Deaths Date 2011 P 2 | History by KabAstro

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May 1 Ted Lowe, English snooker commentator (Pot Black, BBC), dies at 90

Osama bin Laden (1957-2011)

May 2 Islamic militant and founder of al-Qaeda, shot and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan by navy seals during Operation Neptune Spear at 54

May 3 Jackie Cooper, American actor and director (Skippy, Superman), dies at 88
May 3 Sergo Kotrikadze, Georgian footballer (b. 1936)
May 3 Thanasis Veggos, Greek actor (b. 1927)
May 4 Mary Murphy, American actress (A Man Alone, Maggie-Investigators), dies at 80
May 4 Sada Thompson, American actress (Family, Pursuit of Happiness), dies at 83
May 5 Arthur Laurents, American playwright (West Side Story: Gypsy), and screenwriter (Rope; Anastasia), dies at 93
May 5 Claude Choules, British-Australian sailor and last surviving combat veteran of both World War I and World War II, dies at 110
May 5 Dana Wynter, German-English actress (Airport; Invasion of the Body Snatchers), dies at 79
May 5 Yosef Merimovich, Israeli football player, 1948-58, and manager, 1958-89, dies at 86
May 7 "Big" George Webley, British broadcaster, composer, bandleader and musician, dies of a heart attack at 53
May 7 Allyson Hennessy, Trindadian television presenter
May 7 John Walker [Maus], American rock vocalist (Walker Brothers - "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)"), dies of liver cancer at 67

Seve Ballesteros (1957-2011)

May 7 Spanish golfer (British Open 1979, 84, 88, US Masters 1980, 83), dies of brain cancer at 54

May 8 Cornell Dupree, American jazz and R&B session guitarist (Atlantic Records - Aretha Franklin), dies of emphysema at 68
May 8 Lionel Rose, Australian boxer (WBA, WBC, The Ring bantamweight title 1968-69; first Indigenous Australian to win a world title), dies at 62
May 9 Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist, dies at 26
May 11 (Eugene) "Snooky" Young, American jazz trumpeter who mastered the plunger mute, dies at 92
May 12 Harry Danielsen, Norwegian educator and politician, dies at 74
May 13 Bernard Greenhouse, American cellist (Beaux Arts Trio), dies at 95
May 13 Bruce Ricker, American jazz and blues documentarian (The Last of the Blue Devils; Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser), dies at 68
May 13 Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
May 13 Jack Richardson, Canadian record producer (The Guess Who), dies at 81
May 13 Patricia Tindale, British architect and civil servant (school buildings, public housing), dies at 85
May 15 Bob Flannigan, American jazz singer (The Four Freshmen), dies at 84
May 16 Bill Skiles, American comic (b. 1931)
May 16 Bob Davis, Australian football forward (All Australian captain 1958; VFL Premiership 1951, 52 Geelong FC), coach (VFL Premiership 1963 Geelong FC) and broadcaster (7 Network), dies at 82
May 16 Edward Hardwicke, British actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 78

Harmon Killebrew (1936-2011)

May 17 American Baseball HOF utility (13 × MLB All-Star; AL MVP 1969; 6 × AL HR leader; Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins), dies from esophageal cancer at 74

May 18 Leonard Kastle, opera composer, librettist, director (The Passion of Mother Ann), and film maker (The Honeymoon Killers), dies at 82
May 19 Garret FitzGerald, Irish politician and 8th Taoiseach of Ireland (Fine Gael: 1981-87), dies at 85
May 19 Kathy Kirby, English singer (Secret Love), dies at 72
May 19 Phyllis Avery, American actress (Ruby Gentry, George Gobel Show, Mr Novak), dies at 88

Randy Savage (1952-2011)

May 20 American pro wrestler (WWF/SMW/ICW; WWE Hall of Fame), dies of a heart attack at 58

