# Deaths in September 2011
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The following people died in September 2011.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## September 2011
### 1

* Sidney Asch, 92, American lawyer, judge, and author.
* Mark Blackburn, 58, British numismatist, cancer.
* Jan Lammers, 84, Dutch Olympic athlete (1948).
* Liu Huang A-tao, 90, Taiwanese activist, first comfort woman to sue Japan for compensation.
* Abdulrahman al-Nuaimi, 67, Bahraini opposition leader, founder of the PFLB and the NDA.
* Alexandru Pesamosca, 81, Romanian surgeon and pediatrician, cardiac arrest.
* Kamal Salibi, 82, Lebanese historian.

### 2

* Edgar Benson, 88, Canadian politician and diplomat.
* Roberto Bruce, 32, Chilean television journalist, plane crash.
* Felipe Camiroaga, 44, Chilean television presenter, plane crash.
* Tony Corsari, 84, Belgian television host, cancer.
* Allan Hubbard, 83, New Zealand businessman, car accident.
* Shrinivas Khale, 85, Indian composer.
* Lennart Magnusson, 87, Swedish Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) fencer.
* José María Montes, 91, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Chascomús (1983–1996).
* Katsuichi Mori, 81, Japanese Olympic diver.
* Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, 39, Malaysian television camera operator (Bernama), shot.
* Trulshik Rinpoche, 88, Tibetan lama.
* Jehangir Sabavala, 89, Indian artist.
* Bernard Smith, 94, Australian art historian and critic.
* Alberto Zalamea Costa, 82, Colombian journalist and politician, Ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire, Venezuela and Italy.

### 3

* Renato Barisani, 92, Italian sculptor and painter.
* Júlia Bonet Fité, 89, Andorran businesswoman.
* Julio Casas Regueiro, 75, Cuban politician, Vice President and Defense Minister (since 2008), heart attack.
* Andrzej Maria Deskur, 87, Polish Roman Catholic cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications (1973–1984).
* Don Fambrough, 88, American football player and head coach (University of Kansas), injuries from a fall.
* Finn Helgesen, 92, Norwegian Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) speed skater.
* John Hoover, 91, American artist.
* Sándor Képíró, 97, Hungarian World War II veteran acquitted of Nazi war crimes.
* Sumant Misra, 88, Indian tennis player.

### 4

* Lalla Aicha, 81, Moroccan princess, first female Arab ambassador, Ambassador to United Kingdom (1965–1969); Greece (1969–1970); Italy (1970–1973).
* Hugh Fox, 79, American poet and novelist.
* Hilde Heltberg, 51, Norwegian musician, cancer.
* Dave Hoover, 56, American comic book artist (Captain America, Starman).
* Bill Kunkel, 61, American video game designer and magazine editor, heart attack.
* Mino Martinazzoli, 79, Italian politician, after long illness.
* Jag Mundhra, 62, Indian film director (Bawandar).
* Hakkı Boran Ögelman, 71, Turkish physicist.
* Lee Roy Selmon, 56, American Hall of Fame football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), stroke.
* Sarah Webb, British housing executive.
* Dana Wilson, 28, New Zealand rugby league player, car accident.

### 5

* Robert Ballaman, 85, Swiss footballer, participated in 1954 World Cup.
* Reidar Børjeson, 80, Norwegian Olympic figure skater (1952).
* Andrew Zolile T. Brook, 81, South African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Umtata (1979–1995).
* Angioletta Coradini, 65, Italian astrophysicist, cancer.
* Charles S. Dubin, 92, American film and television director (Hawaii Five-O, Kojak, M*A*S*H).
* Carol Frick, 78, American Olympic diver.
* Salvatore Licitra, 43, Italian tenor, injuries from a motor scooter accident.
* Vann Nath, 66, Cambodian painter.
* Bobby Rhine, 35, American soccer player (FC Dallas), heart attack.
* Peter Thuruthikonam, 82, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vijayapuram (1988–2006), heart attack.

