Deaths in June 2011

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

June 2011

30

• David G. Boschert, 63, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1999–2007), cancer. [1]
• Barry Bremen, 64, American marketing executive and sports imposter, cancer. [2]
• Karl Brommann, 90, German Waffen-SS officer. [3] (Portuguese)
• Don Buddin, 77, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Houston Colt .45s, Detroit Tigers). [4]
• Preston Carpenter, 77, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington Redskins). [5]
• Christy Essien-Igbokwe, 50, Nigerian musician. [6]
• Tom Kruse, 96, Australian outback mailman and documentary subject (The Back of Beyond). [7]
• Sir David Loram, 86, British admiral. [8]
• Ruth Roberts, 84, American songwriter ("Meet the Mets"), lung cancer. [9]
• Jimmy Roselli, 85, American singer, heart complications. [10]
• Jay Dee Springbett, 36, British-born Australian record industry executive and Australian Idol judge. [11]
• Georg Sterzinsky, 75, German Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Berlin (1989–2011), after long illness. [12]
• Sean Wight, 47, Scottish-born Australian football player, lung cancer. [13]

29

• Billy Beck, 86, American actor and clown. [14]
• Larry Bogdanow, 64, American architect, brain tumor. [15]
• Billy Costello, 55, American boxer, lung cancer. [16]
• David Dunseith, 76, British broadcaster (BBC Radio Ulster). [17]
• Stefano Gobbi, 81, Italian Roman Catholic priest, founder of the Marian Movement of Priests. [18] (German)
• Kaya Köstepen, 76, Turkish footballer. [19] (Turkish)
• Domenico Pecile, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Latina-Terracina-Sezze-Priverno (1983–1998). [20]
• K. D. Sethna, 106, Indian scholar and writer. [21]

28

• Billy Baldwin, 62, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, New York Mets). [22]
• Giorgio Bernardin, 83, Italian footballer. [23] (Italian)
• Carlos Diarte, 57, Paraguayan footballer, cancer. [24] (Spanish)
• Benton Flippen, 90, American fiddler, heart attack. [25]
• Richard Fox, 57, Irish-born British jockey and actor. [26]
• Osamu Kobayashi, 76, Japanese voice actor and executive director, pancreatic cancer. [27] (Japanese)
• Newt Loken, 92, American gymnastics coach (University of Michigan). [28]
• Angélico Vieira, 28, Portuguese actor (Morangos com Açúcar) and singer (D'ZRT), car accident. [29]
• Michael Wenning, 75, South African-born American minister, leukemia and kidney failure. [30]

27

• Stuart Appelle, 65, American professor and writer. [31]
• Ken Bainbridge, 90, British footballer. [32] (death reported on this date)
• Betty Callaway, 83, British ice skating trainer (Torvill and Dean). [33]
• Lorenzo Charles, 47, American basketball player (NC State, Atlanta Hawks), bus accident. [34]
• Mike Doyle, 64, English footballer (Manchester City), liver failure. [35]
• Orvin B. Fjare, 93, American politician, U.S. Representative from Montana (1955–1957). [36]
• Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz, 97, Israeli rabbi. [37]
• Thierry Martens, 69, Belgian science fiction, detective novels, and comics author. [38] (French)
• Erling Olsen, 84, Danish politician, natural causes. [39] (Danish)
• Richard Harding Poff, 87, American jurist and politician, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1953–1972). [40]
• Lura Lynn Ryan, 76, American First Lady of Illinois (1999-2003), cancer. [41]
• Elmer Sexauer, 85, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers), cardiac arrest. [42]
• Elaine Stewart, 81, American actress and model, after long illness. [43]
• Charles W. Whalen, Jr., 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio (1967–1979). [44]
• Maciej Zembaty, 67, Polish writer and singer. [45] (Polish)

