Deaths in April 2011


Deaths in April 2011


The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2011.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

  • Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

April 2011

1

  • Peter Baumann, 75, Swiss psychiatrist.
  • Lou Gorman, 82, American baseball executive and general manager (Boston Red Sox, Seattle Mariners).
  • Jane Gregory, 51, British Olympic equestrian, heart attack.
  • George Gryaznov, 77, Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust (1989–1996), stroke.
  • Manning Marable, 60, American professor (Columbia University).
  • Edel Ojeda, 82, Mexican Olympic boxer.
  • Georgi Rusev, 82, Bulgarian theatre and film actor.
  • Siri Skare, 52, Norwegian lieutenant colonel, first Norwegian female military pilot.
  • Varkey Vithayathil, 83, Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic hierarch, Cardinal (from 2001), Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly (from 1999).
  • Brynle Williams, 62, Welsh activist (fuel protests) and politician, AM for North Wales (from 2003).

2

  • Richard W. Bailey, 71, American linguist.
  • Larry Finch, 60, American basketball player and coach (Memphis Tigers).
  • John C. Haas, 92, American businessman (Rohm and Haas), natural causes.
  • Efraín Loyola, 94, Cuban flautist.
  • James McNulty, 92, Canadian politician, MP for Lincoln (1962–1968) and St. Catharines (1968–1972).
  • Jess Osuna, 82, American actor (Three Days of the Condor, Taps, Kramer vs. Kramer).
  • Larry Parr, 64, American chess player.
  • Baba Reshat, 76, Albanian religious figure, head of the Bektashi order.
  • Tom Silverio, 65, Dominican-born American baseball player (California Angels).
  • Bill Varney, 77, American sound editor (Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back, Back to the Future), Oscar winner (1981, 1982).
  • Romeo Venturelli, 72, Italian cyclist.
  • Paul Violi, 66, American poet, cancer.

3

  • Rafique Alam, 81, Indian politician, heart attack.
  • Amy Applegren, 84, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
  • Lena Lovato Archuleta, 90, American educator.
  • Ulli Beier, 88, German writer.
  • William Henry Bullock, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Des Moines (1987–1993) and Madison (1993–2003), lung cancer.
  • James Martin Fitzgerald, 90, American jurist, justice of the Alaska Supreme Court (1972–1974), senior judge of the District Court for the District of Alaska (1974–2006).
  • Martin Horton, 76, English cricketer.
  • Kevin Jarre, 56, American screenwriter (Tombstone, Glory, The Mummy), heart failure.
  • Yevgeny Lyadin, 84, Russian footballer.
  • Marian Pankowski, 91, Polish writer.
  • William Prusoff, 90, American pharmacologist.
  • Calvin Russell, 62, American protest singer-songwriter and guitarist.
  • Mandi Schwartz, 23, Canadian college ice hockey player, acute myeloid leukemia.
  • Gustavo Sondermann, 29, Brazilian racing driver, race crash.
  • John A. Tory, 81, Canadian lawyer and corporate executive, stroke.

4

  • John Adler, 51, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Jersey (2009–2011), infective endocarditis.
  • Scott Columbus, 54, American drummer (Manowar).
  • Jackson Lago, 76, Brazilian politician, Governor of Maranhão (2007–2009), cancer.
  • Ned McWherter, 80, American politician, Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1973–1987) and Governor (1987–1995), cancer.
  • Juliano Mer-Khamis, 52, Israeli actor and political activist, shot.
  • John Niven, 89, Scottish footballer (East Fife F.C.).
  • Witta Pohl, 73, German actress.
  • Wayne Robson, 64, Canadian actor (The Red Green Show, Cube, The Rescuers Down Under).
  • Craig Thomas, 68, Welsh author, pneumonia.
  • Juan Tuñas, 93, Cuban footballer.
  • Vakur Versan, 93, Turkish jurist, professor of administrative law (Istanbul University).
  • Boško Vuksanović, 83, Croatian water polo player.

5

  • Baruch Samuel Blumberg, 85, American doctor, Nobel laureate in medicine, heart attack.
  • L. J. Davis, 70, American writer.
  • Heinrich Kleisli, 80, Swiss mathematician.
  • John Mahoney, 61, American politician.
  • Ange-Félix Patassé, 74, Central African politician, Prime Minister (1976–1978) and President (1993–2003).
  • Gil Robbins, 80, American folk singer (The Highwaymen) and actor, father of Tim Robbins, prostate cancer.
  • Larry Shepard, 92, American baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates) and coach (Cincinnati Reds).

