01 April 2011

Final Exits, 22-28 March 2011

Richard Leacock carrying a 16mm Aaton camera with a Narda Blanchet leather blimp, 1983. (Photo: G. Andrew Boyd for R. Leacock/Canary Banana Films)
Obituaries for 22-28 March 2011

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* Artur Agostinho, 90, Portuguese sports journalist and actor. (Portuguese)
* Nadia Barentin, 74, French actress (Les Blessures assassines). (French)
* Victor Bouchard, 84, Canadian pianist, duettist with pianist Renée Morisset, respiratory disease.
* Patrick Doeplah, 20, Liberian footballer.
* Keith Fordyce, 82, British radio and television presenter (Ready Steady Go!).
* Syd Kitchen, 59, South African musician.
* Viljar Loor, 57, Estonian Olympic gold medal-winning (1980) volleyball player. (Estonian)
* Jean-Guy Morissette, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Zoogz Rift, 57, American musician, painter and professional wrestler.
* Normie Roy, 82, American baseball player (Boston Braves).
* Reuven Shefer, 85, Israeli actor. (Hebrew)
* José Soriano, 93, Peruvian football player. (Spanish)
* Frankie Sparcello, American thrash metal bassist (Exhorder).
* Helen Stenborg, 86, American actress.
* George Alfred Walker, 81, British businessman, founder of Brent Walker.

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* José Argüelles, 72, American New Age author.
* Jean Bartik, 86, American computer programmer (ENIAC).
* Liana Duval, 83, Brazilian actress. (Portuguese)
* Frank Howard, 85, Canadian politician, member of the BC Legislative Assembly for Skeena (1953–1956; 1979–1986) and MP for Skeena (1957–1974).
* Živorad Kovačević, 80, Serbian diplomat. (Serbian)
* Sir Frank Lampl, 84, British businessman.
* Richard Leacock, 89, British documentary film maker (Louisiana Story, Primary, Monterey Pop, Janis).
* Teodor Negoiţă, 63, Romanian polar explorer and scientist. (Romanian)
* Zorko Rajčić, 81, Croatian actor. (Croatian)
* Trevor Storton, 61, English footballer.
* Dame Elizabeth Taylor, 79, British-American actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Cleopatra, BUtterfield 8), heart failure.
* Fred Titmus, 78, English test cricketer.
* Leonard Weinglass, 78, American civil rights lawyer, pancreatic cancer.
* Peter Paul Zerafa, 82, Maltese Angelicum sacred scripture professor.

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* Julian Gbur, 68, Polish-born Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Stryi (since 2000). (Ukrainian)
* William M. Greathouse, 91, American Nazarene minister, heart failure.
* Dudley Laws, 76, Jamaican-born Canadian civil rights activist, kidney disease.
* Anselmo Müller, 79, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Januária (1984–2008).
* Perumbadavam Sreedharan, 73, Indian Malayalam author and journalist.
* Gloria Valencia de Castaño, 83, Colombian television host, respiratory failure. (Spanish)
* Lanford Wilson, 73, American playwright.

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* Floyd Bedbury, 73, American Olympic speed skater, cancer.
* José Luis Cerda, 33, Mexican television personality, shot.
* Thomas Eisner, 81, American biologist, Parkinson's disease.
* Luis María Estrada Paetau, 75, Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Izabal (1977–2004).
* Thomaz Farkas, 86, Hungarian-born Brazilian photographer, multiple organ failure. (Portuguese)
* Maria Isakova, 92, Soviet speed skater.
* Pavel Leonov, 90, Russian naïve artist. (Russian)
* M. Blane Michael, 68, American federal judge.
* Hugo Midón, 67, Argentine theatre director and actor, after long illness. (Spanish)
* Irving Shulman, 96, American retailer, heart failure.
* Olga Ulyanova, 89, Russian writer and chemist, niece of Vladimir Lenin.
* Floor van der Wal, 26, Dutch comedian, hit and run. (Dutch)
* Thady Wyndham-Quin, 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 71, Irish aristocrat.

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* Roger Abbott, 64, Canadian actor and comedian (Royal Canadian Air Farce), chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
* Joe Bageant, 64, American writer, social critic and political commentator, cancer.
* Paul Baran, 84, American Internet pioneer, complications from lung cancer.
* Aleksandr Barykin, 59, Russian musician, heart attack. (Russian)
* Carl Bunch, 71, American drummer (Buddy Holly and the Crickets).
* Greg Centauro, 34, French pornographic actor, cardiac arrest. (French)
* Harry Coover, 94, American inventor (Super Glue).
* Lula Côrtes, 61, Brazilian musician (Paêbirú), throat cancer. (Portuguese)
* Cibele Dorsa, 36, Brazilian actress and writer, suicide by jumping. (Portuguese)
* Geraldine Ferraro, 75, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York (1979–1985) and 1984 Vice Presidential nominee, multiple myeloma.
* František Havránek, 87, Czech football player and manager. (Czech)
* Diana Wynne Jones, 76, British fantasy author (Howl's Moving Castle), lung cancer.
* Enn Klooren, 70, Estonian actor. (Estonian)
* Raymond-Marie Tchidimbo, 90, Guinean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Conakry (1962–1979).

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* Clement Arrindell, 79, Kittitian politician, Governor-General (1983–1995).
* David E. Davis, 80, American automotive writer, editor and publisher (Car and Driver, Automobile), complications from bladder surgery.
* Farley Granger, 85, American actor (Strangers on a Train, Rope), natural causes.
* H. R. F. Keating, 84, British crime fiction writer.
* Ellen McCormack, 84, American politician, two-time Presidential candidate (1976, 1980), pro-life activist.
* DJ Megatron, 32, American disc jockey, shot.
* Günther Mund, 76, German-born Chilean Olympic diver, plane crash. (Spanish)
* Dorothea Puente, 82, American serial killer, natural causes.
* Hans Stumpf, 84, German-born American musician and music scientist.
* George Tooker, 90, American painter, kidney failure.

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* Wenche Foss, 93, Norwegian actress, natural causes. (Norwegian)
* Lee Hoiby, 85, American composer, metastatic melanoma.
* Sonia Osorio, 83, Colombian ballet dancer and choreographer, respiratory failure. (Spanish)
* Bill Scarlett, 82, American jazz musician and teacher.
* Esben Storm, 60, Danish-born Australian actor, director and producer, heart attack.

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