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The following is a list of notable deaths in 2011.Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:...

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Deaths in December 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2010.-31:...

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Deaths in February 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2011.-28:*Netiva Ben-Yehuda, 82, Israeli author and radio personality....

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Deaths in March 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2011.-31:...

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Deaths in April 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2011.-30:...

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Deaths in May 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2011.-31:*Pauline Betz, 91, American tennis player....

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Deaths in June 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2011.-30:...

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Deaths in July 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2011.-31:...

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Deaths in August 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2011.-31:...

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Deaths in September 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2011.-30:...

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Deaths in October 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2011.-31:...

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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2011.

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  • Charlie Callas
    Charlie Callas
    Charlie Callas was an American comedian and actor most commonly known for his work with Mel Brooks, Jerry Lewis, and Dean Martin and his many stand-up appearances on television talk shows in the 1970s...

    , 83, American comedian and actor (Silent Movie
    Silent Movie
    Silent Movie is a 1976 satirical comedy film co-written, directed by, and starring Mel Brooks, and released by 20th Century Fox on June 17, 1976...

    , Switch
    Switch (TV series)
    Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who worked as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation...

    ). http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2011/01/28/12655/charlie_callas_dies_at_86
  • Liana Dumitrescu
    Liana Dumitrescu
    Liana Dumitrescu , was a Romanian politician and the leader of the Association of Macedonians in Romania, a political party representing the ethnic Macedonians of Romania. She served in the Chamber of Deputies between 2004 and 2011.-Notes:...

    , 38, Romanian politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies
    Chamber of Deputies of Romania
    The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house in Romania's bicameral parliament. It has 315 seats, to which deputies are elected by direct popular vote on a proportional representation basis to serve four-year terms...

     (since 2004), stroke. http://www.antena3.ro/politica/deputatul-liana-dumitrescu-a-murit-la-spital-la-varsta-de-38-de-ani-117553.html (Romanian)
  • Johanne Dybwad
    Johanne Dybwad
    Johanne Dybwad was a Norwegian alpine skier who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics.She was born in Oslo.In 1936 she finished seventh in the alpine skiing combined event.-External links:* * *...

    , 92, Norwegian Olympic alpine skier. http://www.aguiden.no/paperadsobi/650615.pdf (Norwegian)
  • William L. Eagleton
    William L. Eagleton
    William Lester Eagleton, Jr. was a United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat.-Early life:Born in Peoria, Illinois, Eagleton served in the United States Navy from 1944–46, and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He joined the U.S...

    , 84, American diplomat. http://www.pjstar.com/news/x1486248395/Ex-Peoria-diplomat-dies-at-84
  • Mārtiņš Freimanis
    Mārtiņš Freimanis
    Mārtiņš Freimanis was a Latvian musician, singer, songwriter, actor and TV personality.Freimanis was born in Liepāja, but spent his childhood in Aizpute...

    , 33, Latvian musician (F.L.Y.
    F.L.Y.
    F.L.Y. was a Latvian band, created with purpose to participate in Eurovision Song Contest.At a party following the national finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2002, Mārtiņš Freimanis came up with an idea for the following year’s contest....

    ) and actor, performed at Eurovision Song Contest 2003
    Eurovision Song Contest 2003
    The Eurovision Song Contest 2003 was the forty-eighth Eurovision Song Contest, held at the Skonto Hall in Riga, Latvia on 24 May 2003. The hosts were Marie N and Renārs Kaupers. Sertab Erener, the Turkish entrant, won the contest with "Everyway That I Can", scoring 167 points. The winning...

    , influenza. http://www.tvnet.lv/izklaide/popkultura/363628-negaiditi_miris_muzikis_martins_freimanis (Latvian)
  • Boyd Kirkland
    Boyd Kirkland
    Boyd Douglas Kirkland was an American television director of animated cartoons. He was best known for his work on X-Men Evolution. His other famous works included Batman: The Animated Series. He suffered from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and interstitial lung disease...

    , 60, American animation producer and director, Mormon
    Mormon
    The term Mormon most commonly denotes an adherent, practitioner, follower, or constituent of Mormonism, which is the largest branch of the Latter Day Saint movement in restorationist Christianity...

     missionary, pulmonary fibrosis. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/saltlaketribune/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=148361293
  • Vaughn Mancha
    Vaughn Mancha
    Vaughn Mancha was a professional American football player who played professionally for the Boston Yanks. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1990. He was named to the All-SEC team during his career at the University of Alabama, where he played from 1944 through 1947...

    , 89, American football player (Boston Yanks
    Boston Yanks
    The Boston Yanks were a National Football League team based in Boston, Massachusetts that played from 1944 to 1948. The team played its home games at Fenway Park. Games that conflicted with the Boston Red Sox schedule were held at the Manning Bowl in Lynn, Massachusetts...

    ), heart failure. http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/01/alabama_football_legend_vaughn.html
  • Svein Mathisen
    Svein Mathisen
    Svein Erling "Matta" Mathisen was a footballer from Norway. With the exception of a short spell with Scottish club Hibernian in 1978, "Matta" played for IK Start throughout his career, where he won the Norwegian league title in 1978 and 1980...

    , 58, Norwegian footballer (IK Start), cancer. http://www.vg.no/sport/fotball/norsk/artikkel.php?artid=10037836 (Norwegian)
  • Diana Norman
    Diana Norman
    Diana Norman was a British author and journalist writing historical fiction and non-fiction. She was born in Devon...

    , 77, British author and journalist. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/04/diana-norman-obituary
  • Don Rondo
    Don Rondo
    Don Rondo was an American singer of popular music ballads during the mid 1950s, known for his distinctive baritone voice.-Career:...

    , 81, American singer ("White Silver Sands
    White Silver Sands
    "White Silver Sands" is a popular song. The words and music were written in 1957 by Charles 'Red' Matthews, although partial authorship is also claimed by Gladys Reinhart....

    "), lung cancer. http://www.mog.com/blog_post/content/723/2756956
  • Tøger Seidenfaden
    Tøger Seidenfaden
    Tøger Seidenfaden was a Danish journalist and political scientist, and, from 1993 until his death, editor-in-chief of the broadsheet newspaper Politiken. His father, Erik Seidenfaden, was also a journalist....

    , 53, Danish newspaper editor-in-chief (Politiken
    Politiken
    Politiken is a Danish daily broadsheet newspaper, published by JP/Politikens Hus.The newspaper comes third among Danish newspapers in terms of both number of readers and circulated copies ....

    ), cancer. http://www.cphpost.dk/news/national/88-national/50877-outspoken-newspaper-editor-dies.html
  • Guy Velella
    Guy Velella
    Guy John Velella was a Republican New York State Senator from The Bronx.A political leader, state assemblyman, and state senator for over 30 years, Velella was indicted in 2002 with 25 counts of bribery and conspiracy for allegedly accepting at least $137,000 in exchange for steering public-works...

    , 66, American politician and ex-convict, New York State Assembly
    New York State Assembly
    The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature. The Assembly is composed of 150 members representing an equal number of districts, with each district having an average population of 128,652...

    man (1973–1982) and State Senator
    New York State Senate
    The New York State Senate is one of two houses in the New York State Legislature and has members each elected to two-year terms. There are no limits on the number of terms one may serve...

     (1986–2004), lung cancer. http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/01/27/2011-01-27_guy_velella_disgraced_exbronx_state_senator_dies_at_age_66_after_battle_with_lun.html

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  • Alec Boden
    Alec Boden
    Alec Boden was a Scottish footballer who played at centre-half, most notably for Celtic. He starred for Duntocher St. Mary's, a boys' guild team, before signing for Celtic in 1943...

    , 85, Scottish footballer (Celtic
    Celtic F.C.
    Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...

    ). http://www.celticfc.net/newsstory.php?item=587
  • Bernd Eichinger
    Bernd Eichinger
    Bernd Eichinger was a German film producer and director.- Life and career :Eichinger was born in Neuburg an der Donau. He attended the University of Television and Film Munich in the 1970s, and bought a stake in the fledgling studio company Neue Constantin Film in 1979, becoming its executive...

    , 61, German film producer and director (The NeverEnding Story
    The NeverEnding Story (film)
    The NeverEnding Story is a 1984 German-American epic fantasy film based on the novel of the same name written by Michael Ende. The film was directed and co-written by Wolfgang Petersen and starred Barret Oliver, Noah Hathaway and Tami Stronach. At the time of its release, it was the most...

    ), heart attack. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12283091
  • David Frye
    David Frye
    David Frye was an American comedian, specializing in comic imitations of famous political figures, most of which were based on notable Americans including, former U.S. Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard M...

    , 77, American satirist and Richard Nixon
    Richard Nixon
    Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

     impersonator, cardiopulmonary arrest. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/arts/29frye.html
  • Phil Gallie
    Phil Gallie
    Philip Roy Gallie was a British politician who served as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Ayr from 1992 to 1997 and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the South of Scotland region from 1999 to 2007...

    , 71, British politician, MP for Ayr
    Ayr (UK Parliament constituency)
    Ayr was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 to 2005. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of election.- History :...

     (1992–1997), MSP
    Member of the Scottish Parliament
    Member of the Scottish Parliament is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament.-Methods of Election:MSPs are elected in one of two ways:...

     for South of Scotland (1999–2007). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-12275637
  • Barrie Lee Hall, Jr.
    Barrie Lee Hall, Jr.
    Barrie Lee Hall Jr. was a trumpeter, music director and band leader of the Duke Ellington Small Band, and was highly regarded for his use of the plunger mute to affect the tone of his trumpet.-Early life:...

    , 61, American jazz trumpeter and band leader (Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington
    Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...

    ). http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2011/01/barrie_hall_jr_tsu_and_duke_el.php
  • Bhimsen Joshi
    Bhimsen Joshi
    Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi ; February 4, 1922 - January 24, 2011) was an Indian vocalist in the Hindustani classical tradition. A member of the Kirana Gharana , he is renowned for the khayal form of singing, as well as for his popular renditions of devotional music...

    , 88, Indian musician, Bharat Ratna
    Bharat Ratna
    Bharat Ratna is the Republic of India's highest civilian award, awarded for the highest degrees of national service. This service includes artistic, literary, and scientific achievements, as well as "recognition of public service of the highest order." Unlike knights, holders of the Bharat Ratna...

     laureate. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12263727
  • Francisco Mata
    Francisco Mata
    Francisco Mata was a Venezuelan singer and composer.Born in Juan Griego, from a young age Mata learned to play the cuatro and the guitar. Along with his father, Alexander Marcano Gómez, he learned to sing a variety of Venezuelan eastern songs, and with his mother Rosa, understood the importance of...

    , 78, Venezuelan folk singer and composer. http://www.avn.info.ve/node/39853 (Spanish)
  • Jack Matheson
    Jack Matheson
    John "Jack" Matheson was a Canadian sports journalist known for his wide coverage of sports for the Winnipeg Tribune from 1946 to 1980....

    , 86, Canadian sports journalist. http://www.winnipegsun.com/sports/othersports/2011/01/25/17020706.html#/sports/columnists/paul_friesen/2011/01/24/pf-17020681.html
  • Samuel Ruiz
    Samuel Ruiz
    Samuel Ruiz García was a Mexican Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, from 1959 until 2000. This zone in Mexico is characterized by its poverty and its indigenous population...

    , 86, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of San Cristóbal de las Casas
    Roman Catholic Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Tuxtla Gutiérrez. the bishop was Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel and the auxiliary bishop Enrique Díaz Díaz.-Ordinaries:*Juan de Arteaga y Avendaño *Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P...