6

  • Nabi Bakhsh Baloch, 93, Pakistani scholar.
  • Thøger Birkeland, 89, Danish children's book author.
  • Igor Birman, 85, Russian-born American writer and economist.
  • Jim Blair, 64, Scottish footballer, natural causes.
  • John Bottomley, 50, Canadian singer-songwriter, suicide.
  • Mike Campbell, 78, Zimbabwean farmer, challenged Robert Mugabe (Campbell v Zimbabwe), complications from torture.
  • Giuseppe Comini, 88, Italian Olympic fencer.
  • Joe Heap, 79, American football player (New York Giants).
  • Robin Lindsay, 97, British Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) field hockey player.
  • Coyote McCloud, 68, American disc jockey.
  • Johnny Morris, 87, English footballer.
  • Skip O'Brien, 60, American actor (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Hitcher, Blow), complications from prostate cancer.
  • Fritiof S. Sjöstrand, 98, Swedish physician and histologist.
  • F. Gordon A. Stone, 85, British chemist.
  • Sujatha, 58, Indian actress.
  • Hans Tiedge, 73, German spy.

7

  • Benedetto Aloi, 75, American mobster, natural causes.
  • Bruce Cowan, 85, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives (1980–1993).
  • Edward Edwards, 77, American serial killer, natural causes.
  • Hugh FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton, 92, British aristocrat.
  • Pierre Gauvreau, 88, Canadian painter and television screenplay writer.
  • Blažena Holišová, 80, Czech film and theatre actress.
  • Arthur Lessac, 101, American voice trainer.
  • E. J. McGuire, 58, Canadian ice hockey coach and scout, cancer.
  • Hedzer Rijpstra, 91, Dutch politician.
  • Victor Surdu, 63, Romanian politician, first post-Communist Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.

8

  • Freda Ahenakew, 79, Canadian author and academic.
  • Mario Branch, 31, American football player (Tennessee Titans, Amsterdam Admirals, Philadelphia Soul), heart failure.
  • Daniel Catán, 62, Mexican composer.
  • David S. Clarke, 69, Australian businessman, chairman of Macquarie Group (1985–2007), stomach cancer.
  • John McCracken, 76, American sculptor.
  • John Pugsley, 77, American libertarian speaker and writer.
  • Donald Shanks, 70, Australian operatic bass-baritone, heart attack.
  • Vasilijs Stepanovs, 83, Latvian weightlifter and Olympic silver medalist (1956 Melbourne).
  • Hedda Sterne, 100, Romanian-born American painter and printmaker.
  • Elena Zuasti, 75, Uruguayan stage actress and comedian, heart failure.

9

  • Zakariya Rashid Hassan al-Ashiri, 40, Bahraini blogger and journalist, beaten.
  • Pierre Celis, 86, Belgian brewer (Celis), cancer.
  • Robert Coleman-Senghor, 71, American English professor, torn aorta.
  • Chip Fairway, 38, American wrestler.
  • Nicholas Goodhart, 91, British marine engineer and glider pilot.
  • Jerry Lawson, 70, American videogame console engineer.
  • Sidney Lumet, 86, American film director (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network), lymphoma.
  • Roger Nichols, 66, American sound engineer and record producer (Steely Dan), pancreatic cancer.
  • Yolande Palfrey, 54, British actress (Blake's 7, Doctor Who), brain tumour.
  • Orrin Tucker, 100, American orchestra leader.
  • Randy Wood, 94, American record producer, founder of Dot Records.

10

  • Bill Brill, 79, American sportswriter and newspaper editor, esophageal cancer.
  • Violet Cowden, 94, American pilot, member of Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II, heart failure.
  • Don Merton, 72, New Zealand conservationist.
  • Mikhail Rusyayev, 46, Russian footballer.
  • Bob Shaw, 89, American football player (Los Angeles Rams).
  • Homer Smith, 79, American football coach (Army Black Knights), cancer.
  • Phil Solomon, 86, Northern Irish music executive.
  • Francis E. Sweeney, 77, American jurist, Ohio Supreme Court justice (1993–2004).
  • Stephen Watson, 56, South African writer and critic, cancer.

