Obituaries for 1-7 December 2011
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* Arthur Beetson, 66, Australian rugby league footballer, first Indigenous Australian to captain a national team in any sport, heart attack.
* Andrei Blaier, 78, Romanian film director and scenarist, after long illness. (Romanian)
* Ted Lapka, 91, American football player (Washington Redskins).
* François Lesage, 82, French embroidery designer.
* Bill McKinney, 80, American actor (Deliverance, The Outlaw Josey Wales), esophageal cancer.
* Louis Silverstein, 92, American artist and graphic designer.
* Bev Smith, 70, British actor and newsreader, heart attack.
* Alan Sues, 85, American comic (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In).
* Mamoru Uchiyama, 62, Japanese manga artist (The Ultraman).
* Hippolyte van den Bosch, 85, Belgian football player. (Dutch)
* Christa Wolf, 82, German writer.
* Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, 65, American psychoanalyst, biographer of Hannah Arendt, pulmonary embolism.
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* Robert Lawrence Balzer, 99, American wine journalist.
* Leo Friedman, 92, American photographer.
* Laurent Fuahea, 84, Tongan-born Wallisian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Wallis et Futuna (1974–2005).
* Len Gendle, 90s, British football administrator (Tamworth F.C.).
* Chiyono Hasegawa, 115, Japanese supercentenarian, nation's oldest person.
* Pavle Jurina, 57, Croatian handball player and coach. (Croatian)
* Branimir Koštan, 32, Croatian disc jockey, cancer. (Croatian)
* Christopher Logue, 85, English poet.
* Artur Quaresma, 94, Portuguese footballer. (Portuguese)
* Patrick Sheridan, 89, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1990–2001).
* Dugald Stermer, 74, American illustrator and art director (Ramparts), cardiac and respiratory failure.
* Bill Tapia, 103, American ukulelist.
* Howard Tate, 72, American soul singer.
* Al Vega, 90, American jazz pianist.
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* Juan Carlos Adrianza, 28, Venezuelan actor and entertainer, road accident. (Spanish)
* Jalal Alamgir, 40, Bangladeshi academic, drowning.
* Dev Anand, 88, Indian actor (Ziddi), cardiac arrest.
* Louky Bersianik, 81, Canadian novelist. (French)
* Philip "Fatis" Burrell, 57, Jamaican record producer, stroke.
* Sabri Godo, 82, Albanian politician, writer and scriptwriter, founder and president of the Republican Party of Albania, lung cancer. (Albanian)
* Diana Gould, 85, British political critic.
* Sam Loxton, 90, Australian cricketer (The Invincibles), Australian rules footballer and politician, Victorian MLA for Prahran (1955–1979).
* Julia Marichal, 67, Mexican actress. (body found on this date)
* Larry Rickles, 41, American Emmy-award winning producer (Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project), pneumonia.
* Rob Schroeder, 85, American racing driver.
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* Ambika Charan Choudhury, 81, Indian writer.
* Marion Dougherty, 88, American casting director (Lethal Weapon, Full Metal Jacket).
* Patricia C. Dunn, 58, American businesswoman, Chairman of Hewlett-Packard (2005–2006), ovarian cancer.
* Andrew Ali Aga Khan Embiricos, 25, American HIV activist, grandson of Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan, suicide. (body found on this date)
* Adam Hanuszkiewicz, 87, Polish actor and theatre director. (Polish)
* Matti Yrjänä Joensuu, 63, Finnish crime fiction writer. (Finnish)
* Besim Kabashi, 35, Kosovar-born German kickboxer. (German)
* Alamein Kopu, 68, New Zealand politician, MP (1996–1999).
* James S. Malosky, 82, American football coach (Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs), respiratory failure.
* Solange Pierre, 48, Dominican Republic human rights advocate, winner of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award (2006), heart attack.
* RJ Rosales, 37, Filipino-born Australian singer and actor.
* Sócrates, 57, Brazilian footballer, septic shock.
* Hubert Sumlin, 80, American blues guitarist, heart failure.
* Andrey Tverdokhlebov, 70, Soviet dissident. (Russian)
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* Bruno Bianchi, 56, French cartoonist and animator (Inspector Gadget, Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats).
* Dan Biggers, 80, American actor (In the Heat of the Night, Glory).
* Michel Descombey, 81, French choreographer. (Spanish)
* Paul M. Doty, 91, American scientist.
* Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, 75, Japanese politician, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (2006–2008), acute pneumonia. (Japanese)
* Peter Gethin, 71, British Formula One driver (1970–1974).
* Jorge Maria Hourton Poisson, 85, French-born Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Temuco (1992–2001).
* Gennady Logofet, 69, Russian footballer. (Russian)
* Joe Lonnett, 84, American baseball player and coach.
* Pusuke, 26, Japanese dog, world's oldest known living dog at time of death, natural causes.
* Darrell K. Sweet, 77, American artist.
* Violetta Villas, 73, Belgian-born Polish singer.
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* Paul Blair, 69, American magazine editor and tour guide.
* Brent Darby, 30, American basketball player (Ohio State University), blood clots.
* Dobie Gray, 71, American singer ("The 'In' Crowd", "Drift Away").
* Barbara Orbison, 61, German-born American record producer and music publisher, widow of Roy Orbison, pancreatic cancer.
* Paul Ramírez, 25, Venezuelan footballer, stroke. (Spanish)
* Lawrie Tierney, 52, Scottish footballer.
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* Oscar Angeletti, 64, Argentine racing driver. (Spanish)
* Josip Barković, 94, Croatian writer. (Croatian)
* Pearse Cahill, 95, Irish aviation pioneer.
* Peter Croker, 89, English footballer.
* Don Duong, 54, Vietnamese-born American actor (We Were Soldiers), complications following post-stroke surgery.
* Nuno Viriato Tavares de Melo Egídio, 89, Portuguese general, Governor of Macau (1979–1981).
* Harry Morgan, 96, American actor (M*A*S*H, Dragnet).
* Gilberto Pinto, 82, Venezuelan playwright. (Spanish)
* Jerry Robinson, 89, American comic book artist (Batman) and reputed creator of The Joker.
* Fred Thompson, 19, American football player (Oregon State University).
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