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Deaths in July 2011

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

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1

  • Jane Baker, 88, American community organizer and politician, first female Mayor of San Mateo, California. [1]
  • Leslie Brooks, 89, American actress. [2]
  • Edmund Snow Carpenter, 88, American anthropologist. [3]
  • Charlie Craig, 73, American songwriter ("She's Single Again", "The Generation Gap"), lung cancer. [4]
  • Willie Fernie, 82, Scottish footballer, Alzheimer's disease. [5]
  • Bud Grant, 79, American television executive, president of CBS (1980–1987). [6]
  • Anne LaBastille, 75, American author and ecologist. [7]
  • Bébé Manga, 60, Cameroonian singer, cardiac arrest. [8] (French)
  • Bob McCann, 47, American basketball player (Minnesota Timberwolves, Washington Bullets), heart failure. [9]
  • Harold Nelson, 88, New Zealand Olympic runner. [10]
  • Jean-Louis Rosier, 86, French racecar driver. [11] (French)

    • 2

  • Khalid Aziz, 73, Pakistani cricket umpire. [12]
  • Itamar Franco, 81, Brazilian politician, President (1992–1995), leukemia. [13]
  • Magnar G. Huseby, 82, Norwegian engineer and politician. [14] (Norwegian)
  • Olivera Marković, 86, Serbian actress. [15] (Serbian)
  • Ross Martin, 68, Australian Olympic cross-country skier, cycling accident. [16]
  • Chaturanan Mishra, 86, Indian politician and trade union leader, after long illness. [17]
  • Sir Oliver Napier, 75, Northern Irish politician, leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (1972–1984). [18]
  • Robert Sklar, 75, American film historian, cycling accident. [19]
  • Juno Stover-Irwin, 82, American diver, Olympic silver (1956) and bronze (1952) medalist. [20]

    • 3

  • Iain Blair, 69, British romance novelist, published under the name Emma Blair. [21]
  • Francis King, 88, British writer. [22]
  • Anna Massey, 73, British actress (Frenzy, Hotel du Lac), cancer. [23]
  • Fred Newman, 76, American psychotherapist. [24]
  • Sir Roy Redgrave, 85, British Army general. [25]
  • Len Sassaman, 31, American cryptographer, suicide. [26]
  • John C. Truesdale, 89, American public servant, National Labor Relations Board chairman (1998–2000), cancer. [27]

    • 4

  • Şerban Cantacuzino, 70, Romanian actor and nobleman, descendant of Wallachian Prince Şerban Cantacuzino. [28]
  • Wes Covington, 79, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, Kansas City Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies), cancer. [29]
  • John Davies Evans, 86, British archaeologist. [30]
  • Rusty Farley, 57, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives (2011). [31]
  • Otto von Habsburg, 98, Austro-Hungarian royal and politician, MEP (1979–1999). [32]
  • Billy Hardee, 56, American football player (Denver Broncos, Ottawa Rough Riders), motorcycle accident. [33]
  • Zurab Kapianidze, 74, Georgian actor and politician, MP (1999–2003). [34]
  • Pablo McNeil, 71, Jamaican Olympic athlete and coach, after long illness. [35]
  • Lawrence R. Newman, 86, American advocate for the deaf. [36]
  • Jane Scott, 92, American rock music critic. [37]
  • William G. Thrash, 94, American Marine Corps lieutenant general. [38]
  • Neil Turner, 77, Australian politician, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland (1996–1998); MLA for Warrego (1974–1986) and Nicklin (1990–1998). [39]
  • Gerhard Unger, 95, German opera singer. [40]