     (1959–2000). http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/739544.html (Spanish)
  • Chief White Eagle
    Chief White Eagle
    Basil F. Heath, better known as Chief White Eagle, was a Canadian-born American Mohawk actor, stuntman and television personality whose career spanned several decades beginning with the 1940 film, Northwest Passage. He was sometimes credited as Chief Sky Eagle...

    , 93, Canadian-born American Mohawk actor and stuntman. http://tinleypark.patch.com/articles/former-tinley-resident-and-kids-host-killed-seven-times-by-john-wayne-dies-in-indiana
  • Anna Yablonskaya
    Anna Yablonskaya
    Hanna Hryhorivna Mashutina , known under her pseudonyms Anna Yablonskaya or Hanna Yablonska was a Ukrainian playwright and poet, and one of the victims of the 2011 Domodedovo International Airport bombing.-Profile:...

    , 29, Ukrainian playwright, bombing. http://www.rian.ru/society/20110125/325920279.html (Russian)

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  • Theoni V. Aldredge
    Theoni V. Aldredge
    Theoni V. Aldredge was a Greek-American stage and screen costume designer.Born Theoni Athanasiou Vachlioti in Thessaloniki in 1922, Aldredge received her training at the American School in Athens. She emigrated to the United States in 1949 and attended the Goodman Theatre at DePaul University,...

    , 88, Greek-born American costume designer (Ghostbusters
    Ghostbusters
    Ghostbusters is a 1984 American science fiction comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, and Rick Moranis and follows three eccentric parapsychologists in New York City, who start a...

    , Network
    Network (film)
    Network is a 1976 American satirical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer about a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System , and its struggle with poor ratings. The film was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet...

    , The First Wives Club
    The First Wives Club
    The First Wives Club is a 1996 comedy film, based on the best-selling 1992 novel of the same name by Olivia Goldsmith. Narrated by Diane Keaton, it stars Keaton, Goldie Hawn, and Bette Midler as three divorced women who seek revenge on their husbands who left them for younger women...

    ). http://www.operanews.com/operanews/templates/content.aspx?id=19334
  • Jay Garner
    Jay Garner (actor)
    Jay Garner was anAmerican actor. Born James Garner in 1929, he changed his first name to Jay upon entering Actors Equity since there was already a James Garner in the union...

    , 82, American actor (Pennies from Heaven
    Pennies from Heaven (1981 film)
    Pennies from Heaven is a 1981 musical film. The film was based on a 1978 BBC television drama. In 1981, Dennis Potter adapted his own screenplay for a film of the same name for American audiences, with its setting changed to Depression era Chicago. Potter was nominated for the 1981 Academy Award...

    , Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
    Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)
    Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. The series ran for two seasons between 1979–1981, and the feature-length pilot episode for the series was released as a theatrical film several months before the series aired....

    ), respiratory failure. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/Obituary.aspx?pid=148085440
  • Tony Geiss
    Tony Geiss
    Tony Geiss was an award-winning producer, scriptwriter, songwriter and author, known principally for his children's work....

    , 86, American television writer and composer (Sesame Street
    Sesame Street
    Sesame Street has undergone significant changes in its history. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become "an American institution". The cast and crew expanded during this time, including the hiring of women in the crew and additional minorities in the cast. The...

    ), Emmy award winner, complications from a fall. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/Obituary.aspx?pid=148059582
  • Emanuele Gerada
    Emanuele Gerada
    The Most Reverend Dr. Emanuele Gerada, D.D. , was a Maltese prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and Titular Archbishop of Nomentum....

    , 90, Maltese Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Archbishop
    Titular bishop
    A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese.By definition a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop the tradition of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches is that he be ordained for a specific place...

     of Nomentum, Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland
    Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland
    The Holy See, as the central government of the Catholic Church , has full diplomatic ties with Ireland as well as many other countries worldwide. The current Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland is Archbishop-elect Monsignor Charles John Brown...

     (1989–1995). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgerada.html
  • Herb Gray, 76, American-born Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers
    Winnipeg Blue Bombers
    The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are a Canadian football team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They are currently members of the East Division of the Canadian Football League . They play their home games at Canad Inns Stadium, and plan to move to a new stadium for the 2012 season.The Blue Bombers were founded...

    ). http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Former-Blue-Bomber-Herb-Gray-dies-at-age-76-114499109.html
  • Barney F. Hajiro
    Barney F. Hajiro
    Barney Fushimi Hajiro was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.-Biography:...

    , 94, American soldier, was oldest living Medal of Honor
    Medal of Honor
    The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...

     recipient. http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=13890274
  • Wally Hughes
    Wally Hughes
    Walter Cyril Joseph Hughes was an association football player and coach who managed the New Zealand national team.-Playing career:...

    , 76, English football coach. http://www.nzfootball.co.nz/index.php?id=11&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=876&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=10&cHash=d2db8c8b26
  • Dennis Oppenheim, 72, American artist, liver cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/arts/design/27oppenheim.html
  • E. V. V. Satyanarayana, 54, Indian Telugu movie director, throat cancer and cardiac arrest. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/regional/news-interviews/EVV-Satyanarayana-passes-away/articleshow/7339620.cms

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  • Kenth Andersson
    Kenth Andersson
    Kenth Andersson was a Swedish middle-distance runner and running agent.Andersson began to reach the peak of his athletic powers in the late 1960s. He was the Swedish champion over 800 metres and 1500 metres outdoors in 1966 and repeated the double at the 1967 Swedish indoor championships...

    , 66, Swedish middle-distance runner. http://www.iaaf.org/aboutiaaf/news/newsid=59132.html
  • Maurice Brown
    Maurice Brown
    Squadron Leader Maurice Peter Brown, AFC was a World War II Royal Air Force fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain.Brown joined the RAF in 1938, and promoted to the rank of Flying Officer in October 1940. During the Battle of Britain, Brown flew spitfires with No. 611 Squadron RAF and No. 41...

    , 91, British Royal Air Force fighter pilot. http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=105008;article=31631;title=The%20Battle%20of%20Britain%20Historical%20Society%20Discussion%20Forum
  • Eduardo Davino
    Eduardo Davino
    Eduardo Davino was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Palestrina, Italy.Ordained to the priesthood in 1952, he was ordained a bishop in 1993. Davino was appointed bishop of the Palestrina Diocese in 1997 and retired in 2005 Bishop Dabino died on January 20th of 2011.-Notes:...

    , 81, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Palestrina (1997–2005). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdavino.html
  • Bruce Gordon
    Bruce Gordon (actor)
    Bruce Gordon was an American actor best known for playing Frank Nitti in the ABC television series The Untouchables....

    , 94, American character actor (The Untouchables
    The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
    The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Prohibition agent, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a...

    ), after long illness. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/santafenewmexican/Obituary.aspx?pid=148073435
  • Ernest McCulloch
    Ernest McCulloch
    Ernest Armstrong McCulloch, OC, O.Ont, FRSC was a University of Toronto cellular biologist, best known for demonstrating – with James Till – the existence of stem cells.-Biography:...

    , 84, Canadian biologist. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/medicine-obituaries/8331783/Professor-Ernest-McCulloch.html
  • Miesque
    Miesque
    Miesque was a champion Thoroughbred racemare, best known as the first horse to win two consecutive Breeders' Cups and racing awards in Europe and America. She was a Group one winner at two, three and four-years-old, for a total of 10 G1 wins. She produced five stakes winners.-Breeding:Miesque was...

    , 27, French racehorse, euthanized
    Animal euthanasia
    Animal euthanasia is the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, an animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition. Euthanasia methods are designed to cause minimal pain and distress...

    . http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/mould-breaking-filly-miesque-dies-aged-27/810624/top/
  • F. A. Nettelbeck
    F. A. Nettelbeck
    Frederick Arthur Nettelbeck was an American poet. In the early 1970s he began work on a long poem that was published in 1979: Bug Death. Bug Death was created using cut-up and collage texts combined with original writing. His literary magazine, This Is Important , published such writers as William S...

    , 60, American poet. http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2011/01/27/11254/
  • Reynolds Price
    Reynolds Price
    Reynolds Price was an American novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price had a lifelong interest in ancient languages and Biblical scholarship...

    , 77, American author, professor at Duke University
    Duke University
    Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

    , heart attack. http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/01/20/933570/author-duke-professor-reynolds.html
  • John Jacob Rhodes III
    John Jacob Rhodes III
    John Jacob "Jay" Rhodes III was a Republican Representative from Arizona's 1st congressional district. He was born in Mesa, Arizona.-Youth and education:Rhodes' father and namesake also represented the 1st district...

    , 67, American politician, U.S. Representative
    United States House of Representatives
    The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

     from Arizona (1987–1993). http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/arizona/article_123d35ec-24ec-11e0-b37c-001cc4c03286.html
  • Eugénio Salessu
    Eugénio Salessu
    Eugénio Salessu was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Malanje, Angola.Ordained to the priesthood in 1957, Salessu was appointed bishop of the Malanje Diocese in 1977. Bishop Salessu retired in 1998 and died on 20 January 2011.-Notes:...

    , 87, Angolan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Malanje
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Malanje
    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Malanje is an archdiocese located in the city of Malanje in Angola. Until its elevation to an archdiocese in 2011 it belonged to the Ecclesiastical province of Luanda, like the two dioceses over which it has now oversight: the Diocese of Uíje and the Diocese of...

     (1977–1998). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsalessu.html
  • Sexy Cora
    Sexy Cora
    Sexy Cora was a German pornographic actress, model, and reality show participant....

    , 23, German pornographic actress, complications from breast enlargement surgery. http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/01/21/germany.porn.star.death/index.html?hpt=T2
  • Alan Uglow
    Alan Uglow
    Alan Uglow was an English-born abstract painter. In 1969 he moved to New York City where he also worked in construction to help support himself. In 1978 and 1979 he exhibited at Mary Boone Gallery in New York City...

    , 69, British-born American painter, lung cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/arts/design/02uglow.html
  • Gus Zernial
    Gus Zernial
    Gus Edward Zernial was a Major League Baseball left-fielder and right-handed batter who played for the Chicago White Sox , Philadelphia Athletics , Kansas City Athletics and Detroit Tigers...

    , 87, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics
    Oakland Athletics
    The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the O.co Coliseum....

    , Detroit Tigers
    Detroit Tigers
    The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...

    , Chicago White Sox
    Chicago White Sox
    The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois.The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division. Since , the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans...

    ), heart failure. http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/01/20/2240708/ex-major-leaguer-zernial-dies.html

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  • Neva Egan
    Neva Egan
    Desdia Neva Egan was an American educator who served as the first First Lady of Alaska from the state's creation in 1959 to 1966, and again from 1970 to 1974...

    , 96, American First Lady of Alaska
    Alaska
    Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

     (1959–1966, 1970–1974), widow of William Allen Egan
    William Allen Egan
    William Allen Egan was an American Democratic politician. He served as the first Governor of the State of Alaska from January 3, 1959 to 1966, and the fourth Governor from 1970 to 1974...

    . http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/012111/sta_773941005.shtml
  • George Franck
    George Franck
    George Henning "Sonny" Franck was an American football halfback in the National Football League for the New York Giants. He was born in Davenport, Iowa and lived in Rock Island, Illinois. He played college football at the University of Minnesota and was drafted in the first round of the 1941 NFL...

    , 92, American football player (New York Giants
    New York Giants
    The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

    ). http://www.qctimes.com/promo/front/article_5f954dac-2429-11e0-9d95-001cc4c002e0.html
  • Wayne R. Grisham
    Wayne R. Grisham
    Wayne Richard Grisham was a U.S. Representative from California.-Biography:Born in Lamar, Colorado, Grisham graduated from Jordan High School, Long Beach, California, 1940....

