Deaths in May 2011

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

May 2011

31

• Pauline Betz, 91, American tennis player. [1]
• Jonas Bevacqua, 33, American fashion designer (Lifted Research Group). [2]
• Conrado Estrella, Sr., 93, Filipino politician, Governor of Pangasinan (1954–1963), Agrarian Reform Minister (1978–1986). [3] (body found on this date)
• Derek Hodge, 69, U.S. Virgin Islander politician and attorney, Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (1987-1995), cancer. [4]
• Keith Irvine, 82, British-born American interior designer, cardiac arrest. [5]
• Hans Keilson, 101, German-born Dutch psychoanalyst and novelist. [6]
• Sir John Martin, 93, British admiral, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey (1974–1980). [7]
• Adolfas Mekas, 85, Lithuanian-born American film director. [8]
• Andy Robustelli, 85, American Hall of Fame football player (Los Angeles Rams, New York Giants). [9]
• Philip Rose, 89, American theatrical producer, stroke. [10]
• Ezzatollah Sahabi, 81, Iranian politician, Member of Parliament (1980–1984), stroke. [11] (Persian)
• Syed Saleem Shahzad, 40, Pakistani journalist, shot. [12] (body found on this date)
• Hugh Stewart, 100, British film editor and producer. [13]
• Grant Sullivan, 86, American actor (Pony Express), cancer. [14]
• Ram Man Trishit, 70, Nepali lyricist, kidney problems. [15]
• Sølvi Wang, 81, Norwegian singer and actress. [16] (Norwegian)

30

• Ricky Bruch, 64, Swedish athlete, cancer. [17] (Swedish)
• Henri Chammartin, 92, Swiss dressage equestrian, multiple Olympic medallist. [18] (German)
• Paul B. Ferrara, 68, American scientist and administrator, pioneer of genetic fingerprinting, brain tumor. [19]
• Eddie Morrison, 63, Scottish footballer and manager (Kilmarnock). [20]
• Hans Nogler, 91, Austrian Olympic alpine skier. [21] (German)
• Isikia Savua, 59, Fijian diplomat and police commissioner. [22]
• Marek Siemek, 68, Polish philosopher and historian of philosophy. [23] (Polish)
• Clarice Taylor, 93, American actress (Sesame Street, The Cosby Show). [24]
• Giorgio Tozzi, 88, American operatic bass, heart attack. [25]
• Tillmann Uhrmacher, 44, German DJ, music producer and radio host. [26] (German)
• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, 89, American Nobel laureate. [27]

29

• Sergei Bagapsh, 62, Abkhazian politician, President (since 2005), complications after surgery. [28]
• Jon Blake, 52, Australian actor, pneumonia. [29]
• Simon Brint, 60, British musician, suicide. [30]
• Bill Clements, 94, American politician, Governor of Texas (1979–1983; 1987–1991). [31]
• Billy Crook, 84, English footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers). [32]
• Wally Jay, 93, American martial arts teacher, founder of Small Circle JuJitsu, after long illness. [33]
• Ferenc Mádl, 80, Hungarian politician, President of the Republic (2000–2005). [34] (Hungarian)
• Tom Roeser, 82, American political commentator. [35]
• Bill Roycroft, 96, Australian equestrian, five-time Olympian, gold medallist (1960). [36]
• Cosmo Francesco Ruppi, 78, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Termoli-Larino (1980–1988) and Archbishop of Lecce (1988–2009). [37]

28

• Mohammed Daud Daud, 42, Afghan general, police commander for northern Afghanistan, bombing. [38]
• Bill Harris, 79, Canadian baseball player (Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers). [39]
• Romuald Klim, 78, Belarussian hammer thrower, Olympic gold medalist (1964). [40] (Russian)
• Dame Barbara Mills, 70, British barrister, Director of Public Prosecutions (1992–1998), stroke. [41]
• Leo Rangell, 97, American psychoanalyst, complications from surgery. [42]
• Alys Robi, 88, Canadian singer. [43]
• Martha Rommelaere, 88, Canadian baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League). [44]
• John H. Sinfelt, 80, American chemical engineer in unleaded gasoline, congestive heart failure. [45]