### 6

* Hans Apel, 79, German politician, Finance Minister (1974–1978) and Defence Minister (1978–1982).
* Jordan Belson, 85, American filmmaker, heart failure.
* Bruce Dan, 64, American researcher (toxic shock syndrome), complications of a bone marrow transplant.
* Dan David, 82, Romanian-born Israeli businessman and philanthropist, brain hemorrhage.
* Archduke Felix of Austria, 95, Austrian royal, last surviving child of Charles I of Austria.
* Michael S. Hart, 64, American author, inventor of the e-book and founder of Project Gutenberg, heart attack.
* George Kuchar, 69, American film director, prostate cancer.
* Little Tokyo, 70, Japanese professional wrestler, heart attack.
* Ted Longshaw, 85, British businessman and sports administrator.
* Janusz Morgenstern, 88, Polish filmmaker.
* Wardell Quezergue, 81, American music arranger, producer and bandleader, heart failure.
* Raphaël Marie Ze, 78, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sangmélima (1992–2008).

### 7

* Max Boisot, 67, British academic, cancer.
* Gabriel Bullet, 90, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg (1970–1993).
* Derek Grierson, 79, Scottish footballer.
* Jang Hyo-jo, 55, South Korean baseball player (Samsung Lions, Lotte Giants), liver cancer.
* Harold Mair, 92, Australian politician.
* Eddie Marshall, 73, American jazz drummer.
* Gabriel Valdés, 92, Chilean politician and diplomat, President of the Senate of Chile (1990–1996), Foreign Minister (1964–1970).
* Hiroe Yuki, 62, Japanese badminton player.
* Notable ice hockey players and coaches among the 44 killed in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash:
** Vitali Anikeyenko, 24, Ukrainian defenseman (Metallurg Novokuznetsk)
** Mikhail Balandin, 31, Russian defenseman (UHC Dynamo, HC CSKA Moscow, Mytishchi Atlant)
** Gennady Churilov, 24, Russian centre (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)
** Pavol Demitra, 36, Slovakian centre (St. Louis Blues, Vancouver Canucks, Minnesota Wild)
** Robert Dietrich, 25, German defenseman (DEG Metro Stars, Milwaukee Admirals, EC Peiting)
** Marat Kalimulin, 23, Russian defenseman (HC Lada Togliatti, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)
** Alexander Kalyanin, 23, Russian right wing (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)
** Alexander Karpovtsev, 41, Russian coach and former player (New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks, HC Dynamo Moscow), world champion (as player, 1993)
** Andrei Kiryukhin, 24, Russian right wing (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)
** Nikita Klyukin, 21, Russian centre (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl), world U18 champion (2007)
** Igor Korolev, 41, Russian coach and former player (Winnipeg Jets, Toronto Maple Leafs, Atlant Moscow Oblast)
** Stefan Liv, 30, Swedish goalie (HV71, Toledo Storm, HC Sibir), Olympic gold medalist (2006), world champion (2006)
** Jan Marek, 31, Czech centre (HC Oceláři Třinec, HC Sparta Praha, Metallurg Magnitogorsk)
** Brad McCrimmon, 52, Canadian coach and former player (Philadelphia Flyers, Detroit Red Wings, Hartford Whalers)
** Sergei Ostapchuk, 21, Belarusian right wing (Rouyn-Noranda Huskies, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)
** Karel Rachůnek, 32, Czech defenseman (Ottawa Senators, Orli Znojmo, New Jersey Devils), world champion (2010)
** Ruslan Salei, 36, Belarusian defenseman (Colorado Avalanche, Florida Panthers, Anaheim Ducks)
** Maxim Shuvalov, 18, Russian defenseman (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)
** Kārlis Skrastiņš, 37, Latvian defenseman (Nashville Predators, Dallas Stars, HK Riga 2000)
** Pavel Snurnitsyn, 19, Russian left wing (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)
** Daniil Sobchenko, 20, Russian centre (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl), world junior champion (2011)
** Ivan Tkachenko, 31, Russian left/right wing (HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)
** Pavel Trakhanov, 33, Russian defenseman (HC MVD, Severstal Cherepovets, HC CSKA Moscow)
** Yuri Urychev, 20, Russian defenseman (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl), world junior champion (2011)
** Josef Vašíček, 30, Czech centre (Carolina Hurricanes, New York Islanders, HC Slavia Prague), world junior champion (2000), world champion (2005)
** Alexander Vasyunov, 23, Russian left wing (Lowell Devils, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)
** Alexander Vyukhin, 38, Ukrainian goalie (Sokil Kyiv, HC Sibir, Avangard Omsk)
** Artem Yarchuk, 21, Russian left wing (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)

