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Deaths in 2011
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:...

 - January
Deaths in January 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 January 2011.-31:...

- February
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....

 - March
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:...

 - April
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:...

 - May
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....

 - June
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:...

 - July - August
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:...

 - September
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:...

 - October
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:...

 - November - December - →

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

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  • Elazar Abuhatzeira
    Elazar Abuhatzeira
    Elazar Abuhatzeira was an Orthodox Sefardi rabbi and kabbalist, known among his followers as the "Baba Elazar."He was born in Rissani, Morocco to Meir and Simcha Abuhatzeira, was the grandson of the Baba Sali, Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira, and the brother of Rabbi David Chai Abuhatzeira of...

    , 70, Moroccan-born Israeli rabbi, stabbed. http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/popular-kabbalah-rabbi-elazar-abuhatzeira-stabbed-to-death-in-be-er-sheva-1.375855
  • John Edward Anderson
    John Edward Anderson
    John Edward Anderson was the president and sole shareholder of Topa Equities, Ltd. Anderson oversaw more than 40 wholly owned subsidiaries in diverse industries such as agriculture, automotive dealerships, insurance, real estate, oil, and wholesale beverage distribution...

    , 93, American businessman and philanthropist, pneumonia. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110730/us-obit-john-anderson/
  • Arild Braastad
    Arild Braastad
    Arild Braastad is a Norwegian diplomat. He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1979. He served as head of department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2001, and was the Norwegian ambassador to South Korea from 2001 to 2006 and to Malaysia from 2006 to his...

    , 64, Norwegian diplomat. http://snl.no/Arild_Braastad (Norwegian)
  • Joseph V. Brady
    Joseph V. Brady
    Joseph Vincent Brady was a behavioral neuroscientist at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the United States. While at the Walter Reed Institute he performed the experiment "Ulcers in Executive Monkeys" that suggested a link between stress and peptic ulcers...

    , 89, American behavioral neuroscientist. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/influential-nasa-researcher-joseph-v-brady-dies-at-89/2011/08/03/gIQARgl1uI_story.html
  • Claude Laydu
    Claude Laydu
    Claude Laydu was Belgian-born French actor.Laydu was born in Brussels, and had been a theater actor when he was cast as the title priest in Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest in 1950. For roughly the next decade, Laydu worked in film steadily until 1963's Mafia alla sbarra...

    , 84, Belgian actor, heart condition. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/aug/07/claude-laydu-obituary
  • Richard Marsh, Baron Marsh
    Richard Marsh, Baron Marsh
    Richard William Marsh, Baron Marsh PC was an English politician and business executive.Marsh was educated at Woolwich Polytechnic and was elected as Labour Party Member of Parliament for Greenwich at the 1959 general election...

    , 83, British politician and businessman, MP for Greenwich
    Greenwich (UK Parliament constituency)
    Greenwich was a parliamentary constituency in South-East London, which returned Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1997 by the first past the post system.-History:...

     (1959–1971), Chairman of British Rail
    British Rail
    British Railways , which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the "Big Four" British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages...

     (1971–1976). http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/lords/deceased-lords/
  • Nella Martinetti
    Nella Martinetti
    Nella Martinetti was a Swiss singer and songwriter.Martinetti was born in Brissago, Switzerland. In 1986, she became the first winner of the Grand Prix der Volksmusik with the song Bella Musica, which she had composed herself...

    , 65, Swiss singer-songwriter. http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/17561
  • Gene McDaniels
    Gene McDaniels
    Gene McDaniels was an American singer and songwriter, who had his greatest recording success in the early 1960s.-Biography:...

    , 76, American singer-songwriter. http://cashboxcanada.ca/2017/gene-macdaniels-passes-away
  • Ivan Milas
    Ivan Milas
    Ivan Milas is a Croatian football player. He currently plays for NK Trnje.-Football career:He joined R.A.E.C. Mons in January 2005 from Zrinjski Mostar, signing a six-month deal, but later was given a long-term contract. Milas left Mons in January 2008 and played for KAS Eupen in the Belgian...

