koo, 91, Hong Kong film composer (The Way of the Dragon, Fist of Fury, A Terra-Cotta Warrior).
• Eric Low, 75, Singaporean politician.
• James Lowenstein, 95, American diplomat, ambassador to Luxembourg (1977–1981).
• Abdelsalam Majali, 97, Jordanian physician and politician, prime minister (1993–1995, 1997–1998).
• Aleksey Malashenko, 71, Russian academic and political scientist.
• Frederick J. Marshall, 71, American judge, justice of the New York Supreme Court (2000–2022), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
• Notis Mavroudis, 77, Greek guitarist and composer, fall.
• Amber McLaughlin, 49, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Mimosa, 62, French magician.
• Silvio Parnis, 57, Maltese politician, MP (1998–2022), cancer.
• Petr Pavlásek, 75, Czech Olympic weightlifter (1972, 1976).
• Robbie Pierce, 63, American off-road racing driver, scuba diving accident.
• Mitică Popescu, 86, Romanian actor (The Earth's Most Beloved Son, The Moromete Family, The Moment).
• Alan Rankine, 64, Scottish musician (The Associates), heart failure.
• Nicolás Redondo, 95, Spanish union leader and politician, secretary general of the UGT (1976–1994) and deputy (1977–1987).
• Jeremy Salmond, 79, New Zealand heritage architect, NZIA Gold Medal winner (2018).
• Sergi Schaaff, 85, Spanish television producer (Saber y ganar, Ruta Quetzal).
• Seble Desta, 91, Ethiopian princess.
• Nate Thayer, 62, American journalist (Far Eastern Economic Review, Jane's Defence Weekly, Soldier of Fortune).
• Giorgio Tombesi, 96, Italian politician, deputy (1976–1983).
• Páll Vang, 73, Faroese politician, minister of agriculture, health, transport and justice (1981–1985).
• Norbert Werbs, 82, German Roman Catholic prelate and theologian, auxiliary bishop of Schwerin (1981–1994) and Hamburg (1994–2015).
• Zhao Qiguo, 92, Chinese soil scientist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Zhou Lingzhao, 103, Chinese painter.
• Lyuben Zidarov, 99, Bulgarian visual artist.

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• Richard Bernal, 73, Jamaican diplomat and economist, ambassador to the United States (1991–2001).
• Jean Bertho, 94, French actor (La Marie du port, The Doctor's Horrible Experiment) and film director.
• Nabil Bukhalid, 65, Lebanese computer scientist, member of the Internet Hall of Fame, heart attack.
• Thomas Stonor, 7th Baron Camoys, 82, British banker and peer, lord chamberlain (1998–2000).
• Edwin Chiloba, 24–25, Kenyan fashion designer and LGBTQ activist, asphyxiation. (body discovered on this date)
• Arthur Duncan, 97, American tap dancer (The Lawrence Welk Show, The Betty White Show).
• Rei Jack Enoka, 83, Cook Islands politician, MP (1983, 1989–1994).
• Thirumagan Evera, 46, Indian politician, Tamil Nadu MLA (since 2021), cardiac arrest.
• Michel Ferté, 64, French racing driver (Formula 3000).
• Norman Fruchter, 85, American writer and academic, injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
• Renée Gailhoustet, 93, French architect.
• Ge Xiurun, 88, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• David Gold, 86, British retailer, publisher (Gold Star Publications), and football executive, chairman of West Ham United (since 2010).
• Casey Hayden, 85, American civil rights activist.
• Kléber Haye, 85, French engineer and politician, deputy (1981–1986).
• Elwood Hillis, 96, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1971–1987).
• Stan Hitchcock, 86, American country singer, cancer.
• Pierre Joassin, 74, Belgian film director and screenwriter (Maigret, Josephine, Guardian Angel).
• Zoran Kalezić, 72, Serbian-Montenegrin singer, lung cancer.
• Erich Korbel, 81, Austrian Olympic speed skater (1964, 1968).
• Marie Kovářová, 95, Czech gymnast, Olympic champion (1948).
• Wyllie Longmore, 82, Jamaican-born British actor (Love Actually), cancer.
• John Francis Lovering, 92, Australian geologist.
• Sławomir Maciejowski, 71, Polish Olympic rower (1972).
• Alan Mackay-Sim, 71, Australian biomedical scientist.
• Benedict Majekodunmi, 82, Nigerian Olympic sprinter (1968, 1972). (death announced on this date)
• Elizabeth Midlarsky, 81, American psychologist.
• Rosi Mittermaier, 72, German alpine skier, double Olympic champion (1976).
• Géza Morcsányi, 70, Hungarian playwright and actor (On Body and Soul).
• Calvin Muhammad, 64, American football player (Los Angeles Raiders, Washington Redskins, San Diego Chargers).
• Marino Penna, 93, Chilean chemical engineer and politician, deputy (1965–1973).
• Beeyar Prasad, 61, Indian lyricist (Kilichundan Mampazham, Njan Salperu Ramankutty, Vamanapuram Bus Route), complications from a stroke.
• Volodymyr Radchenko, 74, Ukrainian politician and intelligence officer, vice prime minister (2007), minister of internal affairs (1994–1995) and twice head of the SBU.
• David A. Rausch, 75, American historian and author.
• Hans Rebele, 79, German footballer (1860 Munich West Germany national team).
• Sim Wong Hoo, 67, Singaporean entrepreneur, founder of Creative Technology.
• Anton Schnider, 86, Swiss footballer (BSC Young Boys, FC Grenchen, national team).
• Miiko Taka, 97, American actress (Sayonara; The Art of Love; Walk, Don't Run).
• Maarten van Emden, 85, Dutch-Canadian mathematician and computer scientist.
• Fay Weldon, 91, British author (The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Puffball, The Cloning of Joanna May), essayist and playwright.
• Wu Sheng, 88, Chinese nuclear engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Xu Mi, 85, Chinese nuclear engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

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• Magomed Abdulaev, 61, Russian lawyer and politician, prime minister of Dagestan (2010–2013), traffic collision.
• Ruth Adler Schnee, 99, German-born American textile and interior designer.
• Gaspar Ariño Ortiz, 86, Spanish lawyer, professor and politician, deputy (1989–1993).
• Earl Boen, 81, American actor (The Terminator, Bonkers, World of Warcraft), lung cancer.
• Renate Boy, 83, German shot putter, Olympic silver medallist (1964).
• Mark Capps, 54, American sound engineer, shot.
• Jim Carmody, 89, American football coach (Southern Miss).
• Ernesto Castano, 83, Italian footballer (Triestina, Juventus, national team).
• Jean Clémentin, 98, French journalist (Le Canard enchaîné), writer, and spy.
• Nate Colbert, 76, American baseball player (San Diego Padres, Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers).
• Sarah Doherty, 63, American amputee mountaineer, ski racer, and motivational speaker.
• Carl Duser, 90, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics).
• Martin Fabi, 80, Canadian football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders, Montreal Alouettes).
• Eugene Geesey, 91, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1969–1980).
• Herbert Gintis, 82, American economist, behavioral scientist and author (Schooling in Capitalist America).
• Mike Hill, 73, American film editor (Apollo 13, Rush, Frost/Nixon), Oscar winner (1996), cryptogenic organizing pneumonia.
• Kim Deok-ju, 89, South Korean lawyer and judge, chief justice (1990–1993).
• Mondeño, 88, Spanish torero.
• Mahir Muradov, 66, Azerbaijani judge, member of the Constitutional Court (since 2012).
• Giorgio Otranto, 82, Italian historian, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Fred Parkinson, 93, American pharmacist and politician, member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1981–1993).
• Russell Pearce, 75, American politician, member (2006–2011) and president (2011) of the Arizona Senate.
• Ernesto Alfredo Piñón de la Cruz, 33, Mexican criminal (Los Mexicles), shot.
• Albert Rachkov, 95, Russian diplomat and politician, second secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan (1980–1986).
• Michael Snow, 94, Canadian filmmaker (Wavelength, Back and Forth) and artist (Flight Stop).
• Dušan Veličković, 75–76, Serbian writer, journalist and filmmaker.
• Buddhi Wickrama, 83, Sri Lankan actor (Anthima Reya, Water, Lantin Singho).
• Quentin Williams, 39, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (since 2019), traffic collision.
• Yang Fuyu, 95, Chinese biochemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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• Sadiq al-Ahmar, 66, Yemeni politician and tribal leader, MP (1993–2011), cancer.
• Benjamin Almoneda, 92, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop (1990–1991) and bishop (1991–2007) of Daet.
• Benjamin Bederson, 101, American physicist (Manhattan Project).
• Fred Benners, 92, American football player (New York Giants).
• Omar Berdiýew, 43, Turkmen footballer (Esil Bogatyr, Dinamo Samarqand, national team).
• George W. Bryan, 78, American businessman.
• Bill Campbell, 74, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs), cancer.
• Marc-Kanyan Case, 80, French Olympic footballer (1968).
• Slaheddine Cherif, 85, Tunisian government official.
• Gervasio Gestori, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of San Benedetto del Tronto-Ripatransone-Montalto (1996–2013).
• Jacques Grattarola, 92, French footballer (Cannes, Saint-Étienne).
• Ernst Grissemann, 88, Austrian radio host.
• Peter Hoffmann, 92, German-Canadian historian.
• Sir Patrick Hogan, 83, New Zealand Hall of Fame racehorse breeder.
• Lew Hunter, 87, American screenwriter and screenwriting teacher, COVID-19.
• Steve James, 72, American blues musician.
• John Warren Johnson, 93, American businessman and politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1966–1974).
• Danny Kaleikini, 85, American Hawaiian entertainer and singer.
• David S. Laustsen, 75, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (1977–1984) and senate (1985–1987).
• Lorna Lee, 91, British Olympic long jumper (1948).
• Vincent Lindo, 86, Jamaican cricketer (Nottinghamshire, Somerset).
• Annette McCarthy, 64, American actress (Twin Peaks, Creature, Baywatch).
• Stuart McCutcheon, 68, New Zealand academic administrator, vice-chancellor of the University of Auckland (2005–2020) and Victoria University of Wellington (2000–2004).
• Frank Molden, 80, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants).
• Carlos Monín, 83, Paraguayan football player (Toulouse, Red Star, national team) and manager.
• Theodore R. Newman Jr., 88, American jurist, judge (1976–2016) and chief judge (1976–1984) of the D.C. Court of Appeals, judge of the Superior Court of D.C. (1970–1976).
• Nguyễn Thọ Chân, 100, Vietnamese politician, minister of labor (1974–1981).
• Sigifredo Ochoa, 80, Salvadoran military officer and politician, deputy (2012–2015), traffic collision.
• David Penington, 92, Australian physician and academic administrator, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne (1988–1995).
• Karl Pfeifer, 94, Austrian journalist (Jungle World).
• Paula Quintana, 66, Chilean sociologist and politician, minister of planning (2008–2010).
• Owen Roizman, 86, American cinematographer (The Exorcist, Network, The French Connection).
• Renzo Sacco, 78, Italian politician, president of the Province of Padua (1995–1998).
• Dick Savitt, 95, American Hall of Fame tennis player.
• Shen Lyu-shun, 73, Taiwanese diplomat, representative to the United States (2014–2016) and the United Kingdom (2011–2014).
• Victoria de Stefano, 82, Italian-Venezuelan novelist.
• Axel Troost, 68, German politician, MP (2005–2017, 2021).
• Jānis Vagris, 92, Latvian politician, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (1985–1988).
• Gianluca Vialli, 58, Italian football player (Juventus, national team) and manager (Chelsea), pancreatic cancer.
• Vivian Tomlinson Williams, 84, American fiddler and composer, complications from amyotropic lateral sclerosis.

