Deaths in November 2011

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

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

November 2011

Valentin Kozmich Ivanov 1934-2011

Danielle Mitterrand 1924-2011

1

• Gumaa Al-Shawan, 74, Egyptian intelligence agent.
• Cahit Aral, 84, Turkish engineer and politician, Minister of Industry and Commerce (1983–1987).
• Fanny Edelman, 100, Argentine politician, President of the PCA.
• Sam Fink, 95, American calligrapher.
• André Hodeir, 90, French author, jazz arranger and composer.
• Christiane Legrand, 81, French jazz singer.
• Sergio Montiel, 84, Argentine politician, Governor of Entre Ríos (1983–1987; 1999–2003).
• Dorothy Howell Rodham, 92, American homemaker, mother of Hillary Clinton.
• Eilaine Roth, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL), complications from cancer.
• Héctor Rueda Hernández, 90, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Medellín (1991–1997).
• Seppo Sanaksenaho, 73, Finnish politician, Mayor of Vaasa (1997–2001).
• Katherine Siva Saubel, 91, American Cahuilla tribal leader and activist, one of the last speakers of the Cahuilla language.
• Robert A. Scalapino, 92, American political scientist.
• Ricardo Watty Urquidi, 73, American-born Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tepic (since 2008), pancreatic cancer.

2

• Sydney Andrew, 85, English industrial chemical engineer.
• Stan Bergstein, 87, American harness racing executive.
• Sickan Carlsson, 96, Swedish actress and singer.
• Rijk de Gooyer, 85, Dutch actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Ilmar Kullam, 89, Estonian Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) basketball player.
• Lou Maletta, 74, American media executive, founder of Gay Cable Network, liver cancer.
• Eugene Maslov, 66, Russian billiards coach.
• Yoko Matsuoka McClain, 87, Japanese-born American professor (University of Oregon), granddaughter of Natsume Sōseki, stroke.
• Sid Melton, 94, American character actor (The Golden Girls, Green Acres, The Danny Thomas Show), pneumonia.
• Papa Bue, 81, Danish trombonist and bandleader.
• Antonio Molino Rojo, 85, Spanish film actor.
• Nikolay Saksonov, 88, Russian world champion weightlifter, Olympic silver medalist (1952).
• Leonard Stone, 87, American actor (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Soylent Green, L.A. Law), cancer.
• Lucy Tejada, 91, Colombian painter.

3

• Matty Alou, 72, Dominican Republic-born American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals), diabetes.
• Rosángela Balbó, 70, Mexican-Italian born actress, lung cancer.
• Tamás Eszes, 47, Hungarian politician and paramilitary leader, suicide.
• Bob Forsch, 61, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals), aortic aneurysm.
• H. G. Francis, 75, German science fiction author.
• Guo Tao, 85, Chinese lieutenant general.
• Peeter Kreitzberg, 62, Estonian politician, Minister of Culture and Education (1995).
• Justo Oscar Laguna, 82, Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Morón (1980–2004).
• Ivar Nørgaard, 89, Danish politician, negotiated Denmark's entry to the European Community.
• John R. Opel, 86, American computer businessman, president and CEO of IBM.
• Morris Philipson, 85, American book publisher and novelist.
• Sir Timothy Raison, 82, British politician, Member of Parliament for Aylesbury (1970–1992).
• Bruno Rubeo, 65, Italian production designer (Platoon, Driving Miss Daisy, Born on the Fourth of July), pneumonia.
• John Young, 80, Scottish politician, MSP for West of Scotland (1999–2003).

4

• Alfonso Cano, 63, Colombian guerrilla leader (FARC), shot.
• Emmanuel de Bethune, 82, Belgian politician, Mayor of Kortrijk (1987–1989, 1995–2000), after long illness.
• Arnold Green, 91, Estonian politician, President of the Estonian Olympic Committee (1989–1997).
• Cynthia Myers, 61, American model (Playboy) and actress (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls), lung cancer.
• Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., 96, American physicist, Nobel Laureate (1989).
• Andy Rooney, 92, American journalist (60 Minutes), surgical complications.
• Theadora Van Runkle, 83, American costume designer (The Godfather Part II, Bonnie and Clyde, Bullitt), lung cancer.
• Sarah Watt, 53, Australian film director, bone and breast cancer.
• Tadeusz Walasek, 75, Polish Olympic silver (1960) and bronze (1964) medal-winning boxer.
• Dieudonné Yougbaré, 94, Burkinabé Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Koupéla (1956–1995).

