Deaths in 2011: Difference between revisions

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2011.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. 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).

• Raúl Ruiz, 70, Chilean filmmaker, pulmonary infection. [1] (Spanish)

• Kamal al-Nairab, 45, Palestinian commander, air strike. [2]
• Samir Chanda, 51, Indian art film director, cardiac arrest. [3]
• Immad Hammad, 39, Palestinian deputy, air strike. [4]
• Johnson, 58, Indian film music composer, cardiac arrest. [5]
• Paul Lockyer, 61, Australian journalist, helicopter crash. [6]
• Scotty Robertson, 81, American basketball coach (New Orleans Jazz, Chicago Bulls, Detroit Pistons), cancer. [7]
• Anatoly Savchenko, 87, Russian animator. [8] (Russian)
• Edie Wasserman, 95, American philantrophist, wife of Lew Wasserman, natural causes. [9]

• Augustus Aikhomu, 72, Nigerian admiral and politician, Vice President (1986–1993). [10]
• Claudio Castiglioni, 64, Italian motorcycle entrepreneur (MV Agusta, Cagiva, Ducati, Husqvarna). [11]
• Vasyl Dzharty, 53, Ukrainian politician, Prime Minister of Crimea (since 2010), cancer. [12]
• Gualtiero Jacopetti, 91, Italian documentary film director. [13] (Italian)
• Michel Mohrt, 97, French writer, member of the Académie française (since 1985). [14] (French)
• Pierre Quinon, 49, French pole vaulter and Olympic champion, suicide. [15]
• Firmin Van Kerrebroeck, 88, Belgian professional cyclo-cross racer. [16] (Dutch)
• Nikita Yemshanov, 28, Russian actor, car accident. [17]

• Andrej Bajuk, 67, Slovenian politician and economist, Prime Minister (2000), stroke. [18]
• Mihri Belli, 96, Turkish politician and writer, respiratory failure. [19] (Turkish)
• Huw Ceredig, 69, Welsh actor. [20]
• Joel Chin, 35, Jamaican record producer, shot. [21]
• Akiko Futaba, 96, Japanese ryūkōka singer. [22] (Japanese)
• Kampane, 33, American rapper, shot. [23]
• Frank Munro, 63, Scottish footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.), heart attack. [24]
• Pete Pihos, 87, American Hall of Fame football player (Philadelphia Eagles), Alzheimer's disease. [25]
• Ramesh Saxena, 66, Indian cricketer, brain haemorrhage. [26]
• Bernard William Schmitt, 82, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston (1989–2004).[27]

• Ralph D. Albertazzie, 88, American pilot (Air Force One) and writer. [28]
• Russell Armstrong, 47, American investment banker and venture capitalist, television personality (The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills), suicide by hanging. [29]
• Nenad Bijedić, 51, Bosnian football manager, cancer. [30] (Turkish)
• Pap Dean, 95, American political cartoonist. [31]
• Mark Fowler, 35, British kickboxer, head injuries. [32]
• Peter Mair, 60, Irish political scientist. [33]
• Solomon Mujuru, 62, Zimbabwean military officer and politician, injuries from a fire. [34]
• Hugo Perié, 67, Argentine politician, MP (since 2003), Montoneros militant, lung disease. [35] (Spanish)
• Sif Ruud, 95, Swedish actress. [36] (Swedish)
• Rick Rypien, 27, Canadian ice hockey player (Vancouver Canucks). [37]
• Tōru Shōriki, 92, Japanese baseball team owner (Tokyo Giants), sepsis. [38] (Japanese)
• Betty Thatcher, 67, English lyricist (Renaissance), cancer. [39]

