The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2011.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

March 2011

1

• Barklie Lakin, 96, British industrialist (Chairman of Vickers Armstrong) and naval officer.^[1]
• Leonard Lomell, 91, American World War II veteran, recipient of the Silver Star and Purple Heart, natural causes.^[2]
• John M. Lounge, 64, American NASA astronaut (1981–1991), complications from liver cancer.^[3]
• Ion Monea, 70, Romanian Olympic silver (1968) and bronze (1960) medal-winning boxer.^[4]
• Alina Paim, 91, Brazilian novelist.^[5]
• Fateh Singh Rathore, 72, Indian wildlife conservationist.^[6]
• Hazel Rowley, 59, British-born Australian writer (Tête-à-tête), cerebral haemorrhage.^[7]

2

• Nicholas Alden, 25, American airman, shot.^[8]
• Simeonie Amagoalik, 77, Canadian carver, cancer.^[9]
• Louis Bazin, 90, French orientalist.^[10]
• Shahbaz Bhatti, 42, Pakistani politician, Minister for Minorities (since 2008), shot.^[11]
• Anthony Brooke, 98, British heir to the Sarawakan throne.^[12]
• Bernard Cywinski, 70, American architect (Apple Store), partner and co-founder of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, cancer.^[13]
• John Haines, 86, American poet.^[14]
• Erling Kroner, 67, Danish trombonist and bandleader, cancer.^[15]
• Edward Barnes Leisenring, Jr., 85, American businessman.^[16]
• Sir Allan Louisy, 94, Saint Lucian politician and judge, Prime Minister (1979–1981).^[17]
• Luis Martínez Villicaña, 71, Mexican politician, Governor of Michoacán (1986–1988), Secretary of Agrarian Reform (1982–1986).^[18]
• Ruby Muhammad, 103, American spiritual figure, lung cancer.^[19]
• Art Statuto, 85, American football player (Los Angeles Rams).^[20]
• Thor Vilhjálmsson, 85, Icelandic author, natural causes.^[21]
• Wu Jieping, 94, Chinese medical scientist and politician.^[22]

3

• Aldo Clementi, 85, Italian composer.^[23]
• May Cutler, 87, Canadian author and publisher, founder of Tundra Books, first female Mayor of Westmount, Quebec (1987–1991).^[24]
• Paquito Diaz, 73, Filipino actor, complications from a stroke.^[25]
• James L. Elliot, 67, American astronomer, discovered rings of Uranus.^[26]
• Lasse Eriksson, 61, Swedish comedian.^[27]
• Goga Kapoor, 70, Indian actor.^[28]
• Irena Kwiatkowska, 98, Polish actress.^[29]
• Al Morgan, 91, American novelist and television producer (The Today Show), after long illness.^[30]
• Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, 81, Indian astrophysicist, cardiac complications.^[31]
• Theron Strinden, 91, American politician.^[32]
• James Travers, 62, Canadian journalist, political correspondent (Toronto Star), editor in chief (Ottawa Citizen, 1991–1996), post-surgery complications.^[33]

4

• Bertil Almgren, 92, Swedish archaeologist.^[34]
• Charles F. Ashley, 74, American member of the Alabama House of Representatives (1982–1983).^[35]
• Paul Baxley, 87, American actor and stunt coordinator (The Dukes of Hazzard, Star Trek, Kolchak: The Night Stalker).^[36]
• Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 86, Nepali Prime Minister (1990–1991, 1999–2000), multiple organ failure.^[37]
• Mary Bowermaster, 93, American masters athletics champion.^[38]
• Frank Chirkinian, 84, American producer (CBS Sports), lung cancer.^[39]
• Annie Fargue, 76, French actress and manager, cancer.^[40]
• Vivienne Harris, 89, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher, co-founder of the Jewish Telegraph.^[41]
• Charles Jarrott, 83, British film director (Anne of the Thousand Days, Mary, Queen of Scots, Condorman), prostate cancer.^[42]
• Chester Kahapea, 65, American soil scientist, known as the "face of Hawaiian statehood", complications of Lou Gehrig's disease.^[43]
• Ed Manning, 68, American basketball player (Baltimore Bullets) and coach (San Antonio Spurs), heart condition.^[44]
• Johnny Preston, 71, American pop singer ("Running Bear"), heart failure.^[45]
• Mikhail Simonov, 81, Russian aircraft designer, chief designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau (1983–2011), after long illness.^[46]
• Arjun Singh, 80, Indian politician, Minister of Human Resource Development (2004–2009), heart attack.^[47]
• Alenush Terian, 90, Iranian astronomer and physicist.^[48]
• María Ugarte, 97, Spanish-Dominican author, historian and journalist.^[49]
• Simon van der Meer, 85, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.^[50]

