Deaths in 2011

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).

May 2011

20

Michael Bell, 74, Irish politician, Teachta Dála (1982–2002). [1]
Ivan Gibbs, 83, Australian politician, Queensland MLA for Albert (1974–1989), cancer. [2]
Eduard Janota, 59, Czech politician, Finance Minister (2009–2010), cardiac arrest. [3] (Czech)
Randy Savage, 58, American professional wrestler, car accident resulting from heart attack. [4]
John Cigna, Radio Personality, KDKA Pittsburgh]

19

Don H. Barden, 67, American businessman, lung cancer. [5]
Austin Box, 22, American college football player (University of Oklahoma), suspected overdose. [6]
Garret FitzGerald, 85, Irish politician, Taoiseach (1981–1982; 1982–1987) and Minister for Foreign Affairs (1973–1977), after short illness. [7]
Kathy Kirby, 72, British singer, after short illness. [8]
William Kloefkorn, 78, American poet. [9]
Vladimir Ryzhkin, 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) footballer. [10] (Russian)

18

John Fortino, 76, Italian-born Canadian businessman, founder of Fortinos supermarket chain, cancer. [11]
Frank L. Lacy, 87, American blues and jazz guitarist. [12]
Frank Upton, 76, English footballer (Derby County, Chelsea), after short illness. [13]
Randall Wreghitt, 55, American theatrical producer, carbon monoxide poisoning. [14]

17

Sean Dunphy, 73, Irish entertainer. [15]
Joseph Galibardy, 96, Indian Olympic gold medal-winning (1936) field hockey player. [16]
James M. Hewgley, Jr., 94, American politician, Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma (1966–1970). [17]
Harmon Killebrew, 74, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Minnesota Twins), esophageal cancer. [18]
Gregory Lewis, 57, American journalist (Miami Sun-Sentinel), cancer. [19]

16

Douglas Blubaugh, 76, American Olympic gold-medal winning (1960) wrestler, motorcycle accident. [20]
Bob Davis, 82, Australian football player. [21]
Edward Hardwicke, 78, British actor (Sherlock Holmes), son of Sir Cedric Hardwicke. [22]
Kiyoshi Kodama, 77, Japanese actor, stomach cancer. [23] (Japanese)
David Parry, 76, American football official, co-ordinater of NCAA officials, Parkinson's disease. [24]
Bill Skiles, 79, American comedian (Skiles and Henderson), kidney cancer. [25]
James Warren, 74, American NHRA racer. [26]

15

Maico Buncio, 22, Filipino motorcycle racer, racing accident. [27]
John Feikens, 93, American federal judge, after long illness. [28]
Bob Flanigan, 84, American singer (The Four Freshmen) and musician. [29]
Pete Lovely, 85, American racecar driver. [30]
M-Bone, 22, American rapper and dancer (Cali Swag District), shot. [31]
Barbara Stuart, 76, American actress (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.). [32]
F. Jay Taylor, 87, American academic, President of Louisiana Tech University (1962–1987). [33]
Mahendra Singh Tikait, 76, Indian farming union leader, bone cancer. [34]
Samuel Wanjiru, 24, Kenyan Olympic gold medal-winning (2008) marathon runner, fall from balcony. [35]

14

Ferial Alibali, 78, Albanian actress. [36] (Albanian)
James Richard Cheek, 74, American diplomat, Ambassador to Sudan (1989–1992) and Argentina (1993–1996). [37]
Murray Handwerker, 89, American businessman (Nathan's Famous). [38]
Michael Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow, 73, British politician. [39]
Birgitta Trotzig, 81, Swedish author. [40]
Ernie Walker, 82, Scottish football administrator. [41]
Joseph Wershba, 90, American television producer and reporter. [42]

13

Derek Boogaard, 28, Canadian hockey player (Minnesota Wild, New York Rangers), accidental overdose of alcohol and oxycodone. [43]
Stephen De Staebler, 78, American sculptor and printmaker, complications from cancer. [44]
Pam Gems, 85, British playwright. [45]
Bernard Greenhouse, 95, American cellist. [46]
Robert Litherland, 80, British politician, MP for Manchester Central (1979–1997), cancer. [47]
Princess Maria Elisabeth of Orléans-Braganza, 96, German noblewoman. [48] (Portuguese)
Wallace McCain, 81, Canadian businessman, co-founder of McCain Foods, pancreatic cancer. [49]
Mel Queen, 69, American baseball player (Reds, Angels) and pitching coach (Blue Jays). [50]
Jack Richardson, 81, Canadian record producer (The Guess Who). [51]
Bruce Ricker, 68, American film documentarian and producer (Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser). [52]
Badal Sarkar, 85, Indian dramatist, colon cancer. [53]
Piotr Żyżelewicz, 46, Polish drummer (Voo Voo), stroke. [54]

