Deaths in September 2011

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

September 2011

30

• Va'aelua Eti Alesana, Samoan politician, President of the Tautua Samoa Party since 2011. [1]
• João d'Avila Moreira Lima, 92, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (1982–2002). [2]
• Anwar al-Awlaki, 40, American-born Yemeni cleric and Al-Qaeda official, airstrike. [3]
• Lee Davenport, 95, American physicist, helped develop SCR-584 radar, cancer. [4]
• Gilberto Fernandez, 76, Cuban-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Miami (1997–2002). [5]
• Peter Gent, 69, American football player (Dallas Cowboys) and author (North Dallas Forty). [6]
• Alexander Grant, 86, New Zealand ballet dancer. [7]
• Mike Heimerdinger, 58, American football coach (Tennessee Titans), cancer. [8]
• Gaspar Henaine, 84, Mexican comedian. [9]
• Mumtaz Jajja, 63, Pakistani politician, dengue fever. [10]
• Roger G. Kennedy, 85, American civil servant, Director of the National Park Service (1993–1997), melanoma. [11]
• Samir Khan, 25, Saudi-born American jihadist and publisher (Inspire), airstrike. [12]
• Ram Dayal Munda, 72, Indian scholar and activist. [13]
• Sir Arthur Norman, 94, British industrialist. [14]
• Clifford Olson, 71, Canadian serial killer, cancer. [15]
• Ralph M. Steinman, 68, Canadian immunologist, announced as 2011 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, pancreatic cancer. [16]
• Marv Tarplin, 70, American guitarist and songwriter (The Miracles). [17]

29

• Eddie Bockman, 91, American baseball player, manager and scout (Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees). [18]
• Hella Haasse, 93, Dutch writer. [19] (Dutch)
• Philip Hannan, 98, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of New Orleans (1965–1988). [20]
• Nonie Lynch, 101, Irish traditional singer. [21]
• Tatyana Lioznova, 87, Russian film director (Seventeen Moments of Spring), People's Artist of the USSR. [22] (Russian)
• Vera Popkova, 68, Russian athlete, Olympic bronze medalist (1968). [23] (Russian)
• Sylvia Robinson, 75, American singer (Mickey & Sylvia), music producer and record label executive, heart failure. [24]
• Miriam Schmierer, 112, Australian supercentenarian, nation's oldest person. [25]
• Lojze Slak, 79, Slovene accordion player, bone cancer. [26] (Slovenian)
• Iain Sproat, 72, Scottish politician and journalist. [27]

28

• Patrick Collinson, 82, British historian. [28]
• Pierre Dansereau, 99, Canadian ecologist. [29] (French)
• Heidi, 3, American-born cross-eyed opossum at Leipzig Zoo, euthanised. [30]
• Claude R. Kirk, Jr., 85, American politician, Governor of Florida (1967–1971). [31]
• Nick Navarro, 81, American law enforcement official, Sheriff of Broward County, Florida (1985–1992), complications of cancer. [32]

27

• David Croft, 89, British television comedy writer and producer (Are You Being Served?, Dad's Army). [33]
• Sara Douglass, 54, Australian fantasy author, ovarian cancer. [34]
• Ida Fink, 89, Israeli Polish-language author. [35] (German)
• Wilson Greatbatch, 92, American engineer, inventor of the implantable cardiac pacemaker. [36]
• Dave Hill, 74, American golfer, complications from emphysema. [37]
• Imre Makovecz, 75, Hungarian architect. [38]
• Richard W. Mallary, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from Vermont (1972–1975). [39]
• Johnny "Country" Mathis, 77, American singer-songwriter. [40]
• Jesús María Pereda, 73, Spanish football player and manager. [41]
• Stuart Spencer, 79, Australian footballer. [42]
• Joe Tofflemire, 46, American football player (Seattle Seahawks), heart failure. [43]
• Johnnie Wright, 97, American country music singer (Johnnie & Jack), husband of Kitty Wells. [44]
• Cizia Zykë, 61, French writer and adventurer. [45] (French)

