Deaths in September 2011

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

  September 2011

1

• Sidney Asch, 92, American lawyer, judge, and author.
• Mark Blackburn, 58, British numismatist, cancer.
• Jan Lammers, 84, Dutch Olympic athlete.
• Liu Huang A-tao, 90, Taiwanese activist, first comfort woman to sue Japan for compensation.
• Abdulrahman al-Nuaimi, 67, Bahraini opposition leader, founder of the PFLB and the NDA.
• Alexandru Pesamosca, 81, Romanian surgeon and pediatrician, cardiac arrest.
• Kamal Salibi, 82, Lebanese historian.

  2

• Edgar Benson, 88, Canadian politician and diplomat.
• Roberto Bruce, 32, Chilean television journalist, plane crash.
• Felipe Camiroaga, 44, Chilean television presenter, plane crash.
• Tony Corsari, 84, Belgian television host, cancer.
• Allan Hubbard, 83, New Zealand businessman, car accident.
• Shrinivas Khale, 85, Indian composer.
• Lennart Magnusson, 87, Swedish Olympic silver medal-winning fencer.
• José María Montes, 91, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Chascomús.
• Katsuichi Mori, 81, Japanese Olympic diver.
• Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, 39, Malaysian television camera operator, shot.
• Trulshik Rinpoche, 88, Tibetan lama.
• Jehangir Sabavala, 89, Indian artist.
• Bernard Smith, 94, Australian art historian and critic.
• Alberto Zalamea Costa, 82, Colombian journalist and politician, Ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire, Venezuela and Italy.

  3

• Renato Barisani, 92, Italian sculptor and painter.
• Júlia Bonet Fité, 89, Andorran businesswoman.
• Julio Casas Regueiro, 75, Cuban politician, Vice President and Defense Minister, heart attack.
• Andrzej Maria Deskur, 87, Polish Roman Catholic cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.
• Don Fambrough, 88, American football player and head coach, injuries from a fall.
• Finn Helgesen, 92, Norwegian Olympic gold medal-winning speed skater.
• John Hoover, 91, American artist.
• Sándor Képíró, 97, Hungarian World War II veteran acquitted of Nazi war crimes.
• Sumant Misra, 88, Indian tennis player.

  4

• Lalla Aicha of Morocco|Lalla Aicha], 81, Moroccan princess, first female Arab ambassador, Ambassador to United Kingdom ; Greece ; Italy.
• Hugh Fox, 79, American poet and novelist.
• Hilde Heltberg, 51, Norwegian musician, cancer.
• Dave Hoover, 56, American comic book artist.
• Bill Kunkel, 61, American video game designer and magazine editor, heart attack.
• Mino Martinazzoli, 79, Italian politician, after long illness.
• Jag Mundhra, 62, Indian film director.
• Hakkı Ögelman, 71, Turkish physicist.
• Lee Roy Selmon, 56, American Hall of Fame football player, stroke.
• Sarah Webb, British housing executive.
• Dana Wilson, 28, New Zealand rugby league player, car accident.

  5

• Robert Ballaman, 85, Swiss footballer, participated in 1954 World Cup.
• Reidar Børjeson, 80, Norwegian Olympic figure skater.
• Andrew Zolile T. Brook, 81, South African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Umtata.
• Angioletta Coradini, 65, Italian astrophysicist, cancer.
• Charles S. Dubin, 92, American film and television director.
• Carol Frick, 78, American Olympic diver.
• Salvatore Licitra, 43, Italian tenor, injuries from a motor scooter accident.
• Vann Nath, 66, Cambodian painter.
• Bobby Rhine, 35, American soccer player, heart attack.
• Peter Thuruthikonam, 82, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vijayapuram, heart attack.

  6

• Hans Apel, 79, German politician, Finance Minister and Defence Minister.
• Jordan Belson, 85, American filmmaker, heart failure.
• Bruce Dan, 64, American researcher, complications of a bone marrow transplant.
• Dan David, 82, Romanian-born Israeli businessman and philanthropist, brain hemorrhage.
• Archduke Felix of Austria, 95, Austrian royal, last surviving child of Charles I of Austria.
• Michael S. Hart, 64, American author, inventor of the e-book and founder of Project Gutenberg, heart attack.
• George Kuchar, 69, American film director, prostate cancer.
• Little Tokyo, 70, Japanese professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Ted Longshaw, 85, British businessman and sports administrator.
• Janusz Morgenstern, 88, Polish filmmaker.
• Wardell Quezergue, 81, American music arranger, producer and bandleader, heart failure.
• Raphaël Marie Ze, 78, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sangmélima.

