Final Exits, 8-14 September 2011

Old-time and Bluegrass musician Wade Mainer (Appalachian banjo picker/singer) in his later years. (Photo: National Endowment for the Arts)

Obituaries for 8-14 September 2011

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* David Bitner, 62, American political leader, Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida (2011), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Mary Fickett, 83, American actress (All My Children), complications of Alzheimer's disease.
* Silvia Glogner, 70, Austrian-born German actress. (German)
* Jesse Jefferson, 62, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Toronto Blue Jays), prostate cancer.
* Marcos Plonka, 71, Brazilian comedian and actor. (Portuguese)
* Sir Hilary Synnott, 66, British diplomat.
* Võ Chí Công, 99, Vietnamese politician, President (1987–1992).
* Emilianos Zacharopoulos, 96, Turkish-born Greek Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan (since 1959). (French)

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* Werner Geeser, 63, Swiss Olympic cross-country skier, cancer. (German)
* Laurie Hughes, 87, English football player (Liverpool).
* William Lesick, 88, Canadian politician, MP for Edmonton East (1984–1988).
* Herbert Lomas, 87, British poet.
* Ignace Matondo Kwa Nzambi, 79, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Basankusu (1974–1998) and Molegbe (1998–2007).
* Khairy Shalaby, 73, Egyptian writer.

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* David E. L. Choong, 82, Malaysian badminton player.
* Graham Collier, 74, British jazz bassist.
* Cecil Marshall, 71, Canadian cricketer.
* Sabino Augusto Montanaro, 89, Paraguayan politician, Minister of the Interior (1968–1989). (Spanish)
* Eric Prabhakar, 86, Indian Olympic athlete (1948).
* Cliff Robertson, 88, American actor (Charly, Spider-Man, PT 109), natural causes.

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* Douglas Allen, Baron Croham, 93, British civil servant, Head of the Home Civil Service (1974–1977).
* Christian Bakkerud, 26, Danish racing driver, injuries sustained in a car accident.
* Cliff Brittle, 69, English sports administrator, Chairman of the Rugby Football Union (1996–1998).
* Arthur Evans, 68, American gay rights activist and author, aortic aneurysm.
* Ralph Gubbins, 79, English football player (Bolton Wanderers, Hull City, Tranmere Rovers).
* Yuri Kuzmenkov, 70, Russian actor (Big School-Break), heart attack. (Russian)
* Isabell Masters, 98, American politician, third-party candidate for President of the United States (1984, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004).
* Yuli Ofer, 87, Romanian-born Israeli businessman and entrepreneur.
* Tanekichi Onishi, 111, Japanese supercentenarian.
* Walter Righter, 87, American clergyman, bishop in the Episcopal Church, after long illness.
* Andy Whitfield, 39, Welsh-born Australian actor (Spartacus: Blood and Sand), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

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* Bill Cash, 92, American Negro league baseball player.
* Frits Castricum, 64, Dutch politician, Member of the House of Representatives (1977–1994) and the Senate (1999–2003). (Dutch)
* Alexander Galimov, 26, Russian ice hockey player, injuries sustained in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash.
* Wade Mainer, 104, American bluegrass musician, heart failure.
* Don Wayne, 78, American songwriter ("Country Bumpkin", "Saginaw, Michigan").

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* Walter Bonatti, 81, Italian mountain climber. (German)
* John Calley, 81, American movie studio executive.
* Wilma Lee Cooper, 90, American country music singer, natural causes.
* Sam DeLuca, 75, American football player and broadcaster (New York Jets), pancreatic cancer.
* Paul Gallant, 67, Canadian entrepreneur, inventor of Puzz-3D, cancer.
* Jack E. Garner, 84, American actor (The Rockford Files, My Fellow Americans), brother of James Garner.
* Richard Hamilton, 89, British artist.
* David Jull, 66, Australian politician, Member of the House of Representatives (1975–1983, 1984–2007).
* DJ Mehdi, 34, French musician.
* Harlan Erwin Mitchell, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative from Georgia (1958–1961).
* Carl Oglesby, 76, American activist, lung cancer.
* Gautam Rajadhyaksha, 62, Indian photographer.

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* Harishchandra Birajdar, 61, Indian Olympic wrestler (1972).
* Choi Dong-Won, 53, South Korean baseball player (Lotte Giants, Samsung Lions), colon cancer.
* Julia Constenla, 83, Argentine journalist and writer. (Spanish)
* Desmond FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin, 74, Irish nobleman.
* David Francey, 87, Scottish broadcaster.
* Jorge Lavat, 78, Mexican actor. (Spanish)
* Buddy Tinsley, 87, Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
* Malcolm Wallop, 78, American politician, United States Senator from Wyoming (1977–1995).