Deaths in July 2011

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

July 2011

31

• Eliseo Alberto, 59, Cuban-born Mexican writer, complications from a kidney transplant. [1]
• Dorothy Brunson, 72, American businesswoman, first black woman to own a radio station, ovarian cancer. [2]
• Willie Corbett, 88, Scottish footballer (Celtic). [3]
• Clyde Holding, 80, Australian politician, federal minister (1984–1990). [4]
• John Hoyland, 76, English abstract painter, complications following heart surgery. [5]
• Louis, 59, Serbian singer, car accident. [6]
• Andrea Pazzagli, 51, Italian footballer (A.C. Milan), stroke. [7]
• Joseph Albert Rosario, 96, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Amravati (1955–1995). [8]
• Binka Zhelyazkova, 88, Bulgarian director. [9]

30

• Hikmat Abu Zayd, 96, Egyptian politician, first female cabinet minister. [10]
• R.E.G. Davies, 90, British aviation historian. [11]
• Pêr Denez, 90, French Breton linguist and writer. [12]
• Mario Echandi Jiménez, 96, Costa Rican politician, President (1958–1962), pneumonia. [13]
• Vincent Kympat, 64, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, first Bishop of Jowai (since 2006). [14]
• Daniel D. McCracken, 81, American computer scientist, cancer. [15]
• Sam Norkin, 94, American caricaturist and illustrator. [16]
• Bob Peterson, 79, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Baltimore Bullets, Milwaukee Hawks), cancer. [17]

29

• Elazar Abuhatzeira, 70, Moroccan-born Israeli rabbi, stabbed. [18]
• John Edward Anderson, 93, American businessman and philanthropist, pneumonia. [19]
• Arild Braastad, 64, Norwegian diplomat. [20] (Norwegian)
• Joseph V. Brady, 89, American behavioral neuroscientist. [21]
• Claude Laydu, 84, Belgian actor, heart condition. [22]
• Richard Marsh, Baron Marsh, 83, British politician and businessman, MP for Greenwich (1959–1971), Chairman of British Rail (1971–1976). [23]
• Nella Martinetti, 65, Swiss singer-songwriter. [24]
• Gene McDaniels, 76, American singer-songwriter. [25]
• Ivan Milas, 72, Croatian politician. [26] (Croatian)
• Takeshi Miyaji, 45, Japanese video game designer and business executive (GunGriffon, Grandia). [27]
• Matthew J. Perry, 89, American federal judge. [28]
• Agnes Varis, 81, American philanthropist, cancer. [29]

28

• Frank Bender, 70, American forensic artist, pleural mesothelioma. [30]
• James E. Dyer, 64, American politician, Mayor of Danbury, Connecticut (1979–1987). [31]
• Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, 25, Afghan journalist (BBC News), explosion. [32]
• Agapito Lozada, 72, Filipino Olympic swimmer. [33]
• John Marburger, 70, American physicist and presidential adviser, non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [34]
• Brian O'Leary, 71, American scientist and NASA astronaut, cancer. [35]
• John Milton Yinger, 95, American sociologist. [36]
• Abdul Fatah Younis, 67, Libyan rebel leader and government official, former Interior Minister, shot. [37]