    , 88, American politician, Representative
    United States House of Representatives
    The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

     from California (1979–1983). http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_17162437
  • Mihai Ionescu
    Mihai Ionescu
    Mihai Ionescu was a Romanian footballer who played at both international and professional levels as a goalkeeper.-Death:...

    , 74, Romanian footballer (Petrolul Ploieşti, Romania
    Romania national football team
    The Romania national football team is the national football team of Romania and is controlled by the Romanian Football Federation.Romania is one of only four national teams, the other three being Brazil, France, and Belgium, that took part in the first three World Cups.However, after that...

    ). http://www.gsp.ro/fotbal/liga-1/s-a-stins-mihai-ionescu-portarul-de-legenda-al-petrolului-ploiesti-la-74-de-ani-224783.html (Romanian)
  • Jose Kusugak
    Jose Kusugak
    Jose Kusugak was an Inuk politician from Repulse Bay, Nunavut, Canada. He moved, along with his family, to Rankin Inlet in 1960....

    , 60, Canadian Inuit leader, bladder cancer. http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/987898_jose_kusugak_nunavuts_cheerful_muse_dies_at_60/
  • Ramiro Saraiva Guerreiro
    Ramiro Saraiva Guerreiro
    Ramiro Elísio Saraiva Guerreiro was a Brazilian politician and diplomat. Guerreiro served as Minister of External Relations from March 15, 1979, to March 15, 1985, under Brazilian President João Figueiredo...

    , 92, Brazilian politician, Minister of External Relations
    Ministry of External Relations (Brazil)
    The Ministry of External Relations conducts Brazil's foreign relations with other countries. It is commonly referred to in Brazilian media and diplomatic jargon as the Itamaraty, after the palace which hosts the ministry...

     (1979–1985). http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/noticias/0,,OI4900028-EI7896,00-Embaixador+e+exchanceler+Ramiro+Saraiva+Guerreiro+morre+no+RJ.html (Portuguese)
  • Wilfrid Sheed
    Wilfrid Sheed
    Wilfrid John Joseph Sheed was an English-born American novelist and essayist.Sheed was born in London to Francis "Frank" Sheed and Mary "Maisie" Ward, prominent Roman Catholic publishers in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid-20th century...

    , 80, English-born American novelist and essayist, urosepsis. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/20/books/20sheed.html?src=twrhp
  • Carla Swart
    Carla Swart
    Carla Swart was a South African cyclist who won nineteen individual and team cycling titles.Ms. Swart moved to the United States when she was a teenager. She attended Lees-McRae College where she was awarded scholarships in running and cycling.-Career:Carla Swart became the first cyclist to win...

    , 23, South African cyclist, traffic accident. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/cycling/South-African-cyclist-killed-in-training-accident/articleshow/7327055.cms
  • Hira Devi Waiba
    Hira Devi Waiba
    Hira Devi Waiba was a Nepali folk singer from Darjeeling, India. She came from a family of musicians from Ambotia near Kurseong and is hailed as the pioneer of Nepali folk songs in India....

    , 71, Nepali folk singer, injuries from a fire. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110120/jsp/siliguri/story_13466851.jsp
  • Bob Young
    Bob Young (news anchor)
    Robert H. "Bob" Young was a television news journalist for ABC News. He served as the anchor of The ABC Evening News from October 1967 to May 1968. Young's most noteworthy broadcast took place on April 4, 1968, when he anchored ABC's coverage of the assassination of Dr...

    , 87, American news journalist and anchor (ABC World News). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/northjersey/Obituary.aspx?pid=148083106

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  • Charlie Cowdrey
    Charlie Cowdrey
    Charles E. "Charlie" Cowdrey was an American football coach. Cowdrey served as a head high school coach for nine years, head coach at Fort Scott Community College for three years, assistant coach at University of Missouri for eight years, head coach at Illinois State University for four years,...

    , 77, American football coach (Illinois State University
    Illinois State University
    Illinois State University , founded in 1857, is the oldest public university in Illinois; it is located in the town of Normal. ISU is considered a "national university" that grants a variety of doctoral degrees and strongly emphasizes research; it is also recognized as one of the top ten largest...

    , Southwestern College
    Southwestern College (Kansas)
    Southwestern College is a four-year private college affiliated with the United Methodist Church located in Winfield, Kansas, United States. It was founded in 1885 and graduated its first class in 1889. In addition to its campus programs, it offers online programs.-Academics:The main campus is a...

    ). http://www.stmfh.com/obituaries/index.html#cowdrey
  • George Crowe
    George Crowe
    George Daniel Crowe was a Major League first baseman. He attended Franklin High School in Franklin, Indiana, graduated from Indiana Central College, now the University of Indianapolis, in 1943 and played baseball and basketball. He was the first Indiana "Mr. Basketball"...

    , 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals
    St. Louis Cardinals
    The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to...

    ). http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/25/local/la-me-george-crowe-20110125
  • Jerre Denoble
    Jerre Denoble
    Jerre Denoble was an American outfielder who played part of a season in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw right handed....

    , 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
    All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
    The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was a women's professional baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley which existed from 1943 to 1954. During the league's history, over 600 women played ball.-History:...

    ).
  • Eugenia Escudero
    Eugenia Escudero
    Eugenia Escudero Lavat was a Mexican fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1932 Summer Olympics. She married Hans Backhoff and had 5 children. Escudero died on 18 January 2011, at the age of 96.-References:...

    , 96, Mexican Olympic fencer. http://www.elvigia.net/noticia/fallece-eugenia-escudero (Spanish)
  • Duncan Hall
    Duncan Hall
    Duncan Hall was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1940s and 1950s, singled out as having been amongst the greatest of the 20th century. He played in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership for Fortitude Valley Diehards and represented Queensland and Australia. He has been named amongst...

    , 85, Australian rugby league player. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/rugby-league-mourns-the-death-of-the-team-of-the-century-prop-duncan-hall/story-e6frfgbo-1225990640585
  • John Herivel
    John Herivel
    John W. Herivel was a British science historian and former World War II codebreaker at Bletchley Park.As a codebreaker concerned with Cryptanalysis of the Enigma, Herivel is remembered chiefly for the discovery of what was soon dubbed the Herivel tip or Herivelismus...

    , 92, British codebreaker at Bletchley Park
    Bletchley Park
    Bletchley Park is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire, England, which currently houses the National Museum of Computing...

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/13/john-herivel-obituary
  • Antonín Kubálek
    Antonin Kubalek
    Antonín Kubálek was a Czech-Canadian classical pianist.Kubálek was born in Libkovice, Most District, Czechoslovakia and studied in Prague with Czech pianist František Maxián. He emigrated to Canada in 1968 and settled in Toronto...

    , 75, Czech-born Canadian pianist, complications from a brain tumour. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2011/01/23/kubalek-obit.html
  • Jim McManus
    Jim McManus (tennis)
    James Henry McManus was an American tennis player, who reached the semifinals of the US Open men's doubles in 1968. McManus was a founding member of the Association of Tennis Professionals. McManus was coached by Tom Stow who guided Don Budge to the Grand Slam.-Personal life:McManus was born to...

    , 70, American tennis player. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesunion/obituary.aspx?n=james-henry-mcmanus-mac&pid=148177554&eid=sp_shareobit
  • Cristian Paţurcă
    Cristian Paţurcă
    Cristian Paţurcă was a Romanian composer.Paţurcă was born and died in Bucharest. He was the composer of a song called that inspired Romanians in their struggle against vestiges of the Communist government.-Awards:The president of Romania, Traian Băsescu, awarded Paţurcă the National Cross in...

    , 46, Romanian composer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/world/europe/19paturca.html (body found on this date)
  • Milton Rogovin
    Milton Rogovin
    Milton Rogovin was a documentary photographer who has been compared to great social documentary photographers of the 19th and 20th centuries, such as Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis. His photographs are in the Library of Congress, the J...

    , 101, American documentary photographer. http://www.buffalonews.com/city/article315621.ece
  • Jacques Sarr
    Jacques Sarr
    Jacques Yandé Sarr was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Thiès, Senegal.Ordained to the priesthood in 1964, Sarr was appointed bishop of the Thiès Diocese in 1987 dying in office.-Notes:...

    , 76, Senegalese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Thiès (since 1986). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsarrjac.html
  • Sargent Shriver
    Sargent Shriver
    Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., known as Sargent Shriver, R. Sargent Shriver, or, from childhood, Sarge, was an American statesman and activist. As the husband of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, he was part of the Kennedy family, serving in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations...

    , 95, American diplomat and politician, Ambassador to France
    United States Ambassador to France
    This article is about the United States Ambassador to France. There has been a United States Ambassador to France since the American Revolution. The United States sent its first envoys to France in 1776, towards the end of the four-centuries-old Bourbon dynasty...

     (1968–1970), Vice Presidential nominee (1972
    United States presidential election, 1972
    The United States presidential election of 1972 was the 47th quadrennial United States presidential election. It was held on November 7, 1972. The Democratic Party's nomination was eventually won by Senator George McGovern, who ran an anti-war campaign against incumbent Republican President Richard...

    ), complications from Alzheimer's disease. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sargent-shriver-dies-peace-corps-founder-vp-candidate/story?id=12627926
  • Edgar Tafel
    Edgar Tafel
    Edgar A. Tafel was an American architect, best known as a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright.-Early life and career:Tafel was born in New York City to Russian Jewish immigrants, and moved to New Jersey with his...

    , 98, American architect. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/arts/design/25tafel.html

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  • Kenneth Grant
    Kenneth Grant
    Kenneth Grant was a British occultist, novelist, and poet, who with his partner, the artist Steffi Grant, headed the magical order previously known as the Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis but which is now referred to as the Typhonian Order.-Occult background:Grant's occult experiences began in 1939...

    , 86, British occultist and writer, head of the Typhonian Order. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/kenneth-grant-writer-and-occultist-who-championed-aleister-crowley-and-austin-osman-spare-2231570.html#
  • Roy Hartsfield
    Roy Hartsfield
    Roy Thomas Hartsfield was a second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball; his MLB playing and managing careers each lasted three years. Hartsfield played his entire major-league career with the Boston Braves from 1950 to 1952. He was then traded to the Brooklyn Dodgers for outfielder Andy...

    , 85, American baseball player (Boston Braves
    Atlanta Braves
    The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball club based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. The Braves have played in Turner Field since 1997....

    ) and first manager of Toronto Blue Jays
    Toronto Blue Jays
    The Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball team located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Jays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball 's American League ....

    , complications of liver cancer. http://www.ajc.com/news/roy-thomas-hartsfield-85-806955.html
  • Harvey James
    Harvey James
    Harvey William James was an Australian rock guitarist. He was a member of the bands Mississippi, Ariel, Sherbet and The Party Boys...

    , 58, Australian musician (Sherbet
    Sherbet (band)
    Sherbet was one of the most prominent and successful Australian rock bands of the 1970s. Their biggest singles were "Summer Love" and "Howzat" , both reaching number one in Australia. "Howzat" was also a top 5 hit in the UK. Though the band's success in the U.S...

    ), lung cancer
    Lung cancer
    Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...

    . http://www.undercover.fm/news/13372-sherbet-guitarist-harvey-james-loses-battle-with-cancer
  • Michael Langham
    Michael Langham
    Michael Langham was an English actor and director, who spent much of his career living and working in Canada and the United States....

    , 91, English stage director and actor, complications from a chest infection. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/breakingnews/former-stratford-artistic-director-dies-113864144.html
  • Romulus Linney
    Romulus Linney (playwright)
    Romulus Zachariah Linney IV was an American playwright and professor.-Life and career:Linney was born in Philadelphia, the son of Maitland Clabaugh and Romulus Zachariah Linney III. His great-grandfather was Republican Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney. Linney was raised in Boone, North...

