Deaths in April 2012

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

April 2012

1

• Nancy Beckage, 61, American entomologist.
• Ekrem Bora, 78, Turkish actor, pulmonary edema.
• Alvin J. Boutte, 82, American banker and businessman.
• Lionel Bowen, 89, Australian politician, MP for Kingsford-Smith ; Deputy Prime Minister, pneumonia.
• Sauro Bufalini, 70, Italian Olympic basketball player.
• Chang Mei-yao, 71, Taiwanese actress.
• Giorgio Chinaglia, 65, Italian footballer, heart attack.
• Miguel de la Madrid, 77, Mexican politician, President, complications of pulmonary emphysema.
• Leila Denmark, 114, American supercentenarian, author, and physician, credited with developing a whooping cough vaccine.
• Peter M. Douglas, 69, German American environmental activist, lung and throat cancer.
• Klaus Dylewski, 95, German SS officer.
• Jamaa Fanaka, 68, American filmmaker.
• Sir Stan Yapp, 70, English politician.

  2

• Jesús Aguilarte, 53, Venezuelan politician, Governor of Apure State, shot.
• Russell Allen, 99, American cyclist.
• Benhuan, 104, Chinese Buddhist master, honorary president of the Buddhist Association of China.
• Rosario Bentivegna, 89, Italian partisan and doctor.
• Warren Bonython, 95, Australian conservationist, explorer, author, and chemical engineer.
• Roger Breske, 73, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Senate.
• Eugenio Castigliano, 66, Italian tennis player.
• Elizabeth Catlett, 96, American-born Mexican artist.
• Allie Clark, 88, American baseball player.
• Jim Delaney, 91, American Olympic silver medal-winning shot putter.
• Sarah Dreher, 75, American novelist and playwright.
• Pilar Fuertes Ferragut, 49, Spanish diplomat.
• Rychard Karpov, 80, Ukrainian Olympic boxer.
• John Kuenster, 87, American sportswriter, editor of Baseball Digest.
• Mauricio Lasansky, 97, Argentinian-born American printmaker.
• Jimmy Little, 75, Australian singer.
• Felice Ludovisi, 94, Italian painter.
• Alan Ruddock, 68, Irish martial artist and teacher.
• M. Saroja, 79, Indian film actress.
• Neslişah Sultan, 91, Turkish-born Ottoman and Egyptian royal, heart attack.

  3

• Amer Al Midani, 55, Lebanese businessman.
• Lorne Benson, 81, Canadian football player.
• Arduino Bertoldo, 79, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Foligno.
• Michael Bzdel, 81, Canadian Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Metropolitan of Winnipeg.
• Richard Descoings, 53, French academic director.
• Frank Fucarino, 91, American basketball player.
• Nicholas King, 79, American actor, preserved the Watts Towers.
• Efraím Basílio Krevey, 83, Brazilian Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of São João Batista em Curitiba.
• Mingote, 93, Spanish cartoonist, writer, and journalist.
• Govind Narain, 95, Indian civil servant, Governor of Karnataka.
• Airton Pavilhão, 77, Brazilian footballer.
• Xenia Stad-de Jong, 90, Dutch Olympic gold medal-winning athlete.
• Chief Jay Strongbow, 83, American professional wrestler.
• José María Zárraga, 81, Spanish footballer and manager.

  4

• Muhammad Afrizal, 30, Indonesian boxer, PABA featherweight champion, injuries sustained from bout.
• A. Dean Byrd, 64, American psychologist.
• Dimitris Christoulas, 77, Greek pensioner, suicide by gunshot.
• Eugénie De Keyser, 93, Belgian writer and art critic.
• Joe Doyle, 78–79, Irish cyclist.
• Anne Karin Elstad, 74, Norwegian author, stroke.
• Ficre Ghebreyesus, 50, Eritrean-American artist, heart failure.
• Josiah Henson, 90, American Olympic bronze medal-winning wrestler, stroke and myocardial infarction.
• Aminul Islam, 40, Bangladeshi trade union leader.
• Nikolay Krasovsky, 87, Russian mathematician.
• Claude Miller, 70, French director, producer, and screenwriter.
• Helge Sverre Nesheim, 92, Norwegian broadcaster.
• Richard Okada, 66, American linguist, Professor of Japanese at Princeton University.
• Dubravko Pavličić, 44, Croatian footballer.
• Roberto Rexach Benítez, 82, Puerto Rican politician, President of the Senate.

  5

• Keith Adams, 85, Australian adventurer and filmmaker.
• Abd al-Rahim Aqiqi Bakhshayishi, 70, Iranian jurist, writer, journalist and translator.
• Joe Avezzano, 68, American football player and coach, heart attack.
• David Axon, 61, British astrophysicist.
• Pedro Bartolomé Benoit, 91, Dominican military general, Provisional President.
• Angelo Castro Jr., 67, Filipino journalist, The World Tonight anchor, lung cancer.
• Cynthia Dall, 41, American musician.
• Attila Hazai, 44, Hungarian writer, suicide.
• Jim Herr, 87, American businessman, founder of Herr's snack company.
• Jimmy Lawlor, 78, Irish footballer.
• Jim Marshall, 88, English businessman, founder of Marshall Amplification.
• Barney McKenna, 72, Irish musician.
• Bingu wa Mutharika, 78, Malawian politician, President, heart attack.
• Gil Noble, 80, American television reporter and host.
• Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, 76, German designer.
• Siegbert Salomon Prawer, 87, German-born British academic and writer.
• Bernard Rapoport, 94, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Regal Classic, 27, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• A. G. L. Shaw, 96, Australian historian.
• Stanislav Strnad, 81, Czech film director.
• Sir Peter Tapsell, 82, New Zealand politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
• Dick Wearmouth, 85, Australian football player.
• Christer Zetterberg, 70, Swedish businessman.

