Deaths in April 2011
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2011.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
1
- Peter Baumann, 75, Swiss psychiatrist.[1]
- Lou Gorman, 82, American baseball executive and general manager (Boston Red Sox, Seattle Mariners).[2]
- Jane Gregory, 51, British Olympic equestrian, heart attack.[3]
- George Gryaznov, 77, Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust (1989–1996), stroke.[4]
- Manning Marable, 60, American professor (Columbia University).[5]
- Edel Ojeda, 82, Mexican Olympic boxer.[6]
- Georgi Rusev, 82, Bulgarian theatre and film actor.[7]
- Siri Skare, 52, Norwegian lieutenant colonel, first Norwegian female military pilot.[8]
- Varkey Vithayathil, 83, Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic hierarch, Cardinal (from 2001), Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly (from 1999).[9]
- Brynle Williams, 62, Welsh activist (fuel protests) and politician, AM for North Wales (from 2003).[10]
2
- Richard W. Bailey, 71, American linguist.[11]
- Larry Finch, 60, American basketball player and coach (Memphis Tigers).[12]
- John C. Haas, 92, American businessman (Rohm and Haas), natural causes.[13]
- Efraín Loyola, 94, Cuban flautist.[14]
- James McNulty, 92, Canadian politician, MP for Lincoln (1962–1968) and St. Catharines (1968–1972).[15]
- Jess Osuna, 82, American actor (Three Days of the Condor, Taps, Kramer vs. Kramer).[16]
- Larry Parr, 64, American chess player.[17]
- Baba Reshat, 76, Albanian religious figure, head of the Bektashi order.[18]
- Tom Silverio, 65, Dominican-born American baseball player (California Angels).[19]
- Bill Varney, 77, American sound editor (Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back, Back to the Future), Oscar winner (1981, 1982).[20]
- Romeo Venturelli, 72, Italian cyclist.[21]
- Paul Violi, 66, American poet, cancer.[22]
3
- Rafique Alam, 81, Indian politician, heart attack.[23]
- Amy Applegren, 84, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).[24]
- Lena Lovato Archuleta, 90, American educator.[25]
- Ulli Beier, 88, German writer.[26]
- William Henry Bullock, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Des Moines (1987–1993) and Madison (1993–2003), lung cancer.[27]
- James Martin Fitzgerald, 90, American jurist, justice of the Alaska Supreme Court (1972–1974), senior judge of the District Court for the District of Alaska (1974–2006).[28]
- Martin Horton, 76, English cricketer.[29]
- Kevin Jarre, 56, American screenwriter (Tombstone, Glory, The Mummy), heart failure.[30]
- Yevgeny Lyadin, 84, Russian footballer.[31]
- Marian Pankowski, 91, Polish writer.[32]
- William Prusoff, 90, American pharmacologist.[33]
- Calvin Russell, 62, American protest singer-songwriter and guitarist.[34]
- Mandi Schwartz, 23, Canadian college ice hockey player, acute myeloid leukemia.[35]
- Gustavo Sondermann, 29, Brazilian racing driver, race crash.[36]
- John A. Tory, 81, Canadian lawyer and corporate executive, stroke.[37]
4
- John Adler, 51, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Jersey (2009–2011), infective endocarditis.[38]
- Scott Columbus, 54, American drummer (Manowar).[39]
- Jackson Lago, 76, Brazilian politician, Governor of Maranhão (2007–2009), cancer.[40]
- Ned McWherter, 80, American politician, Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1973–1987) and Governor (1987–1995), cancer.[41]
- Juliano Mer-Khamis, 52, Israeli actor and political activist, shot.[42]
- John Niven, 89, Scottish footballer (East Fife F.C.).[43]
- Witta Pohl, 73, German actress.[44]
- Wayne Robson, 64, Canadian actor (The Red Green Show, Cube, The Rescuers Down Under).[45]
- Craig Thomas, 68, Welsh author, pneumonia.[46]
- Juan Tuñas, 93, Cuban footballer.[47]
- Vakur Versan, 93, Turkish jurist, professor of administrative law (Istanbul University).[48]