27

• Johnny Brewer, 74, American football player (Cleveland Browns, New Orleans Saints). [46]
• Janet Brown, 87, British actress and impersonator, after short illness. [47]
• Jeff Conaway, 60, American actor (Grease, Taxi, Babylon 5). [48]
• Margo Dydek, 37, Polish basketball player (Utah Starzz, Los Angeles Sparks) and coach, heart attack. [49]
• Johanna Fiedler, 65, American author, daughter of Arthur Fiedler. [50]
• Regalado Maambong, 72, Filipino jurist, member of 1986 Constitutional Commission. [51]
• Prince Ali Mirza Qajar, 81, Iranian royal, Head of the Qajar Imperial Family (since 1988), after long illness. [52] (Persian)
• Gil Scott-Heron, 62, American poet, musician and author. [53]
• Jukka Toivola, 61, Finnish Olympic athlete, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [54] (Finnish)

26

• Arisen Ahubudu, 91, Sri Lankan scholar, author and playwright. [55]
• Flick Colby, 65, American dancer and choreographer (Pan's People), bronchial pneumonia. [56]
• George Heron, 92, American tribal leader, President of the Seneca Nation of New York (1958–1960; 1962–1964). [57]
• Irwin D. Mandel, 89, American dental scientist in preventative dentistry. [58]
• Tyler Simpson, 25, Australian soccer player. [59]

25

• Lillian Adams, 89, American actress (The Suite Life on Deck, Bruce Almighty). [60]
• Werner Freiherr von Beschwitz, 96, German military officer. [61]
• Nina Leopold Bradley, 93, American conservationist. [62]
• Leonora Carrington, 94, British-born Mexican painter and novelist. [63]
• Luigi Diligenza, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Capua (1978–1997). [64]
• Roger Gautier, 88, French Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) rower. [65] (French)
• Edwin Honig, 91, American poet and translator, Alzheimer's disease. [66]
• Terry Jenner, 66, Australian Test cricketer and coach. [67]
• Miroslav Opsenica, 29, Serbian footballer, car accident. [68] (Polish)
• Gene Smith, 94, American baseball player (Negro Leagues). [69]
• Paul Splittorff, 64, American baseball player and broadcaster (Kansas City Royals), complications from melanoma. [70]
• Yannis Varveris, 56, Greek poet, critic and translator, cardiac arrest. [71] (Greek)
• Paul J. Wiedorfer, 90, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient. [72]

24

• Huguette M. Clark, 104, American heiress, daughter of William A. Clark. [73]
• José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva, Brazilian Amazon environmentalist and conservationist, shot. [74]
• Arthur Goldreich, 82, South African-born Israeli political activist. [75]
• Mark Haines, 65, American television anchor (CNBC). [76]
• Imre Nagy, 70, Canadian Olympic fencer. [77]
• Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany, 71, Irish artist. [78]
• Barry Potomski, 38, Canadian ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings). [79]
• Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson, 81, British courtier. [80]
• Paul Winslow, 82, South African cricketer. [81]
• Stephen K. Yamashiro, 69, American politician, Mayor of Hawaii County (1992–2000), pneumonia. [82]
• Hakim Ali Zardari, 81, Pakistani politician, father of Asif Ali Zardari, after long illness. [83]

23

• Sam Faust, 26, Australian rugby league player, leukemia. [84]
• Michele Fawdon, 63, British-born Australian actress (Cathy's Child), cancer. [85]
• Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr., 95, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Jersey (1953–1975). [86]
• Nasser Hejazi, 61, Iranian football player and manager, cancer. [87]
• Pilu Momtaz, 52, Bangladeshi pop singer. [88]
• Abdias do Nascimento, 97, Brazilian activist and politician. [89] (Portuguese)
• Joseph Nguyên Tich Duc, 73, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ban Me Thuot (2000–2006). [90]
• Karel Otčenášek, 91, Czech Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hradec Králové (1989–1998). [91]
• Harry Redmond, Jr., 101, American special effects artist and producer (King Kong), natural causes. [92]
• Alejandro Roces, 86, Filipino writer and government official, Secretary of Education (1961–1965). [93]
• Roberto Sosa, 81, Honduran poet, heart attack. [94] (Spanish)
• Xavier Tondó, 32, Spanish cyclist, crushed by car. [95]