26

• Robert Blinc, 76, Slovene physicist. [46]
• Sergio Bonelli, 78, Italian comic book author and publisher. [47]
• Bob Cassilly, 61, American sculptor, founder of City Museum, bulldozer accident. [48]
• Jessy Dixon, 73, American gospel musician. [49]
• David Zelag Goodman, 81, American screenwriter (Straw Dogs), progressive supranuclear palsy. [50]
• Jerry Haynes, 84, American actor, Parkinson's disease. [51]
• Harry Muskee, 70, Dutch blues singer and musician (Cuby + Blizzards). cancer. [52] (Dutch)
• Uan Rasey, 90, American film trumpeter (Chinatown, Singin' in the Rain), heart ailment. [53]
• Michael Shor, 91, Israeli security official, CEO of Israel Military Industries (1972–1989). [54] (Hebrew)

25

• Theyab Awana, 21, Emirati footballer, traffic accident. [55]
• Denis Cannan, 92, British playwright. [56]
• Tony Conyers, 83, British journalist. [57]
• Erling Lars Dale, 65, Norwegian educationalist, cancer. [58] (Norwegian)
• Helen Keane, 109, American talk show personality and New York University professor. [59]
• Norman Lawson, 75, English footballer and cricketer. [60]
• Sissy Löwinger, 70, Austrian actress, daughter of Paul Löwinger. [61] (German)
• Wangari Maathai, 71, Kenyan environmental activist, MP and Nobel Peace Prize winner, cancer. [62]
• Ali St. Louis, 52, Trinidadian Olympic athlete, traffic accident. [63]

24

• Robert Chasowa, 25, Malawian political activist. [64]
• Surinder Kapoor, 86, Indian film producer, cardiac arrest. [65]
• Tony Knap, 96, American college football coach, Alzheimer's disease. [66]
• Konstantin Lerner, 61, Ukrainian chess grandmaster. [67]
• Emanuel Litvinoff, 96, British writer and human rights campaigner. [68]
• Gusty Spence, 78, British Ulster loyalist, leader of the Ulster Volunteer Force. [69]
• Ken Yamauchi, 67, Japanese actor, pneumonia. [70]

23

• Orlando Brown, 40, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens), diabetic ketoacidosis. [71]
• Hubert Constant, 80, Haitian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cap-Haïtien (2003–2008). [72]
• Danny Litwhiler, 95, American baseball player and coach. [73]
• Rolland W. Redlin, 91, American politician, U.S. Representative from North Dakota (1965–1967). [74]
• Douglas Stuart, 20th Earl of Moray, 83, British aristocrat. [75]
• Joseph Trinh Chinh Truc, 85, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ban Me Thuot (1990–2000). [76]
• José Miguel Varas, 83, Chilean writer. [77] (Spanish)
• Carl Wood, 81, Australian in vitro fertilisation pioneer, Alzheimer's disease. [78]

22

• Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, 70, Indian cricketer, ninth and last Nawab of Pataudi (1952–1971), lung disease. [79]
• Peter E. Berger, 67, American film editor (Fatal Attraction, Alvin and the Chipmunks), leukemia. [80]
• Jonathan Cecil, 72, English actor. [81]
• Cengiz Dağcı, 92, Crimean Turkish novelist and poet. [82] (Turkish)
• John H. Dick, 92, American naval officer and college basketball player. [83]
• Margaret Ogola, 53, Kenyan author. [84]
• Asbjørn Osnes, 79, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper. [85] (Norwegian)
• Whatumoana Paki, 85, New Zealand Maori royal elder, widower of Te Atairangikaahu, father of King Tuheitia. [86]
• Aristides Pereira, 87, Cape Verdean politician and guerrilla leader, President (1975–1991). [87]
• Vic Roby, 93, American radio and television announcer. [88]
• Knut Steen, 86, Norwegian sculptor. [89] (Norwegian)
• Vesta Williams, 53, American R&B singer. [90]

