Deaths in April 2011

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

April 2011

30

• Ronald D. Asmus, 53, American diplomat and political analyst, cancer. [1]
• Pete Gray, 30, Australian environmental activist, bowel cancer. [2]
• Richard Holmes, 65, British military historian. [3]
• Dorjee Khandu, 56, Indian Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (since 2007), helicopter crash. [4]
• Mike Krsnich, 79, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves). [5]
• Anthony Francis Mestice, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1973–2001). [6]
• Harry S. Morgan, 65, German pornographic actor, producer and director. [7] (German) (body found on this date)
• Emilio Navarro, 105, Puerto Rican Negro league baseball player. [8]
• Evald Okas, 95, Estonian painter. [9] (Estonian)
• Daniel Quillen, 70, American mathematician. [10]
• Ernesto Sabato, 99, Argentine writer (El Túnel, On Heroes and Tombs), pneumonia. [11]
• Edgar Seymour, 98, American Olympic bobsledder. [12]
• Apostolos Santas, 89, Greek Resistance veteran. [13] (Greek)
• Eddie Turnbull, 88, Scottish football player and manager. [14]

29

• Waldemar Baszanowski, 75, Polish weightlifter. [15]
• Robert B. Duncan, 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Oregon (1963–1967, 1975–1981). [16]
• Salim Ghazal, 79, Syrian-born Lebanese Melkite Catholic hierarch, Curial bishop of Antioch for Melkites (2001–2005). [17]
• Abdul Hameed, 83, Pakistani writer and novelist. [18]
• Jeff Kargola, 27, American freestyle motocross rider, race accident. [19]
• Vladimir Krainev, 67, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, aortic aneurysm. [20] (Russian)
• David Mason, 85, British trumpeter, played trumpet solo on "Penny Lane", leukemia. [21]
• Siamak Pourzand, 79, Iranian journalist and dissident, suicide by jumping. [22]
• Joanna Russ, 74, American science fiction author, following a series of strokes. [23]
• Walter Santoro, 89, Uruguayan politician, Minister of Industry (1963–1964), natural causes. [24] (Spanish)

28

• Enrique Arancibia Clavel, 66, Chilean DINA agent. [25] (Spanish)
• William Campbell, 87, American film and television actor (Love Me Tender, Star Trek, Dementia 13). [26]
• Gene Fekete, 88, American football player (Cleveland Browns). [27]
• Erhard Loretan, 52, Swiss mountaineer, third climber to scale all 14 eight-thousanders, climbing accident. [28]
• Willie O'Neill, 70, Scottish football player (Celtic). [29] (death announced on this date)
• Wilhelm Weidenbrück, 96, German Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient. [30] (German)

27

• Orlando Bosch, 84, Cuban exile, after long illness. [31]
• Ibrahim Coulibaly, 47, Ivorian militia leader. [32]
• Paul Vincent Donovan, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kalamazoo (1971–1994). [33]
• Jack H. Goaslind, 83, American leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [34]
• Igor Kon, 82, Russian philosopher, psychologist and sexologist. [35]
• Rafael Menjívar Ochoa, 51, Salvadoran writer, journalist and translator, cancer. [36] (Spanish)
• Marian Mercer, 75, American actress (It's a Living), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [37]
• Dag Stokke, 44, Norwegian keyboardist (TNT), church organist and mastering engineer, cancer. [38] (Norwegian)
• Harold Schnitzer, 87, American philanthropist and company executive (Schnitzer Steel), cancer. [39]
• Harry Thuillier, 85, Irish Olympic fencer and radio presenter. [40]
• Yvette Vickers, 81–82, American actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman), singer and model (Playboy). [41] (body discovered on this date).
• Michael Waltman, 64, American actor (Beyond the Law, Tower of Terror, National Lampoon's Van Wilder). [42]
• David Wilkerson, 79, American Christian evangelist and author (The Cross and the Switchblade), car accident. [43]

