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).

November 2011

3

• Matty Alou, 72, American major league baseball player (San Francisco Giants). [1]
• John Young, 80, Scottish politician, Member of the Scottish Parliament for West of Scotland (1999-2003). [2]

2

• Stan Bergstein, 87, American harness racing executive. [3]
• Sickan Carlsson, 96, Swedish actress and singer. [4] (Swedish)
• Rijk de Gooyer, 85, Dutch actor, pancreatic cancer. [5] (Dutch)
• Ricardo Guzmán Romero, Mexican politician, Mayor of La Piedad, shot. [6] (Spanish)
• Ilmar Kullam, 89, Estonian basketball player. [7] (Estonian)
• Boots Plata, 67, Filipino film director, cancer. [8]
• Nikolay Saksonov, 88, Russian world champion weightlifter. [9] (Russian)
• Leonard Stone, 87, American actor, cancer (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory). [10]

1

• Gumaa Al-Shawan, 74, Egyptian intelligence agent. [11]
• Cahit Aral, 84, Turkish engineer and politician. [12] (Turkish)
• Fanny Edelman, 100, Argentine politician, President of the PCA. [13] (Spanish)
• Richard Gordon, 85, British horror film producer. [14]
• André Hodeir, 90, French author, jazz arranger and composer. [15] (French)
• Dorothy Howell Rodham, 92, American homemaker, mother of Hillary Rodham Clinton. [16]
• Christiane Legrand, 81, French jazz singer. [17]
• Héctor Rueda Hernández, 90, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Medellín (1991–1997). [18]
• Ricardo Watty Urquidi, 73, American-born Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tepic (since 2008). [19]

October 2011

31

• Flórián Albert, Sr., 70, Hungarian footballer, European Footballer of the Year (1967). [20]
• Alberto Anchart, 80, Argentine actor (Venga a bailar el rock), cancer. [21] (Spanish)
• Liz Anderson, 81, American country music singer-songwriter, mother of Lynn Anderson, complications from heart and lung disease. [22]
• Gilbert Cates, 77, American film director and producer (Academy Awards Telecast, Oh, God! Book II), founder of Geffen Playhouse. [23]
• James Forrester, 74, American physician and politician, North Carolina State Senator (since 1990). [24]
• Alfred Hilbe, 83, Liechtenstein politician, Prime Minister (1970–1974). [25] (German)
• Len Killeen, 72, South African rugby league player. [26]
• Bořivoj Navrátil, 78, Czech actor. [27] (Czech)
• José Reyez Meza, 86, Mexican muralist, stomach cancer. [28] (Spanish)
• Ali Saibou, 71, Nigerien politician, President (1987–1993). [29]

30

• Serge Aubry, 69, Canadian ice hockey player (Quebec Nordiques), diabetes. [30] (French)
• Bob Barry, Sr., 80, American sports commentator. [31]
• T. M. Jacob, 61, Indian politician, member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly. [32]
• Tom Keith, 64, American radio personality (A Prairie Home Companion). [33]
• Jonas Kubilius, 90, Lithuanian mathematician. [34] (Lithuanian)
• Phyllis Love, 85, American actress (Friendly Persuasion, The Young Doctors), Alzheimer's disease. [35]
• Giles McCrary, 91, American art collector and museum owner. [36]
• Jiří Winter Neprakta, 87, Czech cartoonist. [37] (Czech)
• George Rountree, 61, American bandleader and composer. [38]
• Mickey Scott, 64, German born American baseball player (Orioles, Expos, Angels). [39]
• Richard Walls, 74, New Zealand politician and businessman, MP for Dunedin North (1975–1978) and Mayor of Dunedin (1989–1995). [40]
• Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani, 74, Iranian cleric and politician, President of Tehran University (2005–2008), heart failure. [41]

29

• Axel Axgil, 96, Danish gay rights activist. [42]
• Yngve Holmberg, 86, Swedish politician, leader of the Moderate Party (1965–1970). [43] (Swedish)
• Robert Lamoureux, 91, French comedian and film director. [44] (French)
• Sakhat Muradov, 79, Russian-born Turkmen politician, Chairman of the Assembly of Turkmenistan (1992–2001). [45] (Russian)
• Ram Revilla, 22, Filipino actor, shot and stabbed. [46]
• Sir Jimmy Savile, 84, British disc jockey, television presenter (Top of the Pops, Jim'll Fix It) and charity fundraiser. [47]
• K. Suppu, 70, Indian politician. [48]
• Walter Vidarte, 80, Uruguayan actor. [49] (Spanish)
• Tom Watkins, 74, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions), after long illness. [50]
• Mano Wijeyeratne, 54, Sri Lankan politician. [51]