### 8

* David Bitner, 62, American political leader, Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida (2011), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Mary Fickett, 83, American actress (All My Children), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* Jesse Jefferson, 62, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Toronto Blue Jays), prostate cancer.
* Usman Jibrin, 68–69, Nigerian air force officer and politician, Governor of North Central State (1975–1977).
* Keo Nakama, 91, American swimmer.
* Sir Hilary Synnott, 66, British diplomat.
* Võ Chí Công, 99, Vietnamese politician, President (1987–1992).
* Emilianos Zacharopoulos, 96, Turkish-born Greek Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan (since 1959).

### 9

* Valentino Braitenberg, 85, Italian neuroscientist.
* Werner Geeser, 63, Swiss Olympic cross-country skier, cancer.
* Laurie Hughes, 87, English football player (Liverpool).
* Daniel Hulet, 66, Belgian cartoonist.
* William Lesick, 88, Canadian politician, MP for Edmonton East (1984–1988).
* Herbert Lomas, 87, British poet.
* Ignace Matondo Kwa Nzambi, 79, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Basankusu (1974–1998) and Molegbe (1998–2007).
* Khairy Shalaby, 73, Egyptian writer.
* Peter Sneath, 87, British microbiologist.

### 10

* David E. L. Choong, 82, Malaysian badminton player.
* Graham Collier, 74, British jazz bassist.
* Bernice Lake, 78, Anguillan-born Antiguan jurist, first Eastern Caribbean woman to be appointed Queen's Counsel.
* Cecil Marshall, 71, Canadian cricketer.
* Sabino Augusto Montanaro, 89, Paraguayan politician, Minister of the Interior (1968–1989).
* Eric Prabhakar, 86, Indian Olympic athlete (1948).
* Cliff Robertson, 88, American actor (Charly, Spider-Man, PT 109), Oscar winner (1969).
* Sam Pata Emani Tagelagi, 75, Niuean politician, first Speaker of the Niue Assembly (1976–1993), long illness.

### 11

* Douglas Allen, Baron Croham, 93, British civil servant, Head of the Home Civil Service (1974–1977).
* Art Atwood, 37, American bodybuilder, heart attack.
* Christian Bakkerud, 26, Danish racing driver, injuries sustained in a car accident.
* Lilly Bølviken, 97, Norwegian judge.
* Cliff Brittle, 69, English sports administrator, Chairman of the Rugby Football Union (1996–1998).
* Shirley Chambers, 97, American actress.
* Cláudio Deodato, 64, Brazilian Olympic footballer (1968).
* Arthur Evans, 68, American gay rights activist and author, aortic aneurysm.
* Ralph Gubbins, 79, English football player (Bolton Wanderers, Hull City, Tranmere Rovers).
* İsmet Kotak, 72, Turkish Cypriot journalist and politician, Member of Parliament, Labour Minister (1969–1976), Industry Minister (1982–1983), aortic dissection.
* Isabell Masters, 98, American politician, third-party candidate for President of the United States (1984, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004).
* Yuli Ofer, 87, Romanian-born Israeli businessman and entrepreneur.
* Walter C. Righter, 87, American clergyman, bishop in the Episcopal Church, after long illness.
* Andy Whitfield, 39, Welsh-born Australian actor (Spartacus: Blood and Sand), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

### 12

* Bill Cash, 92, American Negro league baseball player.
* Frits Castricum, 64, Dutch politician, Member of the House of Representatives (1977–1994) and the Senate (1999–2003).
* Alexander Galimov, 26, Russian ice hockey player, injuries sustained in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash.
* Mohammed Ghani Hikmat, 82, Iraqi sculptor, kidney failure.
* Peter van Huizen, 79, Malaysian Olympic field hockey player.
* Ralph Lomma, 87, American mini golf entrepreneur.
* Wade Mainer, 104, American bluegrass musician, heart failure.
* Allen Morgan, 86, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) coxswain, cancer.
* Petro Tronko, 96, Ukrainian academician.