27

• Wilfred Arsenault, 57, Canadian politician, cancer. [38]
• Rudolf Baláž, 70, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Banská Bystrica (since 1990). [39]
• Richard Chavez, 81, American activist and labor organizer, brother of Cesar Chavez, complications from surgery. [40]
• Hilary Evans, 82, British picture librarian and author. [41]
• Charles Gittens, 82, American Secret Service agent, first black appointed to that position. [42]
• Ghulam Haider Hamidi, 65, Afghan politician, Mayor of Kandahar (since 2007), bombing. [43]
• Rei Harakami, 40, Japanese musician, cerebrovascular disease. [44] (Japanese)
• Hideki Irabu, 42, Japanese baseball player (Chiba Lotte Marines, New York Yankees, Montreal Expos), suicide by hanging. [45] (body discovered on this date)
• Agota Kristof, 75, Hungarian-born French novelist. [46]
• Jerome Liebling, 87, American photographer, filmmaker and academic (Hampshire College). [47]
• Polly Platt, 72, American film producer (Say Anything...), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [48]
• Bejaratana Rajasuda, 85, Thai royal, only daughter of King Vajiravudh of Thailand. [49]
• Sir John Rawlins, 89, British naval officer, pioneer of diving medicine. [50]
• Eduard Rozovsky, 84, Russian cinematographer (Amphibian Man, White Sun of the Desert), car accident. [51]
• Richard Rutt, 85, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Leicester (1979–1991) [52]
• Pietro Sambi, 73, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, titular archbishop and Apostolic Nuncio to the United States (since 2005), respiratory failure. [53]
• Judy Sowinski, 71, American roller derby skater and coach. [54]
• Francis John Spence, 85, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Kingston (1982–2002). [55]
• John Stott, 90, British Anglican priest. [56]

26

• Joe Arroyo, 55, Colombian singer. [57]
• Jacques Fatton, 85, French-born Swiss footballer. [58] (German)
• Frank Foster, 82, American jazz saxophonist and composer, complications from kidney failure. [59]
• Bobby Franklin, 54, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives (since 1997), apparent heart attack. [60]
• Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi, Libyan Army colonel, cousin and son-in-law of Muammar Gaddafi, air strike. [61]
• Richard Harris, 63, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Seattle Seahawks) and coach (Winnipeg Blue Bombers), heart attack. [62]
• Sakyo Komatsu, 80, Japanese science fiction writer, pneumonia. [63]
• Georges Kwaïter, 83, Syrian-born Lebanese Melkite Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Saïdā (1987–2006). [64]
• Elmer Lower, 98, American broadcast executive, president of ABC News (1963–1974). [65]
• Silvio Narizzano, 84, Canadian-born British film and television director. [66]
• Margaret Olley, 88, Australian painter. [67]
• John Read, 88, British documentary producer. [68]
• Josephine C. Reyes, 82, Filipino educator, President of Far Eastern University (1985–1989). [69]
• Denise Scharley, 94, French contralto. [70] (French)
• Howard Stein, 84, American financier, complications of a stroke. [71]
• Luis Ruiz Suarez, 97, Spanish-born Macanese Jesuit priest. [72]

25

• Michael Cacoyannis, 89, Cypriot filmmaker (Zorba the Greek). [73]
• Bakır Çağlar, 69–70, Turkish jurist, lawyer and constitutional law professor, bleeding stomach. [74] (Turkish)
• V. S. Krishna Iyer, 89, Indian activist and politician, after long illness. [75]
• Mahmoud Mabsout, 69, Lebanese actor, heart attack. [76]
• Denis Meaney, 74, Australian rugby league player. [77]
• Arthur W. Murray, 92, American test pilot, Alzheimer's disease. [78]
• Jeret Peterson, 29, American free style skier, 2010 Winter Olympics silver medalist, suicide by gunshot. [79]
• Ravichandran, 71, Malaysian-born Indian actor, lung infection. [80]

24

• Ron Davies, 85, Australian politician, Western Australian Opposition Leader (1978–1981). [81]
• Kaveinga Faʻanunu, 48, Tongan politician, MP for Tongatapu 9 (since 2010), head and neck cancer. [82]
• Tresa Hughes, 81, American actress (Another World, Don Juan DeMarco, Fame). [83]
• Gilbert Luján, 70, American painter, prostate cancer. [84]
• Paul Marchand, 74, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Timmins (since 1999). [85]
• Christopher Mayer, 57, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard, Santa Barbara, Liar Liar). [86]
• Henry Metelmann, 88, German soldier and writer. [87]
• Virgilio Noè, 89, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archpriest of the Basilica of Saint Peter (1991–2002). [88]
• Mike Palm, 86, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox). [89]
• Dan Peek, 60, American singer-songwriter (America). [90]
• David Servan-Schreiber, 50, French physician, neuroscientist and author, cancer. [91]
• G. D. Spradlin, 90, American actor (North Dallas Forty, The Godfather Part II). [92]
• Skip Thomas, 61, American football player (Oakland Raiders), apparent heart attack. [93]
• Jane White, 88, American actress (Beloved, Klute, Once Upon a Mattress). [94]

