Final Exits, 8-14 July 2011

Rob Grill of The Grass Roots, circa 1982.

Obituaries for 8-14 July 2011

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* Kenny Baker, 85, American fiddler, complications from a stroke.
* Billy Blanco, 87, Brazilian composer, complications from a stroke.
* Roberts Blossom, 87, American actor (Doc Hollywood, Escape from Alcatraz, Home Alone).
* Sam Denoff, 83, American Emmy Award-winning television writer (The Dick Van Dyke Show, That Girl), Alzheimer's disease.
* Aleksis Dreimanis, 96, Latvian-born Canadian geologist.
* Pete Duranko, 67, American football player (Denver Broncos), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Betty Ford, 93, American First Lady (1974–1977) and co-founder of Betty Ford Center.
* Camille Lembi Zaneli, 61, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Isangi (since 2000), plane crash. (Italian)
* George McAnthony, 45, Italian country singer, heart attack. (German)
* Paul Michael, 84, American actor, heart failure.
* Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, 95, Spanish-born Mexican philosopher, writer and professor. (Spanish)

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* Don Ackerman, 80, American basketball player (New York Knicks), after short illness.
* Facundo Cabral, 74, Argentine singer and songwriter, shot.
* Markos Dragoumis, 85, Greek columnist, author and politician. (Greek)
* Ralph Goldston, 82, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Hamilton Tiger-Cats).
* Carl T. Langford, 92, American politician, Mayor of Orlando, Florida (1967–1980).
* Percy Oliver, 92, Australian Olympic swimmer.
* Tatiana Pankova, 94, Russian actress, People's Artist (Maly Theatre). (Russian)
* Arvo Salo, 79, Finnish writer and politician, MP (1966–1970, 1979–1983) and Minister of Culture (1982–1983). (Finnish)
* Hideo Tanaka, 78, Japanese director (Sukeban Deka The Movie), stomach cancer. (Japanese)
* Würzel, 61, British guitarist (Motörhead), ventricular fibrillation.

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* Pierrette Alarie, 89, Canadian soprano, wife of tenor Léopold Simoneau. (French)
* Alfonso Bauer, 93, Guatemalan political activist, nosocomial infection. (Spanish)
* Travis Bean, 63, American guitar maker, cancer.
* Ragnar Lundberg, 86, Swedish athlete. (Swedish)
* Frank Mascara, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1995–2003).
* Roland Petit, 87, French ballet choreographer.
* Deacon Turner, 56, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals), shot.
* Lee Vines, 92, Canadian-born American television announcer (What's My Line?) and actor, complications from a fall and pneumonia.

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* Michael Evans, 59, British Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of East Anglia (since 2003), prostate cancer.
* Tom Gehrels, 86, Dutch-born American astronomer.
* Rob Grill, 67, American singer and songwriter (The Grass Roots).
* Alex Hay, 78, British golf journalist.
* Andreas Ioannides, 53, Cypriot navy chief, explosion.
* Jaroslav Jiřík, 71, Czech hockey player (St. Louis Blues), plane crash.
* Lambros Lambrou, 45, Cypriot naval officer, Commander of the Evangelos Florakis Navy Base, explosion.
* George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, 88, British aristocrat, magazine editor and arts administrator, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.
* Fonce Mizell, 68, American record producer (Mizell Brothers). (death reported on this date)

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* Premangsu Chatterjee, 83, Indian cricketer.
* William Crozier, 81, Irish artist.
* Howard Hilton, 47, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
* Allan Jeans, 77, Australian football player and coach, pulmonary fibrosis.
* Simon Jubani, 84, Albanian Roman Catholic prelate, after long illness. (Albanian)
* Ahmed Wali Karzai, 50, Afghan politician, brother of President Hamid Karzai, shot.
* Jokapeci Koroi, 79, Fijian politician, President of Fiji Labour Party (1991–2011).
* Charles Asa Schleck, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, titular archbishop and under-secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (1995–2000).
* Sherwood Schwartz, 94, American television producer, creator of The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island.
* Zdeněk Sýkora, 91, Czech abstract painter.

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* Al Debbo, 87, South African comedian.
* Cornel Fugaru, 71, Romanian composer, cancer. (Romanian)
* Jerry Ragovoy, 80, American songwriter ("Time Is on My Side"), stroke.
* Heinz Reincke, 86, German actor. (German)

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* Leo Kirch, 84, German media entrepreneur.
* Kennedy Ondiek, 44, Kenyan Olympic athlete.
* Antonio Prieto, 85, Chilean singer and actor, cardiac arrest. (Spanish)