22

• Joseph Brooks, 73, American Grammy-winning songwriter ("You Light Up My Life"), suicide by asphyxiation. [96]
• Joëlle Brupbacher, 32, Swiss mountaineer, acute mountain sickness. [97]
• Chidananda Dasgupta, 89, Indian film critic. [98]
• Alexandru Ene, 82, Romanian football player. [99]
• Matej Ferjan, 34, Slovenian motorcycle speedway rider. [100]
• Bob Gould, 74, Australian activist and bookseller. [101]
• Ralph Hunt, 83, Australian politician, MP for Gwydir (1969–1989). [102]
• Suzanne Mizzi, 43, British glamour model and interior designer, cancer. [103]
• Ronald Naar, 56, Dutch mountaineer. [104]
• Breon O'Casey, 83, British artist. [105]
• Walter Soboleff, 102, American Tlingit scholar and spiritual leader, first Native Alaskan Prebysterian minister, bone and prostate cancer. [106]
• Joe Steffy, 85, American college football player (Army), 1947 Outland Trophy winner. [107]
• George Henry Strohsahl, Jr., 73, American naval officer and former commander of the Pacific Missile Test Center. [108]

21

• John Delaney, 42, Irish businessman (Intrade). [109]
• Irene Gilbert, 76, American actress and school director, co-founder of Stella Adler Academy of Los Angeles, Alzheimer's disease. [110]
• Bill Hunter, 71, Australian actor (Muriel's Wedding), liver cancer. [111]
• Hiroyuki Nagato, 77, Japanese actor, cerebrovascular disease. [112] (Japanese)
• Pádraig Kennelly, 82, Irish publisher, editor and journalist, founder of Kerry's Eye. [113]
• Gordon McLennan, 87, British politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party (1975–1990), cancer. [114]
• Jim Pyburn, 78, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles), after long illness. [115]
• Bill Rechin, 80, American cartoonist (Crock), complications from esophageal cancer. [116]
• Echo Valley, 56, American pornographic actress, car crash. [117]

20

• Michael Bell, 74, Irish politician, Teachta Dála for Louth (1982–2002). [118]
• John Cigna, 75, American radio personality (KDKA). [119]
• William Elliott, Baron Elliott of Morpeth, 90, British politician, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North (1957–1983). [120]
• Arieh Handler, 95, Israeli Zionist leader. [121]
• Eduard Janota, 59, Czech politician, Finance Minister (2009–2010), cardiac arrest. [122] (Czech)
• Donald Krim, 65, American businessman, president of Kino International, cancer. [123]
• Joaquín Pérez, 75, Mexican Olympic double bronze medal-winning (1980) equestrian. [124]
• Steve Rutt, 66, American inventor of early video animation, pancreatic cancer. [125]
• Randy Savage, 58, American professional wrestler. [126]

19

• Phyllis Avery, 88, American actress (Meet Mr. McNutley), heart failure. [127]
• Don H. Barden, 67, American businessman, lung cancer. [128]
• Garret FitzGerald, 85, Irish politician, Taoiseach (1981–1982; 1982–1987) and Minister for Foreign Affairs (1973–1977), after short illness. [129]
• Ivan Gibbs, 83, Australian politician, Queensland MLA for Albert (1974–1989), cancer. [130]
• David H. Kelley, 87, American-born Canadian archaeologist. [131]
• Kathy Kirby, 72, British singer, after short illness. [132]
• William Kloefkorn, 78, American poet. [133]
• Alda Noni, 95, Italian coloratura soprano. [134]
• Vladimir Ryzhkin, 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) footballer. [135] (Russian)
• Tom West, 71, American computer hardware engineer, heart attack. [136]

