the District of South Carolina (1979–2003). David E. H. Jones, 79, British chemist and author. Jordin Kare, 60, American aerospace engineer, complications from heart valve surgery. Évelyne Prouvost, 78, French businesswoman and magazine executive (Marie Claire), fall. Ralph Regula, 92, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 16th congressional district (1973–2009). Fenwick Smith, 69, American flutist (Boston Symphony Orchestra). Mary Turner, 79, Irish-born British trade unionist. Joe Walters, 79, Scottish footballer (Clyde). Barbara Weldens, 35, French singer, cardiac arrest. Graham Wood, 45, Australian jazz pianist, bile duct cancer. 20 Chester Bennington, 41, American singer and songwriter (Linkin Park, Dead by Sunrise, Stone Temple Pilots), suicide by hanging. David R. Brink, 97, American attorney, president of the American Bar Association (1981–1982). Marco Aurélio Garcia, 76, Brazilian politician, heart attack. Grand Armee, 18, Australian racehorse. Stephen Haseler, 75, British academic. Andrea Jürgens, 50, German schlager singer, kidney failure. Jesse Kalisher, 55, American photographer, cancer. Bernhard Kempa, 96, German handball player and coach (Göppingen). Kenneth Jay Lane, 85, American costume jewelry designer. John McCluskey, Baron McCluskey, 88, Scottish lawyer, judge and life peer, Solicitor General for Scotland (1974–1979). Ben Portis, 56, Canadian artist and curator, traffic collision. Pudsey, 11, British performing dog (Britain's Got Talent, Pudsey: The Movie, Mr Stink), blood cancer. Joseph Rago, 34, American journalist (The Wall Street Journal), sarcoidosis. Claude Rich, 88, French actor (Je t'aime, je t'aime). Robbie Savage, 50, Namibian football mascot, diabetic ketoacidosis. Deborah Schiffrin, 56, American linguist. Peter Sears, 80, American poet. Jonathan Shurberg, 54, American attorney and politician. 21 Peter Doohan, 56, Australian tennis player, motor neurone disease. Anne Dufourmantelle, 53, French philosopher, drowned. Errol Dyers, 65, South African jazz guitarist and composer, emphysema. Howard Eichenbaum, 69, American psychologist and neuroscientist, complications of spinal surgery. Predrag Gojković Cune, 84, Serbian singer. John Heard, 71, American actor (Home Alone, Big, Prison Break), heart attack. Hasan Akbar Kamal, 71, Pakistani poet and writer. Nikolay Kamenskiy, 85, Russian Olympic ski jumper (1960), world championship silver medalist (1962). Yami Lester, 75, Australian Aboriginal and anti-nuclear activist. Geoff Mack, 94, Australian country singer-songwriter ("I've Been Everywhere"). Jacques Nahum, 96, French television producer. Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim, 89, American businessman (Pilgrim's Pride). Jon van Rood, 91, Dutch immunologist. Hrvoje Šarinić, 82, Croatian politician, Prime Minister (1992–1993). Kenny Shields, 69, Canadian singer (Streetheart), complications from heart surgery. Stubbs, 20, American cat, honorary mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska (since 1997). Soxie