5

• Mario Roberto Álvarez, 97, Argentine architect.
• George Ansbro, 96, American radio announcer.
• Luigi Belloli, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of the Anagni-Alatri (1987–1999).
• Franco Chillemi, 69, Italian actor and voice actor.
• Les Daniels, 68, American writer.
• Norton Dodge, 84, American economist and art collector.
• Loulou de la Falaise, 63, French fashion muse and designer (Yves Saint Laurent).
• Hannu Haapalainen, 60, Finnish ice hockey player (SM-liiga).
• Bhupen Hazarika, 85, Indian singer.
• Sir Gordon Higginson, 81, British educationalist and engineer.
• Takeo Nishioka, 75, Japanese politician, Minister of Education (1988–1989) and Speaker of the House of Councillors (since 2010), pneumonia.
• Henry D. Owen, 91, American diplomat.
• Damaskinos Papandreou, 75, Greek-born Turkish Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Hadrianopolis (since 2003).
• Yuvan Shestalov, 74, Russian Mansi language writer.

6

• Géza Alföldy, 76, Hungarian historian.
• Gordon Beck, 75, British jazz pianist and composer.
• Isaac Chocrón, 81, Venezuelan playwright.
• Margaret Field, 89, American actress (The Man from Planet X, Captive Women, The Story of Will Rogers), cancer.
• Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood, 61, British advertising executive and political adviser, cancer.
• Giacomo Gualco, 75, Italian politician, President of Liguria (1990–1992).
• Mel Hancock, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri (1989–1997).
• Hickstead, 15, Dutch-born Canadian show jumping horse, Olympic champion (2008), ruptured aorta.
• Hal Kanter, 92, American screenwriter, director and producer (Julia), complications from pneumonia.
• Peretz Kidron, 78, Israeli writer, journalist and translator.
• Carl Nyrén, 93, Swedish architect.
• Allan Peachey, 62, New Zealand politician, Member of Parliament for Tamaki (2005–2011), cancer.
• William David Lindsay Ride, 85, Australian zoologist.
• Charles Walton, 89, American electrical engineer, patentee of RFID.

7

• James E. Barrett, 89, American federal judge.
• Joe Frazier, 67, American boxer, World Heavyweight Champion (1970–1973), liver cancer.
• Marie Ljalková, 90, Czech soldier, sniper of the Soviet Union.
• Lisbeth Movin, 94, Danish actress.
• Georgi Movsesyan, 66, Russian composer, heart attack.
• Dov Schwartzman, 90, Russian-born Israeli Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva.
• Tomás Segovia, 84, Spanish-born Mexican poet, cancer.
• F. Springer, 79, Dutch writer.
• Takanosato Toshihide, 59, Japanese sumo wrestler.

8

• Jimmy Adamson, 82, British football player and coach.
• Al Boeke, 88, American architect, developer of Sea Ranch, California, and Mililani, Hawai'i.
• Hal Bruno, 83, American journalist, political director of ABC News (1980–1999), heart arrhythmia after a fall.
• Gene Cantamessa, 80, American sound engineer (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Ghostbusters, Young Frankenstein), Oscar winner (1983).
• Oscar Rolando Cantuarias Pastor, 80, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Piura (1981–2006).
• Nosson Tzvi Finkel, 68, American-born Israeli Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva.
• Katherine Grant, 12th Countess of Dysart, 93, Scottish peeress.
• Heavy D, 44, Jamaican-born American rapper ("Now That We Found Love") and actor (The Cider House Rules, Life), pulmonary embolism.
• Ricky Hui, 65, Hong Kong actor, heart attack.
• Sir David Jack, 87, Scottish pharmacologist.
• Bil Keane, 89, American cartoonist (The Family Circus), heart failure.
• Valentin Ivanov, 76, Russian football player and coach.
• Ed Macauley, 83, American basketball player (St. Louis Hawks, Boston Celtics).
• Jimmy Norman, 74, American rhythm and blues and jazz musician and songwriter.
• Herbert S. Okun, 80, American diplomat.
• Floyd Rice, 62, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders), lung cancer.
• Vladimir Shitov, 60, Russian luger.
• Lauri Sutela, 93, Finnish military officer, Chief of Defence (1974–1983).
• Jan Wypiorczyk, 64, Polish Olympic wrestler.

