Deaths in March 2011

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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2011.

March 2011

31

• Tony Barrell, 70, British-born Australian broadcaster and writer. [1]
• Gil Clancy, 88, American Hall of Fame boxing trainer. [2]
• Alan Fitzgerald, 75, Australian journalist, cancer. [3]
• Ndeye Marie Ndiaye Gawlo, 49, Senegalese singer. [4] (French)
• Claudia Heill, 29, Austrian judoka, silver medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, suspected suicide. [5]
• Don Hill, 66, American nightclub owner and impresario. [6]
• Tom Kelleher, 85, American football official (1960–1987), complications from pneumonia. [7]
• Vassili Kononov, 88, Russian military veteran and war criminal. [8] (Latvian)
• Dimitris Laletas, 47, Greek painter, cancer. [9] (Greek)
• Mel McDaniel, 68, American country music singer, cancer. [10]
• Mir-Ismail Mousavi, 103, Iranian businessman, father of Mir-Hossein Mousavi. [11] (Persian)
• Edward Stobart, 56, British haulage contractor and entrepreneur. [12]
• Henry Taub, 83, American entrepreneur, founder of Automatic Data Processing, leukemia. [13]

30

• Jacques Amir, 78, Israeli politician. [14] (Hebrew)
• Dino Anagnost, 67, American conductor, cancer. [15]
• Jorge Camacho, 77, Cuban painter. [16] (Spanish)
• Ângelo de Sousa, 73, Portuguese artist. [17] (Portuguese)
• Jack Fulk, 78, American businessman, co-founder of Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits. [18]
• Tamar Golan, 76, Israeli journalist and diplomat. [19]
• Lyudmila Gurchenko, 75, Russian film actress and singer, People's Artist of the USSR. [20] (Russian)
• Víctor Licandro, 93, Uruguayan politician, journalist and military, founder of Broad Front. [21] (Spanish)
• Denis McLean, 80, New Zealand diplomat, academic, author and civil servant. [22]
• Wally Peterson, 93, American actor, singer and stage manager. [23]
• Nutan Prasad, 65, Indian actor, after long illness. [24]
• Liaquat Soldier, 56, Pakistani comedian, heart attack. [25]
• Tan Tiong Hong, Malaysian politician, former deputy minister. [26]
• Babis Tsikliropoulos, 72, Greek playwright and lyricist. [27] (Greek)

29

• Sabah al-Bazee, 30, Iraqi journalist and photographer (Reuters), explosion. [28]
• José Alencar, 79, Brazilian entrepreneur and politician, Vice-President (2003–2010), multiple organ failure. [29]
• Bob Benny, 84, Belgian singer. [30]
• Iakovos Kambanelis, 88, Greek author, playwright, poet, lyricist and journalist, kidney failure. [31] (Greek)
• Anastasia Papagoula, 72, Greek journalist (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation). [32] (Greek)
• Neil Reimer, 89, Canadian politician, Leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party (1962–1968). [33]
• Jim Seymour, 64, American football player (Chicago Bears). [34]
• Alan Tang, 64, Hong Kong actor, film producer and director, stroke. [35]
• Robert Tear, 72, British opera singer, cancer. [36]

28

• Wenche Foss, 93, Norwegian actress, natural causes. [37] (Norwegian)
• Lee Hoiby, 85, American composer, metastatic melanoma. [38]
• Elias Matthaios, 53, Greek sports journalist. [39] (Greek)
• Sonia Osorio, 83, Colombian ballet dancer and choreographer, respiratory failure. [40] (Spanish)
• Bill Scarlett, 82, American jazz musician and teacher. [41]
• Esben Storm, 60, Danish-born Australian actor, director and producer, heart attack. [42]
• Seiichiro Ujiie, 84, Japanese journalist and anime film producer, multiple organ failure. [43]