21

• Joe Abeywickrama, 84, Sri Lankan actor. [91]
• Lawrence Russell Brewer, 44, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [92]
• Troy Davis, 42, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [93]
• Michael Julian Drake, 69, American planetary scientist. [94]
• John Du Cann, 66, British musician (Atomic Rooster), heart attack. [95]
• Paulette Dubost, 100, French actress (The Rules of the Game, The Last Metro). [96]
• Ben Feleo, 85, Filipino film director. [97]
• Mickey Rottner, 92, American basketball player (Sheboygan Red Skins, Chicago Stags). [98]
• Pamela Ann Rymer, 70, American federal judge, cancer. [99]
• Naoki Sugiura, 79, Japanese actor, lung cancer. [100] (Japanese)

20

• Arvid Andersson, 92, Swedish Olympic weightlifter. [101]
• Johnny Barend, 82, American professional wrestler, natural causes. [102]
• Monte J. Brough, 72, American religious leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [103]
• Frank Driggs, 81, American Grammy Award-winning jazz producer, musician and archivist, natural causes. [104]
• Oscar Handlin, 95, American historian. [105]
• Michael Jarvis, 73, British horse trainer. [106]
• Aleksei Mamykin, 75, Russian footballer and coach. [107] (Russian)
• Burhanuddin Rabbani, 70, Afghan politician, President (1992–1996, 2001), bomb attack. [108]
• Victor Blanchard Scheffer, 104, American mammologist and author, natural causes. [109]
• Gaby Stenberg, 88, Swedish actress. [110] (Swedish)
• Per Unckel, 63, Swedish politician, Governor of Stockholm County (since 2007), cancer. [111] (Swedish)
• Arch West, 97, American marketing executive credited with developing Doritos. [112]
• Robert Whitaker, 71, British photographer, shot The Beatles' butcher album cover, cancer. [113]

19

• George Benton, 78, American boxer, pneumonia. [114]
• Thomas Capano, 61, American convicted murderer, heart attack. [115]
• Bernard Collomb, 80, French racing driver. [116] (French)
• Dolores Hope, 102, American philanthropist, widow of Bob Hope, natural causes. [117]
• Ginger McCain, 80, British horse trainer, cancer. [118]
• George Cadle Price, 92, Belizean politician, Prime Minister (1981–1984; 1989–1993). [119]
• Johnny Răducanu, 79, Romanian jazz musician, cardiac arrest. [120] (Romanian)

18

• Jack Adler, 94, American comic book artist. [121]
• Mohammed Bassiouni, 74, Egyptian diplomat, Ambassador to Israel (1986–2000). [122]
• Tom Daly, 93, Canadian movie director and producer, long illness. [123]
• Norma Holloway Johnson, 79, American federal judge, first African American woman to serve as a district court chief judge, stroke. [124]
• Bayless Manning, 88, American lawyer, Dean of Stanford Law School (1964–1971), first President of the Council on Foreign Relations. [125]
• William F. May, 95, American film society founder (Film Society of Lincoln Center), heart failure. [126]
• Marcelino Palentini, 68, Italian-born Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jujuy (since 1995). [127]
• Ivo Škrabalo, 77, Croatian writer, director and actor. [128] (Croatian)
• Swian Zanoni, 23, Brazilian motocross rider, race accident. [129]

17

• Ernest House Sr., 65, American tribal leader, Chairman of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe (1982–2010), injuries from a motorcycle accident. [130]
• Colin Madigan, 90, Australian architect. [131]
• Fedon Matheou, 87, Greek basketball player and coach. [132] (Greek)
• Eleanor Mondale, 51, American television personality, daughter of Walter Mondale, brain cancer. [133]
• Charles H. Percy, 91, American politician, Senator from Illinois (1967–1985), Alzheimer's disease. [134]
• Kurt Sanderling, 98, German conductor. [135]
• Ferenc Szojka, 80, Hungarian footballer. [136] (Hungarian)
• Moisés Villanueva de la Luz, 47, Mexican politician, MP (2011). [137] (Spanish) (body found on this date)

