Final Exits, 1-7 May 2011

Dana Wynter in the film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956.

Obituaries for 1-7 May 2011

1
* Alex, 52, Indian actor and magician, after short illness.
* Spyrydon Babskyi, 52, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Archbishop of Vinnytsya in UOC-KP (1992–1993). (Russian)
* Sir Henry Cooper, 76, British Olympic heavyweight boxer.
* Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, 80, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Valencia (1992–2009), cardiac arrest.
* Moshe Landau, 99, Israeli jurist, Chief Justice (1980–1982), presided over Adolf Eichmann's trial (1961).
* Ted Lowe, 90, British snooker commentator.
* Steven Orszag, 68, American mathematician, chronic lymphomic leukemia.
* Ivan Slavkov, 70, Bulgarian sports official.
* William O. Taylor II, 78, American journalist and publisher (The Boston Globe), brain tumor.
* Reynaldo Uy, 59, Filipino politician, Mayor of Calbayog, shot.
* J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr., 87, American mathematician and nuclear scientist.

2
* Leonid Abalkin, 80, Russian economist.
* Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, 46, Kuwaiti Al-Qaeda computer expert, shot.
* Danny Kassap, 28, Congolese-born Canadian long-distance runner.
* Osama bin Laden, 54, Saudi founder of Al-Qaeda, planned September 11 attacks, shot.
* Alexander Lazarev, 73, Russian actor. (Russian)
* Eddie Lewis, 76, English footballer (Manchester United, West Ham United), cancer. (death announced on this date)
* Ernest Mothle, 69, South African jazz musician.
* René Emilio Ponce, 64, Salvadoran general and defence minister, army chief of staff during the Civil War.
* David Sencer, 86, American public health official, director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1966–1977), heart disease.
* Shigeo Yaegashi, 78, Japanese footballer. (Japanese)

3
* Paul Ackerley, 61, New Zealand hockey player and coach, skin cancer.
* Jackie Cooper, 88, American actor (Skippy, Our Gang, Superman) and director (M*A*S*H).
* Sergo Kotrikadze, 74, Georgian football player and coach, heart attack. (Russian)
* Mildred Robbins Leet, 88, American philanthropist, co-founder of Trickle Up, complications of a fall.
* Patrick Roy, 53, French politician, pancreatic cancer. (French)
* Thanasis Veggos, 83, Greek actor, stroke.

4
* Lázaro Blanco, 73, Mexican photographer, cancer. (Spanish)
* Velzoe Brown, 101, American jazz pianist.
* Frans de Kok, 87, Dutch conductor. (Dutch)
* Néstor Groppa, Argentine poet. (Spanish)
* Jacques Georges Habib Hafouri, 94, Syrian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Hassaké-Nisibi (1982–1996).
* Jagdish Khebudkar, 77, Indian writer, renal failure.
* Sammy McCrory, 86, Northern Irish footballer.
* Thomas G. Nelson, 74, American federal judge, complications from declining health.
* Françoise Olivier-Coupeau, 51, French politician, cancer. (French)
* Frans Sammut, 66, Maltese writer, natural causes.
* Bernard Stasi, 80, French politician, Minister for Overseas Departments and Territories (1973–1974), Alzheimer's disease. (French)
* Louis Stumberg, 87, American businessman, introduced Tex Mex TV dinners, after long illness.
* Sada Thompson, 83, American actress (Family), lung disease.

5
* Halit Çelenk, 89, Turkish lawyer and socialist activist, cancer and asthma.
* Claude Choules, 110, British-born Australian veteran, last combat veteran of World War I.
* Thomas Compaoré, 23, Burkinabé basketball player, heart attack. (German)
* Salomón Hakim, 91, Colombian neurosurgeon, researcher and inventor.
* Arthur Laurents, 93, American playwright, librettist, stage director, and screenwriter (Anastasia, Rope, West Side Story).
* Dougie McCracken, 46, Scottish football player (Ayr United), suspected suicide.
* Yosale Merimovich, 86, Israeli football player and manager. (Hebrew).
* Nigel Pickering, 81, American guitarist (Spanky and Our Gang), liver cancer.
* Rolo Puente, 71, Argentine actor, pulmonary emphysema.
* Dana Wynter, 79, German-born British actress (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), heart failure.

6
* Barry Connolly, 72, Australian football player.
* Quazi Nuruzzaman, 86, Bangladeshi veteran of the Liberation War, natural causes.
* Duane Pillette, 88, American baseball player (Yankees, Browns, Orioles, Phillies).
* Mike Spoerndle, 59, American music club founder (Toad's Place). (body discovered on this date)
* Yoon Ki-Won, 24, South Korean football player, suicide by inhaling toxic fumes.

7
* Seve Ballesteros, 54, Spanish golfer, brain cancer.
* Willard Boyle, 86, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (2009).
* Jack Gordon, 66, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives (1972–1980), State Senator (1980–1992; 1996–2011), brain cancer.
* Allyson Hennessy, 63, Trinidadian broadcaster.
* Gunter Sachs, 78, German mathematician, photographer, author and multi-millionaire industrialist, suicide by gunshot.
* John Walker, 67, American musician (The Walker Brothers), liver cancer.
* George Webley, 53, British broadcaster and music arranger.
* Doric Wilson, 72, American playwright and gay activist.