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

9

Adolphe-Maria Gustave Hardy, 91, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Beauvais (1985–1995). [1]
Julian Kenny, 81, Trinidad and Tobago zoologist, environmentalist and senator. [2]

8

Neal Abberley, 67, English cricketer, heart and lung condition. [3]
Ray Anderson, 77, American entrepreneur, cancer. [4]
Mary Hendrick, 88, American NASCAR team owner, mother of Rick Hendrick. [5]
Anastasios Peponis, 87, Greek politician and author, heart problems. [6] (Greek)
Jiřina Švorcová, 83, Czech actress. [7] (Czech)
Guillermo Zarur, 79, Mexican actor. [8] (Spanish)

7

Joseph Candolfi, 89, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Basel (1983–1996). [9] (German)
Hugh Carey, 92, American politician, Governor of New York (1975–1982) and U.S. Representative (1961–1974). [10]
Cornelius Elanjikal, 92, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Verapoly (1987–1996). [11] (Malayalam)
Marshall Grant, 83, American double bassist (Tennessee Two). [12]
Mark Hatfield, 89, American politician, Governor of Oregon (1959–1967) and U.S. Senator (1967–1997). [13]
Harri Holkeri, 74, Finnish politician, Prime Minister (1987–1991), after long illness. [14]
Leo Mattioli, 39, Argentine cumbia singer, cardiac arrest. [15]
Tom Radney, 79, American politician, Alabama state senator, after long illness. [16]
Jiří Traxler, 99, Czech-born Canadian jazz pianist. [17] (Czech)
Nancy Wake, 98, New Zealand-born Australian French Resistance leader, chest infection. [18]
Charles Wyly, 77, American bussinessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Michaels Stores, automobile accident. [19]
Joe Yamanaka, 64, Japanese rock singer, lung cancer. [20] (Japanese).

6

Bernadine Healy, 67, American cardiologist, director of the National Institutes of Health (1991–1993), brain cancer. [21]
Fred Imus, 69, American songwriter and radio talk show host, brother of Don Imus. [22] (body found on this date)
Kuno Klötzer, 89, German football coach. [23] (German)
Fe del Mundo, 99, Filipino pediatrician, National Scientist of the Philippines, heart attack. [24]
Roman Opałka, 79, French-born Polish painter. [25] (Polish)
John W. Ryan, 81, American academic administrator, President of Indiana University (1971–1987). [26]
Jerry Smith, 80, American football player (San Francisco 49ers) and coach (Denver Broncos). [27]
Henri Tisot, 74, French actor. [28] (French)
William Wong, 88, American restaurateur, founder of Kowloon Restaurant. [29]
John Wood, 81, English actor. [30]

5

Claudio Díaz, 52, Argentine journalist, thyroid cancer. [31] (Spanish)
Mark Duggan, 29, British crime suspect, source that triggered the 2011 London riots, shot. [32]
Marion D. Hanks, 89, American Mormon leader. [33]
Donald Ray Kennard, 74, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1976–2008), brain aneurysm rupture. [34]
Andrzej Lepper, 57, Polish politician, suspected suicide by hanging. [35]
Takehiko Maeda, 82, Japanese television writer. [36] (Japanese)
Jennifer Minetti, 71, German actress. [37] (German)
Gary Nixon, 70, American motorcycle racer, complications from a heart attack. [38]
Francesco Quinn, 48, Italian-born American actor (Platoon, The Young and the Restless), son of Anthony Quinn, apparent heart attack. [39]
Erkki Wessman, 80, Finnish writer. [40] (Finnish)
Stan Willemse, 86, British footballer (Chelsea). [41]

4

Henk Alkema, 66, Dutch composer, music arranger and musician. [42] (Dutch)
Michael Bukht, 69, British radio executive, television personality and chef who worked as Michael Barry. [43]
Vladimir Klipel, 94, Russian writer. [44] (Russian)
Eugene V. Kolokolnikov, 64, Russian athletics coach. [45] (Russian)
Naoki Matsuda, 34, Japanese footballer, suspected heart attack. [46]
Erhard Pumm, 65, German trade unionist. [47] (German)
Conrad Schnitzler, 74, German musician (Tangerine Dream, Kluster, Eruption, Berlin Express), stomach cancer. [48]
Piet Stoffelen, 71, Dutch politician. [49] (Dutch)
Erika Thijs, 51, Belgian politician, cancer. [50] (Dutch)
Sherman White, 82, American basketball player (Long Island University). [51]