    • 5

  • Jaap Blokker, 69, Dutch businessman, cancer. [41]
  • Neil Dougherty, 50, American basketball coach (TCU). [42]
  • Joy F. Evans, 85, American women's leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [43]
  • Malcolm Forsyth, 74, South African-born Canadian trombonist and composer, pancreatic cancer. [44]
  • David Getches, 68, American educator and Native American rights lawyer, pancreatic cancer. [45]
  • Armen Gilliam, 47, American basketball player (Phoenix Suns, New Jersey Nets, Milwaukee Bucks), heart attack. [46]
  • George Lang, 86, Hungarian-born American restaurateur and cookbook author, Alzheimer's disease. [47]
  • Odd Mæhlum, 89, Norwegian Olympic track and field athlete. [48]
  • Fonce Mizell, 68, American jazz and R&B record producer (Mizell Brothers). [49]
  • Mika Myllylä, 41, Finnish cross country skier, 1998 Olympic gold medalist. [50] (body found on this date)
  • Theodore Roszak, 77, American scholar (The Making of a Counter Culture), cancer. [51]
  • Hanna Segal, 92, British psychoanalyst. [52]
  • John Sweet, 95, American actor (A Canterbury Tale). [53]
  • Gordon Tootoosis, 69, Canadian actor (Pocahontas, Legends of the Fall) and activist, pneumonia. [54]
  • Cy Twombly, 83, American painter, cancer. [55]
  • Shinji Wada, 61, Japanese manga artist (Sukeban Deka). [56] (death reported on this date)

    • 6

  • Steve Cardiff, 53, Canadian politician, automobile accident. [57]
  • Paul-André Crépeau, 85, Canadian legal academic. [58]
  • Daniel Mortimer Friedman, 95, American jurist. [59]
  • Mani Kaul, 66, Indian filmmaker, after long illness. [60]
  • George Edward Kimball, 67, American boxing columnist (Boston Herald), esophageal cancer. [61]
  • Marketa Kimbrell, 82, American actress, Alzheimer's disease. [62]
  • Warren Leslie, 84, American author, journalist and business executive. [63]
  • John Mackey, 69, American Hall of Fame football player (Baltimore Colts, San Diego Chargers). [64]
  • Josef Suk, 81, Czech violinist, prostate cancer. [65]
  • Andreas Waldherr, 43, Austrian rally driver, workshop accident. [66]
  • Mark Whitehead, 50, American Olympic cyclist. [67]
  • Keith Wilson, 69, British production designer (Space: 1999). [68]
  • Gabriele Zeilinger, 93, Austrian Olympic fencer. [69]

    • 7

  • Ricardo Alegría, 90, Puerto Rican anthropologist, complications of heart disease. [70]
  • Peter Aucoin, 67, Canadian educator (Dalhousie University). [71]
  • Bill Boddy, 98, British motor sport journalist. [72]
  • Ganapathi Bose, 72, Indian cricketer. [73]
  • Frank Brenchley, 93, British diplomat. [74]
  • Allan W. Eckert, 80, American historian. [75]
  • Manuel Galbán, 80, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club), heart attack. [76]
  • Rasika Joshi, 39, Indian actress, leukemia. [77]
  • Yuri Kukin, 78, Russian singer-songwriter. [78] (Russian)
  • Humberto Leal Garcia, 38, Mexican murderer, lethal injection. [79]
  • José Carlos Martínez, 48, Argentine politician, Senator (since 2007), car crash. [80] (Spanish)
  • Rizalino Navarro, 72, Filipino business executive, Secretary of Trade and Industry (1992–1996), heart attack. [81]
  • Miguel Gatan Purugganan, 79, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ilagan (1974–1999). [82]
  • Olav Versto, 60, Norwegian journalist and editor (Verdens Gang), apparent drowning. [83] (Norwegian)
  • Dick Williams, 82, American baseball player and manager (Oakland Athletics), Hall of Famer, ruptured aortic aneurysm. [84]

    • 8

  • Kenny Baker, 85, American fiddler, complications from a stroke. [85]
  • Roberts Blossom, 87, American actor (Doc Hollywood, Escape from Alcatraz, Home Alone). [86]
  • William R. Corliss, 84, American physicist and writer. [87]
  • Sam Denoff, 83, American Emmy Award-winning television writer (The Dick Van Dyke Show, That Girl), Alzheimer's disease. [88]
  • Aleksis Dreimanis, 96, Latvian-born Canadian geologist. [89]
  • Pete Duranko, 67, American football player (Denver Broncos), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [90]
  • Mary Fenech Adami, 77, Maltese First Lady (2004–2009), wife of Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami, heart attack. [91]
  • Betty Ford, 93, American First Lady (1974–1977) and co-founder of Betty Ford Center. [92]
  • Norman Hampson, 89, British historian. [93]
  • Camille Lembi Zaneli, 61, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Isangi (since 2000), plane crash. [94]
  • George McAnthony, 45, Italian country singer, heart attack. [95]
  • Paul Michael, 84, American actor, heart failure. [96]
  • Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, 95, Spanish-born Mexican philosopher, writer and educator. [97]

