Deaths in April 2011

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

1

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

2

 * Richard W. Bailey, 71, American linguist.
 * Larry Finch, 60, American basketball player and coach (Memphis Tigers).
 * John C. Haas, 92, American businessman (Rohm and Haas), natural causes.
 * Efraín Loyola, 94, Cuban flautist.
 * James McNulty, 92, Canadian politician, MP for Lincoln (1962–1968) and St. Catharines (1968–1972).
 * Jess Osuna, 82, American actor (Three Days of the Condor, Taps, Kramer vs. Kramer).
 * Larry Parr, 64, American chess player.
 * Baba Reshat, 76, Albanian religious figure, head of the Bektashi order.
 * Tom Silverio, 65, Dominican-born American baseball player (California Angels).
 * Bill Varney, 77, American sound editor (Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back, Back to the Future), Oscar winner (1981, 1982).
 * Romeo Venturelli, 72, Italian cyclist.
 * Paul Violi, 66, American poet, cancer.

3

 * Rafique Alam, 81, Indian politician, heart attack.
 * Amy Applegren, 84, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
 * Lena Lovato Archuleta, 90, American educator.
 * Ulli Beier, 88, German writer.
 * William Henry Bullock, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Des Moines (1987–1993) and Madison (1993–2003), lung cancer.
 * James Martin Fitzgerald, 90, American jurist, justice of the Alaska Supreme Court (1972–1974), senior judge of the District Court for the District of Alaska (1974–2006).
 * Martin Horton, 76, English cricketer.
 * Kevin Jarre, 56, American screenwriter (Tombstone, Glory, The Mummy), heart failure.
 * Yevgeny Lyadin, 84, Russian footballer.
 * Marian Pankowski, 91, Polish writer.
 * William Prusoff, 90, American pharmacologist.
 * Calvin Russell, 62, American protest singer-songwriter and guitarist.
 * Mandi Schwartz, 23, Canadian college ice hockey player, acute myeloid leukemia.
 * Gustavo Sondermann, 29, Brazilian racing driver, race crash.
 * John A. Tory, 81, Canadian lawyer and corporate executive, stroke.

4

 * John Adler, 51, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Jersey (2009–2011), infective endocarditis.
 * Scott Columbus, 54, American drummer (Manowar).
 * Jackson Lago, 76, Brazilian politician, Governor of Maranhão (2007–2009), cancer.
 * Ned McWherter, 80, American politician, Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1973–1987) and Governor (1987–1995), cancer.
 * Juliano Mer-Khamis, 52, Israeli actor and political activist, shot.
 * John Niven, 89, Scottish footballer (East Fife F.C.).
 * Witta Pohl, 73, German actress.
 * Wayne Robson, 64, Canadian actor (The Red Green Show, Cube, The Rescuers Down Under).
 * Craig Thomas, 68, Welsh author, pneumonia.
 * Juan Tuñas, 93, Cuban footballer.
 * Vakur Versan, 93, Turkish jurist, professor of administrative law (Istanbul University).
 * Boško Vuksanović, 83, Croatian water polo player.

5

 * Baruch Samuel Blumberg, 85, American doctor, Nobel laureate in medicine, heart attack.
 * L. J. Davis, 70, American writer.
 * Heinrich Kleisli, 80, Swiss mathematician.
 * John Mahoney, 61, American politician.
 * Ange-Félix Patassé, 74, Central African politician, Prime Minister (1976–1978) and President (1993–2003).
 * Gil Robbins, 80, American folk singer (The Highwaymen) and actor, father of Tim Robbins, prostate cancer.
 * Larry Shepard, 92, American baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates) and coach (Cincinnati Reds).

6

 * Nabi Bakhsh Baloch, 93, Pakistani scholar.
 * Thøger Birkeland, 89, Danish children's book author.
 * Igor Birman, 85, Russian-born American writer and economist.
 * Jim Blair, 64, Scottish footballer, natural causes.
 * John Bottomley, 50, Canadian singer-songwriter, suicide.
 * Mike Campbell, 78, Zimbabwean farmer, challenged Robert Mugabe (Campbell v Zimbabwe), complications from torture.
 * Giuseppe Comini, 88, Italian Olympic fencer.
 * Joe Heap, 79, American football player (New York Giants).
 * Robin Lindsay, 97, British Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) field hockey player.
 * Coyote McCloud, 68, American disc jockey.
 * Johnny Morris, 87, English footballer.
 * Skip O'Brien, 60, American actor (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Hitcher, Blow), complications from prostate cancer.
 * Fritiof S. Sjöstrand, 98, Swedish physician and histologist.
 * F. Gordon A. Stone, 85, British chemist.
 * Sujatha, 58, Indian actress.
 * Hans Tiedge, 73, German spy.