28

• Ricky Adams, 52, American baseball player (California Angels), cancer. [52]
• Campbell Christie, 74, Scottish trade unionist. [53]
• Willy De Clercq, 84, Belgian politician. [54] (Dutch)
• Beryl Davis, 87, British big band singer and actress. [55]
• Jiří Gruša, 72, Czech dissident, diplomat and writer. [56]
• Bernardo Jablonski, 59, Brazilian actor, theatre director and writer. [57] (Portuguese)
• Roger Kerr, 66, New Zealand public policy and business leader, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, metastatic melanoma. [58]
• Walter Norris, 79, American jazz pianist. [59]

27

• Tom Donovan, 89, American film director and producer. [60]
• Sergei Govorukhin, 50, Ukrainian-born Russian film director, brain hemorrhage. [61] (Russian)
• T. Max Graham, 70, American actor (Article 99, Eraserhead), cancer. [62]
• James Hillman, 85, American psychologist, proponent of archetypal psychology. [63]
• Ron Holmes, 48, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Denver Broncos). [64]
• Sirazhudin Israfilov, 57, Russian Islamic leader, shot. [65] (Russian)
• Eduard Kojnok, 78, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rožňava (1990–2008). [66] (Slovakian)
• Robert Pritzker, 85, American billionaire industrialist, Parkinson's disease. [67]
• David Wicks, 31, American actor and stuntman, explosion. [68]

26

• Salvador Bernal, 66, Filipino designer, National Artist of the Philippines. [69]
• Daniel Burke, 82, American television executive, President of ABC (1986–1994), complications of diabetes. [70]
• Dave Cole, 81, American baseball player (Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves, Chicago Cubs). [71]
• Mickey Kelly, Irish hurler (Kilkenny GAA). [72]
• Yaropolk Lapshyn, 91, Ukrainian-born Russian film director, long illness. [73] (Russian)
• Aristide Laurent, 70, American publisher and LGBT civil rights advocate. [74]
• Janko Messner, 89, Austrian writer, pulmonary infarction. [75] (German)
• William A. Niskanen, 78, American economist, member of the Council of Economic Advisors (1981–1985), chairman of the Cato Institute (1985–2008), stroke. [76]
• Carl Rutherford. 90, American military veteran. [77]
• Jona Senilagakali, 81, Fijian physician and diplomat, Prime Minister (2006–2007). [78]

25

• Leonidas Andrianopoulos, 100, Greek footballer (Olympiacos F.C.). [79] (Greek)
• Perkins Bass, 99, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Hampshire (1955–1963). [80]
• Bert Cueto, 74, Cuban baseball player (Minnesota Twins). [81]
• Héctor López, 44, Mexican boxer, Olympic silver medal-winner (1984), heart attack. [82] (Spanish)
• Tom McNeeley, 74, American boxer, complications from a seizure. [83]
• Mohan Raghavan, 47, Indian Malayalam film director. [84]
• Bernard Verdcourt, 86, British botanist. [85]
• Howard Wolpe, 71, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1979–1993). [86]
• Norrie Woodhall, 105, British stage actress. [87]

24

• Bob Beaumont, 79, American electric automobile manufacturer (Citicar), emphysema. [88]
• Margit Brandt, 66, Danish fashion designer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [89] (Danish)
• Robert Bropho, 81, Australian indigenous rights activist and convicted criminal, natural causes. [90]
• Liviu Ciulei, 88, Romanian actor, writer and director, after long illness. [91]
• Harold Huskilson, 91, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1970–1993). [92]
• Kjell Johansson, 65, Swedish table tennis player. [93]
• Morio Kita, 84, Japanese novelist, essayist and psychiatrist. [94]
• Sarantis Michalopoulos, 72, Greek journalist and news anchorman. [95] (Greek)
• Alan Morgan, 71, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Sherwood (1989–2004). [96]
• Peter Rhodes, 90, British football referee, Parkinson's disease. [97] (death announced on this date)
• Crescênzio Rinaldini, 85, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Araçuaí (1982–2001). [98]
• Kirtanananda Swami, 74, American excommunicated Hare Krishna leader and convicted felon, kidney failure. [99]
• Oleh Vitovych, 44, Ukrainian politician, MP (1994–1998) and Leader of UNA-UNSO (1994–1999). [100] (Ukrainian)
• Bruno Weber, 80, Swiss artist and architect. [101] (German)

