Deaths in March 2011

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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

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

2

 * Nicholas Alden, 25, American airman, shot.
 * Simeonie Amagoalik, 77, Canadian carver, cancer.
 * Louis Bazin, 90, French orientalist.
 * Shahbaz Bhatti, 42, Pakistani politician, Minister for Minorities (since 2008), shot.
 * Anthony Brooke, 98, British heir to the Sarawakan throne.
 * Bernard Cywinski, 70, American architect (Apple Store), partner and co-founder of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, cancer.
 * John Haines, 86, American poet.
 * Erling Kroner, 67, Danish trombonist and bandleader, cancer.
 * Edward Barnes Leisenring, Jr., 85, American businessman.
 * Sir Allan Louisy, 94, Saint Lucian politician and judge, Prime Minister (1979–1981).
 * Luis Martínez Villicaña, 71, Mexican politician, Governor of Michoacán (1986–1988), Secretary of Agrarian Reform (1982–1986).
 * Ruby Muhammad, 103, American spiritual figure, lung cancer.
 * Art Statuto, 85, American football player (Los Angeles Rams).
 * Thor Vilhjálmsson, 85, Icelandic author, natural causes.
 * Wu Jieping, 94, Chinese medical scientist and politician.

3

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

4

 * Bertil Almgren, 92, Swedish archaeologist.
 * Charles F. Ashley, 74, American member of the Alabama House of Representatives (1982–1983).
 * Paul Baxley, 87, American actor and stunt coordinator (The Dukes of Hazzard, Star Trek, Kolchak: The Night Stalker).
 * Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 86, Nepali Prime Minister (1990–1991, 1999–2000), multiple organ failure.
 * Mary Bowermaster, 93, American masters athletics champion.
 * Frank Chirkinian, 84, American producer (CBS Sports), lung cancer.
 * Annie Fargue, 76, French actress and manager, cancer.
 * Vivienne Harris, 89, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher, co-founder of the Jewish Telegraph.
 * Charles Jarrott, 83, British film director (Anne of the Thousand Days, Mary, Queen of Scots, Condorman), prostate cancer.
 * Chester Kahapea, 65, American soil scientist, known as the "face of Hawaiian statehood", complications of Lou Gehrig's disease.
 * Ed Manning, 68, American basketball player (Baltimore Bullets) and coach (San Antonio Spurs), heart condition.
 * Johnny Preston, 71, American pop singer ("Running Bear"), heart failure.
 * Mikhail Simonov, 81, Russian aircraft designer, chief designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau (1983–2011), after long illness.
 * Arjun Singh, 80, Indian politician, Minister of Human Resource Development (2004–2009), heart attack.
 * Alenush Terian, 90, Iranian astronomer and physicist.
 * María Ugarte, 97, Spanish-Dominican author, historian and journalist.
 * Simon van der Meer, 85, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.

5

 * Eivor Alm, 86, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier.
 * Jimmy Carnes, 76, American track and field athlete, coach and administrator, cancer.
 * Mario Coppola, 74, Italian nuclear physicist.
 * Alberto Granado, 88, Argentine-born Cuban biochemist and writer, travel companion of Che Guevara (The Motorcycle Diaries).
 * Oswald Georg Hirmer, 81, German-born South African Roman Catholic missionary, Bishop of Umtata (1997–2008).
 * Manolis Rasoulis, 65, Greek singer-songwriter, author and journalist.
 * Viktor Voroshilov, 84, Soviet footballer.

6

 * Jean Bartel, 87, American actress, Miss America 1943.
 * Marie Andrée Bertrand, 85, Canadian criminologist, feminist and anti-prohibitionist.
 * Patricia Brennan, 66, Australian feminist and clinician, advocate of women Anglican priests, cancer.
 * Rostislav Čtvrtlík, 47, Czech stage, television and voice actor, brain tumor.
 * Mike DeStefano, 44, American comedian (Last Comic Standing), heart attack.
 * Jaime Felipa, 66, Netherlands Antilles judoka.
 * Oddmund Jensen, 82, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier.
 * John Morton, 86, New Zealand biologist and theologian.
 * Ján Popluhár, 75, Slovak footballer (1962 FIFA World Cup).
 * Louie Ramsay, 81, British actress (The Ruth Rendell Mysteries).
 * Reg Stewart, 85, English footballer (Colchester United), natural causes.
 * Edward Ullendorff, 91, British historian.
 * Frank Ziegler, 87, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).
 * Sasao Gouland, 77, governor of Chuuk State, Micronesia

