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Deaths in December 2011

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

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  • Shingo Araki, 72, Japanese animation artist and character designer (Yu-Gi-Oh!, Galaxy Express 999).
  • Eric Arnott, 82, British eye surgeon.
  • Arthur Beetson, 66, Australian rugby league footballer, first Indigenous Australian to captain a national team in any sport, heart attack.
  • Andrei Blaier, 78, Romanian film director and screenwriter, after long illness.
  • Martina Davis-Correia, 44, American civil rights activist, breast cancer.
  • Ragnhild Hveger, 90, Danish swimmer, Olympic silver medalist (1936). (Danish)
  • Ted Lapka, 91, American football player (Washington Redskins).
  • François Lesage, 82, French embroidery designer.
  • Bill McKinney, 80, American actor (Deliverance, The Outlaw Josey Wales), esophageal cancer.
  • Mr. Ebbo, 37, Tanzanian rapper, leukemia.
  • Purificacion Quisumbing, 77, Filipino human rights advocate, Chairperson of Commission on Human Rights (2002–2008), multiple myeloma.
  • Louis Silverstein, 92, American artist and graphic designer.
  • Alan Sues, 85, American comic (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), heart attack.
  • Hippolyte Van den Bosch, 85, Belgian football player.
  • Christa Wolf, 82, German writer.
  • Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, 65, American psychoanalyst, biographer of Hannah Arendt, pulmonary embolism.

    • 2

  • Robert Lawrence Balzer, 99, American wine journalist.
  • Bruno Bianchi, 56, French cartoonist and animator (Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats), co-creator of Inspector Gadget.
  • Laurent Fuahea, 84, Tongan-born Wallisian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Wallis et Futuna (1974–2005).
  • Chiyono Hasegawa, 115, Japanese supercentenarian, nation's oldest person and world's second oldest living person.
  • Pavle Jurina, 57, Croatian handball player and coach.
  • Christopher Logue, 85, British poet.
  • David Montgomery, 84, American historian, brain hemorrhage.
  • Artur Quaresma, 94, Portuguese footballer.
  • Patrick Sheridan, 89, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1990–2001).
  • Bill Tapia, 103, American ukulelist.
  • Howard Tate, 72, American soul singer.

    • 3

  • Jalal Alamgir, 40, Bangladeshi academic, drowning.
  • Dev Anand, 88, Indian actor, cardiac arrest.
  • Louky Bersianik, 81, Canadian novelist.
  • Philip "Fatis" Burrell, 57, Jamaican record producer, stroke.
  • Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer, 77, German writer.
  • Sabri Godo, 82, Albanian politician, writer and scriptwriter, founder and president of the Republican Party of Albania, lung cancer.
  • Karl-Axel Karlsson, 72, Swedish Olympic sport shooter (1972, 1976).
  • Sam Loxton, 90, Australian cricketer (The Invincibles), Australian rules footballer and politician, Victorian MLA for Prahran (1955–1979).
  • Larry Rickles, 41, American Emmy Award-winning producer (Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project), pneumonia.
  • Rafael Rodríguez Barrera, 74, Mexican politician, Governor of Campeche (1973–1979), President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (1992–1993).
  • Rob Schroeder, 85, American racing driver.
  • Heinrich Sonne, 94, German Waffen-SS member, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

    • 4

  • Mary Ellen Avery, 84, American pediatrician.
  • Allan Cameron, 94, Scottish soldier and curler.
  • Ambika Charan Choudhury, 81, Indian writer.
  • Marion Dougherty, 88, American casting director (Full Metal Jacket, Batman, Midnight Cowboy).
  • Patricia C. Dunn, 58, American businesswoman, Chairman of Hewlett-Packard (2005–2006), ovarian cancer.
  • Adam Hanuszkiewicz, 87, Polish actor and theatre director.
  • Matti Yrjänä Joensuu, 63, Finnish crime fiction writer.
  • Besim Kabashi, 35, Albanian kickboxer.
  • Alamein Kopu, 68, New Zealand politician, List MP (1996–1999).
  • James S. Malosky, 82, American football coach (Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs), respiratory failure.
  • Solange Pierre, 48, Dominican Republic human rights advocate, winner of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award (2006), heart attack.
  • RJ Rosales, 37, Filipino-born Australian singer and actor. [1]
  • Sócrates, 57, Brazilian footballer, septic shock.
  • Hubert Sumlin, 80, American blues guitarist, heart failure.
  • Andrey Tverdokhlebov, 70, Soviet dissident.

