Deaths in 2011

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2011. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference if not English).

February 2011

3

• Ajib Ahmad, 63, Malaysian politician, Chief Minister of Johor (1982–1986). [1]
• Édouard Glissant, 82, French writer. [2] (French)
• LeRoy Grannis, 93, American surfing photographer. [3]
• Bill Mansfield, 68, Australian trade unionist. [4]
• Fermín Marmol León, 74, Venezuelan criminologist. [5] (Spanish)
• Ron Piché, 75, Canadian baseball player (Braves, Angels, Cardinals), cancer. [6] (French)
• Maria Schneider, 58, French actress (Last Tango in Paris), cancer. [7]
• Tatyana Ali, 82, Russian operetta singer and film actress (Hussar Ballad), People's Artist of the USSR. [8] (Russian)
• Neil Young, 66, English footballer (Manchester City), cancer. [9]

2

• Darrel Baldock, 72, Australian rules football player and coach, Tasmanian government minister (1975–1982), stroke. [10]
• Daniela Castelo, 47, Argentine journalist and radio host, aneurysm. [11] (Spanish)
• Armando Chin Yong, 53, Malaysian opera singer, heart disease. [12]
• Defne Joy Foster, 31, Turkish actress, presenter and VJ. [13]
• Margaret John, 84, British actress (Gavin & Stacey). [14]
• Eric Nicol, 91, Canadian writer. [15]

1

• Isabella Cerqueira Campos, 72, Brazilian actress, breast cancer. [16] (Portuguese)
• Sidney Cipriano, 46, Brazilian singer (Fat Family), cardiac arrest. [17] (Portuguese)
• Daniele Formica, 60, Italian comedian, actor and dubber. [18] (Italian)
• Lennox Fyfe, Baron Fyfe of Fairfield, 69, British politician. [19]
• Stanisław Michalski, 78, Polish actor. [20] (Polish)
• Husik Santurjan, 90, Turkish-born Armenian Archbishop of Armenian Apostolic Church. [21] (Russian)
• Takis Varvitsiotis, 95, Greek poet. [22] (Greek)
• Gyõzõ Veres, 74, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960, 1964) weightlifter. [23]

January 2011

31

• Hernán Alvarado Solano, 65, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Guapi (since 2001). [24]
• Bartolomeu Anania, 89, Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of Cluj-Napoca, Alba Iulia, Crişana and Maramureş (since 1993). [25]
• Nikolay Dorizo, 87, Russian poet. [26] (Russian)
• Charles Kaman, 91, American aeronautical engineer, founder of Ovation Guitar Company. [27]
• Kaiti Labropoulou, 85, Greek actress. [28] (Greek)
• Giorgos Papakostas, 76, Greek film director. [29] (Greek)
• Nildo Parente, 74, Brazilian actor, stroke. [30] (Portuguese)
• Eunice Sanborn, 114, American supercentenarian, world's oldest living person at time of her death. [31]
• Charles Sellier, 67, American film and television producer (The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams). [32]
• Michael Tolan, 85, American actor (The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Mary Tyler Moore Show), heart disease and renal failure. [33]
• Doc Williams, 96, American country performer. [34]

30

• John Barry, 77, British film score composer, five-time Academy Award winner, heart attack. [35]
• Ajahn Maha Bua, 97, Thai Buddhist monk. [36] (Thai)
• José Llopis Corona, 92, Spanish footballer. [37]
• Tony Guerrero, 66, American trumpeter and bandleader. [38]
• Tim McCaskey, 65, American sports executive (Chicago Bears), cancer. [39]
• Charles Nolan, 53, American fashion designer, liver cancer. [40]
• Bernard O'Brien, 96, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1965–1980). [41]

29

• Abdul Latif Ashna, Afghan politician, Deputy Governor of Kandahar, suicide bombing. [42]
• Milton Babbitt, 94, American composer. [43]
• Zahra Bahrami, 46, Dutch-Iranian protestor and convicted drug trafficker, execution by hanging. [44]
• Raphael de Almeida Magalhães, 80, Brazilian politician, Governor of Guanabara (1965) and Minister (1986–1987). [45] (Portuguese)
• Geórgia Gomide, 73, Brazilian actress, infection. [46] (Portuguese)
• Dariush Homayoon, 82, Iranian politician and journalist, Minister of Information and Tourism (1977–1978). [47] (Persian)
• Hemayel Martina, 20, Curaçaon poet, complications of car accident. [48] (Dutch)
• Raymond McClean, 78, Irish politician and doctor. [49]
• Megan McNeil, 20, Canadian singer, cancer. [50]
• Emilio Ogñénovich, 88, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Mercedes-Luján (1982–2000). [51]
• Nora Sun, 72, American diplomat, businesswoman and author, injuries from car crash. [52]
• Emanuel Vardi, 95, Israeli-born American violist, cancer. [53]
• Liza Vorfi, 86, Albanian stage actress, after long illness. [54] (Albanian)

