Final Exits, 15-21 March 2011

Dorothy Young, 1930. Actress, stage assistant to Harry Houdini, novelist. (Photo: Jameseastonp)

Obituaries for 15-21 March 2011

15
* Leonid Agranovich, 95, Russian film director and screenwriter. (Russian)
* Vittorio Ghidella, 80, Italian automobile designer and businessman, CEO of Fiat. (Italian)
* Musa Juma, 42, Kenyan musician, pneumonia.
* Yakov Kreizberg, 51, Russian-born Austrian-American conductor.
* Jean Liedloff, 84, American writer.
* Peter Loader, 81, British cricketer.
* Marty Marion, 94, American baseball player and manager, National League MVP (1944).
* Nate Dogg, 41, American musician, heart failure.
* Fred Sanford, 91, American baseball player.
* Smiley Culture, 48, British reggae singer and DJ, apparent suicide by stabbing.
* William J. Stuntz, 52, American legal scholar.

16
* Josefina Aldecoa, 85, Spanish writer. (Spanish)
* Sándor Arnóth, 51, Hungarian politician, car accident. (Hungarian)
* Carel Boshoff, 83, South African religious and cultural activist, cancer.
* Betty Lowman Carey, 96, American rower.
* Tom Dunbar, 51, American baseball player (Texas Rangers).
* Armen Halburian, 77, American drummer and percussionist, cancer.
* Ivan Hel, 73, Ukrainian politician and dissident, member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.
* Khandaker Delwar Hossain, 78, Bangladeshi politician.
* Sion Milosky, 35, American surfer, drowned.
* Thomas Nkuissi, 82, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nkongsamba (1978–1992).
* Lloyd Oliver, 88, American veteran, World War II code talker.
* Giorgos Perros, 67, Greek painter, heart failure. (Greek)
* James Pritchett, 88, American actor (The Doctors).
* James C. Tyree, 53, American businessman, chairman and CEO of the Chicago Sun-Times, cancer.
* Murray Warmath, 98, American college football coach (Minnesota Golden Gophers), natural causes.
* Dick Wirthlin, 80, American political strategist and religious leader, renal failure.

17
* Banny deBrum, 54, Marshallese diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1996–2008, 2009–2011) and Canada (1999–2011).
* Fabián el Gitano, 39, Mexican professional wrestler, blunt trauma.
* Michael Gough, 94, British actor (Sleepy Hollow, Batman), after short illness.
* Ferlin Husky, 85, American country music singer, heart failure.
* Don Kennard, 81, American politician, Texas State Senator (1963–1973).
* Marina Malafeeva, 32, Russian record producer, car crash. (Russian)
* Murdoch Mitchison, 88, British zoologist.
* J.B. Steane, 83, British music critic.
* Christos Tsagas, 72, Greek actor, heart failure. (Greek)

18
* Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, 90, Monegasque princess.
* Ze'ev Boim, 67, Israeli Knesset member, cancer.
* Enzo Cannavale, 82, Italian actor (Cinema Paradiso). (Italian)
* Warren Christopher, 85, American diplomat, Secretary of State (1993–1997), complications from kidney and bladder cancer.
* Jet Harris, 71, British musician (The Shadows), throat cancer.
* Drew Hill, 54, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Houston Oilers), stroke.
* Charlie Metro, 91, American baseball player and manager (Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics), mesothelioma.
* David Nevin, 83, American historical novelist, Parkinson's disease.

19
* Patrick Ahern, 92, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1970–1994).
* Kym Bonython, 90, Australian art, jazz and speedway entrepreneur.
* Guillermo Ford, 74, Panamanian politician, Vice President of Panama (1989–1994).
* Viktor Ilyukhin, 62, Russian politician, member of the State Duma (since 1993).
* Åke Johansson, 74, Swedish jazz pianist. (Swedish)
* Knut, 4, German-born polar bear.
* Argentino Luna, 69, Argentine singer and composer, kidney and stomach failure.
* Tom McAvoy, 74, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
* Mohammed Nabbous, 28, Libyan journalist, founder of Alhurra TV, shot.
* Navin Nischol, 65, Indian actor, heart attack.
* Jim Roslof, 64, American artist (Dungeons & Dragons), cancer.
* Robert Ross, 92, American physician and medical school founder (Ross University), cancer.
* Bob Rush, 85, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Braves, Chicago White Sox).

20
* John Apacible, 38, Filipino actor, shot.
* Don Canney, 80, American politician, Mayor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1969–1992), heart failure.
* Bob Christo, 72, Australian-born Indian actor, heart attack.
* Aurimas Dautartas, 35, Lithuanian television presenter and radio host, suicide by hanging. (Lithuanian)
* Néstor de Vicente, 46, Argentine footballer, car crash. (Spanish)
* Diana Díaz, 15, Mexican diver, car accident. (Spanish)
* Kurt Hauenstein, 62, Austrian singer (Supermax), heart attack. (German)
* Oliver Humperdink, 62, American professional wrestling manager, pneumonia and cancer.
* Agostinho Januszewicz, 80, Polish-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Luziânia (1989–2004).
* Ralph Mooney, 82, American steel guitarist, complications from cancer.
* Johnny Pearson, 85, British composer, arranger and pianist.
* Dorothy Young, 103, American actress, assistant to Harry Houdini.

21
* Barry Ackerley, 76, American businessman (Ackerley Group), former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics, stroke.
* Hafiz Saleh Muhammad Alladin, 80, Indian astronomer and education advisor, after short illness.
* Nikolai Andrianov, 58, Russian gymnast, most medaled athlete at the 1976 Summer Olympics, after long illness. (Russian)
* Jesús Aranguren, 66, Spanish footballer and manager. (Spanish)
* Hans Boskamp, 78, Dutch actor and footballer, stroke. (Dutch)
* Bohumil Fišer, 67, Czech cardiologist and academic, Minister of Health (2000–2002), cancer. (Czech)
* Mayhew Foster, 99, American brigadier general, flew captured Hermann Goering to interrogation.
* Loleatta Holloway, 64, American soul and disco musician, heart failure.
* Ladislav Novák, 79, Czech footballer.
* Pinetop Perkins, 97, American blues musician, cardiac arrest.
* Kjeld Tolstrup, 45, Danish radio disc jockey (DR P3), after long illness. (Danish)
* Joe Wizan, 76, American film producer and studio executive, after long illness.