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Ecuadorian Roman Catholic priest and child sex abuser.

Fernando Becerril (78)

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Leontii Voitovych (71)

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American Hall of Fame football player (Ottawa Rough Riders).

Marcel Duriez (82)

French Olympic hurdler.

Arnold Schulman (97)

American screenwriter (Love With the Proper Stranger

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Czech artist

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Nigerian women's rights activist.

Wu Zhongru (83)

Chinese hydraulic engineer

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English bass player.

Boris T. Polyak (87)

Soviet and Russian mathematician

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American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers).

Jerry W. Tillman (82)

American politician

Khalipha Nando (81)

Filipino Wa'lī of Bangsamoro.

Charlie Norris (59)

American professional wrestler.

Paul Janovitz (54)

American musician (Cold Water Flat) and photographer.

Joe Edwards (75)

American journalist.

Le Le (24)

Chinese giant panda.

T. P. Gajendran (68)

Indian film director and actor.

Roberto Ongpin (86)

Filipino businessman and Minister of Commerce and Industry.

Gennady Matveyev (footballer, 1949) (1949)

Soviet Russian footballer (Khimik Novomoskovsk

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American basketball player (Baltimore Bullets).

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Palestinian poet and political activist.

Abraham Lempel (86)

Israeli computer scientist (LZ77 and LZ78).

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Billy Galligan (86)

Irish hurler.

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Spanish language writer

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American theatre director.

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Giuseppina Bersani (73)

Italian Olympic fencer.

Derek Tulk (88)

English cricketer (Hampshire).

José Luiz de Magalhães Lins (93)

Brazilian banker.

Butch Miles (78)

American jazz drummer.

Vani Jairam (77)

Indian playback singer (Sankarabharanam

Stephanie Subercaseaux (38)

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Luciano Armani (82)

Italian racing cyclist.

Linda Matar (98)

Lebanese women's rights activist.

Shevah Weiss (87)

Israeli politician

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Caspar Richter (78)

German conductor (Vereinigte Bühnen Wien).

Miroslav Lacký (79)

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German theatre director.

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Irish Gaelic footballer.

Tim Quy

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Richard Woolcott (95)

Australian diplomat

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Chen Qizhi (97)

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french journalist.

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