    , 80, American playwright, father of actress Laura Linney
    Laura Linney
    Laura Leggett Linney is an American actress of film, television, and theatre. Linney has won three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has been nominated for three times for an Academy Award and once for a BAFTA Award...

    , lung cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/15/arts/16linney.html
  • Nat Lofthouse
    Nat Lofthouse
    Nathaniel "Nat" Lofthouse, OBE was an English professional footballer who played for Bolton Wanderers for his whole career...

    , 85, English footballer (Bolton Wanderers
    Bolton Wanderers F.C.
    Bolton Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the area of Horwich in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester. They began their current spell in the Premier League in 2001....

    , England)
    England national football team
    The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...

    . http://www.bwfc.co.uk/page/General/0,,1004~2268038,00.html
  • Ed Lowe
    Ed Lowe (journalist)
    Edward J. Lowe, Jr. was an American journalist who wrote columns for Newsday and The Long Island Press....

    , 64, American journalist (Newsday
    Newsday
    Newsday is a daily American newspaper that primarily serves Nassau and Suffolk counties and the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, although it is sold throughout the New York metropolitan area...

    , The Long Island Press), liver cancer. http://www.newsday.com/long-island/obituaries/former-newsday-columnist-ed-lowe-dies-at-64-1.2612741
  • Mike Vibert
    Mike Vibert
    Mike Vibert was the Minister for Education, Sport and Culture in Jersey. - Biography :Mike Vibert was born in 1950 died in Jersey January 15, 2011, Jersey. He was educated at Les Landes School and Hautlieu. He then trained as a teacher at College of St Mark & St John...

    , 60, Jersey politician, Minister for Education, Sport and Culture (2005–2008), heart attack. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-12195895
  • Susannah York
    Susannah York
    Susannah York was a British film, stage and television actress. She was awarded a BAFTA as Best Supporting Actress for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for the same film. She won best actress for Images at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival...

    , 72, English actress (Tom Jones
    Tom Jones (film)
    Tom Jones is a 1963 British adventure comedy film, an adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling , starring Albert Finney as the titular hero. It was one of the most critically acclaimed and popular comedies of its time, winning four Academy Awards...

    , Superman), bone marrow cancer. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/8262228/Susannah-York.html
  • Hilde Zach
    Hilde Zach
    Hilde Zach was the mayor of Innsbruck, Austria. She was elected in 2002 by the city council, becoming the city's first woman mayor. She resigned due to poor health in February 2010...

    , 68, Austrian politician, Mayor of Innsbruck
    Innsbruck
    - Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...

     (2002–2010). http://tirol.orf.at/stories/493196/ (German)
  • Zeng Xianyi, 74, Chinese professor of legal history. http://edu.people.com.cn/GB/13753323.html (Chinese)

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  • Clemar Bucci
    Clemar Bucci
    Clemar Bucci was a racing driver from Argentina. He participated in five World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 17 July 1954 and several non-Championship Formula One races. He scored no championship points...

    , 90, Argentine racing driver. http://www.elcomercial.com.ar/index.php?option=com_telam&view=deauno&idnota=15919&Itemid=116 (Spanish)
  • Hans Bütikofer
    Hans Bütikofer
    Hans Bütikofer was a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the late 1930s. He won the silver medal in the four-man event at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.-References:***...

    , 95, Swiss Olympic silver medal-winning (1936
    1936 Winter Olympics
    The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1936 in the market town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany. Germany also hosted the Summer Olympics the same year in Berlin...

    ) bobsledder. http://www.sbsv.ch/ger_details_2497/Hans_Buetikofer_gestorben.html (German)
  • Howard Engleman
    Howard Engleman
    Howard G. "Rope" Engleman was an American college basketball standout at the University of Kansas from 1939 to 1941. He was  tall, weighed 170 pounds . and played the forward position...

    , 91, American college basketball player. http://www.kuathletics.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/011311aaa.html
  • Josephine Harris
    Josephine Harris
    Josephine Harris was an American bookkeeper who survived the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001. Harris was trapped inside the building along with six fire-fighters....

    , 69, American bookkeeper, survivor of the September 11 attacks, heart attack. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/17/josephine-harris-dead-911-survivor_n_810018.html
  • Paul Picerni
    Paul Picerni
    -Life and career:Picerni was born in New York City, New York. He was an Eagle Scout who joined the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, where he served as a B-24 Liberator bombardier in the China-Burma-India Theater. He flew 25 combat missions with the 493rd Bomb Squadron of the 7th...

    , 88, American actor (The Untouchables
    The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
    The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Prohibition agent, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a...

    ), heart attack. http://www.dailynews.com/ci_17183487?IADID
  • Kenneth Stevenson, 61, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Portsmouth (1995–2009), cancer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-12175338
  • Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz
    Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz
    Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz was an American dog trainer. She trained dogs such as Bo, US President Barack Obama's dog and late senator Edward Kennedy's three dogs....

    , 52, American dog trainer (Bo
    Bo (dog)
    Bo is the pet dog of the Obama family, the First Family of the United States. Bo is a neutered male Portuguese Water Dog. President Barack Obama and his family were given the dog as a gift after months of speculation about the breed and identity of their future pet...

    ) and author, respiratory distress. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2011/01/dawn-sylvia-stasiewicz-who-trained-obama-family-dog-bo-dies-at-52.html

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  • Liana Alexandra
    Liana Alexandra
    Liana Alexandra was a Romanian music educator and composer.-Biography:Liana Alexandra was born in Bucharest, Romania. From 1965 to 1971, she studied at the University of Music Ciprian Porumbescu, Bucharest. She received the "George Enescu" scholarship and took composition courses in 1974, 1978,...

    , 63, Romanian music educator and composer. http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-cultura-8197487-murit-compozitoarea-liana-alexandra.htm (Romanian)
  • Naseerullah Babar
    Naseerullah Babar
    Major-General Naseerullah Khan Babar , SJ, HJ, was a retired 2-star rank general officer in the Pakistan Army, and later career military officer-turned statesman from the leftist democratic soclialist, the Pakistan Peoples Party...

    , 82, Pakistani soldier and politician, Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (1976–1977) and Interior Minister (1993–1996). http://www.dawn.com/2011/01/10/former-interior-minister-naseerullah-babar-dies.html
  • Bill Bower
    Bill Bower
    William Marsh "Bill" Bower was an American aviator, U.S. Air Force Colonel and veteran of World War II. Bower was the last surviving pilot of the Doolittle Raid, the first air raid to target the Japanese Home Island of Honshu.A native of Ravenna, Ohio, Bower graduated from Ravenna High School in...

    , 93, American aviator, last surviving pilot of Doolittle Raid
    Doolittle Raid
    The Doolittle Raid, on 18 April 1942, was the first air raid by the United States to strike the Japanese Home Islands during World War II. By demonstrating that Japan itself was vulnerable to American air attack, it provided a vital morale boost and opportunity for U.S. retaliation after the...

    , complications from a fall. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/13/AR2011011306740.html
  • John Dye
    John Dye
    John Carroll Dye was an American film and television actor known for his role as Andrew in the television series Touched by an Angel.-Early life:...

    , 47, American actor (Touched by an Angel
    Touched by an Angel
    Touched by an Angel is an American drama series that premiered on CBS on September 21, 1994 and ran for 211 episodes and nine seasons until its conclusion on April 27, 2003. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson, the series stars Roma Downey, as an angel named Monica, and Della...

    ), heart attack. http://www.wtva.com/news/local/story/Mississippi-born-actor-dies/VDR8x5zo8kKI2M3Etl-jfg.cspx
  • Dorothy Franey
    Dorothy Franey
    Dorothy Franey Langkop was an American speed skater who competed in the 1932 Winter Olympics.-Biography:...

    , 97, American Olympic speed skater. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dallasmorningnews/obituary.aspx?n=dorothy-langkop&pid=147822380
  • Cookie Gilchrist
    Cookie Gilchrist
    Carlton Chester "Cookie" Gilchrist was a gridiron football player in the American Football League and Canadian Football League.-Career:...

    , 75, American football player (Buffalo Bills
    Buffalo Bills
    The Buffalo Bills are a professional football team based in Buffalo, New York. They are currently members of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

    , Denver Broncos
    Denver Broncos
    The Denver Broncos are a professional American football team based in Denver, Colorado. They are currently members of the West Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

    ), cancer. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/01/10/sports-fbn-obit-cookie-gilchrist_8249066.html
  • Joe Gores
    Joe Gores
    Joe Gores was an American mystery writer...

    , 79, American novelist and screenwriter. http://www.newsodrome.com/fiction_news/joe-gores-has-died-23309717
  • John Gross
    John Gross
    John Gross FRSL was an eminent English author, anthologist, literary and theatrical critic. The Spectator magazine called Gross “the best-read man in Britain”, as did The Guardian...

    , 75, British literary critic. http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/386077
  • Miklós Hofer
    Miklos Hofer
    Miklós Hofer was a Hungarian architect.Hofer was born in Bozsok, Hungary. He undertook his undergraduate studies at the Budapest Technical University in 1954 and gained a masters degree in 1958. He worked for the Department of Public Works from 1955 and became a teacher at the university in 1973...

    , 79, Hungarian architect. http://www.mno.hu/portal/758965 (Hungarian)
  • Bora Kostić
    Bora Kostic
    Borivoje "Bora" Kostić was a former Serbian footballer.During his club career he played for Red Star Belgrade, Lanerossi Vicenza and St. Louis Stars. He earned 33 caps and 26 goals for the Yugoslavia national football team, and participated in the 1960 European Nations' Cup...

    , 80, Serbian footballer (Red Star Belgrade
    Red Star Belgrade
    Red Star Belgrade is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia. The club is a part of the Red Star Sports Society.Red Star Belgrade is the most successful Serbian club, with a record of 25 national championships and 23 national cups in both Serbian and ex-Yugoslav competitions...

    ). http://www.b92.net/sport/fudbal/vesti.php?yyyy=2011&mm=01&dd=10&nav_id=484881 (Serbian)
  • Gideon Njoku
    Gideon Njoku
    Gideon Njoku was a Nigerian professional football player and coach.-Playing career:Njoku played for Nigeria at international level, winning a gold medal at the 1973 All-Africa Games.-Coaching career:...

    , 63, Nigerian footballer and coach, cardiac arrest. http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Sport/5663032-147/gideon_njoku_dies_at_63_.csp
  • Vivek Shauq
    Vivek Shauq
    Vivek Shauq was a noted actor, comedian, writer and singer. He had acted in Hindi and Punjabi films, television serials, theatre and television commercials. He was also a popular writer and singer. Shauq was also involved with the Sant Nirankari Mission. He was fluent in Urdu. He was also the...

    , 47, Indian actor, comedian, writer and singer, heart attack. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ludhiana/Fans-mourn-Vivek-Shauqs-demise/articleshow/7255780.cms
  • A. W. B. Simpson
    A. W. B. Simpson
    Alfred William Brian Simpson QC , FBA usually referred to as A. W. B. Simpson, was a British legal historian and the emeritus Charles F. and Edith J. Clyne Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School.- References :...

    , 79, British legal historian. http://www.airecentre.org/news.php/15/professor-a.w.-brian-simpson-17th-august-1931-10th-january-2011
  • María Elena Walsh
    María Elena Walsh
    María Elena Walsh was an Argentine poet, novelist, musician, dramaturge, writer and composer, mainly known for her songs and books for children.-Biography:...

    , 80, Argentine musician, poet and writer ("Manuelita la tortuga
    Manuelita la tortuga
    "Manuelita la tortuga" is an Argentine song by María Elena Walsh starring a fictional character with the same name. In its native country it is a well-known children's song. The 1999 film Manuelita was adapted from the song.. A French version of the son was written and made famous by Argentine...