18

• Seiseki Abe, 96, Japanese shodo and aikido teacher. [137]
• Edward H. Harte, 88, American newspaper executive (Harte-Hanks). [138]
• Leonard Kastle, 82, American composer and filmmaker (The Honeymoon Killers). [139]
• Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, 60, Polish-born American painter. [140] (body found on this date)
• Dick Wimmer, 74, American author, heart complications. [141]

17

• Sean Dunphy, 73, Irish entertainer. [142]
• Joseph Galibardy, 96, Indian Olympic gold medal-winning (1936) field hockey player. [143]
• James M. Hewgley, Jr., 94, American politician, Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma (1966–1970). [144]
• Harmon Killebrew, 74, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Kansas City Royals), esophageal cancer. [145]
• Thomas MacAnna, 84, Irish director and actor. [146]
• Frank Upton, 76, English footballer (Derby County, Chelsea), after short illness. [147]

16

• Ralph Barker, 93, British air gunner and writer. [148]
• Robert Berks, 89, American sculptor, industrial designer and planner. [149]
• Douglas Blubaugh, 76, American Olympic gold-medal winning (1960) wrestler, motorcycle accident. [150]
• Serghei Covaliov, 66, Romanian Olympic gold (1968) and silver (1972) medal-winning canoeist. [151]
• Bob Davis, 82, Australian football player. [152]
• Nathaniel Davis, 86, American diplomat, cancer. [153]
• Edward Hardwicke, 78, British actor (Sherlock Holmes), son of Sir Cedric Hardwicke. [154]
• Kiyoshi Kodama, 77, Japanese actor, stomach cancer. [155] (Japanese)
• Bill Skiles, 79, American comedian (Skiles and Henderson), kidney cancer. [156]

15

• John Feikens, 93, American federal judge, after long illness. [157]
• Bob Flanigan, 84, American singer (The Four Freshmen) and musician. [158]
• Pete Lovely, 85, American racecar driver. [159]
• William Pennington, 88, American casino executive (Circus Circus Enterprises), Parkinson's disease. [160]
• Barbara Stuart, 81, American actress (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.). [161]
• F. Jay Taylor, 87, American academic, President of Louisiana Tech University (1962–1987). [162]
• Mahendra Singh Tikait, 76, Indian farming union leader, bone cancer. [163]
• Samuel Wanjiru, 24, Kenyan Olympic gold medal-winning (2008) marathon runner, fall from balcony. [164]
• Martin Woodhouse, 78, British novelist, screenwriter and inventor. [165]

14

• Ferial Alibali, 78, Albanian actress. [166] (Albanian)
• James Richard Cheek, 74, American diplomat, Ambassador to Sudan (1989–1992) and Argentina (1993–1996). [167]
• Murray Handwerker, 89, American businessman (Nathan's Famous). [168]
• Teuvo Laukkanen, 91, Finnish Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) cross-country skier. [169]
• Michael Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow, 73, British politician. [170]
• Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, 87, Chinese-born American historian and author. [171]
• Diane Sinclair, 90, American actress and dancer. [172]
• Birgitta Trotzig, 81, Swedish author. [173]
• Ernie Walker, 82, Scottish football administrator. [174]
• Joseph Wershba, 90, American television producer and reporter. [175]

13

• Derek Boogaard, 28, Canadian hockey player (Minnesota Wild, New York Rangers), accidental overdose of alcohol and oxycodone. [176]
• Stephen De Staebler, 78, American sculptor and printmaker, complications from cancer. [177]
• Pam Gems, 85, British playwright. [178]
• Bernard Greenhouse, 95, American cellist. [179]
• Bob Litherland, 80, British politician, MP for Manchester Central (1979–1997), cancer. [180]
• Princess Maria Elisabeth of Orléans-Braganza, 96, German noblewoman. [181] (Portuguese)
• Wallace McCain, 81, Canadian businessman, co-founder of McCain Foods, pancreatic cancer. [182]
• Mel Queen, 69, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim) and pitching coach (Blue Jays). [183]
• Jack Richardson, 81, Canadian record producer (The Guess Who). [184]
• Bruce Ricker, 68, American film documentarian and producer (Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser). [185]
• Badal Sarkar, 85, Indian dramatist, colon cancer. [186]

