Deaths in April 2011

1

Peter Baumann, 75, Swiss psychiatrist. [1] (German)

Lou Gorman, 82, American baseball executive and general manager (Boston Red Sox, Seattle Mariners). [2]

Jane Gregory, 51, British Olympic equestrian, heart attack. [3]

George Gryaznov, 77, Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust (1989–1996), stroke. [4] (Russian)

Manning Marable, 60, American professor (Columbia University). [5]

Edel Ojeda, 82, Mexican Olympic boxer. [6] (Spanish)

Georgi Rusev, 82, Bulgarian theatre and film actor. [7] (Bulgarian)

Siri Skare, 52, Norwegian lieutenant colonel, first Norwegian female military pilot. [8]

Varkey Vithayathil, 83, Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic hierarch, Cardinal (from 2001), Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly (from 1999). [9]

Brynle Williams, 62, Welsh activist (fuel protests) and politician, AM for North Wales (from 2003). [10]

2

Reshat Bardhi, 76, Albanian religious figure, head of the Bektashi order. [11]

Larry Finch, 60, American basketball player and coach (Memphis Tigers). [12]

John C. Haas, 92, American businessman (Rohm and Haas), natural causes. [13]

Efrain Loyola, 94, Cuban flautist. [14]

James McNulty, 92, Canadian politician, MP for Lincoln (1962–1968) and St. Catharines (1968–1972). [15]

Jess Osuna, 82, American character actor (Three Days of the Condor). [16]

Larry Parr, 64, American chess player. [17]

Tom Silverio, 65, Dominican-born American baseball player (California Angels). [18] (Spanish)

Bill Varney, 77, American sound editor (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future, Dune). [19]

Paul Violi, 66, American poet, cancer. [20]

Sandra Zober, 83, American actress. [21]

3

Rafique Alam, 81, Indian politician, heart attack. [22]

Amy Applegren, 83, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League). [23]

Lena Lovato Archuleta, 90, American educator. [24]

Ulli Beier, 88, German writer. [25]

William Henry Bullock, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Des Moines (1987–1993) and Madison (1993–2003), lung cancer. [26]

James Martin Fitzgerald, 90, American jurist, justice of the Alaska Supreme Court (1972–1974), judge of the District Court for the District of Alaska (1974–2006). [27]

Martin Horton, 76, English cricketer, after long illness. [28]

Kevin Jarre, 56, American screenwriter (Tombstone, Glory, The Mummy), heart failure. [29]

Yevgeny Lyadin, 84, Russian footballer. [30] (Russian)

Marian Pankowski, 91, Polish writer. [31]

William Prusoff, 90, American pharmacologist. [32]

Calvin Russell, 62, American protest singer-songwriter and guitarist. [33]

Mandi Schwartz, 23, Canadian college ice hockey player, acute myeloid leukemia. [34]

Gustavo Sondermann, 29, Brazilian racing driver, race crash. [35] (Portuguese)

John A. Tory, 81, Canadian lawyer and corporate executive, stroke. [36]

4

John Adler, 51, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Jersey (2009–2011), infective endocarditis. [37]

Scott Columbus, 54, American drummer (Manowar). [38]

Jackson Lago, 76, Brazilian politician, Governor of Maranhão (2007–2009), cancer. [39] (Portuguese)

Ned McWherter, 80, American politician, Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1973–1987) and Governor (1987–1995), cancer. [40]

Juliano Mer-Khamis, 52, Israeli actor and political activist, shot. [41]

John Niven, 89, Scottish footballer (East Fife F.C.). [42]

Witta Pohl, 73, German actress. [43] (German)

Wayne Robson, 64, Canadian actor (The Red Green Show). [44]

Craig Thomas, 68, Welsh author, pneumonia. [45]

Juan Tuñas, 93, Cuban footballer. [46] (Spanish)

Vakur Versan, 93, Turkish jurist, professor of administrative law (Istanbul University). [47] (Turkish)

Boško Vuksanović, 83, Croatian water polo player. [48] (Croatian)

5

Baruch Samuel Blumberg, 85, American doctor, Nobel laureate in medicine, heart attack. [49]

L. J. Davis, 70, American writer. [50]

John Mahoney, 61, American politician. [51]

Ange-Félix Patassé, 74, Central African politician, Prime Minister (1976–1978) and President (1993–2003). [52]

