Deaths in February 2011

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

  February 2011

1

• Ernst Badian, 85, Austrian classical scholar and history professor, complications from a fall.
• Lennox Fyfe, Baron Fyfe of Fairfield, 69, British politician.
• Daniele Formica, 61, Irish-born Italian actor, theatre director and playwright, pancreatic cancer.
• Douglas Haig, 90, American child actor.
• Stanisław Michalski, 78, Polish actor.
• Derek Rawcliffe, 89, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway.
• Knut Risan, 80, Norwegian actor.
• Husik Santurjan, 91, Turkish-born Armenian archbishop of Armenian Apostolic Church.
• Les Stubbs, 81, British footballer.

  2

• Geoff Ainsworth, 64, Australian football player, cancer.
• Edward Amy, 92, Canadian brigadier general.
• Ian Anderson, 57, British politician, brain tumour.
• Darrel Baldock, 72, Australian football player and coach, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly and Minister, stroke.
• Harriett Ball, 64, American educator, heart attack.
• Armando Chin Yong, 53, Malaysian opera singer, heart disease.
• Jimmy Fell, 75, British footballer.
• Bill Foster, 78, American television director, cancer.
• Defne Joy Foster, 35, Turkish actress, presenter and VJ.
• Awal Gul, 48, Afghan detainee in Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, heart attack.
• Douglas M. Head, 80, American politician, Minnesota Attorney General.
• Rodney Hill, 89, British mathematician.
• Clark Hulings, 88, American realist painter and physicist.
• Margaret John, 84, British actress, liver cancer.
• Durga Mukherjee, 77, Indian cricketer.
• Eric Nicol, 91, Canadian writer.
• René Verdon, 86, French-born American White House Executive Chef, leukemia.

  3

• Ajib Ahmad, 63, Malaysian politician, Chief Minister of Johor.
• Édouard Glissant, 82, Martinican poet and writer.
• LeRoy Grannis, 93, American surfing photographer.
• Tony Levin, 71, British jazz drummer.
• Ron Piché, 75, Canadian baseball player, cancer.
• Maria Schneider, 58, French actress, cancer.
• Tatyana Shmyga, 82, Russian operetta singer and film actress, People's Artist of the USSR, vascular disease.
• Machan Varghese, 50, Indian Malayalam film actor, cancer.
• Neil Young, 66, British footballer, cancer.
• Robert Young, 95, American Olympic silver medal-winning athlete.

  4

• Lu Bain, 68, Canadian football player.
• Martial Célestin, 97, Haitian lawyer and diplomat, Prime Minister.
• Woodie Fryman, 70, American baseball player.
• Michael Habeck, 66, German actor, after short illness.
• Fred Hole, 75, English art director.
• Dame Olga Lopes-Seale, 92, Guyanese-born Barbadian broadcaster and singer.
• Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud, 37, Egyptian journalist, shot.
• Lena Nyman, 66, Swedish actress , I Am Curious, cancer.
• Vasile Paraschiv, 82, Romanian political activist and dissident.
• Tura Satana, 72, American actress, heart failure.
• Earl Irvin West, 90, American church historian.
• Lee Winfield, 64, American basketball player, colon cancer.

  5

• Fanizani Akuda, 78, Zimbabwean sculptor.
• Omar Amiralay, 66, Syrian filmmaker, heart attack.
• Eugeniusz Czajka, 83, Polish Olympic field hockey player.
• Ruth H. Funk, 93, American LDS Church youth leader.
• John Paul Getty III, 54, American heir and kidnapping victim, grandson of J. Paul Getty and father of Balthazar Getty, after long illness.
• Miriam Hansen, 61, American cinema scholar and professor, cancer.
• Brian Jacques, 71, British fantasy author, heart attack.
• Adjie Massaid, 43, Indonesian actor, under-23 national football team manager and politician, heart attack.
• Hiroko Nagata, 65, Japanese radical and murderer, vice-chairman of United Red Army.
• Donald Peterman, 79, American cinematographer, complications from myelodysplastic syndrome.
• Pertti Purhonen, 68, Finnish Olympic bronze medal-winning boxer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Martin Quigley Jr., 93, American publisher, spy and author.
• Peggy Rea, 89, American character actress, heart failure.
• Charles E. Silberman, 86, American journalist and author, heart attack.
• Pavel Vondruška, 85, Czech conductor and actor, accidental fall.
• Albert Yator, 17, Kenyan long-distance runner, world junior steeplechase medallist, bronchopneumonia.

  6

• Andrée Chedid, 90, Egyptian-born French poet and novelist.
• Isabelle Corey, 71, French film actress, cancer.
• Billy Gallier, 78, British footballer and manager.
• Josefa Iloilo, 90, Fijian politician, President.
• Gary Moore, 58, Irish rock guitarist and singer, heart attack.
• William Morais, 19, Brazilian footballer, shot.
• John Nisby, 74, American football player, pneumonia.
• Ken Olsen, 84, American engineer, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation.
• Aurel Smith, 95, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
• James Watson, 59, British trumpeter, heart attack.

