Deaths in June 2011

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

  June 2011

1

• Jaehoon Ahn, 70, North Korean-born American journalist and researcher, founding director of Radio Free Asia's Korean language service., complications from a bleeding ulcer.
• Cameron Batjer, 91, American lawyer.
• Munir Dar, 76, Pakistani field hockey player, 1960 Olympic gold medalist.
• Matt Fong, 57, American politician, California State Treasurer, skin cancer.
• Muhammad Nawaz, 54, Pakistani army major general, helicopter crash.
• Frank Ponta, 75, Australian paralympian, long illness.
• Devi Prasad, 89, Indian artist and peace activist.
• Haleh Sahabi, 54, Iranian humanitarian, daughter of Ezzatollah Sahabi, cardiac arrest.
• Albert Wiggins, 76, American Olympic swimmer, aortic dissection.

  2

• Ray Bryant, 79, American jazz pianist, long illness.
• Mark Cooney, 60, American football player.
• Ron Dunn, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• Willem Duys, 82, Dutch radio and television presenter and record producer, infection.
• Josephine Hart, 69, Irish-born British novelist and poetry promoter, ovarian cancer.
• Sir Philip Holland, 94, British politician, MP for Acton ; Carlton and Gedling.
• Davorin Marčelja, 87, Croatian Olympic athlete.
• Walter R. Peterson Jr., 88, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire. Died of lung cancer.
• Willie Phiri, 57, Zambian footballer.
• Geronimo Pratt, 63, American political activist, heart attack.
• Philip Rahtz, 90, British archaeologist.
• Joel Rosenberg, 57, American science fiction author, heart attack.
• Albertina Sisulu, 92, South African anti-apartheid activist.
• Keith Smith, 93, Australian radio and television personality, children's writer.
• Lavina Washines, 71, American tribal leader, first female leader of the Yakima Nation.

  3

• James Arness, 88, American actor.
• Harry Bernstein, 101, British-born American author.
• Wally Boag, 90, American performer.
• Marion Fuller Brown, 94, American politician and environmental activist.
• Papa Joe Chevalier, 62, American sports talk radio host, stroke.
• Bruce Crozier, 72, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP for Essex South and Essex, aortic aneurysm.
• Andrew Gold, 59, American singer-songwriter, heart attack.
• Pat Jackson, 95, English film and television director.
• John Henry Johnson, 81, American football player and Hall of Famer.
• Miriam Karlin, 85, British actress and activist, cancer.
• Ilyas Kashmiri, 47, Pakistani jihadist militant, leader of Harkatul Jihad al-Islami, drone strike.
• Jack Kevorkian, 83, American physician and right to die activist, pulmonary thrombosis.
• Bhajan Lal, 80, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Haryana, cardiac arrest.
• Peter Murphy, 88, Irish television presenter.
• Sammy Ofer, 89, Israeli businessman, long illness.
• Ray Pahl, 75, British sociologist, cancer.
• Jack Richardson, 89, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Ashfield.
• Benny Spellman, 79, American R&B singer, respiratory failure.
• Gus Tyler, 99, American socialist activist.
• Jan van Roessel, 86, Dutch Olympic footballer.

  4

• Dimi Mint Abba, 52, Mauritanian singer, brain haemorrhage.
• Dante Ambrosio, 59, Filipino ethnologist, astronomer, college professor, and activist.
• Shibli al-Aysami, 86, Syrian politician and Arab nationalist figure.
• Lilian Jackson Braun, 97, American author, natural causes.
• Claudio Bravo, 74, Chilean painter, epilepsy.
• Tommy Brent, 88, American theatrical producer.
• Gordon Colling, 78, British trade unionist, Chair of the Labour Party.
• Lindsey Durlacher, 36, American Greco-Roman wrestler.
• Lawrence Eagleburger, 80, American diplomat and politician, Secretary of State.
• Curth Flatow, 91, German dramatist and screenwriter, natural causes.
• Maurice Garrel, 88, French actor.
• Donald Hewlett, 90, English actor, pneumonia.
• Juan Francisco Luis, 70, U.S. Virgin Islands politician, Governor of [the United States Virgin Islands], Lieutenant [Governor of the United States Virgin Islands|Lieutenant Governor].
• Rosenery Mello do Nascimento, 45, Brazilian model and Playboy Playmate, brain aneurysm.
• Ian Mitchell, 86, English cricketer, natural causes.
• Andreas P. Nielsen, 58, Danish author and composer, cancer.
• Martin Rushent, 63, English record producer.
• Betty Taylor, 91, American performer.
• Misael Vilugrón, 73, Chilean boxer.
• Felix Zandman, 83, American entrepreneur.