28

• Ken Carpenter, 84, American football player (Cleveland Browns). [55]
• Karen Cromie, 31, British Paralympian, suicide. [56]
• Sushil Kumar Dhara, 99, Indian revolutionary. [57]
• Boyd Kirkland, 60, American animation producer and director, Mormon missionary. [58]
• Dame Margaret Price, 69, British soprano, heart failure. [59]

27

• Charlie Callas, 83, American comedian and actor (Silent Movie, Switch). [60]
• Tony DiPardo, 98, American bandleader and music director (Kansas City Chiefs), brain aneurysm. [61]
• Liana Dumitrescu, 38, Romanian politician, stroke. [62] (Romanian)
• Johanne Dybwad, 92, Norwegian Olympic alpine skier. [63] (Norwegian)
• William L. Eagleton, 84, American diplomat. [64]
• Mārtiņš Freimanis, 33, Latvian musician (F.L.Y.) and actor, performed at Eurovision Song Contest 2003, influenza. [65] (Latvian)
• Paco Maestre, 53, Spanish actor, heart attack. [66]
• Svein Mathisen, 58, Norwegian footballer (IK Start), cancer. [67] (Norwegian)
• Henrik Ostergaard, 47, Danish-born American singer (Dirty Looks), natural causes. [68]
• Tøger Seidenfaden, 53, Danish newspaper editor-in-chief (Politiken), cancer. [69]
• Michael Van Rooy, 42, Canadian author, heart attack. [70]
• Guy Velella, 66, American politician and ex-convict, New York State Assemblyman (1973–1982) and State Senator (1986–2004), lung cancer. [71]

26

• Robert Crook, 81, American politician, member of the Mississippi State Senate (1964–1992). [72]
• John Herbert, 81, Brazilian actor, emphysema. [73] (Portuguese)
• Gladys Horton, 65, American R&B singer (The Marvelettes), complications from a stroke. [74]
• David Kato, 46, Ugandan gay rights activist, bludgeoned with hammer. [75]
• R. F. Langley, 72, British poet and diarist. [76]
• Charlie Louvin, 83, American country music singer (The Louvin Brothers), pancreatic cancer. [77]
• Shawn McGrath, 34, American professional wrestler, suicide. [78]
• María Mercader, 92, Spanish actress. [79] (Spanish)
• Jesús Romero Anselmi, Venezuelan journalist, President of Venezolana de Televisión (2001–2003). [80] (Spanish)
• Michalis Velentzas, 65, Greek mayor of Nemea, cancer. [81] (Greek)

25

• Daniel Bell, 91, American sociologist. [82]
• Audrey Best, 50, Canadian lawyer, ex-wife of politician and lawyer Lucien Bouchard, breast cancer. [83]
• Vincent Cronin, 86, British writer. [84]
• Bill Holden, 82, English footballer. [85]
• Arto Javanainen, 51, Finnish ice hockey player, after long illness. [86] (Finnish)
• Vasilis Konstantakopoulos, 76, Greek ship owner and businessman, cancer. [87] (Greek)
• Betty Smith, 81, British jazz saxophonist, singer and bandleader. [88]
• Ganga Bahadur Thapa, 80, Nepalese Olympic athlete, brain hemorrhage. [89]

24

• Alec Boden, 85, Scottish footballer (Celtic). [90]
• Bernd Eichinger, 61, German film producer and director (The NeverEnding Story), heart attack. [91]
• David Frye, 77, American satirist and Richard Nixon impersonator, cardiopulmonary arrest. [92]
• Phil Gallie, 71, British politician, MP for Ayr (1992–1997), MSP for South of Scotland (1999–2007). [93]
• Barrie Lee Hall, Jr., 61, American jazz trumpeter and band leader (Duke Ellington). [94]
• Bhimsen Joshi, 88, Indian musician, Bharat Ratna laureate. [95]
• José María Luevano, 37, Mexican torero, traffic accident. [96] (Spanish)
• Francisco Mata, 78, Venezuelan folk singer and composer. [97] (Spanish)
• Jack Matheson, 86, Canadian sports journalist. [98]
• Laurence Renard, 35, French-born American fashion stylist, hit by truck. [99]
• Samuel Ruiz, 86, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of San Cristóbal de las Casas (1959–2000). [100] (Spanish)
• Audun Tylden, 62, Norwegian music executive and record producer, heart failure. [101] (Norwegian)
• Chief White Eagle, 93, Canadian-born American actor and stuntman. [102]
• Anna Yablonskaya, 29, Ukrainian playwright, bombing. [103] (Russian)
• Peter-Paul Zahl, 66, German author. [104] (German)

23

• Elizabeth Buhler, 111, Canadian supercentenarian. [105]
• Howard Dahnert, 92, American Drum Corps International Hall of Fame member. [106]
• Ed Dyas, 71, American football player (Auburn Tigers), member of the College Football Hall of Fame, stomach cancer. [107]
• Peter Gibb, 56, Australian criminal, heart attack. [108]
• Ole Kopreitan, 73, Norwegian political activist. [109] (Norwegian)
• Jack LaLanne, 96, American fitness and nutritional expert, pneumonia. [110]
• Poppa Neutrino, 77, American adventurer, crossed Atlantic Ocean on raft made of discarded material, heart failure. [111]
• Louise Raggio, 91, American lawyer. [112]
• Novica Tadić, 62, Yugoslavian poet. [113] (Serbian)

