Deaths in March 2011

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

  March 2011

1

• Barklie Lakin, 96, British industrialist and naval officer.
• Leonard Lomell, 91, American World War II veteran, recipient of the Silver Star and Purple Heart, natural causes.
• John M. Lounge, 64, American NASA astronaut, complications from liver cancer.
• Ion Monea, 70, Romanian Olympic silver and bronze medal-winning boxer.
• Alina Paim, 91, Brazilian novelist.
• Monath Perera, 28, Sri Lankan air force pilot, plane crash.
• Fateh Singh Rathore, 72, Indian wildlife conservationist.
• Hazel Rowley, 59, British-born Australian writer, cerebral haemorrhage.

  2

• Nicholas Alden, 25, American airman, shot.
• Simeonie Amagoalik, 77, Canadian carver, cancer.
• Louis Bazin, 90, French orientalist.
• Shahbaz Bhatti, 42, Pakistani politician, Minister for Minorities, shot.
• Anthony Brooke, 98, British heir to the Sarawakan throne.
• Bernard Cywinski, 70, American architect, partner and co-founder of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, cancer.
• John Haines, 86, American poet.
• Erling Kroner, 67, Danish trombonist and bandleader, cancer.
• Edward Barnes Leisenring Jr., 85, American businessman.
• Sir Allan Louisy, 94, Saint Lucian politician and judge, Prime Minister.
• Luis Martínez Villicaña, 71, Mexican politician, Governor of Michoacán, Secretary of Agrarian Reform.
• Ruby Muhammad, 103, American spiritual figure, lung cancer.
• Art Statuto, 85, American football player.
• Thor Vilhjálmsson, 85, Icelandic author, natural causes.
• Wu Jieping, 94, Chinese medical scientist and politician.

  3

• Aldo Clementi, 85, Italian composer.
• May Cutler, 87, Canadian author and publisher, founder of Tundra Books, first female Mayor of Westmount, Quebec.
• Paquito Diaz, 73, Filipino actor, complications from a stroke.
• James L. Elliot, 67, American astronomer, discovered rings of Uranus.
• Lasse Eriksson, 61, Swedish comedian.
• Goga Kapoor, 70, Indian actor.
• Irena Kwiatkowska, 98, Polish actress.
• Al Morgan, 91, American novelist and television producer, after long illness.
• Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, 81, Indian astrophysicist, cardiac complications.
• Theron Strinden, 91, American politician.
• James Travers, 62, Canadian journalist, political correspondent, editor in chief, post-surgery complications.

  4

• Bertil Almgren, 92, Swedish archaeologist.
• Charles F. Ashley, 74, American member of the Alabama House of Representatives.
• Paul Baxley, 87, American actor and stuntman.
• Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 86, Nepali Prime Minister, multiple organ failure.
• Mary Bowermaster, 93, American masters athletics champion.
• Frank Chirkinian, 84, American producer, lung cancer.
• Annie Fargé, 76, French actress and manager, cancer.
• Vivienne Harris, 89, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher, co-founder of the Jewish Telegraph.
• Charles Jarrott, 83, British film director, prostate cancer.
• Chester Kahapea, 65, American soil scientist, known as the "face of Hawaiian statehood", complications of Lou Gehrig's disease.
• Ed Manning, 68, American basketball player and coach, heart condition.
• Johnny Preston, 71, American pop singer, heart failure.
• Mikhail Simonov, 81, Russian aircraft designer, chief designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, after long illness.
• Arjun Singh, 80, Indian politician, Ministry of [Human Resource Development (India)|Minister of Human Resource Development], heart attack.
• Alenush Terian, 90, Iranian astronomer and physicist.
• María Ugarte, 97, Spanish-Dominican author, historian and journalist.
• Simon van der Meer, 85, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.

  5

• Eivor Alm, 86, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier.
• Jimmy Carnes, 76, American track and field athlete, coach and administrator, cancer.
• Mario Coppola, 74, Italian nuclear physicist.
• Alberto Granado, 88, Argentine-born Cuban biochemist and writer, travel companion of Che Guevara.
• Oswald Georg Hirmer, 81, German-born South African Roman Catholic missionary, Bishop of Umtata.
• Manolis Rasoulis, 65, Greek singer-songwriter, author and journalist.
• Viktor Voroshilov, 84, Soviet footballer.