  5

• Mark H. Beaubien Jr., 68, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives.
• Léon Bollendorff, 96, Luxembourgish politician, Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg|President] of the Chamber of Deputies.
• Scott Bostwick, 49, American football player and coach, heart attack.
• Leon Botha, 26, South African artist and musical performer, progeria-related heart failure.
• John Glasby, 82, British chemist and writer.
• Azam Khan, 61, Bangladeshi pop singer, cancer.
• Gordon Lorenz, 68, British songwriter.
• Ludo Martens, 65, Belgian political activist.
• Célestin Oliver, 80, French Olympic footballer.
• Ken Purpur, 79, American ice hockey player.

  6

• John R. Alison, 98, American airman, launched the Allied Reoccupation of Burma 1944–1945|Allied Reoccupation of Burma] during World War II.
• Rafael Arnal, 96, Venezuelan Olympic shooter.
• Zev Birger, 85, Israeli activist, traffic collision.
• John Boswall, 91, British actor.
• Claudio Cavazza, 77, Italian entrepreneur, founder of Sigma-Tau pharmaceuticals.
• Bill Closs, 89, American basketball player.
• Declan Costello, 84, Irish politician, TD for Dublin North-West ; Dublin South-West, Attorney General and High Court judge.
• Eleanor Dapkus, 87, American baseball player, breast cancer.
• Dulce Figueiredo, 83, Brazilian First Lady, widow of João Figueiredo.
• Werner Fischer, 70, Austrian Olympic sailor.
• Benjamín González, 53, Spanish Olympic athlete, mountaineering accident.
• James A. Green, 80, American Pennsylvania Commissioner of Elections, Pennsylvania State Representative, Butler County Commissioner, Slippery Rock Borough Council member.
• Stefan Kuryłowicz, 62, Polish architect, plane crash.
• Amnon Niv, 81, Israeli architect.
• Masushi Ouchi, 67, Japanese weightlifter, Olympic silver and bronze medalist.
• Shrek, 16, New Zealand celebrity sheep, euthanised.

  7

• Ana Fabricia Córdoba, about 52, Afro-Colombian human rights activist, assassination
• Paul Dickson, 74, American football player, blood infection.
• Angelino Fons, 75, Spanish film director.
• Walid Gholmieh, 73, Lebanese musician, director of Conservatoire Libanais.
• Genaro Hernández, 45, American former world super featherweight champion boxer, cancer.
• Liam Kelly, 88, Irish republican and politician.
• Kim Jun-yop, 91, South Korean historian.
• Vladimir Lavrov, 91, Soviet diplomat and ambassador.
• José Pagán, 76, Puerto Rican baseball player, Alzheimer's disease.
• Mietek Pemper, 91, Polish-born German Holocaust survivor, compiled and typed Oskar Schindler's list.
• Nataraja Ramakrishna, 88, Indian dance guru, after long illness.
• Maksud Sadikov, 48, Russian Islamic scholar and theologian, shot.
• Jorge Semprún, 87, Spanish writer and politician.
• Leonard B. Stern, 87, American television writer and publisher.
• Edgar Tekere, 74, Zimbabwean politician, cancer.
• Gavriel Tsifroni, 96, Israeli journalist.
• Haim Yisraeli, 84, Israeli civil servant.