22

• Virgil Akins, 82, American boxer, world welterweight champion (1958). [114]
• Solange Bertrand, 97, French artist. [115] (French)
• Sir Chandos Blair, 91, British army general. [116]
• Ralph Felton, 78, American football player (Washington Redskins). [117]
• Aslam Khokhar, 91, Pakistani cricketer. [118]
• John Muir Mason, 71, Scottish lawyer, musician and composer, founder of Scottish Fiddle Orchestra, long illness. [119]
• Cristino Nicolaides, 86, Argentine army commander and criminal, pulmonary complications. [120]
• Park Wan-suh, 79, South Korean novelist. [121] (German)
• René Piché, 79, Canadian politician. [122]
• Bobby Poe, 77, American pop singer, songwriter and promoter, blood clot. [123]
• William Schreyer, 83, American business executive, Chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch (1985–1993). [124]
• Lois Smith, 81, Canadian dancer (National Ballet of Canada). [125]
• Tullia Zevi, 91, Italian journalist and politician, leader of the Italian Jewish community. [126]

21

• Theoni V. Aldredge, 82, Greek-born American costume designer. [127]
• Eugenio Arango, 76, Cuban percussionist and singer. [128]
• Angelos Droulias, 61, Greek public relations manager, cardiac arrest. [129] (Greek)
• Jay Garner, 82, American actor (Pennies from Heaven, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century), respiratory failure. [130]
• Tony Geiss, 86, American television writer and composer (Sesame Street), Emmy award winner, complications from a fall. [131]
• Emanuele Gerada, 90, Maltese Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Archbishop of Nomentum, Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland (1989–1995). [132]
• Herb Gray, 76, American-born Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers). [133]
• Barney F. Hajiro, 94, American soldier, was oldest living Medal of Honor recipient. [134]
• Wally Hughes, 76, English association football coach. [135]
• Ed Mauser, 94, American soldier, member of the unit that inspired Band of Brothers, cancer. [136]
• Enrico Luigi Micheli, 72, Italian politician, MP (1996–2008) and Minister of Public Works (1998–1999). [137] (Italian)
• Mikhail Narolin, 77, Russian politician, Governor of Lipetsk Oblast (1993–1998) [138] (Russian)
• Dennis Oppenheim, 72, American artist, liver cancer. [139]
• Charles Zwolsman, Sr., 55, Dutch criminal and racing driver. [140] (Dutch)

20

• Giuseppe Brumatti, 62, Italian basketball player. [141] (Italian)
• Luis Jaime Cisneros Vizquerra, 89, Peruvian linguist and professor. [142] (Spanish)
• Eduardo Davino, 81, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Palestrina (1997–2005). [143]
• Bruce Gordon, 94, American character actor (The Untouchables) after long illness. [144]
• Miesque, 27, French racehorse, euthanized. [145]
• J.R. Minkel, 31, American author and scientific journalist. [146]
• Mohamad Hidhir Abu Hassan, 54, Malaysian politician, member of the State Assembly of Malacca, heart attack. [147]
• Gordon S. Murray, 60, American business executive and author, glioblastoma. [148]
• F. A. Nettelbeck, 60, American poet. [149]
• Sonya Peres, 87, Israeli wife of President Shimon Peres, heart failure. [150]
• Reynolds Price, 77, American author, professor at Duke University. [151]
• John Jacob Rhodes III, 67, American politician, Representative from Arizona (1987–1993). [152]
• Eugénio Salessu, 87, Angolan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Malanje (1977–1998). [153]
• Sexy Cora, 23, German pornographic actress, cardiac arrest. [154]
• Giorgos Thiraios, 60, Greek molecular biologist and researcher. [155] (Greek)
• Alan Uglow, 69, British-born American painter, lung cancer. [156]
• Gus Zernial, 87, American baseball player (Athletics, Tigers, White Sox), heart failure. [157]

19

• Andreas Belezinis, 82, Greek philologist and literature critic. [158] (Greek)
• Neva Egan, 96, American First Lady of Alaska (1959–1966, 1970–1974), widow of William Allen Egan. [159]
• George Franck, 92, American football player (New York Giants). [160]
• Wayne R. Grisham, 88, American politician, Representative from California (1979–1983). [161]
• Abel Guerrero García, Mexican politician, Mayor of Ajacuba, shot. [162] (Spanish)
• Mihai Ionescu, 74, Romanian footballer (Petrolul Ploieşti, Romania). [163] (Romanian)
• Jose Kusugak, 60, Canadian Inuit leader, bladder cancer. [164]
• Spyros Linardos, 76, Greek meteorologist, stroke. [165] (Greek)
• Ernest McCulloch, 84, Canadian haematologist, pioneer of stem cell science. [166]
• Ramiro Saraiva Guerreiro, 93, Brazilian politician, Minister of External Relations (1979–1985). [167] (Portuguese)
• Wilfrid Sheed, 80, English-born American novelist and essayist, urosepsis. [168]
• Carla Swart, 23, South African cyclist, traffic accident. [169]
• Bob Young, 87, American news journalist and anchor (ABC World News). [170]
• Malina Zasadzińska, 81, Polish radio personality and broadcaster. [171] (Polish)

