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Deaths in February 2011

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

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1

  • Ernst Badian, 85, Austrian classical scholar and history professor (Harvard University), complications from a fall. [1]
  • Lennox Fyfe, Baron Fyfe of Fairfield, 69, British politician. [2]
  • Douglas Haig, 90, American child actor. [3]
  • Stanisław Michalski, 78, Polish actor. [4] (Polish)
  • Derek Rawcliffe, 89, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway (1981–1991). [5]
  • Knut Risan, 80, Norwegian actor. [6] (Norwegian)
  • Husik Santurjan, 91, Turkish-born Armenian archbishop of Armenian Apostolic Church. [7]
  • Les Stubbs, 81, British footballer. [8]
  • 2

  • Geoff Ainsworth, 64, Australian football player, cancer.
  • Federico Aguilar Alcuaz, 78, Filipino painter.
  • Edward Amy, 92, Canadian brigadier general.
  • Ian Anderson, 57, British politician, brain tumour.
  • Darrel Baldock, 72, Australian football player and coach, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1972–1987) and Minister (1975–1982), stroke.
  • Daniela Castelo, 42, Argentine journalist and radio host, aneurysm.
  • Armando Chin Yong, 53, Malaysian opera singer, heart disease.
  • Jimmy Fell, 75, British footballer (Grimsby Town), natural causes.
  • Bill Foster, 78, American television director (Benson, Full House, The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults), cancer.
  • Defne Joy Foster, 35, Turkish actress, presenter and VJ.
  • Awal Gul, 48, Afghan detainee in Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, heart attack.
  • Douglas M. Head, 80, American politician, Minnesota Attorney General (1967–1971), natural causes.
  • Rodney Hill, 89, British mathematician.
  • Clark Hulings, 88, American realist painter and physicist.
  • Margaret John, 84, British actress (Gavin & Stacey), liver cancer.
  • Durga Mukherjee, 77, Indian cricketer.
  • Eric Nicol, 91, Canadian writer.
  • René Verdon, 86, French-born American White House Executive Chef, leukemia.
  • 3

  • Ajib Ahmad, 63, Malaysian politician, Chief Minister of Johor (1982–1986). [9]
  • Édouard Glissant, 82, Martinican poet and writer. [10]
  • LeRoy Grannis, 93, American surfing photographer. [11]
  • Tony Levin, 71, British jazz drummer. [12]
  • Ron Piché, 75, Canadian baseball player (Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals), cancer. [13] (French)
  • Maria Schneider, 58, French actress (Last Tango in Paris), cancer. [14]
  • Tatyana Shmyga, 82, Russian operetta singer and film actress (Hussar Ballad), People's Artist of the USSR, vascular disease. [15]
  • Machan Varghese, 50, Indian Malayalam film actor, cancer. [16]
  • Neil Young, 66, British footballer (Manchester City), cancer. [17]
  • Robert Young, 95, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) athlete. Archived February 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  • 4

  • Martial Célestin, 97, Haitian lawyer and diplomat, Prime Minister (1988). [18] (French)
  • Robert L. Frye, 84, American educator. [19]
  • Woodie Fryman, 70, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Montreal Expos). [20]
  • Michael Habeck, 66, German actor, after short illness. [21] (German)
  • Dame Olga Lopes-Seale, 92, Guyanese-born Barbadian broadcaster and singer. [22]
  • Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud, 37, Egyptian journalist, shot. [23]
  • Lena Nyman, 66, Swedish actress (I Am Curious (Yellow), I Am Curious (Blue), Autumn Sonata), cancer. [24]
  • Vasile Paraschiv, 82, Romanian political activist and dissident. [25] (Romanian)
  • Tura Satana, 72, American actress (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), heart failure. [26]
  • Earl Irvin West, 90, American church historian. [27]
  • Lee Winfield, 64, American basketball player (Seattle SuperSonics, Buffalo Braves), colon cancer. [28]
  • 5

