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]
Peter J. Peters, 64, American pastor, LaPorte Church of Christ.
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]
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)