26

• Edith Fellows, 88, American actress, natural causes. [46]
• Simon Heere Heeresma, 79, Dutch writer. [47] (Dutch)
• Norma Lyon, 81, American farmer and butter sculpture artist. [48]
• Robert Morris, 78, American cryptographer, complications of dementia. [49]
• Sidney Hollis Radner, 91, American collector of Harry Houdini memorabilia. [50]
• Alan Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry, 66, British jurist, Supreme Court judge. [51]
• Christopher Shale, 56, British political aide. [52]
• Jan van Beveren, 63, Dutch footballer and coach. [53] (Dutch)
• Barry Wilkins, 64, Canadian hockey player (Vancouver Canucks, Boston Bruins), lung cancer. [54]

25

• George Ballas, 85, American entrepreneur, inventor of the Weed Eater. [55]
• Nick Charles, 64, American sportscaster (CNN Sports Tonight), bladder cancer. [56]
• Shelby Grant, 74, American actress (Our Man Flint, Fantastic Voyage, Medical Center), brain aneurysm. [57]
• Martin H. Greenberg, 70, American anthologist, cancer. [58]
• Jean Harris, 66, American politician and LGBT activist. [59]
• Jan Kułakowski, 80, Polish politician, Member of the European Parliament (2004–2009). [60]
• J.O. Patterson, Jr., 76, American politician and religious leader, first black mayor of Memphis (1982). [61]
• Alice Playten, 63, American actress (Henry, Sweet Henry), heart failure. [62]
• Goff Richards, 66, English brass band arranger and composer, illness. [63]
• Betty Roberts, 88, American politician and jurist, Oregon Supreme Court (1982–1986), pulmonary fibrosis. [64]
• Paulo Renato Souza, 65, Brazilian politician, Minister of Education (1995–2002), heart attack. [65] (Portuguese)
• Margaret Tyzack, 79, British actress (2001: A Space Odyssey, Match Point), short illness. [66]

24

• Michelle Brunner, 57, British bridge player, writer and teacher, breast cancer. [67]
• Tomislav Ivić, 77, Croatian football coach (Ajax, Anderlecht). [68] (Dutch)
• Richie Myers, 81, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), complications from a fall. [69]
• F. Gilman Spencer, 85, American Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper editor. [70]
• Richard Webster, 60, British historian and writer, heart failure. [71]
• A. H. Woodfull, 98, British product designer. [72]

23

• Vladislav Achalov, 65, Russian general and activist. [73]
• J. Warren Bettis, 86, American jurist. [74]
• Gene Colan, 84, American comic book artist (Daredevil, Howard the Duck), complications from liver disease and a broken hip. [75]
• Gaye Delorme, 64, Canadian musician, heart attack. [76]
• Peter Falk, 83, American actor (Columbo, Murder, Inc., Pocketful of Miracles, The Princess Bride). [77]
• Stéphane Franke, 47, German athlete. [78] (German)
• Len King, 86, Australian politician and jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia (1978–1995). [79]
• Dennis Marshall, 25, Costa Rican footballer, car crash. [80]
• Patricia Merbreier, 86, American actress and television personality (Captain Noah and His Magical Ark). [81]
• Basil Mitchell, 94, British philosopher. [82]
• Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, 97, French Egyptologist. [83]
• Attilio Ruffini, 85, Italian politician, Minister of Defence (1977–1980) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1980). [84] (Italian)
• Fred Steiner, 88, American television composer (Perry Mason, Star Trek, The Twilight Zone). [85]

22

• Sir John Agnew, 6th Baronet, 60, British landowner, prostate cancer. [86]
• Kader Asmal, 76, South African politician, heart attack. [87]
• Guy Coulombe, 75, Canadian civil servant, lung cancer. [88]
• Fanny de Sivers, 90, Estonian linguist and translator. [89] (Estonian)
• Carmelo Juan Giaquinta, 81, Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Resistencia (1993–2005). [90]
• Harley Hotchkiss, 83, Canadian businessman, member of Hockey Hall of Fame, prostate cancer. [91]
• Albert Johnson, 90, British footballer, Alzheimer's disease. [92] (death announced on this date)
• Robert Miller, 72, American art dealer, infection. [93]
• Cyril Ornadel, 87, British conductor and composer. [94]
• Coşkun Özarı, 80, Turkish footballer and coach. [95]
• David Rayfiel, 87, American screenwriter (Out of Africa, Three Days of the Condor), heart failure. [96]
• Nataša Urbančič, 65, Slovene athlete. [97] (Slovenian)
• Ken Vaughan, 76, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (1979–1995). [98]
• Mike Waterson, 70, British folk singer, cancer. [99]
• John Waite, 81, South African cricketer. [100]
• Zbyněk Zeman, 82, Czech historian. [101]