23

• David Aiken, 93, American operatic baritone and opera director. [95]
• Mathilde Aussant, 113, French supercentenarian, oldest person in France. [96]
• Blair, 43, American poet. [97]
• Terence Boston, Baron Boston of Faversham, 81, British politician, MP for Faversham (1964–1970). [98]
• John Chervokas, 74, American advertising writer. [99]
• Robert Ettinger, 92, American cryonicist, respiratory failure. [100]
• Jack Fitzpatrick, 88, American entrepreneur and politician, co-founder of Country Curtains, Massachusetts State Senator (1973–1980). [101]
• Milton Gwirtzman, 78, American speech writer, advisor to the Kennedy family, metastatic melanoma. [102]
• Fran Landesman, 83, American lyricist and poet. [103]
• Butch Lewis, 65, American boxing promoter, heart attack. [104]
• Conrad Meyer, 89, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Dorchester (1979–1988) [105]
• Bill Morrissey, 59, American singer-songwriter. [106]
• Nguyen Cao Ky, 80, Vietnamese air force chief and political leader, Prime Minister of South Vietnam (1965–1967). [107]
• Richard Pike, 61, British chemist. [108]
• Darioush Rezaeinejad, 35, Iranian nuclear scientist, shot. [109]
• John Shalikashvili, 75, Polish-born American army general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1993–1997), stroke. [110]
• Elmer B. Staats, 97, American public servant, Comptroller General of the United States (1966–1981). [111]
• Amy Winehouse, 27, British singer-songwriter ("Rehab"), accidental alcohol poisoning. [112]

22

• Tom Aldredge, 83, American actor (The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire), lymphoma. [113]
• Linda Christian, 87, Mexican-born American actress, first Bond girl (1954 television adaptation of Casino Royale). [114]
• Tore Eikeland, 21, Norwegian politician, killed in the 2011 Norway attacks. [115] (Norwegian)
• Dmitri Furman, 68, Russian historian and philosopher, after long illness. [116] (Russian)
• Charles Taylor Manatt, 75, American lawyer and banker, Chair of Democratic National Committee (1981–1985), Ambassador to Dominican Republic (1999–2001), stroke. [117]
• Malcolm Muir, 96, American jurist. [118]
• Ifti Nasim, 64, Pakistani-born American poet and radio host, heart attack. [119]
• Tex Nelson, 74, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles). [120]
• Cees de Wolf, 65, Dutch footballer (Ajax Amsterdam). [121] (Dutch)

21

• Franz Alt, 100, Austrian-born American mathematician. [122]
• Clément Cailleau, 88, French-born Senegalese Roman Catholic prelate, Prefect of Tambacounda (1970–1986). [123]
• Ashleigh Connor, 21, Australian soccer player, car accident. [124]
• Andrew Grant DeYoung, 37, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [125]
• Milly Del Rubio, 89, American singer (The Del Rubio Triplets). [126]
• Pedro Claro Meurice Estiu, 79, Cuban Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba (1970–2007). [127]
• Elliot Handler, 95, American businessman, co-founder of Mattel, namer of the Barbie doll, creator of Hot Wheels, heart failure. [128]
• William Hildenbrand, 89, American government officer, Secretary of the United States Senate (1981–1985). [129]
• Slavomir Miklovš, 77, Croatian Greek Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Križevci (1983–2009). [130]
• Bruce Sundlun, 91, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island (1991–1995). [131]
• Kazimierz Świątek, 96, Estonian-born Belarusian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev (1991–2006). [132]
• Jack Thompson, 82, British politician, MP for Wansbeck (1983–1997). [133]
• Amelia Trice, 75, American Kootenai tribal leader and activist, leader of the last Indian war against the United States, cancer. [134]
• Elwy Yost, 86, Canadian television host and writer. [135]