12

Aaron Douglas, 21, American college football player (University of Alabama). [55]
Daryl Hawks, 38, American sportscaster (WMAQ-TV). [56] (body found on this date)
Mose Jefferson, 68, American businessman, cancer. [57]
Jack Jones, 86, American Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter (Los Angeles Times), lung disease. [58]
Lloyd Knibb, 80, Jamaican drummer (The Skatalites), liver cancer. [59]
Luigi del Gallo Roccagiovine, 88, Italian nobleman and Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Camplum (since 1982). [60]
Ron Springs, 54, American football player (Cowboys, Buccaneers), complications from surgery. [61]
Miyu Uehara, 24, Japanese glamour model, apparent suicide by hanging. [62]
Jack Keil Wolf, 76, American information theorist, cancer. [63]

11

Mario Bertini, 67, Italian footballer, complications during an operation. [64] (Italian)
Maurice Goldhaber, 100, American physicist. [65]
Leo Kahn, 94, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Staples, complications from a series of strokes. [66]
Albert Kanene Obiefuna, 81, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Onitsha (1995–2003). [67]
Reach Sambath, 47, Cambodian journalist, stroke. [68]
Robert Traylor, 34, American basketball player (Bucks, Cavaliers, Hornets), suspected heart attack. [69] (body found on this date)
Snooky Young, 92, American jazz trumpeter. [70]

10

Zim Ngqawana, South African jazz saxophonist

Omar Ahmad, 46, American entrepreneur and politician, Mayor of San Carlos, California (2007–2011), heart attack. [71]
Michael Baze, 24, American jockey. [72]
Bill Bergesch, 89, American baseball executive (New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds). [73]
Vasilis Bozikis, 67, Greek photojournalist, cancer. [74] (Greek)
Mia Amber Davis, 36, American plus-size model and actress (Road Trip), postoperative complications. [75]
Cleve Dean, 57, American arm wrestling champion, heart attack. [76]
Bill Gallo, 88, American cartoonist and newspaper columnist, complications from pneumonia. [77]
Patrick Galvin, 83, Irish writer. [78]
M. S. Gurupadaswamy, 89, Indian politician and minister, heart attack. [79]
Héctor Medina, 35, Honduran journalist, shot. [80]
Zim Ngqawana, 51, South African jazz saxophonist, stroke. [81]
Burt Reinhardt, 91, American broadcast executive, President of CNN (1982–1990), complications from strokes. [82]
Stanley Wright, 62, American jazz musician. [83]
Norma Zimmer, 87, American entertainer (The Lawrence Welk Show). [84]

9

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Lidia Gueiler Tejada, Bolivian politician

Gerald Bordman, 79, American playwright (American Musical Theatre) and author, cancer. [85]
David Cairns, 44, British politician, MP for Greenock and Inverclyde (2001–2005) and Inverclyde (since 2005), acute pancreatitis. [86]
Robert Ellsworth, 84, American politician and diplomat, Representative from Kansas (1961–1967), Ambassador to NATO (1969–1971), complications from pneumonia. [87]
Epiphanios of Vryoula, 76. American Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Spain and Portugal. [88]
Henry Feffer, 93, American professor and spine surgeon, treated Saddam Hussein, heart failure. [89]
Dolores Fuller, 88, American actress (Glen or Glenda), and songwriter ("Rock-A-Hula Baby"). [90]
Jeff Gralnick, 72, American television news producer. [91]
Lidia Gueiler Tejada, 89, Bolivian politician, acting President (1979–1980), after a long illness. [92]
Manos Loukakis, 60, Greek poet and literary critic, cancer. [93] (Greek)
Ivo Pešák, 66, Czech singer, dancer and comic performer. [94] (Polish)
Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya, 82, Nepali politician, Foreign Minister (1986–1990), altitude sickness. [95]
Wouter Weylandt, 26, Belgian road bicycle racer, race crash. [96]

