Deaths in February 2011

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

February 2011

1

• Ernst Badian, 85, Austrian classical scholar and history professor (Harvard University), complications from a fall.
• Julio Barragán, 82, Argentine painter. (Spanish)
• Lennox Fyfe, Baron Fyfe of Fairfield, 69, British politician.
• Douglas Haig, 90, American child actor.
• Stanisław Michalski, 78, Polish actor. (Polish)
• Derek Rawcliffe, 89, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway (1981–1991).
• Knut Risan, 80, Norwegian actor. (Norwegian)
• Husik Santurjan, 91, Turkish-born Armenian archbishop of Armenian Apostolic Church.
• Les Stubbs, 81, British footballer.

2

• Geoff Ainsworth, 64, Australian football player, cancer.^[1]
• Federico Aguilar Alcuaz, 78, Filipino painter.^[2]
• Edward Amy, 92, Canadian brigadier general.^[3]
• Ian Anderson, 57, British politician, brain tumour.^[4]
• Darrel Baldock, 72, Australian football player and coach, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1972–1987) and Minister (1975–1982), stroke.^[5]
• Daniela Castelo, 47, Argentine journalist and radio host, aneurysm.^[6]
• Armando Chin Yong, 53, Malaysian opera singer, heart disease.^[7]
• Jimmy Fell, 75, British footballer (Grimsby Town), natural causes.^[8]
• Bill Foster, 78, American television director (Benson, Full House, The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults), cancer.^[9]
• Defne Joy Foster, 35, Turkish actress, presenter and VJ.^[10]
• Awal Gul, 48, Afghan detainee in Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, heart attack.^[11]
• Douglas M. Head, 80, American politician, Minnesota Attorney General (1967–1971), natural causes. ^[12]
• Rodney Hill, 89, British mathematician.^[13]
• Clark Hulings, 88, American realist painter and physicist.^[14]
• Margaret John, 84, British actress (Gavin & Stacey), liver cancer.^[15]
• Durga Mukherjee, 77, Indian cricketer.^[16]
• Eric Nicol, 91, Canadian writer.^[17]
• René Verdon, 86, French-born American White House Executive Chef, leukemia.^[18]

3

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

4

• Martial Célestin, 97, Haitian lawyer and diplomat, Prime Minister (1988). (French)
• Robert L. Frye, 84, American educator.
• Woodie Fryman, 70, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Montreal Expos).
• Michael Habeck, 66, German actor, after short illness. (German)
• Dame Olga Lopes-Seale, 92, Guyanese-born Barbadian broadcaster and singer.
• Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud, 41, Egyptian journalist, shot.
• Lena Nyman, 66, Swedish actress (I Am Curious (Yellow), I Am Curious (Blue), Autumn Sonata), cancer.
• Vasile Paraschiv, 82, Romanian political activist and dissident. (Romanian)
• Tura Satana, 72, American actress (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), heart failure.
• Earl Irvin West, 90, American church historian.
• Lee Winfield, 64, American basketball player (Seattle SuperSonics, Buffalo Braves), colon cancer.

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

• Hans Joachim Alpers, 67, co-founder of German company Fantasy Productions.
• Nubia Barahona, 10, American child abuse victim, beaten.
• John Patrick Barnes, 69, American civic leader, heart attack.
• Bad News Brown, 33, Canadian rapper and harmonica player, beaten and shot.
• Sir Arthur Bryan, 87, British businessman.
• Tom Carnegie, 91, American sports announcer (Indianapolis Motor Speedway).
• Bo Carpelan, 84, Finnish poet and author.
• John Clay, 86, English cricketer.
• Steve Dacri, 58, American magician, cancer.
• Joe R. Greenhill, 96, American attorney, Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court (1972–1982).
• Roy Gussow, 92, American sculptor (Infinity), heart attack.
• Gerry Huth, 77, American football player (New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings).
• Christian J. Lambertsen, 93, American diving engineer, inventor of first SCUBA device, renal failure.
• Earle Morris, Jr., 82, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina (1971–1975).
• Josef Pirrung, 61, German footballer, cancer. (German)
• Chuck Tanner, 82, American baseball manager (Chicago White Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates) and player (Los Angeles Dodgers), after long illness.