16

• Roger Belanger, 45, Canadian ice hockey player (Pittsburgh Penguins), heart attack. [138]
• Sir Brian Burnett, 98, British Air Chief Marshal, Chairman of the All England Club. [139]
• John P. Carroll, 12, American bulldog, mascot of Georgetown University. [140]
• Jordi Dauder, 73, Spanish actor. [141] (Spanish)
• Norma Eberhardt, 82, American actress (Live Fast, Die Young, The Return of Dracula), stroke. [142]
• Dave Gavitt, 73, American basketball coach, founder of the Big East Conference. [143]
• Sir William Hawthorne, 98, British aerospace engineer. [144]
• Kara Kennedy, 51, American television producer, daughter of Ted Kennedy, heart attack. [145]
• Jean Leclant, 91, French archaeologist and Egyptologist. [146] (French)
• Jimmy Leeward, 74, American stunt and racing pilot, plane crash. [147]
• Stephen Mueller, 63, American painter, cancer. [148]
• Ted Mullighan, 72, Australian jurist, cancer. [149]
• Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, 75, American blues musician. [150]
• Tom Wilson, Sr., 80, American cartoonist (Ziggy). [151]

15

• Frances Bay, 92, Canadian character actress (Happy Gilmore, Blue Velvet, The Middle). [152]
• Parey Branton, 92, American politician, Louisiana State Representative (1960–1972), Mayor of Shongaloo (1972–1990). [153]
• José Manuel Rodriguez Delgado, 96, Spanish scientist and professor. [154] (Spanish)
• Clemente Faccani, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya (1983–1995) and Seychelles (1985–1994). [155]
• Georges Fillioud, 82, French politician. [156] (French)
• Dorothy Harrell, 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League). [157]
• John Hubert Kelly, 72, American diplomat. [158]
• Khalid Abdel Nasser, 62, Egyptian professor, eldest son of Gamal Abdel Nasser. [159]
• Mo Rothman, 92, Canadian-born American movie executive, persuaded Charlie Chaplin to return to the United States, Parkinson's disease. [160]
• Nykodym Rusnak, 90, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv (since 1989). [161]
• Regina Smendzianka, 86, Polish pianist. [162] (Polish)
• Bill Taylor, 81, American baseball player (New York Giants, Detroit Tigers). [163]
• Otakar Vávra, 100, Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. [164] (Czech)

14

• Harishchandra Birajdar, 61, Indian Olympic wrestler (1972). [165]
• Lewis Brown, 56, American basketball player (Washington Bullets), heart attack. [166]
• Choi Dong-Won, 53, South Korean baseball player (Lotte Giants, Samsung Lions), colon cancer. [167]
• Desmond FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin, 74, Irish hereditary knight. [168]
• Jorge Lavat, 78, Mexican actor. [169] (Spanish)
• Rudolf Mössbauer, 82, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1961). [170] (German)
• Frank Parkin, 80, British sociologist and novelist. [171]
• Buddy Tinsley, 87, American-born Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers). [172]
• Malcolm Wallop, 78, American politician, United States Senator from Wyoming (1977–1995). [173]