27

• Clement Arrindell, 79, Kittitian politician, Governor-General (1983–1995). [44]
• Stanley Bogdan, 92, American fly reel maker. [45]
• David E. Davis, 80, American automotive writer, editor and publisher (Car and Driver, Automobile), complications from bladder surgery. [46]
• Farley Granger, 85, American actor (Strangers on a Train, Rope), natural causes. [47]
• H. R. F. Keating, 84, British crime fiction writer. [48]
• Ellen McCormack, 84, American pro-life activist and politician, two-time Presidential candidate (1976, 1980). [49]
• DJ Megatron, 32, American disc jockey, shot. [50]
• Günther Mund, 76, German-born Chilean Olympic diver, plane crash. [51] (Spanish)
• Dimitris Nastos, 47, Greek footballer (Atromitos). [52] (Greek)
• Dorothea Puente, 82, American serial killer, natural causes. [53]
• Serenella, 79, Spanish Catalan singer and actress. [54] (Spanish)
• Hans Stumpf, 84, German-born American musician and musicologist. [55]
• George Tooker, 90, American painter, kidney failure. [56]

26

• Roger Abbott, 64, Canadian actor and comedian (Royal Canadian Air Farce), chronic lymphocytic leukemia. [57]
• Joe Bageant, 64, American writer, social critic and political commentator, cancer. [58]
• Paul Baran, 84, American Internet pioneer, complications from lung cancer. [59]
• Aleksandr Barykin, 59, Russian musician, heart attack. [60] (Russian)
• Carl Bunch, 71, American drummer (Buddy Holly and the Crickets). [61]
• Greg Centauro, 34, French pornographic actor, cardiac arrest. [62] (French)
• Harry Coover, 94, American inventor (Super Glue). [63]
• Lula Côrtes, 61, Brazilian musician (Paêbirú), throat cancer. [64] (Portuguese)
• Cibele Dorsa, 36, Brazilian actress and writer, suicide by jumping. [65] (Portuguese)
• Geraldine Ferraro, 75, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York (1979–1985) and 1984 Vice Presidential nominee, multiple myeloma. [66]
• František Havránek, 87, Czech football player and manager. [67] (Czech)
• Yrjö Hietanen, 83, Finnish Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) canoeist, stroke. [68] (Finnish)
• Diana Wynne Jones, 76, British fantasy author (Howl's Moving Castle), lung cancer. [69]
• Enn Klooren, 70, Estonian actor. [70] (Estonian)
• Jean-Philippe Lecat, 75, French politician. [71] (French)
• Kazimierz Macioch, 78, Polish Olympic wrestler. [72] (Polish)
• Raymond-Marie Tchidimbo, 90, Guinean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Conakry (1962–1979).[73]

25

• Floyd Bedbury, 73, American Olympic speed skater, cancer. [74]
• José Luis Cerda, 33, Mexican television personality, shot. [75]
• Thomas Eisner, 81, American biologist, Parkinson's disease. [76]
• Luis María Estrada Paetau, 75, Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Izabal (1977–2004). [77]
• Thomaz Farkas, 86, Hungarian-born Brazilian photographer, multiple organ failure. [78] (Portuguese)
• Edwin Gaustad, 87, American religious historian. [79]
• Maria Isakova, 92, Soviet speed skater. [80]
• Pavel Leonov, 90, Russian naïve artist. [81] (Russian)
• Almena Lomax, 95, American journalist and civil rights activist, founder of the Los Angeles Tribune, after short illness. [82]
• M. Blane Michael, 68, American federal judge. [83]
• Hugo Midón, 67, Argentine theatre director and actor, after long illness. [84] (Spanish)
• Irving Shulman, 96, American retailer, heart failure. [85]
• Olga Ulyanova, 89, Russian writer and chemist, niece of Vladimir Lenin. [86]
• Floor van der Wal, 26, Dutch comedian, hit and run. [87] (Dutch)
• Thady Wyndham-Quin, 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 71, Irish aristocrat. [88]

