Deaths in 2011

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2011.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. 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).

August 2011

5

• Claudio Díaz, 52, Argentine journalist, thyroid cancer. [1] (Spanish)
• Marion D. Hanks, 89, American Mormon leader. [2]
• Andrzej Lepper, 57, Polish politician, suspected suicide by hanging. [3]
• Jennifer Minetti, 71, German actress. [4] (German)
• Gary Nixon, 70, American motorcycle racer, complications from a heart attack. [5]

4

• Eugene V. Kolokolnikov, 64, Russian athletics coach. [6] (Russian)
• Naoki Matsuda, 34, Japanese footballer, suspected heart attack. [7]
• Erhard Pumm, 65, German trade unionist. [8] (German)
• Piet Stoffelen, 71, Dutch politician. [9] (Dutch)
• Erika Thijs, 51, Belgian politician, cancer. [10] (Dutch)

3

• Wolf Böhringer, 81, German chess player. [11] (German)
• Rudolf Brazda, 98, German concentration camp prisoner, last known survivor of homosexual deportation. [12]
• Annette Charles, 63, American actress (Grease), cancer. [13].
• Antonio M. Diaz, 83, Filipino politician, Representative from Zambales (1969–1972, 1992–2001, 2004–2011). [14]
• Nicholas Kachurin, 51, Russian magazine editor (Top Gear). [15] (Russian)
• Ingrid Luterkort, 101, Swedish actress. [16] (Swedish)
• Andrew McDermott, 45, British singer (Threshold), complications of kidney failure. [17] (German)
• Simona Monyová, 44, Czech writer, stabbed. [18] (Czech)
• Jorge Neri, 67, Mexican composer, liver cancer. [19] (Spanish)
• Ray Patterson, 89, American basketball executive (Milwaukee Bucks, Houston Rockets). [20]
• Nikolay Petrov, 68, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, stroke. [21]
• Bubba Smith, 66, American football player (Baltimore Colts) and actor (Police Academy). [22]
• Mohsen Koochebaghi Tabrizi, 87, Iranian Shi'ite Muslim marja, heart attack. [23] (Persian)
• Allan Watkins, 89, Welsh cricketer, after short illness. [24]
• Oleh Yemtsev, 59, Ukrainian entertainer, after long illness. [25] (Russian)

2

• Leslie Esdaile Banks, 51, American author (The Vampire Huntress Legend Series), adrenal cancer. [26]
• Baruj Benacerraf, 90, Venezuelan-born American immunologist, Nobel laureate (1980). [27]
• Ralph Berkowitz, 100, American composer. [28]
• DeLois Barrett Campbell, 85, American gospel singer (The Barrett Sisters), pulmonary embolism. [29]
• Vittorio Citterich, 81, Italian journalist and news anchor. [30] (Italian)
• Joseph Sanchis Degree, 79, Spanish comic book artist. [31] (Valencian)
• Asadullo Gulomov, 58, Tajik politician, Deputy Prime Minister (2006–2011). [32] (Russian)
• Andrey Kapitsa, 80, Russian geographer and explorer, discovered and named Lake Vostok. [33]
• Nikolay Kutuzov, 85, Russian conductor, People's Artist of the USSR. [34] (Russian)
• Coby van Megen, 78, Dutch table tennis player. [35] (Dutch)
• Clarence E. Miller, 93, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio (1967–1993), pneumonia. [36]
• Larry Moyer, 60, American ARCA stock car racer, after long illness. [37]
• Attilio Pavesi, 100, Italian Olympic cyclist, oldest living Olympic champion. [38] (Italian)
• Richard Pearson, 93, Welsh actor. [39]
• Venere Pizzinato, 114, Italian supercentenarian, third-oldest living person in the world. [40]
• Italo Rossi, 80, Brazilian actor. [41] (Portuguese)
• James Ford Seale, 76, American murderer, Ku Klux Klan member. [42]
• William Sleator, 66, American author. [43]

1

• Viktor Aniskin, 65, Russian journalist. [44] (Russian)
• Stan Barstow, 83, English novelist. [45]
• Gerard Buisman, 59, Dutch troubadour. [46] (Dutch)
• Carmela Marie Cristiano, 83, American Roman Catholic nun (Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth); first nun to seek political office in New Jersey. [47]
• Florentina Gómez Miranda, 99, Argentine lawyer and women's rights activist. [48]
• Gamini Goonesena, 80, Sri Lankan cricketer. [49]
• Ivan Mesquita, 79, Brazilian actor. [50] (Portuguese)
• Con Murphy, 51, Irish judge, after short illness. [51]
• Chieko N. Okazaki, 84, American Mormon women's leader, first non-Caucasian woman to hold a senior position in the LDS church, heart failure. [52]
• Zhanna Prokhorenko, 71, Russian film actress (Ballad of a Soldier). [53] (Russian)
• Harald Stender, 86, German footballer. [54] (German)