    • 5

  • Dan Biggers, 80, American actor (In the Heat of the Night, Glory).
  • Michel Descombey, 81, French choreographer.
  • Paul M. Doty, 91, American scientist.
  • Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, 75, Japanese politician, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (2006–2008), acute pneumonia.
  • Peter Gethin, 71, British Formula One driver (1970–1974).
  • Jorge Maria Hourton Poisson, 85, French-born Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Temuco (1992–2001).
  • Gennady Logofet, 69, Russian footballer.
  • Joe Lonnett, 84, American baseball player and coach.
  • Dan Mills, 80, American animator (Family Guy, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe).
  • Pusuke, 26, Japanese dog, world's oldest known living dog at time of death, natural causes.
  • Bill Stits, 80, American football player (Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
  • Darrell K. Sweet, 77, American artist.
  • Georges Talbourdet, 60, French cyclist.
  • Violetta Villas, 73, Belgian-born Polish singer.
  • Celia, Viscountess Whitelaw of Penrith, 84, British ATS volunteer, philanthropist/charity worker and horticulturist.

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  • John Banks, 89, American Negro League baseball player.
  • Brent Darby, 30, American basketball player (Ohio State University), blood clots.
  • Tony Fell, 79, British music publisher.
  • Ron Fletcher, 90, American dancer and pilates teacher, heart failure.
  • Sum Ying Fung, 112, Canadian supercentenarian, oldest person in Canada at time of death, natural causes.
  • Dobie Gray, 71, American singer ("The 'In' Crowd", "Drift Away").
  • Barbara Orbison, 61, German-born American record producer and music publisher, widow of Roy Orbison, pancreatic cancer.
  • Paul Ramírez, 25, Venezuelan footballer, stroke.
  • Lawrie Tierney, 52, Scottish footballer.

    • 7

  • Pearse Cahill, 95, Irish aviation pioneer.
  • Peter Croker, 89, English footballer (Charlton Athletic).
  • Teresa Hsu Chih, 113, Chinese-born Singaporean social worker and supercentenarian.
  • Tom Kennedy, 63, American film trailer producer.
  • Nuno Viriato Tavares de Melo Egídio, 89, Portuguese general, Governor of Macau (1979–1981).
  • Harry Morgan, 96, American actor (M*A*S*M*A*S*H, Dragnet), pneumonia.
  • Elizabeth Ann Ray, 98, American USAF officer.
  • Jerry Robinson, 89, American comic book artist (Batman) and reputed creator of The Joker.
  • Charlie Russell, 74, Canadian country music DJ.
  • T. A. Springer, 85, Dutch mathematician.

    • 8

  • Gilbert Adair, 66, Scottish author, film critic and journalist, brain haemorrhage.
  • Peter Brown, 77, English footballer.
  • Robert Brown, 61, American politician, Georgia State Senator (1991–2011), suicide by gunshot. (body discovered on this date)
  • Lewis Bush, 42, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Kansas City Chiefs), apparent heart attack.
  • Sir Zelman Cowen, 92, Australian constitutional lawyer and academic, 19th Governor-General of Australia (1977–1982).
  • Vinko Cuzzi, 72, Croatian footballer.
  • Ladislas de Hoyos, 72, French journalist and news anchor (TF1).
  • Don Duong, 54, Vietnamese-born American actor (We Were Soldiers), heart failure and brain hemorrhage.
  • Gene Huff, 82, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives (1967–1971) and State Senator (1971–1994), lung disease.
  • Peggy Makins, 95, British agony aunt.
  • Giorgio Mariani, 65, Italian footballer.
  • Minoru Miki, 81, Japanese composer. (Japanese)
  • Andrew Pataki, 84, American Eastern Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Parma for Ruthenian (1984–1995) and Passaic for Ruthenian (1995–2007).
  • Joe Restic, 85, American NCAA and CFL football coach (Harvard Crimson, Hamilton Tiger-Cats).
  • Nakdimon Rogel, 86, Israeli journalist and broadcaster, author of the Nakdi Report.
  • Anthony Philip Harbord-Hamond, 11th Baron Suffield, 89, British soldier and aristocrat.