  6

• Jean Bartel, 87, American actress, Miss America 1943.
• Marie-Andrée Bertrand, 85, Canadian criminologist, feminist and anti-prohibitionist.
• Patricia Brennan, 66, Australian feminist and clinician, advocate of women Anglican priests, cancer.
• Rostislav Čtvrtlík, 47, Czech stage, television and voice actor, brain tumor.
• Mike DeStefano, 44, American comedian, heart attack.
• Jaime Felipa, 66, Netherlands Antilles judoka.
• Oddmund Jensen, 82, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier.
• John Morton, 86, New Zealand biologist and theologian.
• Ján Popluhár, 75, Slovak footballer.
• Louie Ramsay, 81, British actress.
• Reg Stewart, 85, English footballer, natural causes.
• Edward Ullendorff, 91, British historian.
• Frank Ziegler, 87, American football player.
• Sasao Gouland, 77, governor of Chuuk State, Micronesia

  7

• Cándido Bidó, 74, Dominican painter, cardio-respiratory failure.
• Vladimir Brazhnikov, 69, Russian football coach, myocardial infarction.
• Frank Dezelan, 80, American baseball umpire.
• Adrián Escudero, 83, Spanish footballer.
• Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr., 100, American lawyer and politician, pancreatic cancer.
• Rudy Salud, 72, Filipino sports executive, PBA Commissioner, complications from surgery.

  8

• Iraj Afshar, 85, Iranian bibliographer and historian.
• Víctor Manuel Blanco, 92, American astronomer, director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.
• Masoud Boroumand, 83, Iranian football player.
• Richard Campbell, 55, British musician.
• Herb Kawainui Kāne, 82, American artist, Hawaiian cultural advocate, participant in the Hokulea voyage.
• Moses Katjiuongua, 68, Namibian politician.
• Jim Keane, 87, American football player.
• Omar Farouk, 72, Somali scholar and Quran interpreter.
• Steven Kroll, 69, American children's book author, surgical complications.
• St. Clair Lee, 66, American musician, natural causes.
• Bronko Nagurski Jr., 73, American player of Canadian football.
• John Olmsted, 73, American naturalist and conservationist, liver cancer.
• Mike Starr, 44, American bassist, drug overdose.

  9

• Muftah Anaqrat, Libyan general, shot.
• Sona Aslanova, 86, Azerbaijani soprano.
• Edward Bertels, 78, Belgian footballer
• Jacques Brichant, 80, Belgian tennis player.
• David S. Broder, 81, American journalist, complications from diabetes.
• Edward A. Burdick, 89, American civil servant.
• Doris Burn, 87, American children's book author and illustrator.
• Seán Cronin, 91, Irish journalist and republican, Irish Republican Army chief of staff, after long illness.
• Armando Goyena, 88, Filipino actor.
• Valgerður Hafstað, 80, Icelandic painter.
• Andrew Hao, 95, Chinese Roman Catholic underground Bishop of Xiwanzi.
• Bob Marcucci, 81, American talent agent, respiratory complications.
• Bob McNamara, 94, American baseball player.
• Des Meagher, 67, Australian footballer.
• Lindy Pearson, 82, American football player.
• Inge Sørensen, 86, Danish swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist.
• Toshiko Takaezu, 88, American ceramic artist.

  10

• Armand Bigot, 76, French Olympic equestrian.
• Bill Blackbeard, 84, American comic strip writer and editor.
• Bob Callahan, 87, American football player.
• Nick Harbaruk, 67, Polish-born Canadian ice hockey player, bone cancer.
• Don Boven, 86, American basketball player and coach, heart disease.
• Baliram Kashyap, 74, Indian politician, MP for Bastar, after long illness.
• Gabriel Laderman, 81, American painter, cancer,
• Danny Paton, 75, Scottish footballer.
• Emmett J. Rice, 91, American economist and banking official, heart failure.
• Eddie Snyder, 92, American composer.
• David Viñas, 83, Argentine dramatist, critic and novelist, pneumonic infection.

  11

• David Brown, 69, British cricketer, brain tumour.
• Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha, 80, Brazilian paleontologist and herpetologist.
• Val ffrench Blake, 98, British army officer and author.
• Alfred Genovese, 79, American oboist, complications from cardiac arrest.
• Jack Hardy, 63, American singer-songwriter.
• Nancy Kominsky, 95, American art teacher and broadcaster.
• Hugh Martin, 96, American songwriter and film composer, natural causes.
• Nick Mohammed, 85, Canadian Olympic wrestler.
• Héctor Francisco Medina Polanco, 37, Honduran television journalist, shot.
• Frank Neuhauser, 97, American patent attorney and spelling bee champion, winner of the 1925 National Spelling Bee by spelling the word "Gladiolus".
• Valter Nyström, 95, Swedish Olympic track and field athlete.
• Danny Stiles, 87, American radio host.
• Donny George Youkhanna, 60, Iraqi archaeologist, anthropologist and author, heart attack.
• Notable Japanese killed during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami:
• *Miki Endo, 25, voice warning and alarm agent.
• *Takashi Shimokawara, 104, masters athlete.