8

Huthaifa al-Batawi, Iraqi al-Qaeda leader, shot. [97]
Moayed al-Saleh, Iraqi brigadier general, head of counter-terrorism in Baghdad, shot. [98]
Wallace Clark, 84, Northern Irish maritime writer. [99]
Cornell Dupree, 68, American jazz and R&B guitarist, complications from emphysema. [100]
Gheorghe Guţiu, 87, Romanian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Cluj-Gherla (1994–2002). [101]
Li Desheng, 95, Chinese People's Liberation Army general. [102] (Chinese)
Charles McPhee, 49, American radio host, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [103]
Greg Percival, 86, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1977–1978; 1986–1988). [104]
Soňa Pertlová, 23, Czech chessplayer, cancer. [105]
Lionel Rose, 62, Australian world champion boxer. [106]
Hilton Rosemarin, 58, Canadian set decorator (Three Men and a Baby, Cocktail, Jumper), brain cancer. [107]
Carlos Trillo, 68, Argentine comic book writer (Cybersix). [108] (Spanish)
Galina Urbanovich, 93, Russian Olympic gold and silver medal-winning (1952) gymnast. [109]
Arkady Vaksberg, 83, Russian journalist, critic and biographer. [110] (Russian)
Sir Ronald Waterhouse, 85, British jurist. [111]

7

Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and Nobel laureate

Johnny Albino, 93, Puerto Rican bolero singer, heart attack. [112] (Spanish)
Seve Ballesteros, 54, Spanish golfer, brain cancer. [113]
Nikos Boutachidis, 56, Greek football club secretary, heart failure. [114] (Greek)
Willard Boyle, 86, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (2009). [115]
Jack Gordon, 66, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives (1972–1980), State Senator (1980–1992; 1996–2011), brain cancer. [116]
Ross Hagen, 72, American actor (Daktari, Speedway). [117]
Allyson Hennessy, 63, Trinidadian broadcaster. [118]
Eilert Määttä, 75, Swedish ice hockey player and coach. [119] (Swedish)
Gunter Sachs, 78, German photographer, author and multi-millionaire industrialist, suicide by gunshot. [120]
Ella Schuler, 113, American supercentenarian. [121]
Robert Stempel, 77, American automobile executive, Chairman and CEO of General Motors (1990–1992). [122]
Kate Swift, 87, American writer, stomach cancer. [123]
John Walker, 67, American musician (The Walker Brothers), liver cancer. [124]
George Webley, 53, British broadcaster and music arranger. [125]
Doric Wilson, 72, American playwright and gay activist. [126]

6

Quazi Nuruzzaman, Bangladeshi war veteran

Barry Connolly, 72, Australian football player. [127]
Oniroku Dan, 80, Japanese author, esophageal cancer. [128]
Lawrence Johnson, 97, American boat trailer inventor and manufacturer, natural causes. [129]
Horace Freeland Judson, 80, American science historian (The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science), complications of a stroke. [130]
Quazi Nuruzzaman, 86, Bangladeshi veteran of the Liberation War, natural causes. [131]
Duane Pillette, 88, American baseball player (Yankees, Browns, Orioles, Phillies). [132]
Mike Spoerndle, 59, American music club founder (Toad's Place). [133] (body discovered on this date)
R. M. Tollefson, 100, American boat builder (Tollycraft). [134]
Dick Walsh, 85, American baseball executive, first commissioner of the North American Soccer League. [135]
Yoon Ki-Won, 24, South Korean football player, suicide by inhaling toxic fumes. [136]

5

Claude Choules, last combat veteran of World War I

Leslie Audus, 99, British professor of botany (University of London), expert on plant growth hormones. [137]
Alice Bridges, 94, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1936) swimmer. [138]
Halit Çelenk, 89, Turkish lawyer and socialist activist, cancer and asthma. [139]
Claude Choules, 110, British-born Australian veteran, last combat veteran of World War I. [140]
Thomas Compaoré, 23, Burkinabé basketball player, heart attack. [141] (German)
Elvis Gordon, 52, British Olympic judoka, pancreatic cancer. [142]
Salomón Hakim, 81, Colombian neurosurgeon, researcher and inventor. [143]
Arthur Laurents, 93, American playwright, librettist, stage director, and screenwriter (Anastasia, Rope, West Side Story). [144]
Dougie McCracken, 46, Scottish football player (Ayr United), suspected suicide. [145]
Yosef Merimovich, 86, Israeli football player and manager. [146] (Hebrew).
Nigel Pickering, 81, American guitarist (Spanky and Our Gang), liver cancer. [147]
Rolo Puente, 71, Argentine actor, pulmonary emphysema. [148]
Dana Wynter, 79, German-born British actress (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), heart failure. [149]

