Deaths in March 2011

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

March 2011

31

• Tony Barrell, 70, British-born Australian broadcaster and writer. [1]
• Gil Clancy, 88, American Hall of Fame boxing trainer. [2]
• Alan Fitzgerald, 75, Australian journalist, cancer. [3]
• Oddvar Hansen, 89, Norwegian footballer and coach (SK Brann). [4] (Norwegian)
• Claudia Heill, 29, Austrian judoka, silver medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, suspected suicide. [5]
• Tom Kelleher, 85, American football official (1960–1987), complications from pneumonia. [6]
• Vassili Kononov, 88, Russian military veteran and war criminal. [7] (Latvian)
• Ishbel MacAskill, 70, Scottish Gaelic singer and heritage campaigner. [8]
• Mel McDaniel, 68, American country music singer ("Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On"), cancer. [9]
• Bosko Radonjich, 67, Serbian nationalist, after short illness. [10]
• Edward Stobart, 56, British haulage contractor and entrepreneur. [11]
• Henry Taub, 83, American entrepreneur, founder of Automatic Data Processing, leukemia. [12]

30

• Harley Allen, 55, American bluegrass and country singer, cancer. [13]
• Jacques Amir, 78, Israeli politician. [14] (Hebrew)
• Jorge Camacho, 77, Cuban painter. [15] (Spanish)
• Ângelo de Sousa, 73, Portuguese artist. [16] (Portuguese)
• Jack Fulk, 78, American businessman, co-founder of Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits. [17]
• Tamar Golan, 76, Israeli journalist and diplomat. [18]
• Lyudmila Gurchenko, 75, Russian film actress and singer, People's Artist of the USSR. [19] (Russian)
• Denis McLean, 80, New Zealand diplomat, academic, author and civil servant. [20]
• Wally Peterson, 93, American actor, singer and stage manager. [21]
• Nutan Prasad, 65, Indian actor, after long illness. [22]
• Liaquat Soldier, 56, Pakistani comedian, heart attack. [23]
• Johnny Harra, American actor, Elvis impersonator,(This is Elvis)

29

• José Alencar, 79, Brazilian entrepreneur and politician, Vice-President (2003–2010), multiple organ failure. [24]
• Bob Benny, 84, Belgian singer. [25]
• Iakovos Kambanelis, 88, Greek author, playwright, poet, lyricist and journalist, kidney failure. [26] (Greek)
• Neil Reimer, 89, Canadian politician, Leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party (1962–1968). [27]
• Jim Seymour, 64, American football player (Chicago Bears). [28]
• Alan Tang, 64, Hong Kong actor, film producer and director, stroke. [29]
• Robert Tear, 72, British opera singer, cancer. [30]
• Endre Wolf, 97, Hungarian violinist. [31]

28

• Wenche Foss, 93, Norwegian actress, natural causes. [32] (Norwegian)
• Lee Hoiby, 85, American composer, metastatic melanoma. [33]
• Sonia Osorio, 83, Colombian ballet dancer and choreographer, respiratory failure. [34] (Spanish)
• Esben Storm, 60, Danish-born Australian actor, director and producer, heart attack. [35]
• Guy M. Townsend, 90, American Air Force brigadier general and test pilot. [36]

27

• Sir Clement Arrindell, 79, Kittitian politician, Governor-General (1983–1995). [37]
• David E. Davis, 80, American automotive writer, editor and publisher (Car and Driver, Automobile), complications from bladder surgery. [38]
• Lawrence Elion, 93, British actor. [39]
• Farley Granger, 85, American actor (Strangers on a Train, Rope), natural causes. [40]
• H. R. F. Keating, 84, British crime fiction writer. [41]
• Ellen McCormack, 84, American pro-life activist and politician, two-time Presidential candidate (1976, 1980). [42]
• DJ Megatron, 32, American disc jockey, shot. [43]
• Günther Mund, 76, German-born Chilean Olympic diver, plane crash. [44] (Spanish)
• Dorothea Puente, 82, American serial killer, natural causes. [45]
• George Tooker, 90, American painter, kidney failure. [46]