    , 72, Croatian politician. http://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/ivan-milas-72-godini-preminuo-rodnim-zmijavcima-clanak-314838 (Croatian)
  • Takeshi Miyaji
    Takeshi Miyaji
    was a Japanese video game developer who founded the developent companies Game Arts and G-Mode. He was best known as the creator of the Silpheed, GunGriffon and Grandia video game series. His work on the Lunar and Grandia series in particular had a major influence on the development of role-playing...

    , 45, Japanese video game designer and business executive (GunGriffon
    Gungriffon
    Gungriffon is a series of video games developed by Game Arts and designed by the late Takeshi Miyaji. Gungriffon and Gungriffon II originally appeared for the Sega Saturn console in 1996, with more recent appearances in Gungriffon Blaze for the PlayStation 2 and Gungriffon: Allied Strike for the...

    , Grandia
    Grandia
    Grandia is a console role-playing game series created by Game Arts. Games in the Grandia series have been published on Sega and Sony consoles, and Game Boy Color. The Grandia games have been published by Sega, Ubisoft, Enix and Hudson Soft...

    ). http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/08/01/miyaji_death/
  • Matthew J. Perry
    Matthew J. Perry
    Matthew James Perry Jr. was a United States federal judge.Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Perry was in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946, and then received a Bachelor of Science degree from South Carolina State College in 1948 and an LL.B. from South Carolina State College in 1951...

    , 89, American federal judge. http://www.heraldonline.com/2011/08/01/3260198/sc-mourns-death-of-civil-rights.html
  • Agnes Varis
    Agnes Varis
    Agnes Varis was founder and president of Agvar Chemicals Inc. and Aegis Pharmaceuticals....

    , 81, American philanthropist, cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/business/agnes-varis-dies-at-81-founded-drug-company.html?ref=obituaries

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  • Wilfred Arsenault
    Wilfred Arsenault
    Joseph Wilfred Arsenault was a political figure on Prince Edward Island, Canada. He represented Evangeline-Miscouche in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 2000 to 2007 as a Progressive Conservative member.He was born in St. Nicholas, Prince Edward Island, the son of Euclide...

    , 57, Canadian politician, cancer. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2011/07/27/pei-wilfred-arsenault-584.html
  • Rudolf Baláž
    Rudolf Baláž
    Rudolf Baláž was a Slovakian Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Banská Bystrica from 1990 until his death in 2011. Baláž was ordained as a Catholic priest on June 23, 1963. He died on July 27, 2011, at the age of 70....

    , 70, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Banská Bystrica
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Banská Bystrica
    The Diocese of Banská Bystrica is a Roman Catholic diocese in central Slovakia. Its seat is in Banská Bystrica. The bishop seat is vacant.-History:The diocese was established on 13 March 1776 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Esztergom...

     (since 1990). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbalaz.html
  • Richard Chavez
    Richard Chavez
    Richard Estrada Chavez was an American labor leader, organizer and activist. Chavez was the younger brother of labor leader, César Chávez, who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, now known as the United Farm Workers...

    , 81, American activist and labor organizer, brother of Cesar Chavez
    César Chávez
    César Estrada Chávez was an American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers ....

    , complications from surgery. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-richard-chavez-20110728,0,3713759.story
  • Hilary Evans
    Hilary Evans
    Hilary Agard Evans was a British pictorial archivist, author, and researcher into UFOs and other paranormal phenomena.Evans was born in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom. and educated at St George’s School at Harpenden. After National Service in Palestine he went up to King’s College, Cambridge, to read...

    , 82, British picture librarian and author. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/16/hilary-evans-obituary
  • Charles Gittens
    Charles Gittens
    Charles LeRoy Gittens was an American United States Secret Service agent. Gittens joined the Secret Service in 1956, becoming the agency's first African American agent....