  • Fanizani Akuda, 78, Zimbabwean sculptor. [29]
  • Omar Amiralay, 67, Syrian filmmaker, heart attack. [30]
  • Eugeniusz Czajka, 83, Polish Olympic field hockey player. [31] (Polish)
  • Ruth H. Funk, 93, American LDS Church youth leader (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). [32]
  • John Paul Getty III, 54, American heir and kidnapping victim, grandson of J. Paul Getty and father of Balthazar Getty, after long illness. [33]
  • Miriam Hansen, 61, American cinema scholar and professor (University of Chicago), cancer. [34]
  • Brian Jacques, 71, British fantasy author (Redwall), heart attack. [35]
  • Adjie Massaid, 43, Indonesian actor, under-23 national football team manager and politician, heart attack. [36]
  • Hiroko Nagata, 65, Japanese radical and murderer, vice-chairman of United Red Army. [37]
  • Donald Peterman, 79, American cinematographer (Flashdance, Men in Black, Cocoon), complications from myelodysplastic syndrome. [38]
  • Pertti Purhonen, 68, Finnish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1964) boxer, Alzheimer's disease. [39] (Finnish)
  • Martin Quigley, Jr., 93, American publisher, spy and author. [40]
  • Peggy Rea, 89, American character actress (Grace Under Fire, The Dukes of Hazzard, Step by Step, The Waltons), heart failure. [41]
  • Charles E. Silberman, 86, American journalist and author (Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice), heart attack. [42]
  • Pavel Vondruška, 85, Czech conductor and actor, accidental fall. [43] (Czech)
  • Albert Yator, 17, Kenyan long-distance runner, world junior steeplechase medallist, bronchopneumonia. [44]
  • 6

  • Andrée Chedid, 90, Egyptian-born French poet and novelist. [45]
  • Isabelle Corey, 71, French film actress, cancer. [46], [47] (French)
  • Billy Gallier, 78, British footballer (Tamworth) and manager. [48]
  • Josefa Iloilo, 90, Fijian politician, President (2000–2006; 2007–2009). [49]
  • Gary Moore, 58, Irish rock guitarist and singer (Thin Lizzy), heart attack. [50]
  • William Morais, 19, Brazilian footballer (América-MG), shot. [51]
  • John Nisby, 74, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington Redskins), pneumonia. [52]
  • Ken Olsen, 84, American engineer, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation. [53]
  • Aurel Smith, 95, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. [54]
  • James Watson, 59, British trumpeter, heart attack. [55]
  • 7

  • Maria Altmann, 94, Austrian-born American art heiress, after long illness. [56]
  • Jerry Ames, 80, American tapdancer and choreographer. [57]
  • Hysen Hakani, 78, Albanian screenwriter and director, directed first Albanian short film. [58] (Albanian)
  • Bobby Kuntz, 79, American CFL player (Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger-Cats), Parkinson's disease. [59]
  • Eric Parsons, 87, British footballer. [60]
  • Frank Roberts, 65, Australian boxer, first Australian Aboriginal Olympian (1964), heart attack. [61]
  • 8

  • Nick Arundel, 83, American journalist and publisher, pulmonary failure. [62]
  • Roza Baglanova, 89, Kazakh singer, People's Artist of the USSR. [63] (Russian)
  • Luiz Bueno, 74, Brazilian race car driver, cancer. [64] (Portuguese)
  • Elaine Crowley, 83, Irish author. [65]
  • Cliff Dapper, 91, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). [66]
  • Bob Faulkner, 60, British football manager (Solihull Moors F.C.), prostate cancer. [67]
  • Bradley C. Livezey, 56, American ornithologist, car accident. [68]
  • Tony Malinosky, 101, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). [69]
  • Marie-Rose Morel, 38, Belgian politician, cancer. [70]
  • Jorma Ojaharju, 72, Finnish author. [71] (Finnish)
  • Charles O. Perry, 81, American sculptor, stomach cancer. [72]
  • Angelo Reyes, 65, Filipino general and politician, suicide by gunshot. [73]
  • Cesare Rubini, 87, Italian basketball player and coach, water polo player. Cesare Rubini dies; led Italy to silver
  • Donald S. Sanford, 92, American film and television writer (Midway). [74]
  • Marvin Sease, 64, American blues singer, pneumonia. [75]
  • Ferbent Shehu, 78, Albanian dancer and choreographer, heart attack. [76] (Albanian)
  • Eugenio Toussaint, 56, Mexican composer and jazz musician, heart attack. [77]
  • 9