7

 * Benedetto Aloi, 75, American mobster, natural causes.
 * Bruce Cowan, 85, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives (1980–1993).
 * Edward Edwards, 77, American serial killer, natural causes.
 * Hugh FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton, 92, British aristocrat.
 * Pierre Gauvreau, 88, Canadian painter and television screenplay writer.
 * Blažena Holišová, 80, Czech film and theatre actress.
 * Arthur Lessac, 101, American voice trainer.
 * E. J. McGuire, 58, Canadian ice hockey coach and scout, cancer.
 * Hedzer Rijpstra, 91, Dutch politician.
 * Victor Surdu, 63, Romanian politician, first post-Communist Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.

8

 * Freda Ahenakew, 79, Canadian author and academic.
 * Mario Branch, 31, American football player (Tennessee Titans, Amsterdam Admirals, Philadelphia Soul), heart failure.
 * Daniel Catán, 62, Mexican composer.
 * David S. Clarke, 69, Australian businessman, chairman of Macquarie Group (1985–2007), stomach cancer.
 * John McCracken, 76, American sculptor.
 * John Pugsley, 77, American libertarian speaker and writer.
 * Donald Shanks, 70, Australian operatic bass-baritone, heart attack.
 * Vasilijs Stepanovs, 83, Latvian weightlifter and Olympic silver medalist (1956 Melbourne).
 * Hedda Sterne, 100, Romanian-born American painter and printmaker.
 * Elena Zuasti, 75, Uruguayan stage actress and comedian, heart failure.

9

 * Zakariya Rashid Hassan al-Ashiri, 40, Bahraini blogger and journalist, beaten.
 * Pierre Celis, 86, Belgian brewer (Celis), cancer.
 * Robert Coleman-Senghor, 71, American English professor, torn aorta.
 * Chip Fairway, 38, American wrestler.
 * Nicholas Goodhart, 91, British marine engineer and glider pilot.
 * Jerry Lawson, 70, American videogame console engineer.
 * Sidney Lumet, 86, American film director (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network), lymphoma.
 * Roger Nichols, 66, American sound engineer and record producer (Steely Dan), pancreatic cancer.
 * Yolande Palfrey, 54, British actress (Blake's 7, Doctor Who), brain tumour.
 * Orrin Tucker, 100, American orchestra leader.
 * Randy Wood, 94, American record producer, founder of Dot Records.

10

 * Bill Brill, 79, American sportswriter and newspaper editor, esophageal cancer.
 * Violet Cowden, 94, American pilot, member of Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II, heart failure.
 * Don Merton, 72, New Zealand conservationist.
 * Mikhail Rusyayev, 46, Russian footballer.
 * Bob Shaw, 89, American football player (Los Angeles Rams).
 * Homer Smith, 79, American football coach (Army Black Knights), cancer.
 * Phil Solomon, 86, Northern Irish music executive.
 * Francis E. Sweeney, 77, American jurist, Ohio Supreme Court justice (1993–2004).
 * Stephen Watson, 56, South African writer and critic, cancer.

11

 * Billy Bang, 63, American jazz violinist, lung cancer.
 * Lewis Binford, 80, American archaeologist, heart failure.
 * Jimmy Briggs, 74, Scottish footballer (Dundee United).
 * Akis Cleanthous, 47, Cypriot politician, chairman of the Stock Exchange (2003–2007), Minister of Education and Culture (2007–2008), heart attack.
 * John D'Orazio, 55, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for Ballajura (2001–2008), heart attack during surgery.
 * La Esterella, 91, Belgian Flemish singer.
 * Billy Gray, 83, English footballer (Nottingham Forest).
 * Murtaza Hassan, 56-57, Pakistani stage comedian, hepatitis and liver cancer.
 * Sir John Lowther, 87, British public servant, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire (1984–1998).
 * Sir Simon Milton, 49, British politician, London Deputy Mayor for Policy and Planning, after short illness.
 * Doug Newlands, 79, Scottish footballer (Aberdeen, Burnley).
 * Jørgen Munk Plum, 85, Danish Olympic athlete.
 * Peter Ruehl, 64, American-born Australian columnist.
 * Igor Runov, 48, Russian volleyball player, Olympic silver medalist (1988).
 * Angela Scoular, 65, British actress, suicide by poisoning.
 * Larry Sweeney, 30, American professional wrestler and manager, suicide by hanging.
 * Eric Wall, 95, British Anglican bishop, Bishop of Huntingdon (1972–1980).