    , 82, American Secret Service
    United States Secret Service
    The United States Secret Service is a United States federal law enforcement agency that is part of the United States Department of Homeland Security. The sworn members are divided among the Special Agents and the Uniformed Division. Until March 1, 2003, the Service was part of the United States...

     agent, first black appointed to that position. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/8694143/Charles-Gittens.html
  • Ghulam Haider Hamidi
    Ghulam Haider Hamidi
    Ghulam Haider Hamidi was mayor of Kandahar in Afghanistan. Hamidi moved to Pakistan and spent a brief time in this US, he returned to Afghanistan after the Taliban regime was overthrown. He was killed in a suicide bombing on 27 July 2011.-Reference:...

    , 65, Afghan politician, Mayor of Kandahar
    Kandahar
    Kandahar is the second largest city in Afghanistan, with a population of about 512,200 as of 2011. It is the capital of Kandahar Province, located in the south of the country at about 1,005 m above sea level...

     (since 2007), bombing. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904800304576471380952497832.html
  • Rei Harakami
    Rei Harakami
    was a Kyoto-based electronic musician from Hiroshima, Japan. He composed and mixed on two Roland SC-88Pro sound generators, at times supplemented by the Roland SK-88Pro keyboard model. He suffered a fatal brain hemorrhage on the 27th July 2011.Rei released his debut album in 1998 on Sublime Records...

    , 40, Japanese musician, cerebrovascular disease. http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2011/07/29/kiji/K20110729001304500.html (Japanese)
  • Hideki Irabu
    Hideki Irabu
    was a professional baseball player of Okinawan and American mixed ancestry. He played professionally in both Japan and the United States.-Early life:...

    , 42, Japanese baseball player (Chiba Lotte Marines
    Chiba Lotte Marines
    The are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, in the Kantō region, and owned by the Lotte conglomerate.-History:...

    , 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...

    , Montreal Expos
    Montreal Expos
    The Montreal Expos were a Major League Baseball team located in Montreal, Quebec from 1969 through 2004, holding the first MLB franchise awarded outside the United States. After the 2004 season, MLB moved the Expos to Washington, D.C. and renamed them the Nationals.Named after the Expo 67 World's...

    ), suicide by hanging. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2011/07/28/2011-07-28_former_yankees_pitcher_hideki_irabu_found_dead_in_his_california_home_suicide_su.html (body discovered on this date)
  • Agota Kristof
    Agota Kristof
    Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook . She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.- Biography :Kristof...

    , 75, Hungarian-born French novelist. http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Hungarian+born+novelist+Agota+Kristof+dies/5167373/story.html
  • Jerome Liebling
    Jerome Liebling
    Jerome Liebling was an American photographer, filmmaker, and teacher.He studied photography under Walter Rosenblum and Paul Strand, and joined New York's famed Photo League...

    , 87, American photographer, filmmaker and academic (Hampshire College
    Hampshire College
    Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1965 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley: Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts...

    ). http://www.gazettenet.com/2011/07/28/jerome-liebling-dies-at-87
  • Polly Platt
    Polly Platt
    Mary Marr "Polly" Platt was an American film producer, production designer and screenwriter.-Early life:Platt was born Mary Marr Platt in Fort Sheridan, Illinois on January 29, 1939, later using the name Polly. Her father John was a colonel in the army while her mother Vivian worked in...

    , 72, American film producer (Say Anything...), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , also referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a form of motor neuron disease caused by the degeneration of upper and lower neurons, located in the ventral horn of the spinal cord and the cortical neurons that provide their efferent input...

    . http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/broadcast-news-executive-producer-polly-platt-dies-72-29507
  • Bejaratana Rajasuda, 85, Thai royal, only daughter of King Vajiravudh of Thailand. http://www.ethailand.com/news/hrh-princess-bejaratana-rajasuda-passes-away-at-85-186923.html
  • Sir John Rawlins, 89, British naval officer, pioneer of diving medicine
    Diving medicine
    Diving medicine, also called undersea and hyperbaric medicine , is the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of conditions caused by humans entering the undersea environment...

    . http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=john-rawlins&pid=152835426
  • Eduard Rozovsky
    Eduard Rozovsky
    Eduard Rozovsky was a Russian cinematographer and cameraman, whose film credits include Amphibian Man and White Sun of the Desert....