    • 9

  • Don Ackerman, 80, American basketball player (New York Knicks), after short illness. [98]
  • Facundo Cabral, 74, Argentine singer and songwriter, shot. [99]
  • Ralph Goldston, 82, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Hamilton Tiger-Cats). [100]
  • Carl T. Langford, 92, American politician, Mayor of Orlando, Florida (1967–1980). [101]
  • Percy Oliver, 92, Australian Olympic swimmer. [102]
  • Arvo Salo, 79, Finnish writer and politician, MP (1966–1970, 1979–1983) and Minister of Culture (1982–1983). [103] (Finnish)
  • Hideo Tanaka, 78, Japanese director (Sukeban Deka The Movie), stomach cancer. [104] (Japanese)
  • Lee Vines, 92, Canadian-born American television announcer (What's My Line?) and actor, complications from a fall and pneumonia. [105]
  • Würzel, 61, British guitarist (Motörhead), ventricular fibrillation. [106]

    • 10

  • Pierrette Alarie, 89, Canadian soprano, wife of tenor Léopold Simoneau. [107]
  • Travis Bean, 63, American guitar maker, cancer. [108]
  • Roberto Guerrero, 86-87, Argentine Olympic cyclist. [109]
  • Ajit Das Gupta, 86, Indian cricketer. [110]
  • Ragnar Lundberg, 86, Swedish athlete. [111] (Swedish)
  • Frank Mascara, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1995–2003), lung cancer. [112]
  • Roland Petit, 87, French ballet dancer and choreographer, leukemia. [113]
  • Kelly Thomas, 37, American homeless man, beaten. [114]
  • Deacon Turner, 56, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals), shot. [115]
  • Malcolm Wild, 79, Australian soccer player. [116]

    • 11

  • Henry Carlisle, 84, American translator, novelist and anti-censorship activist. [117]
  • Helen Crummy, 91, British social activist. [118]
  • Michael Evans, 59, British Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of East Anglia (since 2003), prostate cancer. [119]
  • Tom Gehrels, 86, Dutch-born American astronomer. [120]
  • Rob Grill, 67, American singer and songwriter (The Grass Roots). [121]
  • Alex Hay, 78, British golf journalist. [122]
  • Andreas Ioannides, 53, Cypriot navy chief, explosion. [123]
  • Jaroslav Jiřík, 71, Czech hockey player (St. Louis Blues), plane crash. [124]
  • George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, 88, British aristocrat, magazine editor and arts administrator, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. [125]
  • Herbert Matayoshi, 82, American politician, Mayor of Hawaii County (1974–1984). [126]
  • Richard F. Pedersen, 86, American diplomat, President of American University of Cairo (1977–1990). [127]
  • Sir Filoimea Telito, 66, Tuvaluan President of the Church of Tuvalu, Governor General (2005–2010), heart attack. [128]
  • Steve Trimble, 53, American football player (Denver Broncos), heart attack. [129]

    • 12

  • Aftab Ahmad Khan, 87, Pakistani military officer, heart attack. [130]
  • Premangsu Chatterjee, 83, Indian cricketer. [131]
  • Peter Crampton, 79, British politician, member of the European Parliament (1989–1999), suspected brain haemorrhage. [132]
  • William Crozier, 81, Irish artist. [133]
  • Bob Fraser, 65–66, American actor, producer and writer, melanoma. [134]
  • Bolesław Gładych, 93, Polish World War II flying ace. [135] (Polish)
  • Howard Hilton, 47, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals). [136]
  • Ahmed Wali Karzai, 50, Afghan politician, brother of President Hamid Karzai, shot. [137]
  • Jokapeci Koroi, 79, Fijian politician, President of Fiji Labour Party (1991–2011). [138]
  • Francisco Villagrán Kramer, 84, Guatemalan politician, Vice President (1978–1980). [139]
  • Kurt Lundquist, 85, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) athlete. [140] (Swedish)
  • Peter Newmark, 95, British educator and scholar. [141]
  • Charles Asa Schleck, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, titular archbishop and under-secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (1995–2000). [142]
  • Rudy Schulze, 82, Canadian Olympic shooter. [143]
  • Sherwood Schwartz, 94, American television producer, creator of The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island. [144]
  • Tony Stevens, 63, American choreographer, dancer and actor, Hodgkin's lymphoma. [145]
  • Zdeněk Sýkora, 91, Czech abstract painter. [146]