9

• Shmuel Ben-Artzi, 96, Israeli writer, father-in-law of Benjamin Netanyahu.
• Bob Carney, 79, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers).
• Roger Christian, 75, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) ice hockey player.
• Har Gobind Khorana, 89, Indian-born American biochemist, Nobel laureate (1968), natural causes.
• Wilfred G. Lambert, 85, English historian and archaeologist.
• Ézio Leal Moraes Filho, 45, Brazilian football player, pancreatic cancer.
• Benny McCoy, 96, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics).
• Sir Robin Mountfield, 72, British civil servant.
• Dani Wadada Nabudere, 79, Ugandan academic.
• Jean-Paul Randriamanana, 52, Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Antananarivo (since 1999).
• Terry Willers, 76, Irish cartoonist.

10

• Peter J. Biondi, 69, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (since 1998), mesothelioma.
• David Boyd, 87, Australian artist.
• Manuel Carbonell, 93, Cuban-born American sculptor.
• Winston C. Doby, 71, American mathematician.
• Ana Grepo, 36, Croatian model, carbon monoxide asphyxiation.
• Barbara Grier, 78, American publisher (Naiad Press) and writer, cancer.
• Andrei Igorov, 71, Romanian sprint canoer.
• Ivan Martin Jirous, 67, Czech poet and dissident.
• Alan Keen, 73, British politician, MP for Feltham and Heston (since 1992), cancer.
• Killer Karl Kox, 80, American professional wrestler.
• Petar Kralj, 70, Serbian actor.
• Jacques Lataste, 89, French Olympic fencer.
• Hiroshi Saito, 78, Japanese Olympic basketball player.
• Andy Tielman, 75, Dutch Indorock musician, gastric cancer.
• Adrián Yospe, 41, Argentine actor, cancer.

11

• Dennis Alexander, 76, English footballer.
• William Aramony, 84, American charity executive.
• Francisco Blake Mora, 45, Mexican politician, Secretary of the Interior (since 2010), helicopter crash.
• Domenico Tarcisio Cortese, 80, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea (1979–2007).
• John Francis Donoghue, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Atlanta (1993–2004), after short illness.
• Emory Folmar, 81, American politician, Mayor of Montgomery, Alabama (1977–1999), after long illness.
• Michael Garrick, 78, English jazz pianist and composer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Fridtjof Frank Gundersen, 77, Norwegian jurist and politician.
• Choiseul Henriquez, 51, Haitian politician.
• Charlie Lea, 54, French-born American baseball player (Montreal Expos), heart attack.
• Hellmut May, 90, Austrian Olympic figure skater.
• Bernd Methe, 47, German handball referee, traffic accident.
• Reiner Methe, 47, German handball referee, traffic accident.
• David Myers, 73, American politician, Oklahoma State Senator (2002–2011), pneumonia.
• Pushpa Ratna Sagar, 89, Nepalese grammarian.
• Nick Strincevich, 96, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Braves).

12

• Gavin Bornholdt, 63, New Zealand Olympic sailor (1976).
• Doyle Bramhall, 62, American blues musician, heart failure.
• Alun Evans, 69, Welsh football administrator, General Secretary of the Football Association of Wales (1982–1995), after long illness.
• George Hazle, 87, South African Olympic athlete.
• Zbigniew Jaworowski, 84, Polish physicist.
• Evelyn Lauder, 75, Austrian-born American philanthropist (The Breast Cancer Research Foundation), creator of pink ribbon symbol, complications from ovarian cancer.
• Julius C. Michaelson, 89, American politician, Rhode Island Attorney General (1975–1979) and State Senator (1962–1974).
• Eva Monley, 88, German-born Kenyan film location scout (Empire of the Sun, Lawrence of Arabia).
• Peter Roebuck, 55, British-Australian cricketer and columnist, suicide by defenestration.
• Jim Sullivan, 43, Canadian curler, world junior champion (1988), suicide.
• Ilya Zhitomirskiy, 22, Russian-born American Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Diaspora social network site, apparent suicide.

