page_title: Deaths in 2011
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in 2011 / May
caption_attribution_description: Cropped screenshot of Jackie Cooper from the trailer for the film Gallant Sons
context_page_description: Previous: 2010 Next: 2012
context_section_description: May 1 - Henry Cooper, 76, British heavyweight boxer.
  May 1 - Osama bin Laden, 54, al-Qaeda leader, killed by U.S. forces.
  May 2 - Shigeo Yaegashi, 78, Japanese footballer.
  May 3 - Jackie Cooper, 88, American actor, illness.
  May 5 - Claude Choules, 110, Anglo-Australian World War I veteran, last living combat veteran.
  May 7 - Seve Ballesteros, 54, Spanish golfer, brain cancer.
  May 7 - Gunter Sachs, 78, German photographer and industrialist, suicide by gunshot.
  May 7 - Willard Boyle, 86, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize winner.
  May 8 - Cornell Dupree, 68, American Jazz and R&B guitarist.
  May 9 - Wouter Weylandt, 26, Belgian road bicycle racer, race accident.
  May 9 - Lidia Gueiler Tejada, 89, Bolivian politician, Bolivia's only female President.
  May 13 - Derek Boogaard, 28, Canadian ice hockey player.
  May 15 - Samuel Wanjiru, 24, Kenyan marathon runner, fall from balcony.
  May 16 - Edward Hardwicke, 78, British actor.
  May 17 - Harmon Killebrew, 74, American baseball player, esophageal cancer.
  May 19 - Garret FitzGerald, 85, Irish Taoiseach, after short illness.
  May 20 - Randy Savage, 58, American pro wrestler, heart attack and car accident.
  May 21 - Bill Hunter, 71, Australian actor, liver cancer.
  May 23 - Nasser Hejazi, 61, Iranian footballer, lung cancer.
  May 23 - Xavier Tondo, 32, Spanish cyclist, crushed by a car.
  May 25 - Leonora Carrington, 94, British-Mexican painter and novelist.
  May 27 - Margo Dydek, 37, Polish basketball player, heart attack.
  May 27 - Jeff Conaway, 60, American actor, overdose.
  May 27 - Gil Scott-Heron, 62, American poet and rap musician.
  May 29 - Sergei Bagapsh, 62, President of Abkhazia, complications after lung surgery.
  May 29 - Ferenc Madl, 80, former President of Hungary.
  May 29 - Bill Clements, 94, former Governor of Texas.
  May 30 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, 89, American physicist, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  May 31 - Pauline Betz, 91, American tennis player.
  May 31 - Andy Robustelli, 85, American football player and NFL Hall of fame member, complications of recent bladder surgery.
  May 31 - Ezzatollah Sahabi, 81, Iranian politician, stroke.
caption: Jackie Cooper (1922-2011) in Gallant Sons trailer
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