    , 84, Russian cinematographer (Amphibian Man
    Amphibian Man (film)
    Amphibian Man is a 1962 Soviet science fiction romance film starring Vladimir Korenev and Directed by Vladimir Chebotaryov and Gennadi Kazansky....

    , White Sun of the Desert
    White Sun of the Desert
    White Sun of the Desert , a classic 'Eastern' or Ostern film of the Soviet Union.The film is one of the most popular Russian films of all time. Its blend of action, comedy, music and drama has made it wildly successful and it has since achieved the status of a cult film in Soviet and Russian...

    ), car accident. http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c154/193305.html
  • Richard Rutt, 85, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Leicester
    Bishop of Leicester
    The Bishop of Leicester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Leicester in the Province of Canterbury.The first bishops of Leicester were originally prelates who administered an Anglo-Saxon diocese between the 7th and 9th centuries...

     (1979–1991) http://www.leicester.anglican.org/news/details/rt-revd-richard-rutt2
  • Pietro Sambi
    Pietro Sambi
    Pietro Sambi was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served in the Vatican's Secretariat of State. At the time of his death, he was the Titular Archbishop of Bellicastrum and the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States....

    , 73, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, titular archbishop and Apostolic Nuncio to the United States (since 2005), respiratory failure. http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/apostolic-nuncio-in-the-us-dies-at-hospital/
  • Judy Sowinski
    Judy Sowinski
    Judy Sowinski was a roller derby skater and coach.Sowinski was born in Chicago, and became interested in roller derby after watching a game at the Chicago Coliseum in 1957. She tried out and was soon picked up as a professional, skating for the San Francisco Bombers...

    , 71, American roller derby skater and coach. http://articles.philly.com/2011-07-31/news/29835944_1_san-francisco-bay-bombers-roller-derby-skates-and-safety-equipment
  • Francis John Spence
    Francis John Spence
    Francis John Spence was a Canadian Roman Catholic prelate. Spence served as the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston from 1982 until his retirement in 2002....

    , 85, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Kingston
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston
    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston is a Roman Catholic archdiocese in Canada that includes part of the Province of Ontario and includes the suffragan dioceses of Alexandria-Cornwall, Peterborough, and Sault Sainte Marie....

     (1982–2002). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bspence.html
  • John Stott
    John Stott
    John Robert Walmsley Stott CBE was an English Christian leader and Anglican cleric who was noted as a leader of the worldwide Evangelical movement. He was one of the principal authors of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974...

    , 90, British Anglican priest. http://www.allsouls.org/Publisher/Article.aspx?ID=273279

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  • Ron Davies
    Ron Davies (Western Australian politician)
    Ronald "Ron" Davies was an Australian politician, who was an Australian Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Victoria Park from 1961 to 1986....

    , 85, Australian politician, Western Australian Opposition Leader
    Leader of the Opposition (Western Australia)
    The Leader of the Opposition in Western Australia is the leader of the largest minority political party or coalition of parties in the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Western Australia. By convention, he or she is generally a member of the Legislative Assembly...

     (1978–1981). http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-26/former-labor-leader-ron-davies-dies/2811234
  • Kaveinga Faʻanunu
    Kaveinga Faʻanunu
    Kaveinga Faʻanunu was a Tongan politicianHaving a Bachelor of Science degree in Forestry, he worked for nine years in various "forestry, agroforestry and managerial" positions in the government's forestry department, before going into politics...

    , 48, Tongan politician, MP
    Legislative Assembly of Tonga
    The Legislative Assembly of Tonga has 30 members, 9 members elected for a three year term in multi-seat constituencies via the single non-transferable vote system, 9 members elected for a three year term by the 33 hereditary nobles of Tonga, 10 members of the Privy Council and 2 governors. The...

     for Tongatapu 9
    Tongatapu 9
    Tongatapu 9 is an electoral constituency for the Legislative Assembly in the Kingdom of Tonga. It was established for the November 2010 general election, when the multi-seat regional constituencies for People's Representatives were replaced by single-seat constituencies, electing one representative...