    • 9

  • Alf R. Bjercke, 90, Norwegian business magnate.
  • Jacques Debary, 97, French actor.
  • Davida Karol, 94, Israeli actress.
  • João Pereira dos Santos, 93, Brazilian martial artist (Capoeira).
  • Len Phillips, 89, English footballer (Portsmouth, England).
  • Richard J. Rabbitt, 76, American politician, Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives (1973–1977), heart failure.
  • Roy Tattersall, 89, British Test cricketer.
  • Myra Taylor, 94, American jazz singer.

    • 10

  • Cary D. Allred, 64, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate (1980–1984) and North Carolina House of Representatives (1994–2009).
  • Jean Baucus, 94, American author, historian and arts patron, mother of Max Baucus.
  • Hamilton Bobby, 44, Indian footballer.
  • John Gower, 70, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1973–1979).
  • Vida Jerman, 72, Croatian actress, lung cancer.
  • Albert Overhauser, 86, American physicist.
  • Stephen Schlossberg, 90, American union leader.
  • Ernst Specker, 91, Swiss mathematician (Kochen–Specker theorem).
  • Frank Stephens, 98, Australian surgeon.

    • 11

  • Phillip Cottrell, 43, Scottish journalist (BBC Scotland, Radio New Zealand), assaulted.
  • Mimi Darwish, 69, Egyptian Olympic footballer (1964).
  • John Patrick Foley, 76, American Roman Catholic Cardinal and Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, leukemia and anemia.
  • Susan Gordon, 62, American child actress (The Five Pennies, My Three Sons, The Twilight Zone), thyroid cancer.
  • J. Lynn Helms, 86, American Marine Corps officer, Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (1981–1984), cardiopulmonary failure and pneumonia.
  • Mabel Holle, 91, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
  • Hans Heinz Holz, 84, German Marxist philosopher.
  • Harold Hopkins, 67, Australian actor (Don's Party, Gallipoli, Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities), mesothelioma.
  • Eric Howlett, 84, American inventor.
  • Ke Yan, 82, Chinese poet and writer.
  • Ahmed İhsan Kırımlı, 91, Turkish doctor, politician, poet and philanthropist.
  • Leonida Lari, 62, Moldovan-born Romanian writer and politician, member of the Supreme Soviet (1989–1991) and Romanian Parliament (1992–2008), breast cancer.
  • Mario Miranda, 85, Indian cartoonist.
  • Bonnie Prudden, 97, American rock climber and physical fitness advocate.
  • M. S. Reddy, 87, Indian film producer, long illness.

    • 12

  • Sunday Bada, 42, Nigerian Olympic sprinter, gold medalist (2000).
  • Clyde Conner, 78, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).
  • John Gardner, 94, British classical music composer.
  • Heini Lohrer, 93, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1948).
  • Alberto de Mendoza, 88, Argentine actor (Horror Express).
  • Mălina Olinescu, 37, Romanian singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1998), suicide.
  • Sir Robert Peliza, 91, Gibraltarian politician, Chief Minister (1969–1972).
  • Bert Schneider, 78, American film and television producer (Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Monkees), natural causes.
  • Merih Sezen, 93, Turkish Olympic fencer (1948).
  • Randy Stein, 58, American baseball player.
  • Gene Summers, 83, American architect (McCormick Place), liver disease.