4

Thomas G. Nelson, American federal judge

Lázaro Blanco, 73, Mexican photographer, cancer. [150] (Spanish)
Velzoe Brown, 101, American jazz pianist. [151]
Frans de Kok, 87, Dutch conductor. [152] (Dutch)
Néstor Groppa, Argentine poet. [153] (Spanish)
Jacques Georges Habib Hafouri, 94, Syrian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Hassaké-Nisibi (1982–1996). [154]
Jagdish Khebudkar, 77, Indian writer, renal failure. [155]
Sammy McCrory, 86, Northern Irish footballer. [156]
Mary Murphy, 80, American actress (The Wild One). [157]
Thomas G. Nelson, 74, American federal judge, complications from declining health. [158]
Françoise Olivier-Coupeau, 51, French politician, cancer. [159] (French)
Frans Sammut, 66, Maltese writer, natural causes. [160]
Bernard Stasi, 80, French politician, Minister for Overseas Departments and Territories (1973–1974), Alzheimer's disease. [161] (French)
Louis Stumberg, 87, American businessman, introduced Tex Mex TV dinners, after long illness. [162]
Sada Thompson, 83, American actress (Family), lung disease. [163]

3

Paul Ackerley, 61, New Zealand hockey player and coach, skin cancer. [164]
Robert Brout, 82, American-born Belgian theoretical physicist. [165] (French)
Odell Brown, 70, American jazz organist and songwriter ("Sexual Healing") [166]
Jackie Cooper, 88, American actor (Skippy, Our Gang, Superman) and director (M*A*S*H). [167]
Sergo Kotrikadze, 74, Georgian football player and coach, heart attack. [168] (Russian)
Mildred Robbins Leet, 88, American philanthropist, co-founder of Trickle Up, complications of a fall. [169]
Patrick Roy, 53, French politician, pancreatic cancer. [170] (French)
Thanasis Veggos, 83, Greek actor, stroke. [171]
Des Williams, 83, South African Olympic boxer. [172]

2

Leonid Abalkin, 80, Russian economist. [173]
Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, 46, Kuwaiti Al-Qaeda computer expert, shot. [174]
Darnay Hoffman, 63, American lawyer, defended Bernard Goetz and Joel Steinberg, suicide by stabbing. [175]
Danny Kassap, 28, Congolese-born Canadian long-distance runner. [176]
Osama bin Laden, 54, Saudi founder of Al-Qaeda, planned September 11 attacks, shot. [177]
Alexander Lazarev, 73, Russian actor. [178] (Russian)
Eddie Lewis, 76, English footballer (Manchester United, West Ham United), cancer. [179] (death announced on this date)
Ernest Mothle, 69, South African jazz musician. [180]
René Emilio Ponce, 64, Salvadoran general and defence minister, army chief of staff during the Civil War. [181]
David Sencer, 86, American public health official, director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1966–1977), heart disease. [182]
Shigeo Yaegashi, 78, Japanese footballer. [183] (Japanese)

1

J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr., American mathematician and nuclear scientist

Alex, 52, Indian actor and magician, after short illness. [184]
Spyrydon Babskyi, 52, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Archbishop of Vinnytsya in UOC-KP (1992–1993). [185] (Russian)
Sir Henry Cooper, 76, British Olympic heavyweight boxer. [186]
Ginger Evans, 74, Welsh cricketer. [187]
Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, 80, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Valencia (1992–2009), cardiac arrest. [188]
Moshe Landau, 99, Israeli jurist, Chief Justice (1980–1982), presided over Adolf Eichmann's trial (1961). [189]
Ted Lowe, 90, British snooker commentator. [190]
Steven Orszag, 68, American mathematician, chronic lymphomic leukemia. [191]
Ivan Slavkov, 70, Bulgarian sports official. [192]
William O. Taylor II, 78, American journalist and publisher (The Boston Globe), brain tumor. [193]
Reynaldo Uy, 59, Filipino politician, Mayor of Calbayog, shot. [194]
J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr., 87, American mathematician and nuclear scientist. [195]