26

• Roger Abbott, 64, Canadian actor and comedian (Royal Canadian Air Farce), chronic lymphocytic leukemia. [47]
• Joe Bageant, 64, American writer, social critic and political commentator, cancer. [48]
• Paul Baran, 84, American Internet pioneer, complications from lung cancer. [49]
• Alexander Barykin, 59, Russian musician, heart attack. [50] (Russian)
• Carl Bunch, 71, American drummer (Buddy Holly and the Crickets). [51]
• Greg Centauro, 34, French pornographic actor, cardiac arrest. [52] (French)
• Harry Coover, 94, American inventor (Super Glue). [53]
• Lula Côrtes, 61, Brazilian musician (Paêbirú), throat cancer. [54] (Portuguese)
• Cibele Dorsa, 36, Brazilian actress and writer, suicide by jumping. [55] (Portuguese)
• Geraldine Ferraro, 75, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York (1979–1985) and 1984 Vice Presidential nominee, multiple myeloma. [56]
• František Havránek, 87, Czech football player and manager. [57] (Czech)
• Yrjö Hietanen, 83, Finnish Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) canoeist, stroke. [58] (Finnish)
• Diana Wynne Jones, 76, British fantasy author (Howl's Moving Castle), lung cancer. [59]
• Enn Klooren, 70, Estonian actor. [60] (Estonian)
• Jean-Philippe Lecat, 75, French politician. [61] (French)
• Raymond-Marie Tchidimbo, 90, Guinean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Conakry (1962–1979).[62]

25

• Floyd Bedbury, 73, American Olympic speed skater, cancer. [63]
• Thomas Eisner, 81, American biologist, Parkinson's disease. [64]
• Luis María Estrada Paetau, 75, Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Izabal (1977–2004). [65]
• Edwin Gaustad, 87, American religious historian. [66]
• Maria Isakova, 92, Soviet speed skater. [67]
• Pavel Leonov, 90, Russian naïve artist. [68]
• Almena Lomax, 95, American journalist and civil rights activist, founder of the Los Angeles Tribune, after short illness. [69]
• M. Blane Michael, 68, American federal judge. [70]
• Hugo Midón, 67, Argentine theatre director and actor, after long illness. [71] (Spanish)
• Thady Wyndham-Quin, 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 71, Irish aristocrat. [72]

24

• Julian Gbur, 68, Polish-born Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Stryi (since 2000). [73] (Ukrainian)
• Hanni Gehring, 84, German Olympic cross-country skier. [74] (German)
• William M. Greathouse, 91, American Nazarene minister, heart failure. [75]
• Dudley Laws, 76, Jamaican-born Canadian civil rights activist, kidney disease. [76]
• Anselmo Müller, 79, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Januária (1984–2008). [77]
• Gloria Valencia de Castaño, 83, Colombian television host, respiratory failure. [78] (Spanish)
• Lanford Wilson, 73, American playwright. [79]

23

• José Argüelles, 72, American New Age author. [80]
• Jean Bartik, 86, American computer programmer (ENIAC). [81]
• Živorad Kovačević, 80, Serbian diplomat. [82] (Serbian)
• Sir Frank Lampl, 84, British businessman. [83]
• Richard Leacock, 89, British documentary film maker (Louisiana Story, Primary, Monterey Pop, Janis). [84]
• Teodor Negoiţă, 63, Romanian polar explorer and scientist. [85] (Romanian)
• Trevor Storton, 61, English footballer. [86]
• Elizabeth Taylor, 79, British-American actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Cleopatra, BUtterfield 8), heart failure. [87]
• Fred Titmus, 78, English test cricketer. [88]
• Leonard Weinglass, 78, American civil rights lawyer, pancreatic cancer. [89]

22

• Artur Agostinho, 90, Portuguese sports journalist and actor. [90] (Portuguese)
• Nadia Barentin, 74, French actress (Les Blessures assassines). [91] (French)
• Victor Bouchard, 84, Canadian pianist, duettist with pianist Renée Morisset, respiratory disease. [92]
• Patrick Doeplah, 20, Liberian footballer. [93]
• Viljar Loor, 57, Estonian Olympic gold medal-winning (1980) volleyball player. [94] (Estonian)
• Jean-Guy Morissette, 73, Canadian ice hockey player. [95]
• Zoogz Rift, 57, American musician, painter and professional wrestler. [96]
• Normie Roy, 82, American baseball player (Boston Braves). [97]
• Reuven Shefer, 85, Israeli actor. [98] (Hebrew)
• José Soriano, 93, Peruvian football player. [99] (Spanish)
• Helen Stenborg, 86, American actress. [100]
• George Alfred Walker, 81, British businessman, founder of Brent Walker. [101]

