Deaths in 2011: Difference between revisions

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2011. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).

• Artur Agostinho, 90, Portuguese sports journalist and actor. [1] (Portuguese)
• Patrick Doeplah, 20, Liberian footballer. [2]
• Reuven Shefer, 85, Israeli actor. [3] (Hebrew)
• Frankie Sparcello, American bassist. [4]
• Kjeld Tolstrup, 45, Danish radio disc jockey (DR P3}, after long illness. [5] (Danish)

• Barry Ackerley, 76, American businessman (Ackerley Group), former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics, stroke. [6]
• Hafiz Saleh Muhammad Alladin, 80, Indian astronomer and education advisor, after short illness. [7]
• Nikolai Andrianov, 58, Russian gymnast, most medaled athlete at the 1976 Summer Olympics, after long illness. [8] (Russian)
• Jesús Aranguren, 66, Spanish footballer and manager. [9] (Spanish)
• Hans Boskamp, 78, Dutch actor and footballer, stroke. [10] (Dutch)
• Bohumil Fišer, 67, Czech cardiologist and academic, Minister of Health (2000–2002), cancer. [11] (Czech)
• Loleatta Holloway, 64, American soul and disco musician, heart failure. [12]
• Ladislav Novák, 79, Czech footballer. [13]
• Pinetop Perkins, 97, American blues musician, cardiac arrest. [14]

• John Apacible, 38, Filipino actor, shot. [15]
• Bob Christo, 72, Australian-born Indian actor, heart attack. [16]
• Néstor de Vicente, 46, Argentine footballer, car crash. [17] (Spanish)
• Diana Díaz, 15, Mexican diver, car accident. [18] (Spanish)
• Oliver Humperdink, 62, American professional wrestling manager, pneumonia and cancer. [19]
• Agostinho Januszewicz, 80, Polish-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Luziânia (1989–2004). [20]
• Ralph Mooney, 82, American steel guitarist, complications from cancer. [21]
• Dorothy Young, 103, American actress, assistant to Harry Houdini. [22]

• Patrick Ahern, 92, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1970–1994). [23]
• Kym Bonython, 90, Australian art, jazz and speedway entrepreneur. [24]
• Guillermo Ford, 74, Panamanian politician, Vice President of Panama (1989–1994). [25]
• Viktor Ilyukhin, 62, Russian politician, member of the State Duma (since 1993). [26]
• Knut, 4, German-born polar bear. [27]
• Argentino Luna, 69, Argentine singer and composer, kidney and stomach failure. [28]
• Mohammed Nabbous, 28, Libyan journalist, founder of Alhurra TV, shot. [29]
• Navin Nischol, 65, Indian actor, heart attack. [30]
• Jim Roslof, 64, American artist (Dungeons & Dragons), cancer. [31]
• Robert Ross, 92, American physician and medical school founder (Ross University), cancer. [32]

• Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, 90, Monegasque princess. [33]
• Ze'ev Boim, 67, Israeli Knesset member, cancer. [34]
• Enzo Cannavale, 82, Italian actor (Cinema Paradiso). [35] (Italian)
• Warren Christopher, 85, American diplomat, Secretary of State (1993–1997), complications from kidney and bladder cancer. [36]
• Jet Harris, 71, British musician (The Shadows), throat cancer. [37]
• Drew Hill, 54, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Houston Oilers), stroke. [38]

• Banny deBrum, 54, Marshallese diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1996–2008, 2009–2011) and Canada (1999–2011). [39]
• Fabián el Gitano, 39, Mexican professional wrestler, blunt trauma. [40]
• Michael Gough, 94, British actor (Sleepy Hollow, Batman), after a short illness. [41]
• Ferlin Husky, 85, American country music singer, heart failure. [42]
• Don Kennard, 81, American politician, Texas State Senator (1963–1973). [43]
• Marina Malafeeva, 32, Russian record producer, car crash. [44] (Russian)
• Christos Tsagas, 72, Greek actor, heart failure. [45] (Greek)