23

• Nusrat Bhutto, 82, Iranian-born Pakistani First Lady, widow of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and mother of Benazir Bhutto. [102]
• Amílcar Brusa, 89, Argentine boxing trainer, natural causes. [103]
• Joseph Dao, 75, Burkinabé-born Malian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kayes (1978–2011). [104]
• Oscar Stanley Dawson, 87, Indian admiral, Chief of the Naval Staff (1982–1984), brain haemorrhage. [105]
• Winston Griffiths, 33, Jamaican footballer. [106]
• Herbert A. Hauptman, 94, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1985). [107]
• Florence Parry Heide, 92, American children's author. [108]
• Sir Frank Holmes, 87, New Zealand economist and government advisor. [109]
• Gene Kurtz, 69, American bassist and songwriter ("Treat Her Right"). [110]
• William Franklin Lee III, 82, American music educator, Dean of University of Miami School of Music (1964–1982). [111]
• Bronislovas Lubys, 73, Lithuanian entrepreneur and politician, Prime Minister of Lithuania (1992–1993), heart attack. [112] (Lithuanian)
• John Makin, 61, British singer-songwriter. [113] (Dutch)
• John McCarthy, 84, American computer scientist, creator of LISP and the term AI, heart disease. [114]
• Antoine Montant, 30, French extreme skier, BASE jumping accident. [115]
• Henk Pleket, 74, Dutch singer. [116] (Dutch)
• Amnon Salomon, 71, Israeli cinematographer. [117]
• Marco Simoncelli, 24, Italian motorcycle racer, race crash. [118]
• Tillie Taylor, 88, Canadian judge. [119]
• Bogdan Zakrzewski, 95, Polish historian and researcher of Polish literature. [120] (Polish)

22

• Jan Boye, 49, Danish politician, complications from brain hemorrhage. [121] (Danish)
• Antonio Cassese, 74, Italian international law expert, Yugoslavian war crimes judge, cancer. [122]
• Jean Dubuisson, 97, French architect. [123]
• Peter Goldie, 64, British philosopher. [124]
• Barbara König, 86, German writer. [125] (German)
• P.K.S. Kutty, 90, Indian political cartoonist. [126]
• Cathal O'Shannon, 83, Irish journalist and television presenter. [127]
• Robert Pierpoint, 86, American broadcast journalist, complications from surgery. [128]
• Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, 83, Saudi royal, Minister of Defense and Aviation (since 1962) and Crown Prince (since 2005). [129]
• Roy Smalley, Jr., 85, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies). [130]
• Ed Thompson, 66, American politician, Mayor of Tomah, Wisconsin (2008–2010), and gubernatorial candidate, pancreatic cancer. [131]

21

• Hikmet Bilâ, 57, Turkish journalist and author, lung cancer. [132]
• Rudolph Byrd, 58, American academic, multiple myeloma. [133]
• George Daniels, 85, British horologist. [134]
• Thomas Dillon, 61, American serial killer. [135]
• Freddie Ferrara, American rhythm and blues singer (The Del-Satins, The Brooklyn Bridge), cardiac arrest. [136]
• Yann Fouéré, 101, French Breton nationalist. [137] (French)
• Bertram Nelson Herlong, 77, American bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. [138]
• Anis Mansour, 86, Egyptian writer and columnist, pneumonia. [139]
• Tone Pavček, 83, Slovenian author and translator. [140]
• Edmundo Ros, 100, Trinidadian bandleader. [141]
• Wang Yue, 2, Chinese hit-and-run victim. [142]
• Scott White, 41, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (2009–2011) and State Senator (2011), cardiomegaly complications. [143]