     (since 2010), head and neck cancer. http://www.matangitonga.to/article/tonganews/personalities/20110725_tonga_kaveinga_faanunu.shtml
  • Tresa Hughes
    Tresa Hughes
    Tresa Hughes was an American stage, film and television actress. Hughes was nominated for Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 1961 for her role in The Devil's Advocate...

    , 81, American actress (Another World
    Another World (TV series)
    Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It ran for a total of 35 years. It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J...

    , Don Juan DeMarco
    Don Juan DeMarco
    Don Juan DeMarco is a 1995 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Johnny Depp as John Arnold DeMarco, a man who believes himself to be Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world. Clad in a cape and domino mask, DeMarco undergoes psychiatric treatment with Marlon Brando's character, Dr. Jack...

    , Fame). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=TRESA-HUGHES&pid=152775713
  • Gilbert Luján
    Gilbert Luján
    Gilbert "Magú" Luján was a well known and influential Chicano sculptor, muralist and painter. He founded the famous Chicano collective Los Four that consisted of artists Carlos Almaraz, Beto de la Rocha , Frank Romero and himself...

    , 70, American painter, prostate cancer. http://www.scpr.org/news/2011/07/25/27873/pioneer-chicano-artist-gilbert-lujan-dead-71/
  • Paul Marchand
    Paul Marchand
    Paul Marchard was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Timmins, Canada.Marchand was born in Lafontaine, Ontario and grew up in the area near Georgian Bay....

    , 74, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Timmins
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Timmins
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Timmins is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ottawa...

     (since 1999). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmarchand.html
  • Christopher Mayer, 57, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard
    The Dukes of Hazzard
    The Dukes of Hazzard is an American television series that aired on the CBS television network from 1979 to 1985.The series was inspired by the 1975 film Moonrunners, which was also created by Gy Waldron and had many identical or similar character names and concepts.- Overview :The Dukes of Hazzard...

    , Santa Barbara
    Santa Barbara (TV series)
    Santa Barbara is an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on July 30, 1984, and last aired on January 15, 1993. The show revolved around the eventful lives of the wealthy Capwell family of Santa Barbara, California...

    , Liar Liar
    Liar Liar
    Liar Liar is a 1997 American comedy film written by Paul Guay and Stephen Mazur, directed by Tom Shadyac and starring Jim Carrey. Carrey was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical...

    ). http://www.aoltv.com/2011/07/29/dukes-of-hazzard-and-santa-barbara-star-christopher-mayer-di/
  • Henry Metelmann
    Henry Metelmann
    Henry Friedrich Carl Metelmann was a German soldier, peace activist and writer who was best known for a book about his experiences growing up in Nazi Germany and in World War II entitled Through Hell for Hitler....

    , 88, German soldier and writer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/22/henry-metelmann
  • Virgilio Noè
    Virgilio Noè
    Virgilio Noè was an Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal.Born in 1922 in Zelata di Bereguardo, Lombardy. He studied at the Seminary of Pavia...

    , 89, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archpriest of the Basilica of Saint Peter
    St. Peter's Basilica
    The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter , officially known in Italian as ' and commonly known as Saint Peter's Basilica, is a Late Renaissance church located within the Vatican City. Saint Peter's Basilica has the largest interior of any Christian church in the world...

     (1991–2002). http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1102936.htm
  • Mike Palm, 86, 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"...

    ). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonherald/obituary.aspx?n=richard-p-palm-mike&pid=152761665
  • Dan Peek
    Dan Peek
    Daniel Milton 'Dan' Peek was a musician best known as a member of the rock band America from 1970 to 1977, together with Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell...

    , 60, American singer-songwriter (America
    America (band)
    America is an English-American folk rock band that originally included members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek. The three members were barely out of their teens when they became a musical sensation during 1972, scoring #1 hits and winning a Grammy for best new musical artist...

    ). http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=660893>1=28102&silentchk=1&wa=wsignin1.0
  • David Servan-Schreiber
    David Servan-Schreiber
    David Servan-Schreiber was a French physician, neuroscientist and author. He was a clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine...