  7

• Max Boisot, 67, British academic, cancer.
• Gabriel Bullet, 90, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Roman Catholic [Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg|Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg].
• Derek Grierson, 79, Scottish footballer.
• Jang Hyo-jo, 55, South Korean baseball player, liver cancer.
• Harold Mair, 92, Australian politician.
• Eddie Marshall, 73, American jazz drummer.
• Gabriel Valdés, 92, Chilean politician and diplomat, Senate of Chile">Senate of the Netherlands">Senate of Chile, Foreign Minister.
• Hiroe Yuki, 62, Japanese badminton player.
• Notable ice hockey players and coaches among the 44 killed in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash:
• *Vitaly Anikeyenko, 24, Ukrainian defenseman
• *Mikhail Balandin, 31, Russian defenseman
• *Gennady Churilov, 24, Russian centre
• *Pavol Demitra, 36, Slovakian centre
• *Robert Dietrich, 25, German defenseman
• *Marat Kalimulin, 23, Russian defenseman
• *Alexander Kalyanin, 23, Russian right wing
• *Alexander Karpovtsev, 41, Russian coach and former player, world champion
• *Andrei Kiryukhin, 24, Russian right wing
• *Nikita Klyukin, 21, Russian centre, world U18 champion
• *Igor Korolev, 41, Russian coach and former player
• *Stefan Liv, 30, Swedish goalie, Olympic gold medalist, world champion
• *Jan Marek, 31, Czech centre
• *Brad McCrimmon, 52, Canadian coach and former player
• *Sergei Ostapchuk, 21, Belarusian right wing
• *Karel Rachůnek, 32, Czech defenseman, world champion
• *Ruslan Salei, 36, Belarusian defenseman
• *Maxim Shuvalov, 18, Russian defenseman
• *Kārlis Skrastiņš, 37, Latvian defenseman
• *Pavel Snurnitsyn, 19, Russian left wing
• *Daniil Sobchenko, 20, Russian centre, world junior champion
• *Ivan Tkachenko, 31, Russian left/right wing
• *Pavel Trakhanov, 33, Russian defenseman
• *Yuri Urychev, 20, Russian defenseman, world junior champion
• *Josef Vašíček, 30, Czech centre, world junior champion, world champion
• *Alexander Vasyunov, 23, Russian left wing
• *Alexander Vyukhin, 38, Ukrainian goalie
• *Artem Yarchuk, 21, Russian left wing

  8

• David Bitner, 62, American political leader, Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Mary Fickett, 83, American actress, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Jesse Jefferson, 62, American baseball player, prostate cancer.
• Usman Jibrin, 68–69, Nigerian air force officer and politician, Governor of North Central State.
• Keo Nakama, 91, American swimmer.
• Sir Hilary Synnott, 66, British diplomat.
• Võ Chí Công, 99, Vietnamese politician, President.
• Emilianos Zacharopoulos, 96, Turkish-born Greek Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan.

  9

• Valentino Braitenberg, 85, Italian neuroscientist.
• Werner Geeser, 63, Swiss Olympic cross-country skier, cancer.
• Laurie Hughes, 87, English football player.
• Daniel Hulet, 66, Belgian cartoonist.
• William Lesick, 88, Canadian politician, MP for Edmonton East.
• Herbert Lomas, 87, British poet.
• Ignace Matondo Kwa Nzambi, 79, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Basankusu and Molegbe.
• Khairy Shalaby, 73, Egyptian writer.
• Peter Sneath, 87, British microbiologist.

  10

• David E. L. Choong, 82, Malaysian badminton player.
• Graham Collier, 74, British jazz bassist.
• Bernice Lake, 78, Anguillan-born Antiguan jurist, first Eastern Caribbean woman to be appointed Queen's Counsel.
• Cecil Marshall, 71, Canadian cricketer.
• Sabino Augusto Montanaro, 89, Paraguayan politician, Minister of the Interior.
• Eric Prabhakar, 86, Indian Olympic athlete.
• Cliff Robertson, 88, American actor, Oscar winner.
• Sam Pata Emani Tagelagi, 75, Niuean politician, first Speaker of the [Niue Assembly], long illness.