### 13

* Walter Bonatti, 81, Italian mountain climber.
* John Calley, 81, American movie studio executive.
* Wilma Lee Cooper, 90, American country music singer, natural causes.
* Sam DeLuca, 75, American football player and broadcaster (New York Jets), pancreatic cancer.
* Arno Fischer, 84, German photographer.
* Paul Gallant, 67, Canadian entrepreneur, inventor of Puzz-3D, cancer.
* Jack Garner, 84, American actor (The Rockford Files, My Fellow Americans), brother of James Garner.
* Richard Hamilton, 89, British artist.
* David Jull, 66, Australian politician, Member of the House of Representatives (1975–1983, 1984–2007).
* Joe Krupa, 78, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), heart ailment.
* DJ Mehdi, 34, French hip hop and house producer.
* Harlan Erwin Mitchell, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative from Georgia (1958–1961).
* Carl Oglesby, 76, American anti-war activist, lung cancer.
* Gautam Rajadhyaksha, 60, Indian photographer.
* Steven Michael Woods, Jr., 31, American murderer, executed by lethal injection.

### 14

* Harishchandra Birajdar, 61, Indian Olympic wrestler (1972).
* Lewis Brown, 56, American basketball player (Washington Bullets), heart attack.
* Choi Dong-Won, 53, South Korean baseball player (Lotte Giants, Samsung Lions), colon cancer.
* Desmond FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin, 74, Irish hereditary knight.
* Jorge Lavat, 78, Mexican actor.
* Teodor Moraru, 73, Romanian painter.
* Rudolf Mössbauer, 82, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1961).
* Frank Parkin, 80, British sociologist and novelist.
* Buddy Tinsley, 87, American-born Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
* Malcolm Wallop, 78, American politician, United States Senator from Wyoming (1977–1995).

### 15

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

### 16

* Ramon Amigó Anglès, 86, Spanish writer and teacher.
* Lloyd Barber, 79, Canadian university executive.
* Roger Belanger, 45, Canadian ice hockey player (Pittsburgh Penguins), heart attack.
* Sir Brian Burnett, 98, British Air Chief Marshal, Chairman of the All England Club.
* Bryce Crawford, 96, American scientist, member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
* Jordi Dauder, 73, Spanish actor.
* Norma Eberhardt, 82, American actress (Live Fast, Die Young, The Return of Dracula), stroke.
* Dave Gavitt, 73, American basketball coach, founder of the Big East Conference.
* Sir William Hawthorne, 98, British aerospace engineer.
* Kara Kennedy, 51, American television producer, daughter of Ted Kennedy, heart attack.
* Jean Leclant, 91, French archaeologist and Egyptologist.
* Stephen Mueller, 63, American painter, cancer.
* Ted Mullighan, 72, Australian jurist, cancer.
* Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, 75, American blues musician.
* Tom Wilson, Sr., 80, American cartoonist (Ziggy).

### 17

* Roger Agache, 85, French archaeologist.
* Pedro Estay, 82, Chilean Olympic shooter.
* Robert Frascino, 59, American immunologist.
* Ernest House Sr., 65, American tribal leader, Chairman of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe (1982–2010), injuries from a motorcycle accident.
* Colin Madigan, 90, Australian architect.
* Faidon Matthaiou, 87, Greek basketball player and coach.
* George MacDonald Sacko, 75, Liberian footballer.
* Eleanor Mondale, 51, American television personality, daughter of Walter Mondale, brain cancer.
* Charles H. Percy, 91, American politician, Senator from Illinois (1967–1985), Alzheimer's disease.
* Kurt Sanderling, 98, German conductor.
* Ferenc Szojka, 80, Hungarian footballer.
* Moisés Villanueva de la Luz, 47, Mexican politician, MP (2011). (body found on this date)
* Peter Wright, 82, British police officer.
* Tomasz Zygadło, 63, Polish film director.

