25 July 2011

Final Exits, 15-21 July 2011

Alex Steinweiss, 1947. (Photo: William P. Gottlieb/United States Library of Congress Music Division)
Obituaries for 15-21 July 2011

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* Helen Beverly, 94, American actress, natural causes.
* Frankie Daye, 77, American child actress, lung cancer.
* Ed Flesh, 79, American art director, inventor of the Wheel of Fortune wheel, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
* Cornell MacNeil, 88, American operatic baritone.
* Norbert Olberz, 86, German-born American businessman, founder of the Sport Chalet retail chain, natural causes.
* John S. Toll, 87, American physicist and educational administrator, heart failure.
* Googie Withers, 94, English actress.

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* Milo Anstadt, 91, Dutch journalist and writer. (Dutch)
* Bertalan Bicskei, 66, Hungarian footballer and coach. (Hungarian)
* Forrest Blue, 65, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Baltimore Colts).
* Geraint Bowen, 95, Welsh poet. (Welsh)
* John Crook, 80, British ethologist.
* Rouhollah Dadashi, 30, Iranian powerlifter and bodybuilder, stabbed. (Persian)
* Ante Garmaz, 83, Croatian-born Argentine fashion designer and model, after long illness. (Spanish)
* Lloyd Gerber, 87, American cowboy poet, abdominal aortic aneurysm.
* Albin Małysiak, 94, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Krakow (1970–1993). (Polish)
* Dame Katerina Mataira, 79, New Zealand educator and Maori language proponent, co-founder of Kura Kaupapa Māori.
* Cesare Mazzolari, 74, Italian-born South Sudanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rumbek (since 1998).
* Joe McNamee, 84, American basketball player (Rochester Royals, Baltimore Bullets).
* Kazimierz Neumann, 77, Polish Olympic rower. (Polish)

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* Juan Arza, 88, Spanish footballer and coach. (Spanish)
* Dionysios Bairaktaris, 84, Greek Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Inousses (since 1979). (Greek)
* Juan María Bordaberry, 83, Uruguayan politician and dictator, President (1972–1976), after a long illness.
* Jan Mohammed Khan, Afghan presidential adviser, shot.
* Jim Kincaid, 76, American news correspondent (ABC News), anchorman (WVEC) and essayist, heart attack.
* John Kraaijkamp, Sr., 86, Dutch actor and comedian. (Dutch)
* Takaji Mori, 67, Japanese Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) footballer, renal pelvic cancer.
* Joe Morris, Sr., 85, American Navajo World War II code talker.
* David Ngoombujarra, 44, Australian actor.
* Ştefan Sameş, 59, Romanian footballer (Steaua Bucureşti), cancer. (Romanian)
* Alex Steinweiss, 94, American graphic designer, inventor of the album cover.
* Taiji, 45, Japanese musician and singer-songwriter (X Japan), suicide by hanging.
* Joe Lee Wilson, 75, American jazz singer.

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* Salvador Bernárdez, 58, Honduran football player, heart attack. (Spanish)
* Sid Cooper, 94, American musician.
* Albert Driedger, 75, Canadian politician, stroke.
* Bernard Gavzer, 90, American writer and Emmy Award-winning television producer, neck cancer.
* Ernesto Goldar, 71, Argentine writer, heart attack. (Spanish)
* Sean Hoare, 47, British showbiz journalist (News of the World), whistleblower in a phone hacking scandal. (body found on this date)
* Magnus Malan, 81, South African politician, Minister of Defence (1980–1991), natural causes.
* Lillian Mobley, 81, American activist, helped establish the Martin Luther King, Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center.
* Giulio Rinaldi, 76, Italian Olympic boxer.
* Bob Stenehjem, 59, American politician, member of the North Dakota Senate (since 1993), majority leader (since 2001), car accident.
* James Wong, 89, Malaysian politician, first Deputy Chief Minister of Sarawak, heart attack.
* Ludvik Zajc, 68, Slovenian Olympic ski jumper. (Norwegian)

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* Boris Biancheri, 80, Italian writer and diplomat. (Italian)
* William Leonard D’Mello, 80, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Karwar (1976–2007).
* Remo Gaspari, 90, Italian politician and minister, stroke. (Italian)
* Yoshio Harada, 71, Japanese actor, pneumonia. (Japanese)
* Henrique Johannpötter, 78, German-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bacabal (1989–1997).
* Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola, 91, French Olympic gold (1952, 1964) and silver (1964, 1968) medal-winning equestrian.
* Jacques Jouanneau , 84, French actor. (French)
* Brendan Kehoe, 40, Irish software developer and author, acute myeloid leukemia.
* Karen Khachaturian, 90, Russian composer. (Russian)
* Roy Meehan, 79, New Zealand Olympic wrestler.
* James T. Molloy, 75, American government officer, last Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives (1974–1993), complications of diabetes.
* Sir Julian Oswald, 77, British admiral.
* Arsenie Papacioc, 97, Romanian Orthodox Archimandrite, cardiac arrest.
* Serhiy Podhornyi, 57, Ukrainian actor (Only Old Men Are Going to Battle). (Russian)
* Cec Thompson, 85, British rugby league player.

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* Lucian Freud, 88, German-born British painter.
* Isaia Italeli, 40s, Tuvaluan Cabinet minister. (body found on this date)
* Myra Kraft, 68, American philanthropist, wife of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, cancer.
* Gloria Sawai, 78, Canadian author.
* Vadim Tedeyev, 65, Russian ballet dancer and teacher, People's Artist. (Russian)

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* Ashleigh Connor, 21, Australian soccer player, car accident.
* Pedro Claro Meurice Estiu, 79, Cuban Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba (1970–2007).
* Elliot Handler, 95, American businessman, co-founder of Mattel and namer of the Barbie doll, heart failure.
* Allison Harte, 58, American disc jockey (WLAV-FM), drowned.
* Carl Kraushaar, 84, American college basketball player (UCLA).
* Slavomir Miklovš, 77, Croatian Greek Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Križevci (1983–2009).
* Bruce Sundlun, 91, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island (1991–1995).
* Kazimierz Świątek, 96, Belarusian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev (1991–2006).
* Elwy Yost, 86, Canadian television host and writer.

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