May 22 Ze'ev Wolfgang Steinberg, Israeli violist and composer, dies at 92
May 24 Huguette Clark, Heiress of the Clark Copper fortune, life-long reclusion from society. (b. 1906)
May 25 Leonora Carrington, British-Mexican Surrealist artist, dies aged 94
May 25 Paul Splittorff, American MLB pitcher and broadcaster (KC Royals), dies of oral cancer at 64
May 25 Terry Jenner, Australian cricket spin bowler (9 Tests, 24 wickets; WA CA, SA CA), dies from a heart attack at 66
May 26 Arisen Ahubudu, Sri Lankan scholar, author and playwright (b. 1920)
May 26 Ben Roberts, British industrial relations expert (London School of Economics), dies at 93
May 27 Gill Scott-Heron, American writer, poet and singer ("Whitey on the Moon"), dies at 62
May 27 Jeff Conaway, American actor and singer (Taxi - "Bobby"; Grease - "Kenickie"; Babylon 5 - "Zack"), dies of pneumonia and sepsis at 60
May 27 Margo Dydek, Polish basketball player (b. 1974)
May 28 Alys Robi [Alice Robitaille], French Canadian cabaret and radio of French translations of Latin songs, dies at 88
May 28 Barbara Mills, British barrister (first female Director of Public Prosecutions), dies at 70
May 29 Bill Clements, American politician, Governor of Texas (1987-91), dies at 94
May 29 Bill Roycroft, Australian equestrian (Olympic gold team event 1960, bronze 1968, 76), dies at 96
May 29 Ferenc Mádl, Hungarian politician, President of Hungary (b. 1931)
May 29 Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian president (b. 1949)
May 29 Simon Brint, British comic actor, musician, and television composer (French and Saunders; A Bit of Fry & Laurie; Monarch of the Glen), takes his own life at 60
May 30 Clarice Taylor, American actress (Nurse Bailey-Nurse), dies at 93
May 30 Giorgio Tozzi, American operatic bass (dubbed vocals of Emile de Becque for "South Pacific" film), dies at 88
May 30 Rosalyn Yalow, American medical physicist (Nobel 1977), dies at 89
May 31 Andy Robustelli, American NFL defensive end (LA Rams, NY Giants), dies at 85
May 31 Pauline Betz Addie, American tennis player (5 Grand Slam singles titles), dies of complications from Parkinson's disease at 91
Jun 2 Erapheael “Ray” Bryant, American jazz pianist, composer and arranger ("Madison Time"), dies at 79
Jun 2 Willem Duys, Dutch TV presenter, commentator and music producer, dies at 82
Jun 3 Andrew Gold, American rocker ("Lonely Boy"), and songwriter (Thank You For Being A Friend; The Final Frontier), dies in his sleep of heart failure at 59

Jack Kevorkian (1928-2011)

Jun 3 American pathologist and right-to-die activist, dies of a thrombosis at 83

Jun 3 James Arness, American actor (Gunsmoke, How the West Was Won), dies of natural causes at 88
Jun 4 Andreas P. Nielsen, Danish author and composer, dies at 58
Jun 4 Claudio Bravo Camus, Chilean born painter, dies at 74
Jun 4 David “Frankie” Toler, American drummer and percussionist (Allman Brothers), dies at 59 [1]
Jun 4 Juan Francisco Luis, U.S. Virgin Islander governor (b. 1940)
Jun 4 Kevin Kavanaugh, American rock keyboard player (Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, 1975-90), dies at 59
Jun 4 Martin Rushent, British sound engineer (Gentle Giant; Shirley Bassey), and record producer (Buzzcocks; The Human League), dies at 62
Jun 6 Shrek the sheep, New Zealand sheep that held world record for biggest shorn fleece, dies at 16
Jun 7 Hubert Du Plessis, South African pianist and composer, dies at 88
Jun 7 Jorge Semprún, Spanish-French writer (2nd mort de R Mercader, Z), dies at 87
Jun 7 Leonard B. Stern, American television screenwriter (The Honeymooners; The Phil Silvers Show: Get Smart), and producer, dies of heart failure at 88
Jun 7 Nataraja Ramakrishna, Indian classical dancer, choreographer, and musicologist, dies at 88
Jun 7 Paul Dickson, American football player and coach (b. 1937)
Jun 8 Alan Rubin, American jazz and session trumpeter and flugelhorn player (SNL; Blues Brothers) known as "Mr Fabulous", dies of cancer at 68
Jun 9 M. F. Husain, Indian artist and painter, dies at 95
Jun 9 Mike Mitchell, American basketball small forward (NBA All-Star 1981; Italian League top scorer 1998), dies from cancer at 55
Jun 9 Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress, dies at 41
Jun 10 Brian Lenihan, Jnr, Irish politician and minister dies of cancer at 52
Jun 10 Jeanne Bice, American entrepreneur (Quacker Factory clothes), dies of cancer at 71
Jun 10 Patrick Leigh Fermor, English soldier and travel writer (A Time of Gifts), dies at 96