- Boško Vuksanović, 83, Croatian water polo player.[49]
5
- Baruch Samuel Blumberg, 85, American doctor, Nobel laureate in medicine, heart attack.[50]
- L. J. Davis, 70, American writer.[51]
- Heinrich Kleisli, 80, Swiss mathematician.[52]
- John Mahoney, 61, American politician.[53]
- Ange-Félix Patassé, 74, Central African politician, Prime Minister (1976–1978) and President (1993–2003).[54]
- Gil Robbins, 80, American folk singer (The Highwaymen) and actor, father of Tim Robbins, prostate cancer.[55]
- Larry Shepard, 92, American baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates) and coach (Cincinnati Reds).[56]
6
- Nabi Bakhsh Baloch, 93, Pakistani scholar.[57]
- Thøger Birkeland, 89, Danish children's book author.[58]
- Igor Birman, 85, Russian-born American writer and economist.[59]
- Jim Blair, 64, Scottish footballer, natural causes.[60]
- John Bottomley, 50, Canadian singer-songwriter, suicide.[61]
- Mike Campbell, 78, Zimbabwean farmer, challenged Robert Mugabe (Campbell v Zimbabwe), complications from torture.[62]
- Giuseppe Comini, 88, Italian Olympic fencer.[63]
- Joe Heap, 79, American football player (New York Giants).[64]
- Robin Lindsay, 97, British Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) field hockey player.[65]
- Coyote McCloud, 68, American disc jockey.[66]
- Johnny Morris, 87, English footballer.[67]
- Skip O'Brien, 60, American actor (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Hitcher, Blow), complications from prostate cancer.[68]
- Fritiof S. Sjöstrand, 98, Swedish physician and histologist.[69]
- F. Gordon A. Stone, 85, British chemist.[70]
- Sujatha, 58, Indian actress.[71]
- Hans Tiedge, 73, German spy.[72]
7
- Benedetto Aloi, 75, American mobster, natural causes.[73]
- Bruce Cowan, 85, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives (1980–1993).[74]
- Edward Edwards, 77, American serial killer, natural causes.[75]
- Hugh FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton, 92, British aristocrat.[76]
- Pierre Gauvreau, 88, Canadian painter and television screenplay writer.[77]
- Blažena Holišová, 80, Czech film and theatre actress.[78]
- Arthur Lessac, 101, American voice trainer.[79]
- E. J. McGuire, 58, Canadian ice hockey coach and scout, cancer.[80]
- Hedzer Rijpstra, 91, Dutch politician.[81]
- Victor Surdu, 63, Romanian politician, first post-Communist Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.[82]
8
- Freda Ahenakew, 79, Canadian author and academic.[83]
- Mario Branch, 31, American football player (Tennessee Titans, Amsterdam Admirals, Philadelphia Soul), heart failure.[84]
- Daniel Catán, 62, Mexican composer.[85]
- David S. Clarke, 69, Australian businessman, chairman of Macquarie Group (1985–2007), stomach cancer.[86]
- John McCracken, 76, American sculptor.[87]
- John Pugsley, 77, American libertarian speaker and writer.[88]
- Donald Shanks, 70, Australian operatic bass-baritone, heart attack.[89]
- Vasilijs Stepanovs, 83, Latvian weightlifter and Olympic silver medalist (1956 Melbourne).[90]
- Hedda Sterne, 100, Romanian-born American painter and printmaker.[91]
- Elena Zuasti, 75, Uruguayan stage actress and comedian, heart failure.[92]
9
- Zakariya Rashid Hassan al-Ashiri, 40, Bahraini blogger and journalist, beaten.[93]
- Pierre Celis, 86, Belgian brewer (Celis), cancer.[94]
- Robert Coleman-Senghor, 71, American English professor, torn aorta.[95]
- Chip Fairway, 38, American wrestler.[96]
- Nicholas Goodhart, 91, British marine engineer and glider pilot.[97]
- Jerry Lawson, 70, American videogame console engineer.[98]
- Sidney Lumet, 86, American film director (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network), lymphoma.[99]
- Roger Nichols, 66, American sound engineer and record producer (Steely Dan), pancreatic cancer.[100]
- Yolande Palfrey, 54, British actress (Blake's 7, Doctor Who), brain tumour.[101]