    "), after long illness. http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/55984/mar%C3%ADa-elena-walsh-dies-at-age-80
  • John J. Ward
    John J. Ward
    John James Ward was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles from 1963 to 1996. He died of natural causes at the age of 90 on January 10, 2011...

    , 90, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles
    The Archdiocese of Los Angeles is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. state of California. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the archdiocese comprises the California counties of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura. The diocesan cathedral is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the...

     (1963–1996). http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-bishop-john-ward-20110111,0,6407630.story
  • Gary Whitbread
    Gary Whitbread
    Gary George Whitbread was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batman and wicket-keeper who played for Huntingdonshire...

    , 53, British cricketer. http://huntingdonshirecricket.com/page179a.html
  • Margaret Whiting
    Margaret Whiting
    Margaret Whiting was a singer of American popular music and country music who first made her reputation during the 1940s and 1950s.-Youth:...

    , 86, American pop singer ("A Tree in the Meadow
    A Tree in the Meadow
    "A Tree in the Meadow" is a popular song. It was written by Billy Reid, and the song was published in 1948.The songwriter, orchestra leader Billy Reid, recorded the first version in the United Kingdom, with Dorothy Squires as vocalist. It was recorded on 9 January 1948, and released by Parlophone...

    ", "Moonlight in Vermont
    Moonlight in Vermont (song)
    "Moonlight in Vermont" is a popular song about the U.S. state of Vermont, written by John Blackburn and Karl Suessdorf and published in 1943. The lyrics are unusual in that they do not rhyme...

    "), natural causes. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/arts/music/12whiting.html

9

  • Vítor Alves
    Vítor Alves
    Vitor Manuel Rodrigues Alves was a Portuguese soldier and politician. Alves, a former Captain of the Movimento das Forças Armadas , is regarded as a leading figure in the Carnation Revolution, which transitioned Portugal from an authoritarian dictatorship to a democracy...

    , 75, Portuguese soldier and politician, member of the MFA
    Movimento das Forças Armadas
    The Movement of the Armed Forces was an organisation of lower-ranked left-leaning officers in the Portuguese Armed Forces which was responsible for the Carnation Revolution of 25 April 1974, a military coup in Lisbon which ended the corporatist New State regime in Portugal, the Portuguese...

    , responsible for the Carnation Revolution
    Carnation Revolution
    The Carnation Revolution , also referred to as the 25 de Abril , was a military coup started on 25 April 1974, in Lisbon, Portugal, coupled with an unanticipated and extensive campaign of civil resistance...

    , cancer. http://dn.sapo.pt/inicio/portugal/interior.aspx?content_id=1752850 (Portuguese)
  • Noel Andrews
    Noel Andrews
    Noel Andrews was a commentator and disc jockey for RTÉ.Andrews is known for commentating on Barry McGuigan's world title victory over Eusebio Pedroza in 1985 and Michael Carruth's gold medal win at the Barcelona Olympics...

    , 79, Irish boxing commentator. http://www.rte.ie/sport/boxing/2011/0108/andrewsn.html
  • Richard Butcher, 29, English footballer (Macclesfield Town
    Macclesfield Town F.C.
    Macclesfield Town Football Club is an English football team. The club was formed in 1874 and is based in the town of Macclesfield in Cheshire. The team play its home games at the 6,355 capacity Moss Rose stadium...

    ), natural causes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/macclesfield_town/9355603.stm
  • Ruth Cavin
    Ruth Cavin
    Ruth Cavin was an American book editor who worked as an associate publisher of Thomas Dunne Books, where she started working at age 70 and oversaw the publication of 900 books, mystery fiction being her specialty, in her two decades in the business.Cavin was born Ruth Brodie in Pittsburgh,...

    , 92, American mystery novel editor, lung cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/arts/14cavin.html
  • Debbie Friedman
    Debbie Friedman
    Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Friedman was an American composer and singer of songs with Jewish religious content. She was born in Utica, New York but moved with her family to Minnesota at age 5. She is best known for her setting of “Mi Shebeirach”, the prayer for healing, which is used by hundreds of...

    , 59, American songwriter, pneumonia. http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=202863
  • Sir Ernest Lee-Steere
    Ernest Henry Lee-Steere
    Sir Ernest Henry Lee-Steere, KBE was a prominent Australian businessman. He was particularly noted for his involvement in horse racing in Western Australia, becoming chairman of the Western Australian Turf Club from 1963 to 1984. He was also Lord Mayor of Perth from 1972 to...

    , 98, Australian horse racing official, Lord Mayor of Perth
    Perth, Western Australia
    Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

     (1972–1978). http://www.perthturftalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9380
  • Makinti Napanangka
    Makinti Napanangka
    Makinti Napanangka was a Pintupi-speaking Indigenous Australian artist from Australia's Western Desert region...

    , 80s, Australian Papunya Tula
    Papunya Tula
    Papunya Tula, or Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, is an artist cooperative formed in 1972 that is owned and operated by Aboriginal people from the Western Desert of Australia. The group is known for its innovative work with the Western Desert Art Movement, popularly referred to as "dot painting"...

     artist. http://obitpatrol.blogspot.com/2011/01/makinti-napanangka.html
  • Howard Wallace Pollock
    Howard Wallace Pollock
    Howard Wallace Pollock was an American politician and Republican Representative from Alaska.Pollock was born in Chicago and went to school in Perkinston, Mississippi. He studied law at the University of Santa Clara in California and at the University of Houston, Texas, and then did some...

    , 90, American politician, U.S. Representative
    United States House of Representatives
    The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

     from Alaska (1967–1971). http://www.newsminer.com/bookmark/10975591-Howard-Pollock-Alaska-s-2nd-congressman-dies-at-90
  • Dave Sisler
    Dave Sisler
    David Michael Sisler was a professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball  from through . Early in his career, Sisler was a starter, then later was used as a middle reliever and occasionally as a closer...

    , 79, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox
    Boston Red Sox
    The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...

    , Cincinnati Reds
    Cincinnati Reds
    The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the National League Central Division. The club was established in 1882 as a charter member of the American Association and joined the National League in 1890....

    ), prostate cancer. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/al/2011-01-09-3563108231_x.htm
  • Jerzy Woźniak
    Jerzy Woźniak
    Jerzy Jan Woźniak was a Polish footballer who played at both professional and international levels.-Career:Wozniak spent 13 seasons at Legia Warsaw, and also earned 35 caps for the Polish national team.-References:...

    , 78, Polish footballer (Legia Warszawa
    Legia Warszawa
    Legia Warszawa is a professional football club based in Warsaw, Poland. It was founded in March 1916 in the area of Maniewicze in Volhynia as the football club of the Polish Legions...

    ). http://www.90minut.pl/news/144/news1441757-Zmarl-Jerzy-Wozniak.html (Polish)
  • Peter Yates
    Peter Yates
    Peter James Yates was an English director and producer. He was born in Aldershot, Hampshire.The son of an army officer, he attended Charterhouse School as a boy, graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked for some years as an actor, director and stage manager...

    , 81, British film director and producer (Bullitt
    Bullitt
    Bullitt is a 1968 American police procedural film starring Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Vaughn. It was directed by Peter Yates and distributed by Warner Bros. The story was adapted for the screen by Alan Trustman and Harry Kleiner, based on the 1963 novel Mute Witness by Robert L....

    , Breaking Away
    Breaking Away
    Breaking Away is a 1979 American film. A coming of age story, it follows a group of four male teenagers in Bloomington, Indiana, who have recently graduated from high school. It stars Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern , Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie and Paul Dooley...

    , Krull
    Krull (film)
    Krull is a 1983 heroic fantasy film directed by Peter Yates and produced by Ron Silverman. Released by Columbia Pictures, it stars Ken Marshall as Prince Colwyn and Lysette Anthony as Princess Lyssa....

    ). http://www.legacy.com/NS/Obituary.aspx?pid=147731120

8

  • Josep Artigas
    Josep Artigas
    Josep Artigas Morraja was a Spanish footballer, who played as a midfielder.-External links:** * *...

    , 87, Spanish international footballer. http://www.rcdespanyol.com/principal.php?modulo=detalleNoticia&idnoticia=10273&idseccion=34&idlinkchk=4&idmenu=9&idsubmenu=107 (Catalan)
  • Joey Carew
    Joey Carew
    Michael Conrad "Joey" Carew was a West Indian cricketer who played in 19 Tests from 1963 to 1972. His sole test century came against New Zealand at Eden Park in 1969...

    , 73, Trinidad
    Trinidad and Tobago
    Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...

    ian cricketer (West Indies), arteriosclerosis
    Arteriosclerosis
    Arteriosclerosis refers to a stiffening of arteries.Arteriosclerosis is a general term describing any hardening of medium or large arteries It should not be confused with "arteriolosclerosis" or "atherosclerosis".Also known by the name "myoconditis" which is...

    . http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/current/story/496110.html
  • Willi Dansgaard
    Willi Dansgaard
    Willi Dansgaard was a Danish paleoclimatologist. He was Professor Emeritus of Geophysics at the University of Copenhagen and a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Icelandic Academy of Sciences, and the Danish Geophysical Society.-...

    , 88, Danish paleoclimatologist. http://www.dmi.dk/dmi/nekrolog__professor_emer.__dr._phil._willi_dansgaard_er_d_d
  • Jiří Dienstbier
    Jiří Dienstbier
    Jiří Dienstbier was a Czech politician and journalist. He was one of Czechoslovakia's most respected foreign correspondent before being fired after the Prague Spring. Unable to have a livelihood as a journalist, he worked as a janitor for the next two decades...

    , 73, Czech politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989–1992). http://www.praguemonitor.com/2011/01/10/post-1989-czechoslovak-foreign-minister-dienstbier-dies
  • Peter Donaldson
    Peter Donaldson (actor)
    Peter Thomas Donaldson was a Canadian actor.Donaldson was the son of Betty and Norman Donaldson, and was born and raised in Midland, Ontario. While attending Midland Secondary School, he performed in Brigadoon and an abridged version of Romeo and Juliet; his drama teacher did not spot Donaldson's...

    , 58, Canadian actor (The Sweet Hereafter
    The Sweet Hereafter
    The Sweet Hereafter is a 1991 novel by American author Russell Banks. It is set in a small town in the aftermath of a deadly school bus accident that has killed most of the town's children...

    , Emily of New Moon
    Emily of New Moon (TV series)
    Emily of New Moon was a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2000. The series originally aired in the United States on the Cookie Jar Toons block on This TV and it's currently seen in Canada on the Viva, Bravo! and Vision TV cable channels...

    , Road to Avonlea
    Road to Avonlea
    Road to Avonlea was a television series which was first broadcast in Canada and the United States between 1990 and 1996. It was created by Kevin Sullivan and produced by Sullivan Films in association with CBC and the Disney Channel, with additional funding from Telefilm Canada.It was adapted from...

    ), lung cancer. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/theatre/story/2011/01/09/donaldson-obit.html
  • Hans Ulrich Engelmann
    Hans Ulrich Engelmann
    Hans Ulrich Engelmann was a German composer.-Biography:Engelmann studied composition with Hermann Heiss and Wolfgang Fortner...

    , 89, German composer. http://www.handelsblatt.com/lifestyle/kultur-literatur/komponist-hans-ulrich-engelmann-ist-tot/3757546.html (German)
  • Mike Gambrill
    Mike Gambrill
    Michael John "Mike" Gambrill was a British cyclist who competed at the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games. At the 1956 Games he won a bronze medal in the Men's Team Pursuit, 4,000 metres....