12

• Harrison Chongo, 41, Zambian football player, malaria. [187]
• Charles F. Haas, 97, American television director (Bonanza, The Outer Limits, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.). [188]
• Mose Jefferson, 68, American businessman, cancer. [189]
• Jack Jones, 86, American Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter (Los Angeles Times), lung disease. [190]
• Lloyd Knibb, 80, Jamaican drummer (The Skatalites), liver cancer. [191]
• Noreen Murray, 76, British geneticist. [192]
• David Orton, 77, Canadian environmentalist, pancreatic cancer. [193]
• Carlos Pascual, 80, Cuban baseball player (Washington Senators). [194]
• Luigi del Gallo Roccagiovine, 88, Italian nobleman and Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Camplum (since 1982). [195]
• Ron Springs, 54, American football player (Dallas Cowboys, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), complications from surgery. [196]
• Bill Summers, 75, American car builder (Goldenrod). [197]
• Miyu Uehara, 24, Japanese glamour model, apparent suicide by hanging. [198]
• Jack Wolf, 76, American information theorist, cancer. [199]

11

• Maurice Goldhaber, 100, American physicist. [200]
• Leo Kahn, 94, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Staples, complications from a series of strokes. [201]
• Albert Kanene Obiefuna, 81, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Onitsha (1995–2003). [202]
• Reach Sambath, 47, Cambodian journalist, stroke. [203]
• Elisabeth Svendsen, 81, British hotelier and animal welfare campaigner, founder of The Donkey Sanctuary. [204]
• Robert Traylor, 34, American basketball player (Milwaukee Bucks, Cleveland Cavaliers, New Orleans Hornets), suspected heart attack. [205]
• Snooky Young, 92, American jazz trumpeter, complications of a lung ailment. [206]

10

• Omar Ahmad, 46, American entrepreneur (Napster) and politician, Mayor of San Carlos, California (2010–2011), heart attack. [207]
• Michael Baze, 24, American jockey. [208]
• Bill Bergesch, 89, American baseball executive (Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds). [209]
• Frank Boston, 72, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1987–1999). [210]
• Mia Amber Davis, 36, American plus-size model and actress (Road Trip), postoperative complications. [211]
• Bill Gallo, 88, American cartoonist and newspaper columnist, complications from pneumonia. [212]
• Patrick Galvin, 83, Irish writer. [213]
• Zim Ngqawana, 51, South African jazz saxophonist, stroke. [214]
• Burt Reinhardt, 91, American broadcast executive, President of CNN (1982–1990), complications from strokes. [215]
• Norma Zimmer, 87, American entertainer (The Lawrence Welk Show). [216]

9

• David Cairns, 44, British politician, MP for Greenock and Inverclyde (2001–2005) and Inverclyde (since 2005), acute pancreatitis. [217]
• Robert Ellsworth, 84, American politician and diplomat, Representative from Kansas (1961–1967), Ambassador to NATO (1969–1971), complications from pneumonia. [218]
• Epiphanios of Vryoula, 76. American Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Spain and Portugal. [219]
• Henry Feffer, 93, American professor and spine surgeon, treated Saddam Hussein, heart failure. [220]
• Dolores Fuller, 88, American actress (Glen or Glenda), and songwriter ("Rock-A-Hula Baby"). [221]
• Jeff Gralnick, 72, American television news producer. [222]
• Lidia Gueiler Tejada, 89, Bolivian politician, acting President (1979–1980), after a long illness. [223]
• Doug Leeds, 63, American executive, vice-chairman of American Theatre Wing, cancer. [224]
• Ivo Pešák, 66, Czech singer, dancer and comic performer. [225] (Polish)
• Newton Thornburg, 81, American novelist. [226]
• Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya, 82, Nepali politician, Foreign Minister (1986–1990), altitude sickness. [227]
• Wouter Weylandt, 26, Belgian road bicycle racer, race crash. [228]