  12

• Ali Hassan al-Jaber, 56, Qatari photojournalist, shot.
• Donald Brenner, 64, Canadian judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
• Bruce Campbell, 87, Canadian politician.
• Olive Dickason, 91, Canadian historian and author.
• Juan García-Santacruz Ortiz, 77, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guadix.
• Indrajitsinhji, 73, Indian cricketer, cancer.
• Shifra Lerer, 95, Argentinian-born American Yiddish theatre actress, stroke.
• Joe Morello, 82, American drummer.
• John Nettleship, 71, British teacher, inspiration for character of Severus Snape, cancer.
• Mitchell Page, 59, American baseball player, and coach.
• Nilla Pizzi, 91, Italian singer.
• Tawfik Toubi, 88, Israeli Arab politician, last surviving member of the first Knesset.

  13

• Barbara Ball, 86, Bermudian physician, politician and social activist.
• Roy Flatt, 63, Scottish Anglican priest.
• Sir Michael Gray, 78, British army general.
• Marko Horvatin, 91, Croatian Olympic rower.
• Virginia Klinekole, 86, American politician, first female President of the Mescalero Apache.
• Brian Lanker, 63, American photojournalist, pancreatic cancer.
• Rick Martin, 59, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack.
• Ritchie Pickett, 56, New Zealand country singer.
• David Rumelhart, 68, American psychologist, created computer simulations of neural processing, Pick's disease.
• Nicholas Smisko, 75, American clergyman, Head of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese, cancer.
• Jean Smith, 82, American baseball player.
• Owsley Stanley, 76, American-born Australian underground LSD chemist and sound engineer, traffic accident.
• Leo Steinberg, 90, American art historian and critic.
• Vitaly Vulf, 80, Russian theater critic and television host.

  14

• Gerald Barry, 63, Irish journalist and broadcaster, illness.
• Alfred Baumeister, 76, American psychologist and professor.
• Todd Cerney, 57, American country musician and producer, melanoma.
• Leslie Collier, 90, British virologist.
• Joaquim Pinto Correia, 80, Portuguese politician, Governor of Macau.
• Bob Greaves, 76, British journalist and broadcaster, cancer.
• Jülide Gülizar, 82, Turkish anchorwoman, one of the nation's first television presenters.
• Eduard Gushchin, 70, Russian Olympic bronze medal-winning athlete.
• Big Jack Johnson, 70, American guitarist and blues singer.
• Giora Leshem, 71, Israeli poet and publisher.
• G. Alan Marlatt, 69, American professor, kidney failure.
• Larry Zolf, 76, Canadian journalist and humorist.

  15

• José Agdamag, 89, Filipino soldier and Olympic sports shooter.
• Mirko Aksentijević, 88, Serbian journalist and basketball executive.
• Julie Apap, 62, Maltese ceramicist.
• Amos Bar, 79, Israeli author.
• Keith Fordyce, 82, British radio and television presenter.
• Frank Howard, 85, Canadian politician, member of the BC Legislative Assembly for Skeena, MP for Skeena.
• Musa Juma, 42, Kenyan musician, pneumonia.
• Yakov Kreizberg, 51, Russian-born Austrian-American conductor.
• Jean Liedloff, 84, American writer.
• Peter Loader, 81, British cricketer.
• Marty Marion, 94, American baseball player and manager, National League MVP.
• Nate Dogg, 41, American musician, stroke.
• Fred Sanford, 91, American baseball player.
• Robert Schoonjans, 85, Belgian Olympic athlete.
• Smiley Culture, 48, British reggae singer and DJ, apparent suicide by stabbing.
• Melvin Sparks, 64, American jazz and soul guitarist, heart attack.