7

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

8

 * Iraj Afshar, 85, Iranian bibliographer and historian.
 * Victor Manuel Blanco, 92, American astronomer, director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.
 * Masoud Boroumand, 83, Iranian football player.
 * Richard Campbell, 55, British player of cello and viola da gamba.
 * Herb Kawainui Kane, 82, American artist, Hawaiian cultural advocate, participant in the Hokulea voyage.
 * Moses Katjiuongua, 68, Namibian politician.
 * Jim Keane, 87, American football player (Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers).
 * Sheikh Omar Farouk, 72, Somali scholar and Quran interpreter.
 * Steven Kroll, 69, American children's book author, surgical complications.
 * St. Clair Lee, 66, American musician (The Hues Corporation), natural causes.
 * Bronko Nagurski Jr., 73, American player of Canadian football (Hamilton Tiger-Cats).
 * John Olmsted, 73, American naturalist and conservationist, liver cancer.
 * Mike Starr, 44, American bassist (Alice in Chains, Sun Red Sun), drug overdose.

9

 * Muftah Anaqrat, Libyan general, shot.
 * Sona Aslanova, 86, Azerbaijani soprano.
 * Edward Bertels, 78, Belgian footballer
 * Jacques Brichant, 80, Belgian tennis player.
 * David S. Broder, 81, American journalist (The Washington Post), complications from diabetes.
 * Edward A. Burdick, 89, American civil servant.
 * Doris Burn, 87, American children's book author and illustrator.
 * Seán Cronin, 91, Irish journalist and republican, Irish Republican Army chief of staff (1957–1958, 1959–1960), after long illness.
 * Armando Goyena, 88, Filipino actor.
 * Valgerður Hafstað, 80, Icelandic painter.
 * Andrew Hao, 95, Chinese Roman Catholic underground Bishop of Xiwanzi (since 1984).
 * Bob Marcucci, 81, American talent agent, respiratory complications.
 * Bob McNamara, 94, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
 * Des Meagher, 67, Australian footballer (Hawthorn).
 * Lindy Pearson, 82, American football player (Detroit Lions).
 * Inge Sørensen, 86, Danish swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist (1936).
 * Toshiko Takaezu, 88, American ceramic artist.

10

 * Armand Bigot, 76, French Olympic equestrian.
 * Bill Blackbeard, 84, American comic strip writer and editor.
 * Bob Callahan, 87, American football player (Buffalo Bills).
 * Nick Harbaruk, 67, Polish-born Canadian ice hockey player, bone cancer.
 * Don Boven, 86, American basketball player and coach (Western Michigan University), heart disease.
 * Baliram Kashyap, 74, Indian politician, MP for Bastar (since 1998), after long illness.
 * Gabriel Laderman, 81, American painter, cancer,
 * Danny Paton, 75, Scottish footballer.
 * Emmett J. Rice, 91, American economist and banking official, heart failure.
 * Eddie Snyder, 92, American composer ("Strangers in the Night", "Spanish Eyes").
 * David Viñas, 83, Argentine dramatist, critic and novelist, pneumonic infection.

11

 * David Brown, 69, British cricketer, brain tumour.
 * Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha, 80, Brazilian paleontologist and herpetologist.
 * Val Ffrench Blake, 98, British army officer and author.
 * Alfred Genovese, 79, American oboist, complications from cardiac arrest.
 * Jack Hardy, 63, American singer-songwriter.
 * Nancy Kominsky, 95, American art teacher and broadcaster.
 * Hugh Martin, 96, American songwriter ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") and film composer (Meet Me in St. Louis), natural causes.
 * Nick Mohammed, 85, Canadian Olympic wrestler.
 * Héctor Francisco Medina Polanco, 37, Honduran television journalist, shot.
 * Frank Neuhauser, 97, American patent attorney and spelling bee champion, winner of the 1925 National Spelling Bee by spelling the word "Gladiolus".
 * Valter Nyström, 95, Swedish Olympic track and field athlete.
 * Danny Stiles, 87, American radio host.
 * Donny George Youkhanna, 60, Iraqi archaeologist, anthropologist and author, heart attack.
 * Notable Japanese killed during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami:
 * Miki Endo, 25, voice warning and alarm agent.
 * Takashi Shimokawara, 104, masters athlete.