    • 13

  • T. J. Bass, 79, American writer.
  • Graham Brown, 87, American actor (Malcolm X, The Muppets Take Manhattan), pulmonary failure.
  • Kabir Chowdhury, 88, Bangladeshi writer.
  • Russell Hoban, 86, American writer.
  • Park Tae-joon, 84, South Korean businessman and prime minister, breathing difficulties.
  • Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, 69, German footballer.
  • Erica Wilson, 83, British-born American embroidery designer.

    • 14

  • Roy Ash, 93, American businessman and public official, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (1972–1975).
  • Graham Booth, 71, British politician, Member of the European Parliament for South West England (2002–2008).
  • Luigi Carpaneda, 86, Italian Olympic fencer, gold medalist (1956).
  • Boris Chertok, 99, Soviet and Russian rocket designer.
  • Pedro Febles, 53, Venezuelan footballer and manager. (Spanish)
  • Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck, 75, German Olympic rower, gold medalist (1960).
  • Thomas C. Kelly, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Louisville (1981–2007).
  • Arthur King, 84, Canadian boxer.
  • Carol Murphy, 79, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1993–2002).
  • Mark Francis Schmitt, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Marquette (1978–1992).
  • Don Sharp, 90, Australian-born British film director (Hammer horror).
  • Joe Simon, 98, American comic book writer (Captain America, Fighting American, Prez).
  • Billie Jo Spears, 74, American country music singer ("Blanket on the Ground"), cancer.
  • George Whitman, 98, American bookstore proprietor (Shakespeare and Company), complications of a stroke.
  • James A. Zimble, 78, American Navy officer, Surgeon General of the United States Navy (1987–1991).

    • 15

  • Eduardo Barreto, 57, Uruguayan comic book artist (Batman, Superman, Martian Manhunter).
  • Emmett L. Bennett, Jr., 93, American classicist whose cataloging of Linear B led to its decipherment.
  • Bob Brookmeyer, 81, American jazz valve trombonist, cardiopulmonary arrest.
  • Andy Carey, 80, American baseball player (New York Yankees).
  • Walter Giller, 84, German actor.
  • Christopher Hitchens, 62, British writer (God Is Not Great) and commentator (Vanity Fair), esophageal cancer.
  • Paula Hyman, 65, American professor of modern Jewish history (Yale University).
  • Ricardo Ibarra, 61, Argentine Olympic rower (1972, 1976, 1984).
  • Guy Ignolin, 75, French professional cyclist.
  • Gadzhimurat Kamalov, 46, Russian journalist, shot.
  • Nur Khan, 88, Pakistani air marshal, Chief of Air Staff (1965–1969) and Governor of West Pakistan (1969–1970).
  • Frank X. McDermott, 87, American politician, President of the New Jersey Senate (1967–1973).
  • James M. Quigley, 93, American politician, Representative from Pennsylvania (1955–1957; 1959–1961).
  • Jason Richards, 35, New Zealand race car driver (V8 Supercars), adrenocortical carcinoma.
  • Carmen Rupe, 75, New Zealand transsexual entertainer, kidney failure.
  • Mario Tovar González, 78, Mexican Olympic wrestler (1952–1968), respiratory complications.

    • 16

  • Ulf Aas, 92, Norwegian illustrator.
  • Robert Easton, 81, American dialect coach and actor (Working Girl, Pete's Dragon, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country).
  • Dan Frazer, 90, American actor (Kojak, As the World Turns), cardiac arrest.
  • Alice Glenn, 89, Irish politician, TD for Dublin Central (1981–1982; 1982–1987).
  • Chubee Kagita, 54, Japanese politician, heart failure.
  • Henry Kitchener, 3rd Earl Kitchener, 92, British soldier and aristocrat.
  • Mark Kopytman, 82, Ukrainian-born Israeli composer.
  • Bert Muhly, 88, American politician and academic, Mayor of Santa Cruz, California (1974–1975), heart failure.
  • Patrick V. Murphy, 91, American police chief, New York City Police Commissioner (1970–1973), heart attack.
  • Michele O'Callaghan, 48, American makeup artist, cancer.
  • Te Paekiomeka Joy Ruha, 80, New Zealand Māori leader.
  • Keith W. Wilcox, 90, American architect and politician, member of LDS priesthood.
  • Nicol Williamson, 75, Scottish actor (Inadmissible Evidence, Spawn, Excalibur), esophageal cancer.