20

• Armando Martín Borque, 90, Spanish entrepreneur. [136] (Spanish)
• Blaize Clement, 78, American mystery writer and psychologist, cancer. [137]
• Lucian Freud, 88, German-born British painter. [138]
• Isaia Italeli, 40s, Tuvaluan Cabinet minister. [139] (body found on this date)
• Myra Kraft, 68, American philanthropist, wife of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, cancer. [140]
• Gloria Sawai, 78, American-born Canadian author. [141]
• Mary Simpson, 85, American minister, first woman to be ordained by the American Episcopal Church. [142]
• Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan, 79, New Zealand politician, longest-serving female member of the House of Representatives (1967–1996). [143]

19

• Sheila Burrell, 89, British actress. [144]
• William Leonard D’Mello, 80, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Karwar (1976–2007). [145]
• Lil Greenwood, 86, American vocalist (Duke Ellington Orchestra). [146]
• Yoshio Harada, 71, Japanese actor, pneumonia. [147] (Japanese)
• Henrique Johannpötter, 78, German-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bacabal (1989–1997). [148]
• Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola, 91, French equestrian, Olympic gold (1952, 1964) and silver (1964, 1968) medalist. [149]
• Jacques Jouanneau, 84, French actor. [150] (French)
• Brendan Kehoe, 40, Irish software developer and author, acute myeloid leukemia. [151]
• Karen Khachaturian, 90, Russian composer. [152] (Russian)
• Roy Meehan, 79, New Zealand Olympic wrestler. [153]
• James T. Molloy, 75, American government officer, last Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives (1974–1993), complications of diabetes. [154]
• Sir Julian Oswald, 77, British admiral. [155]
• Cec Thompson, 85, British rugby league player. [156]

18

• Nat Allbright, 87, American radio broadcaster, pneumonia. [157]
• Salvador Bernárdez, 58, Honduran footballer, heart attack. [158] (Spanish)
• A. Dane Bowen, Jr., 84, American diplomat and educator. [159]
• Albert Driedger, 75, Canadian politician, stroke. [160]
• Sean Hoare, 47, British journalist (News of the World), whistleblower of the 2011 phone hacking scandal. [161] (body found on this date)
• E. A. J. Honigmann, 83, British Shakespearean scholar. [162]
• Magnus Malan, 81, South African politician, Minister of Defence (1980–1991), natural causes. [163]
• Giulio Rinaldi, 76, Italian Olympic boxer. [164]
• Bob Stenehjem, 59, American politician, member of the North Dakota Senate (since 1993), majority leader (since 2001), car accident. [165]
• Edson Stroll, 82, American actor (McHale's Navy), cancer. [166]
• James Wong, 89, Malaysian politician, first Deputy Chief Minister of Sarawak, leader of the national Opposition (1974), heart attack. [167]
• Bagley Wright, 87, American developer and philanthropist. [168]

17

• Juan Arza, 88, Spanish footballer and coach. [169] (Spanish)
• Dionysios Bairaktaris, 84, Greek Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Inousses (since 1979). [170] (Greek)
• Juan María Bordaberry, 83, Uruguayan politician and dictator, President (1972–1976), after a long illness. [171]
• Georges Condominas, 90, French anthropologist. [172]
• Aba Dunner, 73, German-born Jewish religious activist. [173]
• Lo' Lo' Mohd Ghazali, 53, Malaysian politician, cancer. [174]
• Jan Mohammad Khan, Afghan presidential adviser, shot. [175]
• Jim Kincaid, 76, American news correspondent (ABC News), anchorman (WVEC) and essayist, heart attack. [176]
• John Kraaijkamp, Sr., 86, Dutch actor and comedian. [177] (Dutch)
• Takaji Mori, 67, Japanese Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) footballer, renal pelvic cancer. [178]
• Joe Morris, Sr., 85, American Navajo World War II code talker. [179]
• David Ngoombujarra, 44, Australian actor. [180]
• Graciela Rivera, 90, Puerto Rican opera singer. [181]
• Ştefan Sameş, 59, Romanian footballer (Steaua Bucureşti), cancer. [182] (Romanian)
• Alex Steinweiss, 94, American graphic designer, inventor of the album cover. [183]
• Taiji, 45, Japanese musician and singer-songwriter (X Japan), suicide by hanging. [184]
• Joe Lee Wilson, 75, American jazz singer. [185]