26

• Douglas Chaffee, 75, American artist. [44]
• John Cossette, 54, American television producer (Grammy Awards). [45]
• Roger Gimbel, 86, American Emmy Award-winning television producer (Chernobyl: The Final Warning, S.O.S. Titanic), pneumonia. [46]
• Lynn Hauldren, 89, American copywriter and product spokesperson (Empire Carpet). [47]
• José María Izuzquiza Herranz, 85, Spanish-born Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Jaén en Peru (1987–2001). [48]
• Sir Henry Leach, 87, British admiral. [49]
• Jim Mandich, 62, American football player and announcer (Miami Dolphins), bile duct cancer. [50]
• Islwyn Morris, 90, Welsh actor. [51]
• Sadler's Wells, 30, American racehorse. [52]
• Phoebe Snow, 60, American singer-songwriter ("Poetry Man"), brain hemorrhage. [53]
• Samuel Zoll, 76, American jurist and politician, Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts (1970–1973), gallbladder cancer. [54]

25

• Winrich Behr, 93, German World War II Panzer captain, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. [55]
• Ira Cohen, 76, American poet, renal failure. [56]
• William Craig, 86, Northern Irish politician, founder of Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, MP for Belfast East (1974–1979). [57]
• Abdoulaye Hamani Diori, 65, Nigerien politician, after long illness. [58] (French)
• María Isbert, 94, Spanish actress. [59] (Spanish)
• Lawrence Lee, 101, British stained glass artist. [60]
• Joe Perry, 84, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. [61]
• Poly Styrene, 53, British musician (X-Ray Spex), breast cancer. [62]
• Gonzalo Rojas, 93, Chilean poet. [63] (Spanish)
• Güven Sazak, 76, Turkish businessman, chairman of Fenerbahçe S.K. (1993–1994). [64]
• Minoru Tanaka, 44, Japanese actor (Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers, Kamen Rider W Returns - Kamen Rider Accel), suspected suicide by hanging. [65]
• Avraham Tiar, 87, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1961–1969). [66]
• Bobby Thompson, 57, American baseball player (Texas Rangers).[67]
• Elizabeth Wicken, 83, Canadian baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League). [68]

24

• Sathya Sai Baba, 84, Indian spiritual guru, founder of the Sathya Sai Organization, multiple organ failure. [69]
• Nawang Gombu, 79, Tibetan-born Indian mountaineer, after short illness. [70]
• Alimirah Hanfere, 95, Ethiopian sultan of the Aussa Sultanate. [71]
• Sir Denis Mahon, 100, British art historian and philanthropist. [72]
• Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, 87, South Vietnamese First Lady (1955–1963), after short illness. [73]
• Joan Peyser, 80, American musicologist, after heart surgery. [74]
• Marie-France Pisier, 66, French actress (The Other Side of Midnight), drowning. [75]
• Colin Snedden, 93, New Zealand cricketer. [76]

23

• Ed Austin, 84, American attorney and politician, Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida (1991–1995). [77]
• Dmytro Blazheyovskyi, 100, Ukrainian priest, historian and embroiderer. [78] (Ukrainian)
• James Casey, 88, British comedian. [79]
• Sid Fournet, 78, American football player (New York Jets, Pittsburgh Steelers). [80]
• David Hackett, 84, American government official (President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, 1961–1964), complications of diabetes. [81]
• Tom King, 68, American guitarist and songwriter (The Outsiders), heart failure. [82]
• Peter Li Hongye, 91, Chinese underground Roman Catholic prelate, clandestine bishop of Luoyang. [83]
• Peter Lieberson, 64, American composer, complications of lymphoma. [84]
• Terence Longdon, 88, British actor. [85]
• Huey P. Meaux, 82, American record producer. [86]
• Milorad Bata Mihailović, 88, Serbian painter. [87] (Serbian)
• Noxolo Nogwaza, 24, South African lesbian activist, stabbed. [88]
• Norio Ohga, 81, Japanese businessman, president and CEO of Sony, multiple organ failure. [89]
• Ready Teddy, 23, New Zealand eventing horse, complications from colic. [90]
• Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill, 89, British politician. [91]
• Mohammad Abdus Sattar, 85, Indian Olympic footballer, pneumonia. [92]
• Phillip Shriver, 88, American historian and college administrator. [93]
• Max van der Stoel, 86, Dutch politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1973–1977, 1981–1982). [94]
• John Sullivan, 64, British writer (Only Fools and Horses), viral pneumonia. [95]
• Dutch Tilders, 69, Australian blues musician, cancer. [96]