12

 * Roy Ananny, 86, Canadian football player.
 * Albert Bachmann, 81, Swiss military intelligence officer.
 * Sachin Bhowmick, 80, Indian screenwriter, heart attack.
 * Lee Bradley Brown, 39, British tourist, died in police custody in Dubai.
 * Ronnie Coyle, 46, Scottish footballer (Celtic, Raith Rovers), leukemia.
 * Sidney Harman, 92, American businessman and publisher (Newsweek), acute myeloid leukemia.
 * Eddie Joost, 94, American baseball player and manager (Philadelphia Athletics, Cincinnati Reds).
 * Robert Lokossimbayé, 35, Chadian footballer.
 * Buster Martin, 104?, French-born British longevity claimant.
 * Aleksandar Petaković, 81, Serbian football player.
 * Jānis Polis, 72, Latvian pharmacologist, discovered rimantadine.
 * Ioan Şişeştean, 74, Romanian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Maramureş (since 1994).
 * Désiré Tagro, 52, Ivorian politician, Interior Minister, chief of staff for Laurent Gbagbo, shot.
 * Miroslav Tichý, 84, Czech photographer.

13

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

14

 * Rosihan Anwar, 88, Indonesian journalist, heart failure.
 * Trevor Bannister, 76, British actor (Are You Being Served?, Last of the Summer Wine, The Dustbinmen), heart attack.
 * Walter Breuning, 114, American supercentenarian, world's fifth oldest man ever.
 * George Brookes, 76, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (1991–1997).
 * Jon Cedar, 80, American actor (Hogan's Heroes), leukemia.
 * Patrick Cullinan, 77, South African writer.
 * Louis Dufaux, 79, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Grenoble (1989–2006).
 * Bernie Flowers, 81, American football player (Baltimore Colts).
 * Joe Dan Gold, 68, American college basketball coach (Mississippi State).
 * Jean Gratton, 86, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mont-Laurier (1978–2001).
 * Cyrus Harvey, Jr., 85, American entrepreneur, stroke.
 * William Lipscomb, 91, American chemist, pneumonia.
 * Arthur Marx, 89, American writer, son of Groucho Marx.
 * Rami Reddy, 52, Indian actor, kidney failure.

15

 * Vittorio Arrigoni, 36, Italian activist, hanged.
 * Babu Baral, 47, Pakistani comedian, cancer.
 * Reno Bertoia, 76, Italian-born Canadian baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins), lymphoma.
 * Walter Brown, 85, Australian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) canoer.
 * Elmer Carter, 100, American Negro league baseball player.
 * William Cook, 80, American entrepreneur, philanthropist and historic preservationist, heart failure.
 * Hélio Gueiros, 85, Brazilian politician, Governor of Pará (1987–1991), Mayor of Belém (1993–1996), renal disease.
 * Michael Hurley, 87, Irish Jesuit and ecumenical theologian, co-founder of the Irish School of Ecumenics.
 * Hans Kohler, 81, Swiss Olympic weightlifter.
 * Vincenzo La Scola, 53, Italian tenor, heart attack.
 * Bobo Osborne, 75, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
 * Beryl Shipley, 84, American basketball coach (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, San Diego Conquistadors).
 * E. T. York, 88, American agronomist, educator and presidential adviser.