July 2011

31

• Eliseo Alberto, 59, Cuban-born Mexican writer, complications from a kidney transplant. [55]
• Dorothy Brunson, 72, American businesswoman, first black woman to own a radio station, ovarian cancer. [56]
• Rick Buckley, 74, American radio executive (WOR (AM)), brain embolism. [57]
• Clyde Holding, 80, Australian politician, federal minister (1984–1990). [58]
• John Hoyland, 76, English abstract painter, complications following heart surgery. [59]
• Andrea Pazzagli, 51, Italian footballer (A.C. Milan), stroke. [60]
• Ruth Perelman, 90, American philanthropist. [61]
• Pyotr Pestov, 81, Russian ballet teacher. [62] (Russian)
• Joseph Albert Rosario, 96, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Amravati (1955–1995). [63]
• Ljubiša Stojanović, 59, Serbian singer, car accident. [64]

30

• Hikmat Abu Zayd, 96, Egyptian politician, first female cabinet minister. [65]
• Pêr Denez, 90, French Breton linguist and writer. [66]
• Mario Echandi Jiménez, 96, Costa Rican politician, President (1958–1962), pneumonia. [67]
• Vincent Kympat, 65, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, first Bishop of Jowai (since 2006). [68]
• Sam Norkin, 94, American caricaturist and illustrator. [69]

29

• John Edward Anderson, 93, American businessman and philanthropist, pneumonia. [70]
• Jack Barlow, 87, American country music singer, after long illness. [71]
• Antonis Carouzos, 63, Greek businessman, cancer. [72] (Greek)
• Richard Marsh, Baron Marsh, 83, British politician and businessman, MP for Greenwich (1959–1971), Chairman of British Rail (1971–1976). [73]
• Nella Martinetti, 65, Swiss singer-songwriter. [74]
• Gene McDaniels, 76, American singer-songwriter. [75]
• Ivan Milas, 72, Croatian politician. [76] (Croatian)
• Takeshi Miyaji, 45, Japanese video game designer and business executive (GunGriffon, Grandia). [77]
• Dimitar Panitza, 80, Bulgarian journalist and editor. [78]
• Matthew J. Perry, 89, American federal judge. [79]
• Sergey Sazontyev, 64, Russian actor. [80] (Russian)
• Agnes Varis, 81, American philanthropist, cancer. [81]
• Max Harry Weil, 84, Swiss-born American physician, pioneer of critical care medicine, prostate cancer. [82]

28

• Elazar Abuhatzeira, 70, Moroccan-born Israeli rabbi, stabbed. [83]
• Frank Bender, 70, American forensic artist, pleural mesothelioma. [84]
• Bernd Clüver, 63, German singer, complications from a fall. [85] (German)
• Howard W. Creecy, Jr., 57, American preacher and civil rights leader, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, heart attack. [86]
• James E. Dyer, 64, American politician, Mayor of Danbury, Connecticut (1979–1987). [87]
• Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, 25, British journalist, explosion. [88]
• David LeGrant, 87, American acting teacher and actor. [89]
• Agapito Lozada, 72, Filipino Olympic swimmer. [90]
• John Marburger, 70, American physicist and presidential adviser, non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [91]
• Brian O'Leary, 71, American scientist and NASA astronaut, cancer. [92]
• Fortino Cortés Sandoval, 39, Mexican politician, Mayor of Florencia de Benito Juárez, shot. [93] (Spanish) (body found on this date)
• Judy Sowinski, 70, American roller derby player. [94] (death reported on this date)
• Christopher Walkden, 73, British Olympic swimmer, cancer. [95]
• John Milton Yinger, 95, American sociologist. [96]
• Abdul Fatah Younis, 67, Libyan rebel leader and government official, former Interior Minister, shot. [97]

27

• Wilfred Arsenault, 57, Canadian politician, cancer. [98]
• Rudolf Baláž, 70, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Banská Bystrica (since 1990). [99]
• Richard Chavez, 81, American activist and labor organizer, brother of Cesar Chavez, complications from surgery. [100]
• Ghulam Haider Hamidi, 65, Afghan politician, Mayor of Kandahar (since 2007), bombing. [101]
• Rei Harakami, 40, Japanese musician, cerebrovascular disease. [102] (Japanese)
• Hideki Irabu, 42, Japanese baseball player (Chiba Lotte Marines, New York Yankees, Montreal Expos), suicide by hanging. [103] (body discovered on this date)
• Agota Kristof, 75, Hungarian-born French novelist. [104]
• Jerome Liebling, 87, American photographer, filmmaker and academic (Hampshire College). [105]
• Polly Platt, 72, American film producer (Say Anything...), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [106]
• Bejaratana Rajasuda, 85, Thai royal, only daughter of King Vajiravudh of Thailand. [107]
• Sir John Rawlins, 89, British naval officer, pioneer of diving medicine. [108]
• Eduard Rozovsky, 84, Russian cinematographer (Amphibian Man, White Sun of the Desert), car accident. [109]
• Richard Rutt, 85, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Leicester (1979–1991) [110]
• Pietro Sambi, 73, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, titular archbishop and Apostolic Nuncio to the United States (since 2005), respiratory failure. [111]
• Francis John Spence, 85, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Kingston (1982–2002). [112]
• John Stott, 90, British Anglican priest. [113]