18

• George Crowe, 89, American baseball player. [172]
• Eugenia Escudero, 96, Mexican Olympic fencer. [173] (Spanish)
• Duncan Hall, 85, Australian rugby league player. [174]
• Purushottam Das Jalota, 84, Indian singer. [175]
• Antonín Kubálek, 75, Czech-born Canadian pianist, complications from a brain tumour. [176]
• Dimitris Papadomarkakis, 79, Greek journalist. [177] (Greek)
• Cristian Paţurcă, 46, Romanian composer. [178] (body found on this date)
• Milton Rogovin, 101, American documentary photographer. [179]
• Jacques Sarr, 76, Senegalese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Thiès (since 1986). [180]
• David Schulman, 80, Irish President of Mensa International (2000–2006). [181]
• Sargent Shriver, 95, American diplomat and activist, U.S. vice-presidential candidate (1972), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [182]
• Edgar Tafel, 98, American architect. [183]
• Wital Taras, 54, Belarusian journalist, cancer. [184] (Polish)

17

• Pintu Bhattacharya, 71, Indian singer. [185]
• Brian Boobbyer, 82, English rugby union player and cricketer. [186]
• Sigurjón Brink, 36, Icelandic singer. [187]
• Sir Bernard Crossland, 87, British engineer, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast (1978–1982). [188]
• Keith Davey, 84, Canadian politician and campaign organizer, Senator (1966–1996). [189]
• Gita Dey, 79, Indian actress, cardiac arrest. [190]
• Jean Dutourd, 91, French novelist. [191] (French)
• Daniel E. Humphrey, Sr., 63, American inventor, honorary ambassador to Paraguay, heart failure. [192]
• Don Kirshner, 76, American record producer and songwriter, host of Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, heart failure. [193]
• Robert W. Mackenzie, 82, Canadian labour organizer and politician, Ontario Minister of Labour (1990–1994). [194]
• Max B. Miller, 73, American journalist and photographer, member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, suicide by gunshot. [195]
• John Ross, 72, American activist, author and journalist, liver cancer. [196]
• Shinichiro Sakurai, 81, Japanese automotive engineer. heart failure. [197] (Japanese)
• Yiannis Stamatiou, 75, Greek bouzouki player. [198] (Greek)

16

• Augusto Algueró, 76, Spanish composer and conductor, cardiac arrest. [199]
• Miguel Ángel Álvarez, 88, Puerto Rican comedian and actor, respiratory failure. [200]
• Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, 94, British aristocrat and diplomat, Administrator of Saint Lucia (1958–1962), Governor of the Seychelles (1962–1967). [201]
• Edward Chlapowski, 88, American Navy radioman, announced Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, cancer. [202]
• Thelmo Cunanan, 72, Filipino general, diplomat and business executive (National Oil Company, SSS), cancer. [203]
• Günther Feustel, 86, German author (Pittiplatsch). [204] (German)
• Jean Pierre XVIII Kasparian, 83, Egyptian-born Lebanese Armenian Catholic prelate, Patriarch of Cilicia (1982–1998). [205]
• Andrzej Krol, 52, Polish footballer. [206] (Polish)
• Milton Levine, 97, American entrepreneur, inventor of Uncle Milton's Ant Farm. [207]
• Steve Prestwich, 56, British-born Australian drummer (Cold Chisel, Little River Band) and songwriter, brain tumour. [208]
• Reinaldo Pünder, 72, German-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Coroatá (since 1978). [209]
• Alcides Silveira, 72, Uruguayan footballer. [210] (Spanish)
• Stefka Yordanova, 64, Bulgarian sprinter and middle distance runner. [211]

15

• Eleanor Galenson, 94, American psychoanalyst and expert on children's sexual identity. [212]
• Patti Gilbert, 79, American voice and character actress (Batman), complications from diabetes. [213]
• Roy Hartsfield, 85, American baseball player, first manager of Toronto Blue Jays, complications of liver cancer. [214]
• Harvey James, 58, Australian musician (Sherbet), lung cancer. [215]
• Michael Langham, 91, English stage director and actor, complications from a chest infection. [216]
• Patrick Leclercq, 60, German journalist (ARD). [217] (German)
• Romulus Linney, 80, American playwright, father of actress Laura Linney, lung cancer. [218]
• Nat Lofthouse, 85, English footballer (Bolton Wanderers, England). [219]
• Ed Lowe, 64, American journalist (Newsday, The Long Island Press), liver cancer. [220]
• Royal Marshall, 43, American radio producer (The Neal Boortz Show), heart attack. [221]
• Roque Muñoz, 83, Dominican sports official, International Olympic Committee member, prostate cancer. [222]
• Mike Vibert, 60, Jersey politician, Minister for Education, Sport and Culture (2005–2008), heart attack. [223]
• Susannah York, 72, English actress (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; Superman), bone marrow cancer. [224]
• Hilde Zach, 68, Austrian politician, Mayor of Innsbruck (2002–2010). [225] (German)