5

• Eivor Alm, 86, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier.^[51]
• Jimmy Carnes, 76, American track and field athlete, coach and administrator, cancer.^[52]
• Mario Coppola, 74, Italian nuclear physicist.^[53]
• Alberto Granado, 88, Argentine-born Cuban biochemist and writer, travel companion of Che Guevara (The Motorcycle Diaries).^[54]
• Oswald Georg Hirmer, 81, German-born South African Roman Catholic missionary, Bishop of Umtata (1997–2008).^[55]
• Manolis Rasoulis, 65, Greek singer-songwriter, author and journalist.^[56]
• Viktor Voroshilov, 84, Soviet footballer.^[57]

6

• Jean Bartel, 87, American actress, Miss America 1943.^[58]
• Marie Andrée Bertrand, 85, Canadian criminologist, feminist and anti-prohibitionist.^[59]
• Patricia Brennan, 66, Australian feminist and clinician, advocate of women Anglican priests, cancer.^[60]
• Rostislav Čtvrtlík, 47, Czech stage, television and voice actor, brain tumor.^[61]
• Mike DeStefano, 44, American comedian (Last Comic Standing), heart attack.^[62]
• Jaime Felipa, 66, Netherlands Antilles judoka.^[63]
• Oddmund Jensen, 82, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier.^[64]
• John Morton, 86, New Zealand biologist and theologian.^[65]
• Ján Popluhár, 75, Slovak footballer (1962 FIFA World Cup).^[66]
• Louie Ramsay, 81, British actress (The Ruth Rendell Mysteries).^[67]
• Reg Stewart, 85, English footballer (Colchester United), natural causes.^[68]
• Edward Ullendorff, 91, British historian.^[69]
• Frank Ziegler, 87, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).^[70]
• Sasao Gouland, 77, governor of Chuuk State, Micronesia^[71]

7

• Cándido Bidó, 74, Dominican painter, cardio-respiratory failure.^[72]
• Vladimir Brazhnikov, 69, Russian football coach, myocardial infarction.^[73]
• Frank Dezelan, 80, American baseball umpire (1958–1970).^[74]
• Adrián Escudero, 83, Spanish footballer.^[75]
• Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr., 100, American lawyer and politician, pancreatic cancer.^[76]
• Rudy Salud, 72, Filipino sports executive, PBA Commissioner (1988–1992), complications from surgery.^[77]

8

• Iraj Afshar, 85, Iranian bibliographer and historian.^[78]
• Victor Manuel Blanco, 92, American astronomer, director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.^[79]
• Masoud Boroumand, 83, Iranian football player.^[80]
• Richard Campbell, 55, British player of cello and viola da gamba.^[81]
• Herb Kawainui Kane, 82, American artist, Hawaiian cultural advocate, participant in the Hokulea voyage.^[82]
• Moses Katjiuongua, 68, Namibian politician.^[83]
• Jim Keane, 87, American football player (Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers).^[84]
• Steven Kroll, 69, American children's book author, surgical complications.^[85]
• St. Clair Lee, 66, American musician (The Hues Corporation), natural causes.^[86]
• Bronko Nagurski Jr., 73, American player of Canadian football (Hamilton Tiger-Cats).^[87]
• John Olmsted, 73, American naturalist and conservationist, liver cancer.^[88]
• Mike Starr, 44, American bassist (Alice in Chains, Sun Red Sun), drug overdose.^[89]