16

• Milo Anstadt, 91, Dutch journalist and writer. [186] (Dutch)
• Bertalan Bicskei, 66, Hungarian footballer and coach. [187] (Hungarian)
• Forrest Blue, 65, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Baltimore Colts). [188]
• Geraint Bowen, 95, Welsh poet. [189]
• Rouhollah Dadashi, 30, Iranian powerlifter and bodybuilder, stabbed. [190] (Persian)
• Albin Małysiak, 94, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Krakow (1970–1993). [191] (Polish)
• Dame Katerina Mataira, 79, New Zealand educator and Maori language proponent, co-founder of Kura Kaupapa Māori. [192]
• Cesare Mazzolari, 74, Italian-born South Sudanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rumbek (since 1998). [193]
• Joe McNamee, 84, American basketball player (Rochester Royals, Baltimore Bullets). [194]
• Charlie Woollett, 90, British footballer. [195]

15

• Helen Beverley, 94, American actress (Green Fields), natural causes. [196]
• Manuel Corral, 76, Spanish religious leader, Pope of the Palmarian Catholic Church (since 2005). [197] (Spanish)
• John Crook, 80, British ethologist. [198]
• Cuddly Dudley, 87, British rock and roll singer, natural causes. [199]
• Ed Flesh, 79, American art director, inventor of the Wheel of Fortune wheel, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [200]
• Cornell MacNeil, 88, American operatic baritone. [201]
• John S. Toll, 87, American physicist and educational administrator, heart failure. [202]
• Googie Withers, 94, English actress. [203]

14

• Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, 47, Kenyan peace activist, recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, car accident. [204]
• Sissel Solbjørg Bjugn, 63, Norwegian poet and children's writer. [205] (Norwegian)
• Eric Delaney, 87, British percussionist and band leader. [206]
• William Lockhart Garwood, 79, American jurist (United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit), heart attack. [207]
• Noel Gayler, 96, American Navy admiral. [208]
• Leo Kirch, 84, German media entrepreneur. [209]
• Vladimir Kosinsky, 66, Russian swimmer, 1968 Olympic silver and bronze medalist. [210] (Russian)
• Terrence Lanni, 68, American casino executive, cancer. [211]
• Kennedy Ondiek, 44, Kenyan Olympic athlete. [212]
• Antonio Prieto, 85, Chilean singer and actor, cardiac arrest. [213] (Spanish)

13

• Raymond Beckman, 86, American Olympic soccer player, coronary artery disease. [214]
• Giacomo Benevelli, 96, Italian sculptor. [215] (Italian)
• W. K. Brown, 88, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1960–1972), Alzheimer's disease. [216]
• Per-Erik Burud, 48, Norwegian businessman, boating accident. [217] (Norwegian)
• Al Debbo, 87, South African comedian. [218]
• Allan Jeans, 77, Australian football player and coach, pulmonary fibrosis. [219]
• John Mosca, 86, American restaurateur (Mosca's), prostate cancer. [220]
• Jerry Ragovoy, 80, American songwriter ("Time Is on My Side"), stroke. [221]
• Heinz Reincke, 86, German actor. [222] (German)