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• Russell Banks, 82, American novelist (Continental Drift, The Sweet Hereafter, Cloudsplitter), cancer.
• Toni Batllori, 71–72, Spanish cartoonist.
• Karon Blake, 13, American child, shot.
• Miroslav Celler, 31, Slovak squash player, fall.
• Djão, 64, Mozambican-born Portuguese footballer (Belenenses, Penafiel, national team).
• Marcelle Engelen Faber, 99, French resistance fighter.
• Marilyn R. Goldwater, 95, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1995–2007).
• Joseph A. Hardy III, 100, American lumber industry executive, founder of 84 Lumber.
• Mary Ellen Hawkins, 99, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1974–1994).
• Rob Heming, 90, Australian rugby union player (New South Wales, national team).
• Henri Heurtebise, 86, French poet and editor.
• Mohammad Hosseini, 39, Iranian dissident, execution by hanging.
• Walter Intemann, 78, Swiss-born Austrian businessman and politician, member of the Landtag of Vorarlberg (1979–1989).
• Nazrul Islam, 73, Indian politician, Assam MLA (1996–2021).
• Zeke Jabbour, 94, American bridge player, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Mohammad Mehdi Karami, 21, Iranian dissident, execution by hanging.
• Habib Ullah Khan, 87, Bangladeshi politician and diplomat, MP (1979–1982), minister of information and broadcasting (1977–1981) and textiles and jute (1981–1982).
• Aleksandr Kharchikov, 73, Russian folk singer-songwriter.
• Sufia Khatun, 100, Bangladeshi author and social activist.
• William S. W. Lim, 90, Singaporean architect (Marine Parade Community Building, People's Park Complex, Golden Mile Complex).
• Modeste M'bami, 40, Cameroonian footballer (Sedan, PSG, national team), Olympic champion (2000), heart attack.
• Yuri Manin, 85, Russian mathematician (Gauss–Manin connection).
• Zinaid Memišević, 72, Bosnian-Serbian actor (2012, Miracle, Bolji život).
• Charley Morgan, 93, Australian sailboat racer and designer.
• Sinikiwe Mpofu, 37, Zimbabwean cricket player (national team) and coach (Southerns).
• Philemon Mulala, 59–60, Zambian footballer (Mufulira Wanderers, Cape Town Spurs, national team), injuries sustained from a dog attack.
• Tony Pantano, 74, Italian-born Australian singer and entertainer, cancer.
• Naomi Replansky, 104, American poet.
• Adam Rich, 54, American actor (Eight Is Enough, Dungeons & Dragons, The Devil and Max Devlin), accidental fentanyl overdose.
• Karl Schüßler, 98, German Olympic cross-country skier (1952).
• Ken Scotland, 86, Scottish rugby union player (Leicester Tigers, national team) and cricketer (national team), cancer.
• Manfred Steiner, 91, Austrian-born American hematologist and physicist.
• Dorothy Tristan, 88, American actress (Klute, Scarecrow) and screenwriter (Weeds), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Tehemton Erach Udwadia, 88, Indian surgeon and gastroenterologist.

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• Charles David Allis, 71, American molecular biologist, cancer.
• Delma S. Arrigoitia, 77, Puerto Rican historian and author.
• Gundars Bērziņš, 63, Latvian accountant and politician, minister of finance (2000–2002) and deputy (since 1993).
• Sietse Bosgra, 87, Dutch political activist.
• Arnie Coro, 80, Cuban radio presenter, co-founder of Radio Havana Cuba.
• Borislav Dević, 59, Serbian Olympic marathoner (1996).
• Roberto Dinamite, 68, Brazilian footballer (Vasco da Gama, national team) and politician, deputy (1995–2015), colon cancer.
• Willem Doise, 87, Belgian academic and psychologist.
• Mduduzi Fuzwayo, 36, Zimbabwean cricketer (Matabeleland Tuskers), traffic collision.
• Juan Francisco García, 69, Mexican Olympic boxer (1972).
• Patrick Grimlund, 50, Swedish television presenter, traffic collision.
• Georgina Hammick, 83, English author.
• Lynnette Hardaway, 51, American conservative activist (Diamond and Silk), heart disease.
• Jack W. Hayford, 88, American Pentecostal minister and hymn writer, founder of The King's University.
• Bernard Kalb, 100, American journalist (Reliable Sources, The New York Times) and civil servant, assistant secretary of state for public affairs (1985–1986), complications from a fall.
• Siegfried Kurz, 92, German conductor and composer.
• Michel Laurencin, 78, French academic and historian.
• Barry Lines, 80, English footballer (Northampton Town).
• Harold Martens, 81, Canadian rancher and politician, Saskatchewan MLA (1982–1995).
• Ray Middleton, 86, British Olympic racewalker (1964), respiratory failure.
• Slim Newton, 90, Australian country music singer-songwriter (The Redback on the Toilet Seat).
• Christiane Papon, 98, French politician, MEP (1987–1989) and deputy (1988–1993).
• Luis Gabriel Ramírez Díaz, 57, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of El Banco (2014–2021) and Ocaña (since 2021).
• Antonio Rucco, 91, Italian Olympic sprint canoer (1960).
• Aleksandr Shabanov, 87, Russian chemist and politician, deputy (1995–2003).
• Georgy Shayduko, 60, Russian sailor, Olympic silver medallist (1996), cardiac arrest.
• Aleksey Slapovsky, 65, Russian novelist, playwright and screenwriter (The Irony of Fate 2), pneumonia.
• Walter Tosta, 66, Brazilian politician, deputy (2011–2015).
• Keshari Nath Tripathi, 88, Indian politician, Uttar Pradesh MLA (1977–1980, 1989–2007), governor of West Bengal (2014–2019) and twice of Bihar.
• Adriaan Vlok, 85, South African politician, minister of correctional services (1991–1994).
• C. Anne Wilson, 95, British food historian.
• Wu Tao, 82, Chinese diplomat, ambassador to Portugal (1992–1994), Russia (1998–2001) and Australia (2001–2003), COVID-19.

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• Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, 53, Nigerian filmmaker and entertainment executive.
• Ali Reza Ashrafi, 58, Iranian mathematician, traffic collision.
• Yahya Baş, 71, Turkish politician, MP (2002–2007) and mayor of Güngören (1992–2002).
• Séamus Begley, 73, Irish musician.
• Hermann-Josef Blanke, 65, German academic and legal scholar.
• Stefan Brzózka, 91, Polish chess player.
• Max Chantal, 64, French rugby league player (Villeneuve XIII, national team).
• William Consovoy, 48, American attorney, brain cancer.
• James Crotty, 82, American macroeconomist, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Zhanna Arshanskaya Dawson, 95, Russian-American pianist and Holocaust survivor.
• Melinda Dillon, 83, American actress (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Absence of Malice, A Christmas Story).
• David Duckham, 76, English rugby union player (Coventry, national team).
• Dick Flood, 90, American country singer and environmentalist.
• Ahmaad Galloway, 42, American football player (Denver Broncos, San Diego Chargers, Frankfurt Galaxy).
• Adolfo Kaminsky, 97, Argentine-born French forger and resistant.
• Yoshito Kishi, 85, Japanese chemist (Nozaki–Hiyama–Kishi reaction), stroke.
• Simone Kramer, 83, Dutch author.
• Thomas Kretschmer, 68, German politician, member of the Landtag of Thuringia (1990–2008).
• Hans Krieger, 89, German journalist, essayist and poet.
• Magnar Mangersnes, 84, Norwegian organist and choral conductor.
• Yoriaki Matsudaira, 91, Japanese composer, pneumonia.
• Raymond Mertens, 89, Belgian football player (Royal Uccle Sport) and coach.
• Ferenc Mészáros, 72, Hungarian footballer (Vasas SC, Vitória de Setúbal, national team).
• Lesego Motsumi, 58, Botswana politician, minister of health (2003–2004, 2008–2009) and works and transport (2004–2008), high commissioner to India (2011–2020), burns.
• K. Alex Müller, 95, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1987).
• Timothy Nga, 49, Singaporean actor (First Class).
• Gerry O'Hara, 98, British film and television director (That Kind of Girl, The Bitch, The Professionals).
• Virginia Kraft Payson, 92, American thoroughbred horse breeder and sports journalist (Sports Illustrated), complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Cincy Powell, 80, American basketball player (Dallas Chaparrals, Kentucky Colonels, Virginia Squires).
• Rehman Rahi, 97, Indian poet.
• Edgar Samuel, 94, British museum director, director of the London Jewish Museum (1983–1995).
• Mikio Sato, 94, Japanese mathematician (Sato–Tate conjecture, Bernstein–Sato polynomial).
• Tim Schadla-Hall, 75, British archaeologist.
• Charles Simic, 84, Serbian-born American poet, complications from dementia.
• Vladimir Timochkin, 86, Russian politician, member of the Supreme Soviet (1979–1989).
• Rainer Ulrich, 73, German football player (Karlsruher SC) and coach (SSV Ulm, VfR Mannheim).
• Uyen Sinwa Nhpan Ja Ra, 91, Burmese Kachin singer.
• Norma Whiteman, 95, Australian cricketer (New South Wales, national team).
• Zhang Jinlin, 86, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• George S. Zimbel, 93, American-Canadian documentary photographer.