21

• E. M. Broner, 83, American author, multiple organ failure. [102]
• Arthur Budgett, 95, British racehorse trainer. [103]
• Mark Gerard, 76, American racehorse trainer. [104]
• Anthony Herrera, 57, American actor (As the World Turns), cancer. [105]
• Kothapalli Jayashankar, 76, Indian educator and politician, after long illness. [106]
• Bruce Kinloch, 91, British soldier and game warden. [107]
• Robert Kroetsch, 83, Canadian novelist and poet, car crash. [108]
• Suresh Tendulkar, 72, Indian economist, cardiac arrest. [109]
• Maria Gomes Valentim, 114, Brazilian supercentenarian, world's oldest person. [110]

20

• Thomas N. Armstrong III, 78, American museum curator. [111]
• Ryan Dunn, 34, American reality television star (Jackass, Viva La Bam), car accident. [112]
• Magomet Isayev, 83, Russian Esperantist, translator and linguist. [113] (Russian)
• Ottilie Patterson, 79, Northern Irish singer. [114]
• Vladimir Pettay, 38, Russian football referee, plane crash. [115]
• Eric Swenson, 64, American businessman, co-founder of Thrasher, suicide by gunshot. [116]
• Robert H. Widmer, 95, American aeronautical engineer. [117]

19

• Don Diamond, 90, American actor (F Troop, The Adventures of Kit Carson, Zorro). [118]
• Tom Hungerford, 96, Australian author. [119]
• Rezső Kende, 102, Hungarian Olympic gymnast. [120]
• John Kerr, Sr., 67, Scottish-born Canadian soccer player. [121]

18

• Echendu Adiele, 32, Nigerian footballer. [122]
• Ulrich Biesinger, 77, German football player. [123] (German)
• Yelena Bonner, 88, Russian human rights activist, after long illness. [124]
• Frederick Chiluba, 68, Zambian politician, President (1991–2002), heart attack. [125]
• Clarence Clemons, 69, American saxophonist (E Street Band) and singer ("You're a Friend Of Mine"), complications following a stroke. [126]
• A. Whitney Ellsworth, 75, American editor and publisher (The New York Review of Books), pancreatic cancer. [127]
• Karl Frei, 94, Swiss gymnast, 1948 Olympic gold medalist . [128] (German)
• Brian Haw, 62, British peace activist, lung cancer. [129]
• Gustaf Kjellvander, 31, Swedish singer-songwriter. [130] (Swedish)
• Robin Nash, 84, British television producer. [131]
• Bob Pease, 70, American integrated circuit engineer. [132]
• John Perumattam, 89, Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Ujjain (1968–1998). [133]
• Shlomo Pinto, 57, Israeli paralympic athlete. [134] (Hebrew)

17

• Kjell Bohlin, 82, Norwegian politician. [135] (Norwegian)
• David Brockhoff, 83, Australian rugby union player and coach. [136]
• Jacquie de Creed, 54, British stuntwoman, air crash. [137]
• Betty Fox, 73, Canadian cancer research activist, founder of the Terry Fox Foundation. [138]
• Ben Grussendorf, 69, American politician, Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives (1985–1989; 1991–1993). [139]
• Ruth M. Kirk, 81, American politician, Maryland House of Delegates (1983–2011). [140]
• Rex Mossop, 83, Australian rugby player and television commentator. [141]
• Nathan Sharon, 86, Israeli biochemist. [142] (Hebrew)
• George M. White, 90, American architect, Architect of the Capitol (1971–1995), complications of Parkinson’s disease. [143]