13

• Nigel Abbott, 91, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Denison (1964–1972).
• Anders John Aune, 87, Norwegian politician.
• Bobsam Elejiko, 30, Nigerian footballer, traumatic aortic rupture.
• Guido Falaschi, 22, Argentine racing driver, racing accident.
• Patrick Ford, 55, former Commonwealth featherweight boxing champion, heart attack.
• Bayazit Gizatullin, 75, Russian Olympic skier.
• Masao Nakayama, 70, Micronesian politician and diplomat, complications from a stroke.
• Pat Passlof, 83, American painter, cancer.
• Esperanza Pérez Labrador, 89, Cuban-born Argentine human rights activist (Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo).
• Jamie Pierre, 38, American professional skier, avalanche.
• Artemio Lomboy Rillera, 64, Philippine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bangued (1993–2005) and San Fernando de La Union (since 2005).
• Solly Tyibilika, 32, South African rugby player, shot.

14

• Esin Afşar, 75, Turkish singer and stage actress, leukemia.
• Alan F. Alford, 49-50, British writer and speaker.
• Franz Josef Degenhardt, 79, German poet, satirist, novelist and folk singer.
• Guy Dejouany, 90, French businessman.
• Richard Douthwaite, 69, British economist and ecologist.
• Alf Fields, 92, English footballer (Arsenal F.C.).
• Maurice Gaidon, 83, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Cahors (1987–2004).
• Neil Heywood, 41, British businessman, poisoned.
• Brikt Jensen, 83, Norwegian literary critic and publisher.
• Jackie Leven, 61, Scottish musician, lung cancer.
• John Lincoln, 95, Australian judge.
• Cargill MacMillan Jr., 84, American billionaire businessman.
• Peter Naigow, Liberian politician, Vice President of Liberia (1991).
• Teresa P. Pica, 66, American academic and educator.
• Lee Pockriss, 87, American songwriter ("Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini").
• Jo Ann Sayers, 93, American actress.
• Čestmír Vejdělek, 86, Czech writer.

15

• William Arveson, 76, American mathematician.
• Lev Borisov, 77, Russian actor, stroke.
• Oba Chandler, 65, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
• Antonio Eceiza, 76, Spanish film director and screenwriter.
• Dulcie Gray, 95, English actress (Howards' Way) and novelist, bronchial pneumonia.
• John Hart, 75, English schoolmaster, first man to win Mastermind.
• Thomas Worrall Kent, 89, Canadian journalist and public servant, cardiac arrest.
• Moogy Klingman, 61, American rock keyboardist (Utopia) and songwriter, cancer.
• Ingrid Sandahl, 87, Swedish Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) gymnast.
• Karl Slover, 93, Slovak-born American actor (The Wizard of Oz)

16

• Ruslan Akhtakhanov, 58, Chechen poet and academic, shot.
• Hale Baugh, 87, American Olympic modern pentathlete.
• Jacobus Duivenvoorde, 83, Dutch-born Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Merauke (1972–2004).
• Djamel Keddou, 59, Algerian football player and manager (USM Alger).
• Armando Morales, 84, Nicaraguan painter.
• René A. Morel, 79, French-born American violin luthier.
• James Fraser Mustard, 84, Canadian doctor and early childhood educator, cancer.
• Eddy Palchak, 71, Canadian ice hockey trainer and equipment manager.
• Maureen Swanson, 78, British actress.

17

• John Booth, 61, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1984–1991).
• Olin Branstetter, 82, American politician, Oklahoma State Senator (1987–1991), plane crash.
• Kurt Budke, 50, American women's basketball coach (Oklahoma State University), plane crash.
• José de Aquino Pereira, 91, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of São José do Rio Preto (1968–1997).
• Gary Garcia, 63, American musician (Buckner & Garcia).
• Enric Garriga i Trullols, 85, Spanish Catalan independentist and defender of Occitan Nation.
• Richard Kuh, 90, American lawyer.
• Ng Chiau-tong, 79, Taiwanese activist, chairman of the World United Formosans for Independence (1995–2011), surgical complications.
• Pham Van Loc, 92, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kontum (1975–1995).
• Peter Reading, 65, English poet.
• Charles M. Williams, 94, American professor of finance.