12

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

13

 * Barbara Ball, 86, Bermudian physician, politician and social activist.
 * Roy Flatt, 63, Scottish Anglican priest.
 * Sir Michael Gray, 78, British army general.
 * Marko Horvatin, 91, Croatian Olympic rower.
 * Virginia Klinekole, 86, American politician, first female President of the Mescalero Apache.
 * Brian Lanker, 63, American photojournalist, pancreatic cancer.
 * Rick Martin, 59, Canadian ice hockey player (Buffalo Sabres, Los Angeles Kings), heart attack.
 * Ritchie Pickett, 56, New Zealand country singer.
 * David Rumelhart, 68, American psychologist, created computer simulations of neural processing, Pick's disease.
 * Nicholas Smisko, 75, American clergyman, Head of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese (since 1984), cancer.
 * Jean Smith, 82, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
 * Owsley Stanley, 76, American-born Australian underground LSD chemist and sound engineer (Grateful Dead), traffic accident.
 * Leo Steinberg, 90, American art historian and critic.
 * Vitaly Vulf, 80, Russian theater critic and television host.

14

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

15

 * José Agdamag, 89, Filipino soldier and Olympic sports shooter.
 * Mirko Aksentijević, 88, Serbian journalist and basketball executive.
 * Julie Apap, 62, Maltese ceramicist.
 * Amos Bar, 79, Israeli author.
 * Keith Fordyce, 82, British radio and television presenter (Ready Steady Go!).
 * Frank Howard, 85, Canadian politician, member of the BC Legislative Assembly for Skeena (1953–1956; 1979–1986), MP for Skeena (1957–1974).
 * Musa Juma, 42, Kenyan musician, pneumonia.
 * Yakov Kreizberg, 51, Russian-born Austrian-American conductor.
 * Jean Liedloff, 84, American writer.
 * Peter Loader, 81, British cricketer.
 * Marty Marion, 94, American baseball player and manager, National League MVP (1944).
 * Nate Dogg, 41, American musician, stroke.
 * Fred Sanford, 91, American baseball player.
 * Robert Schoonjans, 85, Belgian Olympic athlete.
 * Smiley Culture, 48, British reggae singer and DJ, apparent suicide by stabbing.
 * Melvin Sparks, 64, American jazz and soul guitarist, heart attack.

16

 * Abdikadir Yusuf Aar, Somalian terrorist, shot.
 * Josefina Aldecoa, 85, Spanish writer and teacher, respiratory complications.
 * Sándor Arnóth, 51, Hungarian politician, car accident.
 * Sadiq Batcha, 47, Indian businessman and politician, suicide by hanging.
 * Carel Boshoff, 83, South African religious and cultural activist, cancer.
 * Betty Lowman Carey, 96, American rower.
 * Tom Dunbar, 51, American baseball player (Texas Rangers).
 * Al Israel, 75, American actor (Scarface, Carlito's Way, Drop Zone).
 * Thomas Nkuissi, 82, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nkongsamba (1978–1992).
 * Lloyd Oliver, 88, American veteran, World War II code talker.
 * James Pritchett, 88, American actor (The Doctors).
 * Lorenda Starfelt, 56, American producer, cancer.
 * James C. Tyree, 53, American businessman, chairman and CEO of the Chicago Sun-Times, cancer.
 * Murray Warmath, 98, American college football coach (Minnesota Golden Gophers), natural causes.
 * Richard Wirthlin, 80, American political strategist and religious leader, renal failure.