16

• Gerald Abramovitz, 82, South African architect and designer, assault-related injuries. [144]
• James Allason, 98, British politician and soldier, MP for Hemel Hempstead (1959–1974). [145]
• Claudia Bryar, 93, American actress (Psycho II). [146]
• Wild Man Fischer, 66, American street musician, heart failure. [147]
• Abrar Hussain, 46, Pakistani Olympic boxer, shot. [148]
• Yehuda Kiel, 94, Israeli educator and biblical scholar. [149]
• Östen Mäkitalo, 72, Swedish electrical engineer. [150]
• Dorice Reid, 67, Cook Islander tourism official and businesswoman, High Commissioner designate to New Zealand. [151]
• Twins Seven Seven, 67, Nigerian artist, complications of a stroke. [152]

15

• Bob Banner, 89, American television producer and director (The Carol Burnett Show), Parkinson's disease. [153]
• Joko Beck, 94, American Zen Buddhist teacher, founder of the Ordinary Mind School, after long illness. [154]
• John Ehrman, 91, British historian. [155]
• Ted Gray, 86, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). [156]
• Bill Haast, 100, American snake expert, director of the Miami Serpentarium. [157]
• Zack du Plessis, 61, South African actor (Orkney Snork Nie). [158]
• Linda Scheid, 68, American politician, Minnesota state senator (since 1997), ovarian cancer. [159]
• Sir Apenera Short, 95, Cook Islands politician, Queen's Representative (1990–2000). [160]
• Pavel Stolbov, 81, Russian gymnast, 1956 Olympic gold medalist. [161] (Russian)

14

• Tom Addison, 75, American football player (New England Patriots). [162]
• Milivoj Ašner, 98, Croatian-born Austrian Nazi war criminal. [163]
• Helen Clifton, 63, British Salvation Army commissioner. [164]
• Ambrose Griffiths, 82, British Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle (1992–2004). [165]
• Asad Ali Khan, 74, Indian musician, recipient of the Padma Bhushan. [166]
• Augusto Ramírez Ocampo, 77, Colombian politician, Mayor of Bogotá (1982–1984), Foreign Minister (1984–1986), heart ailment. [167]
• Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, 82, Venezuelan writer. [168] (Spanish)
• Peter Schamoni, 77, German film director. [169]
• Mack Self, 81, American rockabilly musician and songwriter. [170]
• Badi Uzzaman, 72, Indian-British actor, chest infection. [171]

13

• David C. Baldus, 75, American educator and anti-death penalty activist, cancer. [172]
• Hugh John Beazley, 94, British Royal Air Force airman. [173]
• Germano Meneghel, 49, Brazilian vocalist (Olodum). [174] (Spanish)
• Jérôme Nday Kanyangu Lukundwe, 82, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kongolo (1971–2007). [175]
• Betty Neumar, 79, American murder suspect. [176]
• William J. Spahr, 89, American intelligence analyst (CIA) and author, pneumonia. [177]
• Burt Styler, 86, American screenwriter, heart failure. [178]

12

• René Audet, 91, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Joliette (1968–1990). [179]
• Geoffrey Fisken, 95, New Zealand World War II flying ace. [180]
• Carl Gardner, 83, American singer (The Coasters). [181]
• Alan Haberman, 81, American grocer, first to use the barcode system, heart and lung disease. [182]
• John Hospers, 93, American philosopher, first Libertarian Party presidential candidate (1972). [183]
• Christopher Neame, 68, British film and TV producer and writer, aneurysm. [184]
• Kathryn Tucker Windham, 93, American author and journalist. [185]
• Sir John Wilton, 89, British diplomat. [186]
• Laura Ziskin, 61, American film producer (Pretty Woman, Spider-Man, What About Bob?), breast cancer. [187]