  • Olga de Angulo, 55, Colombian Olympic swimmer. [78]
  • Miltiadis Evert, 71, Greek politician and minister, Mayor of Athens (1987–1989) and President of New Democracy (1993–1997), after a long illness. [79]
  • Leroy R. Hassell, Sr., 55, American jurist, Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court (since 1989) and Chief Justice (2003–2011). [80]
  • David Sánchez Juliao, 65, Colombian author. [81] (Spanish)
  • Jimmy Lemi Milla, 62, Southern Sudanese politician, shot. [82]
  • Alicia Pietri, 87, Venezuelan First Lady (1969–1974; 1994–1999), widow of President Rafael Caldera. [83]
  • Ronald Walker, 85, Australian cricketer. [84]
  • 10

  • Trevor Bailey, 87, British Test cricketer and BBC radio broadcaster (Test Match Special), house fire. [85]
  • Emory Bellard, 83, American college football coach (Texas A&M University, Mississippi State University), creator of wishbone offense, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [86]
  • Doug Davis, 66, American football player (Minnesota Vikings). [87]
  • Claus Helmut Drese, 88, German theatre and opera administrator. [88] (German)
  • Saad El Shazly, 88, Egyptian military leader. [89]
  • Michael Harsegor, 86, Israeli historian. [90]
  • Bill Justice, 97, American animator (Peter Pan, Bambi, Alice in Wonderland), natural causes. [91]
  • Blanche Honegger Moyse, 101, American conductor. [92]
  • Oleg Lavrentiev, 84, Russian nuclear physicist. [93] (Russian)
  • Jon Petrovich, 63, American journalist, executive at CNN, cancer. [94]
  • Sam Plank, 62, British radio broadcaster, cancer. [95]
  • Fred Speck, 63, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings). [96]
  • Lynne Walker, 54, British music and theatre critic, cancer. [97]
  • Józef Życiński, 62, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Lublin (since 1997), myocardial infarction. [98]
  • 11

  • Nubia Barahona, 10, American child abuse victim, beaten. [99]
  • John Patrick Barnes, 69, American civic leader, heart attack. [100]
  • Bad News Brown, 33, Canadian rapper and harmonica player, beaten and shot. [101]
  • Sir Arthur Bryan, 87, British businessman. [102]
  • Tom Carnegie, 91, American sports announcer (Indianapolis Motor Speedway). [103]
  • Bo Carpelan, 84, Finnish poet and author. [104]
  • John Clay, 86, English cricketer. [105]
  • Steve Dacri, 58, American magician, cancer. [106]
  • Joe R. Greenhill, 96, American attorney, Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court (1972–1982). [107]
  • Roy Gussow, 92, American sculptor (Infinity), heart attack. [108]
  • Gerry Huth, 77, American football player (New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings). [109]
  • Christian J. Lambertsen, 93, American diving engineer, inventor of first SCUBA device, renal failure. [110]
  • Earle Morris, Jr., 82, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina (1971–1975). [111]
  • Josef Pirrung, 61, German footballer, cancer. [112] (German)
  • Chuck Tanner, 82, American baseball manager (Chicago White Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates) and player (Los Angeles Dodgers), after long illness. [113]
  • 12