26

• Joe Arroyo, 55, Colombian singer. [114]
• Jacques Fatton, 85, French-born Swiss footballer. [115] (German)
• Frank Foster, 82, American jazz saxophonist and composer, complications from kidney failure. [116]
• Bobby Franklin, 54, American politician, apparent heart attack. [117]
• Richard Harris, 63, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Seattle Seahawks) and coach (Winnipeg Blue Bombers), heart attack. [118]
• Sakyo Komatsu, 80, Japanese science fiction writer, pneumonia. [119]
• Georges Kwaïter, 83, Syrian-born Lebanese Melkite Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Saïdā (1987–2006). [120]
• Elmer Lower, 98, American broadcast executive, president of ABC News (1963–1974). [121]
• Silvio Narizzano, 84, Canadian-born British film and television director. [122]
• Margaret Olley, 88, Australian painter. [123]
• Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz, Mexican journalist, homicide by slit throat. [124] (body found on this date)
• Josephine C. Reyes, 82, Filipino educator, President of Far Eastern University (1985–1989). [125]
• Howard Stein, 84, American financier, complications of a stroke. [126]
• Tim Smooth, 39, American rapper, cancer. [127]

25

• Michael Cacoyannis, 89, Cypriot filmmaker (Zorba the Greek). [128]
• Bakır Çağlar, 69–70, Turkish jurist, lawyer and constitutional law professor, bleeding stomach. [129] (Turkish)
• V. S. Krishna Iyer, 89, Indian activist and politician, after long illness. [130]
• Arthur W. Murray, 92, American test pilot, Alzheimer's disease. [131]
• Jeret Peterson, 29, American free style skier, 2010 Winter Olympics silver medalist, suicide by gunshot. [132]
• Ravichandran, 71, Malaysian-born Indian actor, lung infection. [133]
• Mike Reaves, 52, American rock musician (Full Devil Jacket), prostate cancer. [134]
• Irma Schmidt, 112, American supercentenarian, oldest resident of Connecticut. [135]

24

• Ron Davies, 85, Australian politician, Western Australian Opposition Leader (1978–1981). [136]
• Kaveinga Fa'anunu, 48, Tongan politician, MP for Tongatapu 9 (since 2010), head and neck cancer. [137]
• Tresa Hughes, 81, American actress (Another World, Don Juan DeMarco, Fame). [138]
• Gilbert Luján, 70, American painter, prostate cancer. [139]
• Paul Marchand, 74, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Timmins (since 1999). [140]
• Josip Bobi Marotti, 89, Croatian actor. [141] (Croatian)
• Christopher Mayer, 57, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard, Santa Barbara, Liar Liar). [142]
• Virgilio Noè, 89, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archpriest of the Basilica of Saint Peter (1991–2002). [143]
• Mike Palm, 86, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox). [144]
• Dan Peek, 60, American singer-songwriter (America). [145]
• David Servan-Schreiber, 50, French physician, neuroscientist and author, cancer. [146]
• G. D. Spradlin, 90, American actor (North Dallas Forty, The Godfather Part II). [147]
• Skip Thomas, 61, American football player (Oakland Raiders), apparent heart attack. [148]
• Jane White, 88, American actress (Beloved, Klute, Once Upon a Mattress). [149]

23

• David Aiken, 93, American operatic baritone and opera director. [150]
• Toyoo Ashida, 67, Japanese animator (Fist of the North Star, The World of Narue, Gulliver Boy, F-Zero: GP Legend) [151]
• Mathilde Aussant, 113, French supercentenarian, oldest person in France. [152]
• Rachel Beckwith, 9, American fundraiser, car accident. [153]
• Terence Boston, Baron Boston of Faversham, 81, British politician, MP for Faversham (1964–1970). [154]
• John Chervokas, 74, American advertising writer. [155]
• Robert Ettinger, 92, American cryonicist, respiratory failure. [156]
• Ina van Faassen, 82, Dutch actress. [157] (Dutch)
• Jack Fitzpatrick, 88, American entrepreneur and politician, co-founder of Country Curtains, Massachusetts State Senator (1973–1980). [158]
• Milton Gwirtzman, 78, American speech writer, advisor to the Kennedy family, metastatic melanoma. [159]
• Johnny Hoes, 94, Dutch singer, composer and producer. [160] (Dutch)
• Fran Landesman, 83, American lyricist and poet. [161]
• Butch Lewis, 65, American boxing promoter, heart attack. [162]
• Conrad Meyer, 89, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Dorchester (1979–1988) [163]
• Bill Morrissey, 59, American singer-songwriter. [164]
• Nguyen Cao Ky, 80, Vietnamese air force chief and political leader, Prime Minister of South Vietnam (1965–1967). [165]
• Richard Pike, 61, British chemist. [166]
• George Ramos, 63, American reporter, editor and columnist (Los Angeles Times). [167]
• Daryoush Rezaei, 35, Iranian nuclear scientist, shot. [168]
• John Shalikashvili, 75, Polish-born American army general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1993–1997), stroke. [169]
• Elmer B. Staats, 97, American public servant, Comptroller General of the United States (1966–1981). [170]
• Amy Winehouse, 27, British singer-songwriter ("Rehab"). [171]