• Josefina Aldecoa, 85, Spanish writer. [46] (Spanish)
• Sándor Arnóth, 51, Hungarian politician, car accident. [47] (Hungarian)
• Carel Boshoff, 83, South African religious and cultural activist, cancer. [48]
• Tom Dunbar, 51, American baseball player (Texas Rangers). [49]
• Armen Halburian, 77, American drummer and percussionist, cancer. [50]
• Ivan Hel, 73, Ukrainian politician and dissident, member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. [51]
• Khandaker Delwar Hossain, 78, Bangladeshi politician. [52]
• Sion Milosky, 35, American surfer, drowned. [53]
• Thomas Nkuissi, 82, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nkongsamba (1978–1992). [54]
• Lloyd Oliver, 88, American veteran, World War II code talker. [55]
• Giorgos Perros, 67, Greek painter, heart failure. [56] (Greek)
• James Pritchett, 88, American actor (The Doctors). [57]
• James C. Tyree, 53, American businessman, chairman and CEO of the Chicago Sun-Times, cancer. [58]
• Murray Warmath, 98, American college football coach (Minnesota Golden Gophers), natural causes. [59]
• Dick Wirthlin, 80, American political strategist and religious leader, renal failure. [60]

• Leonid Agranovich, 95, Russian film director and screenwriter. [61] (Russian)
• Vittorio Ghidella, 80, Italian automobile designer and businessman, CEO of Fiat. [62] (Italian)
• Musa Juma, 42, Kenyan musician, pneumonia. [63]
• Yakov Kreizberg, 51, Russian-born Austrian-American conductor. [64]
• Jean Liedloff, 84, American writer. [65]
• Peter Loader, 81, British cricketer. [66]
• Marty Marion, 94, American baseball player and manager, National League MVP (1944). [67]
• Nate Dogg, 41, American musician, heart failure. [68]
• Fred Sanford, 91, American baseball player. [69]
• Smiley Culture, 48, British reggae singer and DJ, apparent suicide by stabbing. [70]
• William J. Stuntz, 52, American legal scholar. [71]

• Gerald Barry, 63, Irish journalist and broadcaster, illness. [72]
• Todd Cerney, 57, American country musician and producer, cancer. [73]
• Leslie Collier, 90, British virologist. [74]
• José Pinto Correia, 80, Portuguese politician, Governor of Macau (1986–1987). [75]
• Bob Greaves, 76, British journalist and broadcaster, cancer. [76]
• Jülide Gülizar, 82, Turkish anchorwoman, one of the nation's first television presenters. [77]
• Eduard Gushchin, 70, Russian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) athlete. [78]
• Ronnie Hammond, 60, American singer (Atlanta Rhythm Section), heart attack. [79]
• Big Jack Johnson, 70, American guitarist and blues singer. [80]
• Giora Leshem, 71, Israeli poet and publisher. [81] (Hebrew)
• Larry Zolf, 76, Canadian journalist and humorist. [82]

• Sir Michael Gray, 78, British army general. [83]
• Brian Lanker, 63, American photojournalist, pancreatic cancer. [84]
• Rick Martin, 59, Canadian ice hockey player (Buffalo Sabres, Los Angeles Kings), heart attack. [85]
• Panayiotis Minettas, 78, Greek businessman. [86] (Greek)
• Ritchie Pickett, 56, New Zealand country singer. [87]
• David Rumelhart, 68, American psychologist, created computer simulations of neural processing, Pick's disease. [88]
• Nicholas Smisko, 75, American clergyman, Head of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese (since 1984), cancer. [89]
• Jean Smith, 82, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League). [90]
• Melvin Sparks, 64, American jazz and soul guitarist, heart attack. [91]
• Owsley Stanley, 76, American-born Australian underground LSD chemist and sound engineer (Grateful Dead), traffic accident. [92]
• Leo Steinberg, 90, American art historian and critic. [93]
• Vitaly Vulf, 80, Russian theater critic and television host. [94]