    • 17

  • Charles Chester, 92, English rugby player.
  • Marian Fricker, 89, American AAGPBL baseball player.
  • Michael Gower Coleman, 72, South African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Port Elizabeth (1986–2011).
  • Eva Ekvall, 28, Venezuelan TV news anchor and model, Miss Venezuela 2000, breast cancer.
  • Cesária Évora, 70, Cape Verdean singer, heart failure.
  • Maurice Huggett, 66, English nightclub proprietor.
  • Kim Jong-il, 69, North Korean Supreme Leader (since 1994), heart attack.
  • Harley Sewell, 80, American football player (Detroit Lions, Los Angeles Rams).

    • 18

  • Doe Avedon, 86, American actress (The High and the Mighty) and model, pneumonia.
  • Cor Bakker, 93, Dutch cyclist. [2]
  • Jean Boucher, 85, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament for Châteauguay—Huntingdon—Laprairie (1953–1958).
  • Henry E. Catto, Jr., 81, American public servant and diplomat, complications of leukemia.
  • Jeremy Doyle, 28, Australian wheelchair basketball player, Paralympic gold medalist (2009), bladder cancer.
  • Maurice Fitzgibbons, 57, American politician.
  • Václav Havel, 75, Czech playwright and politician, President of Czechoslovakia (1989–1992) and the Czech Republic (1993–2003).
  • Warren Hellman, 77, American investor, founder of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festivals, complications from leukemia treatment.
  • Evans Knowles, 97, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament for Norfolk (1957–1962).
  • Ralph MacDonald, 67, American percussionist and songwriter.
  • Ted Markland, 78, American actor. [3]
  • Donald Neilson, 75, English serial killer.
  • John Rex, 86, South African-born British sociologist.
  • Johnny Silvo, 75, British folk and blues singer.
  • Brian Sparkes, 70, Canadian biochemist.
  • Ronald Wolfe, 89, British sitcom writer (The Rag Trade, On the Buses), complications from a fall.
  • Marijan Žužej, 77, Croatian Olympic silver medal-winning (1956) water polo player.

    • 19

  • George Athor, 49, South Sudanese rebel leader, shot.
  • Gerard Louis Goettel, 83, American judge.
  • Luciano Magistrelli, 73, Italian Olympic footballer (1960), heart attack.
  • Héctor Núñez, 75, Uruguayan footballer, after long illness.
  • William G. Robinson, 85, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
  • Ron Smith, 70, American radio host (WBAL), pancreatic cancer.
  • Kathleen Webb, 85, American AAGPBL baseball player.

    • 20

  • Robert Ader, 79, American psychologist, co-founder of psychoneuroimmunology.
  • Hana Andronikova, 44, Czech writer and playwright, cancer.
  • Sean Bonniwell, 71, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Music Machine).
  • Howard P. Boyd, 97, American naturalist.
  • Hugh Carless, 86, British diplomat and explorer.
  • Jack Goldman, 90, American physicist, chief scientist at Xerox Corporation.
  • Khalifa Kambi, 56, Gambian politician, Deputy Minister of Agriculture (since 2010).
  • George Lundy, 64, American priest and academic, President of Wheeling Jesuit University (2000–2003), stroke.
  • Yoshimitsu Morita, 61, Japanese film director (The Family Game), liver failure.
  • Tushar Ranganath, 37, Indian film director (Gulama), heart attack.
  • Barry Reckord, 85, Jamaican playwright.
  • Leopold Unger, 89, Polish journalist. (Polish)
  • Kenchappa Varadaraj, 89, Indian Olympic footballer (1948).
  • Václav Zítek, 79, Czech opera singer.

