Deaths in June 2012

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

  June 2012

1

• Lamu Amatya, 80, first Nepalese trained–nurse, Alzheimer's disease.
• Faruq Z. Bey, 70, American jazz saxophonist, emphysema.
• Pádraig Faulkner, 94, Irish politician, TD for Louth, Minister for Defence, Ceann Comhairle.
• Milan Gaľa, 59, Slovak politician.
• Avram Goldstein, 92, American pharmacologist.
• Marcial Gómez Parejo, 81, Spanish Andalusian painter and illustrator.
• Nick Knilans, 94, American bomber pilot.
• Marion Sandler, 81, American businesswoman.
• Jörg Schmeisser, 70, German-Australian printmaker.
• Brahmeshwar Singh, 67, Indian militia chief, head of Ranvir Sena, shooting.
• Juozas Tunaitis, 83, Lithuanian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius.

  2

• Eliseo Nicolás Alonso, 57, Spanish woodcarver.
• Elnur Aslanov, 29, Azerbaijani wrestler, car accident.
• Avraham Botzer, 83, Israeli general, Commander of the Navy.
• Adolfo Calero, 80, Nicaraguan businessman, leader of the Democratic Force, pneumonia and kidney failure.
• Richard Dawson, 79, English-born American actor and host, esophageal cancer.
• L. K. Doraiswamy, 85, Indian chemical engineer, author and academic, heart ailments.
• LeRoy Ellis, 72, American basketball player, prostate cancer.
• Héctor García Cobo, 88, Mexican photo-journalist.
• David C. Garrett Jr., 90, American businessman, CEO of Delta Air Lines.
• Jan Gmelich Meijling, 76, Dutch politician, Mayor of Castricum and Den Helder, State Secretary for Defence.
• Kathryn Joosten, 72, American actress, Emmy winner, lung cancer.
• Frazier Mohawk, 71, American record producer.
• Soini Nikkinen, 88, Finnish Olympic javelin thrower and world record holder.
• Marco Onorato, 59, Italian cinematographer.
• Oliver, app. 55, Congolese-born common chimpanzee noted for his upright stature and humanlike traits.
• Genichi Taguchi, 88, Japanese engineer and statistician.

  3

• Carol Ann Abrams, 69, American film producer and author, cancer.
• Bob Bill, 72, American football player and businessman, heart failure.
• Peter Orlebar Bishop, 94, Australian neurophysiologist.
• Angelo Di Castro, 86, Italian sculptor.
• James L. Foreman, 85, American judge.
• Rosa Guy, 89, Trinidadian-born American author, cancer.
• Andy Hamilton, 94, Jamaican-born British saxophonist and composer.
• Rajsoomer Lallah, 79, Mauritian lawyer and judge.
• Alphonse Le Gastelois, 97, British recluse.
• John Lang, 84, British Anglican priest and broadcaster, Dean of Lichfield.
• Mary Perry, 69, American Olympic volleyball player, neurodegenerative disease.
• Hugh Poole, 86, New Zealand Olympic sailor.
• Jean-Louis Richard, 85, French film director.
• Roy Salvadori, 90, British Formula One race car driver.
• Sir Brian Talboys, 90, New Zealand politician, MP for Wallace, Deputy Prime Minister.
• Sergio Tedesco, 84, Italian actor, voice actor and tenor.
• Roel de Wit, 85, Dutch politician, Mayor of Alkmaar, Queen's Commissioner of North Holland.
• Notable people killed in the crash of Dana Air Flight 0992:
• *Levi Chibuike Ajuonuma, 60, Nigerian academic, journalist and public relations expert.
• *Ibrahim Damcida, 78–79, Nigerian civil servant.
• *Celestine Onwuliri, 60, Nigerian academician.

