17 April 2011

Final Exits, 8-14 April 2011

Arthur Marx, American writer, son of Groucho Marx.
Obituaries for 8-14 April 2011

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* Daniel Catán, 62, Mexican composer.
* David S. Clarke, 69, Australian businessman, chairman of Macquarie Group (1985–2007), stomach cancer.
* Jorge Ledo, 68, Argentine football official, president of Club Olimpo, after long illness. (Spanish)
* John McCracken, 76, American sculptor.
* Lazaros Mourkakos, 43, Greek sports journalist, stroke. (Greek)
* Nafsika Pastra, 89, Greek sculptor. (Greek)
* Bill Pitcock, 59, American musician (Dwight Twilley).
* John Pugsley, 77, American libertarian speaker and writer.
* Alex Leo Şerban, 51, Romanian writer and film critic, lymphoma. (Romanian)
* Donald Shanks, 70, Australian operatic bass-baritone, heart attack.
* Jiří Skoupil, 46, Czech rally driver, road accident. (Czech)
* Vasilijs Stepanovs, 83, Latvian weightlifter and Olympic silver medalist (1956 Melbourne). (Latvian)
* Hedda Sterne, 100, Romanian-born American painter and printmaker.
* Monica Vasileiou, 75, Greek-born Cypriot actress, cancer. (Greek)
* Jeniffer Viturino, 17, Brazilian model, fall. (Portuguese)
* Elena Zuasti, 75, Uruguayan stage actress and comedienne, heart failure. (Spanish)

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* Pierre Celis, 86, Belgian brewer (Celis), cancer. (Dutch)
* Nicholas Goodhart, 91, British marine engineer and glider pilot.
* Reali Júnior, 71, Brazilian journalist (Jovem Pan, O Estado de S. Paulo), cancer. (Portuguese)
* Jerry Lawson, 70, American videogame console engineer.
* Sidney Lumet, 86, American film director (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network), lymphoma.
* Roger Nichols, 66, American sound engineer and record producer (Steely Dan), pancreatic cancer.
* Leonidas Paliogiorgos, 69, Greek navarch, chief of the Hellenic National Defense General Staff (1996–1998). (Greek)
* Orrin Tucker, 100, American orchestra leader.
* Randy Wood, 94, American record producer, founder of Dot Records.

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* Jimmy Briggs, 74, Scottish footballer (Dundee United).
* Bill Brill, 79, American sportswriter and newspaper editor, esophageal cancer.
* Violet Cowden, 94, American WASP pilot, heart failure.
* Don Merton, 72, New Zealand conservationist.
* Sylwester Olszewski, 31, Polish rally driver, road accident.
* Mikhail Rusyayev, 46, Russian footballer. (Russian)
* Bob Shaw, 89, American football player (Los Angeles Rams).
* Homer Smith, 79, American football coach (Army Black Knights), cancer.
* Francis E. Sweeney, 77, American jurist, Ohio Supreme Court justice (1993–2004).
* Michalis Tsagaras, 52, Greek rally driving champion. (Greek)
* Stephen Watson, 56, South African writer and critic, cancer.

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* Billy Bang, 63, American jazz violinist, lung cancer.
* Lewis Binford, 80, American archaeologist, heart failure.
* Lacy Gibson, 74, American blues musician, heart attack.
* Billy Gray, 83, English footballer (Nottingham Forest).
* Ruşen Hakkı, 75, Turkish writer, journalist and poet, renal failure. (Turkish)
* Murtaza Hassan, Pakistani stage comedian, hepatitis and liver cancer.
* Juan Lobos Krause, 50, Chilean deputy, road accident. (Spanish)
* Simon Milton, 49, British politician, London Deputy Mayor for Policy and Planning, after short illness.
* Andrei Mutulescu, 23, Romanian footballer, cardiac arrest.
* Peter Ruehl, 64, American-born Australian columnist.
* Angela Scoular, 65, British actress, suicide by poisoning.
* Larry Sweeney, 30, American professional wrestler and manager, suicide by hanging.

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* Luis Benedit, 73, Argentine painter and architect, complications from pneumonia. (Spanish)
* Sachin Bhowmick, 80, Indian screenwriter, heart attack.
* Ronnie Coyle, 46, Scottish footballer (Celtic, Raith Rovers), leukemia.
* John D'Orazio, 55, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for Ballajura (2001–2008), heart attack during surgery.
* Sidney Harman, 92, American businessman and publisher (Newsweek), acute myeloid leukemia.
* Eddie Joost, 94, American baseball player and manager (Philadelphia Athletics).
* Serginho Leite, 55, Brazilian comedian and radio host, heart attack (Portuguese)
* Jānis Polis, 72, Latvian pharmacologist, discovered rimantadine. (Russian)
* Ioan Şişeştean, 74, Romanian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Maramureş (since 1994).
* Désiré Tagro, 52, Ivorian politician, former Interior Minister.
* Miroslav Tichý, 84, Czech photographer.

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* Hunter Bryce, 30, American adult performer. (body found on this date)
* Danny Fiszman, 66, British football director (Arsenal), cancer.
* Buster Martin, 104?, French-born British longevity claimant.
* Seeta bint Abdul Aziz, 80, Saudi Arabian royal, sister of King Abdullah, after long illness.
* Zdeněk Vašíček, 78, Czech philosopher. (Czech)

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* Trevor Bannister, 76, British actor (Are You Being Served?, Last of the Summer Wine, The Dustbinmen), heart attack.
* Joe Battipaglia, 55, American financial analyst.
* Walter Breuning, 114, American supercentenarian, world's oldest living man at time of his death.
* Louis Jean Dufaux, 79, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Grenoble (1989–2006).
* Bernie Flowers, 81, American football player (Baltimore Colts).
* Joe Dan Gold, 68, American college basketball player and coach (Mississippi State Bulldogs), after long illness.
* Jean Gratton, 86, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mont-Laurier (1978–2001).
* Cyrus Harvey, 85, American entrepreneur, stroke.
* William Lipscomb, 91, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist, pneumonia.
* Arthur Marx, 89, American writer, son of Groucho Marx.
* Rami Reddy, 52, Indian actor, kidney failure.
* Wilton Wynn, 90, American journalist and foreign correspondent, after long illness.

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