• Fritz Bach, 77, Austrian-born American physician, heart attack. [40]
• Marcos Barreto, 51, Brazilian actor, heart attack. [41] (Portuguese)
• Albert Brown, 105, American veteran, oldest survivor of Bataan Death March. [42]
• Don Casper, 63, American attorney, Vice-President of San Francisco Civil Service Commission, hit and run. [43]
• Yekaterina Golubeva, 44, Russian actress. [44] (French)
• Shammi Kapoor, 79, Indian film actor and director, renal failure. [45]
• Fritz Korbach, 66, German football player and manager, laryngeal cancer. [46] (Dutch)
• Paul Reeves, 78, New Zealand Anglican archbishop, Primate (1980–1985), Governor-General (1985–1990), cancer. [47]
• Friedrich Schoenfelder, 94, German actor. [48] (German)
• Shawn Tompkins, 37, Canadian kickboxer and mixed martial artist, suspected heart attack. [49] (body found on this date)

• Marc Druyts, 44, Belgian cyclist. [50] (Dutch)
• Vic Dunlop, 62, American comedian, complications of diabetes. [51]
• Ctirad Mašín, 81, Czech resistance fighter. [52]
• Tareque Masud, 54, Bangladeshi independent film director, traffic collision. [53]
• Mishuk Munier, 51, Bangladeshi cinematographer and television journalist, traffic collision. [54]
• M. Kenneth Oshman, 71, American electronics executive, lung cancer. [55]
• Jesús del Pozo, 65, Spanish fashion designer, pulmonary emphysema. [56]
• Topi Sorsakoski, 58, Finnish singer, lung cancer. [57]

• Austin-Emile Burke, 89, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Halifax (1991–1998).[58]
• Geertruida Draaisma, 109, Dutch centenarian, oldest verified person in the Netherlands. [59]
• Ernie Johnson, 87, American baseball player (Boston/Milwaukee Braves, Baltimore Orioles) and broadcaster (Atlanta Braves). [60]
• Patricia Lourival Acioli, 47, Brazilian judge, shot. [61]
• Dănuţ Murariu, 56, Romanian banker, CEO of Romanian International Bank Iași branch, apparent suicide by drowning. [62] (Romanian)
• Charles P. Murray, Jr., 89, American Army colonel, Medal of Honor recipient, heart failure. [63]
• Robert Robinson, 83, English radio and television presenter. [64]
• Francisco Solano López, 83, Argentine comics artist (El Eternauta), complications from a stroke. [65] (Spanish)
• Zachery Tims, 42, American television and radio pastor and author. [66]

• Agustín Romualdo Alvarez Rodríguez, 88, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop and vicar apostolic of Machiques (1986–1995). [67]
• Don Chandler, 76, American football player (New York Giants, Green Bay Packers). [68]
• George Devol, 99, American inventor of Unimate, the first industrial robot. [69]
• Karen Drambjan, 57, Armenian-born Estonian activist, shot. [70]
• Noah Flug, 86, Polish-born Israeli economist, advocate for rights of Holocaust survivors. [71]
• Richard Floyd, 80, American politician and lawmaker. [72]
• Clair George, 81, American CIA officer (Iran–Contra affair), cardiac arrest. [73]
• David Holbrook, 88, English writer and academic. [74]
• Jani Lane, 47, American musician (Warrant). [75]
• Scott LeDoux, 62, American boxer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [76]
• Richard Mannington Bowes, 68, English murder victim, beaten. [77]
• Karen Overington, 59, Australian politician, Victorian MLA for Ballarat West (1999–2010). [78]
• Bob Shamansky, 84, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio (1981–1983). [79]
• Joe Trimble, 80, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates). [80]
• Richard Turner, 27, British jazz trumpeter, seizure. [81]
• Paul Wilkinson, 74, British academic, expert on the study of terrorism (University of St Andrews). [82]
• Bob Will, 80, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs). [83]

• P. C. Alexander, 90, Indian politician, Governor of Tamil Nadu (1988–1990), Maharashtra (1993–2002) and Goa (1996–1998). [84]
• Valeriu Damian, 66, Romanian businessman, suspected homicide. [85] (Romanian) (body found on this date)
• Ignacio Flores, 58, Mexican football player (Cruz Azul, national team), shot. [86] (Spanish)
• Norton Fredrick, 73, Sri Lankan cricketer, illness. [87]
• Billy Grammer, 85, American country singer. [88]
• Oldřich Machač, 65, Czech ice hockey player, heart failure. [89]
• Babak Masoumi, 39, Iranian futsal player and coach, blood cancer. [90] (Farsi)
• Lilia Michel, 85, Mexican actress. [91] (Spanish)