11

  • Billy Bang, 63, American jazz violinist, lung cancer.
  • Lewis Binford, 80, American archaeologist, heart failure.
  • Jimmy Briggs, 74, Scottish footballer (Dundee United).
  • Akis Cleanthous, 47, Cypriot politician, chairman of the Stock Exchange (2003–2007), Minister of Education and Culture (2007–2008), heart attack.
  • John D'Orazio, 55, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for Ballajura (2001–2008), heart attack during surgery.
  • La Esterella, 91, Belgian Flemish singer.
  • Billy Gray, 83, English footballer (Nottingham Forest).
  • Murtaza Hassan, 56-57, Pakistani stage comedian, hepatitis and liver cancer.
  • Sir John Lowther, 87, British public servant, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire (1984–1998).
  • Sir Simon Milton, 49, British politician, London Deputy Mayor for Policy and Planning, after short illness.
  • Doug Newlands, 79, Scottish footballer (Aberdeen, Burnley).
  • Jørgen Munk Plum, 85, Danish Olympic athlete.
  • Peter Ruehl, 64, American-born Australian columnist.
  • Igor Runov, 48, Russian volleyball player, Olympic silver medalist (1988).
  • Angela Scoular, 65, British actress, suicide by poisoning.
  • Larry Sweeney, 30, American professional wrestler and manager, suicide by hanging.
  • Eric Wall, 95, British Anglican bishop, Bishop of Huntingdon (1972–1980).

12

  • Roy Ananny, 86, Canadian football player.
  • Albert Bachmann, 81, Swiss military intelligence officer.
  • Sachin Bhowmick, 80, Indian screenwriter, heart attack.
  • Lee Bradley Brown, 39, British tourist, died in police custody in Dubai.
  • Ronnie Coyle, 46, Scottish footballer (Celtic, Raith Rovers), leukemia.
  • Sidney Harman, 92, American businessman and publisher (Newsweek), acute myeloid leukemia.
  • Eddie Joost, 94, American baseball player and manager (Philadelphia Athletics, Cincinnati Reds).
  • Robert Lokossimbayé, 35, Chadian footballer.
  • Buster Martin, 104?, French-born British longevity claimant.
  • Aleksandar Petaković, 81, Serbian football player.
  • Jānis Polis, 72, Latvian pharmacologist, discovered rimantadine.
  • Ioan Şişeştean, 74, Romanian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Maramureş (since 1994).
  • Désiré Tagro, 52, Ivorian politician, Interior Minister, chief of staff for Laurent Gbagbo, shot.
  • Miroslav Tichý, 84, Czech photographer.

13

  • Danny Fiszman, 66, British football director (Arsenal), cancer.
  • Seeta bint Abdul Aziz, 80, Saudi royal, sister of King Abdullah, after long illness.

14

  • Rosihan Anwar, 88, Indonesian journalist, heart failure.
  • Trevor Bannister, 76, British actor (Are You Being Served?, Last of the Summer Wine, The Dustbinmen), heart attack.
  • Walter Breuning, 114, American supercentenarian, world's fifth oldest man ever.
  • George Brookes, 76, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (1991–1997).
  • Jon Cedar, 80, American actor (Hogan's Heroes), leukemia.
  • Patrick Cullinan, 77, South African writer.
  • Louis Dufaux, 79, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Grenoble (1989–2006).
  • Bernie Flowers, 81, American football player (Baltimore Colts).
  • Joe Dan Gold, 68, American college basketball coach (Mississippi State).
  • Jean Gratton, 86, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mont-Laurier (1978–2001).
  • Cyrus Harvey, Jr., 85, American entrepreneur, stroke.
  • William Lipscomb, 91, American chemist, pneumonia.
  • Arthur Marx, 89, American writer, son of Groucho Marx.
  • Rami Reddy, 52, Indian actor, kidney failure.

15

  • Vittorio Arrigoni, 36, Italian activist, hanged.
  • Babu Baral, 47, Pakistani comedian, cancer.
  • Reno Bertoia, 76, Italian-born Canadian baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins), lymphoma.
  • Walter Brown, 85, Australian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) canoer.
  • Elmer Carter, 100, American Negro league baseball player.
  • William Cook, 80, American entrepreneur, philanthropist and historic preservationist, heart failure.
  • Hélio Gueiros, 85, Brazilian politician, Governor of Pará (1987–1991), Mayor of Belém (1993–1996), renal disease.
  • Michael Hurley, 87, Irish Jesuit and ecumenical theologian, co-founder of the Irish School of Ecumenics.
  • Hans Kohler, 81, Swiss Olympic weightlifter.
  • Vincenzo La Scola, 53, Italian tenor, heart attack.
  • Bobo Osborne, 75, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
  • Beryl Shipley, 84, American basketball coach (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, San Diego Conquistadors).
  • E. T. York, 88, American agronomist, educator and presidential adviser.