22

• Tom Aldredge, 83, American actor (The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire), lymphoma. [172]
• Linda Christian, 87, Mexican-born American actress, first Bond girl (1954 television adaptation of Casino Royale). [173]
• Tore Eikeland, 21, Norwegian politician, killed in 2011 Norway attacks. [174] (Norwegian)
• Dmitri Furman, 68, Russian historian and philosopher, after long illness. [175] (Russian)
• Charles Manatt, 75, American lawyer, banker and political figure, complications of a stroke. [176]
• Malcolm Muir, 96, American jurist. [177]
• Ifti Nasim, 64, Pakistani-born American poet and radio host, heart attack. [178]
• Tex Nelson, 74, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles). [179]
• Noah Parlavantzas, 54, Greek radio producer, cancer. [180] (Greek)
• Wolfram Thiem, 55, German Olympic rower. [181] (German)
• Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan, 79, New Zealand politician, longest-serving female member of the House of Representatives (1967–1996). [182]
• Brian Vallee, 70, Canadian journalist and documentary filmmaker, cancer. [183]
• Cees de Wolf, 65, Dutch footballer (Ajax Amsterdam). [184] (Dutch)

21

• Franz Alt, 100, Austrian-born American mathematician. [185]
• Hyman Bookbinder, 95, American lobbyist and Jewish activist. [186]
• Clément Cailleau, 88, French-born Senegalese Roman Catholic prelate, Prefect of Tambacounda (1970–1986). [187]
• Ashleigh Connor, 21, Australian soccer player, car accident. [188]
• Milly Del Rubio, 89, American singer (The Del Rubio Triplets). [189]
• Pedro Claro Meurice Estiu, 79, Cuban Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba (1970–2007). [190]
• Elliot Handler, 95, American businessman, co-founder of Mattel and namer of the Barbie doll, heart failure. [191]
• Allison Harte, 58, American disc jockey (WLAV-FM), drowned. [192]
• William Hildenbrand, 89, American government officer, Secretary of the United States Senate (1981–1985). [193]
• Carl Kraushaar, 84, American college basketball player (UCLA). [194]
• Slavomir Miklovš, 77, Croatian Greek Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Križevci (1983–2009). [195]
• Bruce Sundlun, 91, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island (1991–1995). [196]
• Kazimierz Świątek, 96, Estonian-born Belarusian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev (1991–2006). [197]
• Jack Thompson, 82, British politician, MP for Wansbeck (1983–1997). [198]
• Amelia Trice, 75, American Kootenai tribal leader and activist, leader of the last Indian war against the United States, cancer. [199]
• Elwy Yost, 86, Canadian television host and writer. [200]

20

• Armando Martín Borque, 90, Spanish entrepreneur. [201] (Spanish)
• Blaize Clement, 78, American mystery writer and psychologist, cancer. [202]
• Lucian Freud, 88, German-born British painter. [203]
• Isaia Italeli, 40s, Tuvaluan Cabinet minister. [204] (body found on this date)
• Myra Kraft, 68, American philanthropist, wife of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, cancer. [205]
• Kanté Manfila, 65, Guinean guitarist and composer, after long illness. [206]
• Gloria Sawai, 78, American-born Canadian author. [207]
• Mary Simpson, 85, American minister, first woman to be ordained by the American Episcopal Church. [208]
• Mark Stroman, 41, American spree killer, execution by lethal injection. [209]
• Vadim Tedeyev, 65, Russian ballet dancer and teacher, People's Artist. [210] (Russian)