    , 75, British Olympic cyclist, bronze medalist (1956). http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/mike-gambrill-1.html
  • Oleg Grabar
    Oleg Grabar
    Oleg Grabar was a French-born art historian and archeologist, who spent most of his career in the United States, as a leading figure in the field of Islamic art and architecture.-Academic career:...

    , 81, American Islamic art historian, heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/world/middleeast/13grabar.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper
  • Ángel Pedraza
    Ángel Pedraza
    Ángel Pedraza Lamilla was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a defender and a midfielder.-Playing career:...

    , 48, Spanish footballer and manager, cancer. http://www.fcbarcelona.es/web/catala/noticies/futbol/temporada10-11/01/08/n110108114989.html (Catalan)
  • Manuel Pestana Filho
    Manuel Pestana Filho
    Manuel Pestana Filho was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Anápolis, Brazil.Ordained to the priesthood in 1952, he was appointed bishop of the Anápolis Diocese in 1987. Bishop Pestana Fihlo retired in 2004.-Notes:...

    , 82, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Anápolis
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Anápolis
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Anápolis is a diocese located in the city of Anápolis in the Ecclesiastical province of Goiânia in Brazil.-History:* October 11, 1966: Established as Diocese of Anápolis from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Goiânia-Leadership:...

     (1978–2004). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bpest.html
  • Juan Piquer Simón
    Juan Piquer Simón
    Juan Piquer Simón was a Spanish film director most well known for directing the cult classic horror exploitation films, Pieces and Slugs: The Movie ....

    , 74, Spanish film director (Pieces
    Pieces (film)
    Pieces is a 1983 cult classic slasher horror film and "drive-in favorite".-Plot:...

    , Slugs
    Slugs (film)
    Slugs, muerte viscosa is a 1988 American horror film based on the novel Slugs by Shaun Hutson. It was banned in the Australian state of Queensland until the early-'90s when the Queensland Censorship Board was disbanded....

    ), lung cancer. http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/41772/rest-peace-juan-piquer-sim%C3%B3n
  • John Roll, 63, American jurist, shot
    2011 Tucson shooting
    On January 8, 2011, a mass shooting occurred near Tucson, Arizona. Nineteen people were shot, six of them fatally, with one other person injured at the scene during an open meeting that U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was holding with members of her constituency in a Casas Adobes Safeway...

    . http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/tpm_confirms_federal_judge_shot_at_incident_in_ari.php
  • Del Reisman
    Del Reisman
    Del Reisman was an American television producer, story editor and screenwriter whose lengthy credits included The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables....

    , 86, American television producer (The Twilight Zone
    The Twilight Zone
    The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist...

    , The Untouchables
    The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
    The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Prohibition agent, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a...

    ) and writer, President of WGAW
    Writers Guild of America, west
    Writers Guild of America, West is a labor union representing film, television, radio, and new media writers. The Guild was formed in 1954 from five organizations representing writers, which include the Screen Writers Guild...

     (1991–1993), cardiac arrest. http://www.thewrap.com/television/column-post/former-wgaw-president-and-tv-writer-del-reisman-dies-86-23791
  • Elfa Secioria
    Elfa Secioria
    Elfa Secioria Hasbullah was an Indonesian composer and songwriter. He was the founder of music group Elfa's Singer....

    , 51, Indonesian jazz pianist. http://www.balidiscovery.com/messages/message.asp?Id=6657
  • Thorbjørn Svenssen
    Thorbjørn Svenssen
    Thorbjørn Svenssen was a Norwegian footballer, who played a record 104 international games for Norway, and captained the side 93 times.-Club career:...

    , 86, Norwegian footballer, record 104 appearances for the national team
    Norway national football team
    The Norway national football team represents Norway in association football and is controlled by the Football Association of Norway, the governing body for football in Norway. Norway's home ground is Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo and their head coach is Egil Olsen...

    , stroke. http://www.vg.no/sport/fotball/norsk/artikkel.php?artid=10037289 (Norwegian)
  • Morton Sweig
    Morton Sweig
    Morton Arthur Sweig was an American businessman and industry leader in janitorial and maintenance services.He headed National Cleaning Contractors, which later merged with ABM Industries Incorporated....

    , 95, American businessman. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=morton-sweig&pid=147740120
  • Christopher Trumbo
    Christopher Trumbo
    Christopher Trumbo was an American television writer, screenwriter and playwright. Trumbo was considered an expert on the Hollywood blacklist during the McCarthy era. His father, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, was blacklisted as a member of The Hollywood Ten. Trumbo was born on September 25, 1940,...

    , 70, American screenwriter, kidney cancer. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=12598086
  • William F. Walsh
    William F. Walsh
    William Francis Walsh was a Republican-Conservative member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.-Biography:...

    , 98, American politician, Mayor of Syracuse, New York (1961–1969), Congressman
    United States House of Representatives
    The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

     (1973–1979). http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/01/william_f_walsh_former_syracus_1.html
  • Moshe Yess
    Moshe Yess
    Moshe Aaron Yess was an Orthodox Jewish musician, composer and entertainer from Montreal, Canada.A member of the Chabad community in Montreal, Yess was a regular performer at Chabad House events and shows, together with general music festivals and the annual A Time for Music concert.- Musical...

    , 67, Canadian composer and singer, cancer. http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=31464

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  • Rudi Bass
    Rudi Bass
    Rudolf "Rudi" Bass was a graphic artist, illustrator, and writer. Bass was the art director of the Graphic Arts Department of CBS News during the 1960s, during which time he pioneered the production of a legible typography...

    , Austrian-born American graphic artist, illustrator and writer. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=rudi-bass&pid=148199847
  • John Bendor-Samuel
    John Bendor-Samuel
    John Theodore Bendor-Samuel was an evangelical Christian missionary and linguist who furthered Bible translation work into African languages, as well as making significant contributions to the study of African linguistics...

    , 81, British missionary and linguist, car accident. http://wycliffe.org.uk/blog/2011/01/dr-john-bendor-samuel-1929-2011/
  • Tom Cavanagh
    Tom Cavanagh (ice hockey)
    Thomas Garrett Cavanagh was an American professional ice hockey center who most recently played with the Springfield Falcons of the American Hockey League. He was drafted by the San Jose Sharks in the sixth round, 182nd overall, of the 2001 NHL Entry Draft...

    , 28, American ice hockey player (San Jose Sharks
    San Jose Sharks
    The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California, United States. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League...

    ), blunt force trauma. http://blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks/2011/01/07/sad-news-former-sharks-prospect-tom-cavanagh-found-dead-at-a-rhode-island-mall/
  • Susana Chávez
    Susana Chávez
    Susana Chávez was a Mexican poet and human rights activist who was born and lived most of her life in her hometown of Ciudad Juárez....

    , 36, Mexican poet and human rights activist, strangled. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12177543
  • Francisco de la Rosa
    Francisco de la Rosa
    Francisco de la Rosa Jiménez was a professional baseball pitcher. He made two appearances in Major League Baseball with the Baltimore Orioles during the 1991 season...

    , 44, Dominican baseball player (Baltimore Orioles
    Baltimore Orioles
    The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. They are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league...

    ), after a long illness. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/baseball_deaths.php?order=DiedOn&y=2011
  • Ryne Duren
    Ryne Duren
    Rinold George "Ryne" Duren was an American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball.He was known for the combination of his blazing fastball and his very poor vision. With his thick coke bottle glasses, few batters dared to dig in against Duren...

    , 81, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies
    Philadelphia Phillies
    The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team. They are the oldest continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, dating to 1883. The Phillies are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League...

    , New York Yankees
    New York Yankees
    The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...

    ). http://host.madison.com/sports/baseball/professional/minor/article_285a9d20-1a82-11e0-b0d7-001cc4c03286.html
  • Ohan Durian
    Ohan Durian
    Ohan Durian or Duryan , was a well-known Armenian conductor.He was the conductor of Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra since 1950's....

    , 88, Armenian composer. http://www.asbarez.com/91389/famed-armenian-composer-ohan-durian-dies-at-88/
  • Gad Granach
    Gad Granach
    Gad Granach was the son of German actor Alexander Granach known for his roles in Ninotchka, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Gad Granach fled Germany at the age of 21 during the rise of Nazism, immigrating to the then-British Mandate of Palestine in 1936...

    , 95, German memoirist, son of Alexander Granach
    Alexander Granach
    Alexander Granach was a popular German actor in the 1920s and 1930s.- Biography :Granach was born Jessaja Granach in Werbowitz to Jewish parents and rose to theatrical prominence at the Volksbühne in Berlin...

    . http://www.nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5103&catid=126&Itemid=60 (German)
  • John D. Kendall
    John D. Kendall
    John D. Kendall was a leader in bringing the Suzuki Method to the United States. In 1955 he was presented with a grant to travel to Japan to meet Shinichi Suzuki and translate his ideas and teachings into a philosophy and pedagogy for violin teachers around the U.S.An internationally acclaimed...

    . 93, American musical educator (Suzuki method
    Suzuki method
    The Suzuki method is a method of teaching music that emerged in the mid-20th century.-Background:The Suzuki Method was conceived in the mid-20th century by Shin'ichi Suzuki, a Japanese violinist who desired to bring beauty to the lives of children in his country after the devastation of World War II...

    ), complications of a stroke. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/arts/music/24kendall.html
  • Aron Kincaid
    Aron Kincaid
    Aron Kincaid was an American actor perhaps best known for playing Killer Croc on Batman: The Animated Series and Sky Lynx on The Transformers. He also voiced characters for The Smurfs, and DuckTales, among others...

    , 70, American actor (The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
    The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
    The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini is the seventh of the American International Pictures beach party films and was released in 1966. The entire film takes place in and around a haunted house with no beach in sight, with the teenage gang instead cavorting in and around it and the adjacent swimming...

    ) and voice actor (Batman
    Batman: The Animated Series
    Batman: The Animated Series is an American animated series based on the DC Comics character Batman. The series featured an ensemble cast of many voice-actors including Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Arleen Sorkin, and Loren Lester. The series won four Emmy Awards and was nominated...

    , The Transformers
    The Transformers (TV series)
    The Transformers is an animated television series depicting a war among giant robots who could transform into vehicles, other objects and animal-like forms. Written and recorded in America, the series was animated in Japan and South Korea...

    ), heart failure. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-aron-kincaid-20110108,0,7012433.story
  • Gary Mason, 48, British boxer, cycling collision. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12135980
  • Uche Okafor
    Uche Okafor
    Uchenna Kizito Okafor, often shortened to Uche Okafor was a football defender who played 34 international matches for Nigeria.- Club career :Okafor's club career took him to many countries before he settled in the USA...

    , 43, Nigerian footballer, murdered. http://www.234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Sport/Football/5662107-147/uche_okafor_dies_in_the_us.csp
  • Andrzej Przeździecki, 84, Polish Olympic fencer and trainer. http://www.sportowefakty.pl/inne/2011/01/09/zmarl-fechmistrz-andrzej-przezdziecki/ (Polish)
  • Anthony Seminerio
    Anthony Seminerio
    Anthony S. Seminerio was an American politician from Queens, New York. He represented parts of Queens in the New York State Assembly for thirty years, notably the neighborhoods of Richmond Hill and Glendale. He resigned on June 23, 2009, following an indictment for alleged Honest services fraud...

    , 75, American politician and convicted felon, member of the New York State Assembly
    New York State Assembly
    The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature. The Assembly is composed of 150 members representing an equal number of districts, with each district having an average population of 128,652...