18

• Mark Blaug, 84, British economist.
• Erik Gjems-Onstad, 89, Norwegian politician and resistance member.
• Walt Hazzard, 69, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers, Atlanta Hawks), complications following heart surgery.
• David Langdon, 97, British cartoonist.
• Jones Mwewa, 38, Zambian footballer.
• Ülo Nugis, 67, Estonian politician and economist.
• Paul Ezra Rhoades, 54, American spree killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Daniel Sada, 58, Mexican author and poet, kidney disease.

19

• Ömer Lütfi Akad, 95, Turkish film director.
• David Bolstad, 42, New Zealand champion woodchopper.
• Francis Cabot, 86, American gardener and horticulturist.
• Gordon S. Clinton, 91, American politician, Mayor of Seattle (1956–1964).
• Yvan Covent, 71, Belgian Olympic cyclist.
• Basil D'Oliveira, 80, South African-born English cricketer.
• Sonny Dixon, 87, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Philadelphia Athletics).
• Russell Garcia, 95, American-born New Zealand composer.
• Sanford Garelik, 93, American politician, President of the New York City Council (1970–1973).
• Ladi Geisler, 83, Czech musician.
• Michael Hastings, 73, English playwright.
• Ira Michael Heyman, 81, American lawyer and administrator, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1994–2000).
• Jack Keeney, 89, American federal prosecutor.
• Marti Kheel, 63, American ecofeminist.
• Pete Leichnitz, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Bjarne Lingås, 78, Norwegian Olympic boxer.
• John Neville, 86, British-born Canadian actor (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The X-Files, Little Women), Alzheimer's disease.
• Ronald E. Poelman, 83, American religious leader, head of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, age-related causes.
• Vitaly Shlykov, 77, Russian spymaster, deputy minister of defence.
• Peter Steinwender, 83, Austrian Olympian
• Ruth Stone, 96, American poet.
• Roy West, 70, Australian football player, lung cancer.

20

• Noel Baker, 77, Australian football player.
• Linda Bebko-Jones, 65, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1993–2006).
• Fabio Betancur Tirado, 73, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Manizales (1996–2010).
• Lasse Brandeby, 66, Swedish journalist, actor and television personality.
• Frank Leonard Brooks, 100, Canadian artist.
• David Cargill, 75, Scottish footballer.
• Shelagh Delaney, 72, English playwright (A Taste of Honey) and screenwriter (Dance with a Stranger), breast cancer and heart failure.
• Theodore J. Forstmann, 71, American financier (IMG, Topps, Gulfstream) and philanthropist, brain cancer.
• Alex Ibru, 66, Nigerian newspaper publisher and politician, Minister of Internal Affairs (1993–1995).
• Lenny Lyles, 75, American football player (Baltimore Colts).
• Malcolm Mackintosh, 89, British intelligence analyst.
• Mario Martiradonna, 73, Italian footballer.
• David Messas, 77, French rabbi.
• Viktor Modzolevsky, 68, Russian Olympic silver (1968) and bronze-medal winning (1972) fencer, road accident.
• Larry Munson, 89, American play-by-play radio announcer (Georgia Bulldogs), pneumonia.
• Javier Pradera, 77, Spanish anti-Franco activist, publisher, political analyst and journalist, founder of El País.
• Karl Aage Præst, 89, Danish football player.
• Talaat Sadat, 57, Egyptian politician.
• Itzhak Schneor, 85, Israeli football player and manager.>
• Barry Steers, 84, Canadian diplomat, Ambassador to Brazil (1971–1976), Japan (1981–1989), High Commissioner to Bermuda (1976–1979).

21

• Benjamin Abramowitz, 94, American painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
• Dave Adams, 91, Canadian football player.
• Syd Cain, 93, British production designer (From Russia with Love, Lolita, Frenzy).
• Albert D. Cohen, 97, Canadian businessman.
• Herb Capozzi, 86, Canadian businessman, sport team owner and provincial politician, tongue cancer.
• Arie van Deursen, 80, Dutch historian.
• Theodore Enslin, 86, American poet.
• George Gallup, Jr., 81, American pollster, liver cancer.
• Greg Halman, 24, Dutch baseball player (Seattle Mariners), stabbed.
• Brian Haynes, 60, British Olympic sprint canoer.
• Eli Hurvitz, 79, Israeli industrialist.
• John Jukes, 88, English Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark (1979–1998).
• Jim Lewis, 84, English Olympic footballer.
• Anne McCaffrey, 85, American fantasy writer (Dragonriders of Pern series), stroke.
• Hal Patterson, 79, American player of Canadian football (Montreal Alouettes, Hamilton Tiger-Cats).