Gil Robbins, 80, American folk singer (The Highwaymen) and actor, father of Tim Robbins, prostate cancer. [53]

Larry Shepard, 92, American baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates) and coach (Cincinnati Reds). [54]

6

Thøger Birkeland, 89, Danish children's book author. [55] (Danish)

Igor Birman, 85, Russian-born American writer and economist. [56]

Jim Blair, 64, Scottish footballer, natural causes. [57]

John Bottomley, 50, Canadian singer-songwriter, suicide. [58]

Mike Campbell, 78, Zimbabwean farmer, challenged Robert Mugabe (Campbell v Zimbabwe), complications from torture. [59]

Giuseppe Comini, 88, Italian Olympic fencer. [60] (Italian)

Robin Lindsay, 97, British Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) field hockey player. [61]

Coyote McCloud, 68, American disc jockey. [62]

Johnny Morris, 87, English footballer. [63]

Skip O'Brien, 60, American actor (CSI, The Hitcher, Blow), complications from prostate cancer. [64]

Fritiof S. Sjöstrand, 98, Swedish physician and histologist. [65]

F. Gordon A. Stone, 85, British chemist. [66]

Sujatha, 58, Indian actress. [67]

Hans Tiedge, 73, German spy. [68]

7

Bruce Cowan, 85, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives (1980–1993). [69]

Edward Edwards, 77, American serial killer, natural causes. [70]

Hugh FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton, 92, British aristocrat. [71]

Pierre Gauvreau, 88, Canadian painter and television screenplay writer. [72]

Blažena Holišová, 80, Czech film and theatre actress. [73] (Czech)

Arthur Lessac, 101, American voice trainer. [74]

E. J. McGuire, 58, Canadian ice hockey coach and scout, cancer. [75]

Hedzer Rijpstra, 91, Dutch politician. [76] (Dutch)

Victor Surdu, 63, Romanian politician, first post-Communist Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. [77]

8

Mario Branch, 31, American football player (Tennessee Titans, Amsterdam Admirals, Philadelphia Soul), heart failure. [78]

Daniel Catán, 62, Mexican composer. [79]

David S. Clarke, 69, Australian businessman, chairman of Macquarie Group (1985–2007), stomach cancer. [80]

John McCracken, 76, American sculptor. [81]

Ian Molyneux, 38, British Royal Navy officer, George Medal recipient, shooting. [82]

John Pugsley, 77, American libertarian speaker and writer. [83]

Donald Shanks, 70, Australian operatic bass-baritone, heart attack. [84]

Vasilijs Stepanovs, 83, Latvian weightlifter and Olympic silver medalist (1956 Melbourne). [85] (Latvian)

Hedda Sterne, 100, Romanian-born American painter and printmaker. [86]

Elena Zuasti, 75, Uruguayan stage actress and comedian, heart failure. [87] (Spanish)

9

Pierre Celis, 86, Belgian brewer (Celis), cancer. [88] (Dutch)

Robert Coleman-Senghor, 71, American English professor, torn aorta. [89]

Chip Fairway, 38, American wrestler. [90]

Nicholas Goodhart, 91, British marine engineer and glider pilot. [91]

Jerry Lawson, 70, American videogame console engineer. [92]

Sidney Lumet, 86, American film director (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network), lymphoma. [93]

Roger Nichols, 66, American sound engineer and record producer (Steely Dan), pancreatic cancer. [94]

Yolande Palfrey, 54, British actress (Blake's 7, Doctor Who), brain tumour. [95]

Orrin Tucker, 100, American orchestra leader. [96]

Randy Wood, 94, American record producer, founder of Dot Records. [97]

10

Bill Brill, 79, American sportswriter and newspaper editor, esophageal cancer. [98]

Violet Cowden, 94, American pilot, member of Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II, heart failure. [99]

Don Merton, 72, New Zealand conservationist. [100]

Mikhail Rusyayev, 46, Russian footballer. [101] (Russian)

Bob Shaw, 89, American football player (Los Angeles Rams). [102]

Homer Smith, 79, American football coach (Army Black Knights), cancer. [103]

Phil Solomon, 86, Northern Irish music executive. [104]

Francis E. Sweeney, 77, American jurist, Ohio Supreme Court justice (1993–2004). [105]

Stephen Watson, 56, South African writer and critic, cancer. [106]

11

Billy Bang, 63, American jazz violinist, lung cancer. [107]