21

• Michael Abramson, 62, American artist and photographer, kidney cancer. [102]
• Barry Ackerley, 76, American businessman (Ackerley Group), former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics, stroke. [103]
• Nikolai Andrianov, 58, Russian gymnast, most medaled athlete at the 1976 Summer Olympics, after long illness. [104] (Russian)
• Jesús Aranguren, 66, Spanish footballer and manager. [105] (Spanish)
• Hans Boskamp, 78, Dutch actor and footballer, stroke. [106] (Dutch)
• John L. Cashin, Jr., 82, American civil rights campaigner, kidney failure. [107]
• Ray Eden, 42, British cyclist, head injuries. [108]
• Mayhew Foster, 99, American brigadier general, flew captured Hermann Goering to interrogation. [109]
• Loleatta Holloway, 64, American soul and disco musician, heart failure. [110]
• Hansl Krönauer, 78, German folk singer and composer. [111] (German)
• Ladislav Novák, 79, Czech footballer. [112]
• Pinetop Perkins, 97, American blues musician, cardiac arrest. [113]
• Kjeld Tolstrup, 45, Danish radio disc jockey (DR P3), after long illness. [114] (Danish)
• Joe Wizan, 76, Mexican born-American film producer and studio executive (Jeremiah Johnson, Dunston Checks In), after long illness. [115]

20

• Don Canney, 80, American politician, Mayor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1969–1992), heart failure. [116]
• Bob Christo, 72, Australian-born Indian actor, heart attack. [117]
• Néstor de Vicente, 46, Argentine footballer, car crash. [118] (Spanish)
• Oliver Humperdink, 62, American professional wrestling manager, pneumonia and cancer. [119]
• Agostinho Januszewicz, 80, Polish-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Luziânia (1989–2004). [120]
• Johnny Pearson, 85, British composer, arranger and pianist. [121]
• Sara Ruddick, 76, American philosopher and author, pulmonary fibrosis. [122]
• Dorothy Young, 103, American actress, assistant to Harry Houdini. [123]

19

• Patrick Ahern, 92, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1970–1994). [124]
• Kym Bonython, 90, Australian art, jazz and speedway entrepreneur. [125]
• Guillermo Ford, 74, Panamanian politician, Vice President of Panama (1989–1994). [126]
• Raymond Garlick, 84, British poet and editor. [127]
• Barrington Gaynor, 45, Jamaican footballer. [128]
• Knut, 4, German-born polar bear, drowned. [129]
• Tom McAvoy, 74, American baseball player (Washington Senators). [130]
• Zew Wawa Morejno, 95, Polish-born American rabbi. [131] (Polish)
• Mohammed Nabbous, 28, Libyan journalist, founder of Alhurra TV, shot. [132]
• Navin Nischol, 65, Indian actor, heart attack. [133]
• Jim Roslof, 64, American artist (Dungeons & Dragons), cancer. [134]
• Robert Ross, 92, American physician and medical school founder (Ross University), cancer. [135]
• Bob Rush, 85, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Braves, Chicago White Sox). [136]
• Leonard Webb, 89, British politician, Mayor of Thame (1975–1979). [137]

18

• Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, 90, Monegasque princess. [138]
• Ze'ev Boim, 67, Israeli Knesset member, cancer. [139]
• Enzo Cannavale, 82, Italian actor (Cinema Paradiso). [140] (Italian)
• Warren Christopher, 85, American diplomat, Secretary of State (1993–1997), complications from kidney and bladder cancer. [141]
• Jet Harris, 71, British musician (The Shadows), throat cancer. [142]
• Drew Hill, 54, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Houston Oilers), stroke. [143]
• Charlie Metro, 91, American baseball player and manager (Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics), mesothelioma. [144]
• Peter Weigand, 69, American Olympic sprint canoer. [145]
• Kirk Wipper, 87, Canadian founder of the Canadian Canoe Museum. [146]

17

• Moisis Michail Bourlas, 92, Greek Resistance veteran. [147] (Greek)
• Banny deBrum, 54, Marshallese diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1996–2008, 2009–2011) and Canada (1999–2011). [148]
• Michael Gough, 94, British actor (Sleepy Hollow, Batman), after short illness. [149]
• Ferlin Husky, 85, American country music singer, heart failure. [150]
• Don Kennard, 81, American politician, Texas State Senator (1963–1973). [151]
• Murdoch Mitchison, 88, British zoologist. [152]
• J.B. Steane, 83, British music critic. [153]