    , 50, French physician, neuroscientist and author, cancer. http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/scimedemail/la-me-david-servan-schreiber-20110726,0,5480879.story
  • G. D. Spradlin
    G. D. Spradlin
    Gervase Duan "G.D." Spradlin was an American actor. He often played devious authority figures. He is credited in over 70 television and film productions, and performed alongside actors including Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, and George C. Scott.-Early life:Spradlin was born in Pauls...

    , 90, American actor (North Dallas Forty
    North Dallas Forty
    North Dallas Forty is a 1979 dramatic film starring Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, and G. D. Spradlin. It was directed by Ted Kotcheff and based on the best selling novel by Peter Gent: the screenplay was by Kotcheff, Gent, Frank Yablans and Nancy Dowd ....

    , The Godfather Part II
    The Godfather Part II
    The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script co-written with Mario Puzo. The film is both a sequel and a prequel to The Godfather, chronicling the story of the Corleone family following the events of the first film while also depicting the...

    ). http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-g-d-spradlin-20110726,0,3973610.story?track=rss&dlvrit=53008
  • Skip Thomas
    Skip Thomas
    Alonzo "Skip" Thomas, a.k.a. "Dr. Death", was an American football cornerback who played in the National Football League.-College career:...

    , 61, American football player (Oakland Raiders
    Oakland Raiders
    The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

    ), apparent heart attack. http://tfdssports.com/2011-articles/july/raider-legend-skip-qdoctor-deathq-thomas-dies.html
  • Jane White, 88, American actress (Beloved
    Beloved (film)
    Beloved is a 1998 film based on Toni Morrison's 1987 novel of the same name. It was directed by Jonathan Demme, and was produced by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions. The film stars Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover.-Plot:...

    , Klute
    Klute
    Klute is a 1971 film which tells the story of a prostitute who assists a detective in solving a missing persons case. It stars Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi and Roy Scheider. The movie was written by Andy Lewis and Dave Lewis and directed by Alan J. Pakula.Klute was the first...

    , Once Upon a Mattress
    Once Upon a Mattress
    Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. It opened off-Broadway in May 1959, and then moved to Broadway...

    ). http://www.playbill.com/news/article/153153-Jane-White-New-York-Stage-Actress-Dies-at-88-

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  • David Aiken
    David Aiken (baritone)
    David Aiken was an American operatic baritone, opera director, and United States Army Air Corps officer...

    , 93, American operatic baritone and opera director. http://gcdailyworld.com/story/1746936.html
  • Mathilde Aussant
    Mathilde Aussant
    Mathilde Aussant was a French supercentenarian who was at the time of her death the oldest verified person in France.-Biography:...

    , 113, French supercentenarian, oldest person in France. http://connexionfrance.com/france-oldest-woman-mathilde-aussant-dies-113-12902-view-article.html
  • Blair
    Blair (poet)
    David Blair , known as Blair, was an American musician and poet from Detroit, Michigan who competed in the 2002 National Poetry Slam and was nominated for seven Detroit Music Awards. Blair toured in the United States, South Africa and Germany, performing with various artists, including Stevie...

    , 43, American poet. http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/detroit/index.ssf/2011/07/report_detroit_poet_david_blai.html
  • Terence Boston, Baron Boston of Faversham
    Terence Boston, Baron Boston of Faversham
    Terence George Boston, Baron Boston of Faversham QC was a British Labour Party politician. He was educated at King's College London where he took an LLB in law in 1954, and was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1960....

    , 81, British politician, MP for Faversham
    Faversham (UK Parliament constituency)
    Faversham was a parliamentary constituency centered on the town of Faversham in Kent which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....

     (1964–1970). http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=terence-george-boston&pid=152770171
  • John Chervokas
    John Chervokas
    John V. Chervokas was an American advertising writer and executive. Chervokas created the Charmin's Mr. Whipple ad campaign, and wrote and coined the tagline, "Please Don't Squeeze the Charmin", which is used by the character in the television commercial.He was born in 1936 in Norwood, Massachusetts...