  8

• Anatole Abragam, 96, French physicist.
• Larry Border, 60, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates">United States congressional delegations from Virginia">Virginia House of Delegates, stroke.
• Oliver Fiennes, 85, British Anglican priest, Dean of Lincoln.
• Nasir Jalil, 56, Singaporean footballer.
• George Landow, 67, American experimental filmmaker.
• Clara Luper, 88, American civil rights activist, after long illness.
• John Mackenzie, 83, Scottish film director.
• Paul Massie, 78, Canadian BAFTA-winning actor and educator.
• Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, 38?, Comorian al-Qaeda terrorist, planned 1998 United States embassy bombings, shot.
• Jim Northrup, 71, American baseball player, seizure.
• Steve Popovich, 68, American record executive, founder of Cleveland International Records.
• Alan Rubin, 68, American trumpeter, lung cancer.
• Roy Skelton, 79, British actor, stroke.

  9

• Jameel Fakhri, 65, Pakistani actor, long illness.
• M. F. Husain, 95, Indian artist, heart attack.
• Josip Katalinski, 63, Bosnian footballer, long illness.
• Tomoko Kawakami, 41, Japanese voice actress, ovarian cancer.
• Ali Khodadadi, 64, Iranian carpet weaver, heart failure.
• Mike Mitchell, 55, American basketball player, cancer.
• Idwal Robling, 84, Welsh Olympic footballer and broadcaster.
• Vladimir Shalin, 46, Russian football player and coach.
• Billy Shipp, 80, American football player.
• Ignazio Vella, 82, American artisanal cheesemaker and businessman, long illness.

  10

• Art Balinger, 96, American actor.
• Jeanne Bice, 71, American entrepreneur and television personality.
• Pam Brown, 58, American politician, Nebraska state senator, ovarian cancer.
• Yuri Budanov, 47, Russian military officer and war criminal, shot.
• Cosimo Caliandro, 29, Italian middle-distance runner, motorcycle collision.
• Mary E. Clarke, 86, American army general.
• Theo Dubois, 100, Canadian rower.
• Abdishakur Sheikh Hassan, Somali politician, interior minister, suicide bombing.
• Kenny Hawkes, 42, British DJ and music producer, after short illness.
• James P. Hosty, 86, American law-enforcement agent, prostate cancer.
• Esmond Kentish, 94, Jamaican Test cricketer.
• Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, 96, British author and soldier.
• Brian Lenihan Jnr, 52, Irish politician, TD for Dublin West and Minister for Finance, pancreatic cancer.
• Godfrey Myles, 42, American football player, stroke.
• Franz Reitz, 82, German cyclist, National Champion
• Jim Rodnunsky, 54, Canadian-born American cinematographer and technician, inventor of the Cablecam system, brain cancer.
• Hoda Saber, 52, Iranian dissident, heart attack following a hunger strike.
• Al Schwimmer, 94, American-born Israeli businessman, founder of Israel Aerospace Industries.
• Barbara Starfield, 78, American paediatrician, advocate for primary health care.
• Carol Stone, 96, American actress.
• György Szabados, 71, Hungarian physician, pianist, and composer.

  11

• Tariq Alam Abro, 53, Pakistani writer, kidney failure.
• Paul Alter, 89, American television director.
• Giorgio Celli, 75, Italian entomologist and politician.
• Gustav Ciamaga, 81, Canadian composer, music educator and writer, cancer.
• Robert Marie Jean Victor de Chevigny, 90, French-born Mauritanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nouakchott.
• Jyotirmoy Dey, 56, Indian journalist, shot.
• Gunnar Fischer, 100, Swedish cinematographer.
• Eliyahu M. Goldratt, 64, Israeli physicist and management guru.
• Noel Granger, 79–80, Australian Olympic wrestler.
• Kurt Nielsen, 80, Danish tennis player, only Dane to have played in a men's Grand Slam singles final.
• Jaime Pieras Jr., 87, Puerto Rican jurist.
• Graham B. Purcell Jr., 92, American politician, U.S. Representative from Texas.
• Seth Putnam, 43, American musician.
• Wolfgang Reinhardt, 68, German Olympic silver medal-winning pole vaulter.
• Raúl Marcelo Pacífico Scozzina, 89, Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Formosa, Argentina|Formosa].
• Darko Radovanović, 35, Serbian singer, traffic collision.
• Vitali Silitski, 38, Belarusian political scientist, kidney cancer.
• Jack Smith, 82, British artist.
• William Carrington Thompson, 95, American politician and jurist, Virginia House of Delegates, Senate and Supreme Court.
• Edythe Scott Bagley, 86, American author, activist, educator and older sister of Coretta Scott King.