16

• Sándor Arnóth, 51, Hungarian politician, car accident. [154] (Hungarian)
• Carel Boshoff, 83, South African religious and cultural activist, cancer. [155]
• Betty Lowman Carey, 96, American rower. [156]
• Tom Dunbar, 51, American baseball player (Texas Rangers). [157]
• Thomas Nkuissi, 82, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nkongsamba (1978–1992). [158]
• Lloyd Oliver, 88, American veteran, World War II code talker. [159]
• James Pritchett, 88, American actor (The Doctors). [160]
• Lorenda Starfelt, 56, American producer, cancer. [161]
• James C. Tyree, 53, American businessman, chairman and CEO of the Chicago Sun-Times, cancer. [162]
• Murray Warmath, 98, American college football coach (Minnesota Golden Gophers), natural causes. [163]
• Richard Wirthlin, 80, American political strategist and religious leader, renal failure. [164]

15

• Amos Bar, 79, Israeli author. [165] (Hebrew)
• Keith Fordyce, 82, British radio and television presenter (Ready Steady Go!). [166]
• Frank Howard, 85, Canadian politician, member of the BC Legislative Assembly for Skeena (1953–1956; 1979–1986), MP for Skeena (1957–1974). [167]
• Musa Juma, 42, Kenyan musician, pneumonia. [168]
• Yakov Kreizberg, 51, Russian-born Austrian-American conductor. [169]
• Jean Liedloff, 84, American writer. [170]
• Peter Loader, 81, British cricketer. [171]
• Marty Marion, 94, American baseball player and manager, National League MVP (1944). [172]
• Nate Dogg, 41, American musician, heart failure. [173]
• Fred Sanford, 91, American baseball player. [174]
• Smiley Culture, 48, British reggae singer and DJ, apparent suicide by stabbing. [175]
• Melvin Sparks, 64, American jazz and soul guitarist, heart attack. [176]

14

• Gerald Barry, 63, Irish journalist and broadcaster, illness. [177]
• Todd Cerney, 57, American country musician and producer, cancer. [178]
• Leslie Collier, 90, British virologist. [179]
• José Pinto Correia, 80, Portuguese politician, Governor of Macau (1986–1987). [180]
• Bob Greaves, 76, British journalist and broadcaster, cancer. [181]
• Jülide Gülizar, 82, Turkish anchorwoman, one of the nation's first television presenters. [182]
• Eduard Gushchin, 70, Russian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) athlete. [183]
• Big Jack Johnson, 70, American guitarist and blues singer. [184]
• Giora Leshem, 71, Israeli poet and publisher. [185] (Hebrew)
• G. Alan Marlatt, 69, American professor, kidney failure. [186]
• Larry Zolf, 76, Canadian journalist and humorist. [187]

13

• Roy Flatt, 63, Scottish Anglican priest. [188]
• Sir Michael Gray, 78, British army general. [189]
• Virginia Klinekole, 86, American politician, first female President of the Mescalero Apache. [190]
• Brian Lanker, 63, American photojournalist, pancreatic cancer. [191]
• Rick Martin, 59, Canadian ice hockey player (Buffalo Sabres, Los Angeles Kings), heart attack. [192]
• Ritchie Pickett, 56, New Zealand country singer. [193]
• David Rumelhart, 68, American psychologist, created computer simulations of neural processing, Pick's disease. [194]
• Nicholas Smisko, 75, American clergyman, Head of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese (since 1984), cancer. [195]
• Jean Smith, 82, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League). [196]
• Owsley Stanley, 76, American-born Australian underground LSD chemist and sound engineer (Grateful Dead), traffic accident. [197]
• Leo Steinberg, 90, American art historian and critic. [198]
• Vitaly Vulf, 80, Russian theater critic and television host. [199]

12

• Ali Hassan al-Jaber, 56, Qatari photojournalist (Al Jazeera), shot. [200]
• Donald Brenner, 64, Canadian judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia (2000–2009). [201]
• Olive Dickason, 91, Canadian historian and author. [202]
• Margaret Fish, 112, British supercentenarian, oldest person in the United Kingdom. [203]
• Juan García-Santacruz Ortiz, 77, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guadix (1992–2009). [204]
• Kumar Indrajitsinhji, 73, Indian cricketer, cancer. [205]
• Shifra Lerer, 95, Argentinian-born American Yiddish theatre actress, stroke. [206]
• Joe Morello, 82, American drummer (The Dave Brubeck Quartet). [207]
• John Nettleship, 71, British teacher, inspiration for character of Severus Snape, cancer. [208]
• Mitchell Page, 59, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics), and coach (St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Nationals). [209]
• Nilla Pizzi, 91, Italian singer. [210]
• Italo Pizzolante, 82, Venezuelan musician and composer. [211] (Spanish)
• Tawfik Toubi, 88, Israeli Arab politician, last surviving member of the first Knesset. [212]