- Orrin Tucker, 100, American orchestra leader.[102]
- Randy Wood, 94, American record producer, founder of Dot Records.[103]
10
- Bill Brill, 79, American sportswriter and newspaper editor, esophageal cancer.[104]
- Violet Cowden, 94, American pilot, member of Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II, heart failure.[105]
- Don Merton, 72, New Zealand conservationist.[106]
- Mikhail Rusyayev, 46, Russian footballer.[107]
- Bob Shaw, 89, American football player (Los Angeles Rams).[108]
- Homer Smith, 79, American football coach (Army Black Knights), cancer.[109]
- Phil Solomon, 86, Northern Irish music executive.[110]
- Francis E. Sweeney, 77, American jurist, Ohio Supreme Court justice (1993–2004).[111]
- Stephen Watson, 56, South African writer and critic, cancer.[112]
11
- Billy Bang, 63, American jazz violinist, lung cancer.[113]
- Lewis Binford, 80, American archaeologist, heart failure.[114]
- Jimmy Briggs, 74, Scottish footballer (Dundee United).[115]
- Akis Cleanthous, 47, Cypriot politician, chairman of the Stock Exchange (2003–2007), Minister of Education and Culture (2007–2008), heart attack.[116]
- John D'Orazio, 55, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for Ballajura (2001–2008), heart attack during surgery.[117]
- La Esterella, 91, Belgian Flemish singer.[118]
- Billy Gray, 83, English footballer (Nottingham Forest).[119]
- Murtaza Hassan, 56-57, Pakistani stage comedian, hepatitis and liver cancer.[120]
- Sir John Lowther, 87, British public servant, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire (1984–1998).[121]
- Sir Simon Milton, 49, British politician, London Deputy Mayor for Policy and Planning, after short illness.[122]
- Doug Newlands, 79, Scottish footballer (Aberdeen, Burnley).[123]
- Jørgen Munk Plum, 85, Danish Olympic athlete.[124]
- Peter Ruehl, 64, American-born Australian columnist.[125]
- Igor Runov, 48, Russian volleyball player, Olympic silver medalist (1988).[126]
- Angela Scoular, 65, British actress, suicide by acid ingestion.[127]
- Larry Sweeney, 30, American professional wrestler and manager, suicide by hanging.[128]
- Eric Wall, 95, British Anglican bishop, Bishop of Huntingdon (1972–1980).[129]
12
- Roy Ananny, 86, Canadian football player.[130]
- Albert Bachmann, 81, Swiss military intelligence officer.[131]
- Sachin Bhowmick, 80, Indian screenwriter, heart attack.[132]
- Lee Bradley Brown, 39, British tourist, died in police custody in Dubai.[133]
- Ronnie Coyle, 46, Scottish footballer (Celtic, Raith Rovers), leukemia.[134]
- Sidney Harman, 92, American businessman and publisher (Newsweek), acute myeloid leukemia.[135]
- Eddie Joost, 94, American baseball player and manager (Philadelphia Athletics, Cincinnati Reds).[136]
- Robert Lokossimbayé, 35, Chadian footballer.[137]
- Buster Martin, 104?, French-born British longevity claimant.[138]
- Aleksandar Petaković, 81, Serbian football player.[139]
- Jānis Polis, 72, Latvian pharmacologist, discovered rimantadine.[140]
- Ioan Şişeştean, 74, Romanian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Maramureş (since 1994).[141]
- Désiré Tagro, 52, Ivorian politician, Interior Minister, chief of staff for Laurent Gbagbo, shot.[citation needed]
- Miroslav Tichý, 84, Czech photographer.[142]
13
- Danny Fiszman, 66, British football director (Arsenal), cancer.[143]
- Seeta bint Abdul Aziz, 80, Saudi royal, sister of King Abdullah, after long illness.[144]
14
- Rosihan Anwar, 88, Indonesian journalist, heart failure.[145]
- Trevor Bannister, 76, British actor (Are You Being Served?, Last of the Summer Wine, The Dustbinmen), heart attack.[146]
- Walter Breuning, 114, American supercentenarian, world's fifth oldest man ever.[147]
- George Brookes, 76, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (1991–1997).[148]
- Jon Cedar, 80, American actor (Hogan's Heroes), leukemia.[149]
