Final Exits, 8-14 November 2011

Folk singer Jackie Leven a.k.a. Sir Vincent Lone (formerly of Doll By Doll) performs in the Musician Tent at the Summer Sundae 2005. Photo by Gareth Owen.

Obituaries for 8-14 November 2011

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* Jimmy Adamson, 82, British football player and coach.
* Hal Bruno, 83, American journalist (ABC News).
* Clay Green Cambern, 56, American TV editor (Lost, The Sopranos, Cold Case), cardiac arrest.
* Gene Cantamessa, 80, American Academy Award-winning sound engineer (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial).
* Oscar Rolando Cantuarias Pastor, 80, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Piura (1981–2006).
* Nosson Tzvi Finkel, 68, American Orthodox Jewish rabbi.
* Katherine Grant, 12th Countess of Dysart, 93, Scottish peeress.
* Heavy D, 44, Jamaican-born American rapper ("Now That We Found Love") and actor (The Cider House Rules, Life).
* Izabel Hoffmann, 17, Brazilian model, pulmonary embolism. [79] (Portuguese)
* Ricky Hui, 65, Hong Kong actor. (Chinese)
* Bil Keane, 89, American cartoonist (The Family Circus), heart failure.
* Valentin Kozmich Ivanov, 76, Russian football player and coach. (Russian)
* Ed Macauley, 83, American basketball player (St. Louis Hawks, Boston Celtics, Saint Louis Bombers).
* Jimmy Norman, 74, American rhythm and blues and jazz musician and songwriter.
* Herbert S. Okun, 80, American diplomat.
* Jacques Suprikyan, 71, Armenian footballer. (Russian)
* Lauri Sutela, 93, Finnish military officer, Chief of Defence (1974–1983). (Finnish)

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* Abdoulkarim Abdrashitov, 30, Russian imam, Mufti of Mordovia (since 2011), car accident. (Russian)
* Shmuel Ben-Artzi, 96, Israeli writer, father in-law of Benjamin Netanyahu.
* Mary Ellen Cano, 32, American MMA fighter, shot.
* Bob Carney, 79, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers).
* Roger Christian, 75, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) ice hockey player.
* Renée Franke, 83, German pop singer. (German)
* Har Gobind Khorana, 89, Indian-born American biochemist, Nobel laureate (1968), natural causes.
* Benny McCoy, 96, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics).
* Ézio Leal Moraes Filho, 45, Brazilian football player. (Portuguese)
* Dani Wadada Nabudere, 79, Ugandan academic.
* Jean-Paul Randriamanana, 61, Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Antananarivo (since 1999).
* Thomas Shanahan, 54, American politician, alderman of Springfield, Illinois.
* Wilbur South, 28, American MMA fighter, suicide by gunshot.
* Terry Willers, 76, Irish cartoonist.

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* Peter J. Biondi, 69, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (since 1998), cancer.
* David Boyd, 87, Australian artist.
* Manuel Carbonell, 93, Cuban-born American sculptor.
* Ana Grepo, 36, Croatian model, carbon monoxide asphyxiation. (Croatian)
* Barbara Grier, 78, American publisher (Naiad Press) and writer, cancer.
* Ivan Martin Jirous, 67, Czech poet and dissident.
* Alan Keen, 73, British politician, MP for Feltham and Heston (since 1992), cancer.
* Killer Karl Kox, 80, American professional wrestler.
* Petar Kralj, 70, Serbian actor. (Serbian)
* Andy Tielman, 75, Dutch Indorock musician.
* Adrián Yospe, 41, Argentine actor, cancer. (Spanish)

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* William Aramony, 84, American charity executive.
* Francisco Blake Mora, 45, Mexican politician, Secretary of the Interior (since 2010), helicopter crash.
* Domenico Tarcisio Cortese, 80, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea (1979–2007).
* Lynn Deerfield, 61, American actress (Guiding Light).
* John Francis Donoghue, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Atlanta (1993–2004), after short illness.
* Emory Folmar, 81, American politician, Mayor of Montgomery, Alabama (1977–1999), after long illness.
* Michael Garrick, 78, English jazz pianist and composer.
* Fridtjof Frank Gundersen, 77, Norwegian jurist and politician. (Norwegian)
* Choiseul Henriquez, 51, Haitian politician.
* Charlie Lea, 54, French-born American baseball player (Montreal Expos).
* Bernd Methe, 47, German handball referee, traffic accident.
* Reiner Methe, 47, German handball referee, traffic accident.
* David Myers, 73, American politician, Oklahoma State Senator (since 2002), pneumonia.
* Nick Strincevich, 96, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Braves).