3

Wolf Böhringer, 81, German chess player. [52] (German)
Rudolf Brazda, 98, German concentration camp prisoner, one of the last known survivors of homosexual deportation. [53]
Richard Cates, 85, American lawyer. [54]
Annette Charles, 63, American actress (Grease), cancer. [55].
Antonio M. Diaz, 83, Filipino politician, Representative from Zambales (1969–1972, 1992–2001, 2004–2011). [56]
Nicholas Kachurin, 51, Russian magazine editor (Top Gear). [57] (Russian)
Vladimir Lobashev, 78, Russian nuclear physicist. [58] (Russian)
Ingrid Luterkort, 101, Swedish actress. [59] (Swedish)
Andrew McDermott, 45, British singer (Threshold), complications of kidney failure. [60] (German)
Simona Monyová, 44, Czech writer, stabbed. [61] (Czech)
Jorge Neri, 67, Mexican composer, liver cancer. [62] (Spanish)
Ray Patterson, 89, American basketball executive (Milwaukee Bucks, Houston Rockets). [63]
Nikolay Petrov, 68, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, stroke. [64]
William Sleator, 66, American science fiction writer. [65]
Bubba Smith, 66, American football player (Baltimore Colts) and actor (Police Academy). [66]
Mohsen Koochebaghi Tabrizi, 87, Iranian Shi'ite Muslim marja, heart attack. [67] (Persian)
Angel Turconi, 88, Italian footballer. [68] (Italian)
Jane Walker, 69, British journalist, pancreatic cancer. [69]
Allan Watkins, 89, Welsh cricketer, after short illness. [70]
Oleh Yemtsev, 59, Ukrainian entertainer, after long illness. [71] (Russian)

2

Leslie Esdaile Banks, 51, American author (The Vampire Huntress Legend Series), adrenal cancer. [72]
Baruj Benacerraf, 90, Venezuelan-born American immunologist, Nobel laureate (1980). [73]
Ralph Berkowitz, 100, American composer. [74]
Tokon Koboshevich Dayyrbekov, 52, Kyrgyz actor. [75] (Russian)
DeLois Barrett Campbell, 85, American gospel singer (The Barrett Sisters), pulmonary embolism. [76]
Vittorio Citterich, 81, Italian journalist and news anchor. [77] (Italian)
Al Federoff, 87, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). [78]
James M. Flinchum, 94, American journalist. [79]
Asadullo Gulomov, 58, Tajik politician, Deputy Prime Minister (2006–2011). [80] (Russian)
Andrey Kapitsa, 80, Russian geographer and explorer, discovered and named Lake Vostok. [81]
Nikolay Kutuzov, 85, Russian conductor, People's Artist of the USSR. [82] (Russian)
Coby van Megen, 78, Dutch table tennis player. [83] (Dutch)
Clarence E. Miller, 93, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio (1967–1993), pneumonia. [84]
Larry Moyer, 60, American ARCA stock car racer, after long illness. [85]
Attilio Pavesi, 100, Italian Olympic cyclist, oldest living Olympic champion. [86] (Italian)
Richard Pearson, 93, Welsh actor. [87]
Venere Pizzinato, 114, Italian supercentenarian, third-oldest living person in the world. [88]
Italo Rossi, 80, Brazilian actor. [89] (Portuguese)
José Sanchis Grau, 79, Spanish comic book artist. [90] (Valencian)
James Ford Seale, 76, American murderer, Ku Klux Klan member. [91]

1

Viktor Aniskin, 65, Russian journalist. [92] (Russian)
Stan Barstow, 83, English novelist. [93]
Gerard Buisman, 59, Dutch troubadour. [94] (Dutch)
Carmela Marie Cristiano, 83, American Roman Catholic nun (Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth); first nun to seek political office in New Jersey. [95]
Leo Figueres, 93, French politician. [96] (French)
Florentina Gómez Miranda, 99, Argentine lawyer and women's rights activist. [97]
Gamini Goonesena, 80, Sri Lankan cricketer. [98]
Ivan Mesquita, 79, Brazilian actor. [99] (Portuguese)
Con Murphy, 51, Irish judge, after short illness. [100]
Chieko N. Okazaki, 84, American Mormon women's leader, first non-Caucasian woman to hold a senior position in the LDS church, heart failure. [101]
Zhanna Prokhorenko, 71, Russian film actress (Ballad of a Soldier). [102] (Russian)
Harald Stender, 86, German footballer. [103] (German)