22

• Moin Akhter, 60, Pakistani actor and comedian, heart attack. [97]
• Patrick Billingsley, 85, American mathematician and actor. [98]
• Cheung Sai Ho, 35, Hong Kong footballer, suicide by jumping. [99] (Chinese)
• Wiel Coerver, 86, Dutch footballer and manager. [100] (Dutch)
• Eldon Davis, 94, American architect, creator of Googie architecture, founder of Armet & Davis. [101]
• Hazel Dickens, 75, American bluegrass singer. [102]
• Madhava Gudi, 70, Indian Hindustani classical vocalist. [103]
• Siarhei Lahun, 22, Belarusian weightlifter, car accident. [104]
• Sidney Michaels, 83, American playwright and screenwriter (The Night They Raided Minsky's), Alzheimer's disease. [105]
• Merle Greene Robertson, 97, American artist and archeologist. [106]
• José Torres Martino, 94, Puerto Rican painter and writer, after long illness. [107]
• João Maria Tudela, 81, Portuguese singer. [108] (Portuguese)

21

• Beverly Barton, 64, American romance author, heart failure. [109]
• Tine Bryld, 71, Danish social worker, writer, radio host and letters editor. [110] (Danish)
• Annalisa Ericson, 97, Swedish actress (Summer Interlude). [111] (Swedish)
• Helen J. Frye, 80, American federal judge, after long illness. [112]
• Reginald C. Fuller, 102, British Roman Catholic priest and author. [113]
• Harold Garfinkel, 93, American sociologist. [114]
• W. J. Gruffydd, 94, Welsh poet. [115]
• Catharina Halkes, 90, Dutch theologian and feminist [116] Dutch
• Jim Heise, 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators), complications from surgery. [117]
• Jess Stonestreet Jackson, Jr., 81, American wine entrepreneur, founder of Kendall-Jackson, cancer. [118]
• Ken Kostick, 57, Canadian cooking show host (What's for Dinner?), complications of pancreatitis. [119]
• Max Mathews, 84, American engineer and computer music composer, complications from pneumonia. [120]
• Muhannad, 41, Saudi al Qaeda fighter in Chechnya, shot. [121]
• Sofía Silva, 82, Venezuelan winner of first Miss Venezuela title (1952). [122] (Spanish)
• Yoshiko Tanaka, 55, Japanese actress (Godzilla vs. Biollante) and singer (Candies), breast cancer. [123] (Japanese)
• Walter van de Walle, 88, Canadian politician, MP for Pembina (1986–1988) and St. Albert (1988–1993). [124]

20

• Allan Brown, 84, Scottish football player and manager (Blackpool, Scotland). [125]
• Tim Hetherington, 40, British photojournalist and filmmaker (Restrepo), mortar attack. [126]
• Chris Hondros, 41, American photojournalist, mortar attack. [127]
• Osvaldo Miranda, 95, Argentine actor (Cita en las estrellas). [128]
• Madelyn Pugh, 90, American screenwriter (I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy, The Mothers-in-Law) and producer (Alice). [129]
• Tul Bahadur Pun, 88, Nepali World War II veteran, recipient of the Victoria Cross, cardiac complications. [130]
• Hubert Schlafly, 91, American engineer, co-inventor of the TelePrompter. [131]
• Kerry Smith, 58, New Zealand actress and broadcaster, melanoma. [132]
• Erwin Strahl, 82, Austrian actor. [133] (German)

19

• Anne Blonstein, 52, British poet. [134]
• Lynn Chandnois, 86, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). [135]
• Richard P. Klocko, 96, American Air Force lieutenant general. [136]
• Norm Masters, 77, American football player (Green Bay Packers), cancer. [137]
• Aage Møst, 87, Norwegian sports official, President of the Norwegian Athletics Association (1956–1965). [138]
• Serge Nubret, 72, French bodybuilder and actor (Pumping Iron). [139]
• Elisabeth Sladen, 65, British actress (Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures), cancer. [140]
• Grete Waitz, 57, Norwegian marathon runner, cancer. [141]