24

• Julian Gbur, 68, Polish-born Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Stryi (since 2000). [89] (Ukrainian)
• William M. Greathouse, 91, American Nazarene minister, heart failure. [90]
• Dudley Laws, 76, Jamaican-born Canadian civil rights activist, kidney disease. [91]
• Anselmo Müller, 79, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Januária (1984–2008). [92]
• Perumbadavam Sreedharan, 73, Indian Malayalam author and journalist. [93]
• Gloria Valencia de Castaño, 83, Colombian television host, respiratory failure. [94] (Spanish)
• Lanford Wilson, 73, American playwright. [95]

23

• José Argüelles, 72, American New Age author. [96]
• Jean Bartik, 86, American computer programmer (ENIAC). [97]
• Liana Duval, 83, Brazilian actress. [98] (Portuguese)
• Živorad Kovačević, 80, Serbian diplomat. [99] (Serbian)
• Sir Frank Lampl, 84, British businessman. [100]
• Richard Leacock, 89, British documentary film maker (Louisiana Story, Primary, Monterey Pop, Janis). [101]
• Teodor Negoiţă, 63, Romanian polar explorer and scientist. [102] (Romanian)
• Zorko Rajčić, 81, Croatian actor. [103] (Croatian)
• Trevor Storton, 61, English footballer. [104]
• Dame Elizabeth Taylor, 79, British-American actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Cleopatra, BUtterfield 8), heart failure. [105]
• Fred Titmus, 78, English test cricketer. [106]
• Leonard Weinglass, 78, American civil rights lawyer, pancreatic cancer. [107]
• Peter Paul Zerafa, 82, Maltese Angelicum sacred scripture professor. [108]

22

• Artur Agostinho, 90, Portuguese sports journalist and actor. [109] (Portuguese)
• Nadia Barentin, 74, French actress (Les Blessures assassines). [110] (French)
• Victor Bouchard, 84, Canadian pianist, duettist with pianist Renée Morisset, respiratory disease. [111]
• Patrick Doeplah, 20, Liberian footballer. [112]
• Keith Fordyce, 82, British radio and television presenter (Ready Steady Go!). [113]
• Syd Kitchen, 59, South African musician. [114]
• Viljar Loor, 57, Estonian Olympic gold medal-winning (1980) volleyball player. [115] (Estonian)
• Jean-Guy Morissette, 73, Canadian ice hockey player. [116]
• Zoogz Rift, 57, American musician, painter and professional wrestler. [117]
• Normie Roy, 82, American baseball player (Boston Braves). [118]
• Reuven Shefer, 85, Israeli actor. [119] (Hebrew)
• José Soriano, 93, Peruvian football player. [120] (Spanish)
• Frankie Sparcello, American thrash metal bassist (Exhorder). [121]
• Helen Stenborg, 86, American actress. [122]
• George Alfred Walker, 81, British businessman, founder of Brent Walker. [123]

21

• Barry Ackerley, 76, American businessman (Ackerley Group), former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics, stroke. [124]
• Hafiz Saleh Muhammad Alladin, 80, Indian astronomer and education advisor, after short illness. [125]
• Nikolai Andrianov, 58, Russian gymnast, most medaled athlete at the 1976 Summer Olympics, after long illness. [126] (Russian)
• Jesús Aranguren, 66, Spanish footballer and manager. [127] (Spanish)
• Hans Boskamp, 78, Dutch actor and footballer, stroke. [128] (Dutch)
• John L. Cashin Jr., 82, American civil rights campaigner, kidney failure. [129]
• Ray Eden, 42, British cyclist, head injuries. [130]
• Bohumil Fišer, 67, Czech cardiologist and academic, Minister of Health (2000–2002), cancer. [131] (Czech)
• Mayhew Foster, 99, American brigadier general, flew captured Hermann Goering to interrogation. [132]
• Loleatta Holloway, 64, American soul and disco musician, heart failure. [133]
• Ladislav Novák, 79, Czech footballer. [134]
• Pinetop Perkins, 97, American blues musician, cardiac arrest. [135]
• Kjeld Tolstrup, 45, Danish radio disc jockey (DR P3), after long illness. [136] (Danish)
• Joe Wizan, 76, American film producer and studio executive, after long illness. [137]