16

  • Gerry Alexander, 82, Jamaican cricketer.
  • Bijan, 67, Iranian-born American fashion designer, stroke.
  • Allan Blakeney, 85, Canadian politician, Premier of Saskatchewan (1971–1982), complications from liver cancer.
  • Auguste Caulet, 84, French Olympic boxer.
  • Chinesinho, 76, Brazilian footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Stanley Glenn, 84, American baseball player and executive (Negro league baseball).
  • Bjørn Oscar Gulbrandsen, 85, Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player and sailor.
  • Bill Kinnamon, 91, American Major League Baseball umpire.
  • Serge LeClerc, 61, Canadian pardoned criminal and politician, MLA for Saskatoon Northwest (2007–2010), complications from colon and bowel cancer.
  • Alfonso Martínez, 74, Spanish Olympic basketball player
  • Tadeusz Pawlusiak, 64, Polish Olympic ski jumper.
  • William A. Rusher, 87, American columnist, publisher of National Review (1957–1988).
  • Dan Monroe Russell, Jr., 98, American senior (former chief) judge of the District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, natural causes.
  • Sol Saks, 100, American television writer (Bewitched, My Favorite Husband, Mr. Adams and Eve).
  • Hermod Skånland, 85, Norwegian Central Bank governor (1985–1993).
  • Harold Volkmer, 80, American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri (1977–1997), pneumonia.

17

  • Nasser Al-Kharafi, 67, Kuwaiti businessman (M. A. Kharafi & Sons), heart attack.
  • James S. Albus, 75, American engineer.
  • Bob Block, 89, British comedy writer (Rentaghost, Life with The Lyons).
  • Joel Colton, 92, American historian, heart failure.
  • Osamu Dezaki, 67, Japanese animator (Space Adventure Cobra, Tomorrow's Joe), lung cancer.
  • Alfred Freedman, 94, American psychiatrist, led American Psychiatric Association to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness, complications following hip surgery.
  • Eric Gross, 84, Austrian-born Australian composer.
  • Alan Haines, 86, British actor.
  • Wolfram Koppen, 72, German Olympic judoka.
  • Josefa Köster, 92, German Olympic sprint canoer.
  • Eddie Leadbeater, 83, English cricketer.
  • Oldřich Lomecký, 90, Czech Olympic sprint canoer.
  • Blair Milan, 29, Australian actor and television presenter, acute myeloid leukaemia.
  • Nikos Papazoglou, 63, Greek singer-songwriter, cancer.
  • AJ Perez, 18, Filipino actor, traffic accident.
  • Raúl Sánchez Díaz Martell, 96, Mexican politician, Governor of Baja California (1965–1971).
  • Michael Sarrazin, 70, Canadian actor (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, The Flim-Flam Man, For Pete's Sake), cancer.
  • Bhawani Singh, 79, Indian noble, titular Maharaja of Jaipur (since 1970).
  • Dennis E. Stowell, 66, American politician, member of the Utah State Senate (2007–2011), cancer.
  • Ken Taylor, 88, British television scriptwriter (The Jewel in the Crown).
  • Robert Vickrey, 84, American artist.
  • Victor Ward, 87, Canadian miner, survivor of the 1956 Springhill Mine disaster.

18

  • Olubayo Adefemi, 25, Nigerian footballer, car accident.
  • Sadiq Ali, 58, Indian politician.
  • Pietro Ferrero Jr., 47, Italian businessman (Ferrero SpA), bicycle accident.
  • Kjell Håkonsen, 75, Norwegian harness racer and trainer.
  • Bob Plant, 95, British soldier, recipient of the Military Cross.
  • Mason Rudolph, 76, American golfer.
  • Giovanni Saldarini, 86, Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Turin (1989–1999), natural causes.
  • William Donald Schaefer, 89, American politician, Governor of Maryland (1987–1995), pneumonia.
  • Israpil Velijanov, 42, Russian Dagastani militant leader.
  • Ivica Vidović, 72, Croatian actor.
  • Kim Yu-ri, 21, South Korean fashion model, apparent suicide.