• Wendy Babcock, 32, Canadian advocate for the rights of prostitutes, suspected suicide. [92]
• Roberto Busa, 97, Italian Jesuit priest, pioneer in Digital Humanities. [93]
• Jeanne Carroll, 80, American blues singer, heart attack. [94]
• Adolphe-Maria Gustave Hardy, 91, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Beauvais (1985–1995). [95]
• Jimmy Harris, 76, American football player (University of Oklahoma, Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles), natural causes. [96]
• Kolapo Ishola, 77, Nigerian politician, Governor of Oyo State (1991–1993). [97]
• Eleanor Josaitis, 79, American activist, co-founder of Focus: HOPE, peritoneal cancer. [98]
• Julian Kenny, 81, Trinidadian zoologist, environmentalist and politician, Senator (1995–2001). [99]
• Mimi Lee, 91, American chemist, First Lady of Maryland (1977–1979), heart failure. [100]

• Neal Abberley, 67, English cricketer, heart and lung condition. [101]
• Ray Anderson, 77, American entrepreneur, cancer. [102]
• Mike Barrett, 67, American Olympic and professional basketball player (Virginia Squires, San Diego Conquistadors). [103]
• Royal Copeland, 86, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts), Alzheimer's disease. [104]
• Pino Ferrara, 82, Italian actor. [105] (Italian)
• Mary Hendrick, 88, American businesswoman and NASCAR team owner, mother of racer Rick Hendrick. [106]
• Anastasios Peponis, 87, Greek politician and author, heart problems. [107] (Greek)
• Federico Richter Fernandez-Prada, 89, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ayacucho/Huamanga (1979–1991). [108] (Spanish)
• Jiřina Švorcová, 83, Czech actress. [109] (Czech)
• Harry Hillel Wellington, 84, American lawyer, Dean of Yale Law School (1975–1985) and New York Law School (1992–2000), brain tumor. [110]
• Guillermo Zarur, 72, Mexican actor, complications of kidney and heart disease. [111] (Spanish)

• Joseph Candolfi, 89, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Basel (1983–1996). [112] (German)
• Hugh Carey, 92, American politician, Governor of New York (1975–1982) and U.S. Representative (1961–1974). [113]
• Charles C. Edwards, 87, American physician. [114]
• Cornelius Elanjikal, 92, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Verapoly (1987–1996). [115] (Malayalam)
• Marshall Grant, 83, American double bassist (Tennessee Two). [116]
• Mark Hatfield, 89, American politician, Governor of Oregon (1959–1967) and U.S. Senator (1967–1997). [117]
• Harri Holkeri, 74, Finnish politician, Prime Minister (1987–1991), after long illness. [118]
• Chad Linley, 29, American actor (Queen Sized). [119]
• Leo Mattioli, 39, Argentine cumbia singer, cardiac arrest. [120]
• Paul Meier, 87, American mathematician (Kaplan–Meier estimator), complications from a stroke. [121]
• George Naghi, 59, Romanian businessman, founder of Aldis SRL, boating accident. [122] (Romanian)
• Tom Radney, 79, American politician, member of the Alabama Senate (1967–1971), after long illness. [123]
• Jiří Traxler, 99, Czech-born Canadian jazz pianist. [124] (Czech)
• Nancy Wake, 98, New Zealand-born Australian French Resistance leader, chest infection. [125]
• Charles Wyly, 77, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Michaels Stores, automobile accident. [126]
• Joe Yamanaka, 64, Japanese rock singer, lung cancer. [127] (Japanese).