20

• John Apacible, 38, Filipino actor, shot. [138]
• Don Canney, 80, American politician, Mayor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1969–1992), heart failure. [139]
• Bob Christo, 72, Australian-born Indian actor, heart attack. [140]
• Aurimas Dautartas, 35, Lithuanian television presenter and radio host, suicide by hanging. [141] (Lithuanian)
• Néstor de Vicente, 46, Argentine footballer, car crash. [142] (Spanish)
• Diana Díaz, 15, Mexican diver, car accident. [143] (Spanish)
• Kurt Hauenstein, 62, Austrian singer (Supermax), heart attack. [144] (German)
• Oliver Humperdink, 62, American professional wrestling manager, pneumonia and cancer. [145]
• Agostinho Januszewicz, 80, Polish-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Luziânia (1989–2004). [146]
• Ralph Mooney, 82, American steel guitarist, complications from cancer. [147]
• Johnny Pearson, 85, British composer, arranger and pianist. [148]
• Sara Ruddick, 76, American philosopher and author, pulmonary fibrosis. [149]
• Dorothy Young, 103, American actress, assistant to Harry Houdini. [150]

19

• Patrick Ahern, 92, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1970–1994). [151]
• Kym Bonython, 90, Australian art, jazz and speedway entrepreneur. [152]
• Guillermo Ford, 74, Panamanian politician, Vice President of Panama (1989–1994). [153]
• Lanny Friedlander, 63, American publisher, founder of Reason magazine. [154]
• Viktor Ilyukhin, 62, Russian politician, member of the State Duma (since 1993). [155]
• Åke Johansson, 74, Swedish jazz pianist. [156] (Swedish)
• Knut, 4, German-born polar bear. [157]
• Argentino Luna, 69, Argentine singer and composer, kidney and stomach failure. [158]
• Tom McAvoy, 74, American baseball player (Washington Senators). [159]
• Mohammed Nabbous, 28, Libyan journalist, founder of Alhurra TV, shot. [160]
• Navin Nischol, 65, Indian actor, heart attack. [161]
• Don Rhodes, 73, American Presidential adviser (George H.W. Bush), cancer. [162]
• Jim Roslof, 64, American artist (Dungeons & Dragons), cancer. [163]
• Robert Ross, 92, American physician and medical school founder (Ross University), cancer. [164]
• Bob Rush, 85, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Braves, Chicago White Sox). [165]
• Leonard Webb, 89, British politician, Mayor of Thame (1975–1979). [166]

18

• Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, 90, Monegasque princess. [167]
• Ze'ev Boim, 67, Israeli Knesset member, cancer. [168]
• Enzo Cannavale, 82, Italian actor (Cinema Paradiso). [169] (Italian)
• Warren Christopher, 85, American diplomat, Secretary of State (1993–1997), complications from kidney and bladder cancer. [170]
• Jet Harris, 71, British musician (The Shadows), throat cancer. [171]
• Drew Hill, 54, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Houston Oilers), stroke. [172]
• Charlie Metro, 91, American baseball player and manager (Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics), mesothelioma. [173]
• David Nevin, 83, American historical novelist, Parkinson's disease. [174]
• Kirk Wipper, 87, Canadian founder of the Canadian Canoe Museum. [175]

17

• Banny deBrum, 54, Marshallese diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1996–2008, 2009–2011) and Canada (1999–2011). [176]
• Fabián el Gitano, 39, Mexican professional wrestler, blunt trauma. [177]
• Michael Gough, 94, British actor (Sleepy Hollow, Batman), after short illness. [178]
• Ferlin Husky, 85, American country music singer, heart failure. [179]
• Don Kennard, 81, American politician, Texas State Senator (1963–1973). [180]
• Marina Malafeeva, 32, Russian record producer, car crash. [181] (Russian)
• Murdoch Mitchison, 88, British zoologist. [182]
• J.B. Steane, 83, British music critic. [183]
• Christos Tsagas, 72, Greek actor, heart failure. [184] (Greek)