Kurt Nielsen (1930-2011)

Jun 11 Danish tennis player, (Wimbledon 1953, 55 runner-up), dies at 80

Jun 11 Seth Putnam, American extreme heavy metal guitarist and vocalist, dies of a heart attack at 43
Jun 12 Carl Gardner, American pop-rock vocalist (The Coasters - "Yakety Yak"), dies at 83
Jun 12 Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Skolt Sámi poet and writer, dies at 63
Jun 15 Bill Haast, American Herpetologist (b. 1910)
Jun 18 Clarence Clemons, American saxophonist, known as "The Big Man" (The E-Street Band), dies of complications from a stroke (b. 1942); flags in New Jersey are lowered to half-mast
Jun 18 Frederick Chiluba, 2nd President of Zambia (1991-2001), dies at 68

Yelena Bonner (1923-2011)

Jun 18 Soviet dissident and wife of Andre Sakharov, dies of heart failure at 88 [1]

Jun 19 Don Diamond, American actor (b. 1921)
Jun 20 Jerome Rosen, American composer, dies at 89
Jun 20 Ryan Dunn, American actor and TV personality (Homewrecker), dies at 34
Jun 20 [Anna] Ottilie Patterson, Irish blues and jazz singer (Chris Barber Jazz Band), dies at 79
Jun 21 Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author (b. 1927)
Jun 22 Harley Hotchkiss, Canadian businessman (b. 1927)
Jun 22 John Waite, South African cricket wicket-keeper, dies at 81
Jun 23 Peter Falk, American actor (Colombo, Scared Straight), dies at 83
Jun 24 Tomislav Ivić, Croatian football manager (b. 1933)
Jun 25 Goff Richards, British brass band music composer and arranger
Jun 25 Margaret Tyzack, English actress (b. 1931)
Jun 26 Edith Fellows, American actress (Pennies From Heaven, She Married Her Boss), dies at 88
Jun 27 Betty Callaway, English figure skating coach (Torvill & Dean, Regőczy & Sallay), dies after a fall at 83
Jun 27 Elaine Stewart, American actress and model (The Bad and the Beautiful, Take the High Ground), dies at 81
Jun 27 Gisèle Rabesahala, Malagasy politician (1st female minister) and human righter activist, dies at 82
Jun 27 Mike Doyle, English former footballer (b. 1946)
Jun 29 R. C. Alston, British bibliographer, dies at 78
Jun 30 Barry Bremen, American sports imposter and businessman (b. 1947)
Jun 30 David Loram, British vice-admiral (Supreme Allied Commander), dies at 86
Jul 1 Leslie Brooks, American actress (b. 1922)
Jul 2 Itamar Franco, 33rd President of Brazil (1992-94), dies at 81
Jul 2 Juno Stover-Irwin, American diver (Olympic silver women's platform 1956, bronze 1952), dies at 82
Jul 2 Oliver Napier, Northern Irish politician (founded Northern Ireland's Alliance party), dies at 75 [1]
Jul 3 Anna Massey, English actress (De Sade, Doll's House), dies at 73
Jul 4 Otto von Habsburg, last crown prince of Austria-Hungary and MEP (1979-1999), dies at 98
Jul 5 Armon Gilliam, American NBA forward, 1987-2000 (Phoenix Suns, Milwaukee Bucks, NJ Nets, and 3 other teams), and college coach, 2001-05 (Penn State), dies of a heart attack at 47
Jul 5 Cy Twombly, American artist (b. 1928)
Jul 5 Malcolm Forsyth, South African-Canadian trombonist and composer (Atayoskewin), dies of pancreatic cancer at 74
Jul 6 John Mackey, American Pro Football HOF tight end (Super Bowl 1970; 3 × First-team All-Pro; 5 × Pro Bowl; Baltimore Colts, San Diego Chargers), dies at 69
Jul 7 Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist and author ("Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom"; "Incident at Hawk's Hill"), dies at 80
Jul 7 Dick Williams, American Baseball Hall of Fame manager (World Series 1972, 73 Oakland A's) and utility (Brooklyn Dodgers), dies of a ruptured aortic aneurysm at 82
Jul 7 Josef Suk, Czech concert violinist (Artist of Merit, 1977), violist, and namesake of composer grandfather, dies of prostate cancer at 81