  12

• Les Abbott, 95, Australian rugby league footballer.
• René Audet, 91, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Joliette.
• Geoffrey Fisken, 95, New Zealand World War II flying ace.
• Carl Gardner, 83, American singer.
• Alan Haberman, 81, American grocer, first to use the barcode system, heart and lung disease.
• John Hospers, 93, American philosopher, first Libertarian Party presidential nominee.
• Christopher Neame, 68, British film and TV producer and writer, aneurysm.
• Kathryn Tucker Windham, 93, American author and journalist.
• Sir John Wilton, 89, British diplomat.
• Laura Ziskin, 61, American film producer, breast cancer.

  13

• David C. Baldus, 75, American educator and anti-death penalty activist, cancer.
• Hugh John Beazley, 94, British Royal Air Force airman.
• Johannes Kemperman, 86, Dutch mathematician.
• King's Theatre, 20, Irish racehorse.
• Germano Meneghel, 49, Brazilian vocalist.
• Jérôme Nday Kanyangu Lukundwe, 82, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kongolo.
• Betty Neumar, 79, American murder suspect.
• Romeo Olea, 49, Filipino radio journalist, shot.
• William J. Spahr, 89, American intelligence analyst and author, pneumonia.
• Burt Styler, 86, American screenwriter, Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series|Emmy] winner, heart failure.

  14

• Tom Addison, 75, American football player.
• Tayo Aderinokun, 56, Nigerian entrepreneur.
• Milivoj Ašner, 98, Croatian-born Austrian Nazi war criminal.
• Helen Clifton, 63, British Salvation Army commissioner.
• Ambrose Griffiths, 82, British Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle.
• Asad Ali Khan, 74, Indian musician, recipient of the Padma Bhushan.
• Augusto Ramírez Ocampo, 77, Colombian politician, Mayor of Bogotá, Foreign Minister, heart ailment.
• Óscar Sambrano Urdaneta, 82, Venezuelan writer.
• Peter Schamoni, 77, German film director.
• Mack Self, 81, American rockabilly musician and songwriter.
• Badi Uzzaman, 72, Indian-British actor, chest infection.
• Suprabha Devi, 73, an Assamese film producer and the first female director from Assam, India.

  15

• Guy Amouretti, 85–86, French table tennis player.
• Bob Banner, 89, American television producer and director, Parkinson's disease.
• Joko Beck, 94, American Zen Buddhist teacher, founder of the Ordinary Mind School, long illness.
• John Ehrman, 91, British historian.
• Ted Gray, 86, American baseball player.
• Bill Haast, 100, American snake expert, director of the Miami Serpentarium.
• Zack du Plessis, 61, South African actor.
• Linda Scheid, 68, American politician, Minnesota state senator, ovarian cancer.
• Sir Apenera Short, 95, Cook Islands politician, Queen's Representative.
• Pavel Stolbov, 81, Russian gymnast, 1956 Olympic gold medalist.

