Deaths in March 2011

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

March 2011

1

• Barklie Lakin, 96, British industrialist (Chairman of Vickers Armstrong) and naval officer, natural causes
• Leonard Lomell, 91, American World War II veteran, recipient of the Silver Star and Purple Heart, natural causes.
• John M. Lounge, 64, American NASA astronaut (1981–1991), complications from liver cancer.
• Ion Monea, 70, Romanian Olympic silver (1968) and bronze (1960) medal-winning boxer.
• Fateh Singh Rathore, 72, Indian wildlife conservationist.
• Hazel Rowley, 59, British-born Australian writer (Tête-à-tête), cerebral haemorrhage.

2

• Simeonie Amagoalik, 77, Canadian carver, cancer.
• Shahbaz Bhatti, 42, Pakistani politician, Minister for Minorities (since 2008), shot.
• Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke, 98, British heir to the Sarawakan throne.
• Bernard Cywinski, 70, American architect (Apple Store), partner and founder of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, cancer.
• John Haines, 86, American poet.
• Erling Kroner, 67, Danish trombonist and bandleader, cancer. (Danish)
• Edward Barnes Leisenring, Jr., 85, American businessman.
• Sir Allan Louisy, 94, Saint Lucian politician and judge, Prime Minister (1979–1981).
• Luis Martínez Villicaña, 71, Mexican politician, Governor of Michoacán (1986–1988), Secretary of Agrarian Reform (1982–1986).
• Ruby Muhammad, 103, American spiritual figure, lung cancer.
• Art Statuto, 85, American football player (Los Angeles Rams).
• Thor Vilhjálmsson, 85, Icelandic author, natural causes. (Icelandic)

3

• Aldo Clementi, 85, Italian composer.
• May Cutler, 87, Canadian author and publisher, founder of Tundra Books, first female Mayor of Westmount, Quebec (1987–1991).
• Paquito Diaz, 73, Filipino actor, complications from a stroke.
• James L. Elliot, 67, American astronomer, discovered rings of Uranus.
• Lasse Eriksson, 61, Swedish comedian. (Swedish)
• Goga Kapoor, 70, Indian actor.
• Irena Kwiatkowska, 98, Polish actress.
• Al Morgan, 91, American novelist and television producer (The Today Show), after long illness.
• Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, 81, Indian astrophysicist, cardiac complications.
• Theron Strinden, 91, American politician.
• James Travers, 62, Canadian journalist, political correspondent (Toronto Star), editor in chief (Ottawa Citizen, 1991–1996), post-surgery complications.

4

• Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 86, Nepali Prime Minister (1990–1991, 1999–2000), multiple organ failure.
• Mary Bowermaster, 93, American masters athletics champion.
• Frank Chirkinian, 84, American producer (CBS Sports), lung cancer.
• Annie Fargue, 76, French actress and manager, cancer. (French)
• Vivienne Harris, 89, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher, co-founder of the Jewish Telegraph.
• Charles Jarrott, 83, British film and television director (Anne of the Thousand Days), prostate cancer.
• Chester Kahapea, 65, American soil scientist, known as the "face of Hawaiian statehood", complications of Lou Gehrig's disease.
• Ed Manning, 68, American basketball player (Baltimore Bullets) and coach (San Antonio Spurs), heart condition.
• Johnny Preston, 71, American pop singer ("Running Bear"), heart failure.
• Mikhail Simonov, 81, Russian aircraft designer, chief designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau (1983–2011), after long illness.
• Arjun Singh, 80, Indian politician, Minister of Human Resource Development (2004–2009), heart attack.
• Alenush Terian, 90, Iranian astronomer and physicist.
• Simon van der Meer, 85, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.

5

• Eivor Alm, 86, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier. (Swedish)
• Jimmy Carnes, 76, American track and field athlete, coach and administrator, cancer.
• Mario Coppola, 74, Italian nuclear physicist. (Italian)
• Alberto Granado, 88, Argentine-born Cuban biochemist and writer, travel companion of Che Guevara (The Motorcycle Diaries).
• Oswald Georg Hirmer, 81, German-born South African Roman Catholic missionary, Bishop of Umtata (1997–2008).
• Manolis Rasoulis, 65, Greek singer-songwriter, author and journalist.