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• Sara Aboobacker, 86, Indian writer and translator.
• Jorge Ballesteros, 39, Spanish sports shooter, shot.
• Jeff Beck, 78, British Hall of Fame guitarist (The Yardbirds, The Jeff Beck Group), six-time Grammy winner, bacterial meningitis.
• Hans Belting, 87, German art historian.
• Gaudenzio Bernasconi, 90, Italian footballer (Atalanta, Sampdoria, national team).
• Black Warrior, 54, Mexican professional wrestler (CMLL).
• Gregory Blackstock, 77, American artist.
• Donald Blom, 73, American murderer.
• Lothar Blumhagen, 95, German actor (Sommerliebe).
• Dennis Budimir, 84, American jazz and rock guitarist (The Wrecking Crew).
• Jorge O. Calvo, 61, Argentine geologist and paleontologist.
• Hermenegildo Candeias, 88, Portuguese Olympic gymnast (1960).
• Constantine II, 82, Greek monarch and sailor, king (1964–1973) and Olympic champion (1960), stroke.
• Alain da Costa, 87, Gabonese football manager (USM Libreville, Vantour Mangoungou, national team).
• István Deák, 96, Hungarian-born American historian, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
• Pierre Dorsini, 88, French footballer (Toulouse, Nancy).
• Shirley Dynevor, 89, Welsh actress (Charlesworth, Rogue Male, The Wednesday Play).
• Kalle Eller, 82, Estonian publisher, cultural researcher and poet.
• José Evangelista, 79, Spanish composer.
• Jean Gevenois, 91, Belgian politician, senator (1983–1996).
• Jeff Hamilton, 56, American Olympic speed skier (1992), pancreatic cancer.
• He Ping, 65, Chinese film director (Swordsmen in Double Flag Town, Sun Valley, Warriors of Heaven and Earth), heart attack.
• Traudl Hecher, 79, Austrian ski racer, Olympic bronze medallist (1960, 1964).
• Kevin Higgins, 55, Irish poet, leukaemia.
• Blake Hounshell, 44, American journalist (The New York Times, Politico, Foreign Policy), suicide by jumping.
• Irenaios, 83, Greek Orthodox prelate, patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem (2001–2005).
• Majid Jahangir, 74, Pakistani comedian (Fifty Fifty).
• Jeanne Kangas, 82, American lawyer and politician, interim chair of the Massachusetts Republican Party (2011).
• Jean Leccia, 84, French composer, conductor, and pianist.
• Sezi Mbaguta, 76, Ugandan politician, MP (2011–2016).
• Bruce Murray, 82, New Zealand cricketer (Wellington, national team).
• Tyre Nichols, 29, American motorist, subject of Tyre Nichols protests.
• George Pell, 81, Australian Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop of Melbourne (1996–2001) and Sydney (2001–2014), prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy (2014–2019), complications from hip surgery.
• Natalya Ryazantseva, 84, Russian screenwriter (Wings, The Long Farewell, The Voice).
• Roy Schwitters, 78, American physicist, cancer.
• Christopher T. Walsh, 78, American biochemist, member of the National Academy of Sciences, fall.
• Daniel Lewis Williams, 79, American operatic basso profondo, complications from Alzheimer's disease.

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• Agnes Flight, 25, Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Eduardo Amorós, 79, Spanish Olympic equestrian (1976).
• Shimon Baadani, 94, Israeli Orthodox rabbi, pneumonia.
• Francis L. Bodine, 87, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1994–2008).
• Peter Campbell, 62, American water polo player, Olympic silver medallist (1984, 1988).
• Carole Cook, 98, American actress (The Lucy Show, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Sixteen Candles), heart failure.
• Günther Deschner, 81, German author and historian.
• Piers Haggard, 83, British director (Pennies From Heaven).
• Harriet Hall, 77, American Air Force flight surgeon.
• Enamul Haque, 83, Bangladeshi politician, MP (1986–1988).
• Bob Harrison, 92, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).
• Hussein el-Husseini, 85, Lebanese politician, speaker of parliament (1984–1992).
• Charles Kimbrough, 86, American actor (Murphy Brown, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Wedding Planner).
• Doming Lam, 96, Macanese-born Hong Kong classical composer.
• Ben Masters, 75, American actor (Passions, All That Jazz, HeartBeat), COVID-19.
• Antonio Muratore, 95, Italian politician, senator (1983–1994).
• Pavlo Naumenko, 57, Ukrainian aerospace engineer.
• Nian Guangjiu, 82, Chinese entrepreneur and melon seed producer.
• Rafiq Nishonov, 96, Uzbek politician, chairman of the Soviet Nationalities (1989–1991) and first secretary of the Communist Party (1988–1989).
• Eli Ostreicher, 39, British-born American serial entrepreneur, traffic collision.
• Tatjana Patitz, 56, German model and actress (Rising Sun), breast cancer.
• Murtaza Rakhimov, 88, Russian politician, president of Bashkortostan (1993–2010).
• François Roussely, 78, French government official and magistrate, president of Électricité de France (1998–2004).
• Christian Sauvé, 79, French painter.
• Kamel Tahir, 78, Algerian footballer (USM Alger, JS Kabylie, national team).
• Yukihiro Takahashi, 70, Japanese drummer and singer (Yellow Magic Orchestra, Sadistic Mika Band, Metafive), pneumonia.
• Charles White, 64, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Los Angeles Rams), Heisman Trophy winner (1979), liver cancer.
• Vera Yurasova, 94, Russian physicist.

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• Cecilia Gyan Amoah, 75, Ghanaian politician and diplomat, MP (2001–2005).
• Robbie Bachman, 69, Canadian drummer (Bachman–Turner Overdrive).
• Drucilla K. Barker, 73, American feminist economist.
• Els Bendheim, 99, Dutch-Israeli theologian and philanthropist.
• Harold Brown, 98, American Air Force officer (Tuskegee Airmen).
• Mike Cardinal, 81, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA (1989–2008).
• Sanjay Chauhan, 60, Indian screenwriter (I Am Kalam, Paan Singh Tomar, Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster Returns), liver disease.
• Gerrie Coetzee, 67, South African boxer, WBA heavyweight champion (1983–1984), lung cancer.
• Bob Cunnell, 80, English cricketer (Suffolk), pneumonia.
• Henri De Wolf, 86, Belgian racing cyclist.
• David Doctorian, 88, American politician, member of the Missouri Senate (1977–1991).
• Vittorio Garatti, 95, Italian architect.
• Frene Ginwala, 90, South African politician and academic administrator, speaker of the National Assembly (1994–2004), chancellor of the UKZN (2005–2007), complications from a stroke.
• Toos Grol-Overling, 91, Dutch teacher and politician, senator (1982–1999).
• Mozammel Haque, 67, Bangladeshi politician, MP (2001–2006).
• Delwar Hossain, 67, Bangladeshi politician, MP (2001–2006), kidney disease.
• Paul Johnson, 94, British journalist and historian (Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s, A History of the American People, A History of Christianity).
• Otohiko Kaga, 93, Japanese author.
• Felix Karasev, 93, Russian KGB general and Soviet diplomat.
• Elka Konstantinova, 90, Bulgarian literary critic and politician, MP (1991–1994), minister of culture (1991–1992).
• Jean Laurent, 78, French banker and businessman, managing director of Crédit Agricole (1999–2005).
• Valentyna Lutayeva, 66, Ukrainian handball player, Olympic champion (1980).
• Sulambek Mamilov, 84, Russian film director (Ladies' Tango, Day of Wrath, The Murder at Zhdanovskaya).
• Roy Pierpoint, 93, British racing driver, saloon car champion (1965).
• Lisa Marie Presley, 54, American singer-songwriter ("Lights Out", "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet"), small bowel obstruction.
• Mary Rawcliffe, 80, American soprano.
• Daniel Richard, 78, French entrepreneur.
• Sidharth Sharma, 28, Indian cricketer (Himachal Pradesh).
• Bruce Sharp, 91, Australian Olympic gymnast (1956).
• Carl-Gustaf Styrenius, 93, Swedish classical archaeologist.
• Maggie Telfer, 63, British health activist.
• Lee Tinsley, 53, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Seattle Mariners, Philadelphia Phillies).
• Charles Treger, 87, American violinist.
• Brian Tufano, 83, English cinematographer (Trainspotting, Billy Elliot, Shallow Grave).
• Charlotte Vale-Allen, 81, Canadian-born American contemporary fiction writer.
• Elliot Valenstein, 99, American neuroscientist and psychologist.
• Bobby Wood, 87, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1976–2004).
• Sharad Yadav, 75, Indian politician, MP (1974–1980, 1986–2017), minister of consumer affairs, food and public distribution (2002–2004).