• Ali Hassan al-Jaber, 56, Qatari photojournalist (Al Jazeera), shot. [95]
• Günter Amendt, 71, German sociologist, sexual liberation activist and author, traffic accident. [96] (German)
• Donald Brenner, 64, Canadian judge, Chief Justice of the British Columbia Supreme Court (2000–2009). [97]
• Derry Brownfield, 79, American broadcaster, heart attack. [98] (body found on this date)
• Olive Dickason, 91, Canadian historian and author. [99]
• Margaret Fish, 112, British supercentenarian, oldest person in the United Kingdom. [100]
• Juan García-Santacruz Ortiz, 77, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guadix (1992–2009). [101]
• Jan Hugens, 71, Dutch Olympic cyclist. [102] (Dutch)
• Shifra Lerer, 95, Argentinian-born American Yiddish theatre actress, stroke. [103]
• Joe Morello, 82, American drummer (The Dave Brubeck Quartet). [104]
• Dietmar Mues, 65, German actor and author, traffic accident. [105] (German)
• John Nettleship, 71, British teacher, inspiration for character of Severus Snape, cancer. [106]
• Mitchell Page, 59, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics), and coach (St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Nationals). [107]
• Nilla Pizzi, 91, Italian singer. [108] (Italian)
• Italo Pizzolante, 82, Venezuelan musician and composer. [109] (Spanish)
• Kumar Indrajitsinhji, 73, Indian cricketer, cancer. [110]
• Tawfik Toubi, 88, Israeli Arab politician, last surviving member of the first Knesset. [111]

• Jorge Cherques, 83, Brazilian actor, natural causes. [112] (Portuguese)
• Alfred Genovese, 79, American oboist, complications from cardiac arrest. [113]
• Rita Guerrero, 47, Mexican actress and singer (Santa Sabina), breast cancer. [114]
• Jack Hardy, 63, American singer/songwriter. [115]
• Hiroshi Kakoi, 56, Japanese anime producer and animator (Super Dimensional Fortress Macross), 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. [116]
• Hugh Martin, 96, American songwriter ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") and film composer (Meet Me in St. Louis, High Spirits), natural causes. [117]
• Danny Stiles, 87, American radio host. [118]
• Gary Wichard, 60, American sports agent, pancreatic cancer. [119]
• Donny George Youkhanna, 60, Iraqi archaeologist, anthropologist and author, heart attack. [120]

• Johnnie Baston, 37, American murderer, first inmate in U.S. executed by single drug (pentobarbital). [121]
• Armand Bigot, 76, French Olympic equestrian. [122] (French)
• Mario Clavell, 88, Argentine singer, actor and composer, after long illness. [123] (Spanish)
• Günter Gollasch, 88, German clarinetist and bandleader. [124] (German)
• Nick Harbaruk, 67, Polish-born Canadian ice hockey player, bone cancer. [125]
• Baliram Kashyap, 74, Indian politician, MP for Bastar (since 1998), after long illness. [126]
• Gabriel Laderman, 81, American painter, cancer, [127]
• Nancy Merse, 79, American politician, Mayor of Edgewater, New Jersey (since 2003), cancer. [128]
• Danny Paton, 75, Scottish footballer. [129]
• Emmett J. Rice, 91, American economist and banking official, heart failure. [130]
• Jiro Sakagami, 76, Japanese comedian, cerebrovascular disease. [131] (Japanese)
• David Viñas, 83, Argentine dramatist, critic, and novelist. [132] (Spanish)