9

• Muftah Anaqrat, Libyan general, shot.^[90]
• Sona Aslanova, 86, Azerbaijani soprano.^[91]
• Edward Bertels, 78, Belgian footballer [1]
• Jacques Brichant, 80, Belgian tennis player.^[92]
• David S. Broder, 81, American journalist (The Washington Post), complications from diabetes.^[93]
• Edward A. Burdick, 89, American civil servant.^[94]
• Doris Burn, 87, American children's book author and illustrator.^[95]
• Seán Cronin, 91, Irish journalist and republican, Irish Republican Army chief of staff (1957–1958, 1959–1960), after long illness.^[96]
• Armando Goyena, 88, Filipino actor.^[97]
• Valgerður Hafstað, 80, Icelandic painter.^[98][99]
• Andrew Hao, 95, Chinese Roman Catholic underground Bishop of Xiwanzi (since 1984).^[100]
• Bob Marcucci, 81, American talent agent, respiratory complications.^[101]
• Bob McNamara, 94, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).^[102]
• Des Meagher, 67, Australian footballer (Hawthorn).^[103]
• Lindy Pearson, 82, American football player (Detroit Lions).^[104]
• Inge Sørensen, 86, Danish swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist (1936).^[105]
• Toshiko Takaezu, 88, American ceramic artist.^[106]

10

• Armand Bigot, 76, French Olympic equestrian.^[107]
• Bill Blackbeard, 84, American comic strip writer and editor.^[108]
• Bob Callahan, 87, American football player (Buffalo Bills).^[109]
• Nick Harbaruk, 67, Polish-born Canadian ice hockey player, bone cancer.^[110]
• Don Boven, 86, American basketball player and coach (Western Michigan University), heart disease.^[111]
• Baliram Kashyap, 74, Indian politician, MP for Bastar (since 1998), after long illness.^[112]
• Gabriel Laderman, 81, American painter, cancer,^[113]
• Danny Paton, 75, Scottish footballer.^[114]
• Emmett J. Rice, 91, American economist and banking official, heart failure.^[115]
• Eddie Snyder, 92, American composer ("Strangers in the Night", "Spanish Eyes").^[116]
• David Viñas, 83, Argentine dramatist, critic and novelist, pneumonic infection.^[117]

11

• David Brown, 69, British cricketer, brain tumour.^[118]
• Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha, 80, Brazilian paleontologist and herpetologist.^[119]
• Val Ffrench Blake, 98, British army officer and author.^[120]
• Alfred Genovese, 79, American oboist, complications from cardiac arrest.^[121]
• Jack Hardy, 63, American singer-songwriter.^[122]
• Nancy Kominsky, 95, American art teacher and broadcaster.^[123]
• Hugh Martin, 96, American songwriter ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") and film composer (Meet Me in St. Louis), natural causes.^[124]
• Nick Mohammed, 85, Canadian Olympic wrestler.^[125]
• Héctor Francisco Medina Polanco, 37, Honduran television journalist, shot.^[126]
• Frank Neuhauser, 97, American patent attorney and spelling bee champion, winner of the 1925 National Spelling Bee by spelling the word "Gladiolus".^[127]
• Valter Nyström, 95, Swedish Olympic track and field athlete.^[128]
• Danny Stiles, 87, American radio host.^[129]
• Donny George Youkhanna, 60, Iraqi archaeologist, anthropologist and author, heart attack.^[130]
• Notable Japanese killed during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami:
  • Miki Endo, 25, voice warning and alarm agent.^[131]
  • Takashi Shimokawara, 104, masters athlete.^[132]

12

• Ali Hassan al-Jaber, 56, Qatari photojournalist (Al Jazeera), shot.^[133]
• Donald Brenner, 64, Canadian judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia (2000–2009).^[134]
• Bruce Campbell, 87, Canadian politician.^[135]
• Olive Dickason, 91, Canadian historian and author.^[136]
• Juan García-Santacruz Ortiz, 77, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guadix (1992–2009).^[137]
• Indrajitsinhji, 73, Indian cricketer, cancer.^[138]
• Shifra Lerer, 95, Argentinian-born American Yiddish theatre actress, stroke.^[139]
• Joe Morello, 82, American drummer (The Dave Brubeck Quartet).^[140]
• John Nettleship, 71, British teacher, inspiration for character of Severus Snape, cancer.^[141]
• Mitchell Page, 59, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics), and coach (St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Nationals).^[142]
• Nilla Pizzi, 91, Italian singer.^[143]
• Tawfik Toubi, 88, Israeli Arab politician, last surviving member of the first Knesset.^[144]