20

• Jerzy Bielecki, 90, Polish social worker, former prisoner of Auschwitz concentration camp. [144] (Polish)
• John Bosco Manat Chuabsamai, 75, Thai Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ratchaburi (1985–2003). [145]
• Barry Feinstein, 80, American photographer and photojournalist. [146]
• Moatassem Gaddafi 34, Libyan Army officer, fifth son of Muammar Gaddafi, shot. [147]
• Muammar Gaddafi, 69, Libyan leader (1969–2011), shot. [148]
• Gale Gillingham, 67, American football player (Green Bay Packers). [149]
• Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr, 59, Libyan defence minister, shot. [150]
• Dennis Hall, 54, American cinematographer (Franklin & Bash, Burn Notice), heart attack. [151]
• Hunter, 36, Australian rapper, cancer. [152]
• Sue Lloyd, 72, British actress (The Ipcress File, Crossroads). [153]
• Iztok Puc, 45, Slovenian handball player, lung cancer. [154]
• Morris Tabaksblat, 74, Dutch industrialist. [155] (Dutch)
• Roger Tallon, 82, French industrial designer. [156] (French)

19

• Édison Chará, 31, Colombian footballer, shot. [157]
• Earl Gilliam, 81, American blues pianist, lung disease. [158]
• Kakkanadan, 76, Indian Malayalam writer. [159]
• Ken Meyerson, 47, American tennis agent. [160]
• Bohdan Osadchuk, 91, Ukrainian historian and journalist. [161] (Polish)
• Hollis E. Roberts, 68, American politician, Chief of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (1978–1997). [162]
• Jeff Rudom, 51, American basketball player and actor . [163]
• Tadeusz Sawicz, 97, Polish World War II fighter pilot. [164]
• Rodney Sheldon, 70, American TV writer and producer. [165]
• Lars Sjösten, 70, Swedish jazz pianist and composer. [166] (Swedish)
• Ronald Smith, 67, British Olympic boxer (1964). [167]
• Keith Williams, 82, Australian property developer (Hamilton Island, Sea World), stroke. [168]
• James Yannatos, 82, American composer and conductor. [169]

18

• Bob Brunning, 68, British blues musician (Fleetwood Mac), heart attack. [170]
• George Chaloupka, 79, Czech-born Australian historian of indigenous art. [171]
• Mofya Chisgena, 28, Zambian pageant winner, complications from childbirth. [172]
• Ruby Cohn, 89, American theater scholar, Parkinson's disease. [173]
• Norman Corwin, 101, American radio writer, director and producer. [174]
• Paul Everac, 87, Romanian writer, cancer. [175] (Romanian)
• Tommy Grant, 76, Canadian football player (Hamilton Tiger-Cats). [176]
• Kent Hull, 50, American football player (Buffalo Bills), liver disease. [177]
• Jan Marian Kaczmarek, 90, Polish engineer and academic. [178] (Polish)
• Friedrich Kittler, 68, German literary scholar and media theorist. [179] (German)
• Lee Soo-Chul, 45, South Korean football manager, suicide. [180]
• Merritt Ranew, 73, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs) [181]
• Michael Staikos, 65, Greek-born Austrian Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Austria (since 1991). [182] (German)
• Jacques Thuillier, 83, French art historian. [183] (French)
• Andrea Zanzotto, 90, Italian poet. [184]

17

• Barney Danson, 90, Canadian politician, MP for York North (1968–1979), Minister of National Defence (1976–1979). [185]
• Ramaz Chkhikvadze, 83, Georgian-born English stage actor. [186]
• Manfred Gerlach, 83, German politician, last Chairman of the State Council of East Germany (1989–1990). [187]
• Poul Glargaard, 69, Danish actor. [188] (Danish)
• Osvaldo Guidi, 47, Argentine actor, suicide by hanging. [189] (Spanish)
• Carl Lindner, Jr., 92, American businessman (United Dairy Farmers, Cincinnati Reds), cardiac arrest. [190]
• Elaine Nile, 75, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1988–2002), cancer. [191]
• Muiris Ó Rócháin, 67, Irish teacher and director of the Willie Clancy Summer School. [192]
• Piri Thomas, 83, American writer (Down These Mean Streets) and poet, pneumonia. [193]
• Edgar Villchur, 94, American inventor of the acoustic suspension loudspeaker. [194]