    • 13

  • Raymond Beckman, 86, American Olympic soccer player, coronary artery disease. [147]
  • Giacomo Benevelli, 86, Italian sculptor. [148] (Italian)
  • W. K. Brown, 88, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1960–1972), Alzheimer's disease. [149]
  • Per-Erik Burud, 48, Norwegian businessman, boating accident. [150] (Norwegian)
  • Al Debbo, 87, South African comedian. [151]
  • Allan Jeans, 77, Australian football player and coach, pulmonary fibrosis. [152]
  • John Mosca, 86, American restaurateur (Mosca's), prostate cancer. [153]
  • Jerry Ragovoy, 80, American songwriter ("Time Is on My Side"), stroke. [154]
  • Heinz Reincke, 86, German actor. [155] (German)
  • Niall Shanks, 52, British-born North American philosopher. [156]

    • 14

  • Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, 47, Kenyan peace activist, recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, car accident. [157]
  • Sissel Solbjørg Bjugn, 63, Norwegian poet and children's writer. [158] (Norwegian)
  • Eric Delaney, 87, British percussionist and band leader. [159]
  • William Lockhart Garwood, 79, American jurist (United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit), heart attack. [160]
  • Noel Gayler, 96, American Navy admiral. [161]
  • Leo Kirch, 84, German media entrepreneur. [162]
  • Vladimir Kosinsky, 66, Russian swimmer, 1968 Olympic silver and bronze medalist. [163] (Russian)
  • Terrence Lanni, 68, American casino executive, cancer. [164]
  • Kennedy Ondiek, 44, Kenyan Olympic athlete. [165]
  • Antonio Prieto, 85, Chilean singer and actor, cardiac arrest. [166] (Spanish)

    • 15

  • Helen Beverley, 94, American actress (Green Fields), natural causes. [167]
  • Luis Enrique Sam Colop, 56, Guatemalan linguist. [168]
  • Manuel Corral, 76, Spanish religious leader, Pope of the Palmarian Catholic Church (since 2005). [169] (Spanish)
  • John Crook, 80, British ethologist. [170]
  • Cuddly Dudley, 87, British rock and roll singer, natural causes. [171]
  • Ed Flesh, 79, American art director, inventor of the Wheel of Fortune wheel, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [172]
  • Cornell MacNeil, 88, American operatic baritone. [173]
  • John S. Toll, 87, American physicist and educational administrator, heart failure. [174]
  • Googie Withers, 94, English actress. [175]

    • 16

  • Milo Anstadt, 91, Dutch journalist and writer. [176] (Dutch)
  • Bertalan Bicskei, 66, Hungarian footballer and coach. [177] (Hungarian)
  • Forrest Blue, 65, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Baltimore Colts). [178]
  • Geraint Bowen, 95, Welsh poet. [179]
  • Rouhollah Dadashi, 30, Iranian powerlifter and bodybuilder, stabbed. [180] (Persian)
  • Albin Małysiak, 94, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Kraków (1970–1993). [181] (Polish)
  • Dame Katerina Mataira, 79, New Zealand educator and Māori language proponent, co-founder of Kura Kaupapa Māori. [182]
  • Cesare Mazzolari, 74, Italian-born South Sudanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rumbek (since 1998). [183]
  • Joe McNamee, 84, American basketball player (Rochester Royals, Baltimore Bullets). [184]
  • Keith Smith, 96, Australian engineer. [185]
  • Charlie Woollett, 90, English footballer (Bradford City). [186]