19

  • Anne Blonstein, 52, British poet.
  • Lynn Chandnois, 86, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
  • Lisa Head, 29, British soldier, improvised explosive device.
  • Richard P. Klocko, 96, American Air Force lieutenant general.
  • Jeanne M. Leiby, 46, American writer and magazine editor, car accident.
  • Norm Masters, 77, American football player (Green Bay Packers), cancer.
  • Aage Møst, 87, Norwegian sports official, President of the Norwegian Athletics Association (1956–1965).
  • Serge Nubret, 72, French bodybuilder and actor (Pumping Iron).
  • Elisabeth Sladen, 65, British actress (Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Coronation Street), pancreatic cancer.
  • Grete Waitz, 57, Norwegian marathon former world record holder, 1983 world champion and Olympic silver medallist (1984), cancer.

20

  • Allan Brown, 84, Scottish football player and manager (Blackpool, Scotland).
  • Tim Hetherington, 40, British photojournalist and filmmaker (Restrepo), mortar attack.
  • Rudolf Hilf, 83, German historian, political scientist and expellee politician.
  • Chris Hondros, 41, American photojournalist, mortar attack.
  • Osvaldo Miranda, 95, Argentine actor (Cita en las estrellas).
  • Patricia Ofori, 29, Ghanaian international footballer (2003 & 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup), traffic collision.
  • Madelyn Pugh, 90, American screenwriter (I Love Lucy, The Mothers-in-Law) and producer (Alice).
  • Tul Bahadur Pun, 88, Nepali World War II veteran, recipient of the Victoria Cross, cardiac complications.
  • Ted Quillin, 81, American radio personality.
  • Hubert Schlafly, 91, American engineer, co-inventor of the TelePrompter.
  • Kerry Smith, 58, New Zealand actress and broadcaster, melanoma.
  • Erwin Strahl, 82, Austrian actor.

21

  • Javier Adúriz, 63, Argentine poet.
  • Beverly Barton, 64, American romance author, heart failure.
  • Tine Bryld, 71, Danish social worker, writer, radio host and letters editor.
  • Annalisa Ericson, 97, Swedish actress (Summer Interlude).
  • Helen J. Frye, 80, American federal judge, after long illness.
  • Reginald C. Fuller, 102, British Roman Catholic priest and author.
  • Harold Garfinkel, 93, American sociologist.
  • W. J. Gruffydd, 94, Welsh poet.
  • Catharina Halkes, 90, Dutch theologian and feminist
  • Jim Heise, 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators), complications from surgery.
  • Jess Stonestreet Jackson, Jr., 81, American wine entrepreneur, founder of Kendall-Jackson, cancer.
  • Ken Kostick, 57, Canadian cooking show host (What's for Dinner?), complications of pancreatitis.
  • Max Mathews, 84, American engineer and computer music composer, complications from pneumonia.
  • Muhannad, 41, Saudi al Qaeda fighter in Chechnya, shot.
  • Yoshiko Tanaka, 55, Japanese actress (Godzilla vs. Biollante) and singer (Candies), breast cancer.
  • Walter van de Walle, 88, Canadian politician, MP for Pembina (1986–1988) and St. Albert (1988–1993).

22

  • Anthony Abrahams, 87, British barrister and educationalist.
  • Moin Akhter, 60, Pakistani actor and comedian, heart attack.
  • Patrick Billingsley, 85, American mathematician and actor.
  • Cheung Sai Ho, 35, Hong Kong footballer, suicide by jumping.
  • Wiel Coerver, 86, Dutch footballer and manager.
  • Eldon Davis, 94, American architect, creator of Googie architecture, founder of Armet & Davis.
  • Hazel Dickens, 85, American bluegrass singer.
  • Madhava Gudi, 70, Indian Hindustani classical vocalist.
  • Siarhei Lahun, 22, Belarusian weightlifter, car accident.
  • Sidney Michaels, 83, American playwright and screenwriter (The Night They Raided Minsky's), Alzheimer's disease.
  • Merle Greene Robertson, 97, American artist and archeologist.
  • José Antonio Torres Martinó, 94, Puerto Rican painter and writer, after long illness.
  • João Maria Tudela, 81, Portuguese singer.