    • 21

  • Bud Bloomfield, 75, American baseball player.
  • Francis Braganza, 89, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Baroda (1987–1997).
  • John Chamberlain, 84, American sculptor.
  • P. K. Iyengar, 80, Indian nuclear scientist.
  • Alastair Maitland, 95, British diplomat.
  • Werner Otto, 102, German entrepreneur (Otto GmbH).
  • Olavi Rokka, 86, Finnish Olympic modern pentathlete, bronze medalist (1952).
  • Yevhen Rudakov, 69, Russian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1972) football goalkeeper.
  • Robert Simons, 89, English cricketer (Hertfordshire).
  • Jonathan Stephenson, 60s, English-born Northern Irish politician.
  • Roberto Szidon, 70, Brazilian classical pianist, heart attack.
  • Umanosuke Ueda, 71, Japanese professional wrestler and actor, respiratory failure.
  • Jean-Pierre Urkia, 93, French-born Laotian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Paksé (1967–1975).

    • 22

  • Per Berlin, 90, Swedish Olympic silver (1952) and bronze (1956) medal-winning wrestler.
  • Richard Bessière, 88, French author.
  • Emanuel Bosák, 87, Czech sports official.
  • Bettye Danoff, 88, American golfer, founding member of the LPGA.
  • William Duell, 88, American singer and actor (1776, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest).
  • Bennie Ellender, 86, American college football coach (Arkansas State, Tulane), Alzheimer's disease.
  • Michael von Grünau, 67, Canadian psychologist and neurophysiologist.
  • Vasant Ranjane, 74, Indian cricketer.
  • Rogelio Sánchez González, 90, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Colima (1972–1980).
  • Marion Segal Freed, 77, American film producer, editor and screenwriter.
  • Zithulele Sinqe, 48, South African Olympic long distance runner, car accident.
  • Ernest A. Watkinson, 99, Canadian politician.

    • 23

  • Merrill Kenneth Albert, 88, American author and trial lawyer, heart disease.
  • Denise Darcel, 87, French actress, aneurysm.
  • Neil Davids, 56, English footballer.
  • Cees van Dongen, 79, Dutch motorcycle road racer.
  • Evelyn Handler, 78, American academic, President of the University of New Hampshire (1980–1983) and Brandeis University (1983–1991), traffic collision.
  • Bill Klatt, 64, American ice hockey player (Minnesota Fighting Saints), leukemia.
  • Francis Nigel Lee, 77, British-born American theologian, motor neurone disease.
  • Tripuraneni Maharadhi, 82, Indian screenwriter.
  • Aydın Menderes, 65, Turkish politician, son of Adnan Menderes.
  • Norayr Musheghian, 76, Armenian wrestler, coach and public activist, world champion (1958).
  • Abdur Razzaq, 69, Bangladeshi politician.
  • Bruce Ruxton, 85, Australian veterans' representative and advocate, President of the Victorian RSL (1979–2002).

    • 24

  • Monte Amundsen, 81, American opera and musical singer.
  • Armando Brambilla, 69, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Rome (since 1994).
  • Sergio Buso, 61, Italian footballer and coach.
  • Peggy R. Cook, 73, American politician.
  • José Andrés Corral Arredondo, 65, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Parral (since 1992), heart attack.
  • Bernard Gert, 77, American philosopher.
  • Johannes Heesters, 108, Dutch actor and singer, stroke.
  • Marvin Knopp, 78, American mathematician.
  • Zsuzsi Mary, 64, Hungarian pop singer, suicide.
  • Jody Rainwater, 92, American bluegrass musician and radio personality, heart disease.
  • John N. Ross, 91, Irish politician.
  • Lynn Samuels, 69, American radio personality (Sirius XM).
  • Walter Söhne, 98, German agronomist. (German)
  • Henri Sitek, 82, Polish-French cyclist. [4]
  • Vitaly Tseshkovsky, 67, Russian chess Grandmaster.