  16

• Gerald Abramovitz, 82, South African architect and designer, assault-related injuries.
• Kirby Allan, 83, American record producer, house fire.
• James Allason, 98, British politician and soldier, MP for Hemel Hempstead.
• Claudia Bryar, 93, American actress.
• Wild Man Fischer, 66, American street musician, heart failure.
• Abrar Hussain, 46, Pakistani Olympic boxer, shot.
• Yehuda Kiel, 94, Israeli educator and biblical scholar.
• Östen Mäkitalo, 72, Swedish electrical engineer.
• Dorice Reid, 67, Cook Islander tourism official and businesswoman, High Commissioner designate to New Zealand.
• Twins Seven Seven, 67, Nigerian artist, complications of a stroke.

  17

• Colin Aamodt, 89, Australian football player.
• Björn-Olof Alholm, 86, Finnish ambassador.
• Richard Bennett, 79, Trinidadian Olympic sailor.
• Kjell Bohlin, 82, Norwegian politician.
• David Brockhoff, 83, Australian rugby union player and coach.
• Jacquie de Creed, 54, British stuntwoman, air crash.
• Betty Fox, 73, Canadian cancer research activist, founder of the Terry Fox Foundation.
• Ben Grussendorf, 69, American politician, Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives.
• E. Philip Howrey, 73, American economist, bicycle accident.
• Ruth M. Kirk, 81, American politician, Maryland House of Delegates.
• Rex Mossop, 83, Australian rugby player and television commentator.
• Fritz Semmelmann, 82, German footballer.
• Nathan Sharon, 86, Israeli biochemist.
• George Malcolm White, 90, American architect, Architect of the Capitol, complications of Parkinson's disease.

  18

• Echendu Adiele, 32, Nigerian footballer.
• Alan Bamford, 80, British academic.
• Ulrich Biesinger, 77, German football player.
• Yelena Bonner, 88, Russian human rights activist, long illness.
• Cheryl B, 38, American poet and performance artist.
• Frederick Chiluba, 68, Zambian politician, President, heart attack.
• Clarence Clemons, 69, American saxophonist and singer, complications following a stroke.
• A. Whitney Ellsworth, 75, American editor and publisher, pancreatic cancer.
• Karl Frei, 94, Swiss gymnast, 1948 Olympic gold medalist.
• Brian Haw, 62, British peace activist, lung cancer.
• Gustaf Kjellvander, 31, Swedish singer-songwriter.
• Benedek Litkey, 69, Hungarian Olympic sailor.
• Robin Nash, 84, British television producer.
• Bob Pease, 70, American integrated circuit engineer.
• John Perumattam, 89, Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Ujjain.
• Shlomo Pinto, 57, Israeli Paralympic athlete.
• Lew Sayre Schwartz, 84, American comic book artist, co-creator of Deadshot.

  19

• Don Diamond, 90, American actor.
• Tom Hungerford, 96, Australian author.
• Rezső Kende, 102, Hungarian Olympic gymnast.
• John Kerr, 67, Scottish-born Canadian soccer player.
• Fernand Linssen, 82, Belgian Olympic sprinter.
• Fyodor Reshetnikov, 91, Russian physicist, chemist, and metallurgist, academician of RAS.

  20

• Alexander Abrosimov, 62, Russian mathematician and teacher.
• Zar Ajam, 17, Pakistani mass murderer and terrorist, execution by hanging.
• Thomas N. Armstrong III, 78, American museum curator.
• Ryan Dunn, 34, American reality television star, car crash.
• Safa Giray, 80, Turkish civil engineer and politician, 3-time minister.
• Magomet Isayev, 83, Russian Esperantist, translator and linguist.
• Domnitsa Lanitou-Kavounidou, 97, Greek Olympic sprinter.
• Ottilie Patterson, 79, Northern Irish singer.
• Vladimir Pettay, 38, Russian football referee, plane crash.
• Eric Swenson, 64, American businessman, co-founder of Thrasher, suicide by gunshot.
• Robert H. Widmer, 95, American aeronautical engineer.