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• Madeleine Attal, 101, French actress and theatre director.
• Odd Bergh, 85, Norwegian athlete.
• Sir Alan Budd, 85, British economist, chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility (2010), heart attack.
• Reginald Cooray, 75, Sri Lankan politician, three-time MP, chief minister of Western Province (2000–2009) and governor of Northern Province (2016–2018), heart attack.
• Ray Cordeiro, 98, Hong Kong disc jockey (RTHK Radio 3) and actor (Games Gamblers Play, Security Unlimited).
• Country Boy Eddie, 92, American country musician and television host.
• Bill Davis, 80, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, San Diego Padres).
• Narsingh Deo, 87, American computer scientist.
• Peter W. Hutchins, 77, Canadian legal scholar.
• Kai Kalima, 77, Finnish lawyer and politician, MP (1989–1991).
• Robbie Knievel, 60, American daredevil and stuntman, pancreatic cancer.
• Klas Lestander, 91, Swedish biathlete, Olympic champion (1960).
• Mao Zhi, 90, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Laila Mikkelsen, 82, Norwegian film director (Little Ida, Oss) and producer (Nedtur).
• James L. Morse, 82, American jurist, justice of the Vermont Supreme Court (1988–2003).
• Eve Pearce, 93, Scottish actress (Coronation Street, Please Sir!).
• Fañch Peru, 82, French teacher, writer and politician, mayor of Berhet (1983–2001).
• Zenon Pigoń, 82, Polish trade unionist and politician, MP (1989–1991).
• Mani Prasad, 93, Indian singer.
• Michael Reid, 78, English evangelist, founder of the Peniel Pentecostal Church.
• Julian Sands, 65, British actor (A Room with a View, The Killing Fields, Leaving Las Vegas), hiking accident.
• Enaxon Siddiqova, 68, Uzbek poet and politician, senator (since 2015).
• Ted Whitehead, 89, English playwright and television writer (The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, First Born).
• Claudio Willer, 82, Brazilian poet and translator, bladder cancer.
• Thomasina Winslow, 57, American blues musician, stroke.
• Marc Worth, 61, British fashion executive, co-founder of WGSN, heart attack.
• Yoshio Yoda, 88, Japanese-born American actor (McHale's Navy, The Horizontal Lieutenant).

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• Alireza Akbari, 61, Iranian-British politician and convicted spy, deputy minister of defence (1998–2003), execution by hanging. (death announced on this date)
• Brenda Almond, 85, British philosopher.
• Les Barker, 75, English poet.
• Gianfranco Baruchello, 98, Italian painter.
• Ronald Blythe, 100, English writer and columnist (Church Times).
• Wally Campo, 99, American actor (Machine-Gun Kelly, The Little Shop of Horrors, Master of the World).
• Matthias Carras, 58, German pop singer, cancer.
• Zdeněk Češka, 93, Czech lawyer, academic and politician, member of the Chamber of People of Czechoslovakia (1976–1981).
• Santokh Singh Chaudhary, 76, Indian politician, MP (since 2014), heart attack.
• Inna Churikova, 79, Russian actress (Jack Frost, The Very Same Munchhausen, Walking the Streets of Moscow).
• Bernard Delemotte, 83, French diver and cameraman.
• Sunder Lal Dixit, 80, Indian politician, three-time Uttar Pradesh MLA, fall.
• Georgy Gagloev, 25, Russian mixed martial artist, strangled.
• Ruby Ghaznavi, 88, Bangladeshi businesswoman and activist.
• Juhan af Grann, 78, Finnish film director and unidentified flying object documentary filmmaker.
• Carl Hahn, 96, German automotive industry executive, chairman of Volkswagen Group (1982–1993).
• Craig Lowe, 65, American politician, mayor of Gainesville (2010–2013).
• Poul-Erik Nielsen, 91, Danish badminton player.
• Femi Ogunrombi, Nigerian actor and ethnomusicologist.
• David Onley, 72, Canadian journalist, writer and politician, lieutenant governor of Ontario (2007–2014).
• Qian Yitai, 82, Chinese chemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Mansa Ram, 82, Indian politician, Himachal Pradesh MLA (1967–1977, 1982–1985, 1998–2003), kidney failure.
• Trifonio Salazar, 74, Filipino military officer.
• Hermann A. Schlögl, 85, German actor and Egyptologist.
• Ted Thomas, 95, English Anglican clergyman, archdeacon of Wells (1983–1993).
• Miyuki Ueta, 49, Japanese murderer, asphyxiation.
• Lieuwe Westra, 40, Dutch Olympic cyclist (2012), heart failure.

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• Alexis Arette, 95, French farmer, writer, and politician, member of the Regional Council of Aquitaine (1986–1998).
• Leonid Barbier, 85, Ukrainian Olympic swimmer (1960).
• Ed Beard, 83, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Jane Cederqvist, 77, Swedish swimmer, Olympic silver medallist (1960), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Chen Qizhi, 97, Chinese military officer and academic administrator, deputy (1975–1983) and president of NUDT (1990–1994).
• Victoria Chick, 86, American economist.
• Noël Coulet, 90, French academic and historian.
• Doris, 75, Swedish pop singer.
• Bruce Gowers, 82, British television and music video director ("Bohemian Rhapsody", "Stayin' Alive", "1999"), Emmy winner (2009).
• C. J. Harris, 31, American singer (American Idol), heart attack.
• Piet van Heusden, 93, Dutch track cyclist.
• Mukarram Jah, 89, Indian royal, titular Nizam of Hyderabad (since 1967).
• Sven Johansson, 94, Swedish politician, governor of Västerbotten County (1978–1991).
• Andrew Jones, 39, Welsh film director and screenwriter (The Amityville Asylum, Robert, Werewolves of the Third Reich).
• Vakhtang Kikabidze, 84, Georgian singer, actor (Mimino, Don't Grieve) and politician, MP (since 2020), brain cancer.
• Jan Krol, 60, Dutch actor.
• Gordana Kuić, 80, Serbian novelist (The Scent of Rain in the Balkans).
• J. Paul Marion, 95, Canadian politician, Manitoba MLA (1973–1974).
• George McLeod, 92, American basketball player (Baltimore Bullets).
• Lloyd Morrisett, 93, American psychologist and television producer (Sesame Street).
• Mursal Nabizada, 32, Afghan politician, member of the National Assembly (2019–2021), shot.
• Shaye Al-Nafisah, 60, Saudi Arabian footballer (Al-Kawab, national team).
• Gino Odjick, 52, Canadian ice hockey player (Vancouver Canucks, New York Islanders, Montreal Canadiens), heart attack.
• Ruslan Otverchenko, 33, Ukrainian basketball player (BC Budivelnyk, BC Prometey, national team), heart disease.
• Guadalupe Rivera Marín, 98, Mexican lawyer and politician, deputy (1961–1964, 1979–1982) and senator (1984–1988).
• Dilip Sardjoe, 73, Surinamese businessman and politician, chairman of the Basic Party for Renewal and Democracy (2007–2014).
• Ted Savage, 85, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers).
• Lewis Stevens, 86, British politician, MP (1983–1992).
• Gáspár Miklós Tamás, 74, Hungarian columnist (openDemocracy) and politician, MP (1989–1994).
• Jean Veloz, 98, American dancer and actress (Swing Fever, Where Are Your Children?, Jive Junction).
• Yoshimitsu Yamada, 84, Japanese aikido practitioner.

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• Kamal Aboki, 26, Nigerian comedian, traffic collision.
• Carrie Acheson, 88, Irish politician, TD (1981–1982).
• Lateef Afridi, 79, Pakistani lawyer and politician, president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (2020–2021) and MNA (1997–1999), shot.
• John Bicourt, 77, British Olympic middle-distance runner (1972, 1976).
• Manfred Böcker, 82, German politician, member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia (1980–2005).
• Mousse Boulanger, 96, Swiss writer and journalist.
• Inna Bychenkova, 81, Ukrainian theater and film artist, Merited Artist of Ukraine.
• Ann Thomas Callahan, 87, Canadian Cree nurse.
• Vladas Česiūnas, 82, Lithuanian sprint canoeist, Olympic champion (1972).
• Jean-Claude Coquet, 94, French linguist and semiotician.
• Tom Corcoran, 79, American novelist and photographer, cancer.
• Pierre Danos, 93, French rugby union player (RC Toulonnais, AS Béziers Hérault, national team).
• Mansour el-Essawy, 85, Egyptian politician, minister of interior (2011).
• Alan Glass, 90, Canadian artist.
• Guo Hong'an, 79, Chinese translator.
• Bjarne Hansen, 93, Norwegian footballer (Vålerenga, national team).
• Luisa Josefina Hernández, 94, Mexican writer, playwright and translator.
• Jann Hoffmann, 65, Danish darts player.
• Darysabel Isales, 88, Puerto Rican opera singer and actress ("Linda Sara").
• Humphry Knipe, 81, South African-born American sociologist, author, and adult film director.
• Gina Lollobrigida, 95, Italian actress (Bread, Love and Dreams, Come September, The Hunchback of Notre Dame).
• Giorgio Mariuzzo, 83, Italian screenwriter (The House by the Cemetery, The Beyond) and director (Apache Woman).
• Alice McPherson, 96, Canadian-born American physician.
• Jim Molan, 72, Australian general and politician, senator (2017–2019, since 2019), cancer.
• Mats Nordberg, 64, Swedish politician, MP (since 2018).
• Reino Nyyssönen, 87, Finnish tennis player. (death announced on this date)
• Brian Perry, 78, British-born Canadian ice hockey player (Oakland Seals, New York Islanders, Buffalo Sabres).
• Johnny Powers, 84, American rockabilly singer and guitarist.
• Arthur Ravenel Jr., 95, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1953–1959) and twice of the Senate, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1987–1995).
• John Rubino, 77, Italian-born Australian businessman.
• Lupe Serrano, 92, Chilean-born American ballerina, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Rasul Siddik, 73, American jazz trumpeter.
• Gary Smith, 64, American record producer, cancer.
• Jean-Pierre Swings, 79, American-born Belgian astronomer.
• Frank Thomas, 93, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Mets, Chicago Cubs).