  16

• Abdikadir Yusuf Aar, Somalian terrorist, shot.
• Josefina Aldecoa, 85, Spanish writer and teacher, respiratory complications.
• Sándor Arnóth, 51, Hungarian politician, car accident.
• Sadiq Batcha, 47, Indian businessman and politician, suicide by hanging.
• Carel Boshoff, 83, South African religious and cultural activist, cancer.
• Betty Lowman Carey, 96, American rower.
• Tom Dunbar, 51, American baseball player.
• Al Israel, 75, American actor.
• Thomas Nkuissi, 82, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nkongsamba.
• Lloyd Oliver, 88, American veteran, World War II code talker.
• James Pritchett, 88, American actor.
• Lorenda Starfelt, 56, American producer, cancer.
• James C. Tyree, 53, American businessman, chairman and CEO of the Chicago Sun-Times, cancer.
• Murray Warmath, 98, American college football coach, natural causes.
• Richard Wirthlin, 80, American political strategist and religious leader, renal failure.

  17

• Moisis Michail Bourlas, 92, Greek Resistance veteran.
• Banny deBrum, 54, Marshallese diplomat, Ambassador to the United States and Canada.
• Michael Gough, 94, British actor, Tony winner, pneumonia.
• Abdel Moneim El-Guindi, 74, Egyptian Olympic bronze medal-winning boxer.
• Ferlin Husky, 85, American country music singer, heart failure.
• Don Kennard, 81, American politician, Texas State Senator.
• Murdoch Mitchison, 88, British zoologist.
• J.B. Steane, 83, British music critic.

  18

• Robert Angeloch, 88, American artist.
• Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, 90, Monegasque princess.
• George Bacon, 93, British physicist.
• Ze'ev Boim, 67, Israeli Knesset member, cancer.
• Enzo Cannavale, 82, Italian actor.
• Warren Christopher, 85, American diplomat, Secretary of State, complications from kidney and bladder cancer.
• Alphonse De Vreese, 89, French cyclist.
• Arthur Charles Evans, 94, British author and police officer.
• Jet Harris, 71, British musician, throat cancer.
• Charlie Metro, 91, American baseball player and manager, mesothelioma.
• Peter Weigand, 69, American Olympic sprint canoer.
• Kirk Wipper, 87, Canadian founder of the Canadian Canoe Museum.

  19

• Patrick Ahern, 92, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York.
• Kym Bonython, 90, Australian art, jazz and speedway entrepreneur.
• Guillermo Ford, 74, Panamanian politician, Vice President of Panama.
• Raymond Garlick, 84, British poet and editor.
• Barrington Gaynor, 45, Jamaican footballer.
• Drew Hill, 54, American football player, stroke.
• Knut, 4, German-born polar bear, drowned.
• Gustav Lantschner, 100, Austrian Olympic silver medal-winning alpine skier and actor.
• Tom McAvoy, 74, American baseball player.
• Zew Wawa Morejno, 95, Polish-born American rabbi.
• Mohammed Nabbous, 28, Libyan journalist, founder of Alhurra TV, shot.
• Navin Nischol, 65, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Jim Roslof, 64, American artist, cancer.
• Robert Ross, 92, American physician and medical school founder, cancer.
• Bob Rush, 85, American baseball player.
• Leonard Webb, 89, British politician, Mayor of Thame.

  20

• John Apacible, 38, Filipino actor, shooting.
• Don Canney, 80, American politician, Mayor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, heart failure.
• Bob Christo, 72, Australian-born Indian actor, heart attack.
• Néstor de Vicente, 46, Argentine footballer, car crash.
• Oliver Humperdink, 62, American professional wrestling manager, pneumonia and cancer.
• Agostinho Januszewicz, 80, Polish-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Luziânia.
• Giovanni Nesti, 88, Italian Olympic basketball player.
• Johnny Pearson, 85, British composer, arranger and pianist.
• Sara Ruddick, 76, American philosopher and author, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Dorothy Young, 103, American actress, assistant to Harry Houdini.

  21

• Michael Abramson, 62, American artist and photographer, kidney cancer.
• Barry Ackerley, 76, American businessman, former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics, stroke.
• Nikolai Andrianov, 58, Russian gymnast, most medaled athlete at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
• Jesús Aranguren, 66, Spanish footballer and manager.
• Bruce W. Beatty, 88, Canadian graphic designer.
• Hans Boskamp, 78, Dutch actor and footballer, stroke.
• John L. Cashin Jr., 82, American civil rights campaigner, kidney failure.
• Ray Eden, 42, British cyclist, beaten.
• Mayhew Foster, 99, American brigadier general, flew captured Hermann Göring to interrogation.
• Loleatta Holloway, 64, American soul and disco musician, heart failure.
• Hansl Krönauer, 78, German folk singer and composer.
• Ladislav Novák, 79, Czech footballer.
• Pinetop Perkins, 97, American blues musician, cardiac arrest.
• Kjeld Tolstrup, 45, Danish radio disc jockey.
• Joe Wizan, 76, Mexican-born American film producer and studio executive.