16

 * Gerry Alexander, 82, Jamaican cricketer.
 * Bijan, 67, Iranian-born American fashion designer, stroke.
 * Allan Blakeney, 85, Canadian politician, Premier of Saskatchewan (1971–1982), complications from liver cancer.
 * Auguste Caulet, 84, French Olympic boxer.
 * Chinesinho, 76, Brazilian footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Stanley Glenn, 84, American baseball player and executive (Negro league baseball).
 * Bjørn Oscar Gulbrandsen, 85, Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player and sailor.
 * Bill Kinnamon, 91, American Major League Baseball umpire.
 * Serge LeClerc, 61, Canadian pardoned criminal and politician, MLA for Saskatoon Northwest (2007–2010), complications from colon and bowel cancer.
 * Alfonso Martínez, 74, Spanish Olympic basketball player
 * Tadeusz Pawlusiak, 64, Polish Olympic ski jumper.
 * William A. Rusher, 87, American columnist, publisher of National Review (1957–1988).
 * Dan Monroe Russell, Jr., 98, American senior (former chief) judge of the District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, natural causes.
 * Sol Saks, 100, American television writer (Bewitched, My Favorite Husband, Mr. Adams and Eve).
 * Hermod Skånland, 85, Norwegian Central Bank governor (1985–1993).
 * Harold Volkmer, 80, American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri (1977–1997), pneumonia.

17

 * Nasser Al-Kharafi, 67, Kuwaiti businessman (M. A. Kharafi & Sons), heart attack.
 * James S. Albus, 75, American engineer.
 * Bob Block, 89, British comedy writer (Rentaghost, Life with The Lyons).
 * Joel Colton, 92, American historian, heart failure.
 * Osamu Dezaki, 67, Japanese animator (Space Adventure Cobra, Tomorrow's Joe), lung cancer.
 * Alfred Freedman, 94, American psychiatrist, led American Psychiatric Association to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness, complications following hip surgery.
 * Eric Gross, 84, Austrian-born Australian composer.
 * Alan Haines, 86, British actor.
 * Wolfram Koppen, 72, German Olympic judoka.
 * Josefa Köster, 92, German Olympic sprint canoer.
 * Eddie Leadbeater, 83, English cricketer.
 * Oldřich Lomecký, 90, Czech Olympic sprint canoer.
 * Blair Milan, 29, Australian actor and television presenter, acute myeloid leukaemia.
 * Nikos Papazoglou, 63, Greek singer-songwriter, cancer.
 * AJ Perez, 18, Filipino actor, traffic accident.
 * Raúl Sánchez Díaz Martell, 96, Mexican politician, Governor of Baja California (1965–1971).
 * Michael Sarrazin, 70, Canadian actor (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, The Flim-Flam Man, For Pete's Sake), cancer.
 * Bhawani Singh, 79, Indian noble, titular Maharaja of Jaipur (since 1970).
 * Dennis E. Stowell, 66, American politician, member of the Utah State Senate (2007–2011), cancer.
 * Ken Taylor, 88, British television scriptwriter (The Jewel in the Crown).
 * Robert Vickrey, 84, American artist.
 * Victor Ward, 87, Canadian miner, survivor of the 1956 Springhill Mine disaster.

18

 * Olubayo Adefemi, 25, Nigerian footballer, car accident.
 * Sadiq Ali, 58, Indian politician.
 * Pietro Ferrero Jr., 47, Italian businessman (Ferrero SpA), bicycle accident.
 * Kjell Håkonsen, 75, Norwegian harness racer and trainer.
 * Bob Plant, 95, British soldier, recipient of the Military Cross.
 * Mason Rudolph, 76, American golfer.
 * Giovanni Saldarini, 86, Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Turin (1989–1999), natural causes.
 * William Donald Schaefer, 89, American politician, Governor of Maryland (1987–1995), pneumonia.
 * Israpil Velijanov, 42, Russian Dagastani militant leader.
 * Ivica Vidović, 72, Croatian actor.
 * Kim Yu-ri, 21, South Korean fashion model, apparent suicide.

19

 * Anne Blonstein, 52, British poet.
 * Lynn Chandnois, 86, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
 * Lisa Head, 29, British soldier, improvised explosive device.
 * Richard P. Klocko, 96, American Air Force lieutenant general.
 * Jeanne M. Leiby, 46, American writer and magazine editor, car accident.
 * Norm Masters, 77, American football player (Green Bay Packers), cancer.
 * Aage Møst, 87, Norwegian sports official, President of the Norwegian Athletics Association (1956–1965).
 * Serge Nubret, 72, French bodybuilder and actor (Pumping Iron).
 * Elisabeth Sladen, 65, British actress (Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Coronation Street), pancreatic cancer.
 * Grete Waitz, 57, Norwegian marathon former world record holder, 1983 world champion and Olympic silver medallist (1984), cancer.