12

• Aftab Ahmad Khan, 87, Pakistani military officer, heart attack. [223]
• Premangsu Chatterjee, 83, Indian cricketer. [224]
• Peter Crampton, 79, British politician, member of the European Parliament (1989–1999), suspected brain haemorrhage. [225]
• William Crozier, 81, Irish artist. [226]
• Bob Fraser, 65–66, American actor, producer and writer, melanoma. [227]
• Howard Hilton, 47, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals). [228]
• Ahmed Wali Karzai, 50, Afghan politician, brother of President Hamid Karzai, shot. [229]
• Jokapeci Koroi, 79, Fijian politician, President of Fiji Labour Party (1991–2011). [230]
• Francisco Villagrán Kramer, 84, Guatemalan politician, Vice President (1978–1980). [231]
• Kurt Lundquist, 85, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) athlete. [232] (Swedish)
• Peter Newmark, 95, British educator and scholar. [233]
• Charles Asa Schleck, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, titular archbishop and under-secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (1995–2000). [234]
• Sherwood Schwartz, 94, American television producer, creator of The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island. [235]
• Tony Stevens, 63, American choreographer, dancer and actor, Hodgkin's lymphoma. [236]
• Zdeněk Sýkora, 91, Czech abstract painter. [237]

11

• Henry Carlisle, 84, American translator, novelist and anti-censorship activist. [238]
• Helen Crummy, 91, British social activist. [239]
• Michael Evans, 59, British Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of East Anglia (since 2003), prostate cancer. [240]
• Tom Gehrels, 86, Dutch-born American astronomer. [241]
• Rob Grill, 67, American singer and songwriter (The Grass Roots). [242]
• Alex Hay, 78, British golf journalist. [243]
• Andreas Ioannides, 53, Cypriot navy chief, explosion. [244]
• Jaroslav Jiřík, 71, Czech hockey player (St. Louis Blues), plane crash. [245]
• George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, 88, British aristocrat, magazine editor and arts administrator, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. [246]
• Herbert Matayoshi, 82, American politician, Mayor of Hawaii County (1974–1984). [247]
• Richard F. Pedersen, 86, American diplomat, President of American University of Cairo (1977–1990). [248]
• Sir Filoimea Telito, 66, Tuvaluan President of the Church of Tuvalu, Governor General (2005–2010), heart attack. [249]
• Steve Trimble, 53, American football player (Denver Broncos), heart attack. [250]

10

• Pierrette Alarie, 89, Canadian soprano, wife of tenor Léopold Simoneau. [251]
• Travis Bean, 63, American guitar maker, cancer. [252]
• Ragnar Lundberg, 86, Swedish athlete. [253] (Swedish)
• Frank Mascara, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1995–2003), lung cancer. [254]
• Roland Petit, 87, French ballet dancer and choreographer, leukemia. [255]
• Kelly Thomas, 37, American homeless man, beaten. [256]
• Deacon Turner, 56, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals), shot. [257]
• Malcolm Wild, 79, Australian soccer player. [258]

9

• Don Ackerman, 80, American basketball player (New York Knicks), after short illness. [259]
• Facundo Cabral, 74, Argentine singer and songwriter, shot. [260]
• Ralph Goldston, 82, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Hamilton Tiger-Cats). [261]
• Carl T. Langford, 92, American politician, Mayor of Orlando, Florida (1967–1980). [262]
• Percy Oliver, 92, Australian Olympic swimmer. [263]
• Arvo Salo, 79, Finnish writer and politician, MP (1966–1970, 1979–1983) and Minister of Culture (1982–1983). [264] (Finnish)
• Hideo Tanaka, 78, Japanese director (Sukeban Deka The Movie), stomach cancer. [265] (Japanese)
• Lee Vines, 92, Canadian-born American television announcer (What's My Line?) and actor, complications from a fall and pneumonia. [266]
• Würzel, 61, British guitarist (Motörhead), ventricular fibrillation. [267]