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• Cecile Gray Bazelon, 95, American painter.
• Jay Briscoe, 38, American professional wrestler (ROH, CZW, NJPW), traffic collision.
• John Bura, 78, American Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch, auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia (2006–2019).
• Van Conner, 55, American bass guitarist (Screaming Trees), pneumonia.
• Teodor Corban, 65, Romanian actor (12:08 East of Bucharest, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Tales from the Golden Age).
• Jerome R. Cox Jr., 97, American computer scientist and entrepreneur.
• Graham James Davies, 87, Welsh Anglican priest, archdeacon of St Davids (1997–2002).
• Manana Doijashvili, 75, Georgian pianist.
• Leon Dubinsky, 81, Canadian actor (Life Classes, Pit Pony), theatre director and composer ("Rise Again").
• Maria Dworzecka, 81, Polish-American physicist and Holocaust survivor.
• George Ellis, 90, English athlete.
• Bjarne Eltang, 62, Danish Olympic rower (1988).
• Chris Ford, 74, American basketball player and coach (Detroit Pistons, Boston Celtics), NBA champion (1981, 1984, 1986).
• Chon Gallegos, 83, American football player (Oakland Raiders).
• Renée Geyer, 69, Australian singer ("Say I Love You", "Heading in the Right Direction", "Stares and Whispers"), complications from hip surgery.
• William Thomas Hart, 93, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois (since 1982).
• Heinz-Dieter Hasebrink, 81, German footballer (Rot-Weiss Essen, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Werder Bremen).
• Marko Janković, 75, Serbian journalist and politician.
• Badara Joof, 65, Gambian politician, vice-president (since 2022).
• Mamoru Kobayashi, 78, Japanese politician, MP (1990–2003).
• Gino Landi, 89, Italian choreographer and television and theatre director.
• Mark Leader, 63, American-Australian basketball player and coach, cancer.
• Dolores R. Leckey, 89, American Roman Catholic administrator.
• Liang Jincai, 95, Chinese aerospace engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Joe Martin, 91, Irish footballer (Dundalk).
• Jean-Claude Marty, 79, French rugby league player (FC Lézignan XIII, Racing Club Albi XIII, national team).
• Nicola Molè, 91, Italian lawyer and politician, president of the Province of Terni (1995–1999).
• Komba Mondeh, 56, Sierra Leonean army officer, deputy chairman of the National Provisional Ruling Council (1996). (death announced on this date)
• Namig Nasrullayev, 77, Azerbaijani politician, minister of economy (1996–2001), chairman of the Chamber of Accounts (2001–2007).
• Richard Oesterreicher, 90, Austrian guitarist and conductor.
• Arjan Paans, 53, Dutch journalist, cancer.
• Muhammad Prakosa, 62, Indonesian bureaucrat, diplomat, and politician, MP (2009–2021).
• Edward R. Pressman, 79, American film producer (Wall Street, Conan the Barbarian, Badlands).
• Jonathan Raban, 80, British travel writer, critic, and novelist (Soft City, Waxwings, For Love & Money).
• Josep Rahola i d'Espona, 104, Spanish engineer and politician, senator (1979–1986).
• Lucile Randon, 118, French supercentenarian, world's oldest living person (since 2022).
• Cornelius Rogge, 90, Dutch artist.
• Vladimir Rusalov, 83, Russian psychologist and anthropologist.
• Ralph L. Sacco, 65, American neurologist, glioblastoma.
• Rickin Sánchez, Puerto Rican wrestling, boxing and baseball television broadcaster.
• Sandra Seacat, 86, American acting coach (Andrew Garfield, Laura Dern) and actress (Under the Banner of Heaven).
• Edi Shukriu, 72, Kosovan politician, archaeologist, and writer. (death announced on this date)
• Robert Simmonds, 96, Canadian police officer, commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (1977–1987).
• Paul Soulikias, 96, Greek-Canadian painter, pneumonia.
• Stanislav Tereba, 85, Czech photojournalist.
• Ferenc Varga, 97, Hungarian sprint canoer, Olympic bronze medallist (1952).
• Pnina Werbner, 78, British social anthropologist, pulmonary embolism.
• Sir Samuel Whitbread, 85, British businessman and public servant.
• Nicola Zamboni, 79, Italian sculptor.
• Martinez Zogo, 51, Cameroonian journalist.

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• Catalino Arevalo, 97, Filipino priest and theologian.
• Helen Arnold, 95, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives (1976–1982).
• Henry Caicedo, 71, Colombian footballer (Independiente Medellín, Deportivo Cali, national team), complications from a stroke.
• Donn Cambern, 93, American film editor (Easy Rider, Romancing the Stone, Ghostbusters II), complications from a fall.
• Per Christiansson, 61, Swedish Olympic cyclist (1984), cancer.
• Herman Coessens, 79, Belgian actor (Ons geluk).
• David Crosby, 81, American Hall of Fame singer (The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) and songwriter ("Guinnevere"), complications from COVID-19.
• William Frank, 99, Canadian politician, MP (1972–1974).
• Clytus Gottwald, 97, German composer, conductor and musicologist.
• Win Headley, 73, American football player (Montreal Alouettes).
• Robert Hersh, 82, American lawyer.
• Jacques Jarry, 93, French linguist and archeologist.
• Gale D. Jones, 66, American artist.
• Tanya Leise, American biomathematician.
• Valiulla Maksutov, 68, Russian politician, senator (1996).
• John L. Murray, 79, Irish jurist, chief justice (2004–2011), judge of the Supreme Court (1999–2015) and the European Court of Justice (1992–1999).
• Melitta Muszely, 95, Austrian operatic soprano and voice teacher.
• Jagdish Nehra, 79, Indian politician, Haryana MLA (1982–1987).
• John Williams Ntwali, 43, Rwandan journalist.
• Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, 26, Venezuelan environmental activist, shot.
• Roslyn Pope, 84, American civil rights activist and writer (An Appeal for Human Rights).
• Leopold Potesil, 89, Austrian Olympic boxer (1952, 1956).
• Eileen Ramsay, 82, British author, pneumonia.
• Victor Rasgado, 63, Mexican pianist and composer.
• Bill Relph, 94, Scottish rugby union player (Edinburgh District, national team).
• Peter Scheiber, 87, American musician and audio engineer.
• Ted Schwarzman, 76, Australian footballer (St Kilda).
• Prabhaben Shah, 92, Indian social worker, heart disease.
• Zigi Shipper, 93, Polish Holocaust survivor.
• Charlie Twissell, 90, English Olympic footballer (1956, Plymouth Argyle F.C., York City F.C.).
• Paul Vecchiali, 92, French film director (At the Top of the Stairs, Rosa la rose, fille publique, Once More) and author.
• Marcel Zanini, 99, Turkish-born French jazz musician.
• Hakim Zaripov, 98, Uzbek circus performer, trick rider and horse trainer.
• Marius Zibolis, 48, Lithuanian goalball player, Paralympic silver medallist (2000, 2008).
• Notable Ukrainians killed in the 2023 Brovary helicopter crash:
  • Yurii Lubkovych, 33, diplomat
  • Denys Monastyrsky, 42, politician, minister of internal affairs (since 2021) and MP (2019–2021)
  • Yevhen Yenin, 42, politician, deputy minister of internal affairs (since 2021)

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• Andi Rasdiyanah Amir, 87, Indonesian scholar, rector of the Alauddin Islamic State Institute (1985–1994).
• Abdul Ghani Azhari, 101, Indian Islamic scholar.
• Gilles Beyer, 66, French figure skater and skating coach.
• Jim Bradbury, 85, British historian.
• Bertie Cunningham, 81, Irish Gaelic footballer (Meath).
• Kuldip Singh Dhillon, 72, Indian-British property developer and polo player.
• Carin Goldberg, 69, American graphic designer, glioblastoma.
• Claude Guillon, 70, French writer and philosopher.
• Nadir Latif İslam, 92–93, Turkish lawyer and politician, MP (1973–1977).
• Walter Antonio Jiménez, 83, Argentine footballer (Independiente, Colo-Colo, national team).
• Isuf Kalo, 80, Albanian physician.
• Frank Lange, 88, German Olympic bobsledder (1968).
• Jean-Claude Lemagny, 91, French library curator and photography historian.
• Tanja Linderborg, 79, Swedish politician, MP (1994–2002).
• Imre Mécs, 89, Hungarian politician, MP (1990–2010).
• Oladipo Ogunlesi, 99, Nigerian professor of medicine.
• Bert Peña, 63, Puerto Rican baseball player (Houston Astros), esophageal cancer.
• Sumitra Peries, 88, Sri Lankan film director (Gehenu Lamai, Ganga Addara, Yahaluvo).
• Nilmani Phookan Jr, 89, Indian poet.
• Andrey Popov, 59, Russian politician, MP (1993–1995).
• George Rose, 81, American football player (Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints).
• Norbert Sattler, 71, Austrian slalom canoeist, Olympic silver medallist (1972).
• Volodymyr Shcherbyna, 87, Ukrainian mathematician and politician, people's deputy (1990–1994).
• Ginger Stanley, 91, American model, actress and stunt woman (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Jupiter's Darling, Revenge of the Creature).
• Betty Lee Sung, 98, American activist, author and academic.
• David Sutherland, 89, Scottish illustrator and comics artist (The Beano, Dennis the Menace and Gnasher, The Bash Street Kids).
• Aranka Szentpétery, 89, Slovak actress.
• Peter Thomas, 78, English-Irish footballer (Waterford, Ireland national team).
• John Towner, 89, Australian footballer (Essendon, West Perth).
• Jos Van Riel, 79, Belgian footballer (Antwerp).
• Anton Walkes, 25, English footballer (Portsmouth, Atlanta United, Charlotte FC), boat collision.
• Illya Woloshyn, 44, Canadian actor (The Odyssey).
• Yoon Jeong-hee, 78, South Korean actress (Poetry, The Three-Day Reign, Oyster Village), complications from Alzheimer's disease.