  • Peter Alexander, 84, Austrian actor and singer. [114] (German)
  • Ching Arellano, 50, Filipino actor and comedian, heart failure. [115]
  • Kevin Barry, Sr., 74, New Zealand boxing coach, after long illness. [116]
  • Gino Cimoli, 81, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates), heart and kidney complications. [117]
  • Mato Damjanović, 83, Croatian chess grandmaster. [118]
  • Ernesto De Pascale, 52, Italian music promoter, producer and critic. [119]
  • Mark C. Ebersole, 89, American educator. [120]
  • James Elliott, 82, British-born Australian actor (Number 96), Lewy body dementia. [121]
  • Betty Garrett, 91, American actress, singer and dancer (On the Town, All in the Family, Laverne & Shirley), aortic aneurysm. [122]
  • Fedor den Hertog, 64, Dutch cyclist and Olympic medallist, prostate cancer. [123]
  • Andrzej Kłopotowski, 75, Polish Olympic swimmer. [124]
  • Konstantinos Kosmopoulos, 83, Greek politician, Mayor of Thessaloniki (1989–1999), cardiac arrest. [125] (Greek)
  • Kenneth Mars, 75, American actor (Young Frankenstein, The Producers, The Little Mermaid), pancreatic cancer. [126]
  • John Monson, 11th Baron Monson, 78, British aristocrat and politician, head injuries following a fall. [127]
  • Saleh Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi, 90, Saudi Arabian businessman, founder of Al-Rajhi Bank, heart attack. [128]
  • Bridgett Rollins, 54, American model (Playboy), cancer. [129]
  • Joanne Siegel, 93, American widow of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, reported model for the character of Lois Lane. [130]
  • Vipindas, 72, Indian cinematographer and director, short illness. [131]
  • Frank Whitten, 68, New Zealand actor (Outrageous Fortune), cancer. [132]
  • 13

  • Arnfinn Bergmann, 82, Norwegian ski jumper and Olympic champion, after brief illness. [133] (Norwegian)
  • Bustanil Arifin, 85, Indonesian politician. [134]
  • Manuel Esperón, 99, Mexican composer and actor, respiratory arrest. [135] (Spanish)
  • Louis Grisius, 74, Luxembourgian Olympic cyclist. [136]
  • Oakley Hall III, 60, American playwright, heart attack. [137]
  • Dona Hardy, 98, American actress (The Truman Show, When Harry Met Sally..., Superbad), natural causes. [138]
  • Larry Holden, 49, Irish actor (Batman Begins, Memento), cancer. [139]
  • Inese Jaunzeme, 78, Latvian javelin thrower and Olympic gold medalist (1956 Melbourne). [140] (Latvian)
  • Nobutoshi Kihara, 84, Japanese electronics engineer for Sony. [141]
  • Paul Marcus, 56, British television producer, cancer. [142]
  • T. P. McKenna, 81, Irish actor (The Avengers, Doctor Who). [143]
  • Brian Shaw, 79/80, British rugby league player. [144]
  • Shi Yafeng, 91, Chinese geologist. [145] (Chinese)
  • 14

  • Sean Boru, 57, Irish actor and author. [146]
  • Tommy Burns, 88, Australian boxer. [147]
  • Peter Feteris, 58, Dutch footballer. [148] (Dutch)
  • David F. Friedman, 87, American film producer (Blood Feast), heart failure. [149]
  • Cecil Kaiser, 94, American Negro league baseball player, injuries from a fall. [150]
  • Catherine Clark Kroeger, 85, American author, professor and New Testament scholar, brief illness. [151]
  • Peter Pilkington, Baron Pilkington of Oxenford, 77, British academic and life peer, Chairman of the BCC (1992–1996). [152]
  • Sir George Shearing, 91, British-born American jazz pianist (Lullaby of Birdland), heart failure. [153]
  • John Strauss, 90, American film and television composer (Amadeus, Car 54, Where Are You?), Parkinson's disease. [154]
  • 15

  • Dame Judith Binney, 70, New Zealand historian and author. [155]
  • Charles Epstein, 77, American geneticist and Unabomber victim, pancreatic cancer. [156]
  • Joe Frazier, 88, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and manager (New York Mets). [157]
  • Sidney Harth, 85, American violinist and conductor, respiratory complications. [158]
  • George Marsaglia, 87, American mathematician and computer scientist. developed diehard tests, heart attack. [159]
  • François Nourissier, 83, French journalist and writer, complications from Parkinsons disease. [160]
  • Cyril Stein, 82, British businessman. [161]
  • 16

