Deaths in July 2011

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

July 2011

1

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

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

• Kenny Baker, 85, American fiddler, complications from a stroke.
• Roberts Blossom, 87, American actor (Doc Hollywood, Escape from Alcatraz, Home Alone).
• William R. Corliss, 84, American physicist and writer.
• Sam Denoff, 83, American Emmy Award-winning television writer (The Dick Van Dyke Show, That Girl), Alzheimer's disease.
• Aleksis Dreimanis, 96, Latvian-born Canadian geologist.
• Pete Duranko, 67, American football player (Denver Broncos), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Mary Fenech Adami, 77, Maltese First Lady (2004–2009), wife of Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami, heart attack.
• Betty Ford, 93, American First Lady (1974–1977) and co-founder of Betty Ford Center.
• Norman Hampson, 89, British historian.
• Bidzina Kvernadze, 82, Georgian composer, Parkinson's disease.
• Camille Lembi Zaneli, 61, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Isangi (since 2000), plane crash.
• George McAnthony, 45, Italian country singer, heart attack.
• Paul Michael, 84, American actor, heart failure.
• Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, 95, Spanish-born Mexican philosopher, writer and educator.

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

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

13

• Raymond Beckman, 86, American Olympic soccer player, coronary artery disease.
• Giacomo Benevelli, 96, Italian sculptor. (Italian)
• W. K. Brown, 88, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1960–1972), Alzheimer's disease.
• Per-Erik Burud, 48, Norwegian businessman, boating accident. (Norwegian)
• Al Debbo, 87, South African comedian.
• Allan Jeans, 77, Australian football player and coach, pulmonary fibrosis.
• John Mosca, 86, American restaurateur (Mosca's), prostate cancer.
• Jerry Ragovoy, 80, American songwriter ("Time Is on My Side"), stroke.
• Heinz Reincke, 86, German actor. (German)
• Niall Shanks, 52, British-born North American philosopher.

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

• Armando Martín Borque, 90, Spanish entrepreneur. (Spanish)
• Blaize Clement, 78, American mystery writer and psychologist, cancer.
• Lucian Freud, 88, German-born British painter.
• Isaia Italeli, 40s, Tuvaluan Cabinet minister. (body found on this date)
• Myra Kraft, 68, American philanthropist, wife of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, cancer.
• Jim Samios, 77, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1984–2003).
• Gloria Sawai, 78, American-born Canadian author.
• Mary Simpson, 85, American minister, first woman to be ordained by the American Episcopal Church.
• Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan, 79, New Zealand politician, longest-serving female member of the House of Representatives (1967–1996).

21

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

22

• Tom Aldredge, 83, American actor (The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire), lymphoma.
• Linda Christian, 87, Mexican-born American actress, first Bond girl (1954 television adaptation of Casino Royale), colon cancer.
• Dmitri Furman, 68, Russian historian and philosopher, after long illness. (Russian)
• Volodymyr O. Kravets, 81, 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.
• Malcolm Muir, 96, American jurist.
• Ifti Nasim, 64, Pakistani-born American poet and radio host, heart attack.
• Tex Nelson, 74, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).
• Cees de Wolf, 65, Dutch footballer (Ajax Amsterdam). (Dutch)

23

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

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

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

26

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

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

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

29

• Elazar Abuhatzeira, 70, Moroccan-born Israeli rabbi, stabbed.
• John Edward Anderson, 93, American businessman and philanthropist, pneumonia.
• Arild Braastad, 64, Norwegian diplomat. (Norwegian)
• Joseph V. Brady, 89, American behavioral neuroscientist.
• Enzo Coppini, 91, Italian cyclist.
• Claude Laydu, 84, Belgian actor, heart condition.
• Richard Marsh, Baron Marsh, 83, British politician and businessman, MP for Greenwich (1959–1971), Chairman of British Rail (1971–1976).
• Nella Martinetti, 65, Swiss singer-songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
• Gene McDaniels, 76, American singer-songwriter.
• Ivan Milas, 72, Croatian politician. (Croatian)
• Takeshi Miyaji, 45, Japanese video game designer and business executive (GunGriffon, Grandia).
• Matthew J. Perry, 89, American federal judge.
• Emeric Santo, 90, Australian Olympic fencer.
• Agnes Varis, 81, American philanthropist, cancer.

30

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

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