13

• Walter Bonatti, 81, Italian mountain climber. [174] (German)
• John Calley, 81, American movie studio executive. [175]
• Wilma Lee Cooper, 90, American country music singer, natural causes. [176]
• Sam DeLuca, 75, American football player and broadcaster (New York Jets), pancreatic cancer. [177]
• Paul Gallant, 67, Canadian entrepreneur, inventor of Puzz-3D, cancer. [178]
• Jack Garner, 84, American actor (The Rockford Files, My Fellow Americans), brother of James Garner. [179]
• Richard Hamilton, 89, British artist. [180]
• David Jull, 66, Australian politician, Member of the House of Representatives (1975–1983, 1984–2007). [181]
• Joe Krupa, 78, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), heart ailment. [182]
• DJ Mehdi, 34, French musician. [183]
• Harlan Erwin Mitchell, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative from Georgia (1958–1961). [184]
• Carl Oglesby, 76, American anti-war activist, lung cancer. [185]
• Gautam Rajadhyaksha, 60, Indian photographer. [186]

12

• Bill Cash, 92, American Negro league baseball player. [187]
• Frits Castricum, 64, Dutch politician, Member of the House of Representatives (1977–1994) and the Senate (1999–2003). [188] (Dutch)
• Alexander Galimov, 26, Russian ice hockey player, injuries sustained in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash. [189]
• Mohammed Ghani Hikmat, 82, Iraqi sculptor, kidney failure. [190]
• Ralph Lomma, 87, American mini golf entrepreneur. [191]
• Wade Mainer, 104, American bluegrass musician, heart failure. [192]

11

• Douglas Allen, Baron Croham, 93, British civil servant, Head of the Home Civil Service (1974–1977). [193]
• Christian Bakkerud, 26, Danish racing driver, injuries sustained in a car accident. [194]
• Cliff Brittle, 69, English sports administrator, Chairman of the Rugby Football Union (1996–1998). [195]
• Arthur Evans, 68, American gay rights activist and author, aortic aneurysm. [196]
• Ralph Gubbins, 79, English football player (Bolton Wanderers, Hull City, Tranmere Rovers). [197]
• Isabell Masters, 98, American politician, third-party candidate for President of the United States (1984, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004). [198]
• Yuli Ofer, 87, Romanian-born Israeli businessman and entrepreneur. [199]
• Walter Righter, 87, American clergyman, bishop in the Episcopal Church, after long illness. [200]
• Andy Whitfield, 39, Welsh-born Australian actor (Spartacus: Blood and Sand), non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [201]

10

• David E. L. Choong, 82, Malaysian badminton player. [202]
• Graham Collier, 74, British jazz bassist. [203]
• Joe B. Finley, 87, American rancher, co-founder of United Independent School District. [204]
• Bernice Lake, 78, Anguillan-born Antiguan jurist, first Eastern Caribbean woman to be appointed Queen's Counsel. [205]
• Cecil Marshall, 71, Canadian cricketer. [206]
• Sabino Augusto Montanaro, 89, Paraguayan politician, Minister of the Interior (1968–1989). [207]
• Eric Prabhakar, 86, Indian Olympic athlete (1948). [208]
• Cliff Robertson, 88, American actor (Charly, Spider-Man, PT 109), natural causes. [209]
• Sam Pata Emani Tagelagi, 75, Niuean politician, first Speaker of the Niue Assembly (1976–1993), long illness. [210]

9

• Valentino Braitenberg, 85, Italian neuroscientist. [211] (Italian)
• Werner Geeser, 63, Swiss Olympic cross-country skier, cancer. [212] (German)
• Laurie Hughes, 87, English football player (Liverpool). [213]
• William Lesick, 88, Canadian politician, MP for Edmonton East (1984–1988). [214]
• Herbert Lomas, 87, British poet. [215]
• Ignace Matondo Kwa Nzambi, 79, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Basankusu (1974–1998) and Molegbe (1998–2007). [216]
• Khairy Shalaby, 73, Egyptian writer. [217]
• Peter Sneath, 87, British microbiologist. [218]
• Dušan Trbojević, 86, Serbian composer. [219]