  • Hans Joachim Alpers, 67, German writer and editor of science fiction and fantasy. [162] (German)
  • Neal Amundson, 95, American chemical engineer. [163]
  • William A. Bablitch, 69, American politician, Wisconsin State Senator (1983–2003) and Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice (1983–2002). [164]
  • Alfred Burke, 92, British actor (Public Eye, Enemy at the Door), chest infection. [165]
  • Jack Calfee, 69, American economist and author, heart attack. [166]
  • Tonny van Ede, 86, Dutch football player (Sparta Rotterdam). [167] (Dutch)
  • Dorian Gray, 83, Italian actress, suicide by gunshot. [168] (Italian)
  • Len Lesser, 88, American actor (Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond), cancer-related pneumonia. [169]
  • Justinas Marcinkevičius, 80, Lithuanian poet and playwright. [170] (Lithuanian)
  • Santi Santamaria, 53, Spanish chef. [171]
  • David Shapiro, 58, American jazz musician. [172]
  • 17

  • Hans Joachim Alpers, 67, German co-founder of German company Fantasy Productions.[173]
  • Ricky Bell, 36, American football player (Chicago Bears, Jacksonville Jaguars, Winnipeg Blue Bombers). [174]
  • George Clarke, 89, British footballer (Ipswich Town). [175]
  • Dave Duerson, 50, American football player (Chicago Bears, Phoenix Cardinals, New York Giants), suicide by gunshot. [176]
  • Francis Anthony Gomes, 79, Bangladeshi Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mymensingh (1987–2006). [177]
  • Ron Hickman, 78, South African-born British inventor (Black & Decker Workmate, Lotus Elan). [178]
  • Steve Horn, 79, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1993–2003), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [179]
  • Augustine Hu Daguo, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic underground bishop of Guiyang. [180]
  • George Lewis, 93, Trinidad and Tobago Olympic track and field athlete. [181]
  • James McLure, 59, American playwright. [182]
  • Michelle Monkhouse, 19, Canadian fashion model, car accident. [183]
  • Bill Monroe, 90, American journalist, host of Meet the Press (1975–1984), complications from hypertension. [184]
  • Perry Moore, 39, American author (Hero) and film producer (The Chronicles of Narnia), apparent drug overdose. [185]
  • Vivien Noakes, 74, British literary critic, cancer. [186]
  • Gustave Olombe Atelumbu Musilamu, 83, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Wamba (1968–1990). [187]
  • 18

  • Cayle Chernin, 63, Canadian actress (Goin' Down the Road), cancer. [188]
  • John M. Falcone, 44, American police officer Poughkeepsie, New York, shot [189]
  • Len Gilmore, 93, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates). [190]
  • Spook Jacobs, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics/Kansas City Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates). [191]
  • Catherine Jourdan, 62, French actress, pulmonary embolism. [192] (French)
  • Buddy Lewis, 94, American baseball player (Washington Senators), cancer. [193]
  • Abdost Rind, 27, Pakistani journalist, shot. [194]
  • Walter Seltzer, 96, American film producer (Soylent Green, The Omega Man). [195]
  • Marshall Stoneham, 70, British physicist, complications of surgery. [196]
  • Bob Tanna, c. 96, Indian amateur radio operator. [197]
  • Tykhon Zhylyakov, 42, Ukrainian Orthodox Bishop of Kremenchuk and Lubny (since 2009), cardiac arrest. [198] (Ukrainian)
  • 19

