Deaths in April 2011

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

April 2011

1

• Peter Baumann, 75, Swiss psychiatrist.
• Lou Gorman, 82, American baseball executive and general manager.
• Jane Gregory, 51, British Olympic equestrian, heart attack.
• Manning Marable, 60, American professor.
• 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 Romanian Greek-Catholic Church|Catholic Church|Syro-Malabar Catholic] hierarch, Cardinal, Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly.
• Brynle Williams, 62, Welsh activist and politician, AM for North Wales.

2

• Richard W. Bailey, 71, American linguist.
• Larry Finch, 60, American basketball player and coach.
• John C. Haas, 92, American businessman, natural causes.
• Efraín Loyola, 94, Cuban flautist.
• James McNulty, 92, Canadian politician, MP for Lincoln and St. Catharines.
• Jess Osuna, 82, American actor.
• 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.
• Bill Varney, 77, American sound editor, Oscar winner.
• 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.
• Lena Lovato Archuleta, 90, American educator.
• Ulli Beier, 88, German writer.
• William Henry Bullock, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Des Moines and Madison, lung cancer.
• James Martin Fitzgerald, 90, American jurist, justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, senior judge of the District Court for the District of Alaska.
• Martin Horton, 76, English cricketer.
• Kevin Jarre, 56, American screenwriter, 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, infective endocarditis.
• Scott Columbus, 54, American drummer.
• Jackson Lago, 76, Brazilian politician, Governor of Maranhão, cancer.
• Ned McWherter, 80, American politician, Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives and Governor, cancer.
• Juliano Mer-Khamis, 52, Israeli actor and political activist, shot.
• John Niven, 89, Scottish footballer.
• Witta Pohl, 73, German actress.
• Wayne Robson, 64, Canadian actor.
• Craig Thomas, 68, Welsh author, pneumonia.
• Juan Tuñas, 93, Cuban footballer.
• Vakur Versan, 93, Turkish jurist, professor of administrative law.
• 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 and President.
• Gil Robbins, 80, American folk singer and actor, prostate cancer.
• Larry Shepard, 92, American baseball manager and coach.

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, complications from torture.
• Giuseppe Comini, 88, Italian Olympic fencer.
• Joe Heap, 79, American football player.
• Robin Lindsay, 97, British Olympic silver medal-winning field hockey player.
• Coyote McCloud, 68, American disc jockey.
• Johnny Morris, 87, English footballer.
• Skip O'Brien, 60, American actor, 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.
• 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, heart failure.
• Daniel Catán, 62, Mexican composer.
• David S. Clarke, 69, Australian businessman, chairman of Macquarie Group, 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.
• 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, 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, lymphoma.
• Roger Nichols, 66, American sound engineer and record producer, pancreatic cancer.
• Yolande Palfrey, 54, British actress, brain tumour.
• Geoff Smale, 86, New Zealand yacht racer, plane crash.
• 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.
• Homer Smith, 79, American football coach, cancer.
• Phil Solomon, 86, Northern Irish music executive.
• Francis E. Sweeney, 77, American jurist, Ohio Supreme Court justice.
• 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.
• Akis Cleanthous, 47, Cypriot politician, chairman of the Stock Exchange, Minister of Education and Culture, heart attack.
• John D'Orazio, 55, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for Ballajura, heart attack during surgery.
• La Esterella, 91, Belgian Flemish singer.
• Billy Gray, 83, English footballer.
• Murtaza Hassan, 56-57, Pakistani stage comedian, hepatitis and liver cancer.
• Sir John Lowther, 87, British public servant, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire.
• Sir Simon Milton, 49, British politician, London Deputy Mayor for Policy and Planning, after short illness.
• Doug Newlands, 79, Scottish footballer.
• Jørgen Munk Plum, 85, Danish Olympic athlete.
• Peter Ruehl, 64, American-born Australian columnist.
• Igor Runov, 48, Russian volleyball player, Olympic silver medalist.
• Angela Scoular, 65, British actress, suicide by acid ingestion.
• Larry Sweeney, 30, American professional wrestler and manager, suicide by hanging.
• Eric Wall, 95, British Anglican bishop, Bishop of Huntingdon.