17

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

18

 * Robert Angeloch, 88, American artist.
 * Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, 90, Monegasque princess.
 * George Bacon, 93, British physicist.
 * Ze'ev Boim, 67, Israeli Knesset member, cancer.
 * Enzo Cannavale, 82, Italian actor (Cinema Paradiso).
 * Warren Christopher, 85, American diplomat, Secretary of State (1993–1997), complications from kidney and bladder cancer.
 * Alphonse De Vreese, 89, French cyclist.
 * Arthur Charles Evans, 94, British author and police officer.
 * Jet Harris, 71, British musician (The Shadows), throat cancer.
 * Charlie Metro, 91, American baseball player and manager (Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics), mesothelioma.
 * Peter Weigand, 69, American Olympic sprint canoer.
 * Kirk Wipper, 87, Canadian founder of the Canadian Canoe Museum.

19

 * Patrick Ahern, 92, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1970–1994).
 * Kym Bonython, 90, Australian art, jazz and speedway entrepreneur.
 * Guillermo Ford, 74, Panamanian politician, Vice President of Panama (1989–1994).
 * Raymond Garlick, 84, British poet and editor.
 * Barrington Gaynor, 45, Jamaican footballer.
 * Drew Hill, 54, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Houston Oilers, Atlanta Falcons), stroke.
 * Knut, 4, German-born polar bear, drowned.
 * Gustav Lantschner, 100, Austrian Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) alpine skier and actor.
 * Tom McAvoy, 74, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
 * Zew Wawa Morejno, 95, Polish-born American rabbi.
 * Mohammed Nabbous, 28, Libyan journalist, founder of Alhurra TV, shot.
 * Navin Nischol, 65, Indian actor, heart attack.
 * Jim Roslof, 64, American artist (Dungeons & Dragons), cancer.
 * Robert Ross, 92, American physician and medical school founder (Ross University School of Medicine and School of Veterinary Medicine), cancer.
 * Bob Rush, 85, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Braves, Chicago White Sox).
 * Leonard Webb, 89, British politician, Mayor of Thame (1975–1979).

20

 * John Apacible, 38, Filipino actor (Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin), shooting.
 * Don Canney, 80, American politician, Mayor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1969–1992), heart failure.
 * Bob Christo, 72, Australian-born Indian actor, heart attack.
 * Néstor de Vicente, 46, Argentine footballer, car crash.
 * Oliver Humperdink, 62, American professional wrestling manager, pneumonia and cancer.
 * Agostinho Januszewicz, 80, Polish-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Luziânia (1989–2004).
 * Giovanni Nesti, 88, Italian Olympic basketball player.
 * Johnny Pearson, 85, British composer, arranger and pianist.
 * Sara Ruddick, 76, American philosopher and author, pulmonary fibrosis.
 * Dorothy Young, 103, American actress, assistant to Harry Houdini.

21

 * Michael Abramson, 62, American artist and photographer, kidney cancer.
 * Barry Ackerley, 76, American businessman (Ackerley Group), former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics, stroke.
 * Nikolai Andrianov, 58, Russian gymnast, most medaled athlete at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
 * Jesús Aranguren, 66, Spanish footballer and manager.
 * Bruce W. Beatty, 88, Canadian graphic designer.
 * Hans Boskamp, 78, Dutch actor and footballer, stroke.
 * John L. Cashin, Jr., 82, American civil rights campaigner, kidney failure.
 * Ray Eden, 42, British cyclist, beaten.
 * Mayhew Foster, 99, American brigadier general, flew captured Hermann Göring to interrogation.
 * Loleatta Holloway, 64, American soul and disco musician, heart failure.
 * Hansl Krönauer, 78, German folk singer and composer.
 * Ladislav Novák, 79, Czech footballer.
 * Pinetop Perkins, 97, American blues musician, cardiac arrest.
 * Kjeld Tolstrup, 45, Danish radio disc jockey (DR P3).
 * Joe Wizan, 76, Mexican-born American film producer (Jeremiah Johnson, Dunston Checks In) and studio executive (20th Century Fox).