• Bernadine Healy, 67, American cardiologist, director of the National Institutes of Health (1991–1993), brain cancer. [128]
• Fred Imus, 69, American songwriter and radio talk show host, brother of Don Imus. [129] (body found on this date)
• Kuno Klötzer, 89, German football coach. [130] (German)
• Fe del Mundo, 99, Filipino pediatrician, National Scientist of the Philippines, heart attack. [131]
• Roman Opałka, 79, French-born Polish painter. [132] (Polish)
• Carlton Roy, 94, American businessman and civil rights activist. [133]
• John W. Ryan, 81, American academic administrator, President of Indiana University (1971–1987). [134]
• Jerry Smith, 80, American football player (San Francisco 49ers) and coach (Denver Broncos). [135]
• Henri Tisot, 74, French actor. [136] (French)
• William Wong, 88, American restaurateur, founder of Kowloon Restaurant. [137]
• John Wood, 81, English actor. [138]

• Jean-Claude Bajeux, 79, Haitian activist and scholar, lung cancer. [139]
• Claudio Díaz, 52, Argentine journalist, thyroid cancer. [140] (Spanish)
• Marion D. Hanks, 89, American Mormon leader. [141]
• Donald Ray Kennard, 74, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1976–2008), brain aneurysm rupture. [142]
• Andrzej Lepper, 57, Polish politician, suspected suicide by hanging. [143]
• Fernanda Lobo, 51, Brazilian actress. [144] (Portuguese)
• Takehiko Maeda, 82, Japanese television writer. [145] (Japanese)
• Jennifer Minetti, 71, German actress. [146] (German)
• Gary Nixon, 70, American motorcycle racer, complications from a heart attack. [147]
• Francesco Quinn, 48, Italian-born American actor (Platoon, The Young and the Restless), son of Anthony Quinn, apparent heart attack. [148]
• Adi Talmor, 58, Israeli journalist and news presenter, assisted suicide. [149]
• Erkki Wessman, 80, Finnish writer. [150] (Finnish)
• Stan Willemse, 86, British footballer (Chelsea). [151]

• Henk Alkema, 66, Dutch composer, music arranger and musician. [152] (Dutch)
• Alan Blackshaw, 78, English mountaineer and civil servant, cancer. [153]
• Michael Bukht, 69, British radio executive, television personality and chef who worked as Michael Barry. [154]
• Mark Duggan, 29, British crime suspect shot by police, triggered 2011 London riots, shot. [155]
• Vladimir Klipel, 94, Russian writer. [156] (Russian)
• Eugene V. Kolokolnikov, 64, Russian athletics coach. [157] (Russian)
• Naoki Matsuda, 34, Japanese footballer, suspected heart attack. [158]
• Erhard Pumm, 65, German trade unionist. [159] (German)
• Conrad Schnitzler, 74, German musician (Tangerine Dream, Kluster, Eruption, Berlin Express), stomach cancer. [160]
• Piet Stoffelen, 71, Dutch politician. [161] (Dutch)
• Erika Thijs, 51, Belgian politician, Senator (since 1995), cancer. [162] (Dutch)
• Sherman White, 82, American basketball player (Long Island University). [163]