Betty Ford (1918-2011)

Jul 8 First Lady of the United States (1974-77) and founder of the Betty Ford Center clinic for substance abuse, dies at 93

Jul 8 Mary Fenech Adami, First Lady of Malta (b. 1933)
Jul 8 Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (Home Alone, Deranged, The Great Gatsby), dies of a stroke at 87
Jul 9 Don Ackerman, American basketball player (b. 1930)
Jul 9 Facundo Cabral, Argentine folk, rock, and protest singer-songwriter, shot and killed riding in a car with a concert promoter at 74
Jul 9 Würzel [Michael Burston], British musician (Motörhead), dies of ventricular fibrillation at 61
Jul 10 Pierrette Alarie, Canadian operatic soprano, dies at 89
Jul 10 Roland Petit, French choreographer and dancer (b. 1924)
Jul 11 George Lascelles, English Earl of Harewood, Director of the Royal Opera House, dies at 88
Jul 11 Michael Chevalier, German film and television voice-dubbing actor, dies at 78
Jul 12 David Carr, British rock keyboardist (The Fortunes, 1963-68 - "You've Got Your Troubles"; "Here It Comes Again"), dies at 67
Jul 12 Sherwood Schwartz, American television screenwriter and producer (The Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island), dies at 94
Jul 13 Allan Jeans, Australian football player and coach (b. 1933)
Jul 13 Jerry Ragovoy, American songwriter ("Piece Of My Heart"; "Time Is On My Side"; "Pata Pata"), and record producer, dies following a stroke at 80
Jul 15 Googie Withers, English actress and dancer (The Lady Vanishes), dies at 94
Jul 16 Forrest Blue, American football center (First-team All-Pro 1971–73; Pro Bowl 1971–74; SF 49ers, Baltimore Colts), dies of chronic traumatic encephalopathy at 65
Jul 17 David Ngoombujarra, Australian actor (b. 1967)
Jul 18 Osvaldo Lacerda, Brazilian composer (Piratininga), and music professor, dies at 84
Jul 19 Karen Khachaturian, Russian composer, dies at 90
Jul 19 Sheila Burrell, British actress (Black Orchid, Paranoiac, Laughter in Dark), dies at 89
Jul 20 Lucian Freud, German-British artist (Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, Boy With a Rat), dies at 88
Jul 22 Linda Christian, Mexican actress (Athena, VIPs, Battle Zone), dies at 87
Jul 22 Tom Aldredge, American actor (The Sopranos, What About Bob, Nurse, Mind Snatchers), dies at 83

Amy Winehouse (1983-2011)

Jul 23 British singer-songwriter ("Stronger Than Me"; "Rehab"), dies from alcohol poisoning at 27