18

• Olubayo Adefemi, 25, Nigerian footballer, car accident. [142]
• Sadiq Ali, 58, Indian politician. [143]
• Pietro Ferrero Jr., 47, Italian businessman (Ferrero SpA), bicycle accident. [144]
• Kjell Håkonsen, 75, Norwegian harness racer and trainer. [145] (Norwegian)
• Yu-ri Kim, 22, South Korean fashion model, apparent suicide. [146]
• Bob Plant, 95, British soldier, recipient of the Military Cross. [147]
• Mason Rudolph, 76, American golfer. [148]
• Giovanni Saldarini, 86, Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Turin (1989–1999), natural causes. [149] (Italian)
• William Donald Schaefer, 89, American politician, Governor of Maryland (1987–1995), pneumonia. [150]
• Ivica Vidović, 72, Croatian actor, after long illness. [151] (Croatian)

17

• Nasser Al-Kharafi, 67, Kuwaiti businessman (M. A. Kharafi & Sons), heart attack. [152]
• James S. Albus, 75, American engineer. [153]
• Bob Block, 89, British comedy writer (Rentaghost, Life with The Lyons). [154]
• Joel Colton, 92, American historian, heart failure. [155]
• Osamu Dezaki, 67, Japanese animator (Space Adventure Cobra, Tomorrow's Joe), lung cancer. [156] (Japanese)
• Alfred Freedman, 94, American psychiatrist, declassified homosexuality as a mental illness, complications following hip surgery. [157]
• Eric Gross, 84, Austrian-born Australian composer. [158]
• Eddie Leadbeater, 83, English cricketer, after short illness. [159]
• Blair Milan, 29, Australian actor and television presenter, acute myeloid leukaemia. [160]
• Nikos Papazoglou, 63, Greek singer-songwriter, cancer. [161]
• AJ Perez, 18, Filipino actor, traffic accident. [162]
• Raúl Sánchez Díaz Martell, 96, Mexican politician, Governor of Baja California (1965–1971). [163]
• Michael Sarrazin, 70, Canadian actor (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; The Flim-Flam Man; For Pete's Sake), cancer. [164]
• Bhawani Singh, 79, Indian noble, titular Maharaja of Jaipur (since 1970). [165]
• Dennis E. Stowell, 66, American politician, member of the Utah State Senate (2007–2011), cancer. [166]
• Ken Taylor, 88, British television scriptwriter (The Jewel in the Crown). [167]
• Robert Vickrey, 84, American artist. [168]
• Victor Ward, 87, Canadian miner, survivor of the 1956 Springhill Mine disaster, after long illness. [169]

16

• Gerry Alexander, 82, Jamaican cricketer. [170]
• Bijan, 67, Iranian-born American fashion designer, stroke. [171]
• Allan Blakeney, 85, Canadian politician, Premier of Saskatchewan (1971–1982), complications from liver cancer. [172]
• Chinesinho, 76, Brazilian footballer, Alzheimer's disease. [173] (Portuguese)
• Stanley Glenn, 84, American baseball player and executive (Negro league baseball). [174]
• Bill Kinnamon, 91, American Major League Baseball umpire. [175]
• Serge LeClerc, 61, Canadian pardoned criminal and politician, MLA for Saskatoon Northwest (2007–2010), complications from colon and bowel cancer. [176]
• William A. Rusher, 87, American columnist, publisher of National Review (1957–1988). [177]
• Dan Monroe Russell, Jr., 98, American federal judge, natural causes. [178]
• Sol Saks, 100, American screenwriter, creator of Bewitched. [179]
• Hermod Skånland, 85, Norwegian Central Bank governor (1985–1993). [180] (Norwegian)
• Harold Volkmer, 80, American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri (1977–1997), pneumonia. [181]