22

• Svetlana Alliluyeva, 85, Soviet-born American defector and author, daughter of Joseph Stalin, colon cancer.
• Stan Case, 59, American radio anchor (CNN Radio), road accident.
• Pío Corcuera, 90, Argentinian football player.
• Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg, 88, Luxembourgian princess.
• Ray Flockton, 81, Australian cricketer.
• Miguel González Avelar, 74, Mexican politician, Secretary of Public Education (1985–1988), heart and renal failure.
• Robert E. Holthus, 77, American racehorse trainer, heart attack.
• Carlos Jonguitud Barrios, 87, Mexican union leader and politician, Governor of San Luis Potosí (1979–1985).
• Sena Jurinac, 90, Bosnian-born Austrian opera singer.
• Georg Kreisler, 89, Austrian-born American cabarettist, satirist, composer and author.
• Bud Lewis, 103, American golfer, oldest living member of the Professional Golfers' Association of America, natural causes.
• Lynn Margulis, 73, American biologist and evolution theorist, stroke.
• Danielle Mitterrand, 87, French activist, widow of François Mitterrand, First Lady of the French Republic (1981–1995)
• Dorothy Morris, 89, American actress.
• Paul Motian, 80, American jazz drummer, myelodysplastic syndrome.
• Frank Pyke, 69, Australian footballer, sports scientist, academic and sports administrator.
• Hans Reichel, 62, German guitarist, inventor of the daxophone.
• Alberto Reynoso, 71, Filipino Olympic basketball player (1968).
• Oskar Schäfer, 90, German Waffen-SS member.
• Kristian Schultze, 66, German musician.
• Bison Smith, 38, American professional wrestler, heart complications.
• Himie Voxman, 99, American musician.

23

• Sir Peter Buchanan, 86, British vice admiral and naval secretary.
• Charles de Wolff, 79, Dutch organist and composer.
• Montserrat Figueras, 69, Spanish soprano.
• Oscar Griffin, Jr., 78, American journalist, winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize.
• Ralph E. Haines, Jr., 98, American general, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1967–1968).
• Huang Weilu, 94, Chinese engineer, chief designer of JL-1.
• Luis Fernando Jaramillo Correa, 76, Colombian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1990–1991).
• Gerald Laing, 75, British pop artist and sculptor.
• Marion Montgomery, 86, American poet.
• Carlos Moorhead, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1973–1997), Alzheimer's disease.
• Henry Øberg, 80, Norwegian football referee.
• Jim Rathmann, 83, American racing driver, winner of the 1960 Indianapolis 500.
• Joseph Sewall, 89, American politician, President of the Maine Senate (1975–1982).
• Obrad Stanojević, 77, Serbian law professor.
• Rafiq Tağı, 61, Azerbaijani journalist, stabbed.

24

• Antonio Domingo Bussi, 85, Argentine general and politician, Governor of Tucumán Province, heart failure.
• Bill Carow, 87, American Olympic speed skater.
• Helen Forrester, 92, British-born Canadian writer.
• Ludwig Hirsch, 65, Austrian singer and actor, suicide by self-defenestration.
• Rauf Khalid, 53, Pakistani actor, writer, director and producer, road accident.
• Kishenji, 53, Indian Maoist guerrilla leader, shot.
• Imants Kokars, 90, Latvian conductor.
• Ross McManus, 84, English musician, father of Elvis Costello.
• Humberto Medina, 69, Mexican Olympic footballer (1968).
• Salvatore Montagna, 40, Canadian mobster, shot.
• Jeno Paulucci, 93, American businessman (Michelina's), pioneer of ready-made ethnic foods.
• Anuruddha Ratwatte, 73, Sri Lankan politician and cabinet minister.
• David Seely, 4th Baron Mottistone, 91, British aristocrat, Lord Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight (1986–1995).
• Tatyana Shchelkanova, 74, Russian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1964) track and field athlete.
• Johnny Williams, 76, English footballer (Plymouth Argyle).