Lewis Binford, 80, American archaeologist, heart failure. [108]

Jimmy Briggs, 74, Scottish footballer (Dundee United). [109]

Akis Cleanthous, 47, Cypriot politician, chairman of the Stock Exchange (2003–2007), Minister of Education and Culture (2007–2008), heart attack. [110]

John D'Orazio, 55, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for Ballajura (2001–2008), heart attack during surgery. [111]

La Esterella, 91, Belgian Flemish singer. [112]

Billy Gray, 83, English footballer (Nottingham Forest). [113]

Murtaza Hassan, Pakistani stage comedian, hepatitis and liver cancer. [114]

Sir Simon Milton, 49, British politician, London Deputy Mayor for Policy and Planning, after short illness. [115]

Doug Newlands, 79, Scottish footballer (Aberdeen, Burnley). [116]

Peter Ruehl, 64, American-born Australian columnist. [117]

Angela Scoular, 65, British actress, suicide by poisoning. [118]

Larry Sweeney, 30, American professional wrestler and manager, suicide by hanging. [119]

Eric Wall, 95, British Anglican bishop, Bishop of Huntingdon (1972–1980) [120]

12

Sachin Bhowmick, 80, Indian screenwriter, heart attack. [121]

Lee Bradley Brown, 39, British tourist, died in police custody in Dubai. [122]

Ronnie Coyle, 46, Scottish footballer (Celtic, Raith Rovers), leukemia. [123]

Sidney Harman, 92, American businessman and publisher (Newsweek), acute myeloid leukemia. [124]

Eddie Joost, 94, American baseball player and manager (Philadelphia Athletics, Cincinnati Reds). [125]

Robert Lokossimbayé, 35, Chadian footballer. [126]

Buster Martin, 104?, French-born British longevity claimant. [127]

Aleksandar Petaković, 81, Serbian football player. [128] (Serbian)

Jānis Polis, 72, Latvian pharmacologist, discovered rimantadine. [129] (Russian)

Ioan Şişeştean, 74, Romanian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Maramureş (since 1994). [130]

Désiré Tagro, 52, Ivorian politician, Interior Minister, chief of staff for Laurent Gbagbo, shot. [131]

Miroslav Tichý, 84, Czech photographer. [132]

13

Danny Fiszman, 66, British football director (Arsenal), cancer. [133]

Seeta bint Abdul Aziz, 80, Saudi royal, sister of King Abdullah, after long illness. [134]

14

Rosihan Anwar, 88, Indonesian journalist, heart failure. [135]

Trevor Bannister, 76, British actor (Are You Being Served?, Last of the Summer Wine, The Dustbinmen), heart attack. [136]

Walter Breuning, 114, American supercentenarian, world's third oldest man ever. [137]

George Brookes, 76, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (1991–1997). [138]

Jon Cedar, 80, American character actor (Hogan's Heroes), leukemia. [139]

Patrick Cullinan, 77, South African writer. [140]

Louis Jean Dufaux, 79, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Grenoble (1989–2006). [141]

Bernie Flowers, 81, American football player (Baltimore Colts). [142]

Joe Dan Gold, 68, American college basketball coach (Mississippi State). [143]

Jean Gratton, 86, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mont-Laurier (1978–2001). [144]

Cyrus Harvey, Jr., 85, American entrepreneur, stroke. [145]

William Lipscomb, 91, American chemist, pneumonia. [146]

Arthur Marx, 89, American writer, son of Groucho Marx. [147]

Rami Reddy, 52, Indian actor, kidney failure. [148]

15

Vittorio Arrigoni, 36, Italian activist, hanged. [149]

Babu Baral, 47, Pakistani comedian, cancer. [150]

Reno Bertoia, 76, Italian-born Canadian baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins), lymphoma. [151]

Walter Brown, 85, Australian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) canoer. [152]

Elmer Carter, 100, American Negro league baseball player. [153]

William Cook, 80, American entrepreneur, philanthropist and historic preservationist, heart failure. [154]

Hélio Gueiros, 85, Brazilian politician, Governor of Pará (1987–1991), Mayor of Belém (1993–1996), renal disease. [155] (Portuguese)

Michael Hurley, 87, Irish Jesuit and ecumenical theologian, co-founder of the Irish School of Ecumenics. [156]

Vincenzo La Scola, 53, Italian tenor, heart attack. [157]

