10 February 2011

Final Exits, 1-7 February 2011

Obituaries for 1-7 February 2011
Olof Palme (who played himself in an uncredited role in the movie "I Am Curious (Yellow)") and Lena Nyman, taken at the Guldbagge Award ceremony. Ms. Nyman won the 1967 award for Best Actress in a leading role. (Photo: Arbetarörelsen arkiv)
1
* Isabella Cerqueira Campos, 72, Brazilian actress, breast cancer. (Portuguese)
* Sidney Cipriano, 46, Brazilian singer (Fat Family), cardiac arrest. (Portuguese)
* Jimmy Fell, 75, English footballer (Grimsby Town), natural causes.
* Daniele Formica, 60, Italian comedian, actor and dubber. (Italian)
* Lennox Fyfe, Baron Fyfe of Fairfield, 69, British politician.
* Zeke Garner, 98, American baseball player, inducted into Maine Baseball Hall of Fame.
* Jiří Kárnet, 91, Czech-born American journalist, playwright and theatre director.
* Stanisław Michalski, 78, Polish actor. (Polish)
* Derek Rawcliffe, 89, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway (1981-1991).
* Husik Santurjan, 91, Turkish-born Armenian archbishop of Armenian Apostolic Church.
* Johannes Somary, 75, Swiss-born American conductor and organist, complications from a stroke.
* Takis Varvitsiotis, 95, Greek poet. (Greek)
* Gyõzõ Veres, 74, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960, 1964) weightlifter.

2
* Federico Aguilar Alcuaz, 78, Filipino painter.
* Darrel Baldock, 72, Australian football player and coach, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1972–1987) and Minister (1975–1982), stroke.
* Daniela Castelo, 47, Argentine journalist and radio host, aneurysm. (Spanish)
* Armando Chin Yong, 53, Malaysian opera singer, heart disease.
* Bill Foster, 78, American television director (Benson, Full House, Sanford and Son), cancer.
* Defne Joy Foster, 35, Turkish actress, presenter and VJ.
* Douglas M. Head, 80, American politician, Minnesota Attorney General (1967–1971), natural causes.
* Margaret John, 84, British actress (Gavin & Stacey).
* Eric Nicol, 91, Canadian writer.
* René Verdon, 86, French-born American White House Executive Chef, leukemia.

3
* Ajib Ahmad, 63, Malaysian politician, Chief Minister of Johor (1982–1986).
* Don Butler, 80, American gospel singer, founder of Gospel Music Association, after long illness.
* Édouard Glissant, 82, French writer.
* LeRoy Grannis, 93, American surfing photographer.
* Tony Levin, 71, British jazz drummer.
* Bill Mansfield, 68, Australian trade unionist.
* Fermín Marmol León, 74, Venezuelan criminologist. (Spanish)
* Ron Piché, 75, Canadian baseball player (Braves, Angels, Cardinals), cancer. (French)
* Maria Schneider, 58, French actress (Last Tango in Paris), cancer.
* Tatyana Shmyga, 82, Russian operetta singer and film actress (Hussar Ballad), People's Artist of the USSR, vascular disease.
* Machan Varghese, 50, Indian Malayalam film actor, cancer.
* Neil Young, 66, English footballer (Manchester City), cancer.
* Robert Young, 95, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) athlete.

4
* Françoise Cachin, 74, French museum director and museum co-founder (Musee d'Orsay), amyloidosis.
* Martial Célestin, 97, Haitian lawyer and diplomat, Prime Minister (1988). (French)
* Toon Ebben, 80, Dutch Olympic equestrian. (Dutch)
* Robert L. Frye, 84, American educator.
* Woodie Fryman, 70, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Montreal Expos).
* Michael Habeck, 66, German actor, after short illness. (German)
* Dame Olga Lopes-Seale, 92, Guyanese-born Barbadian broadcaster and singer.
* Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud, 36, Egyptian journalist (Al-Ahram), shot during 2011 Egyptian protests.
* Lena Nyman, 66, Swedish actress (I Am Curious (Yellow), I Am Curious (Blue), Autumn Sonata), cancer.
* Vasile Paraschiv, 82, Romanian political activist and dissident. (Romanian)
* Martin Rogelio Cabrera, 21, Paraguayan footballer. (Spanish)
* Pavlos Sarlis, 83, Greek politician, Member of Parliament (1981–1989), Member of European Parliament (1989–1999). (Greek)
* Tura Satana, 72, American actress (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), heart failure.
* Joyce Sloane, 80, American producer (The Second City), natural causes.
* Uga VIII, 1, American bulldog, University of Georgia mascot, lymphoma.
* Yiannis Vasilopoulos, 73, Greek clarinetist. (Greek)

5
* Omar Amiralay, 67, Syrian filmmaker, heart attack.
* Mary Cleere Haran, 58, American cabaret singer, biking accident.
* Brian Jacques, 71, British fantasy author (Redwall), heart attack.
* Adjie Massaid, 43, Indonesian actor and politician, heart attack.
* Chris McNeill, 56, American Olympic ski jumper, pulmonary embolism.
* Hiroko Nagata, 65, Japanese radical and murderer, vice-chairman of United Red Army.
* Pertti Purhonen, 68, Finnish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1964) boxer, Alzheimer's disease. (Finnish)
* Peggy Rea, 89, American character actress (Grace Under Fire, The Dukes of Hazzard, Step by Step, The Waltons), heart failure.
* Pavel Vondruška, 85, Czech conductor and actor, accidental fall. (Czech)

6
* Andrée Chedid, 90, Egyptian-born French poet and novelist.
* Billy Gallier, 78, English footballer (Tamworth) and manager.
* John Paul Getty III, 54, American heir, grandson of J. Paul Getty, after long illness.
* Per Grundén, 88, Swedish opera singer and actor (Jönssonligan). (Swedish)
* Josefa Iloilo, 90, Fijian politician, President (2000–2006; 2007–2009).
* Gary Moore, 58, Northern Irish rock guitarist and singer (Thin Lizzy), heart attack.
* William Morais, 19, Brazilian footballer (América-MG), shot. (Portuguese)
* Ken Olsen, 84, American engineer, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation.

7
* Maria Altmann, 94, Austrian-born American art heiress, after long illness.
* Hysen Hakani, 78, Albanian screenwriter and director, directed first Albanian short film. (Albanian)
* Frank Roberts, 65, Australian boxer, first Australian Aboriginal Olympian (1964), heart attack.

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