13

• Barbara Ball, 86, Bermudian physician, politician and social activist.
• Roy Flatt, 63, Scottish Anglican priest.^[145]
• Sir Michael Gray, 78, British army general.^[146]
• Marko Horvatin, 91, Croatian Olympic rower.^[147]
• Virginia Klinekole, 86, American politician, first female President of the Mescalero Apache.^[148]
• Brian Lanker, 63, American photojournalist, pancreatic cancer.^[149]
• Rick Martin, 59, Canadian ice hockey player (Buffalo Sabres, Los Angeles Kings), heart attack.^[150]
• Ritchie Pickett, 56, New Zealand country singer.^[151]
• David Rumelhart, 68, American psychologist, created computer simulations of neural processing, Pick's disease.^[152]
• Nicholas Smisko, 75, American clergyman, Head of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese (since 1984), cancer.^[153]
• Jean Smith, 82, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).^[154]
• Owsley Stanley, 76, American-born Australian underground LSD chemist and sound engineer (Grateful Dead), traffic accident.^[155]
• Leo Steinberg, 90, American art historian and critic.^[156]
• Vitaly Vulf, 80, Russian theater critic and television host.^[157]

14

• Gerald Barry, 63, Irish journalist and broadcaster, illness.^[158]
• Alfred Baumeister, 76, American psychologist and professor.^[159]
• Todd Cerney, 57, American country musician and producer, melanoma.^[160]
• Leslie Collier, 90, British virologist.^[161]
• José Pinto Correia, 80, Portuguese politician, Governor of Macau (1986–1987).^[162]
• Bob Greaves, 76, British journalist and broadcaster, cancer.^[163]
• Jülide Gülizar, 82, Turkish anchorwoman, one of the nation's first television presenters.^[164]
• Eduard Gushchin, 70, Russian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) athlete.^[165]
• Big Jack Johnson, 70, American guitarist and blues singer.^[166]
• Giora Leshem, 71, Israeli poet and publisher.^[167]
• G. Alan Marlatt, 69, American professor, kidney failure.^[168]
• Larry Zolf, 76, Canadian journalist and humorist.^[169]

15

• José Agdamag, 89, Filipino soldier and Olympic sports shooter.^[170]
• Mirko Aksentijević, 88, Serbian journalist and basketball executive.^[171]
• Julie Apap, 62, Maltese ceramicist.^[172]
• Amos Bar, 79, Israeli author.^[173]
• Keith Fordyce, 82, British radio and television presenter (Ready Steady Go!).^[174]
• Frank Howard, 85, Canadian politician, member of the BC Legislative Assembly for Skeena (1953–1956; 1979–1986), MP for Skeena (1957–1974).^[175]
• Musa Juma, 42, Kenyan musician, pneumonia.^[176]
• Yakov Kreizberg, 51, Russian-born Austrian-American conductor.^[177]
• Jean Liedloff, 84, American writer.^[178]
• Peter Loader, 81, British cricketer.^[179]
• Marty Marion, 94, American baseball player and manager, National League MVP (1944).^[180]
• Nate Dogg, 41, American musician, stroke.^[181]
• Fred Sanford, 91, American baseball player.
• Robert Schoonjans, 85, Belgian Olympic athlete.^[182]
• Smiley Culture, 48, British reggae singer and DJ, apparent suicide by stabbing.^[183]
• Melvin Sparks, 64, American jazz and soul guitarist, heart attack.^[184]