6

• Jean Bartel, 87, American actress, Miss America 1943.
• Marie Andrée Bertrand, 85, Canadian criminologist, feminist and anti-prohibitionist.
• Patricia Brennan, 66, Australian feminist and clinician, advocate of women Anglican priests, cancer.
• Rostislav Čtvrtlík, 47, Czech stage, television and voice actor, brain tumor. (Czech)
• Mike DeStefano, 44, American comedian (Last Comic Standing), heart attack.
• Oddmund Jensen, 82, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier. (Norwegian)
• John Edward Morton, 86, New Zealand biologist and theologian.
• Ján Popluhár, 75, Slovak footballer (1962 FIFA World Cup).
• Louie Ramsay, 81, British actress (The Ruth Rendell Mysteries).
• Reg Stewart, 85, British footballer, natural causes.
• Edward Ullendorff, 91, British historian.
• Frank Ziegler, 87, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).

7

• Cándido Bidó, 74, Dominican painter, cardio-respiratory failure.
• Vladimir Brazhnikov, 69, Russian football coach, myocardial infarction. (Russian)
• Frank Dezelan, 80, American baseball umpire (1958–1970).
• Adrián Escudero, 83, Spanish footballer. (Spanish)
• Samuel Hazard Gillespie, Jr., 100, American lawyer and politician, pancreatic cancer.
• Rudy Salud, 72, Filipino sports executive, PBA Commissioner (1988–1992), complications from surgery.

8

• Iraj Afshar, 85, Iranian bibliographer and historian.
• Victor Manuel Blanco, 92, American astronomer, director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.
• Masoud Boroumand, 83, Iranian football player.
• Richard Campbell, 55, British player of cello and viola da gamba.
• Herb Kawainui Kane, 82, American artist, Hawaiian cultural advocate, participant in the Hokulea voyage.
• Moses Katjiuongua, 68, Namibian politician.
• Jim Keane, 87, American football player (Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers).
• Steven Kroll, 69, American children's book author, surgical complications.
• St. Clair Lee, 66, American musician (Hues Corporation).
• Bronko Nagurski Jr., 73, American player of Canadian football (Hamilton Tiger-Cats).
• John Olmsted, 73, American naturalist and conservationist, liver cancer.
• Mike Starr, 44, American bassist (Alice in Chains, Sun Red Sun). (body found on this date)

9

• Sona Aslanova, 86, Azerbaijanian soprano.
• Jacques Brichant, 80, Belgian tennis player. (French)
• David S. Broder, 81, American journalist (The Washington Post), complications from diabetes.
• Edward A. Burdick, 89, American civil servant.
• Doris Burn, 87, American children's book author and illustrator.
• Seán Cronin, 91, Irish journalist and republican, Irish Republican Army chief of staff (1957–1958, 1959–1960), after long illness.
• Armando Goyena, 88, Filipino actor.
• Andrew Hao Jinli, 95, Chinese Roman Catholic underground Bishop of Xiwanzi (since 1984).
• Bob Marcucci, 81, American talent agent, respiratory complications.
• Bob McNamara, 94, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
• Des Meagher, 67, Australian footballer (Hawthorn).
• Lindy Pearson, 82, American football player (Detroit Lions).
• Inge Sørensen, 86, Danish swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist (1936). (Danish)
• Toshiko Takaezu, 88, American ceramic artist.

10

• Bill Blackbeard, 84, American comic strip writer and editor.
• Bob Callahan, 87, American football player (Buffalo Bills).
• Nick Harbaruk, 67, Polish-born Canadian ice hockey player, bone cancer.
• Don Boven, 86, American basketball player and coach (Western Michigan University), heart disease.
• Baliram Kashyap, 74, Indian politician, MP for Bastar (since 1998), after long illness.
• Gabriel Laderman, 81, American painter, cancer,
• Danny Paton, 75, Scottish footballer.
• Emmett J. Rice, 91, American economist and banking official, heart failure.
• Eddie Snyder, 92, American composer ("Strangers in the Night", "Spanish Eyes").
• David Viñas, 83, Argentine dramatist, critic and novelist, pneumonic infection.