16

• Josefina Aldecoa, 85, Spanish writer. [185] (Spanish)
• Sándor Arnóth, 51, Hungarian politician, car accident. [186] (Hungarian)
• Carel Boshoff, 83, South African religious and cultural activist, cancer. [187]
• Betty Lowman Carey, 96, American rower. [188]
• Tom Dunbar, 51, American baseball player (Texas Rangers). [189]
• Armen Halburian, 77, American drummer and percussionist, cancer. [190]
• Ivan Hel, 73, Ukrainian politician and dissident, member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. [191]
• Khandaker Delwar Hossain, 78, Bangladeshi politician. [192]
• Sion Milosky, 35, American surfer, drowned. [193]
• Thomas Nkuissi, 82, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nkongsamba (1978–1992). [194]
• Lloyd Oliver, 88, American veteran, World War II code talker. [195]
• Giorgos Perros, 67, Greek painter, heart failure. [196] (Greek)
• James Pritchett, 88, American actor (The Doctors). [197]
• James C. Tyree, 53, American businessman, chairman and CEO of the Chicago Sun-Times, cancer. [198]
• Murray Warmath, 98, American college football coach (Minnesota Golden Gophers), natural causes. [199]
• Richard Wirthlin, 80, American political strategist and religious leader, renal failure. [200]

15

• Leonid Agranovich, 95, Russian film director and screenwriter. [201] (Russian)
• Vittorio Ghidella, 80, Italian automobile designer and businessman, CEO of Fiat. [202] (Italian)
• Frank Howard, 85, Canadian politician, member of the BC Legislative Assembly for Skeena (1953–1956; 1979–1986), MP for Skeena (1957–1974). [203]
• Musa Juma, 42, Kenyan musician, pneumonia. [204]
• Yakov Kreizberg, 51, Russian-born Austrian-American conductor. [205]
• Jean Liedloff, 84, American writer. [206]
• Peter Loader, 81, British cricketer. [207]
• Marty Marion, 94, American baseball player and manager, National League MVP (1944). [208]
• Nate Dogg, 41, American musician, heart failure. [209]
• Fred Sanford, 91, American baseball player. [210]
• Smiley Culture, 48, British reggae singer and DJ, apparent suicide by stabbing. [211]
• William J. Stuntz, 52, American legal scholar. [212]

14

• Gerald Barry, 63, Irish journalist and broadcaster, illness. [213]
• Todd Cerney, 57, American country musician and producer, cancer. [214]
• Leslie Collier, 90, British virologist. [215]
• José Pinto Correia, 80, Portuguese politician, Governor of Macau (1986–1987). [216]
• Bob Greaves, 76, British journalist and broadcaster, cancer. [217]
• Jülide Gülizar, 82, Turkish anchorwoman, one of the nation's first television presenters. [218]
• Eduard Gushchin, 70, Russian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) athlete. [219]
• Ronnie Hammond, 60, American singer (Atlanta Rhythm Section), heart attack. [220]
• Big Jack Johnson, 70, American guitarist and blues singer. [221]
• Giora Leshem, 71, Israeli poet and publisher. [222] (Hebrew)
• G. Alan Marlatt, 69, American professor, kidney failure. [223]
• Larry Zolf, 76, Canadian journalist and humorist. [224]