14

• Sun Axelsson, 75, Swedish novelist. [226] (Swedish)
• Georgia Carroll, 91, American fashion model and actress (Yankee Doodle Dandy). [227]
• Reggie Doucet, 25, American college football player, shot. [228]
• Dr. Creep, 69, American television host. [229]
• Stephanie Glaser, 90, Swiss actress. [230]
• Toshiyuki Hosokawa, 70, Japanese actor, acute subdural hematoma. [231]
• Trish Keenan, 42, British musician (Broadcast), pneumonia. [232]
• Liu Huaqing, 94, Chinese naval commander (1982–1988). [233]
• David MacSwan, 51, Australian theatre director. [234]
• Peter Post, 77, Dutch cyclist, winner of the 1964 Paris–Roubaix event. [235] (Dutch)
• Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, 88, American health official and tribal leader, first woman to lead the Seminole tribe (1967–1971). [236]
• Penny Tweedie, 70, British photographer. [237]
• Ben Wada, 80, Japanese television director, esophageal cancer. [238]
• Mississippi Winn, 113, American supercentenarian. [239]

13

• José Aramburu Topete, 92, Spanish army general. [240]
• Frank Calabro, 86, Italian-born Australian transport operator and politician. [241]
• Alexandru Caragea, 58, Romanian politician and educator. [242] (Romanian)
• David Coren, 93, Israeli politician. [243] (Hebrew)
• Tommy Crain, 59, American guitarist (The Charlie Daniels Band). [244]
• Mick Cremin, 87, Australian rugby union footballer. [245]
• Dan Filie, 56, American television writer and producer (Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys). [246]
• Tuviah Friedman, 88, Israeli Nazi hunter. [247]
• Michel Gratton, 58, Canadian journalist, press secretary for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. [248]
• Luis Jiménez Mata, 45, Mexican politician, Mayor of Santiago Amoltepec, shot. [249] (Spanish)
• Alex Kirst, 47, Canadian-American drummer (Iggy Pop, The Nymphs), hit and run accident. [250]
• Hellmut Lange, 87, German actor (Serenade for Two Spies, Diamond Safari). [251] (German)
• Barry McClure, 59, American triple jumper. [252]
• Charles Muscat, 48, Maltese footballer. [253]
• Prabhakar Panshikar, 79, Indian stage actor, after long illness. [254]
• Ellen Stewart, 91, American theater director. [255]
• Emanuele Testa, 87, Italian archaeologist, member of Studium Biblicum Franciscanum. [256] (Italian)
• Marian Woyna-Orlewicz, 97, Polish cross country skier. [257] (Polish)

12

• Clemar Bucci, 90, Argentine racing driver. [258] (Spanish)
• Daniela Conolly, 39, Brazilian fashion stylist and designer, mudslide. [259] (Portuguese)
• Howard Engleman, 91, American college basketball player. [260]
• Albert Heijn, 83, Dutch entrepreneur, owner of the Albert Heijn supermarket chain. [261]
• Henny King, 75, Canadian journalist and philanthropist, former wife of Solomon King. [262]
• Helene Palmer, 82, British actress (Coronation Street). [263]
• Paul Picerni, 88, American actor (The Untouchables), heart attack. [264]
• Kenneth Stevenson, 61, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Portsmouth (1995–2009). [265]
• Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz, 52, American dog trainer (Bo) and author, respiratory distress. [266]
• Stewart Williams, 85, Welsh historian. [267]

11

• Zoltán Berczik, 73, Hungarian table tennis player and coach. [268] (Hungarian)
• Susana Chávez, 36, Mexican poet and human rights activist, strangled. [269] (death confirmed on this date)
• Zoe Dominic, 90, British photographer. [270]
• Kitty Godley, 84, British artist, former wife of Lucien Freud. [271]
• Kozo Haraguchi, 100, Japanese track and field athlete, respiratory failure. [272] (Japanese)
• Al Koslik, 76, Canadian stage and television actor, stroke. [273]
• Audrey Lawson-Johnston, 95, American-born British RMS Lusitania passenger and last survivor. [274]
• Matti Mattson, 94, American mercenary (Abraham Lincoln Brigade). [275]
• John Modinos, 84, Cypriot opera baritone, heart failure. [276]
• David Nelson, 74, American actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), colon cancer. [277]
• Knut Olsen, 57, Norwegian journalist and television presenter, cancer. [278] (Norwegian)
• Won-il Rhee, 50, South Korean digital art curator, heart attack. [279] (German)
• Terry Seabrooke, 78, British magician. [280]
• Ze'ev Segal, 64, Israeli jurisprudent. [281]
• Lietta Tornabuoni, 79, Italian film critic, complications from a fall. [282] (Italian)
• Marcel Trudel, 93, Canadian historian and author, cancer. [283]