11

• David Brown, 69, British cricketer, brain tumour.
• Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha, 80, Brazilian paleontologist and herpetologist. (Portuguese)
• Alfred Genovese, 79, American oboist, complications from cardiac arrest.
• Jack Hardy, 63, American singer-songwriter.
• Nancy Kominsky, 95, American art teacher and broadcaster.
• Hugh Martin, 96, American songwriter ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") and film composer (Meet Me in St. Louis), natural causes.
• Héctor Francisco Medina Polanco, 37, Honduran television journalist, shot. .
• Frank Neuhauser, 97, American patent attorney and spelling bee champion, winner of the 1925 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
• Valter Nyström, 95, Swedish Olympic track and field athlete. (Swedish)
• Danny Stiles, 87, American radio host.
• Donny George Youkhanna, 60, Iraqi archaeologist, anthropologist and author, heart attack.

12

• Ali Hassan al-Jaber, 56, Qatari photojournalist (Al Jazeera), shot.
• Donald Brenner, 64, Canadian judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia (2000–2009).
• Bruce Campbell, 87, Canadian politician.
• Olive Dickason, 91, Canadian historian and author.
• Margaret Fish, 112, British supercentenarian, oldest person in the United Kingdom.
• Juan García-Santacruz Ortiz, 77, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guadix (1992–2009).
• Kumar Indrajitsinhji, 73, Indian cricketer, cancer.
• Shifra Lerer, 95, Argentinian-born American Yiddish theatre actress, stroke.
• Joe Morello, 82, American drummer (The Dave Brubeck Quartet).
• John Nettleship, 71, British teacher, inspiration for character of Severus Snape, cancer.
• Mitchell Page, 59, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics), and coach (St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Nationals).
• Nilla Pizzi, 91, Italian singer.
• Tawfik Toubi, 88, Israeli Arab politician, last surviving member of the first Knesset.

13

• Roy Flatt, 63, Scottish Anglican priest.
• Sir Michael Gray, 78, British army general.
• Virginia Klinekole, 86, American politician, first female President of the Mescalero Apache.
• Brian Lanker, 63, American photojournalist, pancreatic cancer.
• Rick Martin, 59, Canadian ice hockey player (Buffalo Sabres, Los Angeles Kings), heart attack.
• Ritchie Pickett, 56, New Zealand country singer.
• David Rumelhart, 68, American psychologist, created computer simulations of neural processing, Pick's disease.
• Nicholas Smisko, 75, American clergyman, Head of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese (since 1984), cancer.
• Jean Smith, 82, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
• Owsley Stanley, 76, American-born Australian underground LSD chemist and sound engineer (Grateful Dead), traffic accident.
• Leo Steinberg, 90, American art historian and critic.
• Vitaly Vulf, 80, Russian theater critic and television host.

14

• Gerald Barry, 63, Irish journalist and broadcaster, illness.
• Todd Cerney, 57, American country musician and producer, melanoma.
• Leslie Collier, 90, British virologist.
• José Pinto Correia, 80, Portuguese politician, Governor of Macau (1986–1987).
• Bob Greaves, 76, British journalist and broadcaster, cancer.
• Jülide Gülizar, 82, Turkish anchorwoman, one of the nation's first television presenters.
• Eduard Gushchin, 70, Russian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) athlete.
• Big Jack Johnson, 70, American guitarist and blues singer.
• Giora Leshem, 71, Israeli poet and publisher. (Hebrew)
• G. Alan Marlatt, 69, American professor, kidney failure.
• Larry Zolf, 76, Canadian journalist and humorist.

15

• Amos Bar, 79, Israeli author. (Hebrew)
• Keith Fordyce, 82, British radio and television presenter (Ready Steady Go!).
• Frank Howard, 85, Canadian politician, member of the BC Legislative Assembly for Skeena (1953–1956; 1979–1986), MP for Skeena (1957–1974).
• Musa Juma, 42, Kenyan musician, pneumonia.
• Yakov Kreizberg, 51, Russian-born Austrian-American conductor.
• Jean Liedloff, 84, American writer.
• Peter Loader, 81, British cricketer.
• Marty Marion, 94, American baseball player and manager, National League MVP (1944).
• Nate Dogg, 41, American musician, stroke.
• Fred Sanford, 91, American baseball player.
• Smiley Culture, 48, British reggae singer and DJ, apparent suicide by stabbing.
• Melvin Sparks, 64, American jazz and soul guitarist, heart attack.