22

 * Artur Agostinho, 90, Portuguese sports journalist and actor.
 * Nadia Barentin, 74, French actress (Les Blessures assassines).
 * Victor Bouchard, 84, Canadian pianist, duettist with pianist Renée Morisset, respiratory disease.
 * Patrick Doeplah, 20, Liberian footballer.
 * Viljar Loor, 57, Estonian Olympic gold medal-winning (1980) volleyball player.
 * Jean-Guy Morissette, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Zoogz Rift, 57, American musician, painter and professional wrestler.
 * Normie Roy, 82, American baseball player (Boston Braves).
 * Reuven Shefer, 85, Israeli actor.
 * José Soriano, 93, Peruvian football player.
 * Helen Stenborg, 86, American actress (Doubt, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Isn't She Great), cancer.
 * George Alfred Walker, 81, British businessman, founder of Brent Walker.

23

 * Charles Joseph Adams, 86, American academic and professor of religion.
 * José Argüelles, 72, American New Age author.
 * Jean Bartik, 86, American computer programmer (ENIAC).
 * Henry Jerome, 93, American big band leader, trumpeter, arranger, and composer.
 * Živorad Kovačević, 80, Serbian diplomat.
 * Sir Frank Lampl, 84, British businessman.
 * Richard Leacock, 89, British documentary film maker (Louisiana Story, Primary, Monterey Pop, Janis).
 * Teodor Negoiţă, 63, Romanian polar explorer and scientist.
 * Trevor Storton, 61, English footballer.
 * Dame Elizabeth Taylor, 79, British-American actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Giant, A Place in the Sun), Oscar winner (1961, 1967), heart failure.
 * Fred Titmus, 78, English test cricketer.
 * Fritz Tschannen, 90, Swiss accordion player and Olympic ski jumper.
 * Leonard Weinglass, 78, American civil rights lawyer, pancreatic cancer.

24

 * Helmy Afify Abd El-Bar, 88, Egyptian military commander.
 * Stig Berntsson, 80, Swedish Olympic sports shooter.
 * Bertrand Pernot du Breuil, 84, French Olympic equestrian.
 * Julian Gbur, 68, Polish-born Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Stryi (since 2000).
 * Hanni Gehring, 84, German Olympic cross-country skier.
 * William M. Greathouse, 91, American Nazarene minister, heart failure.
 * David Karimanzira, 63, Zimbabwean politician.
 * Robert Knights, 79, German Olympic water polo player
 * Dudley Laws, 76, Jamaican-born Canadian civil rights activist, kidney disease.
 * Anselmo Müller, 79, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Januária (1984–2008).
 * Gloria Valencia de Castaño, 83, Colombian television host, respiratory failure.
 * Lanford Wilson, 73, American playwright.

25

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

26

 * Roger Abbott, 64, Canadian actor and comedian (Royal Canadian Air Farce), chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
 * Joe Bageant, 64, American writer, social critic and political commentator, cancer.
 * Paul Baran, 84, American Internet pioneer, complications from lung cancer.
 * Alexander Barykin, 59, Russian musician, heart attack.
 * Carl Bunch, 71, American drummer (Buddy Holly and the Crickets).
 * Greg Centauro, 34, French pornographic actor, cardiac arrest.
 * Harry Coover, 94, American inventor (Super Glue).
 * Lula Côrtes, 61, Brazilian musician (Paêbirú), throat cancer.
 * Cibele Dorsa, 36, Brazilian actress and writer, suicide by jumping.
 * Geraldine Ferraro, 75, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York (1979–1985) and 1984 vice presidential nominee, multiple myeloma.
 * František Havránek, 87, Czech football player and manager.
 * Yrjö Hietanen, 83, Finnish Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) canoeist, stroke.
 * Diana Wynne Jones, 76, British fantasy author (Howl's Moving Castle), lung cancer.
 * Enn Klooren, 70, Estonian actor.
 * Jean-Philippe Lecat, 75, French politician.
 * Kazimierz Macioch, 78, Polish Olympic wrestler
 * Raymond-Marie Tchidimbo, 90, Guinean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Conakry (1962–1979).
 * Robert Underwood, 76, American Negro league baseball player.
 * Eric Zentner, 30, American male fashion model, traffic collision.