16

• Henry Bathurst, 8th Earl Bathurst, 84, British aristocrat and politician. [195]
• Elouise Cobell, 65, American Native American rights activist. [196]
• Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa, 70, Mexican journalist. [197]
• Charles Hamm, 86, American musicologist [198]
• Rick Huseman, 38, American off-road racer, plane crash. [199]
• Virginia Knauer, 96, American consumer advocate and government official. [200]
• Tony Marchington, 55, English biotechnology entrepreneur and preservationist (Flying Scotsman). [201]
• Pete Rugolo, 95, Italian-born American film and television composer (Kiss Me Kate, The Fugitive). [202]
• Henning Sjöström, 89, Swedish defense attorney, long illness. [203] (Swedish)
• Elisabeth Tankeu, 67, Cameroonian politician, Minister for Planning and Regional Development (1988–1992). [204]
• Dan Wheldon, 33, British IndyCar driver, racing accident. [205]
• Don Williams, 80, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Athletics). [206]

15

• David P. Demarest, 79, American academic and writer. [207]
• Betty Driver, 91, British singer and actress (Coronation Street), pneumonia. [208]
• Sir Donald Dunstan, 88, Australian military officer, Governor of South Australia (1982–1991). [209]
• Pierre Mamboundou, 65, Gabonese politician, leader of the Union of the Gabonese People (since 1989), heart attack. [210]
• Matthew G. Martínez, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1982–2001). [211]
• Earl McRae, 69, Canadian journalist (Ottawa Sun), apparent heart attack. [212]
• Sue Mengers, 79, American talent agent, pneumonia. [213]
• Franko Strmotić, 67, Croatian actor. [214] (Croatian)

14

• Reg Alcock, 63, Canadian politician, MP for Winnipeg South (1993–2006); President of the Treasury Board (2003–2006), heart attack. [215]
• Theron Brison, 48, American bassist, murdered. [216]
• Leon Cakoff, 63, Brazilian film critic, melanoma. [217] (Portuguese)
• Margaret Draper, 94, American radio actress and disc jockey, natural causes. [218]
• Michael Fitzpatrick, 69, Irish politician, TD for Kildare North (2007–2011), motor neurone disease. [219]
• Pierangelo Garegnani, 81, Italian economist and professor. [220] (Italian)
• Ashawna Hailey, 62, American computer scientist. [221]
• Adam Hunter, 48, Scottish golfer, leukemia. [222]
• Laura Pollán, 63, Cuban opposition leader, founder of the Ladies in White, cardiorespiratory arrest. [223]
• Jaladi Raja Rao, 79, Indian film lyricist and playwright. [224]
• Chuck Ruff, 60, American drummer (Edgar Winter, Sammy Hagar), after long illness. [225]
• Esther Vickery, 109, British centenarian, oldest Welsh person at time of death. [226]

13

• Sheila Allen, 78, British actress (Love Actually). [227]
• Franz Jozef Van Beeck, 81, Dutch author and Christian theologian. [228]
• Chris Doig, 63, New Zealand opera singer and sports administrator, bowel cancer. [229]
• Barbara Kent, 103, Canadian-born American silent film actress. [230]
• Tufele Liamatua, 71, American Samoan politician and paramount chief, first elected Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa (1978–1985). [231]
• Pavlina Nikaj, 80, Albanian singer. [232] (Albanian)
• Abdoulaye Seye, 77, Senegalese Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) athlete. [233] (French)

12

• Heinz Bennent, 90, German actor. [234] (German)
• Patricia Breslin, 80, American actress (The People's Choice, Peyton Place, The Twilight Zone), wife of Art Modell, pancreatitis. [235]
• Joel DiGregorio, 67, American keyboardist (The Charlie Daniels Band), car crash. [236]
• James Van Doren, 72, American shoemaker, co-founder of Vans Shoes. [237]
• Lambert Giebels, 76, Dutch writer, historian and politician. [238] (Dutch)
• Peter Hammond, 87, British actor and television director. [239]
• Lowell H. Harrison, 88, American historian. [240]
• János Herskó, 85, Hungarian film director and actor. [241] (Hungarian)
• Dieudonné Kabongo, 61, Congolese-born Belgian comedian, musician and actor (Lumumba). [242]
• Paul Leka, 68, American pianist, arranger and songwriter ("Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", "Green Tambourine"). [243]
• Vic Miles, 79, American reporter and news anchor. [244]
• Lewis Mills, 74, American college basketball coach (University of Richmond) and athletic director. [245]
• Dennis Ritchie, 70, American computer scientist, developer of C programming language. [246] (body discovered on this date)
• Dick Thornett, 71, Australian triple international sportsman (water polo, rugby union and rugby league), heart disease. [247]
• Martin White, 102, Irish hurler. [248]
• Winstone Zulu, Zambian AIDS and tuberculosis activist. [249]