11

• Paul Alter, 89, American television director (Family Feud). [188]
• Giorgio Celli, 75, Italian entomologist and politician (The Greens–European Free Alliance). [189] (Italian)
• Gustav Ciamaga, 81, Canadian composer, music educator and writer, cancer. [190]
• Robert Marie Jean Victor de Chevigny, 90, French-born Mauritanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nouakchott (1973–1995). [191]
• Jyotirmoy Dey, 56, Indian journalist, shot. [192]
• Gunnar Fischer, 100, Swedish cinematographer (The Seventh Seal). [193]
• Eliyahu M. Goldratt, 64, Israeli physicist and management guru. [194]
• Kurt Nielsen, 80, Danish tennis player, only Dane to have played in a men's Grand Slam singles final. [195] (Danish)
• Graham B. Purcell, Jr., 92, American politician, U.S. Representative from Texas (1962–1973). [196]
• Seth Putnam, 43, American musician (Anal Cunt). [197]
• Raúl Marcelo Pacífico Scozzina, 89, Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Formosa (1957–1978). [198]
• Jack Smith, 82, British artist. [199]
• William Carrington Thompson, 95, American politician and jurist, Virginia House of Delegates (1959–1968), Virginia Senate (1968–1973) and Supreme Court (1980–1983). [200]

10

• Art Balinger, 96, American actor. [201]
• Jeanne Bice, 71, American entrepreneur and television personality. [202]
• Pam Brown, 58, American politician, Nebraska state senator (1995–2006), ovarian cancer. [203]
• Yuri Budanov, 47, Russian military officer and war criminal, shot. [204]
• Cosimo Caliandro, 29, Italian middle distance runner, motorcycle collision. [205]
• Theo Dubois, 100, Canadian rower. [206]
• Abdi Shakur Sheikh Hassan, Somali politician, Interior Minister (since 2010), suicide bombing. [207]
• Kenny Hawkes, 42, British DJ and music producer, after short illness. [208]
• James P. Hosty, 86, American law-enforcement agent (FBI), prostate cancer. [209]
• Esmond Kentish, 94, Jamaican Test cricketer. [210]
• Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, 96, British author and soldier. [211]
• Brian Lenihan, Jnr, 52, Irish politician, TD for Dublin West (since 1996) and Minister for Finance (2008–2011), pancreatic cancer. [212]
• Godfrey Myles, 42, American football player (Dallas Cowboys), heart attack. [213]
• Jim Rodnunsky, 54, Canadian-born American cinematographer and technician, inventor of the Cablecam system, brain cancer. [214]
• Hoda Saber, 52, Iranian dissident, heart attack following a hunger strike. [215]
• Al Schwimmer, 94, American-born Israeli businessman, founder of Israel Aerospace Industries. [216]
• Carol Montgomery Stone, 96, American actress. [217]
• György Szabados, 71, Hungarian physician, pianist, and composer. [218]
• Sven-Olof Walldoff, 82, Swedish conductor and composer. [219] (death announced on this date)

9

• Jamil Fakhri, 65, Pakistani actor, after long illness. [220]
• M. F. Husain, 95, Indian artist, heart attack. [221]
• Josip Katalinski, 63, Bosnian footballer, after long illness. [222] (Croatian)
• Tomoko Kawakami, 41, Japanese voice actress (Fushigi Yûgi, Revolutionary Girl Utena), ovarian cancer. [223]
• Mike Mitchell, 55, American basketball player (Cleveland Cavaliers, San Antonio Spurs), cancer. [224]
• Idwal Robling, 84, Welsh Olympic footballer and broadcaster. [225]
• Billy Shipp, 80, American football player (New York Giants, Toronto Argonauts, Montreal Alouettes). [226]
• Ignazio Vella, 82, American artisanal cheesemaker and businessman, long illness. [227]

8

• Anatole Abragam, 96, French physicist. [228] (French)
• Larry Border, 60, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates (since 1990), stroke. [229]
• Nasir Jalil, 56, Singaporean footballer. [230]
• George Landow, 67, American experimental filmmaker.[231]
• Clara Luper, 88, American civil rights activist, after long illness. [232]
• John Mackenzie, 83, British film director (The Long Good Friday, Ruby). [233]
• Paul Massie, 78, Canadian BAFTA-winning actor and educator. [234]
• Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, 38?, Comorian al-Qaeda terrorist, planned 1998 United States embassy bombings, shot. [235]
• Jim Northrup, 71, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Montreal Expos, Baltimore Orioles), seizure. [236]
• Steve Popovich, 68, American record executive, founder of Cleveland International Records. [237]
• Alan Rubin, 68, American trumpeter (The Blues Brothers), lung cancer . [238]
• Roy Skelton, 79, British actor (Rainbow, Doctor Who), stroke. [239]
• Oliver William Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 85, British Anglican priest, Dean of Lincoln (1969–1989). [240]