13

• Roy Flatt, 63, Scottish Anglican priest. [225]
• Sir Michael Gray, 78, British army general. [226]
• Virginia Klinekole, 86, American politician, first female President of the Mescalero Apache. [227]
• Brian Lanker, 63, American photojournalist, pancreatic cancer. [228]
• Rick Martin, 59, Canadian ice hockey player (Buffalo Sabres, Los Angeles Kings), heart attack. [229]
• Panayiotis Minettas, 78, Greek businessman. [230] (Greek)
• Ritchie Pickett, 56, New Zealand country singer. [231]
• David Rumelhart, 68, American psychologist, created computer simulations of neural processing, Pick's disease. [232]
• Nicholas Smisko, 75, American clergyman, Head of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese (since 1984), cancer. [233]
• Jean Smith, 82, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League). [234]
• Melvin Sparks, 64, American jazz and soul guitarist, heart attack. [235]
• Owsley Stanley, 76, American-born Australian underground LSD chemist and sound engineer (Grateful Dead), traffic accident. [236]
• Leo Steinberg, 90, American art historian and critic. [237]
• Vitaly Vulf, 80, Russian theater critic and television host. [238]

12

• Ali Hassan al-Jaber, 56, Qatari photojournalist (Al Jazeera), shot. [239]
• Günter Amendt, 71, German sociologist, sexual liberation activist and author, traffic accident. [240] (German)
• Donald Brenner, 64, Canadian judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia (2000–2009). [241]
• Derry Brownfield, 79, American broadcaster, heart attack. [242] (body found on this date)
• Olive Dickason, 91, Canadian historian and author. [243]
• Margaret Fish, 112, British supercentenarian, oldest person in the United Kingdom. [244]
• Juan García-Santacruz Ortiz, 77, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guadix (1992–2009). [245]
• Jan Hugens, 71, Dutch Olympic cyclist. [246] (Dutch)
• Shifra Lerer, 95, Argentinian-born American Yiddish theatre actress, stroke. [247]
• Joe Morello, 82, American drummer (The Dave Brubeck Quartet). [248]
• Dietmar Mues, 65, German actor and author, traffic accident. [249] (German)
• John Nettleship, 71, British teacher, inspiration for character of Severus Snape, cancer. [250]
• Mitchell Page, 59, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics), and coach (St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Nationals). [251]
• Nilla Pizzi, 91, Italian singer. [252] (Italian)
• Italo Pizzolante, 82, Venezuelan musician and composer. [253] (Spanish)
• Kumar Indrajitsinhji, 73, Indian cricketer, cancer. [254]
• Tawfik Toubi, 88, Israeli Arab politician, last surviving member of the first Knesset. [255]

11

• Jorge Cherques, 83, Brazilian actor, natural causes. [256] (Portuguese)
• Alfred Genovese, 79, American oboist, complications from cardiac arrest. [257]
• Rita Guerrero, 47, Mexican actress and singer (Santa Sabina), breast cancer. [258]
• Jack Hardy, 63, American singer/songwriter. [259]
• Hiroshi Kakoi, 56, Japanese anime producer and animator (Super Dimensional Fortress Macross), 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. [260]
• Nancy Kominsky, 95, American art teacher and broadcaster. [261]
• Hugh Martin, 96, American songwriter ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") and film composer (Meet Me in St. Louis, High Spirits), natural causes. [262]
• Frank Neuhauser, 97, American patent attorney and spelling bee champion, winner of the 1925 Scripps National Spelling Bee. [263]
• Valter Nyström, 95, Swedish Olympic track and field athlete. [264] (Swedish)
• Danny Stiles, 87, American radio host. [265]
• Gary Wichard, 60, American sports agent, pancreatic cancer. [266]
• Donny George Youkhanna, 60, Iraqi archaeologist, anthropologist and author, heart attack. [267]