16

• Abdikadir Yusuf Aar, Somalian terrorist, shot.^[185]
• Josefina Aldecoa, 85, Spanish writer and teacher, respiratory complications.^[186]
• Sándor Arnóth, 51, Hungarian politician, car accident.^[187]
• Sadiq Batcha, 47, Indian businessman and politician, suicide by hanging.^[188]
• Carel Boshoff, 83, South African religious and cultural activist, cancer.^[189]
• Betty Lowman Carey, 96, American rower.^[190]
• Tom Dunbar, 51, American baseball player (Texas Rangers).^[191]
• Al Israel, 75, American actor (Scarface, Carlito's Way, Drop Zone).^[192]
• Thomas Nkuissi, 82, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nkongsamba (1978–1992).^[193]
• Lloyd Oliver, 88, American veteran, World War II code talker.^[194]
• James Pritchett, 88, American actor (The Doctors).^[195]
• Lorenda Starfelt, 56, American producer, cancer.^[196]
• James C. Tyree, 53, American businessman, chairman and CEO of the Chicago Sun-Times, cancer.^[197]
• Murray Warmath, 98, American college football coach (Minnesota Golden Gophers), natural causes.^[198]
• Richard Wirthlin, 80, American political strategist and religious leader, renal failure.^[199]

17

• Moisis Michail Bourlas, 92, Greek Resistance veteran.^[200]
• Banny deBrum, 54, Marshallese diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1996–2008, 2009–2011) and Canada (1999–2011).^[201]
• Michael Gough, 94, British actor (Dracula, Batman, Sleepy Hollow), pneumonia.^[202]
• Abdel Moneim El-Guindi, 74, Egyptian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) boxer.^[203]
• Ferlin Husky, 85, American country music singer, heart failure.^[204]
• Don Kennard, 81, American politician, Texas State Senator (1963–1973).^[205]
• Murdoch Mitchison, 88, British zoologist.^[206]
• J.B. Steane, 83, British music critic.^[207]

18

• Robert Angeloch, 88, American artist.^[208]
• Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, 90, Monegasque princess.^[209]
• George Bacon, 93, British physicist.^[210]
• Ze'ev Boim, 67, Israeli Knesset member, cancer.^[211]
• Enzo Cannavale, 82, Italian actor (Cinema Paradiso).^[212]
• Warren Christopher, 85, American diplomat, Secretary of State (1993–1997), complications from kidney and bladder cancer.^[213]
• Alphonse De Vreese, 89, French cyclist.^[214]
• Arthur Charles Evans, 94, British author and police officer.^[215]
• Jet Harris, 71, British musician (The Shadows), throat cancer.^[216]
• Charlie Metro, 91, American baseball player and manager (Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics), mesothelioma.^[217]
• Peter Weigand, 69, American Olympic sprint canoer.^[218]
• Kirk Wipper, 87, Canadian founder of the Canadian Canoe Museum.^[219]

19

• Patrick Ahern, 92, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1970–1994).^[220]
• Kym Bonython, 90, Australian art, jazz and speedway entrepreneur.^[221]
• Guillermo Ford, 74, Panamanian politician, Vice President of Panama (1989–1994).^[222]
• Raymond Garlick, 84, British poet and editor.^[223]
• Barrington Gaynor, 45, Jamaican footballer.^[224]
• Drew Hill, 54, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Houston Oilers, Atlanta Falcons), stroke.^[225]
• Knut, 4, German-born polar bear, drowned.^[226]
• Gustav Lantschner, 100, Austrian Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) alpine skier and actor.^[227]
• Tom McAvoy, 74, American baseball player (Washington Senators).^[228]
• Zew Wawa Morejno, 95, Polish-born American rabbi.^[229]
• Mohammed Nabbous, 28, Libyan journalist, founder of Alhurra TV, shot.^[230]
• Navin Nischol, 65, Indian actor, heart attack.^[231]
• Jim Roslof, 64, American artist (Dungeons & Dragons), cancer.^[232]
• Robert Ross, 92, American physician and medical school founder (Ross University School of Medicine and School of Veterinary Medicine), cancer.^[233]
• Bob Rush, 85, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Braves, Chicago White Sox).^[234]
• Leonard Webb, 89, British politician, Mayor of Thame (1975–1979).^[235]