11

• Amin al-Shami, Yemeni air force colonel, car bomb. [250]
• Kim Brown, 66, British-born Finnish musician, cancer. [251] (Finnish)
• George "Mojo" Buford, 81, American blues harmonica player. [252]
• Cy Buker, 92, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). [253]
• Harold Davison, 89, British music impresario, widower of Marion Ryan, heart failure. [254]
• Ion Diaconescu, 94, Romanian politician, former PNŢCD leader, President of Chamber of Deputies (1996–2000), heart failure. [255] (Romanian)
• Doctor X, 43, Mexican professional wrestler, shot. [256] (Spanish)
• Bob Galvin, 89, American businessman, CEO of Motorola (1959–1986). [257]
• Freddie Gruber, 84, American jazz drummer. [258]
• Nauman Habib, 32, Pakistani cricketer, murdered. [259]
• Henk Hofs, 60, Dutch footballer (Vitesse). [260] (Dutch)
• Keith Holman, 84, Australian rugby league player and referee. [261]
• Frank Kameny, 86, American gay rights activist. [262]
• Jose Vasconcelos, 85, Brazilian actor and comedian, respiratory failure. [263] (Portuguese)

10

• Ray Aghayan, 83, Iranian-born American costume designer (Funny Lady, Doctor Dolittle). [264]
• Milton Castellanos Everardo, 91, Mexican politician, President of Chamber of Deputies (1951), Governor of Baja California (1971–1977). [265] (Spanish)
• Ulf Löfgren, 79, Swedish children's book author. [266] (Swedish)
• Shikan Nakamura VII, 83, Japanese kabuki performer, Living National Treasure. [267]
• Ewald Osers, 94, Czech translator. [268]
• Albert Rosellini, 101, American politician, Governor of Washington (1957–1965), complications from pneumonia. [269]
• Jagjit Singh, 70, Indian musician, brain haemorrhage. [270]
• Otto Tausig, 89, Austrian writer, director and actor. [271] (German)
• Jyohji Yanagi, 63, Japanese blues singer. [272] (Japanese)

9

• Kei Aoyama, 32, Japanese mangaka, suicide. [273] (Japanese)
• Ray Aranha, 72, American actor (Dead Man Walking, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Married People). [274]
• Antonis Christeas, 74, Greek basketball player (AEK Athens) and coach. [275] (Greek)
• Robert Boochever, 94, American federal judge. [276]
• Bill Brown, 69, American disc jockey (WCBS-FM). [277]
• Rob Buckman, 63, British-born Canadian oncologist and comedian. [278]
• Vibeke Mowinckel Falk, 93, Norwegian actress. [279] (Norwegian)
• Chauncey Hardy, 23, American basketball player, heart attack following beating. [280]
• Pavel Karelin, 21, Russian ski jumper, traffic accident. [281] (Russian)
• Mark Kingston, 77, British actor. [282]
• Edward Loper, Sr., 95, American artist, Alzheimer's disease. [283]
• Jakkampudi Rammohan Rao, Indian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh. [284]
• Manuel Prado Perez-Rosas, 88, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Trujillo (1976–1999). [285]
• Ljubo Stipišić, 73, Croatian composer. [286] (Croatian)
• James Worrall, 97, Canadian Olympic athlete (1936) and administrator. [287]