- Patrick Cullinan, 77, South African writer.[150]
- Louis Dufaux, 79, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Grenoble (1989–2006).[151]
- Bernie Flowers, 81, American football player (Baltimore Colts).[152]
- Joe Dan Gold, 68, American college basketball coach (Mississippi State).[153]
- Jean Gratton, 86, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mont-Laurier (1978–2001).[154]
- Cyrus Harvey, Jr., 85, American entrepreneur, stroke.[155]
- William Lipscomb, 91, American chemist, pneumonia.[156]
- Arthur Marx, 89, American writer, son of Groucho Marx.[157]
- Rami Reddy, 52, Indian actor, kidney failure.[158]
15
- Vittorio Arrigoni, 36, Italian activist, hanged.[159]
- Babu Baral, 47, Pakistani comedian, cancer.[160]
- Reno Bertoia, 76, Italian-born Canadian baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins), lymphoma.[161]
- Walter Brown, 85, Australian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) canoer.[162]
- Elmer Carter, 100, American Negro league baseball player.[163]
- William Cook, 80, American entrepreneur, philanthropist and historic preservationist, heart failure.[164]
- Hélio Gueiros, 85, Brazilian politician, Governor of Pará (1987–1991), Mayor of Belém (1993–1996), renal disease.[165]
- Michael Hurley, 87, Irish Jesuit and ecumenical theologian, co-founder of the Irish School of Ecumenics.[166]
- Hans Kohler, 81, Swiss Olympic weightlifter.[167]
- Vincenzo La Scola, 53, Italian tenor, heart attack.[168]
- Bobo Osborne, 75, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[169]
- Beryl Shipley, 84, American basketball coach (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, San Diego Conquistadors).[170]
- E. T. York, 88, American agronomist, educator and presidential adviser.[171]
16
- Gerry Alexander, 82, Jamaican cricketer.[172]
- Bijan, 67, Iranian-born American fashion designer, stroke.[173]
- Allan Blakeney, 85, Canadian politician, Premier of Saskatchewan (1971–1982), complications from liver cancer.[174]
- Auguste Caulet, 84, French Olympic boxer.[175]
- Chinesinho, 76, Brazilian footballer, Alzheimer's disease.[176]
- Stanley Glenn, 84, American baseball player and executive (Negro league baseball).[177]
- Bjørn Oscar Gulbrandsen, 85, Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player and sailor.[178]
- Bill Kinnamon, 91, American Major League Baseball umpire.[179]
- Serge LeClerc, 61, Canadian pardoned criminal and politician, MLA for Saskatoon Northwest (2007–2010), complications from colon and bowel cancer.[180]
- Alfonso Martínez, 74, Spanish Olympic basketball player[181]
- Tadeusz Pawlusiak, 64, Polish Olympic ski jumper.[182]
- William A. Rusher, 87, American columnist, publisher of National Review (1957–1988).[183]
- Dan Monroe Russell, Jr., 98, American senior (former chief) judge of the District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, natural causes.[184]
- Sol Saks, 100, American television writer (Bewitched, My Favorite Husband, Mr. Adams and Eve).[185]
- Hermod Skånland, 85, Norwegian Central Bank governor (1985–1993).[186]
- Harold Volkmer, 80, American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri (1977–1997), pneumonia.[187]
17
- Nasser Al-Kharafi, 67, Kuwaiti businessman (M. A. Kharafi & Sons), heart attack.[188]
- James S. Albus, 75, American engineer.[189]
- Bob Block, 89, British comedy writer (Rentaghost, Life with The Lyons).[190]
- Joel Colton, 92, American historian, heart failure.[191]
- Osamu Dezaki, 67, Japanese animator (Space Adventure Cobra, Tomorrow's Joe), lung cancer.[192]
- Alfred Freedman, 94, American psychiatrist, led American Psychiatric Association to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness, complications following hip surgery.[193]
- Eric Gross, 84, Austrian-born Australian composer.[194]
- Alan Haines, 86, British actor.[195]