    • 17

  • Juan Arza, 88, Spanish footballer and coach. [187] (Spanish)
  • Dionysios Bairaktaris, 84, Greek Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Inousses (since 1979). [188] (Greek)
  • Juan María Bordaberry, 83, Uruguayan politician and dictator, President (1972–1976), after a long illness. [189]
  • Georges Condominas, 90, French anthropologist. [190]
  • Aba Dunner, 73, German-born Jewish religious activist. [191]
  • Lo' Lo' Mohd Ghazali, 53, Malaysian politician, cancer. [192]
  • Jan Mohammad Khan, Afghan presidential adviser, shot. [193]
  • Jim Kincaid, 76, American news correspondent (ABC News), anchorman (WVEC) and essayist, heart attack. [194]
  • John Kraaijkamp, Sr., 86, Dutch actor and comedian. [195] (Dutch)
  • Takaji Mori, 67, Japanese Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) footballer, renal pelvic cancer. [196]
  • Joe Morris, Sr., 85, American Navajo World War II code talker. [197]
  • David Ngoombujarra, 44, Australian actor. [198]
  • Graciela Rivera, 90, Puerto Rican opera singer. [199]
  • Ştefan Sameş, 59, Romanian footballer (Steaua București), cancer. [200] (Romanian)
  • Alex Steinweiss, 94, American graphic designer, inventor of the album cover. [201]
  • Taiji, 45, Japanese musician and singer-songwriter (X Japan), suicide by hanging. [202]
  • Joe Lee Wilson, 75, American jazz singer. [203]

    • 18

  • Nat Allbright, 87, American radio broadcaster, pneumonia. [204]
  • Salvador Bernárdez, 58, Honduran footballer, heart attack. [205] (Spanish)
  • A. Dane Bowen, Jr., 84, American diplomat and educator. [206]
  • Albert Driedger, 75, Canadian politician, stroke. [207]
  • Sean Hoare, 47, British journalist (News of the World), whistleblower of the 2011 phone hacking scandal. [208] (body found on this date)
  • E. A. J. Honigmann, 83, British Shakespearean scholar. [209]
  • Magnus Malan, 81, South African politician, Minister of Defence (1980–1991), natural causes. [210]
  • Giulio Rinaldi, 76, Italian Olympic boxer. [211]
  • Bob Stenehjem, 59, American politician, member of the North Dakota Senate (since 1993), majority leader (since 2001), car accident. [212]
  • Edson Stroll, 82, American actor (McHale's Navy), cancer. [213]
  • James Wong, 89, Malaysian politician, first Deputy Chief Minister of Sarawak, leader of the national Opposition (1974), heart attack. [214]
  • Bagley Wright, 87, American developer and philanthropist. [215]

    • 19

  • Sheila Burrell, 89, British actress. [216]
  • William Leonard D’Mello, 80, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Karwar (1976–2007). [217]
  • Remo Gaspari, 90, Italian politician. [218] (Italian)
  • Lil Greenwood, 86, American vocalist (Duke Ellington Orchestra). [219]
  • Yoshio Harada, 71, Japanese actor, pneumonia. [220] (Japanese)
  • Henrique Johannpötter, 78, German-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bacabal (1989–1997). [221]
  • Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola, 91, French equestrian, Olympic gold (1952, 1964) and silver (1964, 1968) medalist. [222]
  • Jacques Jouanneau, 84, French actor. [223] (French)
  • Brendan Kehoe, 40, Irish software developer and author, acute myeloid leukemia. [224]
  • Karen Khachaturian, 90, Russian composer. [225] (Russian)
  • Roy Meehan, 79, New Zealand Olympic wrestler. [226]
  • James T. Molloy, 75, American government officer, last Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives (1974–1993), complications of diabetes. [227]
  • Sir Julian Oswald, 77, British admiral. [228]
  • Cec Thompson, 85, British rugby league player. [229]

    • 20

  • Armando Martín Borque, 90, Spanish entrepreneur. [230] (Spanish)
  • Blaize Clement, 78, American mystery writer and psychologist, cancer. [231]
  • Lucian Freud, 88, German-born British painter. [232]
  • Isaia Italeli, 51, Tuvaluan Cabinet minister. [233] (body found on this date)
  • Myra Kraft, 68, American philanthropist, wife of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, cancer. [234]
  • Jim Samios, 77, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1984–2003). [235]
  • Gloria Sawai, 78, American-born Canadian author. [236]
  • Mary Simpson, 85, American minister, first woman to be ordained by the American Episcopal Church. [237]
  • Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan, 79, New Zealand politician, longest-serving female member of the House of Representatives (1967–1996). [238]

