22 April 2011

Final Exits, 15-21 April 2011

Elisabeth Sladen, standing outside Forbidden Planet in London, 2003. (Photo: Danacea)
Obituaries for 15-21 April 2011

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* Vittorio Arrigoni, 36, Italian activist, hanged. (body discovered on this date)
* Babu Baral, 47, Pakistani comedian, cancer.
* Reno Bertoia, 76, Italian-born Canadian baseball player (Detroit Tigers), lymphoma.
* Hélio Gueiros, 85, Brazilian politician, Governor of Pará (1987–1991), renal disease. (Portuguese)
* Vincenzo La Scola, 53, Italian tenor, heart attack.
* Khan Mohammad Mujahid, Afghan police chief of Kandahar, suicide bomb.
* Bobo Osborne, 75, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
* Nicholas Selby, 85, British actor.
* Beryl Shipley, 84, American basketball coach (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, San Diego Conquistadors).
* Melih Yalman, 64, Turkish journalist, lung cancer. (Turkish)

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* Gerry Alexander, 82, Jamaican cricketer.
* Bijan, 67, Iranian-born American fashion designer, stroke.
* Allan Blakeney, 85, Canadian politician, Premier of Saskatchewan (1971–1982), complications from liver cancer.
* Chinesinho, 76, Brazilian footballer, Alzheimer's disease. (Portuguese)
* Bill Kinnamon, 91, American Major League Baseball umpire.
* Serge LeClerc, 61, Canadian pardoned criminal and politician, MLA for Saskatoon Northwest (2007–2010), complications from colon and bowel cancer.
* Alfonso Martínez, 74, Spanish Olympic basketball player. (Spanish)
* William A. Rusher, 87, American columnist, publisher of National Review (1957–1988).
* Dan Monroe Russell, Jr., 98, American federal judge, natural causes.
* Sol Saks, 100, American screenwriter, creator of Bewitched.
* Bhawani Singh, 79, Indian noble, titular Maharaja of Jaipur (since 1970).
* Hermod Skånland, 85, Norwegian Central Bank governor (1985–1993). (Norwegian)
* Harold Volkmer, 80, American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri (1977–1997), pneumonia.

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* Nasser Al-Kharafi, 67, Kuwaiti businessman (M. A. Kharafi & Sons), heart attack.
* Carlo Capponi, 58, Italian janitor and reality contestant, heart attack. (Italian)
* Joel Colton, 92, American historian, heart failure.
* Osamu Dezaki, 67, Japanese animator (Space Adventure Cobra, Tomorrow's Joe), lung cancer. (Japanese)
* Eric Gross, 84, Austrian-born Australian composer.
* Eddie Leadbeater, 83, British cricketer, after short illness.
* Blair Milan, 29, Australian actor and television presenter, acute myeloid leukaemia.
* Nikos Papazoglou, 63, Greek singer-songwriter, cancer.
* AJ Perez, 18, Filipino actor, traffic accident.
* Mary Robbins, 78, American musician, mother of Tim Robbins, heart arrhythmia.
* Raúl Sánchez Díaz Martell, 96, Mexican politician, Governor of Baja California (1965–1971).
* Michael Sarrazin, 70, Canadian actor (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, The Flim-Flam Man, For Pete's Sake), cancer.
* Dennis E. Stowell, 66, American politician, member of the Utah State Senate (2007–2011), cancer.
* Lynne Topping, 61, American actress (The Young and the Restless).
* Robert Vickrey, 84, American artist.
* Victor Ward, 87, Canadian pilot, survivor of the 1956 Springhill Mine disaster, after long illness.

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* Olubayo Adefemi, 25, Nigerian footballer, car accident.
* Sadiq Ali, 58, Indian politician.
* Juan Pedro Domecq, 69, Spanish breeder of fighting bulls, car accident.
* Pietro Ferrero Jr., 47, Italian businessman (Ferrero SpA), bicycle accident.
* Kjell Håkonsen, 75, Norwegian harness racer and trainer. (Norwegian)
* Joe Pavia, 72, Filipino journalist, lung cancer.
* Mason Rudolph, 76, American golfer.
* Giovanni Saldarini, 86, Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Turin (1989–1999), natural causes. (Italian)
* William Donald Schaefer, 89, American politician, Governor of Maryland (1987–1995), pneumonia.
* Ivica Vidović, 72, Croatian actor, after long illness. (Croatian)

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* Roy Burris, 79, American drummer (Merle Haggard), heart complications.
* Lynn Chandnois, 86, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
* Norm Masters, 77, American football player (Green Bay Packers), cancer.
* Serge Nubret, 72, French bodybuilder and actor (Pumping Iron).
* Elisabeth Sladen, 65, British actress (Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures), cancer.
* Grete Waitz, 57, Norwegian Olympic silver medal-winning (1984) marathon runner, cancer.

20
* Allan Brown, 84, Scottish football player and manager (Blackpool, Scotland).
* Tim Hetherington, 40, British photojournalist and filmmaker (Restrepo), mortar attack in 2011 Libyan civil war.
* Chris Hondros, 41, American photojournalist, mortar attack in 2011 Libyan civil war.
* Osvaldo Miranda, 95, Argentine actor (Cita en las estrellas).
* Madelyn Pugh, 90, American screenwriter (I Love Lucy, Here's Lucy, The Mothers-in-Law).
* Tul Bahadur Pun, 88, Nepali World War II veteran, recipient of the Victoria Cross, cardiac complications.
* Franky Sahilatua, 57, Indonesian musician, complications from spinal cancer. (Indonesian)
* Gerard Smith, 36, American musician (TV on the Radio), lung cancer.
* Kerry Smith, New Zealand actress and broadcaster, melanoma.
* Antonio Tauriello, 80, Argentine composer. (Spanish)

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* Beverly Barton, American romance author.
* Tine Bryld, 71, Danish social worker, writer, radio host and letters editor. (Danish)
* Helen J. Frye, 80, American federal judge, after long illness.
* Jess Stonestreet Jackson, Jr., 81, American wine entrepreneur, founder of Kendall-Jackson, cancer.
* Max Mathews, 84, American engineer and computer music composer, complications from pneumonia.
* Yoshiko Tanaka, 55, Japanese actress (Godzilla vs. Biollante) and singer (Candies), breast cancer. (Japanese)
* Gaylen Young, 59, American newscaster, car accident.

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