10

• Johnnie Baston, 37, American murderer, first inmate in U.S. executed by single drug (pentobarbital). [268]
• Armand Bigot, 76, French Olympic equestrian. [269] (French)
• Mario Clavell, 88, Argentine singer, actor and composer, after long illness. [270] (Spanish)
• Günter Gollasch, 88, German clarinetist and bandleader. [271] (German)
• Nick Harbaruk, 67, Polish-born Canadian ice hockey player, bone cancer. [272]
• Baliram Kashyap, 74, Indian politician, MP for Bastar (since 1998), after long illness. [273]
• Gabriel Laderman, 81, American painter, cancer, [274]
• Nancy Merse, 79, American politician, Mayor of Edgewater, New Jersey (since 2002), cancer. [275]
• Danny Paton, 75, Scottish footballer. [276]
• Emmett J. Rice, 91, American economist and banking official, heart failure. [277]
• Jiro Sakagami, 76, Japanese comedian, cerebrovascular disease. [278] (Japanese)
• Eddie Snyder, 92, American composer ("Strangers in the Night", "Spanish Eyes"). [279]
• David Viñas, 83, Argentine dramatist, critic, and novelist. [280] (Spanish)

9

• Jacques Brichant, 80, Belgian tennis player. [281] (French)
• David S. Broder, 81, American journalist (The Washington Post), complications from diabetes. [282]
• Edward A. Burdick, 89, American civil servant. [283]
• Seán Cronin, 91, Irish journalist and republican, Irish Republican Army chief of staff (1957–1958, 1959–1960), after long illness. [284]
• Armando Goyena, 88, Filipino actor. [285]
• Andrew Hao Jinli, 95, Chinese Roman Catholic underground Bishop of Xiwanzi (since 1984). [286]
• Bob Marcucci, 81, American talent agent, respiratory complications. [287]
• Bob McNamara, 94, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). [288]
• Des Meagher, 67, Australian footballer (Hawthorn). [289]
• Lindy Pearson, 82, American football player (Detroit Lions). [290]
• Inge Sørensen, 86, Danish swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist (1936). [291] (Danish)
• Toshiko Takaezu, 88, American ceramic artist. [292]

8

• Iraj Afshar, 85, Iranian bibliographer and historian. [293]
• Victor Manuel Blanco, 92, American astronomer, director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. [294]
• Richard Campbell, 55, British player of cello and viola da gamba. [295]
• Herb Kawainui Kane, 82, American artist. [296]
• Moses Katjiuongua, 68, Namibian politician. [297]
• Jim Keane, 87, American football player (Chicago Bears). [298]
• Steven Kroll, 69, American children's book author, surgical complications. [299]
• St. Clair Lee, 66, American musician (Hues Corporation). [300]
• Bronko Nagurski Jr., 73, American player of Canadian football (Hamilton Tiger-Cats). [301]
• John Olmsted, 73, American naturalist and conservationist, liver cancer. [302]
• Mike Starr, 44, American bassist (Alice in Chains, Sun Red Sun). [303] (body found on this date)

7

• Frank Dezelan, 80, American baseball umpire (1958–1970). [304]
• Adrián Escudero, 83, Spanish footballer. [305] (Spanish)
• Samuel Hazard Gillespie, Jr., 100, American lawyer and politician, pancreatic cancer. [306]
• Rudy Salud, 72, Filipino sports executive, PBA Commissioner (1988–1992), complications from surgery. [307]

6

• Jean Bartel, 87, American actress, Miss America 1943. [308]
• Marie Andrée Bertrand, 85, Canadian criminologist, feminist and anti-prohibitionist. [309]
• Patricia Brennan, 66, Australian feminist and clinician, advocate of women priests, cancer. [310]
• Rostislav Čtvrtlík, 47, Czech stage, television and voice actor, brain tumor. [311] (Czech)
• Mike DeStefano, 44, American comedian (Last Comic Standing), heart attack. [312]
• Oddmund Jensen, 82, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier. [313] (Norwegian)
• Ján Popluhár, 75, Slovak footballer (1962 FIFA World Cup). [314]
• Louie Ramsay, 81, British actress (The Ruth Rendell Mysteries). [315]
• Edward Ullendorff, 91, British historian. [316]
• Frank Ziegler, 87, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles). [317]