23

  • Mushtaq Ahmad, 82, Pakistani Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) field hockey player.
  • Ed Austin, 84, American attorney and politician, Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida (1991–1995).
  • Dmytro Blazheyovskyi, 100, Ukrainian priest, historian and embroiderer.
  • Ghafoor Butt, 74, Pakistani cricketer and umpire.
  • James Casey, 88, British comedian.
  • Bill Flynn, 59, Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Lockyer (2001–2004), parliamentary leader of One Nation (2001–2004).
  • Sid Fournet, 78, American football player (New York Jets, Pittsburgh Steelers).
  • David Hackett, 84, American government official (President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, 1961–1964), complications of diabetes.
  • Tom King, 68, American guitarist and songwriter (The Outsiders), heart failure.
  • Peter Li Hongye, 91, Chinese underground Roman Catholic prelate, clandestine bishop of Luoyang.
  • Peter Lieberson, 64, American composer, complications of lymphoma.
  • Terence Longdon, 88, British actor.
  • Huey P. Meaux, 82, American record producer.
  • Milorad Bata Mihailović, 88, Serbian painter.
  • Noxolo Nogwaza, 24, South African lesbian activist, stabbed.
  • Norio Ohga, 81, Japanese businessman, president and CEO of Sony, multiple organ failure.
  • Ready Teddy, 23, New Zealand eventing horse, complications from colic.
  • Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill, 89, British politician.
  • Mohammad Abdus Sattar, 85, Indian Olympic footballer, pneumonia.
  • Phillip Shriver, 88, American historian and college administrator.
  • Max van der Stoel, 86, Dutch politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1973–1977, 1981–1982).
  • John Sullivan, 64, British writer (Only Fools and Horses), viral pneumonia.
  • Dutch Tilders, 69, Australian blues musician, cancer.

24

  • Otto Amen, 98, American politician.
  • Sathya Sai Baba, 84, Indian spiritual guru, founder of the Sathya Sai Organization, multiple organ failure.
  • Nawang Gombu, 74, Tibetan-born Indian mountaineer, after short illness.
  • Peter Green, 91, Canadian Olympic rower.
  • Alimirah Hanfere, 95, Ethiopian sultan of the Aussa Sultanate.
  • José López, 88, Chilean footballer [1]
  • Sir Denis Mahon, 100, British art historian and philanthropist.
  • Madame Nhu, 87, South Vietnamese First Lady (1955–1963), after short illness.
  • Joan Peyser, 80, American musicologist, after heart surgery.
  • Marie-France Pisier, 66, French actress (The Other Side of Midnight), drowning.
  • Colin Snedden, 93, New Zealand cricketer.

25

  • Winrich Behr, 93, German World War II Panzer captain, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
  • Ira Cohen, 76, American poet, renal failure.
  • John Cooke, 89, British air marshal.
  • William Craig, 86, Northern Irish politician, founder of Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, MP for Belfast East (1974–1979).
  • Abdoulaye Hamani Diori, 65, Nigerien politician, after long illness.
  • María Isbert, 94, Spanish actress.
  • Lawrence Lee, 101, British stained glass artist.
  • Ryszard Nawrocki, 71, Polish actor and voice actor.
  • Joe Perry, 84, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
  • Poly Styrene, 53, British musician (X-Ray Spex), breast cancer.
  • Gonzalo Rojas, 93, Chilean poet.
  • Güven Sazak, 76, Turkish businessman, chairman of Fenerbahçe S.K. (1993–1994).
  • Minoru Tanaka, 44, Japanese actor (Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers, Kamen Rider W Returns – Kamen Rider Accel), suspected suicide by hanging.
  • Avraham Tiar, 87, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1961–1969).
  • Bobby Thompson, 57, American baseball player (Texas Rangers).
  • Elizabeth Wicken, 83, Canadian baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).

26

  • Vic Atkinson, 90, Australian footballer.
  • Douglas Chaffee, 75, American artist.
  • John Cossette, 54, American television producer (Grammy Awards).
  • Roger Gimbel, 86, American Emmy Award-winning television producer (Chernobyl: The Final Warning, S.O.S. Titanic), pneumonia.
  • Lynn Hauldren, 89, American copywriter and product spokesperson (Empire Carpet).
  • José María Izuzquiza Herranz, 85, Spanish-born Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Jaén en Peru (1987–2001).
  • Sir Henry Leach, 87, British admiral.
  • Jim Mandich, 62, American football player and announcer (Miami Dolphins), bile duct cancer.
  • Don Miles, 75, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers).
  • Islwyn Morris, 90, Welsh actor.
  • Sadler's Wells, 30, American racehorse and sire.
  • Phoebe Snow, 60, American singer-songwriter ("Poetry Man"), brain hemorrhage.
  • Hector Sutherland, 81, Australian cyclist.
  • Samuel Zoll, 76, American jurist and politician, Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts (1970–1973), gallbladder cancer.