11

• Alfred Genovese, 79, American oboist, complications from cardiac arrest. [213]
• Jack Hardy, 63, American singer-songwriter. [214]
• Nancy Kominsky, 95, American art teacher and broadcaster. [215]
• Hugh Martin, 96, American songwriter ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") and film composer (Meet Me in St. Louis), natural causes. [216]
• Frank Neuhauser, 97, American patent attorney and spelling bee champion, winner of the 1925 Scripps National Spelling Bee. [217]
• Valter Nyström, 95, Swedish Olympic track and field athlete. [218] (Swedish)
• Danny Stiles, 87, American radio host. [219]
• Donny George Youkhanna, 60, Iraqi archaeologist, anthropologist and author, heart attack. [220]

10

• Bill Blackbeard, 84, American comic strip writer and editor. [221]
• Nick Harbaruk, 67, Polish-born Canadian ice hockey player, bone cancer. [222]
• Baliram Kashyap, 74, Indian politician, MP for Bastar (since 1998), after long illness. [223]
• Gabriel Laderman, 81, American painter, cancer, [224]
• Danny Paton, 75, Scottish footballer. [225]
• Emmett J. Rice, 91, American economist and banking official, heart failure. [226]
• Eddie Snyder, 92, American composer ("Strangers in the Night", "Spanish Eyes"). [227]
• David Viñas, 83, Argentine dramatist, critic and novelist, pneumonic infection. [228]

9

• Sona Aslanova, 86, Azerbaijanian soprano. [229]
• Jacques Brichant, 80, Belgian tennis player. [230] (French)
• David S. Broder, 81, American journalist (The Washington Post), complications from diabetes. [231]
• Edward A. Burdick, 89, American civil servant. [232]
• Seán Cronin, 91, Irish journalist and republican, Irish Republican Army chief of staff (1957–1958, 1959–1960), after long illness. [233]
• Armando Goyena, 88, Filipino actor. [234]
• Andrew Hao Jinli, 95, Chinese Roman Catholic underground Bishop of Xiwanzi (since 1984). [235]
• Bob Marcucci, 81, American talent agent, respiratory complications. [236]
• Bob McNamara, 94, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). [237]
• Des Meagher, 67, Australian footballer (Hawthorn). [238]
• Lindy Pearson, 82, American football player (Detroit Lions). [239]
• Inge Sørensen, 86, Danish swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist (1936). [240] (Danish)
• Toshiko Takaezu, 88, American ceramic artist. [241]

8

• Iraj Afshar, 85, Iranian bibliographer and historian. [242]
• Victor Manuel Blanco, 92, American astronomer, director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. [243]
• Richard Campbell, 55, British player of cello and viola da gamba. [244]
• Herb Kawainui Kane, 82, American artist. [245]
• Moses Katjiuongua, 68, Namibian politician. [246]
• Jim Keane, 87, American football player (Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers). [247]
• Steven Kroll, 69, American children's book author, surgical complications. [248]
• St. Clair Lee, 66, American musician (Hues Corporation). [249]
• Bronko Nagurski Jr., 73, American player of Canadian football (Hamilton Tiger-Cats). [250]
• John Olmsted, 73, American naturalist and conservationist, liver cancer. [251]
• Mike Starr, 44, American bassist (Alice in Chains, Sun Red Sun). [252] (body found on this date)

7

• Frank Dezelan, 80, American baseball umpire (1958–1970). [253]
• Adrián Escudero, 83, Spanish footballer. [254] (Spanish)
• Samuel Hazard Gillespie, Jr., 100, American lawyer and politician, pancreatic cancer. [255]
• Rudy Salud, 72, Filipino sports executive, PBA Commissioner (1988–1992), complications from surgery. [256]