  7

• Maria Altmann, 94, Austrian-born American art heiress, after long illness.
• Jerry Ames, 80, American tapdancer and choreographer.
• Peter Feteris, 58, Dutch footballer.
• Hysen Hakani, 78, Albanian screenwriter and director, directed first Albanian short film.
• Bobby Kuntz, 79, American CFL player, Parkinson's disease.
• Eric Parsons, 87, British footballer.
• Ralph Pöhland, 64, German Olympic skier.
• Frank Roberts, 65, Australian boxer, first Australian Aboriginal Olympian, heart attack.

  8

• Nick Arundel, 83, American journalist and publisher, pulmonary failure.
• Roza Baglanova, 89, Kazakh singer, People's Artist of the USSR.
• Luiz Bueno, 74, Brazilian race car driver, cancer.
• Elaine Crowley, 83, Irish author.
• Cliff Dapper, 91, American baseball player.
• Bradley C. Livezey, 56, American ornithologist, car accident.
• Tony Malinosky, 101, American baseball player.
• Marie-Rose Morel, 38, Belgian politician, cancer.
• Jorma Ojaharju, 72, Finnish author.
• Charles O. Perry, 81, American sculptor, stomach cancer.
• Angelo Reyes, 65, Filipino general and politician, suicide by gunshot.
• Cesare Rubini, 87, Italian basketball player and coach, water polo player.
• Donald S. Sanford, 92, American film and television writer.
• Marvin Sease, 64, American blues singer, pneumonia.
• Ferbent Shehu, 78, Albanian dancer and choreographer, heart attack.
• Eugenio Toussaint, 56, Mexican composer and jazz musician, heart attack.

  9

• Olga de Angulo, 55, Colombian Olympic swimmer.
• Miltiadis Evert, 71, Greek politician and minister, Mayor of Athens and President of New Democracy.
• Leroy R. Hassell Sr., 55, American jurist, Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court and Chief Justice.
• David Sánchez Juliao, 65, Colombian author.
• Jimmy Lemi Milla, 62, Southern Sudanese politician, shot.
• Alicia Pietri, 87, Venezuelan First Lady, widow of President Rafael Caldera.

  10

• Trevor Bailey, 87, British Test cricketer and BBC radio broadcaster, house fire.
• Emory Bellard, 83, American college football coach, creator of wishbone offense, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Doug Davis, 66, American football player.
• Claus Helmut Drese, 88, German theatre and opera administrator.
• Saad el-Shazly, 88, Egyptian military leader.
• Michael Harsgor, 86, Israeli historian.
• Bill Justice, 97, American animator.
• Blanche Honegger Moyse, 101, American conductor.
• Oleg Lavrentiev, 84, Russian nuclear physicist.
• Jon Petrovich, 63, American journalist, executive at CNN, cancer.
• Sam Plank, 62, British radio broadcaster, cancer.
• Fred Speck, 63, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Lynne Walker, 54, British music and theatre critic, cancer.
• Józef Życiński, 62, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Lublin, myocardial infarction.

  11

• Nubia Barahona, 10, American child abuse victim, beaten.
• Reynaldo de Barros, 79, Brazilian politician, mayor of São Paulo.
• Bad News Brown, 33, Canadian rapper and harmonica player, beaten and shot.
• Sir Arthur Bryan, 87, British businessman.
• Tom Carnegie, 91, American sports announcer.
• Bo Carpelan, 84, Finnish poet and author.
• John Clay, 86, English cricketer.
• Steve Dacri, 58, American magician, cancer.
• Joe R. Greenhill, 96, American attorney, Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
• Roy Gussow, 92, American sculptor, heart attack.
• Gerry Huth, 77, American football player.
• Christian J. Lambertsen, 93, American diving engineer, inventor of first SCUBA device, renal failure.
• Earle Morris Jr., 82, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina.
• Josef Pirrung, 61, German footballer, cancer.
• Chuck Tanner, 82, American baseball manager and player, after long illness.

  12

• Peter Alexander, 84, Austrian actor and singer.
• Kevin Barry Sr., 74, New Zealand boxing coach, after long illness.
• Gino Cimoli, 81, American baseball player, heart and kidney complications.
• Mato Damjanović, 83, Croatian chess grandmaster.
• Hal Dean, 89, American football player.
• Ernesto De Pascale, 52, Italian music promoter, producer and critic.
• Mark C. Ebersole, 89, American educator.
• James Elliott, 82, British-born Australian actor, Lewy body dementia.
• Betty Garrett, 91, American actress, singer and dancer, aortic aneurysm.
• Fedor den Hertog, 64, Dutch cyclist and Olympic medallist, prostate cancer.
• Andrzej Kłopotowski, 75, Polish Olympic swimmer.
• Konstantinos Kosmopoulos, 83, Greek politician, Mayor of Thessaloniki.
• Kenneth Mars, 75, American actor, pancreatic cancer.
• John Monson, 11th Baron Monson, 78, British aristocrat and politician, head injuries following a fall.
• Kyllikki Naukkarinen, 85, Finnish Olympic hurdler
• Saleh Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi, 90, Saudi Arabian businessman, founder of Al-Rajhi Bank, heart attack.
• Joanne Siegel, 93, American widow of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, reported model for the character of Lois Lane.
• Vipindas, 72, Indian cinematographer and director, short illness.
• Frank Whitten, 68, New Zealand actor, cancer.