27

  • Orlando Bosch, 84, Cuban exile, after long illness.
  • Ibrahim Coulibaly, 47, Ivorian militia leader.
  • Paul Vincent Donovan, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kalamazoo (1971–1994).
  • Jack H. Goaslind, 83, American leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  • Igor Kon, 82, Russian philosopher, psychologist and sexologist.
  • Rafael Menjívar Ochoa, 51, Salvadoran writer, journalist and translator, cancer.
  • Marian Mercer, 75, American actress (It's a Living), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
  • Mel Pearce, 83, Australian Olympic hockey player.
  • Dag Stokke, 44, Norwegian keyboardist (TNT), church organist and mastering engineer, cancer.
  • Harold Schnitzer, 87, American philanthropist and company executive (Schnitzer Steel), cancer.
  • Harry Thuillier, 85, Irish Olympic fencer and radio presenter.
  • Yvette Vickers, 81–82, American actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman), singer and model (Playboy). (body discovered on this date)
  • Willem Albert Wagenaar, 69, Dutch psychologist.
  • Michael Waltman, 64, American actor (Beyond the Law, Tower of Terror, National Lampoon's Van Wilder).
  • David Wilkerson, 79, American Christian evangelist and author (The Cross and the Switchblade), car accident.

28

  • Enrique Arancibia Clavel, 66, Chilean DINA agent.
  • William Campbell, 87, American film and television actor (Love Me Tender, Star Trek, Dementia 13).
  • Gene Fekete, 88, American football player (Cleveland Browns).
  • Erhard Loretan, 52, Swiss mountaineer, third climber to scale all 14 eight-thousanders, climbing accident.
  • Willie O'Neill, 70, Scottish football player (Celtic).
  • E. Earl Patton, 83, American businessman and politician, tornado.
  • Wilhelm Weidenbrück, 96, German Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.

29

  • Waldemar Baszanowski, 75, Polish weightlifter.
  • Robert B. Duncan, 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Oregon (1963–1967, 1975–1981).
  • Asker Dzhappuyev, 40, Russian militant leader (Yarmuk Jamaat), shot.
  • George Wolfgang Forell, 91, German-born American Christian scholar.
  • Salim Ghazal, 79, Syrian-born Lebanese Melkite Catholic hierarch, Curial bishop of Antioch for Melkites (2001–2005).
  • Abdul Hameed, 83, Pakistani writer and novelist.
  • Jeff Kargola, 27, American freestyle motocross rider, race accident.
  • Vladimir Krainev, 67, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, aortic aneurysm.
  • David Mason, 85, British trumpeter, played trumpet solo on "Penny Lane", leukemia.
  • Siamak Pourzand, 79, Iranian journalist and dissident, suicide by jumping.
  • Joanna Russ, 74, American science fiction author, following a series of strokes.
  • Walter Santoro, 89, Uruguayan politician, Minister of Industry (1963–1964), natural causes.
  • Ratmir Shameyev, 22, Kabardin militant, shot.

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  • Ronald Asmus, 53, American diplomat and political analyst, cancer.
  • Saif al-Arab Gaddafi, 28–29, Libyan soldier, son of Muammar Gaddafi, airstrike.
  • Pete Gray, 30, Australian environmental activist, bowel cancer.
  • Richard Holmes, 65, British military historian.
  • Dorjee Khandu, 56, Indian Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (since 2007), helicopter crash.
  • Mike Krsnich, 79, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves).
  • Francis Lü Shouwang, 45, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Yichang, pancreatitis.
  • Anthony Francis Mestice, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1973–2001).
  • Harry S. Morgan, 65, German pornographic actor, producer and director. (body found on this date)
  • Emilio Navarro, 105, Puerto Rican Negro league baseball player.
  • Evald Okas, 95, Estonian painter.
  • Daniel Quillen, 70, American mathematician.
  • Ernesto Sabato, 99, Argentine writer (El Túnel, On Heroes and Tombs), pneumonia.
  • Edgar Seymour, 98, American Olympic bobsledder.
  • Apostolos Santas, 89, Greek Resistance veteran.
  • Eddie Turnbull, 88, Scottish football player and manager.

References


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