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).

July 2011

19

• Boris Biancheri, 80, Italian writer and diplomat. [1] (Italian)
• Remo Gaspari, 90, Italian politician and minister, stroke. [2] (Italian)
• Yoshio Harada, 71, Japanese actor, pneumonia. [3] (Japanese)

18

• Albert Driedger, 75, Canadian politician, stroke. [4]
• Ernesto Goldar, 71, Argentine writer, heart attack. [5] (Spanish)
• Sean Hoare, 47, British showbiz journalist (News of the World), whistleblower in a phone hacking scandal. [6] (body found on this date)
• Magnus Malan, 81, South African politician, Minister of Defence (1980–1991), natural causes. [7]
• Bob Stenehjem, 59, American politician, member of the North Dakota Senate (since 1993), majority leader (since 2001), car accident. [8]
• James Wong, 89, Malaysian politician, first Deputy Chief Minister of Sarawak, heart attack. [9]

17

• Juan Arza, 88, Spanish footballer and coach. [10] (Spanish)
• Juan María Bordaberry, 83, Uruguayan politician and dictator, President (1972–1976), after a long illness. [11]
• Jan Mohammed Khan, Afghan presidential adviser, shot. [12]
• Jim Kincaid, 76, American news correspondent (ABC News), anchorman (WVEC-TV) and essayist, heart attack. [13]
• John Kraaijkamp, Sr., 86, Dutch actor and comedian. [14] (Dutch)
• Takaji Mori, 67, Japanese Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) footballer, renal pelvic cancer. [15]
• Ştefan Sameş, 59, Romanian footballer (Steaua Bucureşti), cancer. [16] (Romanian)
• Taiji, 45, Japanese musician and singer-songwriter (X Japan), suicide by hanging. [17]
• Joe Lee Wilson, 75, American jazz singer. [18]

16

• Milo Anstadt, 91, Dutch journalist and writer. [19] (Dutch)
• Bertalan Bicskei, 66, Hungarian footballer and coach. [20] (Hungarian)
• Rouhollah Dadashi, 30, Iranian powerlifter and bodybuilder, stabbed. [21] (Persian)
• Ante Garmaz, 83, Croatian-born Argentine fashion designer and model, after long illness. [22] (Spanish)
• Albin Małysiak, 94, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Krakow (1970–1993). [23] (Polish)
• Dame Katerina Mataira, 79, New Zealand educator and Maori language proponent, co-founder of Kura Kaupapa Māori. [24]
• Cesare Mazzolari, 74, Italian-born South Sudanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rumbek (since 1998). [25]
• David Ngoombujarra, 44, Australian actor. [26]

15

• Eric Delaney, 87, British percussionist and band leader. [27]
• Cornell MacNeil, 88, American operatic baritone. [28]
• John S. Toll, 87, American physicist and educational administrator, heart failure. [29]
• Googie Withers, 94, English actress. [30]

14

• Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, 47, Kenyan peace activist, recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, car accident. [31]
• William Lockhart Garwood, 79, American judge (United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit), heart attack. [32]
• Leo Kirch, 84, German media entrepreneur. [33]
• Terrence Lanni, 68, American casino executive, cancer. [34]
• Kennedy Ondiek, 44, Kenyan Olympic athlete. [35]
• Antonio Prieto, 85, Chilean singer and actor, cardiac arrest. [36] (Spanish)

13

• Al Debbo, 87, South African comedian. [37]
• Cornel Fugaru, 71, Romanian composer, cancer. [38] (Romanian)
• Aap Lethro, 112, Bhutanese supercentenarian. [39]
• John Mosca, 86, American restaurateur (Mosca's), prostate cancer. [40]
• Jerry Ragovoy, 80, American songwriter ("Time Is on My Side"), stroke. [41]
• Heinz Reincke, 86, German actor. [42] (German)

12

• Premangsu Chatterjee, 83, Indian cricketer. [43]
• William Crozier, 81, Irish artist. [44]
• Howard Hilton, 47, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals). [45]
• Allan Jeans, 77, Australian football player and coach, pulmonary fibrosis. [46]
• Simon Jubani, 84, Albanian Roman Catholic prelate, after long illness. [47] (Albanian)
• Ahmed Wali Karzai, 50, Afghan politician, brother of President Hamid Karzai, shot. [48]
• Jokapeci Koroi, 79, Fijian politician, President of Fiji Labour Party (1991–2011). [49]
• Francisco Villagrán Kramer, 84, Guatemalan politician, Vice President (1978–1980). [50]
• Peter Newmark, 95, British Professor of Translation Studies, scholar. [51]
• Charles Asa Schleck, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, titular archbishop and under-secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (1995–2000). [52]
• Sherwood Schwartz, 94, American television producer, creator of The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island. [53]
• Zdeněk Sýkora, 91, Czech abstract painter. [54]