10

• Naseerullah Babar, 82, Pakistani soldier and politician, Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (1976–1977) and Interior Minister (1993–1996). [284]
• Bill Bower, 93, American aviator, last surviving pilot of Doolittle Raid, complications from a fall. [285]
• John Dye, 47, American actor (Touched by an Angel). [286]
• Dorothy Franey, 97, American Olympic speed skater. [287]
• Cookie Gilchrist, 75, American football player, cancer. [288]
• Joe Gores, 79, American novelist and screenwriter. [289]
• John Gross, 75, British literary critic. [290]
• Miklós Hofer, 79, Hungarian architect. [291] (Hungarian)
• Bora Kostić, 80, Serbian footballer (Red Star Belgrade). [292] (Serbian)
• Shota Kviraia, 59, Georgian politician, Minister of Interior (1993–1995) and State Security (1995–1997), renal failure. [293] (Georgian)
• Alberto León, 37, Spanish mountain bike rider, involved in Operación Galgo, suicide. [294] (body found on this date)
• Juanito Navarro, 86, Spanish actor, heart failure. [295] (Spanish)
• Gideon Njoku, 63, Nigerian footballer and coach, cardiac arrest. [296]
• Abraham Ortíz Rosales, Mexican politician, Mayor of Temoac, shot. [297]
• Boško Petrović, 75, Croatian vibraphonist and music producer. [298]
• Vivek Shauq, 47, Indian actor, comedian, writer and singer, heart attack. [299]
• A. W. B. Simpson, 79, British legal historian. [300]
• María Elena Walsh, 80, Argentine musician, poet and writer ("Manuelita la tortuga"), after long illness. [301]
• John J. Ward, 90, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles (1963–1996). [302]
• Margaret Whiting, 86, American pop singer ("A Tree in the Meadow", "Moonlight in Vermont"), natural causes. [303]

9

• Vítor Alves, 75, Portuguese soldier and politician, member of the MFA, responsible for the Carnation Revolution, cancer. [304] (Portuguese)
• Richard Butcher, 29, English footballer (Macclesfield Town), natural causes. [305]
• Ruth Cavin, 92, American mystery novel editor, lung cancer. [306]
• Nínawa Daher, 31, Argentine journalist and news presenter (C5N), car crash. [307] (Spanish)
• Debbie Friedman, 59, American songwriter, pneumonia. [308]
• Marian Kiełbaszczak, 95, Polish anime director. [309] (Polish)
• Gaston L'Heureux, 67, Canadian announcer, diabetes. [310] (French)
• Sir Ernest Lee-Steere, 98, Australian horse racing official, Lord Mayor of Perth (1972–1978). [311]
• Tom Lubbock, 53, British art critic, brain cancer. [312]
• Makinti Napanangka, 80s, Australian Papunya Tula artist. [313]
• Maria Paradowska, 78, Polish historian. [314] (Polish)
• Howard Wallace Pollock, 90, American politician, Representative from Alaska (1967–1971). [315]
• Dave Sisler, 79, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds), prostate cancer. [316]
• Jerzy Woźniak, 78, Polish footballer (Legia Warszawa). [317] (Polish)
• Peter Yates, 81, British film director and producer (Bullitt, Breaking Away, Krull). [318]
• Yue Lei, 50, Singaporean singer, nose cancer. [319]

8

• Josep Artigas, 87, Spanish international footballer. [320] (Catalan)
• Padma Atluri, 39, American television writer (90210, Men in Trees), uterine cancer. [321]
• Joey Carew, 73, Trinidadian cricketer (West Indies), arteriosclerosis. [322]
• Willi Dansgaard, 88, Danish paleoclimatologist. [323]
• Jiří Dienstbier, 73, Czech politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989–1992). [324]
• Peter Donaldson, 58, Canadian actor (The Sweet Hereafter, Emily of New Moon, Road to Avonlea), lung cancer. [325]
• Mike Gambrill, 75, British Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) cyclist. [326]
• Oleg Grabar, 81, American Islamic art historian, heart failure. [327]
• Ángel Pedraza, 48, Spanish footballer and manager, cancer. [328] (Catalan)
• Manuel Pestana Filho, 82, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Anápolis (1978–2004). [329]
• John Roll, 63, American jurist, shot. [330]
• Del Reisman, 86, American television producer (The Twilight Zone, The Untouchables) and writer, President of WGAW (1991–1993), cardiac arrest. [331]
• Elfa Secioria, 51, Indonesian jazz pianist. [332]
• Thorbjørn Svenssen, 86, Norwegian footballer, record 104 appearances for the national team, stroke. [333] (Norwegian)
• Morton Sweig, 95, American businessman. [334]
• Christopher Trumbo, 70, American screenwriter, kidney cancer. [335]
• William F. Walsh, 98, American politician, Mayor of Syracuse, New York (1961–1969), Congressman (1973–1979). [336]