16

• Sándor Arnóth, 51, Hungarian politician, car accident. (Hungarian)
• Sadiq Batcha, 47, Indian businessman and politician, suicide by hanging.
• Carel Boshoff, 83, South African religious and cultural activist, cancer.
• Betty Lowman Carey, 96, American rower.
• Tom Dunbar, 51, American baseball player (Texas Rangers).
• Thomas Nkuissi, 82, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nkongsamba (1978–1992).
• Lloyd Oliver, 88, American veteran, World War II code talker.
• James Pritchett, 88, American actor (The Doctors).
• Lorenda Starfelt, 56, American producer, cancer.
• James C. Tyree, 53, American businessman, chairman and CEO of the Chicago Sun-Times, cancer.
• Murray Warmath, 98, American college football coach (Minnesota Golden Gophers), natural causes.
• Richard Wirthlin, 80, American political strategist and religious leader, renal failure.

17

• Moisis Michail Bourlas, 92, Greek Resistance veteran. (Greek)
• Banny deBrum, 54, Marshallese diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1996–2008, 2009–2011) and Canada (1999–2011).
• Michael Gough, 94, British actor (Sleepy Hollow, Batman), after short illness.
• Abdel Moneim El-Guindi, 74, Egyptian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) boxer. (Arabic)
• Ferlin Husky, 85, American country music singer, heart failure.
• Don Kennard, 81, American politician, Texas State Senator (1963–1973).
• Murdoch Mitchison, 88, British zoologist.
• J.B. Steane, 83, British music critic.

18

• Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, 90, Monegasque princess.
• Ze'ev Boim, 67, Israeli Knesset member, cancer.
• Enzo Cannavale, 82, Italian actor (Cinema Paradiso). (Italian)
• Warren Christopher, 85, American diplomat, Secretary of State (1993–1997), complications from kidney and bladder cancer.
• Arthur Charles Evans, 94, British author and police officer.
• Jet Harris, 71, British musician (The Shadows), throat cancer.
• Drew Hill, 54, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Houston Oilers), stroke.
• Charlie Metro, 91, American baseball player and manager (Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics), mesothelioma.
• Peter Weigand, 69, American Olympic sprint canoer.
• Kirk Wipper, 87, Canadian founder of the Canadian Canoe Museum.

19

• Patrick Ahern, 92, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1970–1994).
• Kym Bonython, 90, Australian art, jazz and speedway entrepreneur.
• Guillermo Ford, 74, Panamanian politician, Vice President of Panama (1989–1994).
• Raymond Garlick, 84, British poet and editor.
• Barrington Gaynor, 45, Jamaican footballer.
• Knut, 4, German-born polar bear, drowned.
• Gustav Lantschner, 100, Austrian Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) alpine skier and actor.
• Tom McAvoy, 74, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
• Zew Wawa Morejno, 95, Polish-born American rabbi. (Polish)
• Mohammed Nabbous, 28, Libyan journalist, founder of Alhurra TV, shot.
• Navin Nischol, 65, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Jim Roslof, 64, American artist (Dungeons & Dragons), cancer.
• Robert Ross, 92, American physician and medical school founder (Ross University), cancer.
• Bob Rush, 85, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Braves, Chicago White Sox).
• Leonard Webb, 89, British politician, Mayor of Thame (1975–1979).

20

• John Apacible, 38, Filipino actor (Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin), shooting.
• Don Canney, 80, American politician, Mayor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1969–1992), heart failure.
• Bob Christo, 72, Australian-born Indian actor, heart attack.
• Néstor de Vicente, 46, Argentine footballer, car crash. (Spanish)
• Oliver Humperdink, 62, American professional wrestling manager, pneumonia and cancer.
• Agostinho Januszewicz, 80, Polish-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Luziânia (1989–2004).
• Johnny Pearson, 85, British composer, arranger and pianist.
• Sara Ruddick, 76, American philosopher and author, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Dorothy Young, 103, American actress, assistant to Harry Houdini.

21

• Michael Abramson, 62, American artist and photographer, kidney cancer.
• Barry Ackerley, 76, American businessman (Ackerley Group), former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics, stroke.
• Nikolai Andrianov, 58, Russian gymnast, most medaled athlete at the 1976 Summer Olympics, after long illness.
• Jesús Aranguren, 66, Spanish footballer and manager. (Spanish)
• Hans Boskamp, 78, Dutch actor and footballer, stroke. (Dutch)
• John L. Cashin, Jr., 82, American civil rights campaigner, kidney failure.
• Ray Eden, 42, British cyclist, head injuries.
• Mayhew Foster, 99, American brigadier general, flew captured Hermann Göring to interrogation.
• Loleatta Holloway, 64, American soul and disco musician, heart failure.
• Hansl Krönauer, 78, German folk singer and composer. (German)
• Ladislav Novák, 79, Czech footballer.
• Pinetop Perkins, 97, American blues musician, cardiac arrest.
• Kjeld Tolstrup, 45, Danish radio disc jockey (DR P3), after long illness. (Danish)
• Joe Wizan, 76, Mexican born-American film producer and studio executive (Jeremiah Johnson, Dunston Checks In), after long illness.