11

• Michael Evans, 59, British Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of East Anglia (since 2003), prostate cancer. [55]
• Tom Gehrels, 86, Dutch-born American astronomer. [56]
• Rob Grill, 67, American singer and songwriter (The Grass Roots). [57]
• Alex Hay, 78, British golf journalist. [58]
• Andreas Ioannides, 53, Cypriot navy chief, explosion. [59]
• Jaroslav Jiřík, 71, Czech hockey player (St. Louis Blues), plane crash. [60]
• Lambros Lambrou, 45, Cypriot naval officer, Commander of the Evangelos Florakis Navy Base, explosion. [61]
• George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, 88, British aristocrat, magazine editor and arts administrator, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. [62]
• Fonce Mizell, 68, American jazz and R&B record producer (Mizell Brothers). [63]

10

• Pierrette Alarie, 89, Canadian soprano, wife of tenor Léopold Simoneau. [64]
• Alfonso Bauer, 93, Guatemalan political activist, nosocomial infection. [65] (Spanish)
• Travis Bean, 63, American guitar maker, cancer. [66]
• Ragnar Lundberg, 86, Swedish athlete. [67] (Swedish)
• Frank Mascara, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1995–2003), lung cancer. [68]
• Roland Petit, 87, French ballet dancer and choreographer, leukemia. [69]
• Deacon Turner, 56, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals), shot. [70]
• Lee Vines, 92, Canadian-born American television announcer (What's My Line?) and actor, complications from a fall and pneumonia. [71]

9

• Don Ackerman, 80, American basketball player (New York Knicks), after short illness. [72]
• Facundo Cabral, 74, Argentine singer and songwriter, shot. [73]
• Markos Dragoumis, 85, Greek columnist, author and politician. [74] (Greek)
• Ralph Goldston, 82, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Hamilton Tiger-Cats). [75]
• Carl T. Langford, 92, American politician, Mayor of Orlando, Florida (1967–1980). [76]
• Percy Oliver, 92, Australian Olympic swimmer. [77]
• Tatiana Pankova, 94, Russian actress, People's Artist (Maly Theatre). [78] (Russian)
• Arvo Salo, 79, Finnish writer and politician, MP (1966–1970, 1979–1983) and Minister of Culture (1982–1983). [79] (Finnish)
• Hideo Tanaka, 78, Japanese director (Sukeban Deka The Movie), stomach cancer. [80] (Japanese)
• Würzel, 61, British guitarist (Motörhead), ventricular fibrillation. [81]

8

• Kenny Baker, 85, American fiddler, complications from a stroke. [82]
• Billy Blanco, 87, Brazilian composer, complications from a stroke. [83]
• Roberts Blossom, 87, American actor (Doc Hollywood, Escape from Alcatraz, Home Alone). [84]
• Sam Denoff, 83, American Emmy Award-winning television writer (The Dick Van Dyke Show, That Girl), Alzheimer's disease. [85]
• Aleksis Dreimanis, 96, Latvian-born Canadian geologist. [86]
• Pete Duranko, 67, American football player (Denver Broncos), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [87]
• Betty Ford, 93, American First Lady (1974–1977) and co-founder of Betty Ford Center. [88]
• Camille Lembi Zaneli, 61, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Isangi (since 2000), plane crash. [89] (Italian)
• George McAnthony, 45, Italian country singer, heart attack. [90] (German)
• Paul Michael, 84, American actor, heart failure. [91]
• Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, 95, Spanish-born Mexican philosopher, writer and professor. [92] (Spanish)

7

• Ricardo Alegría, 90, Puerto Rican anthropologist, complications of heart disease. [93]
• Peter Aucoin, 67, American professor of political science and public administration (Dalhousie University). [94]
• Bill Boddy, 98, British motor sport journalist. [95]
• Allan W. Eckert, 80, American historian. [96]
• Manuel Galbán, 80, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club), heart attack. [97]
• Stewart A. Hay, 55, New Zealand businessman. [98]
• Yuri Kukin, 78, Russian singer-songwriter. [99] (Russian)
• Humberto Leal, 38, Mexican murderer, lethal injection. [100]
• José Carlos Martínez, 48, Argentine politician, Senator (since 2007), car crash. [101] (Spanish)
• Rizalino Navarro, 72, Filipino business executive, Secretary of Trade and Industry (1992–1996), heart attack. [102]
• Miguel Gatan Purugganan, 79, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ilagan (1974–1999). [103]
• Everett Reynolds, 83, American civil rights leader, cancer. [104]
• Fred Scialla, 56, American actor, stand-in for Danny DeVito. [105]
• Olav Versto, 60, Norwegian journalist and editor (Verdens Gang), apparent drowning. [106] (Norwegian)
• Dick Williams, 82, American baseball player and Hall of Fame manager (Oakland Athletics), ruptured aortic aneurysm. [107]

6

• Paul-André Crépeau, 85, Canadian legal academic. [108]
• Daniel Mortimer Friedman, 95, American jurist. [109]
• Carly Hibberd, 26, Australian racing cyclist, traffic collision. [110]
• Mani Kaul, 66, Indian filmmaker, after long illness. [111]
• George Kimball, 67, American boxing columnist (Boston Herald), esophageal cancer. [112]
• John Mackey, 69, American Hall of Fame football player (Baltimore Colts, San Diego Chargers). [113]
• Peter J. Peters, 64, American pastor, LaPorte Church of Christ.
• Josef Suk, 81, Czech violinist, prostate cancer. [114]
• Andreas Waldherr, 43, Austrian rally driver, workshop accident. [115] (German)
• Mark Whitehead, 50, American Olympic cyclist. [116]