7

• Helga Bachmann, 79, Icelandic actress. [337] (Icelandic)
• Red Borom, 95, American baseball player. [338]
• Carlos Castro, 65, Portuguese journalist, bludgeoned. [339]
• Derek Gardner, 79, British vehicle and Formula One car designer. [340]
• George Harris, 77, American Olympic judoka, leukemia. [341]
• Bill Johnson, 84, American football player (San Francisco 49ers) and coach (Cincinnati Bengals). [342]
• Phil Kennemore, 57, American bassist (Y&T), lung cancer. [343]
• Krzysztof Kolberger, 60, Polish actor, cancer. [344] (Polish)
• Włodzimierz Ławniczak, 51, Polish journalist, Chairman of Telewizja Polska, after long illness. [345] (Polish)
• Juan Piquer Simón, 74, Spanish film director (Pieces, Slugs), lung cancer. [346]
• Val Puccio, 45, American professional wrestler. [347]
• Geoff Raymond, 89, Australian newsreader, after sudden illness. [348]
• Bobby Robinson, 93, American record producer. [349]
• Hélio Saboya, 80, Brazilian lawyer and jurist, lung cancer. [350] (Portuguese)
• Simona Senoner, 17, Italian ski jumper. [351]
• Saúl Vara Rivera, Mexican politician, Mayor of Zaragoza, Coahuila (since 2009), shot. [352] (body found on this date)
• José Vidal, 70, Dominican baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Seattle Pilots). [353] (Spanish)

6

• Anna Bratsou, 82, Greek actress, cancer. [354] (Greek)
• Sir Richard Carter, 75, New Zealand businessman. [355]
• Tom Cavanagh, 28, American ice hockey player (San Jose Sharks), blunt force trauma. [356]
• Gary Claxton, 50, American country singer, suicide. [357]
• Francisco de la Rosa, 44, Dominican baseball player (Orioles). [358]
• Ryne Duren, 81, American baseball player (Angels, Phillies, Yankees). [359]
• Ohan Durian, 88, Armenian composer. [360]
• Gad Granach, 95, German memoirist, son of Alexander Granach. [361] (German)
• John D. Kendall. 93, American musical educator( Suzuki method ), complications of a stroke.[362]
• Aron Kincaid, 70, American actor (The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini) and voice actor (Batman, The Transformers), heart failure. [363]
• Gary Mason, 48, British boxer, cycling collision. [364]
• Uche Okafor, 43, Nigerian footballer, suicide. [365]
• Maurice Peiren, 73, Belgian Olympic athlete. [366]
• Andrzej Przeździecki, 84, Polish Olympic fencer and trainer. [367] (Polish)
• Jaime Humberto Sánchez Vásquez, Colombian politician, Mayor of Santo Domingo, Antioquia (since 2008), shot. [368] (Spanish)
• Anthony Seminerio, 75, American politician and convicted felon, member of the New York State Assembly (1979–2009). [369]
• Pyotr Sumin, 64, Russian politician, Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast (1996–2010). [370] (Russian)
• Donald J. Tyson, 80, American business executive, Chairman of Tyson Foods (1967–2001), cancer. [371]
• Vang Pao, 81, Lao army general and Hmong community leader, Commander of the Secret Army, pneumonia. [372]
• Joan Vass, 85, American fashion designer. [373]
• Reg Ward, 82, British developer, chief executive of London Docklands Development Corporation (1981–1987). [374]
• Richard Wiedamann, 78, German musician and composer. [375] (German)
• Dagmar Wilson, 94, American anti-nuclear activist, heart failure. [376]

5

• Nikos Dokas, 76, Greek journalist (Eleftherotypia). [377] (Greek)
• Jim Duncan, 86, American football player and coach. [378]
• Paul Egertson, 75, American Lutheran bishop, heart attack. [379]
• Renee Hanover, 85, American attorney and lesbian activist. [380]
• David Hart, 66, British political activist, author and playwright, motor neurone disease. [381]
• Roland Kayn, 77, German avant-garde composer. [382]
• Oleksandr Korobchynskyi, 41, Ukrainian politician, Leader of Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine, shot. [383] (Polish)
• Lily Marinho, 89, Brazilian philanthropist, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, respiratory failure. [384] (Portuguese)
• Malangatana Ngwenya, 74, Mozambican poet and painter, after long illness. [385]
• John Ertle Oliver, 87, American scientist, provided seismic evidence supporting plate tectonics. [386]
• Agustin Perdices, 76, Filipino politician, Governor of Negros Oriental (since 2010), stomach cancer. [387]
• Assar Rönnlund, 75, Swedish cross-country skier, world and Olympic champion. [388] (Swedish)
• Brian Rust, 88, British jazz discographer and music journalist. [389] (German)
• David G. Trager, 73, American jurist, pancreatic cancer. [390]
• Keijiro Yamashita, 71, Japanese rockabilly singer. [391] (Japanese)
• Bill Zeller, 27, American computer programmer, injuries from a suicide attempt. [392]