  • Suresh Babu, 58, Indian Olympic athlete, cirrhosis. [199]
  • Florinda Chico, 84, Spanish actress, respiratory disease. [200]
  • Norman Corner, 68, British footballer. [201]
  • Donald L. Cox, 74, American leader of the Black Panther Party. [202]
  • Ollie Matson, 80, American Hall of Fame football player (St. Louis Rams, Philadelphia Eagles), complications from dementia. [203]
  • Anson Rainey, 81, American academic and author, pancreatic cancer. [204]
  • Ernő Solymosi, 70, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) football player. [205] (Hungarian)
  • Dietrich Stobbe, 72, German politician, Mayor of West Berlin (1977–1981). [206] (German)
  • David R. Thompson, 80, American federal judge. [207]
  • Max Wilk, 90, American playwright, screenwriter and author. [208]
  • Richard L. Williams, 87, American jurist, District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia (1979–1992), natural causes. [209]
  • Yuan Xuefen, 88, Chinese Shaoxing opera actress. [210]
  • 20

  • Drew Baur, 66, American banker, co-owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, heart attack. [211]
  • Eddie Brandt, 90, American composer and songwriter. [212]
  • Raphael Bretton, 91, French Oscar-winning set decorator (Hello, Dolly!, The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure). [213]
  • Barbara Harmer, 57, British aviator, first female Concorde pilot, cancer. [214]
  • Betty Hicks, 90, American golfer (LPGA Tour), Alzheimer's disease. [215]
  • Troy Jackson, 35, American basketball player (AND1 Mixtape Tour). [216]
  • Tony Kellow, 58, British footballer (Exeter City). [217]
  • Jay Landesman, 91, American publisher, writer and nightclub proprietor, husband of Fran Landesman. [218]
  • Frank A. McClintock, 90, American mechanical engineer. [219]
  • Sir Fred Phillips, 92, Kittitian politician, Administrator (1966–1967) and Governor of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla (1967–1969). [220]
  • Helmut Ringelmann, 84, German film and television producer, organ failure. [221]
  • Noemí Simonetto de Portela, 85, Argentine Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) athlete. [222] (Spanish)
  • Malaysia Vasudevan, 66, Indian actor and playback singer, heart failure. [223] [224]
  • Mehdi Mohammed Zeyo, 49, Libyan activist, explosion. [225]
  • 21

  • Odón Alonso, 85, Spanish conductor and composer. [226]
  • Jean Baeza, 68, French footballer. [227] (French)
  • Bob Boyd, 55, American professional golfer, leukemia. [228]
  • Ben Fricke, 35, American football player (Dallas Cowboys), colon cancer. [229]
  • Edwin D. Kilbourne, 90, American research scientist and influenza vaccine expert. [230]
  • Dick Klugman, 87, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives (1969–1990). [231]
  • Anne Muirhead Mathams, 97, Scottish education and disability campaigner. [232]
  • Dwayne McDuffie, 49, American comic book writer, editor and animator (Milestone Media), complications following heart surgery. [233]
  • Bernard Nathanson, 84, American pro-choice activist and co-founder of NARAL, later pro-life activist and writer, cancer. [234]
  • Jerzy Nowosielski, 88, Polish painter, graphic artist, scenographer and illustrator. [235]
  • Russell W. Peterson, 94, American politician, Governor of Delaware (1969–1973), stroke. [236]
  • Kenneth Pillar, 86, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Hertford (1982–1989). [237]
  • Aranmula Ponnamma, 96, Indian actress. [238]
  • Premananda, 59, Sri Lankan-born Indian religious leader, convicted rapist and murderer. [239]
  • Rudy Robbins, 77, American singer and actor. [240]
  • Haila Stoddard, 97, American actress and Broadway producer, cardiopulmonary arrest. [241]
  • Judith Sulzberger, 87, American physician, pancreatic cancer. [242]
  • Antonín Švorc, 77, Czech operatic bass-baritone. [243] (Czech)
  • 22