Jul 23 John Shalikashvili, Polish-American general (NATO), dies at 75
Jul 23 Johnny Hoes, Dutch musician and producer (Wished I'd Stayed With My Mom), dies at 94
Jul 23 Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, Premier of South Vietnam (1965-67), dies at 80
Jul 24 Dan Peek, American rock vocalist and guitarist (America), dies at 60
Jul 24 Frank Dietrich, German politician (b. 1966)
Jul 24 Jane White, African-American actress and singer (Strange Fruit, Once Upon a Mattress), dies at 88
Jul 25 Arsene Souffriau, Belgian pioneering electronic music composer, dies at 86
Jul 25 Michael Cacoyannis, Greek film director (Zorba the Greek, Trojan Women), dies at 90
Jul 25 Mihalis Kakogiannis, Cypriot filmmaker (b. 1922)
Jul 26 Margaret Olley, Australian still-life and interior painter, dies at 88
Jul 27 Ágota Kristóf, Hungarian writer (The Notebook), dies at 75
Jul 27 Bejaratana Rajasuda, Princess of Thailand (b. 1925)
Jul 27 Hideki Irabu, Japanese-American NPB and MLB baseball pitcher, 1988-2004 (New York Yankees, 1997-2002), takes his own life at 42
Jul 27 Richard Rutt, English bishop of Leicester, dies at 85
Jul 28 Abdul Fatah Younis, Former Libyan Interior Minister, assassinated for pro-Gadaffi ties (b. 1944)
Jul 29 Claude Laydu, Belgian-born Swiss actor (Diary of a Country Priest), dies at 84
Aug 2 Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-American immunologist (Nobel 1980 - discovery of genes that regulate immune responses and of the role that some of these genes play in autoimmune diseases), dies at 90
Aug 2 Clarence E. Miller, American politician (Rep-R-OH, 1967-93), dies at 93
Aug 2 DeLois Barrett Campbell, American gospel singer (Barrett Sisters), dies at 85
Aug 3 Allan Watkins, Welsh cricket all-rounder, (15 Tests, England @ 40.15, 11 wickets; Glamorgan), dies at 89
Aug 3 Bubba Smith, American College Football Hall of Fame defensive end (Michigan State; Pro Bowl 1970, 71; First Team All Pro 1971; Super Bowl 1971; Baltimore Colts) and actor (Police Academy), dies of acute drug intoxication and heart disease at 66
Aug 4 Mark Duggan is shot by police in London at 29, sparking widespread riots
Aug 4 Naoki Matsuda, Japanese Soccer player (b. 1977)
Aug 5 Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician (Deputy Prime Minister of Poland), dies at 57
Aug 5 Zyzz [Aziz Shavershian], Kurdish-Russian-Australian bodybuilder and model, dies of heart attack in a sauna at 22
Aug 6 Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist of the Philippines, dies at 99
Aug 6 Mark Hatfield, American politician (29th Governor of Oregon), dies at 89
Aug 7 Hugh Carey, American politician and attorney (Gov-D-NY), dies at 92
Aug 7 Marshall Grant, American bassist (Johnny Cash's Tennessee Two), dies at 83
Aug 7 Nancy Wake, New Zealand-born World War II secret agent (Special Operations Executive), dies at 98
Aug 11 Jani Lane [John Oswald], American heavy metal rock songwriter, and singer (Warrant - "Cherry Pie"), dies of acute alcohol poisoning at 47
Aug 12 Robert Robinson, British radio and television presenter, and game show host (Ask the Family; Call My Bluff), dies at 83
Aug 13 Topi Sorsakoski [Pekka Tammilehto], Finnish blues singer, and guitarist, dies of lung cancer at 58
Aug 14 Shammi Kapoor, Indian actor and director known as the "Elvis Presley of India" (Amaran, Brahmachari, Vidhaata), dies of chronic renal failure at 79
Aug 15 Betty Thatcher [Newsinger], English progressive rock lyricist (Renaissance - "Carpet of the Sun"; "Mother Russia"), dies of cancer at 67
Aug 15 Eric Dempster, New Zealand cricket spin bowler (5 Tests, TS 47, 2 wickets; Wellington CA), dies at 86
Aug 15 Rick Rypien, Canadian ice hockey player, dies at 27
Aug 16 Pete Pihos, American Pro/College Football HOF end (Indiana University; 6 x Pro Bowl; 6 × First-team All-Pro; Philadelphia Eagles), dies at 87
Aug 19 Gun Hägglund, Swedish news presenter (b. 1932)