  11

• Douglas Allen, Baron Croham, 93, British civil servant, Head of the Home Civil Service.
• Art Atwood, 37, American bodybuilder, heart attack.
• Christian Bakkerud, 26, Danish racing driver, injuries sustained in a car accident.
• Lilly Bølviken, 97, Norwegian judge.
• Cliff Brittle, 69, English sports administrator, Chairman of the Rugby Football Union.
• Shirley Chambers, 97, American actress.
• Cláudio Deodato, 64, Brazilian Olympic footballer.
• Arthur Evans, 68, American gay rights activist and author, aortic aneurysm.
• Ralph Gubbins, 79, English football player.
• İsmet Kotak, 72, Turkish Cypriot journalist and politician, Member of Parliament, Labour Minister, Industry Minister, aortic dissection.
• Isabell Masters, 98, American politician, third-party candidate for President of the United States.
• Yuli Ofer, 87, Romanian-born Israeli businessman and entrepreneur.
• Walter C. Righter, 87, American clergyman, bishop in the Episcopal Church, after long illness.
• Andy Whitfield, 39, Welsh-born Australian actor, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

  12

• Bill Cash, 92, American Negro league baseball player.
• Frits Castricum, 64, Dutch politician, Member of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
• Alexander Galimov, 26, Russian ice hockey player, injuries sustained in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash.
• Mohammed Ghani Hikmat, 82, Iraqi sculptor, kidney failure.
• Peter van Huizen, 79, Malaysian Olympic field hockey player.
• Ralph Lomma, 87, American mini golf entrepreneur.
• Wade Mainer, 104, American bluegrass musician, heart failure.
• Allen Morgan, 86, American Olympic gold medal-winning coxswain, cancer.
• Petro Tronko, 96, Ukrainian academician.

  13

• Walter Bonatti, 81, Italian mountain climber.
• John Calley, 81, American movie studio executive.
• Wilma Lee Cooper, 90, American country music singer, natural causes.
• Sam DeLuca, 75, American football player and broadcaster, pancreatic cancer.
• Arno Fischer, 84, German photographer.
• Paul Gallant, 67, Canadian entrepreneur, inventor of Puzz-3D, cancer.
• Jack Garner, 84, American actor.
• Richard Hamilton, 89, British artist.
• David Jull, 66, Australian politician, Member of the House of Representatives.
• Joe Krupa, 78, American football player, heart ailment.
• DJ Mehdi, 34, French hip hop and house producer.
• Harlan Mitchell, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative from Georgia.
• Carl Oglesby, 76, American anti-war activist, lung cancer.
• Gautam Rajadhyaksha, 60, Indian photographer.
• Steven Michael Woods Jr., 31, American murderer, executed by lethal injection.

  14

• Harishchandra Birajdar, 61, Indian Olympic wrestler.
• Lewis Brown, 56, American basketball player, heart attack.
• Choi Dong-won, 53, South Korean baseball player, colon cancer.
• Desmond FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin, 74, Irish hereditary knight.
• Jorge Lavat, 78, Mexican actor.
• Teodor Moraru, 73, Romanian painter.
• Rudolf Mössbauer, 82, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• Frank Parkin, 80, British sociologist and novelist.
• Buddy Tinsley, 87, American-born Canadian football player.
• Malcolm Wallop, 78, American politician, United States Senator from Wyoming.

  15

• Frances Bay, 92, Canadian character actress.
• José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado, 96, Spanish scientist and professor.
• Clemente Faccani, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya and Seychelles.
• Georges Fillioud, 82, French politician.
• Dorothy Harrell, 87, American baseball player.
• John Hubert Kelly, 72, American diplomat.
• Khalid Abdel Nasser, 62, Egyptian professor, eldest son of Gamal Abdel Nasser.
• Mo Rothman, 92, Canadian-born American movie executive, persuaded Charlie Chaplin to return to the United States, Parkinson's disease.
• Nicodemus Rusnak, 90, Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)|Orthodox] hierarch, Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv.
• Regina Smendzianka, 86, Polish pianist.
• Bill Taylor, 81, American baseball player.
• Otakar Vávra, 100, Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue.

