Final Exits, 22-28 September 2011

Vesta Williams (Stimuli Music)

Obituaries for 22-28 September 2011

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* Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, 70, Indian cricketer, ninth and last Nawab of Pataudi (1952–1971), lung disease.
* Jonathan Cecil, 72, English actor.
* John H. Dick, 92, American naval officer and college basketball player.
* Margaret Ogola, 53, Kenyan author.
* Aristides Pereira, 87, Cape Verdean politician and guerrilla leader, President (1975–1991).
* Knut Steen, 86, Norwegian sculptor. (Norwegian)
* Vesta Williams, 53, American R&B singer.
* Giorgos Zabaras, 65, Greek football official, chairman of Panetolikos F.C. (1994). (Greek)

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* Orlando Brown, 40, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens).
* Hubert Constant, 80, Haitian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cap-Haïtien (2003–2008).
* Micky Correa, 97, Indian jazz musician and big band leader.
* Nikos Koemtzis, 73, Greek serial killer. (Greek)
* Danny Litwhiler, 95, American baseball player and coach.
* María Elizabeth Macías Castro, 39, Mexican newspaper editor.
* Rolland W. Redlin, 91, American politician, U.S. Representative from North Dakota (1965–1967).
* Douglas Stuart, 20th Earl of Moray, 83, British aristocrat.
* Joseph Trinh Chinh Truc, 85, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ban Me Thuot (1990–2000).
* José Miguel Varas, 83, Chilean writer. (Spanish)
* Carl Wood, 81, Australian in vitro fertilisation pioneer, Alzheimer's disease.

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* Surinder Kapoor, 86, Indian film producer, cardiac arrest.
* Tony Knap, 96, American college football coach, Alzheimer's disease.
* Konstantin Lerner, 61, Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
* Emanuel Litvinoff, 96, British writer and human rights campaigner.
* Gusty Spence, 78, British Ulster loyalist, leader of the Ulster Volunteer Force.

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* Theyab Awana, 21, Emirati footballer, traffic accident.
* Denis Cannan, 92, British playwright.
* Norman Lawson, 75, English footballer and cricketer.
* Sissy Löwinger, 70, Austrian actress, daughter of Paul Löwinger. (German)
* Wangari Maathai, 71, Kenyan environmental activist, MP and Nobel Peace Prize winner, cancer.
* Ali St. Louis, 52, Trinidadian Olympic athlete, traffic accident.

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* Robert Blinc, 76, Slovene physicist. (Slovene)
* Sergio Bonelli, 78, Italian comic book author and publisher.
* Bob Cassilly, 61, American sculptor, founder of City Museum, bulldozer accident.
* Jessy Dixon, 73, American gospel musician.
* David Zelag Goodman, 81, American screenwriter (Straw Dogs), progressive supranuclear palsy.
* Jerry Haynes, 84, American actor, Parkinson's disease.
* Harry Muskee, 70, Dutch blues singer and musician (Cuby + Blizzards). (Dutch)
* Michael Shor, 91, Israeli security official, CEO of Israel Military Industries (1972–1989). (Hebrew)
* Vasillaq Vangjeli, 63, Albanian comic and stage actor. (Albanian)

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* David Croft, 89, British television comedy writer and producer.
* Sara Douglass, 54, Australian fantasy author, ovarian cancer.
* Ida Fink, 89, Israeli Polish-language author. (German)
* Wilson Greatbatch, 92, American engineer, inventor of the implantable cardiac pacemaker.
* Dave Hill, 74, American golfer, complications from emphysema.
* Imre Makovecz, 75, Hungarian architect.
* Richard W. Mallary, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from Vermont (1972–1975).
* Johnny "Country" Mathis, 77, American singer-songwriter.
* Jan Nijland, 76, Dutch politician. (Dutch)
* Jesús María Pereda, 73, Spanish football player and manager.
* Stuart Spencer, 79, Australian footballer.
* Joe Tofflemire, 46, American football player (Seattle Seahawks), heart failure.
* Erik Wedersøe, 73, Danish actor. (Danish)
* Johnnie Wright, 97, American country music singer (Johnnie & Jack), husband of Kitty Wells.