  22

• Artur Agostinho, 90, Portuguese sports journalist and actor.
• Nadia Barentin, 74, French actress.
• Victor Bouchard, 84, Canadian pianist, duettist with pianist Renée Morisset, respiratory disease.
• Patrick Doeplah, 20, Liberian footballer.
• Viljar Loor, 57, Estonian Olympic gold medal-winning volleyball player.
• Jean-Guy Morissette, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Zoogz Rift, 57, American musician, painter and professional wrestler.
• Normie Roy, 82, American baseball player.
• Reuven Shefer, 85, Israeli actor.
• José Soriano, 93, Peruvian football player.
• Helen Stenborg, 86, American actress, cancer.
• George Alfred Walker, 81, British businessman, founder of Brent Walker.

  23

• Charles Joseph Adams, 86, American academic and professor of religion.
• José Argüelles, 72, American New Age author.
• Jean Bartik, 86, American computer programmer.
• Henry Jerome, 93, American big band leader, trumpeter, arranger, and composer.
• Živorad Kovačević, 80, Serbian diplomat.
• Sir Frank Lampl, 84, British businessman.
• Richard Leacock, 89, British documentary film maker.
• Teodor Negoiță, 63, Romanian polar explorer and scientist.
• Trevor Storton, 61, English footballer.
• Dame Elizabeth Taylor, 79, British-American actress, Oscar winner, heart failure.
• Fred Titmus, 78, English test cricketer.
• Fritz Tschannen, 90, Swiss accordion player and Olympic ski jumper.
• Leonard Weinglass, 78, American civil rights lawyer, pancreatic cancer.

  24

• Helmy Afify Abd El-Bar, 88, Egyptian military commander.
• Stig Berntsson, 80, Swedish Olympic sports shooter.
• Bertrand Pernot du Breuil, 84, French Olympic equestrian.
• Julian Gbur, 68, Polish-born Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Stryi.
• Hanni Gehring, 84, German Olympic cross-country skier.
• William M. Greathouse, 91, American Nazarene minister, heart failure.
• David Karimanzira, 63, Zimbabwean politician.
• Robert Knights, 79, German Olympic water polo player
• Dudley Laws, 76, Jamaican-born Canadian civil rights activist, kidney disease.
• Anselmo Müller, 79, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Januária.
• Gloria Valencia de Castaño, 83, Colombian television host, respiratory failure.
• Lanford Wilson, 73, American playwright.

  25

• Floyd Bedbury, 73, American Olympic speed skater, cancer.
• Thomas Eisner, 81, American biologist, Parkinson's disease.
• Fred, South African baboon, lethal injection.
• Luis María Estrada Paetau, 75, Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Izabal.
• Edwin Gaustad, 87, American religious historian.
• Maria Isakova, 92, Soviet speed skater.
• Pavel Leonov, 90, Russian naïve artist.
• Almena Lomax, 95, American journalist and civil rights activist, founder of the Los Angeles Tribune, after short illness.
• M. Blane Michael, 68, American federal judge.
• Hugo Midón, 67, Argentine theatre director and actor, after long illness.
• Thady Wyndham-Quin, 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 71, Anglo-Irish aristocrat.

  26

• Roger Abbott, 64, Canadian actor and comedian, chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
• Joe Bageant, 64, American writer, social critic and political commentator, cancer.
• Paul Baran, 84, American Internet pioneer, complications from lung cancer.
• Alexander Barykin, 59, Russian musician, heart attack.
• Carl Bunch, 71, American drummer.
• Greg Centauro, 34, French pornographic actor, cardiac arrest.
• Harry Coover, 94, American inventor.
• Lula Côrtes, 61, Brazilian musician, throat cancer.
• Cibele Dorsa, 36, Brazilian actress and writer, suicide by jumping.
• Geraldine Ferraro, 75, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York and 1984 vice presidential List of [United States Democratic Party presidential tickets|nominee], multiple myeloma.
• František Havránek, 87, Czech football player and manager.
• Yrjö Hietanen, 83, Finnish Olympic gold medal-winning canoeist, stroke.
• Diana Wynne Jones, 76, British fantasy author, lung cancer.
• Enn Klooren, 70, Estonian actor.
• Jean-Philippe Lecat, 75, French politician.
• Kazimierz Macioch, 78, Polish Olympic wrestler
• Raymond-Marie Tchidimbo, 90, Guinean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Conakry.
• Robert Underwood, 76, American Negro league baseball player.
• Eric Zentner, 30, American male fashion model, traffic collision.