• Jacques Brichant, 80, Belgian tennis player. [133] (French)
• David S. Broder, 81, American journalist (The Washington Post), complications from diabetes. [134]
• Edward A. Burdick, 89, American civil servant. [135]
• Seán Cronin, 91, Irish journalist and republican, Irish Republican Army chief of staff (1957–1958, 1959–1960), after long illness. [136]
• Armando Goyena, 88, Filipino actor. [137]
• Andrew Hao Jinli, 95, Chinese Roman Catholic underground Bishop of Xiwanzi (since 1984). [138]
• Bob Marcucci, 81, American talent agent, respiratory complications. [139]
• Bob McNamara, 94, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). [140]
• Des Meagher, 67, Australian footballer (Hawthorn). [141]
• Manolis Rasoulis, 65, Greek singer-songwriter, author and journalist. [142] (Greek)
• Inge Sørensen, 86, Danish swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist (1936). [143] (Danish)
• Toshiko Takaezu, 88, American ceramic artist. [144]

• Iraj Afshar, 85, Iranian bibliographer and historian. [145]
• Victor Blanco, 92, American astronomer, director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. [146]
• Sheekh Cumar Faaruuq, 71, Somali diplomat and religious advocate, heart failure. [147]
• Herb Kawainui Kane, 82, American artist. [148]
• Moses Katjiuongua, 68, Namibian politician. [149]
• Jim Keane, 87, American football player (Chicago Bears). [150]
• Steven Kroll, 69, American children's book author, surgical complications. [151]
• St. Clair Lee, 66, American musician (Hues Corporation). [152]
• Sally Meyerhoff, 27, American long-distance runner, traffic accident. [153]
• Bronko Nagurski Jr., 73, American player of Canadian football (Hamilton Tiger-Cats). [154]
• Mike Starr, 44, American bassist (Alice in Chains, Sun Red Sun). [155] (body found on this date)

• Arnie Carruthers, 81, American jazz pianist, bladder cancer. [156]
• Adrián Escudero, 83, Spanish footballer. [157] (Spanish)
• Samuel Hazard Gillespie, Jr., 100, American lawyer and politician, pancreatic cancer. [158]
• Luiza Melinda, 64, Greek dancer. [159] (Greek)
• Rudy Salud, 72, Filipino sports executive, PBA Commissioner (1988–1992), complications from surgery. [160]
• Miloslav Stibor, 83, Czech photographer and academic, after serious illness. [161] (Czech)

• Jean Bartel, 87, American actress, Miss America 1943. [162]
• Marie Andrée Bertrand, 85, Canadian criminologist, feminist and anti-prohibitionist. [163]
• Rostislav Čtvrtlík, 47, Czech stage, television and voice actor, brain tumor. [164] (Czech)
• Mike DeStefano, 44, American comedian (Last Comic Standing), heart attack. [165]
• Herman Ernest, 59, American R&B and funk drummer, cancer. [166]
• Agnes-Marie Grisebach, 97, German writer. [167] (German)
• Oddmund Jensen, 82, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier. [168] (Norwegian)
• Ján Popluhár, 75, Slovak footballer (1962 FIFA World Cup). [169]
• Louie Ramsay, 81, British actress (The Ruth Rendell Mysteries). [170]
• Edward Ullendorff, 91, British historian. [171]
• Frank Ziegler, 87, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles). [172]

• Alberto Granado, 88, Argentine-born Cuban biochemist and writer, travel companion of Che Guevara (The Motorcycle Diaries). [173]
• Kim Hill, 44, American inspiration for the Ronald McDonald House, brain cancer. [174]
• Oswald Georg Hirmer, 81, German-born South African Roman Catholic missionary, Bishop of Umtata (1997–2008). [175]
• Lina Ron, 51, Venezuelan political leader, President of Popular Unity, heart attack. [176]

• Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 86, Nepali Prime Minister (1990–1991, 1999–2000), multiple organ failure. [177]
• Frank Chirkinian, 84, American producer (CBS Sports), lung cancer. [178]
• Vivienne Harris, 89, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher, co-founder of the Jewish Telegraph. [179]
• Charles Jarrott, 83, British film and television director (Anne of the Thousand Days), prostate cancer. [180]
• Ed Manning, 68, American basketball player (Baltimore Bullets) and coach (San Antonio Spurs), heart condition. [181]
• Johnny Preston, 71, American pop singer ("Running Bear"), heart failure. [182]
• Mikhail Simonov, 81, Russian aircraft designer, chief designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau (1983–2011), after long illness. [183]
• Arjun Singh, 80, Indian politician, Minister of Human Resource Development (2004–2009), heart attack. [184]
• Alenush Terian, 90, Iranian astronomer and physicist. [185]
• Simon van der Meer, 85, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. [186]

• Raymond Buse, Jr., 85, American distiller, horse breeder, and baseball team owner (Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Bengals). [187]
• Sam Chwat, 57, American dialect coach, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. [188]
• Aldo Clementi, 85, Italian composer. [189]
• May Cutler, 87, Canadian author and publisher, founder of Tundra Books, first female Mayor of Westmount, Quebec (1987–1991). [190]
• Paquito Diaz, 73, Filipino actor, complications from a stroke. [191]
• James L. Elliot, 67, American astronomer, discovered rings of Uranus. [192]
• Lasse Eriksson, 61, Swedish comedian. [193] (Swedish)
• Goga Kapoor, 70, Indian actor. [194]
• Irena Kwiatkowska, 98, Polish actress. [195]
• Al Morgan, 91, American novelist and television producer (The Today Show), after long illness. [196]
• Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, 81, Indian astrophysicist, cardiac complications. [197]
• Višnja Stahuljak, 85, Croatian writer, after long illness. [198] (Croatian)
• Theron Strinden, 91, American politician. [199]
• James Travers, 62, Canadian journalist, political correspondent (Toronto Star), editor in chief (Ottawa Citizen, 1991–1996), post-surgery complications. [200]

• Shahbaz Bhatti, 42, Pakistani politician, Minister for Minorities (since 2008), shot. [201]
• Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke, 98, British heir to the Sarawakan throne. [202]
• Enrique Curiel, 63, Spanish politician, cancer. [203]
• Bernard Cywinski, 70, American architect (Apple Store), partner and founder of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, cancer. [204]
• John Haines, 86, American poet. [205]
• Vlassis Kaniaris, 83, Greek visual artist, after long illness. [206] (Greek)
• Erling Kroner, 67, Danish trombonist and bandleader, cancer. [207] (Danish)
• Allan Louisy, 94, Saint Lucian politician and judge, Prime Minister (1979–1981). [208]
• David Lynch, 40, American white supremacist, leader of the American Front, shot. [209]
• Ruby Muhammad, 103, American spiritual figure, lung cancer. [210]
• Art Statuto, 85, American football player (Los Angeles Rams). [211]
• Thor Vilhjálmsson, 85, Icelandic author, natural causes. [212] (Icelandic)
• Walter Zacharius, 87, American publisher (Lancer Books, Kensington Books), cancer. [213]

• Ryan Hawks, 25, American freestyle skier, race crash. [214]
• Barklie Lakin, 96 British industrialist (Chairman of Vickers Armstrong) and naval officer, natural causes [215]
• Leonard Lomell, 91, American World War II veteran, recipient of the Silver Star and Purple Heart, natural causes. [216]
• Mike Lounge, 64, American NASA astronaut (1981–1991), complications from liver cancer. [217]
• Ion Monea, 70, Romanian Olympic silver (1968) and bronze (1960) medal-winning boxer. [218] (Romanian)
• Vjera Žagar Nardelli, 84, Croatian actress. [219] (Croatian)
• Fateh Singh Rathore, 72, Indian wildlife conservationist. [220]
• Blair River, 29, American spokesman (The Heart Attack Grill), pneumonia. [221]
• Hazel Rowley, 59, British-born Australian writer (Tête-à-tête), cerebral haemorrhage. [222]

See Deaths in February 2011.

See Deaths in January 2011.

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