Bobo Osborne, 75, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). [158]

Beryl Shipley, 84, American basketball coach (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, San Diego Conquistadors). [159]

E. T. York, 88, American agronomist, educator and presidential adviser. [160]

16

Gerry Alexander, 82, Jamaican cricketer. [161]

Bijan, 67, Iranian-born American fashion designer, stroke. [162]

Allan Blakeney, 85, Canadian politician, Premier of Saskatchewan (1971–1982), complications from liver cancer. [163]

Chinesinho, 76, Brazilian footballer, Alzheimer's disease. [164] (Portuguese)

Stanley Glenn, 84, American baseball player and executive (Negro league baseball). [165]

Bjørn Oscar Gulbrandsen, 85, Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player and sailor. [166]

Bill Kinnamon, 91, American Major League Baseball umpire. [167]

Serge LeClerc, 61, Canadian pardoned criminal and politician, MLA for Saskatoon Northwest (2007–2010), complications from colon and bowel cancer. [168]

William A. Rusher, 87, American columnist, publisher of National Review (1957–1988). [169]

Dan Monroe Russell, Jr., 98, American federal judge, natural causes. [170]

Sol Saks, 100, American screenwriter, creator of Bewitched. [171]

Hermod Skånland, 85, Norwegian Central Bank governor (1985–1993). [172] (Norwegian)

Harold Volkmer, 80, American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri (1977–1997), pneumonia. [173]

17

Nasser Al-Kharafi, 67, Kuwaiti businessman (M. A. Kharafi & Sons), heart attack. [174]

James S. Albus, 75, American engineer. [175]

Bob Block, 89, British comedy writer (Rentaghost, Life with The Lyons). [176]

Joel Colton, 92, American historian, heart failure. [177]

Osamu Dezaki, 67, Japanese animator (Space Adventure Cobra, Tomorrow's Joe), lung cancer. [178] (Japanese)

Alfred Freedman, 94, American psychiatrist, declassified homosexuality as a mental illness, complications following hip surgery. [179]

Eric Gross, 84, Austrian-born Australian composer. [180]

Josefa Köster, 92, German Olympic sprint canoer. [181]

Eddie Leadbeater, 83, English cricketer, after short illness. [182]

Oldřich Lomecký, 90, Czech Olympic sprint canoer. [183] (Czech)

Blair Milan, 29, Australian actor and television presenter, acute myeloid leukaemia. [184]

Nikos Papazoglou, 63, Greek singer-songwriter, cancer. [185]

AJ Perez, 18, Filipino actor, traffic accident. [186]

Raúl Sánchez Díaz Martell, 96, Mexican politician, Governor of Baja California (1965–1971). [187]

Michael Sarrazin, 70, Canadian actor (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; The Flim-Flam Man; For Pete's Sake), cancer. [188]

Bhawani Singh, 79, Indian noble, titular Maharaja of Jaipur (since 1970). [189]

Dennis E. Stowell, 66, American politician, member of the Utah State Senate (2007–2011), cancer. [190]

Ken Taylor, 88, British television scriptwriter (The Jewel in the Crown). [191]

Robert Vickrey, 84, American artist. [192]

Victor Ward, 87, Canadian miner, survivor of the 1956 Springhill Mine disaster, after long illness. [193]

18

Olubayo Adefemi, 25, Nigerian footballer, car accident. [194]

Sadiq Ali, 58, Indian politician. [195]

Pietro Ferrero Jr., 47, Italian businessman (Ferrero SpA), bicycle accident. [196]

Kjell Håkonsen, 75, Norwegian harness racer and trainer. [197] (Norwegian)

Yu-ri Kim, 22, South Korean fashion model, apparent suicide. [198]

Bob Plant, 95, British soldier, recipient of the Military Cross. [199]

Mason Rudolph, 76, American golfer. [200]

Giovanni Saldarini, 86, Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Turin (1989–1999), natural causes. [201] (Italian)

William Donald Schaefer, 89, American politician, Governor of Maryland (1987–1995), pneumonia. [202]

Israpil Velijanov, 42, Russian Dagastani militant leader. [203] (Russian)

Ivica Vidović, 72, Croatian actor, after long illness. [204] (Croatian)

19

Anne Blonstein, 52, British poet. [205]

Lynn Chandnois, 86, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). [206]