19

• Boris Biancheri, 80, Italian writer and diplomat. [211] (Italian)
• Sheila Burrell, 89, British actress. [212]
• William Leonard D’Mello, 80, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Karwar (1976–2007). [213]
• Remo Gaspari, 90, Italian politician and minister, stroke. [214] (Italian)
• Lil Greenwood, 86, American vocalist (Duke Ellington Orchestra). [215]
• Yoshio Harada, 71, Japanese actor, pneumonia. [216] (Japanese)
• Henrique Johannpötter, 78, German-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bacabal (1989–1997). [217]
• Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola, 91, French equestrian, Olympic gold (1952, 1964) and silver (1964, 1968) medalist. [218]
• Jacques Jouanneau , 84, French actor. [219] (French)
• Brendan Kehoe, 40, Irish software developer and author, acute myeloid leukemia. [220]
• Karen Khachaturian, 90, Russian composer. [221] (Russian)
• Roy Meehan, 79, New Zealand Olympic wrestler. [222]
• James T. Molloy, 75, American government officer, last Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives (1974–1993), complications of diabetes. [223]
• Sir Julian Oswald, 77, British admiral. [224]
• Arsenie Papacioc, 97, Romanian Orthodox Archimandrite, cardiac arrest. [225]
• Serhiy Podhornyi, 57, Ukrainian actor (Only Old Men Are Going to Battle). [226] (Russian)
• Cec Thompson, 85, British rugby league player. [227]

18

• Salvador Bernárdez, 58, Honduran footballer, heart attack. [228] (Spanish)
• Sid Cooper, 94, American musician. [229]
• Albert Driedger, 75, Canadian politician, stroke. [230]
• Edith Eisler, 86, American violinist and journalist. [231]
• Bernard Gavzer, 90, American Emmy Award-winning writer and television producer, neck cancer. [232]
• Ernesto Goldar, 71, Argentine writer, heart attack. [233] (Spanish)
• Rudiger Haugwitz, 79, German-born American chemist, cancer researcher and artist, stroke. [234]
• Sean Hoare, 47, British journalist (News of the World), whistleblower of the 2011 phone hacking scandal. [235] (body found on this date)
• Kostas Karahalios, 46, Greek journalist, cancer. [236] (Greek)
• Magnus Malan, 81, South African politician, Minister of Defence (1980–1991), natural causes. [237]
• Lillian Mobley, 81, American activist, helped establish the Martin Luther King, Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center. [238]
• Giulio Rinaldi, 76, Italian Olympic boxer. [239]
• Bob Stenehjem, 59, American politician, member of the North Dakota Senate (since 1993), majority leader (since 2001), car accident. [240]
• Edson Stroll, 82, American actor (McHale's Navy), cancer. [241]
• James Wong, 89, Malaysian politician, first Deputy Chief Minister of Sarawak, leader of the national Opposition (1974), heart attack. [242]
• Bagley Wright, 87, American developer and philanthropist. [243]
• Ludvik Zajc, 68, Slovenian Olympic ski jumper. [244] (Norwegian)

17

• Juan Arza, 88, Spanish footballer and coach. [245] (Spanish)
• Dionysios Bairaktaris, 84, Greek Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Inousses (since 1979). [246] (Greek)
• Gil Bernal, 80, American saxophone player, heart failure. [247]
• Juan María Bordaberry, 83, Uruguayan politician and dictator, President (1972–1976), after a long illness. [248]
• Jan Mohammed Khan, Afghan presidential adviser, shot. [249]
• Jim Kincaid, 76, American news correspondent (ABC News), anchorman (WVEC) and essayist, heart attack. [250]
• John Kraaijkamp, Sr., 86, Dutch actor and comedian. [251] (Dutch)
• Takaji Mori, 67, Japanese Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) footballer, renal pelvic cancer. [252]
• Joe Morris, Sr., 85, American Navajo World War II code talker. [253]
• David Ngoombujarra, 44, Australian actor. [254]
• Ştefan Sameş, 59, Romanian footballer (Steaua Bucureşti), cancer. [255] (Romanian)
• Marion Stiebel Siciliano, 86, American painter and philanthropist. [256]
• Alex Steinweiss, 94, American graphic designer, inventor of the album cover. [257]
• Taiji, 45, Japanese musician and singer-songwriter (X Japan), suicide by hanging. [258]
• Joe Lee Wilson, 75, American jazz singer. [259]

16

• Milo Anstadt, 91, Dutch journalist and writer. [260] (Dutch)
• Bertalan Bicskei, 66, Hungarian footballer and coach. [261] (Hungarian)
• Forrest Blue, 65, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Baltimore Colts). [262]
• Geraint Bowen, 95, Welsh poet. [263]
• John Crook, 80, British ethologist. [264]
• Rouhollah Dadashi, 30, Iranian powerlifter and bodybuilder, stabbed. [265] (Persian)
• Ante Garmaz, 83, Croatian-born Argentine fashion designer and model, after long illness. [266] (Spanish)
• Lloyd Gerber, 87, American cowboy poet, abdominal aortic aneurysm. [267]
• Albin Małysiak, 94, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Krakow (1970–1993). [268] (Polish)
• Dame Katerina Mataira, 79, New Zealand educator and Maori language proponent, co-founder of Kura Kaupapa Māori. [269]
• Cesare Mazzolari, 74, Italian-born South Sudanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rumbek (since 1998). [270]
• Joe McNamee, 84, American basketball player (Rochester Royals, Baltimore Bullets). [271]
• Kazimierz Neumann, 77, Polish Olympic rower. [272] (Polish)