- Wolfram Koppen, 72, German Olympic judoka.[196]
- Josefa Köster, 92, German Olympic sprint canoer.[197]
- Eddie Leadbeater, 83, English cricketer.[198]
- Oldřich Lomecký, 90, Czech Olympic sprint canoer.[199]
- Blair Milan, 29, Australian actor and television presenter, acute myeloid leukaemia.[200]
- Nikos Papazoglou, 63, Greek singer-songwriter, cancer.[201]
- AJ Perez, 18, Filipino actor, traffic accident.[202]
- Raúl Sánchez Díaz Martell, 96, Mexican politician, Governor of Baja California (1965–1971).[203]
- Michael Sarrazin, 70, Canadian actor (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, The Flim-Flam Man, For Pete's Sake), cancer.[204]
- Bhawani Singh, 79, Indian noble, titular Maharaja of Jaipur (since 1970).[205]
- Dennis E. Stowell, 66, American politician, member of the Utah State Senate (2007–2011), cancer.[206]
- Ken Taylor, 88, British television scriptwriter (The Jewel in the Crown).[207]
- Robert Vickrey, 84, American artist.[208]
- Victor Ward, 87, Canadian miner, survivor of the 1956 Springhill Mine disaster.[209]
18
- Olubayo Adefemi, 25, Nigerian footballer, car accident.[210]
- Sadiq Ali, 58, Indian politician.[211]
- Pietro Ferrero Jr., 47, Italian businessman (Ferrero SpA), bicycle accident.[212]
- Kjell Håkonsen, 75, Norwegian harness racer and trainer.[213]
- Bob Plant, 95, British soldier, recipient of the Military Cross.[214]
- Mason Rudolph, 76, American golfer.[215]
- Giovanni Saldarini, 86, Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Turin (1989–1999), natural causes.[216]
- William Donald Schaefer, 89, American politician, Governor of Maryland (1987–1995), pneumonia.[217]
- Israpil Velijanov, 42, Russian Dagastani militant leader.[218]
- Ivica Vidović, 72, Croatian actor.[219]
- Kim Yu-ri, 21, South Korean fashion model, apparent suicide by poisoning.[220]
19
- Anne Blonstein, 52, British poet.[221]
- Lynn Chandnois, 86, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).[222]
- Lisa Head, 29, British soldier, improvised explosive device.[223]
- Richard P. Klocko, 96, American Air Force lieutenant general.[224]
- Jeanne M. Leiby, 46, American writer and magazine editor, car accident.[225]
- Norm Masters, 77, American football player (Green Bay Packers), cancer.[226]
- Aage Møst, 87, Norwegian sports official, President of the Norwegian Athletics Association (1956–1965).[227]
- Serge Nubret, 72, French bodybuilder and actor (Pumping Iron).[228]
- Elisabeth Sladen, 65, British actress (Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Coronation Street), pancreatic cancer.[229]
- Grete Waitz, 57, Norwegian marathon former world record holder, 1983 world champion and Olympic silver medallist (1984), cancer.[230]
20
- Allan Brown, 84, Scottish football player and manager (Blackpool, Scotland).[231]
- Tim Hetherington, 40, British photojournalist and filmmaker (Restrepo), mortar attack.[232]
- Rudolf Hilf, 83, German historian, political scientist and expellee politician.[233]
- Chris Hondros, 41, American photojournalist, mortar attack.[234]
- Osvaldo Miranda, 95, Argentine actor (Cita en las estrellas).[235]
- Patricia Ofori, 29, Ghanaian international footballer (2003 & 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup), traffic collision.[236]
- Madelyn Pugh, 90, American screenwriter (I Love Lucy, The Mothers-in-Law) and producer (Alice).[237]
- Tul Bahadur Pun, 88, Nepali World War II veteran, recipient of the Victoria Cross, cardiac complications.[238]
- Ted Quillin, 81, American radio personality.[239]
- Hubert Schlafly, 91, American engineer, co-inventor of the TelePrompter.[240]
- Kerry Smith, 58, New Zealand actress and broadcaster, melanoma.[241]
- Erwin Strahl, 82, Austrian actor.[242]
21
- Javier Adúriz, 63, Argentine poet.[243]
- Beverly Barton, 64, American romance author, heart failure.[244]
- Tine Bryld, 71, Danish social worker, writer, radio host and letters editor.[245]