Lisa Head, 29, British soldier, improvised explosive device. [207]

Richard P. Klocko, 96, American Air Force lieutenant general. [208]

Norm Masters, 77, American football player (Green Bay Packers), cancer. [209]

Aage Møst, 87, Norwegian sports official, President of the Norwegian Athletics Association (1956–1965). [210]

Serge Nubret, 72, French bodybuilder and actor (Pumping Iron). [211]

Elisabeth Sladen, 65, British actress (Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures), cancer. [212]

Grete Waitz, 57, Norwegian marathon runner, cancer. [213]

20

Allan Brown, 84, Scottish football player and manager (Blackpool, Scotland). [214]

Tim Hetherington, 40, British photojournalist and filmmaker (Restrepo), mortar attack. [215]

Rudolf Hilf, 83, German historian, political scientist and expellee politician. Trauernachricht (PDF-Datei; 63 kB), Bundesvorsitzender der Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft am 21. (German)

Chris Hondros, 41, American photojournalist, mortar attack. [216]

Osvaldo Miranda, 95, Argentine actor (Cita en las estrellas). [217]

Patricia Ofori, 29, Ghanaian international footballer (2003 & 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup), traffic collision. [218]

Madelyn Pugh, 90, American screenwriter (I Love Lucy, The Mothers-in-Law) and producer (Alice). [219]

Tul Bahadur Pun, 88, Nepali World War II veteran, recipient of the Victoria Cross, cardiac complications. [220]

Hubert Schlafly, 91, American engineer, co-inventor of the TelePrompter. [221]

Kerry Smith, 58, New Zealand actress and broadcaster, melanoma. [222]

Erwin Strahl, 82, Austrian actor. [223] (German)

21

Beverly Barton, 64, American romance author, heart failure. [224]

Tine Bryld, 71, Danish social worker, writer, radio host and letters editor. [225] (Danish)

Annalisa Ericson, 97, Swedish actress (Summer Interlude). [226] (Swedish)

Helen J. Frye, 80, American federal judge, after long illness. [227]

Reginald C. Fuller, 102, British Roman Catholic priest and author. [228]

Harold Garfinkel, 93, American sociologist. [229]

W. J. Gruffydd, 94, Welsh poet. [230]

Catharina Halkes, 90, Dutch theologian and feminist [231]

Jim Heise, 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators), complications from surgery. [232]

Jess Stonestreet Jackson, Jr., 81, American wine entrepreneur, founder of Kendall-Jackson, cancer. [233]

Ken Kostick, 57, Canadian cooking show host (What's for Dinner?), complications of pancreatitis. [234]

Max Mathews, 84, American engineer and computer music composer, complications from pneumonia. [235]

Muhannad, 41, Saudi al Qaeda fighter in Chechnya, shot. [236]

Sofía Silva, 82, Venezuelan winner of first Miss Venezuela title (1952). [237] (Spanish)

Yoshiko Tanaka, 55, Japanese actress (Godzilla vs. Biollante) and singer (Candies), breast cancer. [238] (Japanese)

Walter van de Walle, 88, Canadian politician, MP for Pembina (1986–1988) and St. Albert (1988–1993). [239]

22

Moin Akhter, 60, Pakistani actor and comedian, heart attack. [240]

Patrick Billingsley, 85, American mathematician and actor. [241]

Cheung Sai Ho, 35, Hong Kong footballer, suicide by jumping. [242] (Chinese)

Wiel Coerver, 86, Dutch footballer and manager. [243] (Dutch)

Eldon Davis, 94, American architect, creator of Googie architecture, founder of Armet & Davis. [244]

Hazel Dickens, 85, American bluegrass singer. [245]

Madhava Gudi, 70, Indian Hindustani classical vocalist. [246]

Siarhei Lahun, 22, Belarusian weightlifter, car accident. [247]

Sidney Michaels, 83, American playwright and screenwriter (The Night They Raided Minsky's), Alzheimer's disease. [248]

Merle Greene Robertson, 97, American artist and archeologist. [249]

José Torres Martino, 94, Puerto Rican painter and writer, after long illness. [250]

João Maria Tudela, 81, Portuguese singer. [251] (Portuguese)

23

Mushtaq Ahmad, 82, Pakistani Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) field hockey player. [252]

Ed Austin, 84, American attorney and politician, Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida (1991–1995). [253]