27

 * Jeff Andrus, 64, American screenwriter, congestive heart failure.
 * Sir Clement Arrindell, 79, Kittitian politician, Governor-General (1983–1995).
 * David E. Davis, 80, American automotive writer, editor and publisher (Car and Driver, Automobile), complications from bladder surgery.
 * Adolfo Donayre, 77, Peruvian footballer
 * Lawrence Elion, 93, British actor.
 * Farley Granger, 85, American actor (Strangers on a Train, Rope, The North Star).
 * H. R. F. Keating, 84, British crime fiction writer.
 * Ellen McCormack, 84, American anti-abortion activist and politician, two-time presidential candidate (1976, 1980).
 * DJ Megatron, 32, American disc jockey, shot.
 * Günther Mund, 76, German-born Chilean Olympic diver, plane crash.
 * Dorothea Puente, 82, American serial killer, natural causes.
 * George Tooker, 90, American painter, kidney failure.

28

 * Supyan Abdullayev, 54, Chechen field commander, airstrike.
 * Wenche Foss, 93, Norwegian actress, natural causes.
 * Lee Hoiby, 85, American composer, metastatic melanoma.
 * Sonia Osorio, 83, Colombian ballet dancer and choreographer, respiratory failure.
 * Esben Storm, 60, Danish-born Australian actor, director and producer, heart attack.
 * Guy M. Townsend, 90, American Air Force brigadier general and test pilot.

29

 * José Alencar, 79, Brazilian entrepreneur and politician, Vice-President (2003–2010), multiple organ failure.
 * Bob Benny, 84, Belgian singer.
 * Iakovos Kambanellis, 88, Greek author, playwright, poet, lyricist and journalist, kidney failure.
 * Edith Klestil, 78, Austrian first lady (1992–1998), first wife of President Thomas Klestil, cancer.
 * Neil Reimer, 89, Canadian politician, Leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party (1962–1968).
 * Jim Seymour, 64, American football player (Chicago Bears).
 * Ângelo de Sousa, 73, Portuguese painter, sculptor, draftsman and professor, cancer.
 * Alan Tang, 64, Hong Kong actor, film producer and director, stroke.
 * Robert Tear, 72, British opera singer, cancer.
 * Aarne Vehkonen, 83, Finnish Olympic weightlifter.
 * Endre Wolf, 97, Hungarian violinist.

30

 * Harley Allen, 55, American bluegrass and country singer, cancer.
 * Jacques Amir, 78, Israeli politician.
 * Roshan Atta, 71, Pakistani actress.
 * Ashurbanipal Babilla, 66, Assyrian-Iranian actor, theatre director, playwright and visual artist.
 * Jorge Camacho, 77, Cuban painter.
 * Jack Fulk, 78, American businessman, co-founder of Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits.
 * Tamar Golan, 76, Israeli journalist and diplomat.
 * Lyudmila Gurchenko, 75, Russian film actress and singer, People's Artist of the USSR.
 * Johnny Harra, 64, American actor, Elvis impersonator.
 * Denis McLean, 80, New Zealand diplomat, academic, author and civil servant.
 * Wally Peterson, 93, American actor, singer and stage manager.
 * Nutan Prasad, 65, Indian actor, after long illness.
 * Churyo Sato, 98, Japanese sculptor.
 * Liaquat Soldier, 59, Pakistani comedian, heart attack.

31

 * Sparky Adams, 93, American basketball player.
 * Tony Barrell, 70, British-born Australian broadcaster and writer.
 * Gil Clancy, 88, American Hall of Fame boxing trainer.
 * Alan Fitzgerald, 75, Australian journalist, cancer.
 * Oddvar Hansen, 89, Norwegian footballer and coach (SK Brann).
 * Claudia Heill, 29, Austrian judoka, silver medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, suspected suicide.
 * Tom Kelleher, 85, American football official (1960–1987), complications from pneumonia.
 * Vassili Kononov, 88, Russian military veteran and war criminal.
 * Ishbel MacAskill, 70, Scottish Gaelic singer and heritage campaigner.
 * Mel McDaniel, 68, American country music singer ("Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On"), cancer.
 * Boško Radonjić, 67, Serbian nationalist, after short illness.
 * Edward Stobart, 56, British haulage contractor and entrepreneur.
 * Henry Taub, 83, American entrepreneur, founder of Automatic Data Processing, leukemia.