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• Xavier Albó, 88, Spanish Jesuit priest, linguist and anthropologist.
• Sal Bando, 78, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Arizona State Sun Devils, Kansas City/Oakland Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers), World Series champion (1972, 1973, 1974), cancer.
• Tim Barlow, 87, English actor (Derek, Les Misérables, Hot Fuzz).
• Ted Bell, 76, American novelist, intracerebral hemorrhage.
• Tom Birmingham, 73, American politician, member (1991–2002) and president (1996–2002) of the Massachusetts Senate.
• Jerry Blavat, 82, American DJ and radio presenter, complications from myasthenia gravis.
• Stella Chiweshe, 76, Zimbabwean mbira player.
• James R. Eddy, 91, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1963–1968), leukemia.
• Albin Eser, 87, German jurist, director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (1991–1994).
• Fang Zhiyuan, 83, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Roy Garden, 61, Zimbabwean lawn bowler.
• Olivia Geerolf, 72, Belgian choreographer.
• Peter Gierasch, 82, American astronomer.
• Julien Goekint, 93, Belgian politician, mayor of Ostend (1980–1997).
• Loïc Guguen, 50, French dramatic baritone.
• Harunata, 69, Indonesian bureaucrat and politician, regent of Lahat (1998–2008).
• He Haoju, 100, Chinese politician, deputy (1983–1998).
• Pierce Higgins, 45, Irish hurler (Tooreen, Ballyhaunis, Mayo county), complications from motor neurone disease.
• Grigorijus Kanovičius, 93, Lithuanian writer.
• Hans Kasper, 84, German politician, member of the Landtag of Saarland (1970–1999).
• Gwen Knapp, 61, American sports journalist (The Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times), lymphoma.
• Paul La Farge, 52, American novelist, essayist and academic, cancer.
• Chris Leitch, 69, New Zealand politician, leader of the Social Credit Party (since 2018), cancer.
• Jiří Macháně, 82, Czech cinematographer (Beauty and the Beast, The Ninth Heart, Černí baroni).
• Michael Moussa Adamo, 62, Gabonese politician, minister of foreign affairs (since 2022), heart attack.
• Marvin Nash, 69, Jamaican-born Canadian Olympic sprinter (1976).
• Michaela Paetsch, 61, American violinist, cancer.
• Oleh Petrov, 62, Ukrainian politician, MP (1998–2006).
• Nano Riantiarno, 73, Indonesian playwright.
• Taufikurrahman Saleh, 73, Indonesian politician, member of the People's Representative Council (1999–2009).
• Richard Steadman, 85, American surgeon.
• Howard M. Tesher, 90, American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer.
• Nick Todd, 87, American pop singer.
• Sandra Trehub, 84, Canadian psychologist.
• Tom Villa, 77, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives (1974–1984, 2000–2008).

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• Erricos Andreou, 84, Greek film director (The Hook, Act of Reprisal) and screenwriter.
• Harjit Singh Arora, 61, Indian Air Force officer, vice chief of the air staff (2019–2021).
• Gaetano Azzolina, 91, Italian doctor and politician, deputy (1990–1992).
• B.G., the Prince of Rap, 57, American rapper and Eurodance artist ("The Colour of My Dreams", "Can We Get Enough?").
• Georges Banu, 79, Romanian-born French writer.
• Ritt Bjerregaard, 81, Danish politician, lord mayor of Copenhagen (2006–2009) and minister of education (1973, 1975–1979).
• Gabriel Dodo Ndoke, 51, Cameroonian politician, minister of mines, industries and technological development (since 2019).
• Simon Dunn, 35, Australian bobsledder and amateur rugby player.
• David Howard, 104, Canadian Olympic sailor (1956).
• Lepowura Alhaji M.N.D Jawula, 73, Ghanaian football administrator, president of the Ghana Football Association (1997–2000).
• Linda Kasabian, 73, American cult member (Manson Family).
• Inge Kaul, 78, German economist.
• Vuyokazi Ketabahle, 49, South African politician, member of the National Assembly of South Africa (2015–2018), stroke.
• René Laurin, 82, Canadian politician, MP (1993–2000).
• Micheál MacGréil, 91, Irish Jesuit priest, sociologist and author.
• Thulani Maseko, 52, Swazi human rights activist, shot.
• Peter Millar, 67, British journalist, stroke.
• Tom Nairn, 90, Scottish political theorist, fall.
• Gary Pettigrew, 78, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants), myelodysplastic syndrome.
• Marek Plura, 52, Polish politician and psychotherapist, MEP (2014–2019), complications from spinal muscular atrophy.
• Renée Radell, 93, American painter.
• Jullebee Ranara, 34, Filipino overseas worker. (body discovered on this date)
• Pino Roveredo, 68, Italian writer and theater director.
• Kurt Schneider, 90, Austrian racing cyclist.
• Bill Schonely, 93, American sports broadcaster (Portland Trail Blazers).
• Krishna Shenoy, 54, American neuroscientist, pancreatic cancer.
• Heino Sisask, 94, Estonian racewalker and sports administrator, chairman of the Estonian Gymnastics Federation (1984–1995).
• Włodzimierz Sroka, 55, Polish economist and manager.
• Stephanie Subercaseaux, 38, Chilean racing cyclist, suicide.
• Ravipudi Venkatadri, 100, Indian philosopher.
• Friedrich Weissensteiner, 95, Austrian historian and writer.
• Dan Willard, American computer scientist.
• Gabrielle Williams, 59, Australian author, stroke.

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• Sabir Ali, 67, Indian decathlete, cardiac arrest.
• Byram D. Avari, 81, Pakistani hotelier and sailor, owner of Avari Hotels.
• Ian Black, 69, British journalist (The Guardian), and author (Israel's Secret Wars), complications from frontotemporal lobar degeneration.
• Easley Blackwood Jr., 89, American composer (Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media), pianist, and professor.
• Lin Brehmer, 68, American disc jockey and radio personality (WXRT), prostate cancer.
• Lady Martha Bruce, 101, British aristocrat, prison governor and army officer.
• Matthew H. Clark, 85, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Rochester (1979–2012).
• Gianfranco Goberti, 83, Italian painter.
• John E. Gordon, 81, American rear admiral.
• Leopoldo Guerra, 68, Guatemalan public official and lawyer.
• David Hains, 92, Australian businessman and horse breeder.
• Thomas Hellberg, 81, Swedish actor (Rederiet).
• Darío Jara Saguier, 92, Paraguayan footballer (Rubio Ñu, Cerro Porteño, national team).
• Vaughan Johnson, 75, Australian politician, Queensland MLA (1989–2015).
• Octaviano Juarez-Corro, 49, Mexican-American fugitive (FBI Ten Most Wanted).
• Masaru Konuma, 85, Japanese film director (Flower and Snake, Tattooed Flower Vase, Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession), pneumonia.
• Marianne Mantell, 93, German-born American writer and audiobook executive, co-founder of Caedmon Audio.
• Seyed Abolhassan Mokhtabad, 53, Iranian journalist, heart attack.
• Lenie de Nijs, 83, Dutch swimmer, European champion (1958).
• Sal Piro, 72, American fan club president (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) and author (Creatures of the Night), aneurysm.
• Zhanna Pliyeva, 73, Georgian composer and pianist.
• Siddheshwar Prasad, 94, Indian politician, governor of Tripura (1995–2000) and MP (1962–1977).
• Mario Pupella, 77, Italian actor (Angela, Salvo, Padrenostro) and theater director.
• Hossein Shahabi, 55, Iranian film director (For the Sake of Mahdi, The Sale, The Bright Day) and screenwriter, lung infection.
• Bernd Uhl, 76, German Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Freiburg (2001–2018).
• Agustí Villaronga, 69, Spanish film director (In a Glass Cage, Moon Child, Black Bread), screenwriter and actor.
• Sam Bass Warner Jr., 94, American historian.
• Nikos Xanthopoulos, 88, Greek actor and singer, heart disease.

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• Abd Rani Osman, 64, Malaysian politician, Selangor State MLA (2008–2018), heart disease.
• Joseph Agassi, 95, Israeli philosopher and author (The Continuing Revolution).
• Pamela Kirkham, 16th Baroness Berners, 93, British hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords (1995–1999), stroke.
• Patrizio Billio, 48, Italian footballer (Crystal Palace, Ancona, Dundee), heart attack.
• Milton Bradley, 88, British racehorse trainer.
• Álvaro Colom, 71, Guatemalan engineer, businessman and politician, president (2008–2012), cancer and pulmonary emphysema.
• George Crabtree, 78, American physicist.
• Paul A. David, 87, American economist and academic.
• Jozef Dravecký, 75, Slovak diplomat, ambassador to Bulgaria (1993–1998), Latvia and Lithuania (2000–2005), and the Holy See (2007–2013).
• Franklin Delano Floyd, 79, American murderer and rapist.
• Stan Franklin, 91, American scientist (Artificial Minds).
• Hu Guangzhen, 95, Chinese electronic engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Hiromitsu Kadota, 74, Japanese Hall of Fame baseball player (Nankai Hawks, Orix Braves).
• Dolores Kondrashova, 86, Russian hairdresser.
• Kweon Kab-yong, 65, South Korean Go player.
• Serge Laget, 63, French board game designer (Mare Nostrum, Mystery of the Abbey).
• William Lawvere, 85, American mathematician.
• Fred Lindop, 84, British rugby league referee.
• Mary Niles Maack, 77, American librarian and historian, cancer.
• Edrissa Marong, 27, Gambian long-distance runner.
• Eugenio Martín, 97, Spanish film director (Bad Man's River, The Ugly Ones, Horror Express) and screenwriter.
• Stuart Murray, 89, Scottish golfer.
• Victor Navasky, 90, American journalist (The Nation, Monocle, The New York Times Magazine).
• Polo Polo, 78, Mexican comedian.
• Everett Quinton, 71, American actor (Natural Born Killers, Pollock, Bros), glioblastoma.
• E. Ramdoss, 66, Indian film director, screenwriter (Aayiram Pookkal Malarattum, Ravanan) and actor, heart attack.
• Sami Sharaf, 93, Egyptian military officer.
• Carol Sloane, 85, American jazz singer, complications from a stroke.
• Top Topham, 75, English guitarist (The Yardbirds).
• Valeri Urin, 88, Russian football player (Dynamo Moscow, Daugava Riga, Soviet Union national team) and manager.
• Harald de Vlaming, 68, Dutch Olympic sailor (1976).
• Roland Weller, 84, French businessman, president of RC Strasbourg Alsace (1994–1997).

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• Oladejo Victor Akinlonu, 59, Nigerian artist.
• Zaza Aleksidze, 87, Georgian historian and linguist.
• Jean Anderson, 93, American cookbook author.
• Benito Bollati, 96, Italian lawyer and politician, deputy (1974–1979).
• Edward C. Chalfant, 85, American Episcopalian clergyman, bishop of Maine (1986–1996).
• Raymond Cross, 74, American attorney, complications from a spinal tumor.
• B. V. Doshi, 95, Indian architect (CEPT University, Tagore Memorial Hall, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore), Pritzker Prize winner (2018).
• Christelle Doumergue, 59, French basketball player (Clermont UC, Tango Bourges Basket, national team).
• Mounir Jelili, 73, Tunisian Olympic handball player (1972, 1976).
• Lance Kerwin, 62, American actor (James at 15, The Loneliest Runner, Salem's Lot).
• Ole Didrik Lærum, 82, Norwegian oncologist and academic administrator, rector of the University of Bergen (1990–1995).
• Mira Lehr, 88, American artist.
• Li Zhao, 82, Chinese landmine expert, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• George Magoha, 70, Kenyan surgeon and academic administrator, vice chancellor of the University of Nairobi (2005–2015) and minister of education (since 2019), cardiac arrest.
• Frank Mestnik, 84, American football player (St. Louis Cardinals, Green Bay Packers).
• Mònica Miquel Serdà, 60, Spanish politician, deputy (2003–2004).
• Panteleimon, 87, Greek Orthodox prelate, metropolitan of Belgium and exarchate of the Netherlands and Luxembourg (1982–2013).
• Jackson Rohm, 51, American singer-songwriter.