20

 * Allan Brown, 84, Scottish football player and manager (Blackpool, Scotland).
 * Tim Hetherington, 40, British photojournalist and filmmaker (Restrepo), mortar attack.
 * Rudolf Hilf, 83, German historian, political scientist and expellee politician.
 * Chris Hondros, 41, American photojournalist, mortar attack.
 * Osvaldo Miranda, 95, Argentine actor (Cita en las estrellas).
 * Patricia Ofori, 29, Ghanaian international footballer (2003 & 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup), traffic collision.
 * Madelyn Pugh, 90, American screenwriter (I Love Lucy, The Mothers-in-Law) and producer (Alice).
 * Tul Bahadur Pun, 88, Nepali World War II veteran, recipient of the Victoria Cross, cardiac complications.
 * Ted Quillin, 81, American radio personality.
 * Hubert Schlafly, 91, American engineer, co-inventor of the TelePrompter.
 * Kerry Smith, 58, New Zealand actress and broadcaster, melanoma.
 * Erwin Strahl, 82, Austrian actor.

21

 * Javier Adúriz, 63, Argentine poet.
 * Beverly Barton, 64, American romance author, heart failure.
 * Tine Bryld, 71, Danish social worker, writer, radio host and letters editor.
 * Annalisa Ericson, 97, Swedish actress (Summer Interlude).
 * Helen J. Frye, 80, American federal judge, after long illness.
 * Reginald C. Fuller, 102, British Roman Catholic priest and author.
 * Harold Garfinkel, 93, American sociologist.
 * W. J. Gruffydd, 94, Welsh poet.
 * Catharina Halkes, 90, Dutch theologian and feminist
 * Jim Heise, 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators), complications from surgery.
 * Jess Stonestreet Jackson, Jr., 81, American wine entrepreneur, founder of Kendall-Jackson, cancer.
 * Ken Kostick, 57, Canadian cooking show host (What's for Dinner?), complications of pancreatitis.
 * Max Mathews, 84, American engineer and computer music composer, complications from pneumonia.
 * Muhannad, 41, Saudi al Qaeda fighter in Chechnya, shot.
 * Yoshiko Tanaka, 55, Japanese actress (Godzilla vs. Biollante) and singer (Candies), breast cancer.
 * Walter van de Walle, 88, Canadian politician, MP for Pembina (1986–1988) and St. Albert (1988–1993).

22

 * Anthony Abrahams, 87, British barrister and educationalist.
 * Moin Akhter, 60, Pakistani actor and comedian, heart attack.
 * Patrick Billingsley, 85, American mathematician and actor.
 * Cheung Sai Ho, 35, Hong Kong footballer, suicide by jumping.
 * Wiel Coerver, 86, Dutch footballer and manager.
 * Eldon Davis, 94, American architect, creator of Googie architecture, founder of Armet & Davis.
 * Hazel Dickens, 85, American bluegrass singer.
 * Madhava Gudi, 70, Indian Hindustani classical vocalist.
 * Siarhei Lahun, 22, Belarusian weightlifter, car accident.
 * Sidney Michaels, 83, American playwright and screenwriter (The Night They Raided Minsky's), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Merle Greene Robertson, 97, American artist and archeologist.
 * José Antonio Torres Martinó, 94, Puerto Rican painter and writer, after long illness.
 * João Maria Tudela, 81, Portuguese singer.