  16

• Ramon Amigó Anglès, 86, Spanish writer and teacher.
• Lloyd Barber, 79, Canadian university executive.
• Roger Belanger, 45, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack.
• Sir Brian Burnett, 98, British Air Chief Marshal, Chairman of the All England Club.
• Bryce Crawford, 96, American scientist, member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
• Jordi Dauder, 73, Spanish actor.
• Norma Eberhardt, 82, American actress, stroke.
• Dave Gavitt, 73, American basketball coach, founder of the Big East Conference.
• Sir William Hawthorne, 98, British aerospace engineer.
• Kara Kennedy, 51, American television producer, daughter of Ted Kennedy, heart attack.
• Jean Leclant, 91, French archaeologist and Egyptologist.
• Stephen Mueller, 63, American painter, cancer.
• Ted Mullighan, 72, Australian jurist, cancer.
• Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, 75, American blues musician.
• Tom Wilson, 80, American cartoonist.

  17

• Roger Agache, 85, French archaeologist.
• Pedro Estay, 82, Chilean Olympic shooter.
• Robert Frascino, 59, American immunologist.
• Ernest House Sr., 65, American tribal leader, Chairman of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, injuries from a motorcycle accident.
• Colin Madigan, 90, Australian architect.
• Faidon Matthaiou, 87, Greek basketball player and coach.
• George MacDonald Sacko, 75, Liberian footballer.
• Eleanor Mondale, 51, American television personality, brain cancer.
• Charles H. Percy, 91, American politician, Senator from Illinois, Alzheimer's disease.
• Kurt Sanderling, 98, German conductor.
• Ferenc Szojka, 80, Hungarian footballer.
• Moisés Villanueva de la Luz, 47, Mexican politician, MP.
• Peter Wright, 82, British police officer.
• Tomasz Zygadło, 63, Polish film director.

  18

• Jack Adler, 94, American comic book artist.
• Paul Bach, 72, English journalist and editor.
• Mohammed Bassiouni, 74, Egyptian diplomat, Ambassador to Israel.
• Tom Daly, 93, Canadian movie director and producer, long illness.
• Norma Holloway Johnson, 79, American federal judge, first African American woman to serve as a district court chief judge, stroke.
• Bayless Manning, 88, American lawyer, Dean of Stanford Law School, first President of the Council on Foreign Relations.
• William F. May, 95, American film society founder, heart failure.
• Marcelino Palentini, 68, Italian-born Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jujuy.
• Aleksandr Potapov, 67, Soviet Olympic sailor.
• Jamey Rodemeyer, 14, American gay activist and bullying victim, suicide by hanging.
• Ivo Škrabalo, 77, Croatian writer, director and actor.
• Imre Varga, 66, Hungarian Olympic judoka.
• Swian Zanoni, 23, Brazilian motocross rider, race accident.

  19

• George Benton, 78, American boxer, pneumonia.
• Thomas Capano, 61, American convicted murderer, heart attack.
• Jo Carson, 64, American writer.
• Bernard Collomb, 80, French racing driver.
• Dolores Hope, 102, American philanthropist, widow of Bob Hope, natural causes.
• Little Yellow Jacket, 15, American bucking bull.
• Ginger McCain, 80, British horse trainer, cancer.
• George Cadle Price, 92, Belizean politician, Prime Minister.
• Johnny Răducanu, 79, Romanian jazz musician, cardiac arrest.
• Mathieu Schiller, 32, French bodybuilder, shark attack.