5

• Jaap Blokker, 69, Dutch businessman, cancer. [117]
• Neil Dougherty, 50, American basketball coach (TCU). [118]
• Malcolm Forsyth, 74, South African-born Canadian trombonist and composer, pancreatic cancer. [119]
• David Getches, 68, American law professor and Native American rights lawyer, pancreatic cancer. [120]
• Armen Gilliam, 47, American basketball player (Phoenix Suns, New Jersey Nets, Milwaukee Bucks), heart attack. [121]
• Edward Hastings, 80, American director and co-founder of the American Conservatory Theater, complications from Lewy body dementia. [122]
• George Lang, 86, Hungarian-born American restaurateur and cookbook author, Alzheimer's disease. [123]
• Mika Myllylä, 41, Finnish Olympic gold medal-winning (1998) cross country skier. [124] (body found on this date)
• Theodore Roszak, 77, American scholar (The Making of a Counter Culture), cancer. [125]
• Robert Sklar, 75, American film historian, cycling accident. [126] (death reported on this date)
• John Sweet, 95, American actor (A Canterbury Tale). [127]
• Gordon Tootoosis, 69, Canadian actor (Pocahontas, Legends of the Fall) and activist, pneumonia. [128]
• Cy Twombly, 83, American painter, cancer. [129]
• Shinji Wada, 61, Japanese mangaka (Sukeban Deka). [130] (death reported on this date)

4

• Şerban Cantacuzino, 70, Romanian prince and actor. [131]
• Wes Covington, 79, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, Kansas City Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies), cancer. [132]
• Rusty Farley, 57, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives (2011). [133]
• Otto von Habsburg, 98, Austro-Hungarian royal and politician, MEP (1979–1999). [134]
• Zurab Kapianidze, 74, Georgian actor and politician, MP (1999–2003). [135]
• Josh Lichtle, 23, American motocross rider, heat stroke. [136]
• Pablo McNeil, 71, Jamaican Olympic athlete and coach, after long illness. [137]
• Lawrence R. Newman, 86, American advocate for the deaf. [138]
• Jane Scott, 92, American rock music critic. [139]
• Neil Turner, 77, Australian politician, Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (1996–1998); MLA for Warrego (1974–1986) and Nicklin (1990–1998). [140]
• Gerhard Unger, 95, German opera singer. [141]
• Zainuddin Muhammad Zain, 60, Indonesian Islamic cleric and politician, heart attack. [142]

3

• Fernando Areán, 67, Argentine footballer and coach. [143] (Spanish)
• Iain Blair, 69, British romance novelist who published under the name Emma Blair. [144]
• Francis King, 88, British writer. [145]
• Anna Massey, 73, British actress (Frenzy, Hotel du Lac), cancer. [146]
• Fred Newman, 76, American psychotherapist. [147]
• Sir Roy Redgrave, 85, British Army general. [148]
• Len Sassaman, 31, American cryptographer, suicide. [149]
• John C. Truesdale, 89, American National Labor Relations Board chairman (1998–2000), cancer. [150]
• Konstantin Vrotsos, 19, Greek-born Spanish actor, car accident. [151] (Spanish)

2

• Itamar Franco, 81, Brazilian politician, President (1992–1995), leukemia. [152]
• Bill Greer, 65, American newspaper editor (The Miami Herald), staph infection. [153]
• Olivera Marković, 87, Serbian actress. [154] (Serbian)
• Ross Martin, 68, Australian Olympic cross-country skier, cycling accident. [155]
• Chaturanan Mishra, 86, Indian politician and trade union leader, after long illness. [156]
• Sir Oliver Napier, 75, Northern Irish politician, leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (1972–1984). [157]
• Kip Tiernan, 85, American advocate for the homeless, cancer. [158]
• Victor Villarreal, 41, American heavy metal singer, motorcycle accident. [159]
• Carl Wedekind, American attorney and anti-death penalty activist. [160]

1

• Jane Baker, 88, American community organizer and politician, first female Mayor of San Mateo, California. [161]
• Edmund Snow Carpenter, 88, American anthropologist. [162]
• Charlie Craig, 73, American songwriter ("She's Single Again", "The Generation Gap"), lung cancer. [163]
• Willie Fernie, 82, Scottish footballer, Alzheimer's disease. [164]
• Raymond Jones, 52, American keyboardist (Chic) and songwriter, pneumonia. [165]
• Anne LaBastille, 75, American author and ecologist. [166]
• Bébé Manga, 60, Cameroonian singer, cardiac arrest. [167] (French)
• Harold Nelson, 88, New Zealand Olympic runner. [168]
• Brice Phillips, 90, American restaurateur. [169]
• Ruth Roberts, 84, American songwriter ("Meet the Mets"). [170]
• Phil Shepardson, 76, American quiz show host (As Schools Match Wits) (1961–1991). [171] (death reported on this date)

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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