7

• Paul Dickson, 74, American football player (St. Louis Rams, Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings), blood infection. [241]
• Angelino Fons, 75, Spanish film director. [242] (Spanish)
• Walid Gholmieh, 73, Lebanese musician, director of Conservatoire Libanais. [243]
• Genaro Hernández, 45, American boxer, cancer. [244]
• Liam Kelly, 88, Irish republican and politician. [245]
• José Pagán, 76, Puerto Rican baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates), Alzheimer's disease. [246]
• Mietek Pemper, 91, Polish-born German Holocaust survivor, compiled and typed Oskar Schindler's list. [247]
• Nataraja Ramakrishna, 88, Indian dance guru, after long illness. [248]
• Maksud Sadikov, 48, Russian Islamic scholar and theologian, shot. [249]
• Jorge Semprún, 87, Spanish writer and politician. [250] (Spanish)
• Leonard B. Stern, 87, American television director, producer, and writer (Get Smart), creator of The Honeymooners, co-creator of Mad Libs. [251]
• Edgar Tekere, 74, Zimbabwean politician, cancer. [252]
• Gavriel Tsifroni, 96, Israeli journalist. [253] (Hebrew)
• Haim Yisraeli, 84, Israeli civil servant. [254]

6

• John R. Alison, 98, American airman, launched the Allied Reoccupation of Burma during World War II. [255]
• John Boswall, 91, British actor. [256]
• Claudio Cavazza, 77, Italian entrepreneur, founder of Sigma-Tau pharmaceuticals. [257]
• Bill Closs, 89, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors, Fort Wayne Pistons). [258]
• Declan Costello, 84, Irish politician, TD for Dublin North West (1951–1969); Dublin South West (1973–1977), Attorney General (1973–1977) and High Court judge. [259]
• Eleanor Dapkus, 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League), breast cancer. [260]
• Dulce Figueiredo, 83, Brazilian First Lady (1979–1985), widow of João Figueiredo. [261] (Portuguese)
• Benjamín González, 53, Spanish Olympic athlete, mountaineering accident. [262] (Spanish) (body found on this date)
• Stefan Kuryłowicz, 62, Polish architect, plane crash. [263]
• Masashi Ohuchi, 67, Japanese weightlifter, Olympic silver (1968) and bronze (1964) medalist. [264]
• Shrek, 16, New Zealand celebrity sheep, euthanised. [265]

5

• Mark H. Beaubien, Jr., 68, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (since 1997). [266]
• Léon Bollendorff, 96, Luxembourgian politician. [267] (Luxembourgish)
• Scott Bostwick, 49, American football player and coach (Western Washington, Northwest Missouri State), heart attack. [268]
• Leon Botha, 26, South African artist and musical performer, progeria-related heart failure. [269] (Afrikaans)
• John Glasby, 82, British chemist and writer. [270]
• Azam Khan, 61, Bangladeshi pop singer, cancer. [271]
• Gordon Lorenz, 61, British songwriter. [272]
• Célestin Oliver, 80, French Olympic footballer. [273] (French)

4

• Dimi Mint Abba, 52, Mauritanian singer, brain haemorrhage. [274]
• Lilian Jackson Braun, 97, American author (Cat Who series), natural causes. [275]
• Claudio Bravo, 74, Chilean painter, epilepsy. [276]
• Tommy Brent, 88, American theatrical producer. [277]
• Lindsey Durlacher, 36, American Greco-Roman wrestler. [278]
• Lawrence Eagleburger, 80, American diplomat and politician, Secretary of State (1992–1993). [279]
• Curth Flatow, 91, German dramatist and screenwriter, natural causes. [280] (German)
• Maurice Garrel, 88, French actor. [281] (French)
• Donald Hewlett, 90, English actor, pneumonia. [282]
• Juan Francisco Luis, 70, U.S. Virgin Islands politician, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (1978–1987), Lieutenant Governor (1975–1978). [283]
• Rosenery Mello do Nascimento, 45, Brazilian model and Playboy Playmate, brain aneurysm. [6] (Portuguese)
• Ian Mitchell, 86, English cricketer, natural causes.[284]
• Andreas P. Nielsen, 58, Danish author and composer, cancer. [285] (Danish)
• Martin Rushent, 63, English record producer (Buzzcocks, Human League, The Stranglers). [286]
• Betty Taylor, 91, American performer (Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue). [287]
• Felix Zandman, 83, American entrepreneur. [288]