### 18

* Jack Adler, 94, American comic book artist.
* Paul Bach, 72, English journalist and editor (Saga Magazine).
* Mohammed Bassiouni, 74, Egyptian diplomat, Ambassador to Israel (1986–2000).
* Tom Daly, 93, Canadian movie director and producer, long illness.
* Norma Holloway Johnson, 79, American federal judge, first African American woman to serve as a district court chief judge, stroke.
* Bayless Manning, 88, American lawyer, Dean of Stanford Law School (1964–1971), first President of the Council on Foreign Relations.
* William F. May, 95, American film society founder (Film Society of Lincoln Center), heart failure.
* Marcelino Palentini, 68, Italian-born Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jujuy (since 1995).
* Aleksandr Potapov, 67, Soviet Olympic sailor.
* Jamey Rodemeyer, 14, American gay activist and bullying victim, suicide by hanging.
* Ivo Škrabalo, 77, Croatian writer, director and actor.
* Imre Varga, 66, Hungarian Olympic judoka.
* Swian Zanoni, 23, Brazilian motocross rider, race accident.

### 19

* George Benton, 78, American boxer, pneumonia.
* Thomas Capano, 61, American convicted murderer, heart attack.
* Jo Carson, 64, American writer.
* Bernard Collomb, 80, French racing driver.
* Dolores Hope, 102, American philanthropist, widow of Bob Hope, natural causes.
* Little Yellow Jacket, 15, American bucking bull.
* Ginger McCain, 80, British horse trainer, cancer.
* George Cadle Price, 92, Belizean politician, Prime Minister (1981–1984; 1989–1993).
* Johnny Răducanu, 79, Romanian jazz musician, cardiac arrest.
* Mathieu Schiller, 32, French bodybuilder, shark attack.

### 20

* Arvid Andersson, 92, Swedish Olympic weightlifter.
* Johnny Barend, 82, American professional wrestler, natural causes.
* Frank Driggs, 81, American Grammy Award-winning jazz producer, musician and archivist, natural causes.
* Oscar Handlin, 95, American historian.
* Michael Jarvis, 73, British horse trainer.
* Aleksei Mamykin, 75, Russian footballer and coach.
* Burhanuddin Rabbani, 70, Afghan politician, President (1992–1996, 2001), bomb attack.
* Claude Rohla, 59, Luxembourgish Olympic archer.
* Victor Blanchard Scheffer, 104, American mammalogist and author, natural causes.
* Gaby Stenberg, 88, Swedish actress.
* Per Unckel, 63, Swedish politician, Governor of Stockholm County (since 2007), cancer.
* Urpo Vähäranta, 85, Finnish Olympic athlete.
* Arch West, 97, American marketing executive credited with developing Doritos.
* Robert Whitaker, 71, British photographer, shot The Beatles' butcher album cover, cancer.

### 21

* Joe Abeywickrama, 84, Sri Lankan actor.
* Lawrence Russell Brewer, 44, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
* Troy Davis, 42, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
* Michael Julian Drake, 65, American planetary scientist.
* John Du Cann, 66, British musician (Atomic Rooster), heart attack.
* Paulette Dubost, 100, French actress (The Rules of the Game, The Last Metro).
* Ben Feleo, 85, Filipino film director.
* Mickey Rottner, 92, American basketball player (Sheboygan Red Skins, Chicago Stags).
* Pamela Ann Rymer, 70, American federal judge, cancer.
* Naoki Sugiura, 79, Japanese actor, lung cancer.