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* Gavin Bornholdt, 63, New Zealand Olympic sailor.
* Doyle Bramhall, 62, American blues musician, heart failure.
* Alun Evans, 69, Welsh football administrator, General Secretary of the Football Association of Wales (1982–1995), after long illness.
* Zbigniew Jaworowski, 84, Polish physicist.
* Evelyn Lauder, 75, Austrian-born American philanthropist (The Breast Cancer Research Foundation), creator of pink ribbon symbol, complications from ovarian cancer.
* Julius C. Michaelson, 89, American politician, Rhode Island Attorney General (1975–1979) and State Senator (1962–1974).
* Hasan Moghaddam, Iranian general, commander in the Revolutionary Guard, explosion.
* Peter Roebuck, 55, British-Australian cricketer and columnist, suicide by defenestration.
* Jim Sullivan, 43, Canadian curler, world junior champion (1988).

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* Bobsam Elejiko, 30, Nigerian footballer, traumatic aortic rupture. (Dutch)
* Guido Falaschi, 22, Argentine racing driver, racing accident.
* Esperanza Pérez Labrador, 89, Cuban-born Argentine human rights activist (Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo). (Spanish)
* Jamie Pierre, 38, American professional skier, avalanche.
* Artemio Lomboy Rillera, 69, Philippine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bangued (1993–2005) and San Fernando de La Union (since 2005).
* Diego Rivas, Mexican singer, shot.
* Solly Tyibilika, 32, South African rugby player, shot.

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* Franz Josef Degenhardt, 79, German poet, satirist, novelist and folk singer. (German)
* Richard Douthwaite, 69, British economist and ecologist.
* Alf Fields, 92, English footballer (Arsenal F.C.).
* Maurice-Adolphe Gaidon, 83, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Cahors (1987–2004).
* Brikt Jensen, 83, Norwegian literary critic and publisher. (Norwegian)
* Laura Kennedy, American musician (Bush Tetras), liver disease.
* Jackie Leven, 61, Scottish musician, lung cancer.
* Cargill MacMillan, Jr., 84, American billionaire (Cargill family), natural causes.
* Ilya Zhitomirskiy, 22, Russian-born American Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Diaspora social network site, apparent suicide.

Final Exits, 1-7 October 2011

Bert Jansch performing at the Green Man Festival, 21 August 2006. Photo by Chris Barber from Dartford, England.

Obituaries for 1-7 October 2011

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* Hans Christian Alsvik, 75, Norwegian television presenter. (Norwegian)
* David Bedford, 74, British composer and musician.
* Len Castle, 86, New Zealand potter.
* Ruby Langford Ginibi, 77, Australian author and Aboriginal historian.
* Paulos Mantovanis, 65, Cypriot Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Kyrenia (since 1994). (Greek)
* Sholom Rivkin, 85, American rabbi, last chief rabbi of St. Louis and the United States.
* Johnny Schmitz, 90, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, Washington Senators).
* Sven Tumba, 80, Swedish ice hockey player (world champion 1953, 1957 and 1962), footballer and golfer, prostate cancer.

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* Vasily Aleksanyan, 39, Russian lawyer and businessman, Executive Vice President of Yukos, complications from AIDS.
* Don Lapre, 47, American television pitchman, suicide.
* Mark Mendel, 60s, Romanian born Israeli-Jamaican football coach.
* Taha Muhammad Ali, 80, Palestinian poet.
* Peter Przygodda, 69, German film editor, cancer. (German)
* John Romonosky, 82, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Senators).
* François Abu Salem, 60, French-born Palestinian actor and director.
* Cindy Shatto, 54, Canadian Olympic diver, lung cancer.
* Pavlos Tassios, 69, Greek film director. (Greek)
* Piero Weiss, 83, Italian pianist and author, pneumonia.
* Moshe Wertman, 87, Israeli politician.