8

• Al Davis, 82, American football coach and team owner (Oakland Raiders), heart failure. [288]
• José de las Fuentes Rodríguez, 91, Mexican politician and lawyer, Governor of Coahuila (1981–1987). [289]
• David Hess, 75, American actor (The Last House on the Left), singer and songwriter, heart attack. [290]
• Ovidio de Jesús, 78, Puerto Rican Olympic sprinter (1956, 1960). [291] (Spanish) (death announced on this date)
• Piet Noordijk, 79, Dutch saxophone player. [292]
• Shirley Prestia, American actress, brain cancer. [293]
• Harold W. Rood, American political scientist and author. [294]
• Nina Sorokina, 69, Russian ballerina, People's Artist of the USSR. [295] (Russian)
• Mikey Welsh, 40, American artist and musician (Weezer). [296]
• Roger Williams, 87, American pianist, pancreatic cancer. [297]
• Ingvar Wixell, 80, Swedish opera singer. [298] (Swedish)

7

• Zaheer Ahmad, 63, Pakistani-born American doctor, brain hemorrhage. [299]
• John Alderson, 89, British police officer and media commentator, Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Constabulary (1973–1982). [300]
• Ramiz Alia, 85, Albanian politician, First Secretary of the Party of Labour (1985–1991), President (1991–1992), lung disease. [301]
• Julien Bailleul, 23, French footballer. [302]
• George Baker, 80, British actor (I, Claudius, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries), pneumonia following a stroke. [303]
• Frederick Cardozo, 94, British soldier and SOE veteran. [304]
• Fernando Charrier, 80, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Alessandria della Paglia (1989–2007). [305]
• Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer, 95, Puerto Rican general. [306] (Spanish)
• Paul Kent, 80, American actor (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Three's Company), multiple myeloma. [307]
• August Knemeyer, 83, German politician, Mayor of Bad Laer (1960–1996). [308] (German)
• Andrew Laszlo, 85, Hungarian-born American cinematographer (First Blood, The Warriors, Newsies). [309]
• Neoklis Lechoudis, 55, Greek basketball player and coach, traffic collision. [310] (Greek)
• Enrique Monsonís, 80, Spanish politician, President of the Generalitat Valenciana (1979–1982). [311]
• Gianni Musy, 80, Italian movie dubber. [312] (Italian)
• Michel Peissel, 74, French explorer and author, heart attack. [313]
• Milan Puskar, 77, American pharmacist, co-founder of Mylan, cancer. [314]
• Julio Mario Santo Domingo, 88, Colombian businessman (SABMiller). [315] (Spanish)
• Mildred Savage, 92, American author (Parrish). [316]
• Mishaal al-Tammo, 53, Syrian politician, shot. [317]
• Avner Treinin, 83, Israeli poet and chemist. [318]
• Phil Walker, 67, British newspaper editor. [319]

6

• Bess Bonnier, 83, American jazz pianist. [320]
• Diane Cilento, 78, Australian actress (Tom Jones, The Wicker Man), cancer. [321]
• William S. Dietrich II, 73, American industrialist and philanthropist. [322]
• Gadzhi Gamsatow, 86, Russian literary scholar. [323] (Russian)
• Dorothy Heathcote, 85, British drama teacher and academic. [324]
• Marilyn Nash, 84, American actress (Monsieur Verdoux, Unknown World). [325]
• Birgit Rosengren, 98, Swedish actress. [326] (Swedish)
• Igor Shmakov, 26, Russian actor, leukemia. [327]
• Neil Street, 80, Australian speedway rider. [328]
• Meta de Vries, 70, Dutch radio presenter, cancer. [329] (Dutch)
• Holger Waldmann, 46, German football referee. [330] (German)

5

• Edward Acquah, 76, Ghanaian Olympic footballer (1964). [331]
• Níver Arboleda, 43, Colombian footballer, heart attack. [332] (Spanish)
• Derrick Bell, 80, American law professor (Harvard University), originated critical race theory, carcinoid cancer. [333]
• Anita Caspary, 95, American Catholic nun, founder of the Immaculate Heart Community. [334]
• Graham Dilley, 52, British cricketer, cancer. [335]
• Enver Faja, 77, Albanian architect and diplomat, Ambassador to Poland (1992–1996), after long illness. [336]
• Peter Jaks, 45, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1998, 1992), suicide by standing in front of a train. [337]
• Bert Jansch, 67, Scottish folk guitarist, singer and songwriter (Pentangle), cancer. [338]
• Steve Jobs, 56, American computer entrepreneur and inventor, co-founder of Apple Inc., pancreatic cancer. [339]
• Achilleas Karagiozopoulos, 56, Greek politician, cancer. [340] (Greek)
• Charles Napier, 75, American actor (The Silence of the Lambs, The Blues Brothers). [341]
• Billy Naylor, 95, American child actor (Our Gang). [342]
• Fred Shuttlesworth, 89, American civil rights leader. [343]
• Gökşin Sipahioğlu, 84, Turkish photographer. [344] (French).
• Sarkis Soghanalian, 82, Turkish-born Armenian arms dealer. [345]