4

• Mohamed Bouazizi, 26, Tunisian protestor, self-immolation. [393]
• Grady Chapman, 81, American doo-wop singer (The Robins), heart failure. [394]
• Chrysanth Chepil, 73, Russian Orthodox prelate, Metropolitan of Vyatka-Slobodskoy. [395] (Russian)
• B. H. Friedman, 84, American author and art critic, pneumonia. [396]
• Cyril M. Harris, 93, American acoustical engineer. [397]
• Hadayatullah Hübsch, 64, German journalist. [398] (German)
• Mick Karn, 52, Cypriot-born British musician (Japan), cancer. [399]
• Dick King-Smith, 88, British author (The Sheep-Pig, The Water Horse). [400]
• Gustavo Kupinski, 36, Argentine guitarist (Los Piojos), car crash. [401]
• Coen Moulijn, 73, Dutch footballer. [402]
• Ali-Reza Pahlavi, 44, Iranian royal, son of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, suicide by gunshot. [403]
• Gerry Rafferty, 63, Scottish singer-songwriter (Stealers Wheel), liver failure. [404]
• Jack Richardson, 90, British chemical engineer. [405]
• Salmaan Taseer, 66, Pakistani politician, Governor of Punjab (since 2008), shot. [406]
• Bob Usdane, 74, American politician, member of the Arizona Senate (1977–1991), after a short illness. [407]

3

• Julia Bonds, 58, American activist, cancer. [408]
• Fadil Hadžić, 88, Croatian filmmaker, screenwriter, playwright and journalist. [409] (Croatian)
• Jill Haworth, 65, English actress (Exodus, In Harm's Way, Cabaret, The Outer Limits), natural causes. [410]
• Zbigniew Jaremski, 61, Polish athlete, 1976 Olympic silver medalist. [411] (Polish)
• Michael Kennelly, 96, Irish-born American Jesuit, President of Loyola University New Orleans (1970–1974), founder of Strake Jesuit College Prep. [412]
• Suchitra Mitra, 86, Indian singer, cardiac arrest. [413]
• Alfred Proksch, 102, Austrian athlete and graphic designer. [414] (German)
• Yosef Shiloach, 69, Israeli actor. [415]
• Anatoliy Skorokhod, 81, Ukrainian mathematician. [416]
• Paul Soldner, 89, American ceramicist. [417]
• Eva Strittmatter, German writer. [418] (German)
• Stanley Tolliver, 85, American attorney and civil rights advocate. [419]
• Nakamura Tomijyuro V, 81, Japanese Kabuki actor, Living National Treasure. [420] (Japanese)
• Alec Woodall, 92, British politician, MP for Hemsworth (1974–1987). [421]

2

• Anna Anni, 84, Italian costume designer (Otello). [422]
• Bali Ram Bhagat, 88, Indian politician, Speaker of the Lok Sabha (1976–1977) and Governor of Rajasthan (1993–1998). [423]
• Kate Ebli, 52, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives (2006–2010). [424]
• Anne Francis, 80, American actress (Honey West, Forbidden Planet, The Twilight Zone), pancreatic cancer. [425]
• Peter Hobbs, 92, French-born American character actor (Barney Miller, Lou Grant, The Odd Couple), after brief illness. [426]
• Hans Kalt, 86, Swiss rower, Olympic silver (1948) and bronze (1952) medalist. [427] (French)
• Émile Masson Jr., 95, Belgian cyclist, winner of Paris–Roubaix and La Flèche Wallonne classic cycle races. [428]
• John Osborne, 74, Montserratian politician, Chief Minister (1978–1991; 2001–2006), after long illness. [429]
• Pete Postlethwaite, 64, British actor (In the Name of the Father, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, The Usual Suspects), cancer. [430]
• William R. Ratchford, 76, American politician, Representative from Connecticut (1979–1985), complications from Parkinson's disease. [431]
• Miriam Seegar, 103, American silent film actress and interior designer. [432]
• Patricia Smith, 80, American actress (The Spirit of St. Louis, The Bob Newhart Show, The Debbie Reynolds Show), heart failure. [433]
• Margot Stevenson, 98, American stage and radio actress (The Shadow). [434]
• Szeto Wah, 79, Hong Kong political activist, lung cancer. [435]
• Robert Trumble, 91, Australian writer and musician. [436]
• Richard Winters, 92, American army officer and World War II veteran, basis of book and miniseries Band of Brothers, Parkinson's disease. [437]

1

• Nikolay Abramov, 26, Russian footballer. [438] (Russian)
• George Alexandrovich Ball, 83, Russian writer. [439] (Russian)
• Sir Robin Carnegie, 84, British army general. [440]
• Marin Constantin, 85, Romanian musician, conductor and composer. [441] (Romanian)
• Charles Fambrough, 60, American jazz musician and composer. [442]
• Gil Garfield, 77, American songwriter and musician (The Cheers), cancer. [443]
• Bruce Halliday, 84, Canadian physician and politician, MP for Oxford (1974–1993). [444]
• Gerd Michael Henneberg, 88, German actor. [445] (German)
• Flemming Jørgensen, 63, Danish actor and musician (Bamses Venner), heart attack. [446] (Danish)
• Verne Langdon, 69, American musician, record producer and make-up artist. [447]
• John Olguin, 89, American aquarium official, director of the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium (1949–1987). [448]
• Billy Joe Patton, 88, American golfer. [449]
• Louise Reiss, 90, American physician, co-ordinator of the Baby Tooth Survey. [450]
• John Rice, 92, American baseball umpire (1955–1973). [451]
• Faizal Yusof, 32, Malaysian actor, heart attack. [452]

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