23

 * Mushtaq Ahmad, 82, Pakistani Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) field hockey player.
 * Ed Austin, 84, American attorney and politician, Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida (1991–1995).
 * Dmytro Blazheyovskyi, 100, Ukrainian priest, historian and embroiderer.
 * Ghafoor Butt, 74, Pakistani cricketer and umpire.
 * James Casey, 88, British comedian.
 * Bill Flynn, 59, Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Lockyer (2001–2004), parliamentary leader of One Nation (2001–2004).
 * Sid Fournet, 78, American football player (New York Jets, Pittsburgh Steelers).
 * David Hackett, 84, American government official (President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, 1961–1964), complications of diabetes.
 * Tom King, 68, American guitarist and songwriter (The Outsiders), heart failure.
 * Peter Li Hongye, 91, Chinese underground Roman Catholic prelate, clandestine bishop of Luoyang.
 * Peter Lieberson, 64, American composer, complications of lymphoma.
 * Terence Longdon, 88, British actor.
 * Huey P. Meaux, 82, American record producer.
 * Milorad Bata Mihailović, 88, Serbian painter.
 * Noxolo Nogwaza, 24, South African lesbian activist, stabbed.
 * Norio Ohga, 81, Japanese businessman, president and CEO of Sony, multiple organ failure.
 * Ready Teddy, 23, New Zealand eventing horse, complications from colic.
 * Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill, 89, British politician.
 * Mohammad Abdus Sattar, 85, Indian Olympic footballer, pneumonia.
 * Phillip Shriver, 88, American historian and college administrator.
 * Max van der Stoel, 86, Dutch politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1973–1977, 1981–1982).
 * John Sullivan, 64, British writer (Only Fools and Horses), viral pneumonia.
 * Dutch Tilders, 69, Australian blues musician, cancer.

24

 * Otto Amen, 98, American politician.
 * Sathya Sai Baba, 84, Indian spiritual guru, founder of the Sathya Sai Organization, multiple organ failure.
 * Nawang Gombu, 74, Tibetan-born Indian mountaineer, after short illness.
 * Peter Green, 91, Canadian Olympic rower.
 * Alimirah Hanfere, 95, Ethiopian sultan of the Aussa Sultanate.
 * José López, 88, Chilean footballer
 * Sir Denis Mahon, 100, British art historian and philanthropist.
 * Madame Nhu, 87, South Vietnamese First Lady (1955–1963), after short illness.
 * Joan Peyser, 80, American musicologist, after heart surgery.
 * Marie-France Pisier, 66, French actress (The Other Side of Midnight), drowning.
 * Colin Snedden, 93, New Zealand cricketer.

25

 * Winrich Behr, 93, German World War II Panzer captain, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
 * Ira Cohen, 76, American poet, renal failure.
 * John Cooke, 89, British air marshal.
 * William Craig, 86, Northern Irish politician, founder of Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, MP for Belfast East (1974–1979).
 * Abdoulaye Hamani Diori, 65, Nigerien politician, after long illness.
 * María Isbert, 94, Spanish actress.
 * Lawrence Lee, 101, British stained glass artist.
 * Ryszard Nawrocki, 71, Polish actor and voice actor.
 * Joe Perry, 84, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
 * Poly Styrene, 53, British musician (X-Ray Spex), breast cancer.
 * Gonzalo Rojas, 93, Chilean poet.
 * Güven Sazak, 76, Turkish businessman, chairman of Fenerbahçe S.K. (1993–1994).
 * Minoru Tanaka, 44, Japanese actor (Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers, Kamen Rider W Returns – Kamen Rider Accel), suspected suicide by hanging.
 * Avraham Tiar, 87, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1961–1969).
 * Bobby Thompson, 57, American baseball player (Texas Rangers).
 * Elizabeth Wicken, 83, Canadian baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).

26

 * Vic Atkinson, 90, Australian footballer.
 * Douglas Chaffee, 75, American artist.
 * John Cossette, 54, American television producer (Grammy Awards).
 * Roger Gimbel, 86, American Emmy Award-winning television producer (Chernobyl: The Final Warning, S.O.S. Titanic), pneumonia.
 * Lynn Hauldren, 89, American copywriter and product spokesperson (Empire Carpet).
 * José María Izuzquiza Herranz, 85, Spanish-born Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Jaén en Peru (1987–2001).
 * Sir Henry Leach, 87, British admiral.
 * Jim Mandich, 62, American football player and announcer (Miami Dolphins), bile duct cancer.
 * Don Miles, 75, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers).
 * Islwyn Morris, 90, Welsh actor.
 * Sadler's Wells, 30, American racehorse and sire.
 * Phoebe Snow, 60, American singer-songwriter ("Poetry Man"), brain hemorrhage.
 * Hector Sutherland, 81, Australian cyclist.
 * Samuel Zoll, 76, American jurist and politician, Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts (1970–1973), gallbladder cancer.