4

• Joe Aceti, 76, American televison sports director, stroke. [346]
• Doris Belack, 85, American actress (Law & Order, One Life to Live, Tootsie), natural causes. [347]
• Yelena Chernykh, 32, Russian actress, traffic collision. [348] (Russian)
• Reinhold Coenen, 69, German politician, Mayor of Ankum (2001–2006), after short illness. [349] (German)
• Ruth Currier, 85, American dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. [350]
• Vittorio Curtoni, 61, Italian science fiction writer and translator. [351] (Italian)
• Kenneth H. Dahlberg, 94, American businessman and World War II fighter ace, natural causes. [352]
• Daisy DeBolt, 66, Canadian singer, cancer. [353]
• Diana Gribble, 69, Australian publisher (McPhee Gribble), cancer. [354]
• Ralph Hodgin, 96, American baseball player (Boston Bees, Chicago White Sox). [355]
• Dustin Kellogg, 18, American baseball player, traffic collision. [356]
• Hanan Porat, 67, Israeli rabbi, educator and politician, cancer. [357]
• Shmuel Shilo, 81, Israeli actor and director, cancer. [358]
• Muzaffer Tema, 92, Turkish actor. [359] (Turkish)
• Géza Tóth, 79, Hungarian Olympic silver medal-winning (1964) weightlifter. [360]
• Jay Whitehead, 49, American chess and backgammon player, cancer. [361]
• Aleksandr Yegorov, 59, Russian actor, traffic collision. [362] (Russian)
• Valentina Yudina, 52, Russian actress, traffic collision. [363] (Russian)

3

• Aden Meinel, 88, American astronomer and optical scientist. [364]
• Jim Neal, 81, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals, Baltimore Bullets). [365]
• Zakaria Zerouali, 33, Moroccan footballer. [366] (French)

2

• Vasily Aleksanyan, 39, Russian lawyer and businessman, Executive Vice President of Yukos, complications from AIDS. [367]
• Andrija Fuderer, 80, Croatian-born Belgian chess player. [368]
• Don Lapre, 47, American television pitchman, suicide by cutting throat. [369]
• Taha Muhammad Ali, 80, Palestinian poet. [370]
• Peter Przygodda, 69, German film editor, cancer. [371] (German)
• Efraín Recinos, 83, Guatemalan architect, muralist and artist, designer of the Centro Cultural Miguel Ángel Asturias. [372]
• John Romonosky, 82, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Senators). [373]
• Cindy Shatto, 54, Canadian Olympic diver (1976), lung cancer. [374]
• Pavlos Tassios, 69, Greek film director. [375] (Greek)
• Piero Weiss, 83, Italian pianist and author, pneumonia. [376]
• Moshe Wertman, 87, Israeli politician. [377]

1

• David Bedford, 74, British composer and musician. [378]
• Len Castle, 86, New Zealand potter. [379]
• Georgina Cookson, 92, British actress. [380]
• Philo Dibble, 60, American diplomat. [381]
• Robert Finigan, 68, American wine critic. [382])
• Ruby Langford Ginibi, 77, Australian author and Aboriginal historian. [383]
• Paulos Mantovanis, 65, Cypriot Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Kyrenia (since 1994). [384] (Greek)
• Sholom Rivkin, 85, American rabbi, last chief rabbi of St. Louis and the United States. [385]
• Johnny Schmitz, 90, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers). [386]
• Sven Tumba, 80, Swedish ice hockey player (world champion 1953, 1957, 1962), footballer and golfer, prostate cancer. [387]

September 2011

See Deaths in September 2011.

August 2011

See Deaths in August 2011.

July 2011

See Deaths in July 2011.

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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