    • 25

  • Giorgio Bocca, 91, Italian essayist and journalist.
  • Ben Breedlove, 18, American Internet personality, cardiac arrest.
  • Sue Carroll, 58, British journalist, pancreatic cancer.
  • Adrienne Cooper, 65, American klezmer and Yiddish vocalist, adrenal cancer.
  • Satyadev Dubey, 75, Indian actor, playwright and director.
  • Thomas Finnegan, 86, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Killala (1987–2002).
  • Seán French, 80, Irish politician, Lord Mayor of Cork (1976) and TD (1967–1982).
  • Jack Fulbeck, 95, American poet and academic.
  • Habib Galhia, 70, Tunisian boxer, Olympic bronze medalist (1964).
  • Andrew Geller, 87, American architect, kidney failure.
  • Lex Gigeroff, 49, Canadian writer, actor and producer (Lexx), heart attack.
  • Khalil Ibrahim, Sudanese Darfuri rebel leader.
  • Sir Roger Jowell, 69, British social statistician.
  • John Christoffel Kannemeyer, 72, South African writer, authority on Afrikaans literature.
  • Christophe Laigneau, 46, French footballer (Stade Lavallois).
  • Alexander Melnikov, 81, Soviet and Russian politician.
  • Sir Moses Pitakaka, 66, Solomon Islander politician, Governor-General (1994–1999).
  • George Robb, 85, English footballer (Tottenham Hotspur F.C.), dementia.
  • Ferenc Schmidt, 70, Hungarian politician.
  • Jim Sherwood, 69, American musician (The Mothers of Invention).
  • Simms Taback, 79, American author, graphic artist and illustrator.

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  • Kennan Adeang, 69, Nauruan politician, President (1986).
  • Houston Antwine, 72, American football player (Boston/New England Patriots, Philadelphia Eagles), AFL All-Star (1963–1968), heart failure.
  • Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., 71, Mexican actor (Zorro series), cancer.
  • Sarekoppa Bangarappa, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Karnataka (1990–1992).
  • Joe Bodolai, 63, American comedy writer (Saturday Night Live) and producer, suicide by poisoning.
  • Sean Collins, 59, American surfer and surf forecaster (Surfline), heart attack.
  • Fred Fono, 49, Solomon Islander politician, Deputy Prime Minister (2006) and MP for Central Kwara'ae (1997–2010).
  • John Mackintosh Howie, 75, Scottish mathematician.
  • Kiyonori Kikutake, Japanese architect. (Japanese)
  • Barbara Lea, 82, American jazz singer and actress, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Wilhelm Noller, 92, German Luftwaffe member, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
  • Sam Rivers, 88, American jazz musician and composer, pneumonia.
  • James Rizzi, 61, American pop artist.
  • Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff, 81, American-born Georgian aristocrat, New York City highway commissioner, esphogeal cancer.

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  • Frank Bourke, 89, Australian football player.
  • Catê, 38, Brazilian footballer, car accident. [5]
  • Sir Clifford Darling, 89, Bahamian politician, Governor-General (1992–1995).
  • Sir Michael Dummett, 86, British philosopher.
  • Helen Frankenthaler, 83, American painter.
  • Julia Sampson Hayward, 77, American tennis player, won Australian Open doubles and mixed doubles (1963).
  • Rusty Hevelin, 89, American science fiction fanzine publisher.
  • Mykola Koltsov, 75, Russian-born Ukrainian footballer and youth trainer.
  • Ante Čedo Martinić, 51, Croatian actor (Ruža vjetrova), cancer.
  • Thinley Norbu, 81, Tibetan Buddhist writer and teacher.
  • Sir Iwan Raikes, 90, British admiral.
  • Betty Jane Rhodes, 90, American actress (The Arizona Raiders, Sweater Girl).
  • Martino Scarafile, 84, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Castellaneta (1985–2003).
  • Dan Terry, 87, American jazz trumpeter and big band leader.
  • Anne Tyng, 91, American architect.
  • Dennis Utter, 72, American politician, Nebraska State Senator (since 2009).
  • Johnny Wilson, 82, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (Detroit Red Wings).