  4

• Peter Beaven, 86, New Zealand architect, cancer.
• J. C. Bhattacharyya, 81, Indian astronomer.
• Bobby Black, 85, Scottish football player.
• Pedro Borbón, 65, Dominican Republic-born American baseball player, cancer.
• Dennis Eugene Breedlove, 72, American botanist, herbarium curator, and plant collector.
• Tom Cryer, 62, American lawyer.
• Jim Fitzgerald, 86, American businessman, majority owner of the Milwaukee Bucks and Golden State Warriors.
• Ireneo García Alonso, 89, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Albacete.
• Barney Gibbens, 77, British businessman.
• Bernard Jean, 87, Canadian lawyer and politician, member and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick.
• Stan Jolley, 86, American art director and production designer.
• Eduard Khil, 77, Russian singer, stroke.
• Abu Yahya al-Libi, 49, Libyan terrorist, senior member of al-Qaeda, drone strike.
• Lim Hock Siew, 81, Singaporean doctor, politician, and political prisoner.
• Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, 80, Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal Archbishop of Guatemala, intestinal blockage.
• Herb Reed, 83, American singer.
• Philip Snow, 96, British cricketer and administrator.
• Per Sunderland, 87, Norwegian actor.
• Barry Unsworth, 81, British novelist, lung cancer.

  5

• Carl Bledsoe, 88, American politician, Colorado State Representative.
• Ray Bradbury, 91, American author.
• Steve Buttle, 59, English football player and coach, cancer.
• Keith Coster, 92, South African army officer.
• Richard Duc, 77, French rower.
• Guy Elmour, New Caledonian football manager.
• Shapoor Gharib, 78–79, Iranian director and screenplay writer.
• John Hinrichs, 78, American welding engineer, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
• David Hodgson, 73, Australian judge.
• Caroline John, 71, British actress.
• Hal Keller, 83, American baseball player and executive, esophageal cancer.
• Lucky Diamond, app. 15, American Maltese dog, Guinness World Record holder, cancer.
• Mihai Pătrașcu, 29, Romanian computer scientist, brain cancer.
• Athinodoros Prousalis, 86, Greek film and television actor, heart attack.
• Charlie Sutton, 88, Australian football player and coach.
• Chris Thompson, 52, English footballer.
• Toofan, 65, Iranian singer

  6

• Frank Barsotti, 74, American photographer.
• Mohamed Elrawi, 77, Egyptian academic.
• Lillian Gallo, 84, American television producer.
• Jiang Minkuan, 82, Chinese politician, Governor of Sichuan.
• Vladimir Krutov, 52, Russian ice hockey player and Olympic medal-winner, internal bleeding and liver failure.
• Li Wangyang, 62, Chinese labour rights activist, hanging.
• Jean-Louis Loday, 66, French mathematician.
• Nolan Miller, 79, American fashion designer, lung cancer.
• Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, 54, Spanish football player and coach, heart attack.
• Agostinho José Sartori, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Palmas–Francisco Beltrão, complications of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
• Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, 66, Japanese royal, cancer.
• Mykola Volosyanko, 40, Ukrainian football player, heart failure.

  7

• Walter Becker, 79, German racing cyclist.
• F. Herbert Bormann, 90, American ecologist, discovered acid rain.
• William Cartwright, 89, Bahamian politician and publisher, co-founder of the Progressive Liberal Party.
• John T. Cunningham, 96, American historian, journalist, and writer.
• Richard N. Dixon, 74, American politician.
• David Gibson, 76, English cricketer.
• Peter Gray, 85, British chemist.
• Ping-ti Ho, 95, Chinese-born American historian.
• Mervin Jackson, 65, American basketball player.
• Abid Hamid Mahmud, 55, Iraqi military officer, bodyguard and personal secretary of Saddam Hussein, execution by hanging.
• John Medlin, 78, American banker, CEO of Wachovia, heart attack.
• Cotton Owens, 88, American Hall of Fame NASCAR driver and owner, lung cancer.
• J. Michael Riva, 63, American production designer, stroke.
• Rupert Scotland, 74, Bermudian cricketer.
• Chuck Share, 85, American basketball player.
• Phillip V. Tobias, 86, South African palaeoanthropologist.
• Robert L. Washington III, 47, American comic book writer, co-creator of Static.
• Bob Welch, 66, American musician and songwriter, suicide by gunshot.