15

• Helen Beverly, 94, American actress, natural causes. [273]
• Manuel Corral, 76, Spanish leader of the Palmarian Catholic Church. [274] (Spanish)
• Frankie Daye, 77, American child actress, lung cancer. [275]
• Ed Flesh, 79, American art director, inventor of the Wheel of Fortune wheel, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [276]
• John C. Kenefick, 89, American railroad executive. [277]
• Cornell MacNeil, 88, American operatic baritone. [278]
• Norbert Olberz, 86, German-born American businessman, founder of the Sport Chalet retail chain, natural causes. [279]
• John S. Toll, 87, American physicist and educational administrator, heart failure. [280]
• Googie Withers, 94, English actress. [281]

14

• Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, 47, Kenyan peace activist, recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, car accident. [282]
• Sissel Solbjørg Bjugn, 63, Norwegian poet and children's writer. [283] (Norwegian)
• W. K. Brown, 88, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1960–1972), Alzheimer's disease. [284]
• Eric Delaney, 87, British percussionist and band leader. [285]
• William Lockhart Garwood, 79, American jurist (United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit), heart attack. [286]
• Noel Gayler, 96, American Navy admiral. [287]
• Leo Kirch, 84, German media entrepreneur. [288]
• Vladimir Kosinsky, 66, Russian swimmer, 1968 Olympic silver and bronze medalist. [289] (Russian)
• Terrence Lanni, 68, American casino executive, cancer. [290]
• Hal John Norman, 99, American actor. [291]
• Kennedy Ondiek, 44, Kenyan Olympic athlete. [292]
• Antonio Prieto, 85, Chilean singer and actor, cardiac arrest. [293] (Spanish)

13

• Raymond Beckman, 86, American Olympic soccer player, coronary artery disease. [294]
• Per-Erik Burud, 48, Norwegian businessman, boating accident. [295] (Norwegian)
• Adam Chisvo, 47, Zimbabwean musician, complications of diabetes. [296]
• Al Debbo, 87, South African comedian. [297]
• Cornel Fugaru, 71, Romanian composer, cancer. [298] (Romanian)
• Donald Grody, 83, American actor, playwright and activist. [299]
• Aap Lethro, 112, Bhutanese supercentenarian, oldest person in Bhutan. [300]
• John Mosca, 86, American restaurateur (Mosca's), prostate cancer. [301]
• Armando Orsini, 88, American restaurateur, complications of diabetes. [302]
• Jerry Ragovoy, 80, American songwriter ("Time Is on My Side"), stroke. [303]
• Heinz Reincke, 86, German actor. [304] (German)

12

• Premangsu Chatterjee, 83, Indian cricketer. [305]
• Peter Crampton, 79, British politician, member of the European Parliament (1989–1999), suspected brain hemorrhage. [306]
• William Crozier, 81, Irish artist. [307]
• Bob Fraser, 65–66, American actor, producer and writer, melanoma. [308]
• Howard Hilton, 47, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals). [309]
• Allan Jeans, 77, Australian football player and coach, pulmonary fibrosis. [310]
• Simon Jubani, 84, Albanian Roman Catholic prelate, after long illness. [311] (Albanian)
• Ahmed Wali Karzai, 50, Afghan politician, brother of President Hamid Karzai, shot. [312]
• Jokapeci Koroi, 79, Fijian politician, President of Fiji Labour Party (1991–2011). [313]
• Francisco Villagrán Kramer, 84, Guatemalan politician, Vice President (1978–1980). [314]
• Peter Newmark, 95, British educator and scholar. [315]
• Charles Asa Schleck, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, titular archbishop and under-secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (1995–2000). [316]
• Sherwood Schwartz, 94, American television producer, creator of The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island. [317]
• Tony Stevens, 63, American choreographer, dancer and actor, Hodgkin's lymphoma. [318]
• Zdeněk Sýkora, 91, Czech abstract painter. [319]

11

• Henry Carlisle, 84, American translator, novelist and anti-censorship activist. [320]
• Helen Crummy, 91, British social activist. [321]
• Michael Evans, 59, British Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of East Anglia (since 2003), prostate cancer. [322]
• Tom Gehrels, 86, Dutch-born American astronomer. [323]
• Rob Grill, 67, American singer and songwriter (The Grass Roots). [324]
• Alex Hay, 78, British golf journalist. [325]
• Andreas Ioannides, 53, Cypriot navy chief, explosion. [326]
• Jaroslav Jiřík, 71, Czech hockey player (St. Louis Blues), plane crash. [327]
• Lambros Lambrou, 45, Cypriot naval officer, Commander of the Evangelos Florakis Navy Base, explosion. [328]
• George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, 88, British aristocrat, magazine editor and arts administrator, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. [329]
• Herbert Matayoshi, 82, American politician, Mayor of Hawaii County (1974–1984). [330]
• Fonce Mizell, 68, American jazz and R&B record producer (Mizell Brothers). [331]
• Richard F. Pedersen, 86, American diplomat, President of American University of Cairo (1977–1990). [332]
• Steve Trimble, 53, American football player (Denver Broncos), heart attack. [333]