### 22

* Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, 70, Indian cricketer, ninth and last Nawab of Pataudi (1952–1971), lung disease.
* Peter E. Berger, 67, American film editor (Fatal Attraction, Star Trek, Alvin and the Chipmunks), leukemia.
* Jonathan Cecil, 72, English actor.
* Cengiz Dağcı, 92, Turkish language Crimean novelist and poet.
* John H. Dick, 92, American naval officer and college basketball player.
* Henry Lacey, 91, S African cricketer.
* Robert Mistele, 91, American football coach.
* Margaret Ogola, 53, Kenyan author.
* Asbjørn Osnes, 79, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper.
* Whatumoana Paki, 85, New Zealand Māori royal elder, widower of Te Atairangikaahu, father of King Tuheitia.
* Aristides Pereira, 87, Cape Verdean politician and guerrilla leader, President (1975–1991).
* Vic Roby, 93, American radio and television announcer.
* Knut Steen, 86, Norwegian sculptor.
* Vesta Williams, 53, American R&B singer, hypertensive heart disease.

### 23

* Orlando Brown Sr., 40, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens), diabetic ketoacidosis.
* Hubert Constant, 80, Haitian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cap-Haïtien (2003–2008).
* Luciano Galbo, 68, Italian cyclist.
* Danny Litwhiler, 95, American baseball player and coach.
* Guy Marcoux, 87, Canadian politician.
* Rolland W. Redlin, 91, American politician, U.S. Representative from North Dakota (1965–1967).
* Douglas Stuart, 20th Earl of Moray, 83, British aristocrat.
* Joseph Trinh Chinh Truc, 85, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ban Me Thuot (1990–2000).
* José Miguel Varas, 83, Chilean writer.
* Carl Wood, 81, Australian in vitro fertilisation pioneer, Alzheimer's disease.

### 24

* Robert Chasowa, 25, Malawian political activist.
* Surinder Kapoor, 86, Indian film producer, cardiac arrest.
* Tony Knap, 96, American college football coach, Alzheimer's disease.
* Konstantin Lerner, 61, Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
* Emanuel Litvinoff, 96, British writer and human rights campaigner.
* George Palliser, 92, British World War II fighter pilot.
* Gusty Spence, 78, British Ulster loyalist, leader of the Ulster Volunteer Force.
* Ken Yamauchi, 67, Japanese actor, pneumonia.

### 25

* Len Allmond, 86, Australian rugby league footballer.
* Theyab Awana, 21, Emirati footballer, traffic accident.
* Denis Cannan, 92, British playwright.
* Tony Conyers, 83, British journalist.
* Erling Lars Dale, 65, Norwegian educationalist, cancer.
* Norman Lawson, 75, English footballer and cricketer.
* Sissy Löwinger, 70, Austrian actress, daughter of Paul Löwinger.
* Wangari Maathai, 71, Kenyan environmental activist, MP and Nobel Peace Prize winner, cancer.
* Helen Reichert, 109, American talk show personality and New York University professor.
* Ali St. Louis, 52, Trinidadian Olympic athlete, traffic accident.

### 26

* Sharon Anderson-Gold, 63, American professor, cancer.
* Robert Blinc, 76, Slovene physicist.
* Sergio Bonelli, 78, Italian comic book author and publisher.
* Bob Cassilly, 61, American sculptor, founder of City Museum, bulldozer accident.
* Jessy Dixon, 73, American gospel musician.
* David Zelag Goodman, 81, American screenwriter (Straw Dogs), progressive supranuclear palsy.
* Jerry Haynes, 84, American actor (RoboCop, Places in the Heart, Heartbreak Hotel), Parkinson's disease.
* Harry Muskee, 70, Dutch blues singer and musician (Cuby + Blizzards), cancer.
* Uan Rasey, 90, American trumpeter, heart ailment.
* Michael Shor, 91, Israeli security official, CEO of Israel Military Industries (1972–1989).
* Ron Toomer, 81, American roller coaster designer.