8

• David Bitner, 62, American political leader, Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida (2011), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [220]
• Mary Fickett, 83, American actress (All My Children), complications of Alzheimer's disease. [221]
• Jesse Jefferson, 62, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Toronto Blue Jays), prostate cancer. [222]
• Keo Nakama, 91, American swimmer. [223]
• Sir Hilary Synnott, 66, British diplomat. [224]
• Vo Chi Cong, 99, Vietnamese politician, President (1987–1992). [225]
• Emilianos Zacharopoulos, 96, Turkish-born Greek Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan (since 1959). [226] (French)

7

• Max Boisot, 67, British academic, cancer. [227]
• Gabriel Bullet, 90, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg (1970–1993). [228]
• Derek Grierson, 79, Scottish footballer. [229]
• Jang Hyo-Jo, 55, South Korean baseball player (Samsung Lions, Lotte Giants), liver cancer. [230]
• Harold Mair, 92, Australian politician. [231]
• Eddie Marshall, 73, American jazz drummer. [232]
• Gabriel Valdés, 92, Chilean politician and diplomat, President of the Senate of Chile (1990-1996), Foreign Minister (1964-1970). [233]
• Hiroe Yuki, 62, Japanese badminton player. [234]
• Notable ice hockey players and coaches among the 44 killed in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash: [235]
  • Vitali Anikeyenko, 24, Ukrainian
  • Mikhail Balandin, 31, Russian
  • Gennady Churilov, 24, Russian
  • Pavol Demitra, 36, Slovakian
  • Robert Dietrich, 25, German
  • Marat Kalimulin, 23, Russian
  • Alexander Kalyanin, 23, Russian
  • Alexander Karpovtsev, 41, Russian coach, world champion (as player, 1993), Stanley Cup champion (as player, 1994, with New York Rangers)
  • Andrei Kiryukhin, 24, Russian
  • Nikita Klyukin, 21, Russian, world U18 champion (2007)
  • Igor Korolev, 41, Russian coach
  • Stefan Liv, 30, Swedish, Olympic gold medalist (2006), world champion (2006)
  • Jan Marek, 31, Czech
  • Brad McCrimmon, 52, Canadian coach, Stanley Cup champion (as player, 1989, with Calgary Flames)
  • Sergei Ostapchuk, 21, Belarusian
  • Karel Rachůnek, 32, Czech, world champion (2010)
  • Ruslan Salei, 36, Belarusian
  • Maxim Shuvalov, 18, Russian
  • Kārlis Skrastiņš, 37, Latvian
  • Pavel Snurnitsyn, 19, Russian
  • Daniil Sobchenko, 20, Russian, world junior champion (2011)
  • Ivan Tkachenko, 31, Russian
  • Pavel Trakhanov, 33, Russian
  • Yuri Urychev, 20, Russian, world junior champion (2011)
  • Josef Vašíček, 30, Czech, world junior champion (2000), world champion (2005), Stanley Cup champion (2006, with Carolina Hurricanes)
  • Alexander Vasyunov, 23, Russian
  • Alexander Vyukhin, 38, Ukrainian
  • Artem Yarchuk, 21, Russian

6

• Shigeri Akabane, 70, Japanese professional wrestler, heart attack. [236]
• Hans Apel, 79, German politician, Finance Minister (1974–1978) and Defence Minister (1978–1982). [237] (German)
• Jordan Belson, 85, American filmmaker, heart failure. [238]
• Bruce Dan, 64, American researcher (toxic shock syndrome), complicatons of a bone marrow transplant. [239]
• Dan David, 82, Romanian-born Israeli businessman and philanthropist, brain hemorrhage. [240]
• Archduke Felix of Austria, 95, Austrian royal, last surviving child of Charles I of Austria. [241]
• Michael S. Hart, 64, American author, inventor of the e-book and founder of Project Gutenberg, heart attack. [242]
• George Kuchar, 69, American film director, prostate cancer. [243]
• Janusz Morgenstern, 88, Polish filmmaker. [244]
• Wardell Quezergue, 81, American music arranger, producer and bandleader, heart failure. [245]
• Raphaël Marie Ze, 78, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sangmélima (1992–2008). [246]