6

• Jean Bartel, 87, American actress, Miss America 1943. [257]
• Marie Andrée Bertrand, 85, Canadian criminologist, feminist and anti-prohibitionist. [258]
• Patricia Brennan, 66, Australian feminist and clinician, advocate of women priests, cancer. [259]
• Rostislav Čtvrtlík, 47, Czech stage, television and voice actor, brain tumor. [260] (Czech)
• Mike DeStefano, 44, American comedian (Last Comic Standing), heart attack. [261]
• Oddmund Jensen, 82, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier. [262] (Norwegian)
• Ján Popluhár, 75, Slovak footballer (1962 FIFA World Cup). [263]
• Louie Ramsay, 81, British actress (The Ruth Rendell Mysteries). [264]
• Edward Ullendorff, 91, British historian. [265]
• Frank Ziegler, 87, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles). [266]

5

• Alberto Granado, 88, Argentine-born Cuban biochemist and writer, travel companion of Che Guevara (The Motorcycle Diaries). [267]
• Oswald Georg Hirmer, 81, German-born South African Roman Catholic missionary, Bishop of Umtata (1997–2008). [268]
• Manolis Rasoulis, 65, Greek singer-songwriter, author and journalist. [269]

4

• Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 86, Nepali Prime Minister (1990–1991, 1999–2000), multiple organ failure. [270]
• Frank Chirkinian, 84, American producer (CBS Sports), lung cancer. [271]
• Annie Fargue, 76, American actress and manager, cancer. [272] (French)
• Vivienne Harris, 89, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher, co-founder of the Jewish Telegraph. [273]
• Charles Jarrott, 83, British film and television director (Anne of the Thousand Days), prostate cancer. [274]
• Chester Kahapea, 65, American soil scientist, known as the "face of Hawaiian statehood", complications of Lou Gehrig's disease. [275]
• Ed Manning, 68, American basketball player (Baltimore Bullets) and coach (San Antonio Spurs), heart condition. [276]
• Johnny Preston, 71, American pop singer ("Running Bear"), heart failure. [277]
• Mikhail Simonov, 81, Russian aircraft designer, chief designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau (1983–2011), after long illness. [278]
• Arjun Singh, 80, Indian politician, Minister of Human Resource Development (2004–2009), heart attack. [279]
• Alenush Terian, 90, Iranian astronomer and physicist. [280]
• Simon van der Meer, 85, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. [281]

3

• Aldo Clementi, 85, Italian composer. [282]
• May Cutler, 87, Canadian author and publisher, founder of Tundra Books, first female Mayor of Westmount, Quebec (1987–1991). [283]
• Paquito Diaz, 73, Filipino actor, complications from a stroke. [284]
• James L. Elliot, 67, American astronomer, discovered rings of Uranus. [285]
• Lasse Eriksson, 61, Swedish comedian. [286] (Swedish)
• Goga Kapoor, 70, Indian actor. [287]
• Irena Kwiatkowska, 98, Polish actress. [288]
• Al Morgan, 91, American novelist and television producer (The Today Show), after long illness. [289]
• Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, 81, Indian astrophysicist, cardiac complications. [290]
• Theron Strinden, 91, American politician. [291]
• James Travers, 62, Canadian journalist, political correspondent (Toronto Star), editor in chief (Ottawa Citizen, 1991–1996), post-surgery complications. [292]

2

• Shahbaz Bhatti, 42, Pakistani politician, Minister for Minorities (since 2008), shot. [293]
• Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke, 98, British heir to the Sarawakan throne. [294]
• Bernard Cywinski, 70, American architect (Apple Store), partner and founder of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, cancer. [295]
• John Haines, 86, American poet. [296]
• Erling Kroner, 67, Danish trombonist and bandleader, cancer. [297] (Danish)
• Sir Allan Louisy, 94, Saint Lucian politician and judge, Prime Minister (1979–1981). [298]
• Ruby Muhammad, 103, American spiritual figure, lung cancer. [299]
• Art Statuto, 85, American football player (Los Angeles Rams). [300]
• Thor Vilhjálmsson, 85, Icelandic author, natural causes. [301] (Icelandic)

1

• Barklie Lakin, 96, British industrialist (Chairman of Vickers Armstrong) and naval officer, natural causes [302]
• Leonard Lomell, 91, American World War II veteran, recipient of the Silver Star and Purple Heart, natural causes. [303]
• John M. Lounge, 64, American NASA astronaut (1981–1991), complications from liver cancer. [304]
• Ion Monea, 70, Romanian Olympic silver (1968) and bronze (1960) medal-winning boxer. [305] (Romanian)
• Fateh Singh Rathore, 72, Indian wildlife conservationist. [306]
• Hazel Rowley, 59, British-born Australian writer (Tête-à-tête), cerebral haemorrhage. [307]