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 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.