5

• Reidar Børjeson, 80, Norwegian Olympic figure skater (1952). [247] (Norwegian)
• Andrew Zolile T. Brook, 81, South African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Umtata (1979–1995). [248]
• Angioletta Coradini, 65, Italian astrophysicist, cancer. [249] (Italian)
• Charles S. Dubin, 92, American film and television director (Hawaii Five-O, Kojak, M*A*S*H), natural causes. [250]
• Salvatore Licitra, 43, Italian tenor, injuries from a motor scooter accident. [251]
• Vann Nath, 66, Cambodian painter. [252]
• Bobby Rhine, 35, American soccer player (FC Dallas), heart attack. [253]
• Peter Thuruthikonam, 82, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vijayapuram (1988–2006), heart attack. [254]

4

• Lalla Aicha, 81, Moroccan princess, first female Arab ambassador, Ambassador to United Kingdom (1965–1969); Greece (1969–1970); Italy (1970–1973). [255]
• Victor Bussie, 92, American labor activist, president of Louisiana AFL–CIO, stomach cancer. [256]
• Hugh Fox, 79, American poet and novelist. [257]
• Hilde Heltberg, 51, Norwegian musician, cancer. [258]
• Bill Kunkel, 61, American video game designer and magazine editor, heart attack. [259]
• Fermo Mino Martinazzoli, 79, Italian politician, after long illness. [260] (Italian)
• Jag Mundhra, 62, Indian film director (Bawandar). [261]
• Lee Roy Selmon, 56, American Hall of Fame football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), stroke. [262]
• Dana Wilson, 28, New Zealand rugby league player, car accident. [263]

3

• Julio Casas Regueiro, 75, Cuban politician, Vice President and Defense Minister (since 2008), heart attack. [264]
• Andrzej Maria Deskur, 87, Polish Roman Catholic cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications (1973–1984). [265]
• Don Fambrough, 88, American football player and head coach (University of Kansas), injuries from a fall. [266]
• Finn Helgesen, 92, Norwegian Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) speed skater. [267] (Norwegian)
• John Hoover, 91, American artist. [268]
• Sándor Képíró, 97, Hungarian World War II veteran acquitted of Nazi war crimes. [269]
• Sumant Misra, 88, Indian tennis player. [270]

2

• Edgar Benson, 88, Canadian politician and diplomat. [271]
• Roberto Bruce, 32, Chilean television journalist, plane crash. [272]
• Felipe Camiroaga, 44, Chilean television presenter, plane crash. [273]
• Tony Corsari, 84, Belgian television host, cancer. [274] (Dutch)
• Allan Hubbard, 83, New Zealand businessman, car accident. [275]
• Shrinivas Khale, 85, Indian composer. [276]
• Lennart Magnusson, 87, Swedish Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) fencer. [277]
• José María Montes, 91, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Chascomús (1983–1996). [278]
• Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, 39, Malaysian television camera operator (Bernama), shot. [279]
• Trulshik Rinpoche, 88, Tibetan lama. [280]
• Jehangir Sabavala, 89, Indian artist. [281]
• Bernard William Smith, 94, Australian art historian and critic. [282]
• Alberto Zalamea, 82, Colombian journalist and politician, Ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire, Venezuela and Italy. [283]

1

• Jan Lammers, 84, Dutch Olympic athlete (1948). [284] (Dutch)
• Liu Huang A-tao, 90, Taiwanese activist, first comfort woman to sue Japan for compensation. [285]
• Abdulrahman al-Nuaimi, 67, Bahraini opposition leader, founder of the PFLB and the NDA. [286]
• Alexandru Pesamosca, 81, Romanian surgeon and pediatrician, cardiac arrest. [287]
• Kamal Salibi, 82, Lebanese historian. [288]