8

• Huthaifa al-Batawi, Iraqi al-Qaeda leader, shot. [229]
• Hans-Georg Borck, 89, German military officer. [230] (Portuguese)
• Wallace Clark, 84, Northern Irish maritime writer. [231]
• Cornell Dupree, 68, American jazz and R&B guitarist, complications from emphysema. [232]
• Gheorghe Guţiu, 87, Romanian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Cluj-Gherla (1994–2002). [233]
• Corwin Hansch, 92, American chemist, pneumonia. [234]
• Li Desheng, 95, Chinese People's Liberation Army general. [235] (Chinese)
• Charles McPhee, 49, American radio host, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [236]
• Greg Percival, 86, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1977–1978; 1986–1988). [237]
• Soňa Pertlová, 23, Czech chessplayer, cancer. [238]
• Lionel Rose, 62, Australian world champion boxer. [239]
• Hilton Rosemarin, 58, Canadian set decorator (Three Men and a Baby, Cocktail, Jumper), brain cancer. [240]
• Carlos Trillo, 68, Argentine comic book writer (Cybersix). [241] (Spanish)
• Galina Urbanovich, 93, Russian Olympic gold and silver medal-winning (1952) gymnast. [242]
• Sir Ronald Waterhouse, 85, British jurist. [243]

7

• Johnny Albino, 93, Puerto Rican bolero singer, heart attack. [244] (Spanish)
• Seve Ballesteros, 54, Spanish golfer, brain cancer. [245]
• Big George, 53, British broadcaster and music arranger. [246]
• Willard Boyle, 86, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (2009). [247]
• Jack Gordon, 66, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives (1972–1980), State Senator (1980–1992; 1996–2011), brain cancer. [248]
• Ross Hagen, 72, American actor (Daktari, Speedway). [249]
• Allyson Hennessy, 63, Trinidadian broadcaster. [250]
• Eilert Määttä, 75, Swedish ice hockey player and coach. [251] (Swedish)
• Gunter Sachs, 78, German photographer, author and multi-millionaire industrialist, suicide by gunshot. [252]
• Ella Schuler, 113, American supercentenarian, oldest person from Kansas. [253]
• Robert Stempel, 77, American automobile executive, Chairman and CEO of General Motors (1990–1992). [254]
• Kate Swift, 87, American writer, stomach cancer. [255]
• John Walker, 67, American musician (The Walker Brothers), liver cancer. [256]
• Doric Wilson, 72, American playwright and gay activist. [257]

6

• Barry Connolly, 72, Australian football player. [258]
• Oniroku Dan, 80, Japanese author, esophageal cancer. [259]
• Lawrence Johnson, 97, American boat trailer inventor and manufacturer, natural causes. [260]
• Horace Freeland Judson, 80, American science historian (The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science), complications of a stroke. [261]
• Quazi Nuruzzaman, 86, Bangladeshi veteran of the Liberation War, natural causes. [262]
• Duane Pillette, 88, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies). [263]
• Dick Walsh, 85, American baseball executive, first commissioner of the North American Soccer League. [264]
• Yoon Ki-Won, 24, South Korean football player, suicide by inhaling toxic fumes. [265]

5

• Leslie Audus, 99, British botany professor (University of London), expert on plant growth hormones. [266]
• Alice Bridges, 94, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1936) swimmer. [267]
• Claude Choules, 110, British-born Australian veteran, last combat veteran of World War I. [268]
• J. Donald Crump, 78, Canadian commissioner of the Canadian Football League (1990–1991). [269]
• Oliver Elmes, British graphic designer (Doctor Who). [270] (death reported on this date)
• Salomón Hakim, 81, Colombian neurosurgeon, researcher and inventor. [271]
• Arthur Laurents, 93, American playwright, librettist, stage director, and screenwriter (Anastasia, Rope, West Side Story). [272]
• Dougie McCracken, 46, Scottish football player (Ayr United), suspected suicide. [273]
• Yosef Merimovich, 86, Israeli football player and manager. [274] (Hebrew).
• Rolo Puente, 71, Argentine actor, pulmonary emphysema. [275]
• Tommy Wright, 83, Scottish footballer. [276]
• Dana Wynter, 79, German-born British actress (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), heart failure. [277]