8

• Kenny Baker, 85, American fiddler, complications from a stroke. [268]
• Roberts Blossom, 87, American actor (Doc Hollywood, Escape from Alcatraz, Home Alone). [269]
• William R. Corliss, 84, American physicist and writer. [270]
• Sam Denoff, 83, American Emmy Award-winning television writer (The Dick Van Dyke Show, That Girl), Alzheimer's disease. [271]
• Aleksis Dreimanis, 96, Latvian-born Canadian geologist. [272]
• Pete Duranko, 67, American football player (Denver Broncos), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [273]
• Mary Fenech Adami, 77, Maltese First Lady (2004–2009), wife of Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami, heart attack. [274]
• Betty Ford, 93, American First Lady (1974–1977) and co-founder of Betty Ford Center. [275]
• Norman Hampson, 89, British historian. [276]
• Bidzina Kvernadze, 82, Georgian composer, Parkinson's disease. [277]
• Camille Lembi Zaneli, 61, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Isangi (since 2000), plane crash. [278] (Italian)
• George McAnthony, 45, Italian country singer, heart attack. [279] (German)
• Paul Michael, 84, American actor, heart failure. [280]
• Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, 95, Spanish-born Mexican philosopher, writer and educator. [281]

7

• Ricardo Alegría, 90, Puerto Rican anthropologist, complications of heart disease. [282] (spanish)
• Peter Aucoin, 67, Canadian educator (Dalhousie University). [283]
• Bill Boddy, 98, British motor sport journalist. [284]
• Allan W. Eckert, 80, American historian. [285]
• Manuel Galbán, 80, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club), heart attack. [286]
• Rasika Joshi, 39, Indian actress, leukemia. [287]
• Yuri Kukin, 78, Russian singer-songwriter. [288] (Russian)
• Humberto Leal Garcia, 38, Mexican murderer, lethal injection. [289]
• José Carlos Martínez, 48, Argentine politician, Senator (since 2007), car crash. [290] (Spanish)
• Rizalino Navarro, 72, Filipino business executive, Secretary of Trade and Industry (1992–1996), heart attack. [291]
• Miguel Gatan Purugganan, 79, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ilagan (1974–1999). [292]
• Olav Versto, 60, Norwegian journalist and editor (Verdens Gang), apparent drowning. [293] (Norwegian)
• Dick Williams, 82, American baseball player and manager (Oakland Athletics), Hall of Famer, ruptured aortic aneurysm. [294]

6

• Steve Cardiff, 53, Canadian politician, automobile accident. [295]
• Paul-André Crépeau, 85, Canadian legal academic. [296]
• Daniel Mortimer Friedman, 95, American jurist. [297]
• Mani Kaul, 66, Indian filmmaker, after long illness. [298]
• George Edward Kimball, 67, American boxing columnist (Boston Herald), esophageal cancer. [299]
• Marketa Kimbrell, 82, American actress, Alzheimer's disease. [300]
• Warren Leslie, 84, American author, journalist and buisness executive. [301]
• John Mackey, 69, American Hall of Fame football player (Baltimore Colts, San Diego Chargers). [302]
• Josef Suk, 81, Czech violinist, prostate cancer. [303]
• Andreas Waldherr, 43, Austrian rally driver, workshop accident. [304] (German)
• Mark Whitehead, 50, American Olympic cyclist. [305]
• Keith Wilson, 69, British production designer (Space: 1999). [306]

5

• Jaap Blokker, 69, Dutch businessman, cancer. [307]
• Neil Dougherty, 50, American basketball coach (TCU). [308]
• Malcolm Forsyth, 74, South African-born Canadian trombonist and composer, pancreatic cancer. [309]
• David Getches, 68, American educator and Native American rights lawyer, pancreatic cancer. [310]
• Armen Gilliam, 47, American basketball player (Phoenix Suns, New Jersey Nets, Milwaukee Bucks), heart attack. [311]
• George Lang, 86, Hungarian-born American restaurateur and cookbook author, Alzheimer's disease. [312]
• Fonce Mizell, 68, American jazz and R&B record producer (Mizell Brothers). [313]
• Mika Myllylä, 41, Finnish cross country skier, 1998 Olympic gold medalist. [314] (body found on this date)
• Theodore Roszak, 77, American scholar (The Making of a Counter Culture), cancer. [315]
• Hanna Segal, 92, British psychoanalyst. [316]
• John Sweet, 95, American actor (A Canterbury Tale). [317]
• Gordon Tootoosis, 69, Canadian actor (Pocahontas, Legends of the Fall) and activist, pneumonia. [318]
• Cy Twombly, 83, American painter, cancer. [319]
• Shinji Wada, 61, Japanese manga artist (Sukeban Deka). [320] (death reported on this date)