     (1979–2009). http://online.wsj.com/article/AP49c045a5e73f44bf916fae18638d14c1.html
  • Pyotr Sumin
    Pyotr Sumin
    Pyotr Ivanovich Sumin was the governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast of Russia. He was sequentially a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Political Party United Russia. He became governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast in 1997. He complained about...

    , 64, Russian politician, Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast
    Chelyabinsk Oblast
    -External links:*...

     (1996–2010). http://www.gubernator74.ru/news/ushel-iz-zhizni-petr-ivanovich-sumin (Russian)
  • Donald J. Tyson
    Donald J. Tyson
    Donald John Tyson was an American businessman who was the President and CEO of Tyson Foods during its rise to the top of the food business.-Early life:Don Tyson was born in Olathe, Kansas...

    , 80, American business executive, Chairman of Tyson Foods
    Tyson Foods
    Tyson Foods, Inc. is a multinational corporation based in Springdale, Arkansas, that operates in the food industry. The company is the world's second largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork only behind Brazilian JBS S.A., and annually exports the largest percentage of beef out of...

     (1967–2001), cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/business/07tyson.html
  • Vang Pao
    Vang Pao
    Vang Pao was a Lieutenant General in the Royal Lao Army. He was an ethnic Hmong and a leader of the Hmong American community in the United States.-Early life:...

    , 81, Lao
    Laos
    Laos Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south and Thailand to the west...

     army general and Hmong
    Hmong people
    The Hmong , are an Asian ethnic group from the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. Hmong are also one of the sub-groups of the Miao ethnicity in southern China...

     community leader, Commander of the Secret Army, pneumonia. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/8329281/General-Vang-Pao.html
  • Reg Ward
    Reg Ward
    Albert Joseph Ward, known as Reg Ward was the first Chief Executive of the London Docklands Development Corporation , serving in that capacity from 1981 to 1988.- Early life and education :...

    , 82, British developer, chief executive of London Docklands Development Corporation (1981–1987). http://www.wharf.co.uk/2011/01/canary-wharf-visionary-reg-war.html
  • Dagmar Wilson
    Dagmar Wilson
    Dagmar Searchinger Wilson was an American anti-nuclear testing activist.Born in Manhattan, New York City, Wilson help founded Women Strike for Peace in 1961 to end the testing of nuclear weapons.-Notes:...

    , 94, American anti-nuclear activist, heart failure. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/23/AR2011012304127.html

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4

  • Mohamed Bouazizi
    Mohamed Bouazizi
    Mohamed Bouazizi was a Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire on 17 December 2010, in protest of the confiscation of his wares and the harassment and humiliation that he reported was inflicted on him by a municipal official and her aides...

    , 26, Tunisian protestor, self-immolation
    Self-immolation
    Self-immolation refers to setting oneself on fire, often as a form of protest or for the purposes of martyrdom or suicide. It has centuries-long traditions in some cultures, while in modern times it has become a type of radical political protest...

    . http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/01/201115101926215588.html
  • Grady Chapman
    Grady Chapman
    Grady Chapman was best known as the American lead singer of doo wop group The Robins.-Biography:Born in Greenville, South Carolina, Chapman joined The Robins in 1952, singing alongside Bobby Nunn, Billy Richards, Roy Richards, Ty Terrell, and later Carl Gardner...

    , 81, American doo-wop singer (The Robins
    The Coasters
    The Coasters are an American rhythm and blues/rock and roll vocal group that had a string of hits in the late 1950s. Beginning with "Searchin'" and "Young Blood", their most memorable songs were written by the songwriting and producing team of Leiber and Stoller...

    ), heart failure. http://www.thedeadrockstarsclub.com/2011.html
  • Chrysanth Chepil
    Chrysanth Chepil
    -Notes:...

    , 73, Russian Orthodox
    Russian Orthodox Church
    The Russian Orthodox Church or, alternatively, the Moscow Patriarchate The ROC is often said to be the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches in the world; including all the autocephalous churches under its umbrella, its adherents number over 150 million worldwide—about half of the 300 million...

     prelate, Metropolitan
    Metropolitan bishop
    In Christian churches with episcopal polity, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan, pertains to the diocesan bishop or archbishop of a metropolis; that is, the chief city of a historical Roman province, ecclesiastical province, or regional capital.Before the establishment of...

     of Vyatka-Slobodskoy
    Vyatka-Slobodskoy Diocese
    The Diocese of Vyatka and Slobodskoy is a diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church which covers the exact territory of Kirov Oblast, Russia. The Assumption Cathedral in the region's capital, Kirov, is the Mother Church of this diocese....

    . http://www.new-pressa.ru/content/view/6728/199/ (Russian)
  • B. H. Friedman
    B. H. Friedman
    Bernard Harper Friedman , better known by his initials "B. H.", was an American author and art critic who wrote biographies of Jackson Pollock and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a number of novels that combined his experiences in the worlds of art and business, as well as an autobiographical account...

    , 84, American author and art critic, pneumonia. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/books/10friedman.html
  • Cyril M. Harris
    Cyril M. Harris
    Cyril M. Harris was Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Charles Batchelor Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. He received his B.S. in mathematics and his M.S. in physics from UCLA, and his Ph.D...

    , 93, American acoustical engineer
    Acoustical engineering
    Acoustical engineering is the branch of engineering dealing with sound and vibration. It is the application of acoustics, the science of sound and vibration, in technology. Acoustical engineers are typically concerned with the manipulation and control of sound....

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/arts/music/09harris.html?_r=2
  • Hadayatullah Hübsch
    Hadayatullah Hubsch
    Hadayatullah Hübsch was a German author, journalist, activist of the 68s movement and long-time spokesman of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Germany. From 1992 to 2000 he was chairman of the Association of German Writers in Hesse...

    , 64, German journalist. http://ahmadiyya.de/pressemitteilungen-der-amj/5088-04012010-paul-gerhardt-hadayatullah-huebsch-ist-gestorben.html (German)
  • Mick Karn
    Mick Karn
    Andonis Michaelides , better known as Mick Karn, was an English multi-instrumentalist musician and songwriter, who came to fame as the bassist for the art rock band Japan, from 1974 to 1982....

    , 52, Cypriot-born British musician (Japan
    Japan (band)
    Japan were a British New Wave group, formed in 1974 in Catford, South London. The band achieved success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when they were often associated with the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement .- History :The band began as a group of friends...

    ), cancer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jan/05/japan-mick-karn-dies-cancer
  • Dick King-Smith
    Dick King-Smith
    Ronald Gordon King-Smith OBE, Hon.M.Ed. , better known by his pen name Dick King-Smith, was a prolific English children's author, best known for writing The Sheep-Pig, retitled in the United States as Babe the Gallant Pig, on which the movie Babe was based...

    , 88, British author (The Sheep-Pig
    The Sheep-Pig
    The Sheep-Pig is a novel by British author Dick King-Smith. It was first published in 1983, retitled Babe The Gallant Pig in the U.S., and adapted for the screen as the 1995 film Babe. The book is set in rural England, where Dick King-Smith spent twenty years as a farmer. The book won the Guardian...

    , The Water Horse). http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/05/dick-king-smith-obituary
  • Gustavo Kupinski
    Gustavo Kupinski
    Gustavo "Tavo" Kupinski was an Argentine guitarist, member of the rock band Los Piojos. Before his death, he integrated a band called Revelados, and was guitarist of Las Pelotas....

    , 36, Argentine guitarist (Los Piojos
    Los Piojos
    Los Piojos were a rock band from Argentina, highly popular, and one of the seminal bands of the 1990s Argentine suburban rock movement.As with most suburban rock bands, their formative sound owes a significant amount to the style of the Rolling Stones...

    ), car crash. http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/55584/guitarrist-tavo-kupinski-dies-in-tragic-traffic-accident
  • Coen Moulijn
    Coen Moulijn
    Coenraadt "Coen" Moulijn OON was a Dutch footballer who played for Feyenoord from 1955 to 1972 and was part of their European Cup victory in 1970.- Club career :...

    , 73, Dutch footballer. http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/football-legend-moulijn-dies-73
  • Ali-Reza Pahlavi, 44, Iranian royal
    Pahlavi dynasty
    The Pahlavi dynasty consisted of two Iranian/Persian monarchs, father and son Reza Shah Pahlavi and Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi The Pahlavi dynasty consisted of two Iranian/Persian monarchs, father and son Reza Shah Pahlavi (reg. 1925–1941) and Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi The Pahlavi dynasty ...

    , son of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, suicide by gunshot. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/shahs-son-found-dead-in-boston-2176230.html
  • Ronald Parfitt
    Ronald Parfitt
    Ronald Parfitt was a British Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics.-References:...

    , 97, British Olympic fencer. http://www.thisisannouncements.co.uk/8008296?s_source=clse_ssts
  • Gerry Rafferty
    Gerry Rafferty
    Gerald "Gerry" Rafferty was a Scottish singer songwriter best known for his solo hits "Baker Street", "Right Down the Line", "Days Gone Down", "Night Owl", "Get It Right Next Time", and with the band Stealers Wheel, "Stuck in the Middle with You". Rafferty was born into a working-class family in...

    , 63, Scottish singer-songwriter (Stealers Wheel
    Stealers Wheel
    Stealers Wheel are a Scottish folk rock/rock band formed in Paisley, Renfrewshire in 1972 by former school friends Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty.The band broke up in 1975 and re-formed without Egan and Rafferty in 2008.-Biography:...

    ), liver failure. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jan/04/gerry-rafferty-obituary
  • Jack Richardson
    Jack Richardson (chemical engineer)
    John Francis "Jack" Richardson, OBE, was a UK chemical engineering academic, notable for his research into multiphase flow and rheology, but best-known for a series of textbooks.-Life:...

    , 90, British chemical engineer. http://www.raeng.org.uk/about/fellowship/appreciation/details.htm?Index=62
  • Salmaan Taseer
    Salmaan Taseer
    Salmaan Taseer was a Pakistani businessman and politician who served as the 26th governor of the province of Punjab from 2008 until his assassination in early 2011....

    , 66, Pakistani politician, Governor of Punjab (since 2008), shot. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12111831
  • Bob Usdane
    Bob Usdane
    Robert Bruce "Bob" Usdane was an American, Republican politician.Usdane served in the Arizona Senate from 1977 to 1991 and was President of the Arizona Senate. At the time of his death Usdane resided in Scottsdale, Arizona.-Notes:...

    , 74, American politician, member of the Arizona Senate
    Arizona Senate
    The Arizona Senate is part of the Arizona Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arizona. The Senate consists of 30 members representing an equal amount of constituencies across the state, with each district having average populations of 219,859 . Members serve two-year terms with...

     (1977–1991), after a short illness. http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2011/01/07/20110107usdane0107.html

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  • Julia Bonds
    Julia Bonds
    Julia "Judy" Bonds was an organizer and activist from the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, United States. Raised in a family of coalminers, she worked from an early age at minimum wage jobs. Bonds was the director of Coal River Mountain Watch...

    , 58, American activist, cancer. http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/01/judy-bonds-coal-river
  • Fadil Hadžić
    Fadil Hadžić
    Fadil Hadžić was a prominent Croatian film director within the former Yugoslavia, screenwriter, playwright and journalist, mainly known for his comedy films and plays.Hadžić was born in Bileća, Bosnia-Herzegovina...

    , 88, Croatian filmmaker, screenwriter, playwright and journalist. http://www.seebiz.eu/hr/seebiz-trend/kultura/fadil-hadzic-preminuo-u-89.-godini,102277.html (Croatian)
  • Jill Haworth
    Jill Haworth
    Valerie Jill Haworth was an English actress.Haworth was born in Sussex, to a textile magnate father and a mother who trained as a ballet dancer ....