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* Pierre Dansereau, 99, Canadian ecologist. (French)
* Leonard Dillon, 68, Jamaican musician (The Ethiopians), lung and prostate cancer.
* Heidi, 3, American-born cross-eyed opossum at Leipzig Zoo, euthanised.
* Claude R. Kirk, Jr., 85, American politician, Governor of Florida (1967–1971).
* Nick Navarro, 81, American law enforcement official, Sheriff of Broward County, Florida (1985–1992), complications with cancer.

Final Exits, 22-28 April 2011

Poly Styrene (Photo: Uroica)

Obituaries for 22-28 April 2011

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* Vernon Olsen, 91, American World War II veteran and survivor of Pearl Harbor attack.
* Moin Akhter, 60, Pakistani actor and comedian, heart attack.
* Cheung Sai Ho, 35, Hong Kong footballer, suicide. (Chinese)
* Wiel Coerver, 86, Dutch footballer and manager. (Dutch)
* Eldon Davis, 94, American architect, creator of Googie architecture.
* Hazel Dickens, 75, American bluegrass singer.
* Annalisa Ericson, 97, Swedish actress (Summer Interlude). (Swedish)
* Mehmet Gedik, 58, Turkish politician, MP for Bursa (1987–1995), shot. (Turkish)
* W. J. Gruffydd, 94, Welsh poet.
* Mikhail Kozakov, 76, Russian actor and director (Nine Days in One Year, The Pokrovka Gate), lung cancer. (Russian)
* Siarhei Lahun, 22, Belarusian weightlifter, car accident.
* Sidney Michaels, 83, American playwright and screenwriter (The Night They Raided Minsky's), Alzheimer's disease.
* Carlos Monden, 73, Chilean-born Mexican actor, complications from anemia and kidney problems. (Spanish)
* Merle Greene Robertson, 97, American artist and archeologist.
* Eyvind Solås, 73, Norwegian musician and television personality. (Norwegian)
* José Torres Martino, 94, Puerto Rican painter and writer, after long illness.

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* Dmytro Blazheyovskyi, 100, Ukrainian priest, historian, and embroiderer. (Ukrainian)
* Peter Li Hongye, 91, Chinese underground Roman Catholic prelate, clandestine bishop of Luoyang.
* Peter Lieberson, 64, American composer, complications of lymphoma.
* Reinhold Marxhausen, 89, American artist, sound sculptor.
* Huey P. Meaux, 82, American record producer.
* Milorad Bata Mihailović, 88, Serbian painter. (Serbian)
* Norio Ohga, 81, Japanese businessman, president and CEO of Sony, multiple organ failure.
* Noxolo Nogwana, 24, South African lesbian activist, murder.
* Ready Teddy, 23, New Zealand eventing horse, complications from colic.
* Paulo Reis, 50, Brazilian art critic and curator, tuberculosis. (Portuguese)
* Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill, 89, British politician.
* Mohammad Abdus Sattar, 85, Indian Olympic footballer, pneumonia.
* Phillip Shriver, 88, American historian and college administrator.
* John Sullivan, 64, British writer (Only Fools and Horses), viral pneumonia.
* Dutch Tilders, 69, Australian blues musician, cancer.
* Max van der Stoel, 86, Dutch politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1973–1977, 1981–1982).

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* Sathya Sai Baba, 84, Indian spiritual guru, founder of the Sathya Sai Organization, multiple organ failure.
* Norma Bazúa Fitch, 82, Mexican poet, cardiorespiratory complications. (Spanish)
* Nawang Gombu, 79, Tibetan-born Indian mountaineer, after short illness.
* Alimirah Hanfadhe, 95, Ethiopian sultan of the Aussa Sultanate.
* Sir Denis Mahon, 100, British art historian and philanthropist.
* Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, 87, South Vietnamese First Lady (1955–1963), after an illness. (Vietnamese)
* Marie-France Pisier, 66, French actress (The Other Side of Midnight), drowning.
* Colin Snedden, 93, New Zealand cricketer.