    • 21

  • Franz Alt, 100, Austrian-born American mathematician. [239]
  • Clément Cailleau, 88, French-born Senegalese Roman Catholic prelate, Prefect of Tambacounda (1970–1986). [240]
  • Ashleigh Connor, 21, Australian soccer player, car accident. [241]
  • Andrew Grant DeYoung, 37, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [242]
  • Milly Del Rubio, 89, American singer (The Del Rubio Triplets). [243]
  • Pedro Claro Meurice Estiu, 79, Cuban Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba (1970–2007). [244]
  • Elliot Handler, 95, American businessman, co-founder of Mattel, namer of the Barbie doll, creator of Hot Wheels, heart failure. [245]
  • William Hildenbrand, 89, American government officer, Secretary of the United States Senate (1981–1985). [246]
  • Yevgeny Lopatin, 93, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) weightlifter. [247] (Russian)
  • Slavomir Miklovš, 77, Croatian Greek Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Križevci (1983–2009). [248]
  • Bruce Sundlun, 91, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island (1991–1995). [249]
  • Kazimierz Świątek, 96, Estonian-born Belarusian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev (1991–2006). [250]
  • Jack Thompson, 82, British politician, MP for Wansbeck (1983–1997). [251]
  • Len Tolhurst, 85, Australian Olympic shooter. [252]
  • Amelia Trice, 75, American Kootenai tribal leader and activist, leader of the last Indian war against the United States, cancer. [253]
  • Elwy Yost, 86, Canadian television host and writer. [254]

    • 22

  • Tom Aldredge, 83, American actor (The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire), lymphoma. [255]
  • Linda Christian, 87, Mexican-born American actress, first Bond girl (1954 television adaptation of Casino Royale), colon cancer. [256]
  • Dmitri Furman, 68, Russian historian and philosopher, after long illness. [257] (Russian)
  • Volodymyr O. Kravets, 81, Ukrainian diplomat, permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR.
  • Charles Taylor Manatt, 75, American lawyer and banker, Chair of Democratic National Committee (1981–1985), Ambassador to Dominican Republic (1999–2001), stroke. [258]
  • Malcolm Muir, 96, American jurist. [259]
  • Ifti Nasim, 64, Pakistani-born American poet and radio host, heart attack. [260]
  • Tex Nelson, 74, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles). [261]
  • Cees de Wolf, 65, Dutch footballer (Ajax Amsterdam). [262] (Dutch)

    • 23

  • David Aiken, 93, American operatic baritone and opera director. [263]
  • Mathilde Aussant, 113, French supercentenarian, oldest person in France. [264]
  • Blair, 43, American poet. [265]
  • Terence Boston, Baron Boston of Faversham, 81, British politician, MP for Faversham (1964–1970). [266]
  • John Chervokas, 74, American advertising writer. [267]
  • Robert Ettinger, 92, American cryonicist, respiratory failure. [268]
  • Jack Fitzpatrick, 88, American entrepreneur and politician, co-founder of Country Curtains, Massachusetts State Senator (1973–1980). [269]
  • Milton Gwirtzman, 78, American speech writer, advisor to the Kennedy family, metastatic melanoma. [270]
  • Fran Landesman, 83, American lyricist and poet. [271]
  • Butch Lewis, 65, American boxing promoter, heart attack. [272]
  • Conrad Meyer, 89, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Dorchester (1979–1988) [273]
  • Bill Morrissey, 59, American singer-songwriter. [274]
  • Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, 80, Vietnamese air force chief and political leader, Prime Minister of South Vietnam (1965–1967). [275]
  • Richard Pike, 61, British chemist. [276]
  • Darioush Rezaeinejad, 35, Iranian nuclear scientist, shot. [277]
  • John Shalikashvili, 75, Polish-born American army general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1993–1997), stroke. [278]
  • Elmer B. Staats, 97, American public servant, Comptroller General of the United States (1966–1981). [279]
  • Amy Winehouse, 27, British singer-songwriter ("Rehab"), accidental alcohol poisoning. [280]