Dmytro Blazheyovskyi, 100, Ukrainian priest, historian and embroiderer. [254] (Ukrainian)

Ghafoor Butt, 74, Pakistani cricketer and umpire. [255]

James Casey, 88, British comedian. [256]

Bill Flynn, 59, Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Lockyer (2001–2004), parliamentary leader of One Nation (2001–2004). [257]

Sid Fournet, 78, American football player (New York Jets, Pittsburgh Steelers). [258]

David Hackett, 84, American government official (President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, 1961–1964), complications of diabetes. [259]

Tom King, 68, American guitarist and songwriter (The Outsiders), heart failure. [260]

Peter Li Hongye, 91, Chinese underground Roman Catholic prelate, clandestine bishop of Luoyang. [261]

Peter Lieberson, 64, American composer, complications of lymphoma. [262]

Terence Longdon, 88, British actor. [263]

Huey P. Meaux, 82, American record producer. [264]

Milorad Bata Mihailović, 88, Serbian painter. [265] (Serbian)

Noxolo Nogwaza, 24, South African lesbian activist, stabbed. [266]

Norio Ohga, 81, Japanese businessman, president and CEO of Sony, multiple organ failure. [267]

Ready Teddy, 23, New Zealand eventing horse, complications from colic. [268]

Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill, 89, British politician. [269]

Mohammad Abdus Sattar, 85, Indian Olympic footballer, pneumonia. [270]

Phillip Shriver, 88, American historian and college administrator. [271]

Max van der Stoel, 86, Dutch politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1973–1977, 1981–1982). [272]

John Sullivan, 64, British writer (Only Fools and Horses), viral pneumonia. [273]

Dutch Tilders, 69, Australian blues musician, cancer. [274]

24

Sathya Sai Baba, 84, Indian spiritual guru, founder of the Sathya Sai Organization, multiple organ failure. [275]

Nawang Gombu, 75-76, Tibetan-born Indian mountaineer, after short illness. [276]

Alimirah Hanfere, 95, Ethiopian sultan of the Aussa Sultanate. [277]

Sir Denis Mahon, 100, British art historian and philanthropist. [278]

Madame Nhu, 87, South Vietnamese First Lady (1955–1963), after short illness. [279]

Joan Peyser, 80, American musicologist, after heart surgery. [280]

Marie-France Pisier, 66, French actress (The Other Side of Midnight), drowning. [281]

Colin Snedden, 93, New Zealand cricketer. [282]

25

Winrich Behr, 93, German World War II Panzer captain, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. [283]

Ira Cohen, 76, American poet, renal failure. [284]

William Craig, 86, Northern Irish politician, founder of Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, MP for Belfast East (1974–1979). [285]

Abdoulaye Hamani Diori, 65, Nigerien politician, after long illness. [286] (French)

María Isbert, 94, Spanish actress. [287]

Lawrence Lee, 101, British stained glass artist. [288]

Joe Perry, 84, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. [289]

Poly Styrene, 53, British musician (X-Ray Spex), breast cancer. [290]

Gonzalo Rojas, 93, Chilean poet. [291] (Spanish)

Güven Sazak, 76, Turkish businessman, chairman of Fenerbahçe S.K. (1993–1994). [292]

Minoru Tanaka, 44, Japanese actor (Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers, Kamen Rider W Returns – Kamen Rider Accel), suspected suicide by hanging. [293]

Avraham Tiar, 87, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1961–1969). [294]

Bobby Thompson, 57, American baseball player (Texas Rangers).[295]

Elizabeth Wicken, 83, Canadian baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League). [296]

26

Douglas Chaffee, 75, American artist. [297]

John Cossette, 54, American television producer (Grammy Awards). [298]

Roger Gimbel, 86, American Emmy Award-winning television producer (Chernobyl: The Final Warning, S.O.S. Titanic), pneumonia. [299]

Lynn Hauldren, 89, American copywriter and product spokesperson (Empire Carpet). [300]

José María Izuzquiza Herranz, 85, Spanish-born Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Jaén en Peru (1987–2001). [301]

Sir Henry Leach, 87, British admiral. [302]

Jim Mandich, 62, American football player and announcer (Miami Dolphins), bile duct cancer. [303]

Don Miles, 75, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers). [304]

Islwyn Morris, 90, Welsh actor. [305]

Sadler's Wells, 30, American racehorse. [306]