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• Wolfgang Altenburg, 94, German general, inspector general of the Bundeswehr (1983–1986) and chairman of the NATO Military Committee (1986–1989).
• Taijirō Amazawa, 86, Japanese poet and scholar.
• Khadija Assad, 70–71, Moroccan actress, cancer.
• Noah Cowan, 55, Canadian artistic director (TIFF Bell Lightbox, SFFILM), glioblastoma.
• Maria Deroche, 84, Brazilian-born French architect.
• James Edmonds, 84, American Olympic rower (1964).
• Shimon Elituv, 85, Israeli Orthodox rabbi.
• David Ewins, 80, British mechanical engineer.
• Hugh Fletcher, 89, Scottish footballer (Carlisle United, Celtic).
• Pamela Anne Gordon, 79, Canadian model.
• Titewhai Harawira, 90, New Zealand Māori activist.
• Franciszek Jamroż, 79, Polish trade unionist and politician, mayor of Gdańsk (1991–1994).
• Shantabai Kamble, 99, Indian writer.
• Roger Louret, 72, French actor, playwright, and theatre director.
• Bernhard T. Mittemeyer, 92, American lieutenant general, surgeon general of the U.S. Army (1981–1985).
• José Reis Pereira, 79, Brazilian politician, Piauí MLA (1987–1991).
• Duncan Pugh, 48, Australian Olympic bobsledder (2010), brain aneurysm.
• Willie Richardson, 74, American civil rights activist.
• Barbara Stanley, 73, American psychologist, ovarian cancer.
• Peter Stead, 92, English cricketer (Canadian national team).
• Bilal al-Sudani, Somali terrorist.
• Miki Takai, 55, Japanese journalist.
• José Javier Viñes Rueda, 85, Spanish politician, senator (1989–1993), member of the Navarrese parliament (1983–1991, 1999–2003).
• Cindy Williams, 75, American actress (Laverne & Shirley, American Graffiti, The Conversation).
• John Gordon Williamson, 86, English cricketer (Northamptonshire, Durham, Cheshire).
• Bob Young, 83, American college football coach (Sioux Falls Cougars).

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• Dave Albright, 63, American football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders), heart attack.
• Rodolfo Ares, 68, Spanish politician, member of the Basque Parliament (1994–2009, 2012–2016).
• Sayyid Ghulam Hussain Shah Bukhari, 90, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
• Dean Daughtry, 76, American keyboard player (The Candymen, Classics IV, Atlanta Rhythm Section).
• Sepp Dürr, 69, German politician, member of the Landtag of Bavaria (1998–2018), cancer.
• Diana Fisher, 91, Australian television personality (The Inventors, Beauty and the Beast) and commentator, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
• Fiona Graham, 61, Australian anthropologist and geisha.
• Zdeňka Hradilová, 84, Czech Olympic sprint canoer (1964).
• Helene L. Kaplan, 89, American lawyer.
• Attilio Labis, 86, French ballet dancer and teacher.
• Jessie Lemonier, 25, American football player (Los Angeles Chargers, Detroit Lions).
• Eduard Lobau, 34, Belarusian political activist, shot.
• Peter McCann, 74, American songwriter ("Do You Wanna Make Love", "Right Time of the Night") and musician.
• Billy Packer, 82, American sports broadcaster and analyst (ACC, NCAA Final Four), kidney failure.
• Gary Peters, 85, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox).
• Peter G. J. Pulzer, 93, Austrian-born British historian.
• Judo. K. K. Rathnam, 92, Indian stuntman (Thamarai Kulam, Vallavan Oruvan, Thalai Nagaram).
• Allan Ryan, 77, American attorney, heart attack.
• Abdul Jabar Sabet, 78, Afghan politician, attorney general (2006–2008).
• Edgar Schein, 94, Swiss-born American business theorist and psychologist.
• Irvine Shillingford, 78, Dominican cricketer (West Indies, Combined Islands, Windward Islands).
• Dmitri Shkidchenko, Ukrainian figure skater and coach.
• Mesir Suryadi, 79, Indonesian politician, member of the People's Representative Council (2004–2009).
• Keith Thomson, 81, New Zealand Olympic field hockey player (1968), and cricketer (Canterbury, national team).
• Vo Van Ai, 87, Vietnamese poet, journalist and human-rights activist.
• Wang Wei, 85, Chinese physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Alice Wolf, 89, Austrian-born American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1996–2013), leukemia.

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• Albert Almanza, 86, Mexican Olympic basketball player (1960, 1964).
• Raimo Aulis Anttila, 87, Finnish linguist.
• Anthony Arlidge, 85, British barrister and judge.
• Daniel Boone, 80, English pop musician ("Beautiful Sunday").
• Bob Chrystal, 92, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers).
• Marcia G. Cooke, 68, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Southern Florida (since 2004).
• Robert Dalva, 80, American film editor (The Black Stallion, Captain America: The First Avenger, Jumanji), lymphoma.
• Gerard Escoda, 50, Spanish footballer (Reus, Villarreal) and sporting director (CE Sabadell), cancer.
• Pietro Forquet, 97, Italian bridge player.
• R. Kent Greenawalt, 86, American academic.
• Gregory Allen Howard, 70, American screenwriter and film producer (Remember the Titans, Ali, Harriet), heart failure.
• Shahidul Islam, 65, Bangladeshi politician, MP (2002–2006), complications from diabetes.
• Jamuna, 86, Indian actress (Milan, Pandanti Kapuram) and politician, MP (1989–1991).
• Gulmira Karimova, 45, Kazakh politician, senator (since 2023).
• Aleksander Krawczuk, 100, Polish historian and politician, minister of culture (1986–1989) and MP (1991–1997).
• Alfred Leslie, 95, American painter and film director (Pull My Daisy), COVID-19.
• Li Wenjun, 92, Chinese translator.
• Emmie Lucassen-Reynders, 87, Dutch chemist.
• Mikhail Mustygin, 85, Belarusian footballer (Avangard-Kortek, CSK MO, Dinamo Minsk).
• Srinivasa Murthy, Indian dubbing artist, cardiac arrest.
• Michiko Nagai, 97, Japanese historical fiction writer.
• Albert Okura, 71, American businessman, founder of Juan Pollo, sepsis.
• Saša Petrović, 61, Bosnian-Serbian actor (It's Hard to Be Nice, Fuse, Lud, zbunjen, normalan).
• Ghislaine Pierie, 53, Dutch actress, film director, and stage director (Baantjer, Moordvrouw, SpangaS).
• Martin Purtscher, 94, Austrian politician, governor of Vorarlberg (1987–1997).
• Alexander Pushnitsa, 73, Russian sambo practitioner, cancer.
• William J. Riley, 75, American jurist, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (since 2001).
• David Rimmer, 81, Canadian avant-garde filmmaker, and educator.
• Malcolm Robbins, 62, American serial killer and rapist.
• Floyd Sneed, 80, Canadian drummer (Three Dog Night).
• Sylvia Syms, 89, English actress (At Home with the Braithwaites, The Queen, Ice Cold in Alex).
• Ting Chiang, 86, Taiwanese actor (Four Loves, The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful, All in 700) and film director.
• Isaac Trachtenberg, 99, Ukrainian toxicologist, member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
• Donald Trelford, 85, British journalist, editor of The Observer (1975–1993), cancer.
• Derek Tulk, 88, English cricketer (Hampshire).
• Yang Yi, 103, Chinese literary translator.

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• Amru Daulay, 83, Indonesian politician, regent of Mandailing Natal (2000–2010).
• Hilda Bettermann, 80, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1991–1999).
• Jacques Bloch, 98, French resistance fighter.
• Odd Børre, 83, Norwegian pop singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1968).
• Gérard Caillaud, 76, French actor (The Accuser, L'argent des autres, The Dogs) and stage director.
• Phil Coles, 91, Australian sports administrator and Olympic sprint canoeist (1960, 1964, 1968).
• Garth Everett, 69, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (2007–2020), cancer.
• Hussain Rabi Gandhi, 74, Indian writer and political activist.
• Jane F. Gardner, 88, British historian and academic.
• Max Huwyler, 91, Swiss writer.
• Stefan Kjernholm, 71, Swedish Olympic luger (1976, 1980).
• Krister Kristensson, 80, Swedish footballer (Malmö, Trelleborg, national team).
• Eva Kushner, 93, Canadian academic.
• Viola Léger, 92, Canadian actress (Jerome's Secret) and politician, senator (2001–2005).
• Kent Lockhart, 59, American-born Australian basketball player (Eastside Spectres, Albany Patroons).
• Lisa Loring, 64, American actress (The Addams Family, Blood Frenzy, As the World Turns), stroke.
• Paulo Roberto de Souza Matos, 78, Brazilian politician, deputy (1987–1991).
• Evgeny Mogilevsky, 77, Russian pianist.
• Adama Niane, 56, French actor (Baise-moi, Get In, Lupin).
• Landon Pearson, 92, Canadian author and politician, senator (1994–2005).
• Dan Ramos, 41, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (2011–2019).
• Xavier Rubert de Ventós, 83, Spanish politician, philosopher, and writer, deputy (1982–1986) and MEP (1986–1994).
• Harold Rusland, 84, Surinamese politician, minister of education (1980–1983).
• Jaroslav Šedivý, 93, Czech politician, minister of foreign affairs (1997–1998).
• Jiří Šetlík, 93, Czech art historian and academic.
• Paul Stevenson, 82, English major general.
• Barrett Strong, 81, American singer ("Money (That's What I Want)") and songwriter ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine", "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone").
• Carlo Tavecchio, 79, Italian football executive, president of the FIGC (2014–2017), lung disease.
• Tom Verlaine, 73, American musician (Television), songwriter ("Marquee Moon") and producer (Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk).
• Hershell West, 82, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals) and coach.
• Robert J. Winglass, 87, American lieutenant general and politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives (1995–1998).
• Vasily Zakharyashchev, 77, Russian politician, deputy (2007–2011).