3

• Lee J. Ames, 90, American artist and illustrator, heart failure. [289]
• James Arness, 88, American actor (Gunsmoke), natural causes. [290]
• Harry Bernstein, 101, British-born American author. [291]
• Wally Boag, 90, American performer (Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue). [292]
• Marion Fuller Brown, 94, American politician and environmental activist. [293]
• Papa Joe Chevalier, 62, American sports talk radio host, stroke. [294]
• Bruce Crozier, 72, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP for Essex South (1993–1999) and Essex (since 1999), aortic aneurysm. [295]
• Andrew Gold, 59, American singer-songwriter ("Lonely Boy", "Thank You for Being a Friend"), heart attack. [296]
• Pat Jackson, 95, English film and television director. [297]
• John Henry Johnson, 81, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Pittsburgh Steelers) and Hall of Famer . [298]
• Miriam Karlin, 85, British actress and activist, cancer. [299]
• Ilyas Kashmiri, 47, Pakistani jihadist militant, leader of Harkatul Jihad al-Islami, drone strike. [300]
• Jack Kevorkian, 83, American physician and right to die activist, pulmonary thrombosis. [301]
• Bhajan Lal, 80, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Haryana (1979–1985; 1991–1996), cardiac arrest. [302]
• Peter Murphy, 88, Irish television presenter (RTÉ). [303]
• Sammy Ofer, 89, Israeli businessman, after long illness. [304]
• Ray Pahl, 75, British sociologist, cancer. [305]
• Benny Spellman, 79, American R&B singer, respiratory failure. [306]
• Gus Tyler, 99, American socialist activist. [307]
• Jan van Roessel, 86, Dutch Olympic footballer (Willem II Tilburg). [308]

2

• Ray Bryant, 79, American jazz pianist, after long illness. [309]
• Mark Cooney, 60, American football player (Green Bay Packers). [310]
• Willem Duys, 82, Dutch radio and television presenter and record producer, infection. [311] (Dutch)
• Josephine Hart, 69, Irish-born British novelist and poetry promoter, ovarian cancer. [312]
• Sir Philip Holland, 94, British politician, MP for Acton (1959–1964); Carlton (1966–1983) and Gedling (1983–1987). [313]
• Walter R. Peterson, Jr., 88, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire (1969–1973), lung cancer. [314]
• Willie Phiri, 57, Zambian footballer. [315]
• Geronimo Pratt, 63, American political activist (Black Panther Party), heart attack. [316]
• Philip Rahtz, 90, British archaeologist. [317]
• Joel Rosenberg, 57, American science fiction author, heart attack. [318]
• Albertina Sisulu, 92, South African anti-apartheid activist. [319]
• Keith Smith, 93, Australian radio and television personality (The Pied Piper), children's writer. [320]
• Lavina Washines, 71, American tribal leader, first female leader of the Yakima Nation (2006–2008). [321]

1

• Jaehoon Ahn, 70, North Korean-born American journalist and researcher, founding director of Radio Free Asia Korean language service. [322]
• Munir Dar, 76, Pakistani field hockey player, 1960 Olympic gold medalist. [323]
• Matt Fong, 57, American politician, California State Treasurer (1995–1999), skin cancer. [324]
• Frank Ponta, 75, Australian paralympian, after long illness. [325]
• Devi Prasad, 89, Indian artist and peace activist. [326]
• Haleh Sahabi, 54, Iranian humanitarian, daughter of Ezzatollah Sahabi, cardiac arrest. [327]
• Al Wiggins, 76, American Olympic swimmer, aortic dissection. [328]