27

 * Orlando Bosch, 84, Cuban exile, after long illness.
 * Ibrahim Coulibaly, 47, Ivorian militia leader.
 * Paul Vincent Donovan, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kalamazoo (1971–1994).
 * Jack H. Goaslind, 83, American leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
 * Igor Kon, 82, Russian philosopher, psychologist and sexologist.
 * Rafael Menjívar Ochoa, 51, Salvadoran writer, journalist and translator, cancer.
 * Marian Mercer, 75, American actress (It's a Living), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
 * Mel Pearce, 83, Australian Olympic hockey player.
 * Dag Stokke, 44, Norwegian keyboardist (TNT), church organist and mastering engineer, cancer.
 * Harold Schnitzer, 87, American philanthropist and company executive (Schnitzer Steel), cancer.
 * Harry Thuillier, 85, Irish Olympic fencer and radio presenter.
 * Yvette Vickers, 81–82, American actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman), singer and model (Playboy). (body discovered on this date)
 * Willem Albert Wagenaar, 69, Dutch psychologist.
 * Michael Waltman, 64, American actor (Beyond the Law, Tower of Terror, National Lampoon's Van Wilder).
 * David Wilkerson, 79, American Christian evangelist and author (The Cross and the Switchblade), car accident.

28

 * Enrique Arancibia Clavel, 66, Chilean DINA agent.
 * William Campbell, 87, American film and television actor (Love Me Tender, Star Trek, Dementia 13).
 * Gene Fekete, 88, American football player (Cleveland Browns).
 * Erhard Loretan, 52, Swiss mountaineer, third climber to scale all 14 eight-thousanders, climbing accident.
 * Willie O'Neill, 70, Scottish football player (Celtic).
 * E. Earl Patton, 83, American businessman and politician, tornado.
 * Wilhelm Weidenbrück, 96, German Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.

29

 * Waldemar Baszanowski, 75, Polish weightlifter.
 * Robert B. Duncan, 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Oregon (1963–1967, 1975–1981).
 * Asker Dzhappuyev, 40, Russian militant leader (Yarmuk Jamaat), shot.
 * George Wolfgang Forell, 91, German-born American Christian scholar.
 * Salim Ghazal, 79, Syrian-born Lebanese Melkite Catholic hierarch, Curial bishop of Antioch for Melkites (2001–2005).
 * Abdul Hameed, 83, Pakistani writer and novelist.
 * Jeff Kargola, 27, American freestyle motocross rider, race accident.
 * Vladimir Krainev, 67, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, aortic aneurysm.
 * David Mason, 85, British trumpeter, played trumpet solo on "Penny Lane", leukemia.
 * Siamak Pourzand, 79, Iranian journalist and dissident, suicide by jumping.
 * Joanna Russ, 74, American science fiction author, following a series of strokes.
 * Walter Santoro, 89, Uruguayan politician, Minister of Industry (1963–1964), natural causes.
 * Ratmir Shameyev, 22, Kabardin militant, shot.

30

 * Ronald Asmus, 53, American diplomat and political analyst, cancer.
 * Saif al-Arab Gaddafi, 28–29, Libyan soldier, son of Muammar Gaddafi, airstrike.
 * Pete Gray, 30, Australian environmental activist, bowel cancer.
 * Richard Holmes, 65, British military historian.
 * Dorjee Khandu, 56, Indian Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (since 2007), helicopter crash.
 * Mike Krsnich, 79, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves).
 * Francis Lü Shouwang, 45, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Yichang, pancreatitis.
 * Anthony Francis Mestice, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1973–2001).
 * Harry S. Morgan, 65, German pornographic actor, producer and director. (body found on this date)
 * Emilio Navarro, 105, Puerto Rican Negro league baseball player.
 * Evald Okas, 95, Estonian painter.
 * Daniel Quillen, 70, American mathematician.
 * Ernesto Sabato, 99, Argentine writer (El Túnel, On Heroes and Tombs), pneumonia.
 * Edgar Seymour, 98, American Olympic bobsledder.
 * Apostolos Santas, 89, Greek Resistance veteran.
 * Eddie Turnbull, 88, Scottish football player and manager.