15

• Vittorio Arrigoni, 36, Italian activist, hanged. [182] (body discovered on this date)
• Babu Baral, 47, Pakistani comedian, cancer. [183]
• Reno Bertoia, 76, Italian-born Canadian baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins), lymphoma. [184]
• Walter Brown, 85, Australian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) canoer. [185]
• William Cook, 80, American entrepreneur, philanthropist and historic preservationist, heart failure. [186]
• Hélio Gueiros, 85, Brazilian politician, Governor of Pará (1987–1991), Mayor of Belém (1993–1996), renal disease. [187] (Portuguese)
• Michael Hurley, 87, Irish Jesuit and ecumenical theologian, co-founder of the Irish School of Ecumenics. [188]
• Vincenzo La Scola, 53, Italian tenor, heart attack. [189]
• Bobo Osborne, 75, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). [190]
• Nicholas Selby, 85, British actor. [191]
• Beryl Shipley, 84, American basketball coach (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, San Diego Conquistadors). [192]
• E. T. York, 88, American agronomist, educator and presidential adviser. [193]

14

• Rosihan Anwar, 88, Indonesian journalist, heart failure. [194]
• Trevor Bannister, 76, British actor (Are You Being Served?, Last of the Summer Wine, The Dustbinmen), heart attack. [195]
• Walter Breuning, 114, American supercentenarian, world's third oldest man ever. [196]
• Jon Cedar, 80, American character actor (Hogan's Heroes), leukemia. [197]
• Patrick Cullinan, 77, South African writer. [198]
• Louis Jean Dufaux, 79, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Grenoble (1989–2006). [199]
• Bernie Flowers, 81, American football player (Baltimore Colts). [200]
• Jean Gratton, 86, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mont-Laurier (1978–2001). [201]
• Cyrus Harvey, Jr., 85, American entrepreneur, stroke. [202]
• William Lipscomb, 91, American chemist, pneumonia. [203]
• Arthur Marx, 89, American writer, son of Groucho Marx. [204]
• Rami Reddy, 52, Indian actor, kidney failure. [205]

13

• Danny Fiszman, 66, British football director (Arsenal), cancer. [206]
• Seeta bint Abdul Aziz, 80, Saudi royal, sister of King Abdullah, after long illness. [207]

12

• Sachin Bhowmick, 80, Indian screenwriter, heart attack. [208]
• Lee Bradley Brown, 39, British tourist, beaten in police custody. [209]
• Ronnie Coyle, 46, Scottish footballer (Celtic, Raith Rovers), leukemia. [210]
• Sidney Harman, 92, American businessman and publisher (Newsweek), acute myeloid leukemia. [211]
• Eddie Joost, 94, American baseball player and manager (Philadelphia Athletics, Cincinnati Reds). [212]
• Buster Martin, 104?, French-born British longevity claimant. [213]
• Aleksandar Petaković, 81, Serbian football player. [214] (Serbian)
• Jānis Polis, 72, Latvian pharmacologist, discovered rimantadine. [215] (Russian)
• Ioan Şişeştean, 74, Romanian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Maramureş (since 1994). [216]
• Désiré Tagro, 52, Ivorian politician, Interior Minister, chief of staff for Laurent Gbagbo, shot. [217]
• Miroslav Tichý, 84, Czech photographer. [218]

11

• Billy Bang, 63, American jazz violinist, lung cancer. [219]
• Lewis Binford, 80, American archaeologist, heart failure. [220]
• Akis Cleanthous, 47, Cypriot politician, chairman of the Stock Exchange (2003–2007), Minister of Education and Culture (2007–2008), heart attack. [221]
• John D'Orazio, 55, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for Ballajura (2001–2008), heart attack during surgery. [222]
• La Esterella, 91, Flemish singer. [223]
• Billy Gray, 83, English footballer (Nottingham Forest). [224]
• Murtaza Hassan, Pakistani stage comedian, hepatitis and liver cancer. [225]
• Sir Simon Milton, 49, British politician, London Deputy Mayor for Policy and Planning, after short illness. [226]
• Doug Newlands, 79, Scottish footballer (Aberdeen, Burnley). [227]
• Peter Ruehl, 64, American-born Australian columnist. [228]
• Angela Scoular, 65, British actress, suicide by poisoning. [229]
• Larry Sweeney, 30, American professional wrestler and manager, suicide by hanging. [230]
• Eric Wall, 95, British Bishop of Huntingdon. [231]

