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

6

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 who 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)