- Annalisa Ericson, 97, Swedish actress (Summer Interlude).[246]
- Helen J. Frye, 80, American federal judge, after long illness.[247]
- Reginald C. Fuller, 102, British Roman Catholic priest and author.[248]
- Harold Garfinkel, 93, American sociologist.[249]
- W. J. Gruffydd, 94, Welsh poet.[250]
- Catharina Halkes, 90, Dutch theologian and feminist[251]
- Jim Heise, 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators), complications from surgery.[252]
- Jess Stonestreet Jackson, Jr., 81, American wine entrepreneur, founder of Kendall-Jackson, cancer.[253]
- Ken Kostick, 57, Canadian cooking show host (What's for Dinner?), complications of pancreatitis.[254]
- Max Mathews, 84, American engineer and computer music composer, complications from pneumonia.[255]
- Muhannad, 41, Saudi al Qaeda fighter in Chechnya, shot.[256]
- Yoshiko Tanaka, 55, Japanese actress (Godzilla vs. Biollante) and singer (Candies), breast cancer.[257]
- Walter van de Walle, 88, Canadian politician, MP for Pembina (1986–1988) and St. Albert (1988–1993).[258]
22
- Anthony Abrahams, 87, British barrister and educationalist.[259]
- Moin Akhter, 60, Pakistani actor and comedian, heart attack.[260]
- Patrick Billingsley, 85, American mathematician and actor.[261]
- Cheung Sai Ho, 35, Hong Kong footballer, suicide by jumping.[262]
- Wiel Coerver, 86, Dutch footballer and manager.[263]
- Eldon Davis, 94, American architect, creator of Googie architecture, founder of Armet & Davis.[264]
- Hazel Dickens, 85, American bluegrass singer.[265]
- Madhava Gudi, 70, Indian Hindustani classical vocalist.[266]
- Siarhei Lahun, 22, Belarusian weightlifter, car accident.[267]
- Sidney Michaels, 83, American playwright and screenwriter (The Night They Raided Minsky's), Alzheimer's disease.[268]
- Merle Greene Robertson, 97, American artist and archeologist.[269]
- José Antonio Torres Martinó, 94, Puerto Rican painter and writer, after long illness.[270]
- João Maria Tudela, 81, Portuguese singer.[271]
23
- Mushtaq Ahmad, 82, Pakistani Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) field hockey player.[272]
- Ed Austin, 84, American attorney and politician, Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida (1991–1995).[273]
- Dmytro Blazheyovskyi, 100, Ukrainian priest, historian and embroiderer.[274]
- Ghafoor Butt, 74, Pakistani cricketer and umpire.[275]
- James Casey, 88, British comedian.[276]
- Bill Flynn, 59, Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Lockyer (2001–2004), parliamentary leader of One Nation (2001–2004).[277]
- Sid Fournet, 78, American football player (New York Jets, Pittsburgh Steelers).[278]
- David Hackett, 84, American government official (President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, 1961–1964), complications of diabetes.[279]
- Tom King, 68, American guitarist and songwriter (The Outsiders), heart failure.[280]
- Peter Li Hongye, 91, Chinese underground Roman Catholic prelate, clandestine bishop of Luoyang.[281]
- Peter Lieberson, 64, American composer, complications of lymphoma.[282]
- Terence Longdon, 88, British actor.[283]
- Huey P. Meaux, 82, American record producer.[284]
- Milorad Bata Mihailović, 88, Serbian painter.[285]
- Noxolo Nogwaza, 24, South African lesbian activist, stabbed.[286]
- Norio Ohga, 81, Japanese businessman, president and CEO of Sony, multiple organ failure.[287]
- Ready Teddy, 23, New Zealand eventing horse, complications from colic.[288]
- Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill, 89, British politician.[289]
- Mohammad Abdus Sattar, 85, Indian Olympic footballer, pneumonia.[290]
- Phillip Shriver, 88, American historian and college administrator.[291]
- Max van der Stoel, 86, Dutch politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1973–1977, 1981–1982).[292]