12

• Peter Alexander, 84, Austrian actor and singer. (German)
• Ching Arellano, 50, Filipino actor and comedian, heart failure.
• Kevin Barry, Sr., 74, New Zealand boxing coach, after long illness.
• Gino Cimoli, 81, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates), heart and kidney complications.
• Mato Damjanović, 83, Croatian chess grandmaster.
• Ernesto De Pascale, 52, Italian music promoter, producer and critic.
• Mark C. Ebersole, 89, American educator.
• James Elliott, 82, British-born Australian actor (Number 96), Lewy body dementia.
• Betty Garrett, 91, American actress, singer and dancer (On the Town, All in the Family, Laverne & Shirley), aortic aneurysm.
• Fedor den Hertog, 64, Dutch cyclist and Olympic medallist, prostate cancer.
• Andrzej Kłopotowski, 75, Polish Olympic swimmer.
• Konstantinos Kosmopoulos, 83, Greek politician, Mayor of Thessaloniki (1989–1999), cardiac arrest. (Greek)
• Kenneth Mars, 75, American actor (Young Frankenstein, The Producers, The Little Mermaid), pancreatic cancer.
• John Monson, 11th Baron Monson, 78, British aristocrat and politician, head injuries following a fall.
• Saleh Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi, 99, Saudi Arabian businessman, founder of Al-Rajhi Bank, heart attack.
• Bridgett Rollins, 54, American model (Playboy), cancer.
• Joanne Siegel, 93, American widow of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, reported model for the character of Lois Lane.
• Vipindas, 72, Indian cinematographer and director, short illness.
• Frank Whitten, 68, New Zealand actor (Outrageous Fortune), cancer.

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

• Ricky Bell, 36, American football player (Chicago Bears, Jacksonville Jaguars, Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
• David Bradby, 68, British drama and theatre scholar, cancer.
• George Clarke, 89, British footballer (Ipswich Town).
• Dave Duerson, 50, American football player (Chicago Bears, Phoenix Cardinals, New York Giants), suicide by gunshot.
• Francis Anthony Gomes, 79, Bangladeshi Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mymensingh (1987–2006).
• Ron Hickman, 78, South African-born British inventor (Black & Decker Workmate, Lotus Elan).
• Steve Horn, 79, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1993–2003), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Augustine Hu Daguo, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic underground bishop of Guiyang.
• George Lewis, 93, Trinidad and Tobago Olympic track and field athlete.
• James McLure, 59, American playwright.
• Michelle Monkhouse, 19, Canadian fashion model, car accident.
• Bill Monroe, 90, American journalist, host of Meet the Press (1975–1984), complications from hypertension.
• Perry Moore, 39, American author (Hero) and film producer (The Chronicles of Narnia), apparent drug overdose.
• Vivien Noakes, 74, British literary critic, cancer.
• Gustave Olombe Atelumbu Musilamu, 83, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Wamba (1968–1990).

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

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

22

• Kjell Bjartveit, 83, Norwegian physician and politician.
• Brian Bonsor, 84, Scottish composer and music teacher.
• George Buksar, 84, American football player (Chicago Hornets, Washington Redskins).
• Nicholas Courtney, 81, British actor (Doctor Who).
• Bill Deck, 95, American Negro league baseball player.
• Beau Dollar, 69, American singer and drummer, long illness.
• Jean Dinning, 86, American songwriter ("Teen Angel"); sister of Mark Dinning.
• Jo Giles, 40, New Zealand television personality and sportswoman, earthquake.
• Ion Hobana, 80, Romanian science fiction author.
• Amanda Hooper, 30, New Zealand field hockey representative, earthquake.
• Jud McAtee, 91, Canadian-born American ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks).
• James R. McCartney, 90, American politician, Secretary of State of West Virginia (1975–1977).
• Bill Nimmo, 93, American radio and television announcer (Who Do You Trust?, The Jackie Gleason Show) and game show host (Keep It in the Family).
• Ivo Pavelić, 103, Croatian footballer and Olympic swimmer.

23

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

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

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

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• Netiva Ben-Yehuda, 82, Israeli author and radio personality. ^[19]
• Scott Cary, 87, American baseball player (Washington Senators). ^[20]
• Harvey Dorfman, 75, American sports psychologist. ^[21]
• Ernest Eastman, 83, Liberian diplomat, Foreign Minister (1983–1986), Secretary General of the Mano River Union. ^[22]
• Emmy, 21, Albanian singer, vehicular homicide. ^[23]
• Annie Girardot, 79, French actress, Alzheimer's disease. ^[24]
• Peter J. Gomes, 69, American preacher, theologian and author, professor at Harvard Divinity School, brain aneurysm and heart attack. ^[25]
• Stan Holmes, 51, American baseball player, cancer. ^[26]
• Nick LaTour, 82, American singer and actor (Jingle All The Way, Don Juan DeMarco), complications from cancer. ^[27]
• Jozef Massy, 96, Belgian Olympic sprint canoer. ^[28]
• Günter Mast, 84, German businessman (Jägermeister). ^[29] (German)
• Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa, 102, Brazilian diplomatic clerk, natural causes. ^[30] (Portuguese)
• Jane Russell, 89, American actress (The Outlaw, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), respiratory illness. ^[31]
• Jan van Schijndel, 83, Dutch footballer (1952 Summer Olympics). ^[32] (Dutch)
• Allan Williams, 88, Canadian politician, Attorney General of British Columbia (1979–1983), after long illness. ^[33]
• Wally Yonamine, 85, American baseball (Yomiuri Giants, Chunichi Dragons) and football player (San Francisco 49ers), prostate cancer. ^[34]
• Doyald Young, 84, American logotype designer, complications of heart surgery. ^[35]

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