### 27

* Mahmoud Abouelleil, 75-76, Egyptian politician.
* Fernando Agüero, 94, Nicaraguan politician.
* David Croft, 89, British television comedy writer and producer (Are You Being Served?, Dad's Army).
* Sara Douglass, 54, Australian fantasy author, ovarian cancer.
* Ida Fink, 89, Israeli Polish-language author.
* Wilson Greatbatch, 92, American engineer, inventor of the implantable cardiac pacemaker.
* Dave Hill, 74, American golfer, complications from emphysema.
* Imre Makovecz, 75, Hungarian architect.
* Richard W. Mallary, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from Vermont (1972–1975).
* "Country" Johnny Mathis, 80, American country music singer-songwriter.
* Chus Pereda, 73, Spanish football player and manager.
* Stuart Spencer, 79, Australian footballer.
* Joe Tofflemire, 46, American football player (Seattle Seahawks), heart failure.
* Erik Wedersøe, 73, Danish actor.
* Johnnie Wright, 97, American country music singer (Johnnie & Jack), husband of Kitty Wells.
* Cizia Zykë, 61, French writer and adventurer.

### 28

* James E. Bowman, 88, American physician.
* Patrick Collinson, 82, British historian.
* Pierre Dansereau, 99, Canadian ecologist.
* Charles J. Donlan, 95, American NASA researcher and manager.
* Heidi, 3, American-born cross-eyed opossum at Leipzig Zoo, euthanised.
* Chingis Izmailov, 67, Russian psychophysiologist.
* Claude R. Kirk, Jr., 85, American politician, Governor of Florida (1967–1971).
* Nick Navarro, 81, American law enforcement official, Sheriff of Broward County, Florida (1985–1992), complications of cancer.
* Alfredo Pieroni, 88, Italian journalist.

### 29

* Eddie Bockman, 91, American baseball player, manager and scout (Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees).
* Charles Brooks, 90, American editorial cartoonist.
* Len Castle, 86, New Zealand potter.
* Hella Haasse, 93, Dutch writer.
* Philip Hannan, 98, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of New Orleans (1965–1988).
* Nonie Lynch, 101, Irish traditional singer.
* Tatyana Lioznova, 87, Russian film director (Seventeen Moments of Spring), People's Artist of the USSR.
* Vera Popkova, 68, Russian athlete, Olympic bronze medalist (1968).
* Sylvia Robinson, 76, American singer (Mickey & Sylvia), music producer and record label executive, heart failure.
* Lojze Slak, 79, Slovene accordion player, bone cancer.
* Iain Sproat, 72, Scottish politician and journalist.

### 30

* Va'aelua Eti Alesana, Samoan politician, President of the Tautua Samoa Party (since 2011).
* João d'Avila Moreira Lima, 92, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (1982–2002).
* Anwar al-Awlaki, 40, American-born Yemeni cleric and Al-Qaeda official, airstrike.
* Pilar Barril, 79, Spanish tennis player.
* Lee Davenport, 95, American physicist, helped develop SCR-584 radar, cancer.
* Gilberto Fernandez, 76, Cuban-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Miami (1997–2002).
* Mykhaylo Forkash, 63, Ukrainian footballer.
* Peter Gent, 69, American football player (Dallas Cowboys) and author (North Dallas Forty).
* Alexander Grant, 86, New Zealand ballet dancer.
* Mike Heimerdinger, 58, American football coach (Tennessee Titans), cancer.
* Gaspar Henaine, 84, Mexican comedian.
* Mumtaz Jajja, 63, Pakistani politician, dengue fever.
* Roger G. Kennedy, 85, American civil servant, Director of the National Park Service (1993–1997), melanoma.
* Samir Khan, 25, Saudi-born American jihadist and publisher (Inspire), airstrike.
* Ram Dayal Munda, 72, Indian scholar and activist.
* Sir Arthur Norman, 94, British industrialist.
* Clifford Olson, 71, Canadian serial killer, cancer.
* Ralph M. Steinman, 68, Canadian immunologist, announced as 2011 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, pancreatic cancer.
* Marv Tarplin, 70, American guitarist and songwriter, original member of The Miracles.