- John Sullivan, 64, British writer (Only Fools and Horses), viral pneumonia.[293]
- Dutch Tilders, 69, Australian blues musician, cancer.[294]
24
- Otto Amen, 98, American politician.[295]
- Sathya Sai Baba, 84, Indian spiritual guru, founder of the Sathya Sai Organization, multiple organ failure.[296]
- Nawang Gombu, 74, Tibetan-born Indian mountaineer, after short illness.[297]
- Peter Green, 91, Canadian Olympic rower.[298]
- Alimirah Hanfere, 95, Ethiopian sultan of the Aussa Sultanate.[299]
- José López, 88, Chilean footballer
- Sir Denis Mahon, 100, British art historian and philanthropist.[300]
- Madame Nhu, 87, South Vietnamese First Lady (1955–1963), after short illness.[301]
- Joan Peyser, 80, American musicologist, after heart surgery.[302]
- Marie-France Pisier, 66, French actress (The Other Side of Midnight), drowning.[303]
- Colin Snedden, 93, New Zealand cricketer.[304]
25
- Winrich Behr, 93, German World War II Panzer captain, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.[305]
- Ira Cohen, 76, American poet, renal failure.[306]
- John Cooke, 89, British air marshal.[307]
- William Craig, 86, Northern Irish politician, founder of Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, MP for Belfast East (1974–1979).[308]
- Abdoulaye Hamani Diori, 65, Nigerien politician, after long illness.[309]
- María Isbert, 94, Spanish actress.[310]
- Lawrence Lee, 101, British stained glass artist.[311]
- Ryszard Nawrocki, 71, Polish actor and voice actor.[312]
- Joe Perry, 84, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[313]
- Poly Styrene, 53, British musician (X-Ray Spex), breast cancer.[314]
- Gonzalo Rojas, 93, Chilean poet.[315]
- Güven Sazak, 76, Turkish businessman, chairman of Fenerbahçe S.K. (1993–1994).[316]
- Minoru Tanaka, 44, Japanese actor (Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers, Kamen Rider W Returns – Kamen Rider Accel), suspected suicide by hanging.[317]
- Avraham Tiar, 87, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1961–1969).[318]
- Bobby Thompson, 57, American baseball player (Texas Rangers).[319]
- Elizabeth Wicken, 83, Canadian baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).[320]
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- Vic Atkinson, 90, Australian footballer.[321]
- Douglas Chaffee, 75, American artist.[322]
- John Cossette, 54, American television producer (Grammy Awards).[323]
- Roger Gimbel, 86, American Emmy Award-winning television producer (Chernobyl: The Final Warning, S.O.S. Titanic), pneumonia.[324]
- Lynn Hauldren, 89, American copywriter and product spokesperson (Empire Carpet).[325]
- José María Izuzquiza Herranz, 85, Spanish-born Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Jaén en Peru (1987–2001).[326]
- Sir Henry Leach, 87, British admiral.[327]
- Jim Mandich, 62, American football player and announcer (Miami Dolphins), bile duct cancer.[328]
- Don Miles, 75, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers).[329]
- Islwyn Morris, 90, Welsh actor.[330]
- Sadler's Wells, 30, American racehorse and sire.[331]
- Phoebe Snow, 60, American singer-songwriter ("Poetry Man"), brain hemorrhage.[332]
- Hector Sutherland, 81, Australian cyclist.[333]
- Samuel Zoll, 76, American jurist and politician, Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts (1970–1973), gallbladder cancer.[334]
27
- Orlando Bosch, 84, Cuban exile, after long illness.[335]
- Ibrahim Coulibaly, 47, Ivorian militia leader.[336]
- Paul Vincent Donovan, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kalamazoo (1971–1994).[337]
- Jack H. Goaslind, 83, American leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[338]
- Igor Kon, 82, Russian philosopher, psychologist and sexologist.[339]
- Rafael Menjívar Ochoa, 51, Salvadoran writer, journalist and translator, cancer.[340]
- Marian Mercer, 75, American actress (It's a Living), complications from Alzheimer's disease.[341]