10

• Pierrette Alarie, 89, Canadian soprano, wife of tenor Léopold Simoneau. [334]
• Alfonso Bauer, 93, Guatemalan political activist, nosocomial infection. [335] (Spanish)
• Travis Bean, 63, American guitar maker, cancer. [336]
• Ragnar Lundberg, 86, Swedish athlete. [337] (Swedish)
• Frank Mascara, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1995–2003), lung cancer. [338]
• Roland Petit, 87, French ballet dancer and choreographer, leukemia. [339]
• Deacon Turner, 56, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals), shot. [340]
• Malcolm Wild, 79, Australian soccer player. [341]

9

• Don Ackerman, 80, American basketball player (New York Knicks), after short illness. [342]
• Facundo Cabral, 74, Argentine singer and songwriter, shot. [343]
• Markos Dragoumis, 85, Greek columnist, author and politician. [344] (Greek)
• Ralph Goldston, 82, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Hamilton Tiger-Cats). [345]
• Carl T. Langford, 92, American politician, Mayor of Orlando, Florida (1967–1980). [346]
• Percy Oliver, 92, Australian Olympic swimmer. [347]
• Tatiana Pankova, 94, Russian actress, People's Artist (Maly Theatre). [348]
• Arvo Salo, 79, Finnish writer and politician, MP (1966–1970, 1979–1983) and Minister of Culture (1982–1983). [349] (Finnish)
• Hideo Tanaka, 78, Japanese director (Sukeban Deka The Movie), stomach cancer. [350] (Japanese)
• Lee Vines, 92, Canadian-born American television announcer (What's My Line?) and actor, complications from a fall and pneumonia. [351]
• Würzel, 61, British guitarist (Motörhead), ventricular fibrillation. [352]

8

• Kenny Baker, 85, American fiddler, complications from a stroke. [353]
• Roberts Blossom, 87, American actor (Doc Hollywood, Escape from Alcatraz, Home Alone). [354]
• William R. Corliss, 84, American physicist and writer. [355]
• Sam Denoff, 83, American Emmy Award-winning television writer (The Dick Van Dyke Show, That Girl), Alzheimer's disease. [356]
• Aleksis Dreimanis, 96, Latvian-born Canadian geologist. [357]
• Pete Duranko, 67, American football player (Denver Broncos), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [358]
• Mary Fenech Adami, 77, Maltese First Lady (2004–2009), wife of Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami, heart attack. [359]
• Betty Ford, 93, American First Lady (1974–1977) and co-founder of Betty Ford Center. [360]
• Camille Lembi Zaneli, 61, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Isangi (since 2000), plane crash. [361] (Italian)
• George McAnthony, 45, Italian country singer, heart attack. [362] (German)
• Paul Michael, 84, American actor, heart failure. [363]
• Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, 95, Spanish-born Mexican philosopher, writer and educator. [364]

7

• Ricardo Alegría, 90, Puerto Rican anthropologist, complications of heart disease. [365]
• Peter Aucoin, 67, Canadian educator (Dalhousie University). [366]
• Bill Boddy, 98, British motor sport journalist. [367]
• Allan W. Eckert, 80, American historian. [368]
• Manuel Galbán, 80, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club), heart attack. [369]
• Yuri Kukin, 78, Russian singer-songwriter. [370] (Russian)
• Humberto Leal Garcia, 38, Mexican murderer, lethal injection. [371]
• José Carlos Martínez, 48, Argentine politician, Senator (since 2007), car crash. [372] (Spanish)
• Rizalino Navarro, 72, Filipino business executive, Secretary of Trade and Industry (1992–1996), heart attack. [373]
• Miguel Gatan Purugganan, 79, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ilagan (1974–1999). [374]
• Olav Versto, 60, Norwegian journalist and editor (Verdens Gang), apparent drowning. [375] (Norwegian)
• Dick Williams, 82, American baseball player and manager (Oakland Athletics), Hall of Famer, ruptured aortic aneurysm. [376]

6

• Steve Cardiff, 53, Canadian politician, automobile accident. [377]
• Paul-André Crépeau, 85, Canadian legal academic. [378]
• Daniel Mortimer Friedman, 95, American jurist. [379]
• Mani Kaul, 66, Indian filmmaker, after long illness. [380]
• George Edward Kimball, 67, American boxing columnist (Boston Herald), esophageal cancer. [381]
• Marketa Kimbrell, 82, American actress, Alzheimer's disease. [382]
• Warren Leslie, 84, American author, journalist and buisness executive. [383]
• John Mackey, 69, American Hall of Fame football player (Baltimore Colts, San Diego Chargers). [384]
• Josef Suk, 81, Czech violinist, prostate cancer. [385]
• Andreas Waldherr, 43, Austrian rally driver, workshop accident. [386] (German)
• Mark Whitehead, 50, American Olympic cyclist. [387]
• Keith Wilson, 68–69, British production designer (Space: 1999). [388]