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* Winrich Behr, 93, German Panzer captain during World War II, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
* Rui Biriva, 53, Brazilian musician, cancer. (Portuguese)
* William Craig, 86, Northern Ireland politician, founder of Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, MP for Belfast East (1974–1979).
* Abdoulaye Hamani Diori, 65, Nigerian politician, after long illness. (French)
* Emre İncemollaoğlu, 23, Turkish footballer, car accident. (Turkish)
* María Isbert, 94, Spanish actress. (Spanish)
* Don Lancer, 68, American radio news announcer, cancer.
* Islwyn Morris, 90, Welsh actor.
* Joe Perry, 84, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).
* Poly Styrene, 53, British musician (X-Ray Spex), breast cancer.
* Gonzalo Rojas, 93, Chilean poet. (Spanish)
* Avraham Tiar, 87, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1961–1969).
* Minoru Tanaka, 44, Japanese actor, suspected suicide by hanging. (Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers, Kamen Rider W Returns - Kamen Rider Accel).
* Stavros Zoras, 70, Greek singer-songwriter, cancer. (Greek)

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* John Cossette, 54, American television producer (Grammy Awards).
* Roger Gimbel, 86, American Emmy-winning television producer (Chernobyl: The Final Warning, S.O.S. Titanic, The Amazing Howard Hughes), pneumonia.
* José María Izuzquiza Herranz, 85, Spanish-born Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Jaén en Peru (1987–2001).
* Lynn Hauldren, 89, American copywriter and product spokesperson (Empire Carpet).
* Sarantis Karavouzis, 72, Greek painter, after long illness. (Greek)
* Sir Henry Leach, 87, British admiral.
* Jim Mandich, 62, American football player and announcer (Miami Dolphins), bile duct cancer.
* Aage Møst, 88, Norwegian sports official, President of the Norwegian Athletics Association (1956–1965). (Norwegian)
* Sadler's Wells, 30, American racehorse.
* Phoebe Snow, 60, American singer-songwriter ("Poetry Man"), brain hemorrhage.
* Samuel Zoll, 76, American jurist and politician, Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts (1970–1973), gallbladder cancer.

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* Orlando Bosch, 84, Cuban exile, after long illness.
* Neusinha Brizola, 56, Brazilian singer and cultural producer, daughter of Leonel Brizola, lung complications. (Portuguese)
* Ibrahim Coulibaly, 47, Ivorian militia leader.
* Sofia Fildisi, 74, Greek author, poet, lyricist, politician, and journalist. (Greek)
* Jack H Goaslind, 83, American leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
* Igor Kon, 82, Russian philosopher, psychologist, and sexologist.
* Dag Stokke, 44, Norwegian keyboardist (TNT), church organist and mastering engineer, cancer. (Norwegian)
* Harold Schnitzer, 87, American philanthropist and company executive (Schnitzer Steel), cancer.
* Harry Thuillier, 85, Irish Olympic fencer and radio presenter.
* Alice Ward, 79, American boxing manager, mother of Micky Ward, portrayed by Melissa Leo in The Fighter, cardiac arrest.
* David Wilkerson, 79, American Christian evangelist and author, car accident.

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* Johan H. Andresen Sr., 80, Norwegian businessman. (Norwegian)
* William Campbell, 84, American film and television actor (Love Me Tender), (Star Trek, Dementia 13).
* Enrique Arancibia Clavel, 66, Chilean DINA agent. (Spanish)
* Erhard Loretan, 52, Swiss mountaineer, third climber to scale all 14 eight-thousanders, climbing accident.
* Peter Moss, 59, British journalist and novelist, explosion.
* Willie O'Neill, 70, Scottish football player (Celtic). (death announced on this date)