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  • James Earl Baumgartner, 68, American mathematician.
  • Bruce Fine, 74, American sports team part-owner.
  • Larry Hamilton, 60, American blues singer and songwriter.
  • Charlotte Kerr, 84, German film director and producer.
  • Don Mueller, 84, American baseball player (New York Giants, Chicago White Sox), MLB All-Star (1954, 1955).
  • Hasan Mutlucan, 85, Turkish folk singer.
  • Lucia Rikaki, 50, Greek stage, film and television director, cancer.
  • Jon Roberts, 63, American drug trafficker, cancer.
  • Myron Roderick, 77, American Olympic wrestler (1956) and coach.
  • Kaye Stevens, 79, American singer and actress, breast cancer and blood clots.
  • Teruo Sugihara, 74, Japanese golfer, prostate cancer.

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  • Julie Allred, 57, American actress, diabetes.
  • Paul Antaki, 84, Egyptian Melkite Catholic hierarch, Auxiliary Archbishop of Antioch (1968–2001).
  • Rosman García, 32, Venezuelan baseball player (Texas Rangers), traffic collision.
  • Leopold Hawelka, 100, Austrian coffee house owner (Café Hawelka).
  • John Robert Holmes, 84, Canadian politician, MP for Lambton—Kent (1972–1980).
  • Ron Howells, 84, Welsh footballer.
  • Ken Johnson, 80, English footballer.
  • Aamir Hayat Khan Rokhri, 55, Pakistani politician, heart attack.
  • Svein Krøvel, 65, Norwegian cinematographer.
  • Tyron Perez, 26, Filipino actor (StarStruck), shot.
  • Amichand Rajbansi, 69, South African politician, Minister without portfolio (1984–1988), Leader of the Minority Front (since 1994).
  • Bob Wasserman, 77, American police chief and politician, Mayor of Fremont, California (2004–2011), respiratory complications.
  • Milton Wong, 72, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, pancreatic cancer.

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  • Ted Beard, 90, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago White Sox).
  • Garnet Campbell, 84, Canadian curler.
  • Mike Colalillo, 86, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
  • Dezső Garas, 77, Hungarian actor.
  • Muhammad Hamidullah Khan, 74, Bangladeshi politician.
  • Sir Robert Horton, 72, British businessman.
  • Kim Geun-tae, 64, South Korean politician, Minister of Health and Welfare (2004–2006), pneumonia and kidney failure.
  • Richard Lainhart, 58, American artist and composer, complications after surgery.
  • Ricardo Legorreta, 80, Mexican architect, UIA Gold Medal recipient, cancer.
  • Ronald Searle, 91, British cartoonist (St Trinian's School, Molesworth).
  • Doug Sellars, 50, Canadian television executive (Fox Sports Media Group, CBC Sports), heart attack.
  • Vasily Starodubtsev, 80, Russian politician, Governor of Tula Oblast (1997–2005), member of the Gang of Eight (1991).
  • Eleanor Ross Taylor, 91, American poet.
  • Mirko Tremaglia, 85, Italian politician, Minister without portfolio (2001–2006).
  • Eva Zeisel, 105, Hungarian-born American ceramic artist and designer.

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  • Kanati Allen, 64, American Olympic gymnast.
  • Murray Barnes, 57, Australian soccer player (Sydney Hakoah), national captain (1980–1981).
  • Celia Dale, 99, British crime writer.
  • Alfonso Gómez-Lobo, 71, Chilean-born American academic, professor of metaphysics and moral philosophy (Georgetown University).
  • Roy Greenwood, 80, English footballer (Crystal Palace F.C.).
  • Sir David Hirst, 86, British jurist.
  • Rex Jackson, 83, Australian politician and convicted criminal, New South Wales MLA for Bulli (1955–1971) and Heathcote (1971–1986).
  • Penny Jordan, 65, British romantic novelist.
  • Jerzy Kluger, 90, Polish businessman, bronchitis.
  • Stanley Kwan, 86, Hong Kong banker, creator of the Hang Seng Index, heart failure.
  • Glenn Lord, 80, American editor.
  • Michael Mann, 87, British Anglican prelate, Dean of Windsor (1976–1989).

    • References

    Deaths in December 2011 Wikipedia
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