5

• Jaap Blokker, 69, Dutch businessman, cancer. [389]
• Neil Dougherty, 50, American basketball coach (TCU). [390]
• Malcolm Forsyth, 74, South African-born Canadian trombonist and composer, pancreatic cancer. [391]
• David Getches, 68, American educator and Native American rights lawyer, pancreatic cancer. [392]
• Armen Gilliam, 47, American basketball player (Phoenix Suns, New Jersey Nets, Milwaukee Bucks), heart attack. [393]
• George Lang, 86, Hungarian-born American restaurateur and cookbook author, Alzheimer's disease. [394]
• Mika Myllylä, 41, Finnish cross country skier, 1998 Olympic gold medalist. [395] (body found on this date)
• Theodore Roszak, 77, American scholar (The Making of a Counter Culture), cancer. [396]
• Hanna Segal, 92, British psychoanalyst. [397]
• John Sweet, 95, American actor (A Canterbury Tale). [398]
• Gordon Tootoosis, 69, Canadian actor (Pocahontas, Legends of the Fall) and activist, pneumonia. [399]
• Cy Twombly, 83, American painter, cancer. [400]
• Shinji Wada, 61, Japanese mangaka (Sukeban Deka). [401] (death reported on this date)

4

• Şerban Cantacuzino, 70, Romanian actor and nobleman, descendant of Wallachian Prince Şerban Cantacuzino. [402]
• Wes Covington, 79, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, Kansas City Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies), cancer. [403]
• John Davies Evans, 86, British archaeologist. [404]
• Rusty Farley, 57, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives (2011). [405]
• Otto von Habsburg, 98, Austro-Hungarian royal and politician, MEP (1979–1999). [406]
• Billy Hardee, 56, American football player (Denver Broncos, Ottawa Rough Riders), motorcycle accident. [407]
• Zurab Kapianidze, 74, Georgian actor and politician, MP (1999–2003). [408]
• Pablo McNeil, 71, Jamaican Olympic athlete and coach, after long illness. [409]
• Lawrence R. Newman, 86, American advocate for the deaf. [410]
• Jane Scott, 92, American rock music critic. [411]
• William G. Thrash, 94, American Marine Corps lieutenant general. [412]
• Neil Turner, 77, Australian politician, Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (1996–1998); MLA for Warrego (1974–1986) and Nicklin (1990–1998). [413]
• Gerhard Unger, 95, German opera singer. [414]

3

• Iain Blair, 69, British romance novelist, published under the name Emma Blair. [415]
• Francis King, 88, British writer. [416]
• Anna Massey, 73, British actress (Frenzy, Hotel du Lac), cancer. [417]
• Fred Newman, 76, American psychotherapist. [418]
• Sir Roy Redgrave, 85, British Army general. [419]
• Len Sassaman, 31, American cryptographer, suicide. [420]
• John C. Truesdale, 89, American public servant, National Labor Relations Board chairman (1998–2000), cancer. [421]

2

• Itamar Franco, 81, Brazilian politician, President (1992–1995), leukemia. [422]
• Olivera Marković, 87, Serbian actress. [423] (Serbian)
• Ross Martin, 68, Australian Olympic cross-country skier, cycling accident. [424]
• Chaturanan Mishra, 86, Indian politician and trade union leader, after long illness. [425]
• Sir Oliver Napier, 75, Northern Irish politician, leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (1972–1984). [426]
• Robert Sklar, 75, American film historian, cycling accident. [427]
• Juno Stover-Irwin, 82, American diver, Olympic silver (1956) and bronze (1952) medalist. [428]

1

• Jane Baker, 88, American community organizer and politician, first female Mayor of San Mateo, California. [429]
• Edmund Snow Carpenter, 88, American anthropologist. [430]
• Charlie Craig, 73, American songwriter ("She's Single Again", "The Generation Gap"), lung cancer. [431]
• Willie Fernie, 82, Scottish footballer, Alzheimer's disease. [432]
• Bud Grant, 79, American television executive, president of CBS (1980–1987). [433]
• Anne LaBastille, 75, American author and ecologist. [434]
• Bébé Manga, 60, Cameroonian singer, cardiac arrest. [435] (French)
• Bob McCann, 47, American basketball player (Minnesota Timberwolves, Washington Bullets), heart failure. [436]
• Harold Nelson, 88, New Zealand Olympic runner. [437]
• Jean-Louis Rosier, 86, French racecar driver. [438] (French)

June 2011

See Deaths in June 2011.

May 2011

See Deaths in May 2011.

April 2011

See Deaths in April 2011.

March 2011

See Deaths in March 2011.

February 2011

See Deaths in February 2011.

January 2011

See Deaths in January 2011.

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