10

• Jimmy Briggs, 74, Scottish footballer (Dundee United). [232]
• Bill Brill, 79, American sportswriter and newspaper editor, esophageal cancer. [233]
• Violet Cowden, 94, American pilot, member of Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II, heart failure. [234]
• Don Merton, 72, New Zealand conservationist. [235]
• Thelma Pressman, 89, American microwave cooking consultant, opened first microwave cooking school in the United States. [236]
• Mikhail Rusyayev, 46, Russian footballer. [237] (Russian)
• Bob Shaw, 89, American football player (Los Angeles Rams). [238]
• Homer Smith, 79, American football coach (Army Black Knights), cancer. [239]
• Francis E. Sweeney, 77, American jurist, Ohio Supreme Court justice (1993–2004). [240]
• Stephen Watson, 56, South African writer and critic, cancer. [241]

9

• Pierre Celis, 86, Belgian brewer (Celis), cancer. [242] (Dutch)
• Robert Coleman-Senghor, 71, American English professor, torn aorta. [243]
• Nicholas Goodhart, 91, British marine engineer and glider pilot. [244]
• Jerry Lawson, 70, American videogame console engineer. [245]
• Sidney Lumet, 86, American film director (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network), lymphoma. [246]
• Roger Nichols, 66, American sound engineer and record producer (Steely Dan), pancreatic cancer. [247]
• Yolande Palfrey, 54, British actress (Blake's 7, Doctor Who), brain tumour. [248]
• Orrin Tucker, 100, American orchestra leader. [249]
• Randy Wood, 94, American record producer, founder of Dot Records. [250]

8

• Mario Branch, 31, American football player (Tennessee Titans, Amsterdam Admirals, Philadelphia Soul), heart failure. [251]
• Daniel Catán, 62, Mexican composer. [252]
• David S. Clarke, 69, Australian businessman, chairman of Macquarie Group (1985–2007), stomach cancer. [253]
• John McCracken, 76, American sculptor. [254]
• John Pugsley, 77, American libertarian speaker and writer. [255]
• Donald Shanks, 70, Australian operatic bass-baritone, heart attack. [256]
• Vasilijs Stepanovs, 83, Latvian weightlifter and Olympic silver medalist (1956 Melbourne). [257] (Latvian)
• Hedda Sterne, 100, Romanian-born American painter and printmaker. [258]
• Elena Zuasti, 75, Uruguayan stage actress and comedienne, heart failure. [259] (Spanish)

7

• Bruce Cowan, 85, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives (1980–1993). [260]
• Edward Edwards, 77, American serial killer, natural causes. [261]
• Hugh FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton, 92, British aristocrat. [262]
• Pierre Gauvreau, 88, Canadian painter and television screenplay writer. [263] (French)
• Blažena Holišová, 80, Czech film and theatre actress. [264] (Czech)
• Arthur Lessac, 101, American voice trainer. [265]
• E. J. McGuire, 58, Canadian ice hockey coach and scout, cancer. [266]
• Hedzer Rijpstra, 91, Dutch politician. [267] (Dutch)
• Victor Surdu, 63, Romanian politician, first post-Communist Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. [268]

6

• Thøger Birkeland, 89, Danish children's book author. [269] (Danish)
• Igor Birman, 85, Russian-born American writer and economist. [270]
• Jim Blair, 64, Scottish footballer, natural causes. [271]
• John Bottomley, 50, Canadian singer-songwriter, suicide. [272]
• Mike Campbell, 78, Zimbabwean farmer, challenged Robert Mugabe (Campbell v Zimbabwe), complications from torture. [273]
• L. J. Davis, 70, American writer. [274]
• Frederick Lindsay, 97, British Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) field hockey player. [275]
• Coyote McCloud, 68, American disc jockey. [276]
• Johnny Morris, 87, English footballer. [277]
• Skip O'Brien, 60, American actor (CSI). [278]
• Fritiof S. Sjöstrand, 98, Swedish physician and histologist. [279]
• F. Gordon A. Stone, 85, British chemist. [280]
• Sujatha, 58, Indian actress. [281]
• Hans Tiedge, 73, German spy. [282]