- Mel Pearce, 83, Australian Olympic hockey player.[342]
- Dag Stokke, 44, Norwegian keyboardist (TNT), church organist and mastering engineer, cancer.[343]
- Harold Schnitzer, 87, American philanthropist and company executive (Schnitzer Steel), cancer.[344]
- Harry Thuillier, 88, Irish Olympic fencer and radio presenter.[345]
- Yvette Vickers, 81–82, American actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman), singer and model (Playboy).[346] (body discovered on this date)
- Willem Albert Wagenaar, 69, Dutch psychologist.[347]
- Michael Waltman, 64, American actor (Beyond the Law, Tower of Terror, National Lampoon's Van Wilder).[348]
- David Wilkerson, 79, American Christian evangelist and author (The Cross and the Switchblade), car accident.[349]
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- Enrique Arancibia Clavel, 66, Chilean DINA agent.[350]
- William Campbell, 87, American film and television actor (Love Me Tender, Star Trek, Dementia 13).[351]
- Gene Fekete, 88, American football player (Cleveland Browns).[352]
- Erhard Loretan, 52, Swiss mountaineer, third climber to scale all 14 eight-thousanders, climbing accident.[353]
- Willie O'Neill, 70, Scottish football player (Celtic).[354]
- E. Earl Patton, 83, American businessman and politician, tornado.[355]
- Wilhelm Weidenbrück, 96, German Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.[356]
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- Waldemar Baszanowski, 75, Polish weightlifter.[357]
- Robert B. Duncan, 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Oregon (1963–1967, 1975–1981).[358]
- Asker Dzhappuyev, 40, Russian militant leader (Yarmuk Jamaat), shot.[359]
- George Wolfgang Forell, 91, German-born American Christian scholar.
- Salim Ghazal, 79, Syrian-born Lebanese Melkite Catholic hierarch, Curial bishop of Antioch for Melkites (2001–2005).[360]
- Abdul Hameed, 83, Pakistani writer and novelist.[361]
- Jeff Kargola, 27, American freestyle motocross rider, race accident.[362]
- Vladimir Krainev, 67, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, aortic aneurysm.[363]
- David Mason, 85, British trumpeter, played trumpet solo on "Penny Lane", leukemia.[364]
- Siamak Pourzand, 79, Iranian journalist and dissident, suicide by jumping.[365]
- Joanna Russ, 74, American science fiction author, following a series of strokes.[366]
- Walter Santoro, 89, Uruguayan politician, Minister of Industry (1963–1964), natural causes.[367]
- Ratmir Shameyev, 22, Kabardin militant, shot.[368]
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- Ronald Asmus, 53, American diplomat and political analyst, cancer.[369]
- Saif al-Arab Gaddafi, 28–29, Libyan soldier, son of Muammar Gaddafi, airstrike.[370]
- Pete Gray, 30, Australian environmental activist, bowel cancer.[371]
- Richard Holmes, 65, British military historian.[372]
- Dorjee Khandu, 56, Indian Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (since 2007), helicopter crash.[373]
- Mike Krsnich, 79, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves).[374]
- Francis Lü Shouwang, 45, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Yichang, pancreatitis.[375]
- Anthony Francis Mestice, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1973–2001).[376]
- Harry S. Morgan, 65, German pornographic actor, producer and director.[377] (body found on this date)
- Emilio Navarro, 105, Puerto Rican Negro league baseball player.[378]
- Evald Okas, 95, Estonian painter.[379]
- Daniel Quillen, 70, American mathematician.[380]
- Ernesto Sabato, 99, Argentine writer (El Túnel, On Heroes and Tombs), pneumonia.[381]
- Edgar Seymour, 98, American Olympic bobsledder.[382]
- Apostolos Santas, 89, Greek Resistance veteran.[383]
- Eddie Turnbull, 88, Scottish football player and manager.[384]
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