• Wolf Böhringer, 81, German chess player. [164] (German)
• Rudolf Brazda, 98, German concentration camp prisoner, last known survivor of pink triangle homosexual deportation. [165]
• Richard Cates, 85, American lawyer. [166]
• Annette Charles, 63, American actress (Grease), complications of lung cancer. [167]
• Antonio M. Diaz, 83, Filipino politician, Representative from Zambales (1969–1972, 1992–2001, 2004–2011). [168]
• Jackie Hudson, 76, American nun and peace activist, cancer. [169]
• Nicholas Kachurin, 51, Russian magazine editor (Top Gear). [170] (Russian)
• Vladimir Lobashev, 78, Russian nuclear physicist. [171] (Russian)
• Ingrid Luterkort, 101, Swedish actress. [172] (Swedish)
• Andrew McDermott, 45, British singer (Threshold), complications of kidney failure. [173] (German)
• Simona Monyová, 44, Czech writer, stabbed. [174] (Czech)
• Jorge Neri, 67, Mexican composer, liver cancer. [175] (Spanish)
• Ray Patterson, 89, American basketball executive (Milwaukee Bucks, Houston Rockets). [176]
• Nikolay Petrov, 68, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, stroke. [177]
• William Sleator, 66, American science fiction writer (Interstellar Pig). [178]
• Bubba Smith, 66, American football player (Baltimore Colts) and actor (Police Academy). [179]
• Mohsen Koochebaghi Tabrizi, 87, Iranian Shi'ite Muslim marja, heart attack. [180] (Persian)
• Angel Turconi, 88, Italian footballer. [181] (Italian)
• Jane Walker, 69, British journalist, pancreatic cancer. [182]
• Allan Watkins, 89, Welsh cricketer, after short illness. [183]
• Oleh Yemtsev, 59, Ukrainian entertainer, after long illness. [184] (Russian)

• Leslie Esdaile Banks, 51, American author (The Vampire Huntress Legend Series), adrenal cancer. [185]
• Baruj Benacerraf, 90, Venezuelan-born American immunologist, Nobel laureate (1980). [186]
• Ralph Berkowitz, 100, American composer. [187]
• Tokon Koboshevich Dayyrbekov, 52, Kyrgyz actor. [188] (Russian)
• DeLois Barrett Campbell, 85, American gospel singer (The Barrett Sisters), pulmonary embolism. [189]
• Vittorio Citterich, 81, Italian journalist and news anchor. [190] (Italian)
• Al Federoff, 87, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). [191]
• James M. Flinchum, 94, American journalist. [192]
• Asadullo Gulomov, 58, Tajik politician, Deputy Prime Minister (2006–2011). [193] (Russian)
• Andrey Kapitsa, 80, Russian geographer and explorer, discovered and named Lake Vostok. [194]
• Nikolay Kutuzov, 85, Russian conductor, People's Artist of the USSR. [195] (Russian)
• Coby van Megen, 78, Dutch table tennis player. [196] (Dutch)
• Clarence E. Miller, 93, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio (1967–1993), pneumonia. [197]
• Larry Moyer, 60, American ARCA stock car racer, after long illness. [198]
• Attilio Pavesi, 100, Italian Olympic cyclist, oldest living Olympic champion. [199] (Italian)
• Richard Pearson, 93, Welsh actor. [200]
• Venere Pizzinato, 114, Italian supercentenarian, third-oldest living person in the world. [201]
• Italo Rossi, 80, Brazilian actor. [202] (Portuguese)
• José Sanchis Grau, 79, Spanish comic book artist. [203] (Valencian)
• James Ford Seale, 76, American murderer, Ku Klux Klan member. [204]

• Viktor Aniskin, 65, Russian journalist. [205] (Russian)
• Stan Barstow, 83, English novelist. [206]
• Gerard Buisman, 59, Dutch troubadour. [207] (Dutch)
• Carmela Marie Cristiano, 83, American Roman Catholic nun (Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth); first nun to seek political office in New Jersey. [208]
• Leo Figueres, 93, French politician. [209] (French)
• Florentina Gómez Miranda, 99, Argentine lawyer and women's rights activist. [210]
• Gamini Goonesena, 80, Sri Lankan cricketer. [211]
• Theodoric James, Jr., 71, American White House records keeper. [212] (body found on this date)
• Ivan Mesquita, 79, Brazilian actor. [213] (Portuguese)
• Con Murphy, 51, Irish judge, after short illness. [214]
• Chieko N. Okazaki, 84, American Mormon women's leader, first non-Caucasian woman to hold a senior position in the LDS church, heart failure. [215]
• Ken Payne, 60, American football player (Green Bay Packers). [216]
• Zhanna Prokhorenko, 71, Russian film actress (Ballad of a Soldier). [217] (Russian)
• Harald Stender, 86, German footballer. [218] (German)

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