    , 65, English actress (Exodus, In Harm's Way
    In Harm's Way
    In Harm's Way is a 1965 American epic war film produced and directed by Otto Preminger and starring John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Tom Tryon, Paula Prentiss, Stanley Holloway, Burgess Meredith, Brandon De Wilde, Jill Haworth, Dana Andrews, and Henry Fonda.It was the last black-and-white...

    , Cabaret
    Cabaret (musical)
    Cabaret is a musical based on a book written by Christopher Isherwood, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The 1966 Broadway production became a hit and spawned a 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....

    , The Outer Limits
    The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)
    The Outer Limits is an American television series that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1965. The series is similar in style to the earlier The Twilight Zone, but with a greater emphasis on science fiction, rather than fantasy stories...

    ), natural causes. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/theater/05haworth.html
  • Zbigniew Jaremski
    Zbigniew Jaremski
    Zbigniew Jaremski was a Polish sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.He was born in Zabrze and represented the club Górnik Zabrze. He competed in 400 metres at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, reaching the quarter-finals both times. In the 4 x 400 metres relay he finished fifth with the...

    , 61, Polish athlete, 1976
    1976 Summer Olympics
    The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1976. Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games on May 12, 1970, at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam, over the bids of Moscow and...

     Olympic silver medalist. http://sport.wp.pl/kat,1762,title,Zmarl-6-krotny-mistrz-Polski-i-olimpijczyk,wid,13003444,wiadomosc.html?ticaid=1b8a8 (Polish)
  • Michael Kennelly
    Michael Kennelly
    Michael F. Kennelly, S.J., was an Irish-born American Jesuit and academic administrator. He was a member of the Society of Jesus for more than seventy-seven years....

    , 96, Irish-born American Jesuit, President of Loyola University New Orleans
    Loyola University New Orleans
    Loyola University New Orleans is a private, co-educational and Jesuit university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Originally established as Loyola College in 1904, the institution was chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the name of the Jesuit patron, Saint Ignatius of Loyola...

     (1970–1974), founder of Strake Jesuit College Prep. http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2011/01/the_rev_michael_kennelly_forme.html
  • Suchitra Mitra
    Suchitra Mitra
    Suchitra Mitra was an Indian singer and composer, as well as a well-respected exponent of Rabindra Sangeet or the songs of Bengal's poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore. As an academic she remained a Professor and the Head of 'Rabindra Sangeet Department' at the Rabindra Bharati University for many...

    , 86, Indian singer, cardiac arrest. http://ibnlive.in.com/news/rabindra-sangeet-exponent-suchitra-mitra-dead/139280-45-75.html
  • Alfred Proksch
    Alfred Proksch
    Alfred Proksch was an Austrian Olympic athlete and graphic designer. The son of one of the co-founders of the Wiener Sport-Club, Proksch took an active interest in both athletics and graphic design from an early age...

    , 102, Austrian athlete and graphic designer. http://www.kleinezeitung.at/sport/mehrsport/2624737/oesterreichs-aeltester-athlet-102-jahren-gestorben.story (German)
  • Yosef Shiloach
    Yosef Shiloach
    Yosef Shiloach was a Kurdish Jews film actor. Shiloach was considered by many in Israel one of the nation's most beloved actors, mostly thanks to his parts in many Bourekas Films, a series of films made primarily in the 1970s, portraying the life of Sepharadim in an exaggerated comic manner,...

    , 69, Israeli actor. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4008190,00.html
  • Anatoliy Skorokhod
    Anatoliy Skorokhod
    Anatoliy Volodymyrovych Skorokhod was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician, and an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine from 1985 to his death in 2011....

    , 81, Ukrainian mathematician. http://news.msu.edu/news/results.php?keyword_search=anatoliy%20skorokhod&keyword_action=exact_phrase
  • Paul Soldner
    Paul Soldner
    Paul Soldner was an American ceramic artist.- Biography :...

    , 89, American ceramicist. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/04/local/la-me-paul-soldner-20110104
  • Eva Strittmatter
    Eva Strittmatter
    Eva Strittmatter was a German writer of poetry, prose, and children's literature. Her poetry books sold millions of copies, making her the most successful German poet of the second half of the 20th century....

    , 80, German writer. http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,737747,00.html (German)
  • William Takaku
    William Takaku
    William Takaku was a Papua New Guinean film, television and theatre actor. He was also a screenwriter and a former theatre director.-Career:He was for a time director of the National Theatre Company in Papua New Guinea....

    , Papua New Guinean film and theatre actor, screenwriter and theatre director. http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20110207/ispost01.htm
  • Stanley Tolliver
    Stanley Tolliver
    Stanley Eugene Tolliver, Sr. was an African American attorney, school board president, civil rights activist, and radio talk show host.-Early life and career:...

    , 85, American attorney and civil rights advocate. http://www.cleveland.com/obituaries/index.ssf/2011/01/stanley_tolliver_was_a_school.html
  • Nakamura Tomijyuro V, 81, Japanese Kabuki
    Kabuki
    is classical Japanese dance-drama. Kabuki theatre is known for the stylization of its drama and for the elaborate make-up worn by some of its performers.The individual kanji characters, from left to right, mean sing , dance , and skill...

     actor, Living National Treasure. http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/flash/KFullFlash20110104016.html (Japanese)
  • Alec Woodall
    Alec Woodall
    Alec Woodall was a British Labour Party politician.Woodall was Member of Parliament for Hemsworth from 1974 until 1987, when he was deselected as Labour candidate and replaced by George Buckley.-References:...

    , 92, British politician, MP
    British House of Commons
    The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...

     for Hemsworth
    Hemsworth (UK Parliament constituency)
    -Elections in the 2000s:- Elections in the 1990s :- Elections in the 1940s :- Elections in the 1930s :- Elections in the 1920s :...

     (1974–1987). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/8253490/Alec-Woodall.html

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  • Anna Anni
    Anna Anni
    Anna Anni was an Italian costume designer. She was co-nominated with Maurizio Millenotti for the Academy Award for Costume Design for their work in the film Otello .- External links :...

    , 84, Italian costume designer (Otello
    Otello (1986 film)
    Otello is a 1986 film based on the Giuseppe Verdi opera of the same name based on the Shakespeare play Othello. The film was directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starred Plácido Domingo in the title role, Katia Ricciarelli as Desdemona and Justino Díaz as Iago...

    ). http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/01/03/3105171.htm?section=justin
  • Bali Ram Bhagat
    Bali Ram Bhagat
    Bali Ram Bhagat was an Indian politician. He was born in Patna, Bihar. He served as the Speaker of Lok Sabha from 1976 to 1977, during the turbulent final year of Indira Gandhi’s first reign as prime minister. He served as Minister for External Afairs of India under Indira’s son, Rajiv Gandhi,...

    , 88, Indian politician, Speaker of the Lok Sabha (1976–1977) and Governor of Rajasthan (1993–1998). http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Ex-Speaker-Bali-Ram-Bhagat-dead/articleshow/7208006.cms
  • Kate Ebli
    Kate Ebli
    Kathleen M. "Kate" Ebli was a Michigan state representative from the 56th district, serving from 2006 until 2010...

    , 52, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives (2006–2010). http://www.detnews.com/article/20110102/POLITICS02/101020344/1361/Democratic-legislator-from-Monroe-was--very-dedicated-
  • Anne Francis
    Anne Francis
    Anne Lloyd Francis was an American actress, best known for her role in the science fiction film classic Forbidden Planet , and as the female private detective in the television series Honey West . She won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy award for her role in Honey West...

    , 80, American actress (Honey West
    Honey West (TV series)
    Honey West is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC during the 1965-1966 television season. The series stars Anne Francis as female private detective Honey West and John Ericson as her partner Sam Bolt....

    , Forbidden Planet
    Forbidden Planet
    Forbidden Planet is a 1956 science fiction film directed by Fred M. Wilcox, with a screenplay by Cyril Hume. It stars Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, and Anne Francis. The characters and its setting have been compared to those in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and its plot contains certain...

    , The Twilight Zone
    The Twilight Zone
    The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist...

    ), pancreatic cancer. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-anne-francis-20110103,0,2031697.story
  • Peter Hobbs
    Peter Hobbs (actor)
    Peter Hobbs was a French-born American character actor, known for roles on Broadway, television and film.Hobbs was born on January 19, 1918, in Étretat, France, to Dr. Austin L. Hobbs and Mabel Foote Hobbs. However, he was raised in New York City...

    , 92, French-born American character actor (Barney Miller
    Barney Miller
    Barney Miller is a situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker...

    , Lou Grant
    Lou Grant (TV series)
    Lou Grant is an American television drama series starring Ed Asner in the titular role as a newspaper editor. Unusual in American television, this drama series was a spinoff from a sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Aired from 1977 to 1982, Lou Grant won 13 Emmy Awards, including "Outstanding Drama...

    , The Odd Couple
    The Odd Couple (TV series)
    The Odd Couple is a television situation comedy broadcast from September 24, 1970 to July 4, 1975 on ABC. It starred Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison. It was based upon the play of the same name, which was written by Neil Simon.Felix and Oscar are two divorced men....

    ), after brief illness. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=147751986
  • Hans Kalt
    Hans Kalt
    Hans Kalt was a Swiss rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and in the 1952 Summer Olympics.In 1948 he won the silver medal with his brother Josef Kalt in the coxless pairs event....

    , 86, Swiss rower, Olympic silver (1948
    1948 Summer Olympics
    The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in London, England, United Kingdom. After a 12-year hiatus because of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics since the 1936 Games in Berlin...

    ) and bronze (1952
    1952 Summer Olympics
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    ) medalist. http://www.tsr.ch/sport/divers/2874144-hans-kalt-double-medaille-olympique-en-aviron-entre-1948-et-1952-est-decede-a-zoug-a-87-ans.html (French)
  • Émile Masson Jr.
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    , 95, Belgian cyclist, winner of Paris–Roubaix and La Flèche Wallonne
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     classic cycle races. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/1939-paris-roubaix-winner-masson-dies-at-age-95
  • John Osborne
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    , 74, Montserrat
    Montserrat
    Montserrat is a British overseas territory located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands called the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies. This island measures approximately long and wide, giving of coastline...

    ian politician, Chief Minister
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     (1978–1991; 2001–2006), after long illness. http://www.stabroeknews.com/2011/news/breaking/01/02/former-montserrat-chief-minister-osborne-dies/
  • Pete Postlethwaite
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    , 64, British actor (In the Name of the Father, Inception
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    , The Usual Suspects
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    ), pancreatic cancer. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/actor-pete-postlethwaite-dies-age-64-2174887.html
  • William R. Ratchford
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    William Richard Ratchford was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.Born in Danbury, Connecticut, Ratchford graduated from Danbury High School, Danbury, Connecticut, in 1952. He received a B.A. from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, in 1956, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity....

    , 76, American politician, U.S. Representative
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     from Connecticut
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     (1979–1985), complications from Parkinson's disease. http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Former-U-S-Rep-William-Ratchford-a-former-932752.php
  • Miriam Seegar
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    , 103, American silent film actress and interior designer. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings-20110105,0,2450170.story
  • Patricia Smith
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    , 80, American actress (The Spirit of St. Louis
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    , The Bob Newhart Show
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    ), heart failure. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=147621701
  • Margot Stevenson
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    , 98, American stage and radio actress (The Shadow
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    ). http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/arts/television/07stevenson.html
  • Szeto Wah
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    , 79, Hong Kong political activist, lung cancer. http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/news/englishnews/20110102/news_20110102_56_723894.htm
  • Robert Trumble
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  • Richard Winters
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    , 92, American army officer and World War II veteran, basis of book and miniseries Band of Brothers, Parkinson's disease. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12158637

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