  6

• Boraî Bashir, 80, Sudanese footballer.
• Larry Canning, 86, English footballer and broadcaster, vascular dementia.
• Karl P. Cohen, 99, American mathematical physicist.
• Robin Denniston, 85, British book publisher.
• Fang Lizhi, 76, Chinese political activist and astrophysicist.
• Felipe Fernández García, 76, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ávila and San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife.
• Promode Gogoi, 82, Indian politician.
• Roland Guilbault, 77, American rear admiral who commanded the, the first Aegis cruiser.
• Dermot Hannafin, 84, Irish football player.
• Theunis Jonck, 86, South African Olympic weightlifter.
• Thomas Kinkade, 54, American painter, overdose of alcohol and Valium.
• Thomas Sancton Sr., 97, American novelist and journalist.
• Michael Sands, 66, American show business publicist and alleged CIA operative, choked.
• Arnold Saul, 87, American tennis player and coach.
• Sheila Scotter, 91, Australian fashion editor.
• Reed Whittemore, 92, American poet.

  7

• Michaelina Bellamy, 59, American singer, dancer, and actress, acute myeloid leukemia.
• Arthur Budd, 66, Australian footballer.
• Dennis De Souza, 77, Guyanese musician.
• Steven Kanumba, 28, Tanzanian actor and director.
• Alexander Leslie-Melville, 14th Earl of Leven, 87, Scottish peer and soldier, Lord Lieutenant of Nairn.
• Miss Read, 98, English writer.
• Satsue Mito, 97, Japanese zoologist.
• Ignatius Moses I Daoud, 81, Syrian Catholic cardinal, Patriarch of Antioch, stroke complications.
• David E. Pergrin, 94, American soldier, led the most decorated World War II engineering battalion.
• Bashir Khan Qureshi, 54, Pakistani politician, cardiac arrest.
• Tom Runnels, 78, American football player.
• Harold Robert Steacy, 88, Canadian mineralogist.
• Anders Thor, 76, Swedish scientist and educator.
• Serafym Verzun, 62, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Bishop of Zhytomyr, Archbishop of Rivne and Kirovohrad.
• Mike Wallace, 93, American news correspondent.
• Jamshid Zokirov, 63, Uzbek actor.

  8

• Mark Ayers, 63, American labor leader.
• Gordon Bagier, 87, British politician, MP for Sunderland South.
• Bram Bart, 49, Dutch voice actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Pat Carlin, 82, English footballer.
• Juventino Castro y Castro, 93, Mexican judge and politician.
• John Egan, 59, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• June Gibbs, 89, American politician, cancer.
• George Wilberforce Kakoma, 89, Ugandan musician, composer of the Ugandan national anthem.
• Blair Kiel, 50, American football player, heart attack.
• Donal O'Brien, 72, Irish hurler.
• Anatoly Ravikovich, 75, Russian film actor, cancer.
• Jack Tramiel, 83, Polish-born American businessman, founder of Commodore and CEO of Atari.
• Al Veigel, 95, American baseball player.
• Rikiya Yasuoka, 64, Japanese actor and singer, heart failure.
• Janusz K. Zawodny, 90, Polish-born American historian, World War II resistance fighter.

  9

• Carol Adams, 94, American actress and dancer.
• Takeshi Aono, 75, Japanese voice actor, post-operative multiple cerebral infarction.
• Reginald Askew, 83, British priest and academic.
• Richard Beyer, 85, American sculptor.
• Lester Breslow, 97, American physician.
• François Brigneau, 92, French journalist and author.
• Barry Cahill, 90, Canadian-born American actor.
• Ryszard Chachulski, 81, Polish sculptor.
• Dick Cullum, 81, English footballer.
• Chanig ar Gall, 89, French broadcaster, entertainer, and writer.
• John Golding, 82, British artist, art scholar and curator.
• José Guardiola, 81, Spanish singer.
• Ismail Haron, 66, Singaporean singer.
• Mark Lenzi, 43, American Olympic gold medal-winning diver, hypotension.
• Wiebo Ludwig, 70, Canadian environmental activist and convicted bomber, esophageal cancer.
• Miriam Mafai, 86, Italian journalist, author and politician.
• Ivan Nagel, 80, German theater director.
• Simo Nikolić, 71, Croatian Olympic sailor.
• Meral Okay, 53, Turkish actress and screenwriter, cancer.
• Boris Parygin, 81, Russian philosopher and sociologist.
• Don Reed, 92, American football coach, natural causes.
• Robert R. Sokal, 86, Austrian-born American biostatistician and entomologist.
• Malcolm Thomas, 82, Welsh rugby union player.