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* Kay Armen, 95, American singer, actress and composer.
* Argyris Fatouros, 79, Greek law professor. (Greek)
* Mikko Laine, 30, Finnish rock musician, truck accident.
* Aden Meinel, 88, American astronomer and optical scientist.
* David I. Mitchell, 79, American set designer (Annie), cancer.
* Jim Neal, 81, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals, Baltimore Bullets).
* Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr., 92, American businessman (ACNielsen), Parkinson's disease.
* Rollin Post, 81, American television reporter.

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* Doris Belack, 85, American actress (Law & Order, One Life to Live, Tootsie), natural causes.
* Yelena Chernykh, 32, Russian actress, traffic collision. (Russian)
* Kenneth H. Dahlberg, 94, American businessman and World War II fighter ace, natural causes.
* Diana Gribble, 69, Australian publisher (McPhee Gribble), cancer.
* Ralph Hodgin, 96, American baseball player (Boston Bees, Chicago White Sox).
* Dustin Kellogg, 18, American baseball player, traffic collision.
* Hanan Porat, 67, Israeli rabbi, educator and politician, cancer.
* Shmuel Shilo, 81, Israeli actor and director, cancer.
* Aleksandr Yegorov, 59, Russian actor, traffic collision. (Russian)
* Valentina Yudina, 52, Russian actress, traffic collision. (Russian)

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* Níver Arboleda, 43, Colombian footballer, heart attack. (Spanish)
* Derrick Bell, 80, American law professor (Harvard University), originated critical race theory, carcinoid cancer.
* Graham Dilley, 52, English cricketer, cancer.
* Enver Faja, 77, Albanian architect and diplomat, after long illness.
* Peter Jaks, 45, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player, suicide by train.
* Bert Jansch, 67, Scottish folk guitarist, singer and songwriter (Pentangle), cancer.
* Steve Jobs, 56, American computer entrepreneur and inventor, co-founder of Apple Inc., pancreatic cancer.
* Achilleas Karagiozopoulos, 56, Greek politician, cancer. (Greek)
* Charles Napier, 75, American actor (The Silence of the Lambs, The Blues Brothers).
* Fred Shuttlesworth, 89, American civil rights leader.
* Gökşin Sipahioğlu, 84, Turkish photographer. (French).
* Sarkis Soghanalian, 82, Turkish-born Armenian arms dealer.

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* Diane Cilento, 78, Australian actress (Tom Jones, The Wicker Man), cancer.
* Birgit Rosengren, 98, Swedish actress. (Swedish)
* Igor Shmakov, 26, Russian actor, leukemia.
* Neil Street, 80, Australian speedway rider.

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* Zaheer Ahmad, 63, Pakistani-born American doctor, brain hemorrhage.
* Ramiz Alia, 85, Albanian politician, First Secretary of the Party of Labour (1985–1991); President (1991–1992), lung complications.
* Julien Bailleul, 23, French footballer.
* George Baker, 80, English actor (I, Claudius, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries), pneumonia following a stroke.
* Fernando Charrier, 80, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Alessandria della Paglia (1989–2007).
* Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer, 95, Puerto Rican general. (Spanish)
* Andrew Laszlo, 85, Hungarian cinematographer (First Blood, The Warriors, Newsies).
* Neoklis Lechoudis, 55, Greek basketball player and coach, traffic collision. (Greek)
* Gianni Musy, 80, Italian movie dubber. (Italian)
* Milan Puskar, 77, American pharmacist, co-founder of Mylan, cancer.
* Julio Mario Santo Domingo, 87, Colombian businessman (SABMiller). (Spanish)
* Mishaal al-Tammo, 53, Syrian politician, shot.
* Avner Treinin, 83, Israeli poet and chemist. (Hebrew)
* Phil Walker, 67, British newspaper editor.