4

• Şerban Cantacuzino, 70, Romanian actor and nobleman, descendant of Wallachian Prince Şerban Cantacuzino. [321]
• Wes Covington, 79, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, Kansas City Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies), cancer. [322]
• John Davies Evans, 86, British archaeologist. [323]
• Rusty Farley, 57, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives (2011). [324]
• Otto von Habsburg, 98, Austro-Hungarian royal and politician, MEP (1979–1999). [325]
• Billy Hardee, 56, American football player (Denver Broncos, Ottawa Rough Riders), motorcycle accident. [326]
• Zurab Kapianidze, 74, Georgian actor and politician, MP (1999–2003). [327]
• Pablo McNeil, 71, Jamaican Olympic athlete and coach, after long illness. [328]
• Lawrence R. Newman, 86, American advocate for the deaf. [329]
• Jane Scott, 92, American rock music critic. [330]
• William G. Thrash, 94, American Marine Corps lieutenant general. [331]
• Neil Turner, 77, Australian politician, Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (1996–1998); MLA for Warrego (1974–1986) and Nicklin (1990–1998). [332]
• Gerhard Unger, 95, German opera singer. [333]

3

• Iain Blair, 69, British romance novelist, published under the name Emma Blair. [334]
• Francis King, 88, British writer. [335]
• Anna Massey, 73, British actress (Frenzy, Hotel du Lac), cancer. [336]
• Fred Newman, 76, American psychotherapist. [337]
• Sir Roy Redgrave, 85, British Army general. [338]
• Len Sassaman, 31, American cryptographer, suicide. [339]
• John C. Truesdale, 89, American public servant, National Labor Relations Board chairman (1998–2000), cancer. [340]

2

• Itamar Franco, 81, Brazilian politician, President (1992–1995), leukemia. [341]
• Olivera Marković, 86, Serbian actress. [342] (Serbian)
• Ross Martin, 68, Australian Olympic cross-country skier, cycling accident. [343]
• Chaturanan Mishra, 86, Indian politician and trade union leader, after long illness. [344]
• Sir Oliver Napier, 75, Northern Irish politician, leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (1972–1984). [345]
• Robert Sklar, 75, American film historian, cycling accident. [346]
• Juno Stover-Irwin, 82, American diver, Olympic silver (1956) and bronze (1952) medalist. [347]
• Bruno Wu, 39, Chinese businessman, heart attack. [348]

1

• Jane Baker, 88, American community organizer and politician, first female Mayor of San Mateo, California. [349]
• Leslie Brooks, 89, American actress. [350]
• Edmund Snow Carpenter, 88, American anthropologist. [351]
• Charlie Craig, 73, American songwriter ("She's Single Again", "The Generation Gap"), lung cancer. [352]
• Willie Fernie, 82, Scottish footballer, Alzheimer's disease. [353]
• Bud Grant, 79, American television executive, president of CBS (1980–1987). [354]
• Anne LaBastille, 75, American author and ecologist. [355]
• Bébé Manga, 60, Cameroonian singer, cardiac arrest. [356] (French)
• Bob McCann, 47, American basketball player (Minnesota Timberwolves, Washington Bullets), heart failure. [357]
• Harold Nelson, 88, New Zealand Olympic runner. [358]
• Jean-Louis Rosier, 86, French racecar driver. [359] (French)