Phoebe Snow, 60, American singer-songwriter ("Poetry Man"), brain hemorrhage. [307]

Hector Sutherland, 81, Australian cyclist. [308]

Samuel Zoll, 76, American jurist and politician, Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts (1970–1973), gallbladder cancer. [309]

27

Orlando Bosch, 84, Cuban exile, after long illness. [310]

Ibrahim Coulibaly, 47, Ivorian militia leader. [311]

Paul Vincent Donovan, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kalamazoo (1971–1994). [312]

Jack H. Goaslind, 83, American leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [313]

Igor Kon, 82, Russian philosopher, psychologist and sexologist. [314]

Rafael Menjívar Ochoa, 51, Salvadoran writer, journalist and translator, cancer. [315] (Spanish)

Marian Mercer, 75, American actress (It's a Living), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [316]

Dag Stokke, 44, Norwegian keyboardist (TNT), church organist and mastering engineer, cancer. [317] (Norwegian)

Harold Schnitzer, 87, American philanthropist and company executive (Schnitzer Steel), cancer. [318]

Harry Thuillier, 85, Irish Olympic fencer and radio presenter. [319]

Yvette Vickers, 81–82, American actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman), singer and model (Playboy). [320] (body discovered on this date).

Willem Albert Wagenaar, 69, Dutch psychologist. [321]

Michael Waltman, 64, American actor (Beyond the Law, Tower of Terror, National Lampoon's Van Wilder). [322]

David Wilkerson, 79, American Christian evangelist and author (The Cross and the Switchblade), car accident. [323]

28

Enrique Arancibia Clavel, 66, Chilean DINA agent. [324]

William Campbell, 87, American film and television actor (Love Me Tender, Star Trek, Dementia 13). [325]

Gene Fekete, 88, American football player (Cleveland Browns). [326]

Erhard Loretan, 52, Swiss mountaineer, third climber to scale all 14 eight-thousanders, climbing accident. [327]

Willie O'Neill, 70, Scottish football player (Celtic). [328] (death announced on this date)

E. Earl Patton, 83, American businessman and politician. [329]

Wilhelm Weidenbrück, 96, German Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient. [330] (German)

29

Waldemar Baszanowski, 75, Polish weightlifter. [331]

Robert B. Duncan, 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Oregon (1963–1967, 1975–1981). [332]

Asker Dzhappuyev, 40, Russian militant leader (Yarmuk Jamaat), shot. [333]

Salim Ghazal, 79, Syrian-born Lebanese Melkite Catholic hierarch, Curial bishop of Antioch for Melkites (2001–2005). [334]

Abdul Hameed, 83, Pakistani writer and novelist. [335]

Jeff Kargola, 27, American freestyle motocross rider, race accident. [336]

Vladimir Krainev, 67, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, aortic aneurysm. [337] (Russian)

David Mason, 85, British trumpeter, played trumpet solo on "Penny Lane", leukemia. [338]

Siamak Pourzand, 79, Iranian journalist and dissident, suicide by jumping. [339]

Joanna Russ, 74, American science fiction author, following a series of strokes. [340]

Walter Santoro, 89, Uruguayan politician, Minister of Industry (1963–1964), natural causes. [341] (Spanish)

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Ronald D. Asmus, 53, American diplomat and political analyst, cancer. [342]

Saif al-Arab Gaddafi, 28-29, Libyan soldier, son of Muammar Gaddafi. [343]

Pete Gray, 30, Australian environmental activist, bowel cancer. [344]

Richard Holmes, 65, British military historian. [345]

Dorjee Khandu, 56, Indian Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (since 2007), helicopter crash. [346]

Mike Krsnich, 79, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves). [347]

Anthony Francis Mestice, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1973–2001). [348]

Harry S. Morgan, 65, German pornographic actor, producer and director. [349] (German) (body found on this date)

Emilio Navarro, 105, Puerto Rican Negro league baseball player. [350]

Evald Okas, 95, Estonian painter. [351] (Estonian)

Daniel Quillen, 70, American mathematician. [352]

Ernesto Sabato, 99, Argentine writer (El Túnel, On Heroes and Tombs), pneumonia. [353]

Edgar Seymour, 98, American Olympic bobsledder. [354]

Apostolos Santas, 89, Greek Resistance veteran. [355] (Greek)

Eddie Turnbull, 88, Scottish football player and manager. [356]