5

• Baruch Samuel Blumberg, 85, American doctor, Nobel laureate in medicine, heart attack. [283]
• Ange-Félix Patassé, 74, Central African politician, Prime Minister (1976–1978) and President (1993–2003). [284]
• Gil Robbins, 80, American folk singer (The Highwaymen) and actor, father of Tim Robbins, prostate cancer. [285]
• Larry Shepard, 92, American baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates) and coach (Cincinnati Reds). [286]

4

• John Adler, 51, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Jersey (2009–2011), infective endocarditis. [287]
• Scott Columbus, 54, American drummer (Manowar). [288]
• Jackson Lago, 76, Brazilian politician, Governor of Maranhão (2007–2009), cancer. [289] (Portuguese)
• Ned McWherter, 80, American politician, Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1973–1987) and Governor (1987–1995), cancer. [290]
• Juliano Mer-Khamis, 52, Israeli actor and political activist, shot. [291]
• Wayne Robson, 64, Canadian actor (The Red Green Show). [292]
• Craig Thomas, 68, Welsh author, pneumonia. [293]
• Juan Tuñas, 93, Cuban footballer. [294] (Spanish)
• Vakur Versan, 93, Turkish jurist, professor of administrative law (Istanbul University). [295] (Turkish)
• Boško Vuksanović, 83, Croatian water polo player. [296] (Croatian)

3

• Rafique Alam, 81, Indian politician, heart attack. [297]
• Amy Applegren, 83, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League). [298]
• Ulli Beier, 88, German writer. [299]
• William Henry Bullock, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Des Moines (1987–1993) and Madison (1993–2003), lung cancer. [300]
• Martin Horton, 76, English cricketer, after long illness. [301]
• Kevin Jarre, 56, American screenwriter (Tombstone, Glory, The Mummy), heart failure. [302]
• Edith Klestil, 78, Austrian first lady (1992–1998), first wife of President Thomas Klestil, cancer. [303] (death announced on this date)
• Yevgeny Lyadin, 84, Russian footballer. [304] (Russian)
• Marian Pankowski, 91, Polish writer. [305] (Polish)
• William Prusoff, 90, American pharmacologist. [306]
• Calvin Russell, 62, American protest singer-songwriter and guitarist. [307]
• Mandi Schwartz, 23, Canadian college ice hockey player, acute myeloid leukemia. [308]
• Gustavo Sondermann, 29, Brazilian racing driver, race crash. [309] (Portuguese)
• John A. Tory, 81, Canadian lawyer and corporate executive, stroke. [310]

2

• Reshat Bardhi, 76, Albanian religious figure, head of the Bektashi order. [311]
• Larry Finch, 60, American basketball player and coach (Memphis Tigers). [312]
• John C. Haas, 92, American businessman (Rohm and Haas), natural causes. [313]
• Efrain Loyola, 94, Cuban flautist. [314]
• James McNulty, 92, Canadian politician, MP for Lincoln (1962–1968) and St. Catharines (1968–1972). [315]
• Jess Osuna, 82, American character actor (Three Days of the Condor). [316]
• Tom Silverio, 65, Dominican-born American baseball player (California Angels). [317] (Spanish)
• Bill Varney, 77, American sound editor (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future, Dune). [318]
• Paul Violi, 66, American poet, cancer. [319]

1

• Peter Baumann, 75, Swiss psychiatrist. [320] (German)
• Lou Gorman, 82, American baseball executive and general manager (Boston Red Sox, Seattle Mariners). [321]
• Jane Gregory, 51, British Olympic equestrian, heart attack. [322]
• George Gryaznov, 77, Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust (1989–1996), stroke. [323] (Russian)
• Manning Marable, 60, American professor (Columbia University). [324]
• Edel Ojeda, 82, Mexican Olympic boxer. [325] (Spanish)
• Georgi Rusev, 82, Bulgarian theatre and film actor. [326] (Bulgarian)
• Siri Skare, 52, Norwegian lieutenant colonel, first Norwegian female military pilot. [327] (Norwegian)
• Mar Varkey Vithayathil, 83, Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic hierarch, Cardinal (from 2001), Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly (from 1999). [328]
• Brynle Williams, 62, Welsh activist (fuel protests) and politician, AM for North Wales (from 2003). [329]