    • 24

  • Ron Davies, 85, Australian politician, Western Australian Opposition Leader (1978–1981). [281]
  • Kaveinga Faʻanunu, 48, Tongan politician, MP for Tongatapu 9 (since 2010), head and neck cancer. [282]
  • Tresa Hughes, 81, American actress (Another World, Don Juan DeMarco, Fame). [283]
  • Gilbert Luján, 70, American painter, prostate cancer. [284]
  • Paul Marchand, 74, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Timmins (since 1999). [285]
  • Christopher Mayer, 57, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard, Santa Barbara, Liar Liar). [286]
  • Henry Metelmann, 88, German soldier and writer. [287]
  • Virgilio Noè, 89, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archpriest of the Basilica of Saint Peter (1991–2002). [288]
  • Mike Palm, 86, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox). [289]
  • Dan Peek, 60, American singer-songwriter (America). [290]
  • David Servan-Schreiber, 50, French physician, neuroscientist and author, cancer. [291]
  • G. D. Spradlin, 90, American actor (North Dallas Forty, The Godfather Part II). [292]
  • Skip Thomas, 61, American football player (Oakland Raiders), apparent heart attack. [293]
  • John Turner, 63, British social psychologist. [294]
  • Jane White, 88, American actress (Beloved, Klute, Once Upon a Mattress). [295]

    • 25

  • Michael Cacoyannis, 89, Cypriot filmmaker (Zorba the Greek). [296]
  • Bakır Çağlar, 69–70, Turkish jurist, lawyer and constitutional law professor, bleeding stomach. [297] (Turkish)
  • V. S. Krishna Iyer, 89, Indian activist and politician, after long illness. [298]
  • Mahmoud Mabsout, 69, Lebanese actor, heart attack. [299]
  • Denis Meaney, 74, Australian rugby league player. [300]
  • Arthur W. Murray, 92, American test pilot, Alzheimer's disease. [301]
  • Jeret Peterson, 29, American free style skier, 2010 Winter Olympics silver medalist, suicide by gunshot. [302]
  • Ravichandran, 71, Malaysian-born Indian actor, lung infection. [303]
  • David Somerville, Canadian Anglican prelate. [304]

    • 26

  • Joe Arroyo, 55, Colombian singer. [305]
  • Jacques Fatton, 85, French-born Swiss footballer. [306] (German)
  • Frank Foster, 82, American jazz saxophonist and composer, complications from kidney failure. [307]
  • Bobby Franklin, 54, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives (since 1997), apparent heart attack. [308]
  • Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi, Libyan Army colonel, cousin and son-in-law of Muammar Gaddafi, air strike. [309]
  • Richard Harris, 63, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Seattle Seahawks) and coach (Winnipeg Blue Bombers), heart attack. [310]
  • Madhu Sudan Kanungo, 84, Indian scientist. [311]
  • Sakyo Komatsu, 80, Japanese science fiction writer, pneumonia. [312]
  • Georges Kwaïter, 83, Syrian-born Lebanese Melkite Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Saïdā (1987–2006). [313]
  • Elmer Lower, 98, American broadcast executive, president of ABC News (1963–1974). [314]
  • Silvio Narizzano, 84, Canadian-born British film and television director. [315]
  • Margaret Olley, 88, Australian painter. [316]
  • John Read, 88, British documentary producer. [317]
  • Josephine C. Reyes, 82, Filipino educator, President of Far Eastern University (1985–1989). [318]
  • Denise Scharley, 94, French contralto. [319] (French)
  • Howard Stein, 84, American financier, complications of a stroke. [320]
  • Luis Ruiz Suarez, 97, Spanish-born Macanese Jesuit priest. [321]

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  • Wilfred Arsenault, 57, Canadian politician, cancer. [322]
  • Rudolf Baláž, 70, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Banská Bystrica (since 1990). [323]
  • Richard Chavez, 81, American activist and labor organizer, brother of Cesar Chavez, complications from surgery. [324]
  • Clyde Duncan, 57, Guyanese West Indian cricket umpire, cancer. [325]
  • Hilary Evans, 82, British picture librarian and author. [326]
  • Charles Gittens, 82, American Secret Service agent, first black appointed to that position. [327]
  • Ghulam Haider Hamidi, 65, Afghan politician, Mayor of Kandahar (since 2007), bombing. [328]
  • Rei Harakami, 40, Japanese musician, cerebrovascular disease. [329]
  • Hideki Irabu, 42, Japanese baseball player (Chiba Lotte Marines, New York Yankees, Montreal Expos), suicide by hanging. [330] (body discovered on this date)
  • Agota Kristof, 75, Hungarian-born French novelist. [331]
  • Jerome Liebling, 87, American photographer, filmmaker and academic (Hampshire College). [332]
  • Polly Platt, 72, American film producer (Say Anything...), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [333]
  • Bejaratana Rajasuda, 85, Thai royal, only daughter of King Vajiravudh of Thailand. [334]
  • Sir John Rawlins, 89, British naval officer, pioneer of diving medicine. [335]
  • Eduard Rozovsky, 84, Russian cinematographer (Amphibian Man, White Sun of the Desert), car accident. [336]
  • Richard Rutt, 85, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Leicester (1979–1991) [337]
  • Pietro Sambi, 73, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, titular archbishop and Apostolic Nuncio to the United States (since 2005), respiratory failure. [338]
  • Judy Sowinski, 71, American roller derby skater and coach. [339]
  • Francis John Spence, 85, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Kingston (1982–2002). [340]
  • John Stott, 90, British Anglican priest. [341]