5

• Alberto Granado, 88, Argentine-born Cuban biochemist and writer, travel companion of Che Guevara (The Motorcycle Diaries). [318]
• Oswald Georg Hirmer, 81, German-born South African Roman Catholic missionary, Bishop of Umtata (1997–2008). [319]
• Manolis Rasoulis, 65, Greek singer-songwriter, author and journalist. [320]

4

• Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 86, Nepali Prime Minister (1990–1991, 1999–2000), multiple organ failure. [321]
• Frank Chirkinian, 84, American producer (CBS Sports), lung cancer. [322]
• Annie Fargue, 76, American actress and manager, cancer. [323] (French)
• Vivienne Harris, 89, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher, co-founder of the Jewish Telegraph. [324]
• Charles Jarrott, 83, British film and television director (Anne of the Thousand Days), prostate cancer. [325]
• Chester Kahapea, 65, American soil scientist, known as the "face of Hawaiian statehood", complications of Lou Gehrig's disease. [326]
• Ed Manning, 68, American basketball player (Baltimore Bullets) and coach (San Antonio Spurs), heart condition. [327]
• Johnny Preston, 71, American pop singer ("Running Bear"), heart failure. [328]
• Mikhail Simonov, 81, Russian aircraft designer, chief designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau (1983–2011), after long illness. [329]
• Arjun Singh, 80, Indian politician, Minister of Human Resource Development (2004–2009), heart attack. [330]
• Alenush Terian, 90, Iranian astronomer and physicist. [331]
• Simon van der Meer, 85, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. [332]

3

• Aldo Clementi, 85, Italian composer. [333]
• May Cutler, 87, Canadian author and publisher, founder of Tundra Books, first female Mayor of Westmount, Quebec (1987–1991). [334]
• Paquito Diaz, 73, Filipino actor, complications from a stroke. [335]
• James L. Elliot, 67, American astronomer, discovered rings of Uranus. [336]
• Lasse Eriksson, 61, Swedish comedian. [337] (Swedish)
• Goga Kapoor, 70, Indian actor. [338]
• Irena Kwiatkowska, 98, Polish actress. [339]
• Al Morgan, 91, American novelist and television producer (The Today Show), after long illness. [340]
• Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, 81, Indian astrophysicist, cardiac complications. [341]
• Theron Strinden, 91, American politician. [342]
• James Travers, 62, Canadian journalist, political correspondent (Toronto Star), editor in chief (Ottawa Citizen, 1991–1996), post-surgery complications. [343]

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• Shahbaz Bhatti, 42, Pakistani politician, Minister for Minorities (since 2008), shot. [344]
• Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke, 98, British heir to the Sarawakan throne. [345]
• Bernard Cywinski, 70, American architect (Apple Store), partner and founder of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, cancer. [346]
• John Haines, 86, American poet. [347]
• Erling Kroner, 67, Danish trombonist and bandleader, cancer. [348] (Danish)
• Allan Louisy, 94, Saint Lucian politician and judge, Prime Minister (1979–1981). [349]
• Ruby Muhammad, 103, American spiritual figure, lung cancer. [350]
• Art Statuto, 85, American football player (Los Angeles Rams). [351]
• Thor Vilhjálmsson, 85, Icelandic author, natural causes. [352] (Icelandic)

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• Barklie Lakin, 96, British industrialist (Chairman of Vickers Armstrong) and naval officer, natural causes [353]
• Leonard Lomell, 91, American World War II veteran, recipient of the Silver Star and Purple Heart, natural causes. [354]
• John M. Lounge, 64, American NASA astronaut (1981–1991), complications from liver cancer. [355]
• Ion Monea, 70, Romanian Olympic silver (1968) and bronze (1960) medal-winning boxer. [356] (Romanian)
• Fateh Singh Rathore, 72, Indian wildlife conservationist. [357]
• Hazel Rowley, 59, British-born Australian writer (Tête-à-tête), cerebral haemorrhage. [358]