  21

• E. M. Broner, 83, American author, multiple organ failure.
• Arthur Budgett, 95, British racehorse trainer.
• Mark Gerard, 76, American racehorse trainer.
• Anthony Herrera, 67, American actor, cancer.
• Kothapalli Jayashankar, 76, Indian educator and politician, after long illness.
• Bruce Kinloch, 91, British soldier and game warden.
• Robert Kroetsch, 83, Canadian novelist and poet, car crash.
• Lucifer, 50, American wrestler.
• Alena Reichová, 77, Czech Olympic gymnast.
• Suresh Tendulkar, 72, Indian economist, cardiac arrest.

  22

• Sir John Agnew, 6th Baronet, 60, British landowner, prostate cancer.
• Kader Asmal, 76, South African politician, heart attack.
• Guy Coulombe, 75, Canadian civil servant, lung cancer.
• Fanny de Sivers, 90, Estonian linguist and translator.
• Carmelo Giaquinta, 81, Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Resistencia.
• Harley Hotchkiss, 83, Canadian businessman, member of Hockey Hall of Fame, prostate cancer.
• Albert Johnson, 90, English footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Robert Miller, 72, American art dealer, infection.
• Sir Stephen Olver, 95, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Sierra Leone and Cyprus
• Cyril Ornadel, 87, British conductor and composer.
• Coşkun Özarı, 80, Turkish footballer and coach.
• David Rayfiel, 87, American screenwriter, heart failure.
• Nataša Urbančič, 65, Slovene athlete.
• Ken Vaughan, 76, Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.
• Mike Waterson, 70, British folk singer, cancer.
• John Waite, 81, South African cricketer.
• Zbyněk Zeman, 82, Czech historian.

  23

• Vladislav Achalov, 65, Russian general and activist.
• J. Warren Bettis, 86, American jurist.
• Gene Colan, 84, American comic book artist, complications from liver disease and a broken hip.
• Gaye Delorme, 64, Canadian musician, heart attack.
• Peter Falk, 83, American actor.
• Stéphane Franke, 47, German athlete.
• Len King, 86, Australian politician and jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia.
• Dennis Marshall, 25, Costa Rican footballer, car crash.
• Patricia Merbreier, 86, American actress and television personality.
• Basil Mitchell, 94, British philosopher.
• Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, 97, French Egyptologist.
• Arthur Motyer, 85, Canadian educator and writer.
• Attilio Ruffini, 85, Italian politician, Minister of Defence and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Fred Steiner, 88, American television composer.

  24

• Michelle Brunner, 57, British bridge player, writer and teacher, breast cancer.
• Tomislav Ivić, 77, Croatian football coach.
• Richie Myers, 81, American baseball player, complications from a fall.
• F. Gilman Spencer, 85, American Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper editor.
• Richard Webster, 60, British historian and writer, heart failure.
• A. H. Woodfull, 98, British product designer.

  25

• Dorothea Austin, 89, Austrian-born American pianist and composer.
• George Ballas, 85, American entrepreneur, inventor of the Weed Eater.
• Nick Charles, 64, American sportscaster, bladder cancer.
• Anne Field, 85, British army officer.
• Shelby Grant, 74, American actress, brain aneurysm.
• Martin H. Greenberg, 70, American anthologist, cancer.
• Jean Harris, 66, American politician and LGBT activist.
• Jan Kułakowski, 80, Polish politician, Member of the European Parliament.
• Viktor Mikhaylov, 77, Russian nuclear scientist.
• J. O. Patterson Jr., 76, American politician and religious leader, first black mayor of Memphis.
• Alice Playten, 63, American actress, heart failure.
• Goff Richards, 66, English brass band arranger and composer, illness.
• Betty Roberts, 88, American politician and jurist, Oregon Supreme Court, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Paulo Renato Souza, 65, Brazilian politician, Minister of Education, heart attack.
• Margaret Tyzack, 79, British actress.