22

• Artur Agostinho, 90, Portuguese sports journalist and actor. (Portuguese)
• Nadia Barentin, 74, French actress (Les Blessures assassines). (French)
• Victor Bouchard, 84, Canadian pianist, duettist with pianist Renée Morisset, respiratory disease.
• Patrick Doeplah, 20, Liberian footballer.
• Viljar Loor, 57, Estonian Olympic gold medal-winning (1980) volleyball player. (Estonian)
• Jean-Guy Morissette, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Zoogz Rift, 57, American musician, painter and professional wrestler.
• Normie Roy, 82, American baseball player (Boston Braves).
• Reuven Shefer, 85, Israeli actor. (Hebrew)
• José Soriano, 93, Peruvian football player. (Spanish)
• Helen Stenborg, 86, American actress.
• George Alfred Walker, 81, British businessman, founder of Brent Walker.

23

• José Argüelles, 72, American New Age author.
• Jean Bartik, 86, American computer programmer (ENIAC).
• Živorad Kovačević, 80, Serbian diplomat. (Serbian)
• Sir Frank Lampl, 84, British businessman.
• Richard Leacock, 89, British documentary film maker (Louisiana Story, Primary, Monterey Pop, Janis).
• Teodor Negoiţă, 63, Romanian polar explorer and scientist. (Romanian)
• Trevor Storton, 61, English footballer.
• Elizabeth Taylor, 79, British-American actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Cleopatra, BUtterfield 8), heart failure.
• Fred Titmus, 78, English test cricketer.
• Fritz Tschannen, 90, Swiss accordion player and Olympic ski jumper.
• Leonard Weinglass, 78, American civil rights lawyer, pancreatic cancer.

24

• Julian Gbur, 68, Polish-born Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Stryi (since 2000). (Ukrainian)
• Hanni Gehring, 84, German Olympic cross-country skier. (German)
• William M. Greathouse, 91, American Nazarene minister, heart failure.
• Dudley Laws, 76, Jamaican-born Canadian civil rights activist, kidney disease.
• Anselmo Müller, 79, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Januária (1984–2008).
• Gloria Valencia de Castaño, 83, Colombian television host, respiratory failure. (Spanish)
• Lanford Wilson, 73, American playwright.

25

• Floyd Bedbury, 73, American Olympic speed skater, cancer.
• Thomas Eisner, 81, American biologist, Parkinson's disease.
• Luis María Estrada Paetau, 75, Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Izabal (1977–2004).
• Edwin Gaustad, 87, American religious historian.
• Maria Isakova, 92, Soviet speed skater.
• Pavel Leonov, 90, Russian naïve artist.
• Almena Lomax, 95, American journalist and civil rights activist, founder of the Los Angeles Tribune, after short illness.
• M. Blane Michael, 68, American federal judge.
• Hugo Midón, 67, Argentine theatre director and actor, after long illness. (Spanish)
• Thady Wyndham-Quin, 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 71, Anglo-Irish aristocrat.

26

• Roger Abbott, 64, Canadian actor and comedian (Royal Canadian Air Farce), chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
• Joe Bageant, 64, American writer, social critic and political commentator, cancer.
• Paul Baran, 84, American Internet pioneer, complications from lung cancer.
• Alexander Barykin, 59, Russian musician, heart attack. (Russian)
• Carl Bunch, 71, American drummer (Buddy Holly and the Crickets).
• Greg Centauro, 34, French pornographic actor, cardiac arrest.
• Harry Coover, 94, American inventor (Super Glue).
• Lula Côrtes, 61, Brazilian musician (Paêbirú), throat cancer. (Portuguese)
• Cibele Dorsa, 36, Brazilian actress and writer, suicide by jumping. (Portuguese)
• Geraldine Ferraro, 75, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York (1979–1985) and 1984 Vice Presidential nominee, multiple myeloma.
• František Havránek, 87, Czech football player and manager. (Czech)
• Yrjö Hietanen, 83, Finnish Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) canoeist, stroke. (Finnish)
• Diana Wynne Jones, 76, British fantasy author (Howl's Moving Castle), lung cancer.
• Enn Klooren, 70, Estonian actor. (Estonian)
• Jean-Philippe Lecat, 75, French politician. (French)
• Raymond-Marie Tchidimbo, 90, Guinean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Conakry (1962–1979).
• Robert Underwood, 76, American Negro League baseball player.
• Eric Zentner, 30, American male fashion model, traffic collision.