20

• John Apacible, 38, Filipino actor (Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin), shooting.^[236]
• Don Canney, 80, American politician, Mayor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1969–1992), heart failure.^[237]
• Bob Christo, 72, Australian-born Indian actor, heart attack.^[238]
• Néstor de Vicente, 46, Argentine footballer, car crash.^[239]
• Oliver Humperdink, 62, American professional wrestling manager, pneumonia and cancer.^[240]
• Agostinho Januszewicz, 80, Polish-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Luziânia (1989–2004).^[241]
• Giovanni Nesti, 88, Italian Olympic basketball player.^[242]
• Johnny Pearson, 85, British composer, arranger and pianist.^[243]
• Sara Ruddick, 76, American philosopher and author, pulmonary fibrosis.^[244]
• Dorothy Young, 103, American actress, assistant to Harry Houdini.^[245]

21

• Michael Abramson, 62, American artist and photographer, kidney cancer.^[246]
• Barry Ackerley, 76, American businessman (Ackerley Group), former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics, stroke.^[247]
• Nikolai Andrianov, 58, Russian gymnast, most medaled athlete at the 1976 Summer Olympics.^[248]
• Jesús Aranguren, 66, Spanish footballer and manager.^[249]
• Bruce W. Beatty, 88, Canadian graphic designer.^[250]
• Hans Boskamp, 78, Dutch actor and footballer, stroke.^[251]
• John L. Cashin, Jr., 82, American civil rights campaigner, kidney failure.^[252]
• Ray Eden, 42, British cyclist, beaten.^[253]
• Mayhew Foster, 99, American brigadier general, flew captured Hermann Göring to interrogation.^[254]
• Loleatta Holloway, 64, American soul and disco musician, heart failure.^[255]
• Hansl Krönauer, 78, German folk singer and composer.^[256]
• Ladislav Novák, 79, Czech footballer.^[257]
• Pinetop Perkins, 97, American blues musician, cardiac arrest.^[258]
• Kjeld Tolstrup, 45, Danish radio disc jockey (DR P3).^[259]
• Joe Wizan, 76, Mexican-born American film producer (Jeremiah Johnson, Dunston Checks In) and studio executive (20th Century Fox).^[260]

22

• Artur Agostinho, 90, Portuguese sports journalist and actor.^[261]
• Nadia Barentin, 74, French actress (Les Blessures assassines).^[262]
• Victor Bouchard, 84, Canadian pianist, duettist with pianist Renée Morisset, respiratory disease.^[263]
• Patrick Doeplah, 20, Liberian footballer.^[264]
• Viljar Loor, 57, Estonian Olympic gold medal-winning (1980) volleyball player.^[265]
• Jean-Guy Morissette, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.^[266]
• Zoogz Rift, 57, American musician, painter and professional wrestler.^[267]
• Normie Roy, 82, American baseball player (Boston Braves).^[268]
• Reuven Shefer, 85, Israeli actor.^[269]
• José Soriano, 93, Peruvian football player.^[270]
• Helen Stenborg, 86, American actress (Doubt, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Isn't She Great), cancer.^[271]
• George Alfred Walker, 81, British businessman, founder of Brent Walker.^[272]

23

• Charles Joseph Adams, 86, American academic and professor of religion.^[273]
• José Argüelles, 72, American New Age author.^[274]
• Jean Bartik, 86, American computer programmer (ENIAC).^[275]
• Henry Jerome, 93, American big band leader, trumpeter, arranger, and composer.^[276]
• Živorad Kovačević, 80, Serbian diplomat.^[277]
• Sir Frank Lampl, 84, British businessman.^[278]
• Richard Leacock, 89, British documentary film maker (Louisiana Story, Primary, Monterey Pop, Janis).^[279]
• Teodor Negoiţă, 63, Romanian polar explorer and scientist.^[280]
• Trevor Storton, 61, English footballer.^[281]
• Dame Elizabeth Taylor, 79, British-American actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Giant, A Place in the Sun), Oscar winner (1961, 1967), heart failure.^[282]
• Fred Titmus, 78, English test cricketer.^[283]
• Fritz Tschannen, 90, Swiss accordion player and Olympic ski jumper.^[284]
• Leonard Weinglass, 78, American civil rights lawyer, pancreatic cancer.^[285]