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• George Beven, 93, Sri Lankan-British artist.
• Vito Chimenti, 69, Italian football player (Matera, Palermo, Taranto) and manager, heart attack.
• Naba Das, 61, Indian politician, member of the Odisha Legislative Assembly (since 2009), shot.
• Adriana Dias, 52, Brazilian anthropologist and activist, brain cancer.
• John Devine, 82, Australian football player and coach (Geelong, North Hobart).
• Vadym Dobizha, 81, Ukrainian football manager (Zorya Luhansk, JK Sillamäe Kalev).
• Ross Gillespie, 87, New Zealand Olympic field hockey player (1960, 1964) and two-time Olympic coach.
• Gopal Sri Ram, 79, Malaysian jurist, judge of the Federal Court (2009–2010), lung infection.
• Sitiveni Halapua, 73, Tongan politician, MP (2010–2014).
• Brandon Jackson, 88, British Anglican priest, dean of Lincoln (1989–1997).
• Barrie Juniper, 90, British plant scientist and author (The Carnivorous Plants).
• Masood Sharif Khan Khattak, 72, Pakistani intelligence officer, director-general of the Intelligence Bureau (1993–1996).
• Michael Krebs, 66, American actor (Field of Lost Shoes).
• Vatti Vasant Kumar, 67, Indian politician, Andhra Pradesh MLA (2004–2014).
• Heddy Lester, 72, Dutch singer and actress.
• Hazel McCallion, 101, Canadian politician, mayor of Mississauga (1978–2014), pancreatic cancer.
• Gerhard Moehring, 101, German teacher and local historian.
• Henry Moore, 88, American football player (New York Giants, Baltimore Colts).
• John D. Morris, 76, American young earth creationist.
• Bernard A. Newcomb, 79, American businessman, co-founder of E-Trade.
• Simon Ifede Ogouma, 89, Beninese politician, minister of foreign affairs (1980–1982).
• Dmytro Pavlychko, 93, Ukrainian poet, translator and diplomat, ambassador to Slovakia (1995–1998) and Poland (1999–2002).
• George R. Robertson, 89, Canadian actor (Police Academy, E.N.G., JFK).
• Gordon Rohlehr, 80, Guyanese academic.
• Mandeep Roy, 73, Indian actor (Minchina Ota, Baadada Hoo, Benkiya Bale), cardiac arrest.
• Roger Schank, 76, American artificial intelligence theorist.
• Kyle Smaine, 31, American freestyle skier, avalanche.
• Will Steffen, 75, American-born Australian climatologist and chemist, pancreatic cancer.
• Gero Storjohann, 64, German politician, MP (since 2002), member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein (1994–2002).
• Leif Svanström, 79, Swedish doctor.
• Gabriel Tacchino, 88, French classical pianist.
• Sidney Thornton, 68, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
• Piotr Waśko, 61, Polish politician, MP (2007–2011).
• Annie Wersching, 45, American actress (24, The Last of Us, Runaways), cancer.
• Graham Winteringham, 99, English architect (Crescent Theatre).
• Gerhard Woitzik, 95, German politician, chairman of the Centre Party (1974–1986, 1996–2009, 2011–2021).

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• John Adams, 71, American baseball superfan (Cleveland Indians/Guardians) and drummer.
• Viktor Ageyev, 86, Russian water polo player, Olympic silver medallist (1960).
• Jesús Aguilar Padilla, 70, Mexican politician, governor of Sinaloa (2005–2010).
• Bobby Beathard, 86, American Hall of Fame football executive (Miami Dolphins, Washington Redskins, San Diego Chargers), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Pat Bunch, 83, American country music songwriter ("I'll Still Be Loving You", "Wild One", "Living in a Moment").
• Fernando Elboj Broto, 76, Spanish teacher and politician, senator (1982–1989, 2008–2011).
• Andrew Grimwade, 92, Australian chemical engineer and scientist.
• Ryszard Gryglewski, 90, Polish pharmacologist and physician.
• Ann Harding, 64, Australian economist.
• Sir Michael Heller, 86, British mining executive, chairman of Bisichi Mining and London & Associated Properties.
• Donald M. Hess, 86, Swiss winemaker and art collector.
• Bobby Hull, 84, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks, Winnipeg Jets, Hartford Whalers), Stanley Cup champion (1961).
• John Bailey Jones, 95, American jurist and politician, judge of the U.S. District Court for South Dakota (since 1981) and member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (1956–1960).
• László Kordás, 53, Hungarian trade unionist and politician, MP (since 2022), heart attack.
• Li Jieshou, 98, Chinese surgeon and engineer.
• Ann McLaughlin Korologos, 81, American politician, secretary of labor (1987–1989), complications from meningitis.
• Charly Loubet, 77, French footballer (Cannes, Nice, national team).
• Celeste McCollough, 96, American psychologist (McCollough effect).
• Gerald Mortag, 64, German cyclist, Olympic silver medallist (1980).
• Ouyang Pingkai, 77, Chinese engineer and academic administrator, president of Nanjing Tech University (2001–2012) and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Linda Pastan, 90, American poet, cancer.
• Shamsul Alam Pramanik, 70, Bangladeshi politician, MP (1996–2008), complications from diabetes.
• Alexis Ravelo, 51, Spanish writer.
• Mike Schrunk, 80, American district attorney, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Albert Schweitzer, 101, American newspaper cartoonist (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).
• Félix Sienra, 107, Uruguayan Olympic sailor (1948).
• Charles Silverstein, 87, American writer (The Joy of Gay Sex), therapist and gay activist.
• Pedo Terlaje, 76, American politician, member of the Legislature of Guam (since 2019).
• James Alexander Thom, 89, American author.
• Ting Pang-hsin, 86, Chinese linguist.
• K. V. Tirumalesh, 82, Indian writer and poet.
• Diana Tomkinson, 79, British Olympic alpine skier (1968).
• Jeff Vlaming, 63, American television writer and producer (The X-Files, Hannibal, The 100), cancer.
• Teddy Joseph Von Nukem, 35, American white supremacist, suicide by gunshot.

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• Tiba al-Ali, 22, Iraqi-born Turkish social media personality, strangulation.
• Louis-Charles Bary, 96, French trade unionist and politician, mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine (2002–2008).
• Cleonice Berardinelli, 106, Brazilian writer, member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
• Shanti Bhushan, 97, Indian lawyer and politician, minister of law and justice (1977–1979).
• Cleve Bryant, 75, American college football player (Ohio Bobcats) and coach (Illinois Fighting Illini, Texas Longhorns).
• Lou Campanelli, 84, American basketball coach (James Madison Dukes, California Golden Bears).
• Anna Czerwińska, 73, Polish mountaineer.
• Errol Dixon, 86, Jamaican blues singer and pianist.
• Joyce Dopkeen, 80, American photographer (The New York Times).
• David Durenberger, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1978–1995), heart failure.
• Dave Elder, 47, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).
• General Transporter, Cameroonian Ambazonian rebel leader.
• Mark S. Golub, 77, American rabbi and media entrepreneur (Jewish Broadcasting Service).
• Jorunn Hageler, 76, Norwegian politician, MP (1993–1997).
• Donie Hanlon, 85, Irish Gaelic footballer (Gracefield, Offaly county).
• Tyler James Hoare, 82, American designer, artist, and sculptor.
• Alan Hurst, 77, British politician, MP (1997–2005).
• Bernd Karwofsky, 77, German Olympic ski jumper (1968).
• Kim Young-hee, 59, South Korean basketball player, Olympic silver medallist (1984), brain cancer.
• Jan Kudra, 85, Polish Olympic cyclist (1964).
• C. Lalitha, 84, Indian Carnatic singer (Bombay Sisters), heart attack.
• Nicole Lattès, 84, French editor.
• Luiz Suzin Marini, 87, Brazilian politician, Santa Catarina MLA (1991–1999).
• Josefina Angélica Meabe, 83, Argentine rancher and politician, senator (2009–2015).
• Willie Milne, 71, Scottish professional golfer, cardiac arrest.
• Joe Moss, 92, American football player (Washington Redskins) and coach (Philadelphia Eagles, Toronto Argonauts).
• Henrik Nordbrandt, 77, Danish poet (Drømmebroer), novelist and essayist.
• Kadriye Nurmambet, 89, Romanian traditional folk singer and folklorist.
• Luigi Pasinetti, 92, Italian economist.
• Ilya São Paulo, 59, Brazilian actor (The Amulet of Ogum, The Third Bank of the River, Amor de Mãe).
• Edmond Roudnitska, 91, French Olympic hurdler (1952, 1956, 1960).
• Egon Schmidt, 91, Hungarian ornithologist and natural historian.
• Dennis Schneider, 80, Canadian politician, member and speaker of the Yukon Legislative Assembly (2000–2002).
• Tom Schoen, 77, American football player (Cleveland Browns).
• Barbara Scofield, 96, American tennis player.
• Eddie Spence, 97, Northern Irish Gaelic footballer (Antrim).
• Charlie Thomas, 85, American Hall of Fame singer (The Drifters), liver cancer.

Demographics

The world population on January 1, 2023 was estimated at 7.943 billion people, and was expected to increase to 8.119 billion on January 1, 2024. An estimated 134.3 million births and 60.8 million deaths were expected to take place in 2023. The average global life expectancy was 73.16 years, an increase of 0.18 years from 2022. The rate of child mortality was by the end of the year, expected to have decreased from 2022. Less than 23% of people were living in extreme poverty (on or below the international poverty line), a decrease from 2022. In April, India surpassed China as the most populated country in the world.

Best-selling media

• The best-selling video game in 2023 was Hogwarts Legacy.
• The highest-grossing movie in 2023 was Barbie.
• The best-selling book in 2023 was It Ends with Us, which was published in 2016. Of the books to be published in 2023, Spare was the best-selling.