  26

• James Craig Anderson, 47, American murder victim, beaten and ran over.
• Adalberto Escobar, 62, Paraguayan footballer
• Edith Fellows, 88, American actress, natural causes.
• Jung Jung-suk, 28, South Korean footballer, stomach cancer.
• Norma Lyon, 81, American farmer and butter sculpture artist.
• Robert Morris, 78, American cryptographer, complications of dementia.
• Sidney Hollis Radner, 91, American collector of Harry Houdini memorabilia.
• Alan Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry, 66, British jurist, Supreme Court judge.
• Christopher Shale, 56, British political aide.
• Jan van Beveren, 63, Dutch footballer and coach.
• Barry Wilkins, 64, Canadian hockey player, lung cancer.

  27

• William L. Adams, 97, American businessman.
• Stuart Appelle, 65, American professor and writer.
• Ken Bainbridge, 90, English footballer.
• Betty Callaway, 83, British ice skating trainer.
• Lorenzo Charles, 47, American basketball player, bus accident.
• Mike Doyle, 64, English footballer, liver failure.
• Owen Drake, 75, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives, cancer.
• Orvin B. Fjare, 93, American politician, U.S. Representative from Montana.
• Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz, 97, Israeli rabbi.
• Thierry Martens, 69, Belgian science fiction, detective novels, and comics author.
• Erling Olsen, 84, Danish politician, natural causes.
• Richard H. Poff, 87, American jurist and politician, U.S. Representative from Virginia.
• Lura Lynn Ryan, 76, American First Lady of Illinois, cancer.
• Elmer Sexauer, 85, American baseball player, cardiac arrest.
• Elaine Stewart, 81, American actress and model, after long illness.
• Charles W. Whalen Jr., 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio.
• Maciej Zembaty, 67, Polish writer and singer.

  28

• Olav Askvik, 96, Norwegian politician.
• Paul Baghdadlian, 57, Armenian-American singer-songwriter and businessman, lung cancer.
• Billy Baldwin, 63, American baseball player.
• Giorgio Bernardin, 83, Italian footballer.
• Benton Flippen, 90, American fiddler, heart attack.
• Howard Fox, 90, American baseball executive.
• Richard Fox, 57, Irish-born British jockey and actor.
• Osamu Kobayashi, 76, Japanese voice actor and executive director, pancreatic cancer.
• Newt Loken, 92, American gymnastics coach.
• Ants Paju, 66, Estonian athlete, journalist and politician.
• Angélico Vieira, 28, Portuguese actor and singer, car accident.
• Michael Wenning, 75, South African-born American minister, leukemia and kidney failure.

  29

• R. C. Alston, 78, English bibliographer.
• Barbatana, 82, Brazilian football coach and player, Alzheimer's disease.
• Billy Beck, 86, American actor and clown.
• Larry Bogdanow, 64, American architect, brain tumor.
• Billy Costello, 55, American former WBC world light welterweight champion boxer, lung cancer.
• Carlos Diarte, 57, Paraguayan footballer, cancer.
• David Dunseith, 76, British broadcaster.
• Stefano Gobbi, 81, Italian Roman Catholic priest, founder of the Marian Movement of Priests.
• Kaya Köstepen, 76, Turkish footballer.
• Domenico Pecile, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Latina-Terracina-Sezze-Priverno.
• K. D. Sethna, 106, Indian scholar and writer.

  30

• David G. Boschert, 63, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates, cancer.
• Barry Bremen, 64, American marketing executive and sports imposter, cancer.
• Don Buddin, 77, American baseball player.
• Preston Carpenter, 77, American football player.
• Christy Essien-Igbokwe, 50, Nigerian musician.
• Dina Golan, 65, Israeli singer and actress, cancer.
• Tom Kruse, 96, Australian outback mailman and documentary subject.
• Sir David Loram, 86, British admiral.
• Ruth Roberts, 84, American songwriter, lung cancer.
• Jimmy Roselli, 85, American singer, heart complications.
• Jay Dee Springbett, 36, British-born Australian record industry executive and Australian Idol judge.
• Georg Sterzinsky, 75, German Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Berlin, long illness.
• Sean Wight, 47, Scottish-born Australian football player, lung cancer.