Final Exits, 15-21 August 2011

Gun Hägglund (March 2, 1932 – August 19, 2011), Swedish television host and translator. Hägglund is sometimes recognized as the first female television news anchor in the world, hosting the Swedish national evening news show Aktuellt in 1958. Source: Filmarkivet.

Obituaries for 15-21 August 2011

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* Ralph D. Albertazzie, 88, American pilot (Air Force One) and writer.
* Vasilis Andreopoulos, 88, Greek actor and author. (Greek)
* Russell Armstrong, 47, American investment banker and venture capitalist, television personality (The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills), suicide by hanging.
* Nenad Bijedić, 51, Bosnian football manager, cancer. (Turkish)
* Pap Dean, 95, American political cartoonist.
* Mark Fowler, 35, British kickboxer, head injuries.
* Michael Legat, 88, British author and publisher.
* Peter Mair, 60, Irish political scientist.
* Solomon Mujuru, 62, Zimbabwean military officer and politician, injuries from a fire.
* Hugo Perié, 67, Argentine politician, MP (since 2003), Montoneros militant, lung disease. (Spanish)
* Sif Ruud, 95, Swedish actress. (Swedish)
* Rick Rypien, 27, Canadian ice hockey player (Vancouver Canucks), suicide.
* Tōru Shōriki, 92, Japanese baseball team owner (Tokyo Giants), sepsis. (Japanese)
* Betty Thatcher, 67, British lyricist (Renaissance), cancer.

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* Andrej Bajuk, 67, Slovenian politician and economist, Prime Minister (2000), stroke.
* Mihri Belli, 96, Turkish politician and writer, respiratory failure. (Turkish)
* Creed Black, 86, American newspaper publisher (Lexington Herald-Leader).
* Huw Ceredig, 69, Welsh actor.
* Joel Chin, 35, Jamaican record producer, shot.
* Akiko Futaba, 96, Japanese ryūkōka singer. (Japanese)
* Kampane, 33, American rapper, shot.
* Ahmet Kıbıl, 58, Turkish Olympic alpine skier. (Turkish)
* Frank Munro, 63, Scottish footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.), heart attack.
* Pete Pihos, 87, American Hall of Fame football player (Philadelphia Eagles), Alzheimer's disease.
* Ramesh Saxena, 66, Indian cricketer, brain haemorrhage.
* Aud Talle, Norwegian social anthropologist.
* Bernard William Schmitt, 82, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston (1989–2004).

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* Augustus Aikhomu, 72, Nigerian admiral and politician, Vice President (1986–1993).
* Claudio Castiglioni, 64, Italian motorcycle entrepreneur (MV Agusta, Cagiva, Ducati, Husqvarna).
* Vasyl Dzharty, 53, Ukrainian politician, Prime Minister of Crimea (since 2010), cancer.
* Gualtiero Jacopetti, 91, Italian documentary film director. (Italian)
* Larry Johnson, 78, American radio personality, pneumonia.
* Michel Mohrt, 97, French writer, member of the Académie française (since 1985). (French)
* Pierre Quinon, 49, French pole vaulter and Olympic champion, suicide.
* Firmin Van Kerrebroeck, 88, Belgian professional cyclo-cross racer. (Dutch)
* Nikita Yemshanov, 28, Russian actor, car accident.

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* John Abley, 81, Australian football player, cardiac arrest.
* Kamal al-Nairab, 45, Palestinian militant commander (Popular Resistance Committee), air strike.
* Samir Chanda, 51, Indian art film director, cardiac arrest.
* Simon De Jong, 69, Canadian politician, MP for Regina East (1979–1988) and Regina—Qu'Appelle (1988–1997), leukemia.
* Immad Hammad, 39, Palestinian militant leader (Popular Resistance Committee), air strike.
* Johnson, 58, Indian film music composer, cardiac arrest.
* Paul Lockyer, 61, Australian journalist, helicopter crash.
* Scotty Robertson, 81, American basketball coach (New Orleans Jazz, Chicago Bulls, Detroit Pistons), cancer.
* Anatoly Savchenko, 87, Russian animator. (Russian)
* Jerome J. Shestack, 88, American human rights activist and attorney, President of American Bar Association (1997–1998).
* Jean Tabary, 81, French comic strip artist. (French)
* Edie Wasserman, 95, American philantrophist, wife of Lew Wasserman, natural causes.
* Norm Willey, 83, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).

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* Gil Courtemanche, 68, Canadian journalist and novelist (Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali), cancer. (French)
* Gun Hägglund, 79, Swedish television personality, after short illness. (Swedish)
* Janusz Kierzkowski, 64, Polish track cyclist, after long illness. (Polish)
* Manolis Pagomenos, 63, Greek footballer, cancer. (Greek)
* Kerima Polotan Tuvera, 85, Filipino author and journalist.
* Brian Pope, 100, English rugby union player.
* Raúl Ruiz, 70, Chilean film director (Three Lives and Only One Death, Time Regained), pulmonary infection.
* Jimmy Sangster, 83, British director and screenwriter (Hammer Films).
* Vilem Sokol, 96, American conductor and music professor, cancer.
* Yevhen Yevseyev, 24, Ukrainian footballer, car accident.

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* Reza Badiyi, 81, Iranian-born American television director (Mission: Impossible, The Six Million Dollar Man).
* Ross Barbour, 82 , last founding member of The Four Freshmen, lung cancer.
* Jon Egging, 33, British aviator (Red Arrows), air show crash.
* Rafael Halperin, 87, Israeli businessman and professional wrestler.
* Bryan Jensen, 50, American aviator, air show crash.
* José Eduviges Nava, 56, Mexican politician, Mayor of Zacualpan. (Spanish) (body found on this date)
* Nikos Themelis, 64, Greek author, cancer. (Greek)

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* Christine Cole Catley, 88, New Zealand journalist, publisher and author, lung cancer.
* Ines Fančović, 86, Croatian actress. (Croatian)
* Sir Donald Farquharson, 83, British jurist.
* Brian Harrison, 89, Australian-born British politician and businessman.
* Budd Hopkins, 80, American artist and UFO researcher, liver cancer.
* John R. Hubbard, 92, American diplomat, President of University of Southern California (1970–1980), United States Ambassador to India (1988–1989).
* John J. Kelley, 80, American long-distance runner, winner of the 1957 Boston Marathon.
* Ezra Sued, 88, Argentine footballer (Racing Club de Avellaneda), infection. (Spanish)
* Muga Takewaki, 67, Japanese actor, cerebrovascular disease. (Japanese)
* Edith Tiempo, 92, Filipino author, National Artist of the Philippines, myocardial infarction.