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  • Frank Bender, 70, American forensic artist, pleural mesothelioma. [342]
  • Miguel Chacón Díaz, 81, Spanish cyclist. [343]
  • James E. Dyer, 64, American politician, Mayor of Danbury, Connecticut (1979–1987). [344]
  • Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, 25, Afghan journalist (BBC News), explosion. [345]
  • Agapito Lozada, 72, Filipino Olympic swimmer. [346]
  • John Marburger, 70, American physicist and presidential adviser, non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [347]
  • Brian O'Leary, 71, American scientist and NASA astronaut, cancer. [348]
  • Christopher Walkden, 73, British Olympic swimmer. [349]
  • John Milton Yinger, 95, American sociologist. [350]
  • Abdul Fatah Younis, 67, Libyan rebel leader and government official, former Interior Minister, shot. [351]

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  • Elazar Abuhatzeira, 62, Moroccan-born Israeli rabbi, stabbed. [352]
  • John Edward Anderson, 93, American businessman and philanthropist, pneumonia. [353]
  • Arild Braastad, 64, Norwegian diplomat. [354] (Norwegian)
  • Joseph V. Brady, 89, American behavioral neuroscientist. [355]
  • Enzo Coppini, 91, Italian cyclist. [356]
  • Claude Laydu, 84, Belgian actor, heart condition. [357]
  • Richard Marsh, Baron Marsh, 83, British politician and businessman, MP for Greenwich (1959–1971), Chairman of British Rail (1971–1976). [358]
  • Nella Martinetti, 65, Swiss singer-songwriter, pancreatic cancer. [359]
  • Gene McDaniels, 76, American singer-songwriter. [360]
  • Ivan Milas, 72, Croatian politician. [361] (Croatian)
  • Takeshi Miyaji, 45, Japanese video game designer and business executive (GunGriffon, Grandia). [362]
  • Matthew J. Perry, 89, American federal judge. [363]
  • Emeric Santo, 90, Australian Olympic fencer. [364]
  • Agnes Varis, 81, American philanthropist, cancer. [365]

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  • Hikmat Abu Zayd, 88, Egyptian politician, first female cabinet minister. [366]
  • R.E.G. Davies, 90, British aviation historian. [367]
  • Pêr Denez, 90, French Breton linguist and writer. [368]
  • Clifton Hurburgh, 94, Australian cricketer. [369]
  • Mario Echandi Jiménez, 96, Costa Rican politician, President (1958–1962), pneumonia. [370]
  • Vincent Kympat, 64, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, first Bishop of Jowai (since 2006). [371]
  • Daniel D. McCracken, 81, American computer scientist, cancer. [372]
  • Sam Norkin, 94, American caricaturist and illustrator. [373]
  • Bob Peterson, 79, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Baltimore Bullets, Milwaukee Hawks), cancer. [374]

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  • Eliseo Alberto, 59, Cuban-born Mexican writer, complications from a kidney transplant. [375]
  • Dorothy Brunson, 72, American businesswoman, first black woman to own a radio station, ovarian cancer. [376]
  • Willie Corbett, 88, Scottish footballer (Celtic). [377]
  • Clyde Holding, 80, Australian politician, federal minister (1984–1990). [378]
  • John Hoyland, 76, English abstract painter, complications following heart surgery. [379]
  • Louis, 59, Serbian singer, car accident. [380]
  • Andrea Pazzagli, 51, Italian footballer (A.C. Milan), stroke. [381]
  • Joseph Albert Rosario, 96, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Amravati (1955–1995). [382]
  • Carl Steven, 36, American former child actor, heroin overdose
  • Binka Zhelyazkova, 88, Bulgarian director. [383]

    • References

    Deaths in July 2011 Wikipedia
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