27

• Jeff Andrus, 64, American screenwriter, congestive heart failure.
• Sir Clement Arrindell, 79, Kittitian politician, Governor-General (1983–1995).
• David E. Davis, 80, American automotive writer, editor and publisher (Car and Driver, Automobile), complications from bladder surgery.
• Lawrence Elion, 93, British actor.
• Farley Granger, 85, American actor (Strangers on a Train, Rope), natural causes.
• H. R. F. Keating, 84, British crime fiction writer.
• Ellen McCormack, 84, American pro-life activist and politician, two-time Presidential candidate (1976, 1980).
• DJ Megatron, 32, American disc jockey, shot.
• Günther Mund, 76, German-born Chilean Olympic diver, plane crash. (Spanish)
• Dorothea Puente, 82, American serial killer, natural causes.
• George Tooker, 90, American painter, kidney failure.

28

• Wenche Foss, 93, Norwegian actress, natural causes. (Norwegian)
• Lee Hoiby, 85, American composer, metastatic melanoma.
• Sonia Osorio, 83, Colombian ballet dancer and choreographer, respiratory failure. (Spanish)
• Esben Storm, 60, Danish-born Australian actor, director and producer, heart attack.
• Guy M. Townsend, 90, American Air Force brigadier general and test pilot.

29

• José Alencar, 79, Brazilian entrepreneur and politician, Vice-President (2003–2010), multiple organ failure.
• Bob Benny, 84, Belgian singer.
• Iakovos Kambanelis, 88, Greek author, playwright, poet, lyricist and journalist, kidney failure. (Greek)
• Neil Reimer, 89, Canadian politician, Leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party (1962–1968).
• Jim Seymour, 64, American football player (Chicago Bears).
• Ângelo de Sousa, 73, Portuguese painter, sculptor, draftsman and professor, cancer. (Portuguese)
• Alan Tang, 64, Hong Kong actor, film producer and director, stroke.
• Robert Tear, 72, British opera singer, cancer.
• Endre Wolf, 97, Hungarian violinist.

30

• Harley Allen, 55, American bluegrass and country singer, cancer.
• Jacques Amir, 78, Israeli politician. (Hebrew)
• Jorge Camacho, 77, Cuban painter. (Spanish)
• Ângelo de Sousa, 73, Portuguese artist. (Portuguese)
• Jack Fulk, 78, American businessman, co-founder of Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits.
• Tamar Golan, 76, Israeli journalist and diplomat.
• Lyudmila Gurchenko, 75, Russian film actress and singer, People's Artist of the USSR. (Russian)
• Johnny Harra, 64, American actor, Elvis impersonator.
• Denis McLean, 80, New Zealand diplomat, academic, author and civil servant.
• Wally Peterson, 93, American actor, singer and stage manager.
• Nutan Prasad, 65, Indian actor, after long illness.
• Liaquat Soldier, 56, Pakistani comedian, heart attack.

31

• Tony Barrell, 70, British-born Australian broadcaster and writer.
• Gil Clancy, 88, American Hall of Fame boxing trainer.
• Alan Fitzgerald, 75, Australian journalist, cancer.
• Oddvar Hansen, 89, Norwegian footballer and coach (SK Brann). (Norwegian)
• Claudia Heill, 29, Austrian judoka, silver medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, suspected suicide.
• Tom Kelleher, 85, American football official (1960–1987), complications from pneumonia.
• Vassili Kononov, 88, Russian military veteran and war criminal. (Latvian)
• Ishbel MacAskill, 70, Scottish Gaelic singer and heritage campaigner.
• Mel McDaniel, 68, American country music singer ("Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On"), cancer.
• Bosko Radonjich, 67, Serbian nationalist, after short illness.
• Edward Stobart, 56, British haulage contractor and entrepreneur.
• Henry Taub, 83, American entrepreneur, founder of Automatic Data Processing, leukemia.