24

• Helmy Afify Abd El-Bar, 88, Egyptian military commander.^[286]
• Stig Berntsson, 80, Swedish Olympic sports shooter.^[287]
• Bertrand Pernot du Breuil, 84, French Olympic equestrian.^[288]
• Julian Gbur, 68, Polish-born Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Stryi (since 2000).^[289]
• Hanni Gehring, 84, German Olympic cross-country skier.^[290]
• William M. Greathouse, 91, American Nazarene minister, heart failure.^[291]
• David Karimanzira, 63, Zimbabwean politician.^[292]
• Robert Knights, 79, German Olympic water polo player^[293]
• Dudley Laws, 76, Jamaican-born Canadian civil rights activist, kidney disease.^[294]
• Anselmo Müller, 79, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Januária (1984–2008).^[295]
• Gloria Valencia de Castaño, 83, Colombian television host, respiratory failure.^[296]
• Lanford Wilson, 73, American playwright.^[297]

25

• Floyd Bedbury, 73, American Olympic speed skater, cancer.^[298]
• Thomas Eisner, 81, American biologist, Parkinson's disease.^[299]
• Fred, South African baboon, lethal injection.^[300]
• Luis María Estrada Paetau, 75, Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Izabal (1977–2004).^[301]
• Edwin Gaustad, 87, American religious historian.^[302]
• Maria Isakova, 92, Soviet speed skater.^[303]
• Pavel Leonov, 90, Russian naïve artist.^[304]
• Almena Lomax, 95, American journalist and civil rights activist, founder of the Los Angeles Tribune, after short illness.^[305]
• M. Blane Michael, 68, American federal judge.^[306]
• Hugo Midón, 67, Argentine theatre director and actor, after long illness.^[307]
• Thady Wyndham-Quin, 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 71, Anglo-Irish aristocrat.^[308]

26

• Roger Abbott, 64, Canadian actor and comedian (Royal Canadian Air Farce), chronic lymphocytic leukemia.^[309]
• Joe Bageant, 64, American writer, social critic and political commentator, cancer.^[310]
• Paul Baran, 84, American Internet pioneer, complications from lung cancer.^[311]
• Alexander Barykin, 59, Russian musician, heart attack.^[312]
• Carl Bunch, 71, American drummer (Buddy Holly and the Crickets).^[313]
• Greg Centauro, 34, French pornographic actor, cardiac arrest.^[314]
• Harry Coover, 94, American inventor (Super Glue).^[315]
• Lula Côrtes, 61, Brazilian musician (Paêbirú), throat cancer.^[316]
• Cibele Dorsa, 36, Brazilian actress and writer, suicide by jumping.^[317]
• Geraldine Ferraro, 75, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York (1979–1985) and 1984 vice presidential nominee, multiple myeloma.^[318]
• František Havránek, 87, Czech football player and manager.^[319]
• Yrjö Hietanen, 83, Finnish Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) canoeist, stroke.^[320]
• Diana Wynne Jones, 76, British fantasy author (Howl's Moving Castle), lung cancer.^[321]
• Enn Klooren, 70, Estonian actor.^[322]
• Jean-Philippe Lecat, 75, French politician.^[323]
• Kazimierz Macioch, 78, Polish Olympic wrestler^[324]
• Raymond-Marie Tchidimbo, 90, Guinean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Conakry (1962–1979).^[325]
• Robert Underwood, 76, American Negro league baseball player.^[326]
• Eric Zentner, 30, American male fashion model, traffic collision.^[327]

27

• Jeff Andrus, 64, American screenwriter, congestive heart failure.^[328]
• Sir Clement Arrindell, 79, Kittitian politician, Governor-General (1983–1995).^[329]
• David E. Davis, 80, American automotive writer, editor and publisher (Car and Driver, Automobile), complications from bladder surgery.^[330]
• Adolfo Donayre, 77, Peruvian footballer [2]
• Lawrence Elion, 93, British actor.^[331]
• Farley Granger, 85, American actor (Strangers on a Train, Rope, The North Star).^[332]
• H. R. F. Keating, 84, British crime fiction writer.^[333]
• Ellen McCormack, 84, American anti-abortion activist and politician, two-time presidential candidate (1976, 1980).^[334]
• DJ Megatron, 32, American disc jockey, shot.^[335]
• Günther Mund, 76, German-born Chilean Olympic diver, plane crash.^[336]
• Dorothea Puente, 82, American serial killer, natural causes.^[337]
• George Tooker, 90, American painter, kidney failure.^[338]