  • Kjell Bjartveit, 83, Norwegian physician and politician. [244]
  • Brian Bonsor, 84, Scottish composer and music teacher. [245]
  • George Buksar, 84, American football player (Chicago Hornets, Washington Redskins). [246]
  • Nicholas Courtney, 81, British actor (Doctor Who). [247]
  • Bill Deck, 95, American Negro league baseball player. [248]
  • Beau Dollar, 69, American singer and drummer, long illness. [249]
  • Jean Dinning, 86, American songwriter ("Teen Angel"), sister of Mark Dinning. [250]
  • Jo Giles, 61, New Zealand television personality and sportswoman, earthquake. [251]
  • Ion Hobana, 80, Romanian science fiction author. [252]
  • Amanda Hooper, 30, New Zealand field hockey representative, earthquake. [253]
  • Jud McAtee, 91, Canadian-born American ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks). [254]
  • James R. McCartney, 90, American politician, Secretary of State of West Virginia (1975–1977). [255]
  • Bill Nimmo, 93, American radio and television announcer (Who Do You Trust?, The Jackie Gleason Show) and game show host (Keep It in the Family). [256]
  • Ivo Pavelić, 103, Croatian footballer and Olympic swimmer. [257]
  • 23

  • Matthew Carr, 57, British figurative artist, leukaemia. [258]
  • James Damman, 78, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (1975–1979), cancer. [259]
  • Joseph H. Flom, 87, American corporate lawyer, heart failure. [260]
  • Rebekah Johansson, 29, Swedish model, apparent suicide. [261] (Swedish)
  • Gustav Just, 89, German journalist and politician. [262] (German)
  • Adney Y. Komatsu, 87, American religious leader (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). [263]
  • Jean Lartéguy, 90, French soldier, war correspondent and writer. [264] (Spanish)
  • Frank Prout, 89, British Olympic sprint canoer and businessman. [265]
  • Nirmala Srivastava, 87, Indian spiritual leader, founder of Sahaja Yoga religious movement. [266]
  • Mike Zimring, 94, American radio actor and theatrical agent. [267]
  • 24

  • Yozhef Betsa, 81, Ukrainian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) footballer. [268] (Russian)
  • Jerrold Kessel, 66, South African-born Israeli journalist (CNN), cancer. [269]
  • Anant Pai, 81, Indian educator and comics creator (Amar Chitra Katha). [270]
  • Mullapudi Venkata Ramana, 80, Indian Telugu screenplay writer. [271]
  • Robert Reguly, 80, Canadian journalist (Toronto Star), heart disease. [272]
  • Harry Walsh, 97, Canadian lawyer, complications from a fall. [273]
  • Jens Winther, 50, Danish jazz trumpet player, stroke. [274] (Danish)
  • A. Wayne Wymore, 84, American mathematician and systems engineer. [275]
  • 25

  • John Thomas Chambers, Jr., 82, American politician, only African-American Mayor of Annapolis (1981), heart attack. [276]
  • Rick Coonce, 64, American drummer (The Grass Roots). [277]
  • Aminath Faiza, 86, Maldivian poet and author. [278]
  • Manny Fried, 97, American playwright and actor. [279]
  • Peter Hildreth, 82, British Olympic hurdler, 1950 European Championships medalist. [280]
  • István Janei, 57, Hungarian Olympic sport shooter. [281]
  • John Miner, 92, American attorney, prosecutor responsible for investigating the death of Marilyn Monroe. [282]
  • Eneas Perdomo, 80, Venezuelan folk singer. [283] (Spanish)
  • Suze Rotolo, 67, American artist, lung cancer. [284]
  • Carola Scarpa, 39, Brazilian socialite, multiple organ failure. [285] (Portuguese)
  • 26