4

• Lázaro Blanco, 73, Mexican photographer, cancer. [278] (Spanish)
• Frans de Kok, 87, Dutch conductor. [279] (Dutch)
• Jacques Georges Habib Hafouri, 94, Syrian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Hassaké-Nisibi (1982–1996). [280]
• Sammy McCrory, 86, Northern Irish footballer. [281]
• Mary Murphy, 80, American actress (The Wild One). [282]
• Thomas G. Nelson, 74, American federal judge, complications from declining health. [283]
• Françoise Olivier-Coupeau, 51, French politician, cancer. [284] (French)
• Acacio Valbuena Rodríguez, 88, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Prefect for Western Sahara (1994–2009). [285]
• Frans Sammut, 66, Maltese writer, natural causes. [286]
• Bernard Stasi, 80, French politician, Minister for Overseas Departments and Territories (1973–1974), Alzheimer's disease. [287] (French)
• Richard Steinheimer, 81, American railroad photographer, Alzheimer's disease. [288]
• Sada Thompson, 83, American actress (Family), lung disease. [289]

3

• Paul Ackerley, 61, New Zealand hockey player and coach, skin cancer. [290]
• Bob Balog, 86, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). [291]
• Robert Brout, 82, American-born Belgian theoretical physicist. [292] (French)
• Odell Brown, 70, American jazz organist and songwriter ("Sexual Healing"). [293]
• Jackie Cooper, 88, American actor (Skippy, Our Gang, Superman) and director (M*A*S*H). [294]
• Sergo Kotrikadze, 74, Georgian football player and coach, heart attack. [295] (Russian)
• Mildred Robbins Leet, 88, American philanthropist, co-founder of Trickle Up, complications of a fall. [296]
• Patrick Roy, 53, French politician, pancreatic cancer. [297] (French)
• Thanasis Veggos, 83, Greek actor, stroke. [298]

2

• Leonid Abalkin, 80, Russian economist. [299] (Russian)
• Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, 46, Kuwaiti Al-Qaeda computer expert, shot. [300]
• Robert W. Clower, 85, American economist. [301]
• Danny Kassap, 28, Congolese-born Canadian long-distance runner. [302]
• Osama bin Laden, 54, Saudi founder of Al-Qaeda, planned September 11 attacks, shot. [303]
• Alexander Lazarev, 73, Russian actor. [304] (Russian)
• Eddie Lewis, 76, English footballer (Manchester United, West Ham United), cancer. [305] (death announced on this date)
• René Emilio Ponce, 64, Salvadoran general and defence minister, army chief of staff during the Civil War. [306]
• David Sencer, 86, American public health official, director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1966–1977), heart disease. [307]
• Shigeo Yaegashi, 78, Japanese footballer. [308] (Japanese)

1

• Spyrydon Babskyi, 52, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Archbishop of Vinnytsya in UOC-KP (1992–1993). [309] (Russian)
• Sir Henry Cooper, 76, British Olympic heavyweight boxer. [310]
• Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, 80, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Valencia (1992–2009), cardiac arrest. [311] (Spanish)
• Moshe Landau, 99, Israeli jurist, Chief Justice (1980–1982), presided over Adolf Eichmann's trial (1961). [312]
• Ted Lowe, 90, British snooker commentator. [313]
• Steven Orszag, 68, American mathematician, chronic lymphomic leukemia. [314]
• Ivan Slavkov, 70, Bulgarian sports official. [315]
• William O. Taylor II, 78, American journalist and publisher (The Boston Globe), brain tumor. [316]
• J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr., 87, American mathematician and nuclear scientist. [317]