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, leukemia.
• Sidney Harman, 92, American businessman and publisher, acute myeloid leukemia.
• Eddie Joost, 94, American baseball player and manager.
• Robert Lokossimbayé, 35, Chadian footballer.
• Aleksandar Petaković, 81, Serbian football player.
• Jānis Polis, 72, Latvian pharmacologist, discovered rimantadine.
• Ioan Șișeștean, 74, Romanian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Maramureş.
• 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, cancer.
• Buster Martin, 104?, French-born British longevity claimant.
• 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, heart attack.
• Walter Breuning, 114, American supercentenarian, world's fifth oldest man ever.
• George Brookes, 76, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council.
• Jon Cedar, 80, American actor, leukemia.
• Patrick Cullinan, 77, South African writer.
• Louis Dufaux, 79, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Grenoble.
• Bernie Flowers, 81, American football player.
• Joe Dan Gold, 68, American college basketball coach.
• Jean Gratton, 86, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mont-Laurier.
• 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, lymphoma.
• Walter Brown, 85, Australian Olympic bronze medal-winning canoer.
• William Cook, 80, American entrepreneur, philanthropist and historic preservationist, heart failure.
• Hélio Gueiros, 85, Brazilian politician, Governor of Pará, Mayor of Belém, 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.
• Beryl Shipley, 84, American basketball coach.
• 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, 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.
• 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, 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.
• Dan Monroe Russell Jr., 98, American senior judge of the District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, natural causes.
• Sol Saks, 100, American television writer.
• Hermod Skånland, 85, Norwegian Central Bank governor.
• Harold Volkmer, 80, American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri, pneumonia.

17

• Nasser Al-Kharafi, 67, Kuwaiti businessman, heart attack.
• James S. Albus, 75, American engineer.
• Bob Block, 89, British comedy writer.
• Joel Colton, 92, American historian, heart failure.
• Osamu Dezaki, 67, Japanese animator, 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.
• Michael Sarrazin, 70, Canadian actor, cancer.
• Bhawani Singh, 79, Indian noble, titular Maharaja of Jaipur.
• Dennis E. Stowell, 66, American politician, member of the Utah State Senate, cancer.
• Ken Taylor, 88, British television scriptwriter.
• 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, 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, natural causes.
• William Donald Schaefer, 89, American politician, Governor of Maryland, pneumonia.
• Israpil Velijanov, 42, Russian Dagastani militant leader.
• Ivica Vidović, 72, Croatian actor.
• Kim Yu-ri, 21, South Korean fashion model, apparent suicide by poisoning.

19

• Anne Blonstein, 52, British poet.
• Lynn Chandnois, 86, American football player.
• 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, cancer.
• Aage Møst, 87, Norwegian sports official, President of the Norwegian Athletics Association.
• Serge Nubret, 72, French bodybuilder and actor.
• Elisabeth Sladen, 65, British actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Grete Waitz, 57, Norwegian marathon former world record holder, 1983 world champion and Olympic silver medallist, cancer.

20

• Allan Brown, 84, Scottish football player and manager.
• Tim Hetherington, 40, British photojournalist and filmmaker, mortar attack.
• Rudolf Hilf, 83, German historian, political scientist and expellee politician.
• Chris Hondros, 41, American photojournalist, mortar attack.
• Osvaldo Miranda, 95, Argentine actor.
• Patricia Ofori, 29, Ghanaian international footballer, traffic collision.
• Madelyn Pugh, 90, American television writer and producer.
• Tul Bahadur Pun Magar, 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.
• 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, complications from surgery.
• Jess Stonestreet Jackson Jr., 81, American wine entrepreneur, founder of Kendall-Jackson, cancer.
• Ken Kostick, 57, Canadian cooking show host, complications from 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 and singer, breast cancer.
• Walter van de Walle, 88, Canadian politician, MP for Pembina and St. Albert.