  • Kostas Andriopoulos, 26, Greek footballer (PAOK, Veria), leukemia. [286] (Greek)
  • Judith Coplon, 89, American political analyst, convicted of espionage. [287]
  • Susan Crosland, 84, American journalist, widow of Anthony Crosland. [288]
  • Richard F. Daines, 60, American physician, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health (2007–2010). [289]
  • Jon Fitch, 60, American politician, Arkansas State Representative (1979–1983) and State Senator (1983–2002), complications of a stroke. [290]
  • Eugene Fodor, 60, American violinist, cirrhosis. [291]
  • Ed Frutig, 92, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions). [292]
  • Greg Goossen, 65, American baseball player (New York Mets) and actor (Wyatt Earp, Unforgiven). [293]
  • Bill Grigsby, 89, American radio sportscaster (Kansas City Chiefs), prostate cancer and fall. [294]
  • Cynthia Holcomb Hall, 82, American circuit judge for the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1984–1997), cancer. [295]
  • Shawn Lee, 44, American football player (Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears). [296]
  • Arnošt Lustig, 84, Czech writer and Holocaust survivor, cancer. [297]
  • James A. McClure, 86, American politician, U.S. Representative (1967–1973) and Senator from Idaho (1973–1991), following multiple strokes. [298]
  • Richard J. Naughton, 64, American vice admiral, Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy (2002–2003). [299]
  • Dean Richards, 36, British footballer (Bradford City, Wolverhampton, Southampton, Tottenham). [300]
  • Jorge Santoro, 66, Brazilian footballer, heart attack. [301]
  • Roch Thériault, 63, Canadian cult leader and convicted murderer, murdered in prison. [302]
  • Mark Tulin, 62, American bass player (The Electric Prunes, The Smashing Pumpkins), heart attack. [303]
  • Zhu Guangya, 86, Chinese nuclear physicist, helped develop nation's first atomic bomb. [304]
  • 27

  • Frank Alesia, 67, American actor and director (Pajama Party, Riot on Sunset Strip, C'mon, Let's Live a Little), natural causes. [305]
  • Frank Buckles, 110, American supercentenarian soldier, last living U.S. World War I veteran, natural causes. [306]
  • J. Elliot Cameron, 88, American educator and religious leader, natural causes. [307]
  • Margaret Eliot, 97, British music teacher and musician. [308]
  • Necmettin Erbakan, 84, Turkish politician, Prime Minister (1996–1997). [309]
  • James Gruber, 82, American teacher and early gay rights activist, last surviving member of the Mattachine Society. [310]
  • Maurice Guigue, 98, French football referee (1958 FIFA World Cup Final). [311]
  • Eddie Kirkland, 88, American blues guitarist, car accident. [312]
  • Amparo Muñoz, 56, Spanish actress, Miss Universe 1974. [313]
  • Skonk Nicholson, 94, South African teacher and rugby union coach (Maritzburg College, 1948–1982). [314]
  • Emerson Rodwell, 89, Australian cricketer and soldier. [315]
  • Moacyr Scliar, 73, Brazilian physician and writer, stroke. [316] (Portuguese)
  • Duke Snider, 84, American Baseball Hall of Famer (Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets, San Francisco Giants). [317]
  • Gary Winick, 49, American film director (13 Going on 30, Letters to Juliet, Charlotte's Web), pneumonia. [318]
  • 28

  • Netiva Ben-Yehuda, 82, Israeli author and radio personality.
  • Scott Cary, 87, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
  • Harvey Dorfman, 75, American sports psychologist.
  • Ernest Eastman, 83, Liberian diplomat, Foreign Minister (1983–1986), Secretary General of the Mano River Union.
  • Emmy, 21, Albanian singer, vehicular homicide.
  • Annie Girardot, 79, French actress, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Peter J. Gomes, 69, American preacher, theologian and author, professor at Harvard Divinity School, brain aneurysm and heart attack.
  • Stan Holmes, 51, American baseball player, cancer.
  • Nick LaTour, 82, American singer and actor (Jingle All The Way, Don Juan DeMarco), complications from cancer.
  • Jozef Massy, 96, Belgian Olympic sprint canoer.
  • Günter Mast, 84, German businessman (Jägermeister). (German)
  • Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa, 102, Brazilian diplomatic clerk, natural causes. (Portuguese)
  • Jane Russell, 89, American actress (The Outlaw, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), respiratory illness.
  • Jan van Schijndel, 83, Dutch footballer (1952 Summer Olympics). (Dutch)
  • Allan Williams, 88, Canadian politician, Attorney General of British Columbia (1979–1983), after long illness.
  • Wally Yonamine, 85, American baseball (Yomiuri Giants, Chunichi Dragons) and football player (San Francisco 49ers), prostate cancer.
  • Doyald Young, 84, American logotype designer, complications of heart surgery.
  • References

    Deaths in February 2011 Wikipedia