  20

• Arvid Andersson, 92, Swedish Olympic weightlifter.
• Johnny Barend, 82, American professional wrestler, natural causes.
• Frank Driggs, 81, American Grammy Award-winning jazz producer, musician and archivist, natural causes.
• Oscar Handlin, 95, American historian.
• Michael Jarvis, 73, British horse trainer.
• Aleksei Mamykin, 75, Russian footballer and coach.
• Burhanuddin Rabbani, 70, Afghan politician, President, bomb attack.
• Claude Rohla, 59, Luxembourgish Olympic archer.
• Victor Blanchard Scheffer, 104, American mammalogist and author, natural causes.
• Gaby Stenberg, 88, Swedish actress.
• Per Unckel, 63, Swedish politician, Governor of Stockholm County, cancer.
• Urpo Vähäranta, 85, Finnish Olympic athlete.
• Arch West, 97, American marketing executive credited with developing Doritos.
• Robert Whitaker, 71, British photographer, shot The Beatles' butcher album cover, cancer.

  21

• Joe Abeywickrama, 84, Sri Lankan actor.
• Lawrence Russell Brewer, 44, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
• Troy Davis, 42, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
• Michael Julian Drake, 65, American planetary scientist.
• John Du Cann, 66, British musician, heart attack.
• Paulette Dubost, 100, French actress.
• Ben Feleo, 85, Filipino film director.
• Mickey Rottner, 92, American basketball player.
• Pamela Ann Rymer, 70, American federal judge, cancer.
• Naoki Sugiura, 79, Japanese actor, lung cancer.

  22

• Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, 70, Indian cricketer, ninth and last Nawab of Pataudi, lung disease.
• Peter E. Berger, 67, American film editor, leukemia.
• Jonathan Cecil, 72, English actor.
• Cengiz Dağcı, 92, Turkish language Crimean novelist and poet.
• John H. Dick, 92, American naval officer and college basketball player.
• Henry Lacey, 91, S African cricketer.
• Robert Mistele, 91, American football coach.
• Margaret Ogola, 53, Kenyan author.
• Asbjørn Osnes, 79, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper.
• Whatumoana Paki, 85, New Zealand Māori royal elder, widower of Te Atairangikaahu, father of King Tuheitia.
• Aristides Pereira, 87, Cape Verdean politician and guerrilla leader, President.
• Vic Roby, 93, American radio and television announcer.
• Knut Steen, 86, Norwegian sculptor.
• Vesta Williams, 53, American R&B singer, hypertensive heart disease.

  23

• Orlando Brown Sr., 40, American football player, diabetic ketoacidosis.
• Hubert Constant, 80, Haitian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cap-Haïtien.
• Luciano Galbo, 68, Italian cyclist.
• Danny Litwhiler, 95, American baseball player and coach.
• Guy Marcoux, 87, Canadian politician.
• Rolland W. Redlin, 91, American politician, U.S. Representative from North Dakota.
• Douglas Stuart, 20th Earl of Moray, 83, British aristocrat.
• Joseph Trịnh Chính Trực, 85, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ban Me Thuot.
• José Miguel Varas, 83, Chilean writer.
• Carl Wood, 81, Australian in vitro fertilisation pioneer, Alzheimer's disease.

  24

• Robert Chasowa, 25, Malawian political activist.
• Surinder Kapoor, 86, Indian film producer, cardiac arrest.
• Tony Knap, 96, American college football coach, Alzheimer's disease.
• Konstantin Lerner, 61, Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
• Emanuel Litvinoff, 96, British writer and human rights campaigner.
• George Palliser, 92, British World War II fighter pilot.
• Gusty Spence, 78, British Ulster loyalist, leader of the Ulster Volunteer Force.
• Ken Yamauchi, 67, Japanese actor, pneumonia.

  25

• Len Allmond, 86, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Theyab Awana, 21, Emirati footballer, traffic accident.
• Denis Cannan, 92, British playwright.
• Tony Conyers, 83, British journalist.
• Erling Lars Dale, 65, Norwegian educationalist, cancer.
• Norman Lawson, 75, English footballer and cricketer.
• Sissy Löwinger, 70, Austrian actress, daughter of Paul Löwinger.
• Wangari Maathai, 71, Kenyan environmental activist, MP and Nobel Peace Prize winner, cancer.
• Helen Reichert, 109, American talk show personality and New York University professor.
• Ali St. Louis, 52, Trinidadian Olympic athlete, traffic accident.