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.
• Madhav Gudi, 70, Indian Hindustani classical vocalist.
• Siarhei Lahun, 22, Belarusian weightlifter, car accident.
• Sidney Michaels, 83, American playwright and screenwriter, 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 field hockey player.
• Ed Austin, 84, American attorney and politician, Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida.
• 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, parliamentary leader of One Nation.
• Sid Fournet, 78, American football player.
• David Hackett, 84, American government official, complications of diabetes.
• Tom King, 68, American guitarist and songwriter, 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.
• John Sullivan, 64, British writer, 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 Hanfare, 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, after short illness.
• Joan Peyser, 80, American musicologist, after heart surgery.
• Marie-France Pisier, 66, French actress, 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.
• 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, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
• Poly Styrene, 53, British musician, breast cancer.
• Gonzalo Rojas, 93, Chilean poet.
• Güven Sazak, 76, Turkish businessman, chairman of Fenerbahçe S.K..
• Minoru Tanaka, 44, Japanese actor, suspected suicide by hanging.
• Avraham Tiar, 87, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset.
• Bobby Thompson, 57, American baseball player.
• Elizabeth Wicken, 83, Canadian baseball player.

26

• Vic Atkinson, 90, Australian footballer.
• Douglas Chaffee, 75, American artist.
• John Cossette, 54, American television producer.
• Roger Gimbel, 86, American Emmy Award-winning television producer, pneumonia.
• Lynn Hauldren, 89, American copywriter and product spokesperson.
• José María Izuzquiza Herranz, 85, Spanish-born Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Jaén en Peru.
• Sir Henry Leach, 87, British admiral.
• Jim Mandich, 62, American football player and announcer, bile duct cancer.
• Don Miles, 75, American baseball player.
• Islwyn Morris, 90, Welsh actor.
• Sadler's Wells, 30, American racehorse and sire.
• Phoebe Snow, 60, American singer-songwriter, brain hemorrhage.
• Hector Sutherland, 81, Australian cyclist.
• Samuel Zoll, 76, American jurist and politician, Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts, 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.
• 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, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Mel Pearce, 83, Australian Olympic hockey player.
• Dag Stokke, 44, Norwegian keyboardist, church organist and mastering engineer, cancer.
• Harold Schnitzer, 87, American philanthropist and company executive of Schnitzer Steel, cancer.
• Harry Thuillier, 88, Irish Olympic fencer and radio presenter.
• Yvette Vickers, 81–82, American actress, singer and model.
• Willem Albert Wagenaar, 69, Dutch psychologist.
• Michael Waltman, 64, American actor.
• David Wilkerson, 79, American Christian evangelist and author, car accident.

28

• Enrique Arancibia Clavel, 66, Chilean DINA agent.
• William Campbell, 87, American actor.
• Gene Fekete, 88, American football player.
• Erhard Loretan, 52, Swiss mountaineer, third climber to scale all 14 eight-thousanders, climbing accident.
• Willie O'Neill, 70, Scottish football player.
• E. Earl Patton, 83, American businessman and politician, tornado.

29

• Waldemar Baszanowski, 75, Polish weightlifter.
• Robert B. Duncan, 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Oregon.
• Asker Dzhappuyev, 40, Russian militant leader, shot.
• Salim Ghazal, 79, Syrian-born Lebanese Melkite Catholic hierarch, Curial bishop of Antioch for Melkites.
• 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, 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, helicopter crash.
• Mike Krsnich, 79, American baseball player.
• Francis Lü Shouwang, 45, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Yichang, pancreatitis.
• Anthony Francis Mestice, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York.
• Harry S. Morgan, 65, German pornographic actor, producer and director.
• Millito Navarro, 105, Puerto Rican Negro league baseball player.
• Evald Okas, 95, Estonian painter.
• Daniel Quillen, 70, American mathematician.
• Ernesto Sabato, 99, Argentine writer, pneumonia.
• Edgar Seymour, 98, American Olympic bobsledder.
• Apostolos Santas, 89, Greek Resistance veteran.
• Eddie Turnbull, 88, Scottish football player and manager.