Fr Bernard de Give — 106, Trappist monk of Scourmont in Belgium and Tibetologist
Jean Delumeau — 96, Catholic academic and historian of mentalities
Jacques Houplain — 99, French engraver and painter
Joseph A. O’Hare S.J. — 89, only Bronx-born president of Fordham University
Edward Millward — 89, academic, co-founder of the Welsh Language Society, tutored the Prince of Wales in Welsh
Garth Owen-Smith — 76, Namibian conservationist
Mike Auret — 83, farmer, MP, and “the most Catholic man in Zimbabwe”
Jacques Le Brun — 88, expert on Bossuet, Fenelon, and historian of seventeenth-century Christianity
Fr François de Gaulle — 98, French missionary in Africa, nephew of Gen. de Gaulle
Wilson Roosevelt Jerman — 91, White House butler who served eleven U.S. presidents
Émile Chaline — 98, French admiral and résistant de la première heure
Anne Kernan — 87, Irish particle physicist at CERN and in California
Zeev Sternhell — 85, Israeli academic and leading theorist on fascism
Christophe Keckeis — 75, Swiss Chief of the Armed Forces
Elsa Joubert — 97, Sestigers writer and Chancellor of Stellenbosch University
Jean Raspail — 94, writer
Yvonne, Lady Cochrane — 98, Lebanese aristocrat and philanthropist
Dirk Mudge — 92, Namibian politician and newspaper founder
Desmond Guinness — 89, founder of the Irish Georgian Society
Jean-Louis Ferrary — 72, French historian of ancient Rome
Amaresh Datta — 102, chief editor of the Encyclopedia of Indian Literature
Pete Hamill — 85, New York journalist and writer
Carlisle Trost — 90, American admiral and former Chief of Naval Operations
Constand Viljoen — apartheid-era Chief of the South African Defence Force later democratically elected an Member of Parliament
László Török — 79, Hungarian historian, archaeologist, and Egyptologist
2nd Lt Irma Dryden — 100, one of the last Tuskegee Airmen nurses
Edgard Tupët-Thomé — 100, Free French army officer and Kantangese mercenary
Henrietta Boggs — 102, former First Lady of Costa Rica
George Bizos — 92, lawyer who defended Mandela at the Rivonia trial
Vladimir Osipov — 82, publisher of Slavophile samizdats
George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil — 95, Royal Navy veteran and chairman of Biltmore Farms in North Carolina
Abai Ikwechegh — 97, Nigerian jurist and Justice of the Court of Appeal
Shlomo Gazit — 93, former head of Israeli Military Intelligence
Fr Bede Lackner — 93, Hungarian-born American academic and Cistercian monk
Basil Yamey — 101, South African economist, former trustee of the National Gallery and the Tate, author of Art and Accounting
Carlos G. Vallés S.J. — 95, Spanish writer and mathematician in India and recipient of the highest award for Gujarati literature
Andrzej Wawrzyniak — 89, Polish sailor and diplomat and founder of the largest collection of Indonesian art
Joseph Altairac — 63, literary critic, expert on subterranean literature, and France’s most prominent Lovecraftian
Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles — 98, Portuguese academic, politician, monarchist, and conservationist
Keith Hitchins — 89, America’s leading expert on the history of Romania
Archbishop Henri Teissier — 91, successor of Cardinal Duval as Archbishop of Algiers (1988 to 2008)
Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore — 72, Justice of the Supreme Court and second Catholic Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
Bernard Vogler — 85, the leading historian of Alsace
Theodore Ziolkowski — 88, American scholar of German comparative literature, awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz (first class)
Tabaré Vázquez — 80, oncologist and president of Uruguay who vetoed the legalisation of abortion
Paul W. Schroeder — 93, American historian who blamed Great Britain for the First World War
Walter Hooper — 89, writer, C.S. Lewis expert, and Anglican clergyman turned Catholic convert
Bill Holm — 95, art historian who highlighted the indigenous art of the Pacific Northwest
Tim Severin — 80, explorer and historian who retraced St Brendan’s journey to the New World in a currach
Makosso IV — 76, the seventeenth King of Loango in the Congo