  8

• Luis Aloy, 82, Spanish football player.
• Baku Akae, 79, Japanese novelist.
• Pete Brennan, 75, American basketball player, prostate cancer.
• Frank Cady, 96, American actor.
• K. S. R. Das, 76, Indian film director.
• Wilf Doyle, 87, Canadian musician.
• Jane Evans, 65, New Zealand artist.
• Bengt Fröbom, 85, Swedish Olympic cyclist.
• Robert Galley, 91, French politician, Mayor of Troyes, Minister of Transport, Compagnon de la Libération.
• Nikolay Ivanov, 62, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning rower.
• Tom Kamara, 62-63, Liberian journalist.
• Ivan Lessa, 77, Brazilian journalist, pulmonary emphysema.
• Pat Mahoney, 83, Canadian businessman, politician, and judge, MP for Calgary South, General Manager of the Calgary Stampeders.
• Sepp Maier, 77, German Olympic skier.
• Charles E. M. Pearce, 72, New Zealand-born Australian mathematician, traffic collision.
• Ghassan Tueni, 86, Lebanese journalist and politician, Ambassador to the United Nations.

  9

• Hans Abramson, 82, Swedish film director.
• Audrey Arno, 70, German pop singer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Roy Ayres, 82, American guitar player.
• Rachel Browne, 77, Canadian dancer and choreographer.
• Régis Clère, 55, French Olympic road bicycle racer, complications during surgery.
• Burwyn Davidson, 68, Australian politician.
• Don Durbridge, 73, British broadcaster.
• George Ede, 72, Canadian biathlete.
• Masahisa Fukase, 78, Japanese photographer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Paul Jenkins, 88, American abstract expressionist painter.
• Thomas Kalman, 94, American politician.
• John Maples, 69, British politician and life peer, MP for Lewisham West and Stratford-on-Avon, cancer.
• Ivan Minatti, 88, Slovenian poet and translator.
• Georges Sari, 87, Greek author and actress.
• Hawk Taylor, 73, American baseball player.
• Abram Wilson, 38, American jazz trumpeter, cancer.

  10

• Piero Bellugi, 87, Italian conductor.
• Eivind Bolle, 88, Norwegian politician.
• Kenneth Clark, 89, New Zealand-born British ceramicist.
• Nikita Dolgushin, 73, Russian Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer.
• Jimmy Elledge, 69, American singer, complications following a stroke.
• Judy Freudberg, 62, American television and film writer, brain tumor.
• Warner Fusselle, 68, American sportscaster, heart attack.
• Will Hoebee, 64, Dutch music producer, cancer.
• Richard L. Hoffman, 84, American zoologist.
• Sixten Isberg, 90, Swedish alpine skier.
• Maria Keil, 97, Portuguese artist.
• Georges Mathieu, 91, French artist.
• Dante Micheli, 73, Italian football player.
• Ruby Monaghan, 96, Australian cricketer.
• Joshua Orwa Ojode, 53, Kenyan politician, MP for Ndhiwa, Assistant Minister for Internal Security, helicopter crash.
• Elvis Perrodin, 55, American jockey, cancer.
• George Saitoti, 66, Kenyan politician, MP for Kajiado North, Vice-President, helicopter crash.
• Sudono Salim, 95, Indonesian businessman.
• Eugene Selznick, 82, American Hall of Fame volleyball player and Olympic coach, pneumonia.
• Gérard Théodore, 91, French Compagnon de la Libération.
• Hugo Thiemann, 95, Swiss businessman, co-founded Club of Rome.
• Daya-Nand Verma, 78, Indian mathematician.
• Gordon West, 69, English football player, cancer.