25

• Vasily Alekseyev, 69, Russian Olympic gold-medal winning weightlifter (1972 and 1976), heart failure.
• Milla Baldo-Ceolin, 87, Italian physicist.
• John Blades, 51, Australian experimental music artist.
• Leonid Borodin, 73, Russian novelist, journalist and Soviet dissident.
• Hugh Burnett, 87, English television producer and cartoonist.
• Don DeVito, 72, American record company executive and producer.
• Mihailo Đurić, 86, Serbian philosopher.
• John Edzerza, 63, Canadian politician, Yukon MLA for McIntyre-Takhini (since 2002), leukemia.
• Fred Etcher, 79, Canadian Olympic silver medal-winning (1960) ice hockey player.
• Karel Hubáček, 87, Czech architect, designer of the Ještěd Tower
• Erling Lægreid, 72, Norwegian author and journalist.
• Judy Lewis, 76, American actress (General Hospital, The Secret Storm), daughter of Clark Gable and Loretta Young, cancer.

26

• Judit Bognár, 72, Hungarian Olympic athlete.
• Manon Cleary, 69, American realist painter, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• István Gajda, 30, Hungarian football player, road accident.
• Ed Harrington, 70, American-born Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts), cancer.
• Roland Lacombe, 73, French Olympic cyclist (1960).
• Iván Menczel, 69, Hungarian Olympic gold-medal winning (1968) footballer.
• Mak Schoorl, 98, Dutch Olympic rower (1936).
• Martin Schroyens, 81, Belgian footballer
• Arthur Schultz, 78, American politician, Mayor of Joliet, Illinois (1991–2011), heart failure.

27

• Donald Crowdis, 97, Canadian museum curator and broadcaster.
• Len Fulford, 83, British photographer and television commercial director (Go to work on an egg, Guinness).
• Sultan Khan, 71, Indian musician, recipient of the 2010 Padma Bhushan, kidney failure.
• Ken Russell, 84, British film director (Women in Love, Tommy), stroke.
• Judd Woldin, 86, American Tony Award-winning composer (Raisin), cancer.

28

• Aruwa Ameh, 20, Nigerian footballer (Bayelsa United).
• Jaime González, 78, Spanish Olympic sports shooter (1968, 1972, 1976, 1980).
• Charles Hoeflich, 97, American businessman.
• Paweł Komorowski, 81, Polish film director.
• Charles T. Kowal, 71, American astronomer.
• Lucio Magri, 79, Italian journalist and politician, assisted suicide.

29

• James Atherton, 83, American photographer, cardiovascular disease.
• Roberto Casuso, 57, Cuban Olympic handball player.
• Annetto Depasquale, 73, Maltese Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Aradi, Auxiliary Bishop of Malta (since 1998).
• Donatus Djagom, 92, Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ende (1968–1996).
• Guillermo O'Donnell, 75, Argentine political scientist, cancer.
• Patrice O'Neal, 41, American comedian, radio personality, and actor (Web Junk 20, Opie and Anthony), complications from stroke.
• Mamoni Raisom Goswami, 69, Indian writer and academic, multiple organ failure.

30

• Jules Ancion, 87, Dutch Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) field hockey player.
• Viktor Apostolov, 49, Bulgarian Olympic hammer thrower (1988).
• J. Blackfoot, 65, American soul singer, cancer.
• Nelly Byl, 92, Belgian songwriter.
• Ana Daniel, 83, Portuguese poet.
• Vic Finkelstein, 73, South African disabled rights activist.
• Gerd Hagman, 92, Swedish actress.
• Charles Ingabire, Rwandan journalist, shot.
• Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, 72, Albanian royal and politician, pretender to the Albanian throne (since 1961).
• Peter Lunn, 97, British Olympic alpine skier (1936) and spymaster.
• Kuldeep Manak, 62, Indian Punjabi language singer, pneumonia.
• George McCarty, 96, American college basketball coach (New Mexico State University, UTEP).
• Chester McGlockton, 42, American football player (Oakland Raiders, Kansas City Chiefs, Denver Broncos), apparent heart attack.
• Zdeněk Miler, 90, Czech animator and illustrator, creator of The Mole.
• Carl Robie, 66, American Olympic gold (1968) and silver-medal winning (1964) swimmer.
• Benyamin Sönmez, 28, German-born Turkish cellist.
• Bill Waller, 85, American politician, Governor of Mississippi (1972–1976), heart failure.

References

Preceded by Deaths in 2010

Deaths by year

Succeeded by Deaths in 2012