  26

• Sharon Anderson-Gold, 63, American professor, cancer.
• Robert Blinc, 76, Slovene physicist.
• Sergio Bonelli, 78, Italian comic book author and publisher.
• Bob Cassilly, 61, American sculptor, founder of City Museum, bulldozer accident.
• Jessy Dixon, 73, American gospel musician.
• David Zelag Goodman, 81, American screenwriter, progressive supranuclear palsy.
• Jerry Haynes, 84, American actor, Parkinson's disease.
• Harry Muskee, 70, Dutch blues singer and musician, cancer.
• Uan Rasey, 90, American trumpeter, heart ailment.
• Michael Schor, 91, Israeli security official, CEO of Israel Military Industries.
• Ron Toomer, 81, American roller coaster designer.

  27

• Mahmoud Abouelleil, 75-76, Egyptian politician.
• Fernando Agüero, 94, Nicaraguan politician.
• David Croft, 89, British television comedy writer and producer.
• Sara Douglass, 54, Australian fantasy author, ovarian cancer.
• Ida Fink, 89, Israeli Polish-language author.
• Wilson Greatbatch, 92, American engineer, inventor of the implantable cardiac pacemaker.
• Dave Hill, 74, American golfer, complications from emphysema.
• Imre Makovecz, 75, Hungarian architect.
• Richard W. Mallary, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from Vermont.
• "Country" Johnny Mathis, 80, American country music singer-songwriter.
• Chus Pereda, 73, Spanish football player and manager.
• Stuart Spencer, 79, Australian footballer.
• Joe Tofflemire, 46, American football player, heart failure.
• Erik Wedersøe, 73, Danish actor.
• Johnnie Wright, 97, American country music singer, husband of Kitty Wells.
• Cizia Zykë, 61, French writer and adventurer.

  28

• James E. Bowman, 88, American physician.
• Patrick Collinson, 82, British historian.
• Pierre Dansereau, 99, Canadian ecologist.
• Charles J. Donlan, 95, American NASA researcher and manager.
• Heidi, 3, American-born cross-eyed opossum at Leipzig Zoo, euthanised.
• Chingis Izmailov, 67, Russian psychophysiologist.
• Claude R. Kirk Jr., 85, American politician, Governor of Florida.
• Nick Navarro, 81, American law enforcement official, Sheriff of Broward County, Florida, complications of cancer.
• Alfredo Pieroni, 88, Italian journalist.

  29

• Eddie Bockman, 91, American baseball player, manager and scout.
• Charles Brooks, 90, American editorial cartoonist.
• Len Castle, 86, New Zealand potter.
• Hella Haasse, 93, Dutch writer.
• Philip Hannan, 98, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of New Orleans.
• Nonie Lynch, 101, Irish traditional singer.
• Tatyana Lioznova, 87, Russian film director, People's Artist of the USSR.
• Vera Popkova, 68, Russian athlete, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Sylvia Robinson, 76, American singer, music producer and record label executive, heart failure.
• Lojze Slak, 79, Slovene accordion player, bone cancer.
• Iain Sproat, 72, Scottish politician and journalist.

  30

• Va'aelua Eti Alesana, Samoan politician, President of the Tautua Samoa Party.
• João d'Avila Moreira Lima, 92, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro.
• Anwar al-Awlaki, 40, American-born Yemeni cleric and Al-Qaeda official, airstrike.
• Pilar Barril, 79, Spanish tennis player.
• Lee Davenport, 95, American physicist, helped develop SCR-584 radar, cancer.
• Gilberto Fernandez, 76, Cuban-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Miami.
• Mykhaylo Forkash, 63, Ukrainian footballer.
• Peter Gent, 69, American football player and author.
• Alexander Grant, 86, New Zealand ballet dancer.
• Mike Heimerdinger, 58, American football coach, cancer.
• Gaspar Henaine, 84, Mexican comedian.
• Mumtaz Jajja, 63, Pakistani politician, dengue fever.
• Roger G. Kennedy, 85, American civil servant, Director of the National Park Service, melanoma.
• Samir Khan, 25, Saudi-born American jihadist and publisher, airstrike.
• Ram Dayal Munda, 72, Indian scholar and activist.
• Sir Arthur Norman, 94, British industrialist.
• Clifford Olson, 71, Canadian serial killer, cancer.
• Ralph M. Steinman, 68, Canadian immunologist, announced as 2011 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, pancreatic cancer.
• Marv Tarplin, 70, American guitarist and songwriter.