28

• Supyan Abdullayev, 54, Chechen field commander, airstrike.^[339]
• Wenche Foss, 93, Norwegian actress, natural causes.^[340]
• Lee Hoiby, 85, American composer, metastatic melanoma.^[341]
• Sonia Osorio, 83, Colombian ballet dancer and choreographer, respiratory failure.^[342]
• Esben Storm, 60, Danish-born Australian actor, director and producer, heart attack.^[343]
• Guy M. Townsend, 90, American Air Force brigadier general and test pilot.^[344]

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• José Alencar, 79, Brazilian entrepreneur and politician, Vice-President (2003–2010), multiple organ failure.^[345]
• Bob Benny, 84, Belgian singer.^[346]
• Iakovos Kambanellis, 88, Greek author, playwright, poet, lyricist and journalist, kidney failure.^[347]
• Edith Klestil, 78, Austrian first lady (1992–1998), first wife of President Thomas Klestil, cancer.^[348]
• Neil Reimer, 89, Canadian politician, Leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party (1962–1968).^[349]
• Jim Seymour, 64, American football player (Chicago Bears).^[350]
• Ângelo de Sousa, 73, Portuguese painter, sculptor, draftsman and professor, cancer.^[351]
• Alan Tang, 64, Hong Kong actor, film producer and director, stroke.^[352]
• Robert Tear, 72, British opera singer, cancer.^[353]
• Aarne Vehkonen, 83, Finnish Olympic weightlifter.^[354]
• Endre Wolf, 97, Hungarian violinist.^[355]

30

• Harley Allen, 55, American bluegrass and country singer, cancer.^[356]
• Jacques Amir, 78, Israeli politician.^[357]
• Roshan Atta, 71, Pakistani actress.^[358]
• Ashurbanipal Babilla, 66, Assyrian-Iranian actor, theatre director, playwright and visual artist.^[359]
• Jorge Camacho, 77, Cuban painter.^[360]
• Jack Fulk, 78, American businessman, co-founder of Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits.^[361]
• Tamar Golan, 76, Israeli journalist and diplomat.^[362]
• Lyudmila Gurchenko, 75, Russian film actress and singer, People's Artist of the USSR.^[363]
• Johnny Harra, 64, American actor, Elvis impersonator.^[364]
• Denis McLean, 80, New Zealand diplomat, academic, author and civil servant.^[365]
• Wally Peterson, 93, American actor, singer and stage manager.^[366]
• Nutan Prasad, 65, Indian actor, after long illness.^[367]
• Churyo Sato, 98, Japanese sculptor.^[368]
• Liaquat Soldier, 59, Pakistani comedian, heart attack.^[369]

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• Sparky Adams, 93, American basketball player.^[370]
• Tony Barrell, 70, British-born Australian broadcaster and writer.^[371]
• Gil Clancy, 88, American Hall of Fame boxing trainer.^[372]
• Alan Fitzgerald, 75, Australian journalist, cancer.^[373]
• Oddvar Hansen, 89, Norwegian footballer and coach (SK Brann).^[374]
• Claudia Heill, 29, Austrian judoka, silver medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, suspected suicide.^[375]
• Tom Kelleher, 85, American football official (1960–1987), complications from pneumonia.^[376]
• Vassili Kononov, 88, Russian military veteran and war criminal.^[377]
• Ishbel MacAskill, 70, Scottish Gaelic singer and heritage campaigner.^[378]
• Mel McDaniel, 68, American country music singer ("Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On"), cancer.^[379]
• Boško Radonjić, 67, Serbian nationalist, after short illness.^[380]
• Edward Stobart, 56, British haulage contractor and entrepreneur.^[381]
• Henry Taub, 83, American entrepreneur, founder of Automatic Data Processing, leukemia.^[382]