  27

• Jeff Andrus, 64, American screenwriter, congestive heart failure.
• Sir Clement Arrindell, 79, Kittitian politician, Governor-General.
• David E. Davis, 80, American automotive writer, editor and publisher, complications from bladder surgery.
• Adolfo Donayre, 77, Peruvian footballer
• Lawrence Elion, 93, British actor.
• Farley Granger, 85, American actor.
• H. R. F. Keating, 84, British crime fiction writer.
• Ellen McCormack, 84, American anti-abortion activist and politician, two-time presidential candidate.
• DJ Megatron, 32, American disc jockey, shot.
• Günther Mund, 76, German-born Chilean Olympic diver, plane crash.
• Dorothea Puente, 82, American serial killer, natural causes.
• George Tooker, 90, American painter, kidney failure.

  28

• Supyan Abdullayev, 54, Chechen field commander, airstrike.
• Wenche Foss, 93, Norwegian actress, natural causes.
• Lee Hoiby, 85, American composer, metastatic melanoma.
• Sonia Osorio, 83, Colombian ballet dancer and choreographer, respiratory failure.
• Esben Storm, 60, Danish-born Australian actor, director and producer, heart attack.
• Guy M. Townsend, 90, American Air Force brigadier general and test pilot.

  29

• José Alencar, 79, Brazilian entrepreneur and politician, Vice-President, multiple organ failure.
• Bob Benny, 84, Belgian singer.
• Iakovos Kambanellis, 88, Greek author, playwright, poet, lyricist and journalist, kidney failure.
• Edith Klestil, 78, Austrian first lady, first wife of President Thomas Klestil, cancer.
• Neil Reimer, 89, Canadian politician, Leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party.
• Jim Seymour, 64, American football player.
• Ângelo de Sousa, 73, Portuguese painter, sculptor, draftsman and professor, cancer.
• Alan Tang, 64, Hong Kong actor, film producer and director, stroke.
• Robert Tear, 72, British opera singer, cancer.
• Aarne Vehkonen, 83, Finnish Olympic weightlifter.
• Endre Wolf, 97, Hungarian violinist.

  30

• Harley Allen, 55, American bluegrass and country singer, cancer.
• Jacques Amir, 78, Israeli politician.
• Roshan Atta, 71, Pakistani actress.
• Ashurbanipal Babilla, 66, Assyrian-Iranian actor, theatre director, playwright and visual artist.
• Jorge Camacho, 77, Cuban painter.
• Jack Fulk, 78, American businessman, co-founder of Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits.
• Tamar Golan, 76, Israeli journalist and diplomat.
• Lyudmila Gurchenko, 75, Russian film actress and singer, People's Artist of the USSR.
• Johnny Harra, 64, American actor, Elvis impersonator.
• Denis McLean, 80, New Zealand diplomat, academic, author and civil servant.
• Wally Peterson, 93, American actor, singer and stage manager.
• Nutan Prasad, 65, Indian actor, after long illness.
• Churyo Sato, 98, Japanese sculptor.
• Liaquat Soldier, 59, Pakistani comedian, heart attack.

  31

• Sparky Adams, 93, American basketball player.
• Tony Barrell, 70, British-born Australian broadcaster and writer.
• Gil Clancy, 88, American Hall of Fame boxing trainer.
• Alan Fitzgerald, 75, Australian journalist, cancer.
• Oddvar Hansen, 89, Norwegian footballer and coach.
• Claudia Heill, 29, Austrian judoka, silver medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, suicide by jumping.
• Tom Kelleher, 85, American football official, complications from pneumonia.
• Vassili Kononov, 88, Russian military veteran and war criminal.
• Ishbel MacAskill, 70, Scottish Gaelic singer and heritage campaigner.
• Mel McDaniel, 68, American country music singer, cancer.
• Boško Radonjić, 67, Serbian nationalist, after short illness.
• Edward Stobart, 56, British haulage contractor and entrepreneur.
• Henry Taub, 83, American entrepreneur, founder of Automatic Data Processing, leukemia.