    , 74, American advertising writer. http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/2011-07-27-chervokas-charmin-obit_n.htm
  • Robert Ettinger
    Robert Ettinger
    Robert Chester Wilson Ettinger was an American academic, known as "the father of cryonics" because of the impact of his 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality...

    , 92, American cryonicist, respiratory failure. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/26/cryonics-pioneer-robert-ettinger-dies
  • Jack Fitzpatrick
    Jack Fitzpatrick (businessman)
    John Hitchcock Fitzpatrick was an American businessman and politician from Massachsuetts.Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, Fitzpatrick grew up in Rutland, Vermont. He served in the United States Army during World War II. After the war, Fitzpatrick went to Middlebury College and in 1951 received his...

    , 88, American entrepreneur and politician, co-founder of Country Curtains
    Country Curtains
    Country Curtains was founded by Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick in Whitman, Massachusetts in 1956. They started their business from their dining room table selling unbleached narrow muslin curtains. It was Jack’s idea to sell unbleached muslin ruffled curtains through the mail, reminiscent of their...

    , Massachusetts State Senator (1973–1980). http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-27/bostonglobe/29821328_1_stockbridge-modern-art-arts-programs
  • Milton Gwirtzman
    Milton Gwirtzman
    Milton Saul Gwirtzman was an American author, speech writer, lobbyist, and lawyer within international law. He was educated at Harvard University and Yale Law School. He is best remembered as a key advisor and speech writer for the Kennedy family; having close associations with the lives and...

    , 78, American speech writer, advisor to the Kennedy family
    Kennedy family
    In the United States, the phrase Kennedy family commonly refers to the family descending from the marriage of the Irish-Americans Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald that was prominent in American politics and government. Their political involvement has revolved around the...

    , metastatic melanoma. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/us/politics/26gwirtzman.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
  • Fran Landesman
    Fran Landesman
    Fran Landesman was an American lyricist and poet.-Early life:Born Frances Deitsch in New York City, her father was a dress manufacturer, her mother was a journalist...

    , 83, American lyricist and poet. http://www.stlbeacon.org/issues-politics/region/obits/111855-frances-dietsch-landesman-obit
  • Butch Lewis
    Butch Lewis
    Ronald "Butch" Everett Lewis was an American boxing promoter and manager. He is best known for having managed the careers of boxing brothers Leon and Michael Spinks....

    , 65, American boxing promoter, heart attack. http://msn.foxsports.com/boxing/story/Boxing-promoter-Ronald-Butch-Lewis-dies-from-heart-attack-072311
  • Conrad Meyer, 89, British Anglican
    Church of England
    The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...

     prelate, Bishop of Dorchester
    Bishop of Dorchester (modern)
    The modern Bishop of Dorchester is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Oxford, in the Province of Canterbury, England...

     (1979–1988) http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/136387/meyer
  • Bill Morrissey
    Bill Morrissey
    Bill Morrissey was an American folk singer/songwriter from New Hampshire. Many of his songs reflect the harsh realities of life in crumbling New England mill towns.-Career:Morrissey was born in Hartford, Connecticut...

    , 59, American singer-songwriter. http://www.nhpr.org/letters-heaven-bill-morrissey
  • Nguyen Cao Ky
    Nguyen Cao Ky
    Nguyễn Cao Kỳ served as the chief of the Vietnam Air Force in the 1960s, before leading the nation as the prime minister of South Vietnam in a military junta from 1965 to 1967...

    , 80, Vietnamese air force chief and political leader, Prime Minister
    Leaders of South Vietnam
    This is a list of leaders of South Vietnam, since the establishment of the Autonomous Republic of Cochinchina in 1946 until the fall of the Republic of Vietnam in 1975.-Autonomous Republic of Cochinchina :-Republic of South Vietnam :...

     of South Vietnam
    South Vietnam
    South Vietnam was a state which governed southern Vietnam until 1975. It received international recognition in 1950 as the "State of Vietnam" and later as the "Republic of Vietnam" . Its capital was Saigon...

     (1965–1967). http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/world/asia/24ky.html?ref=deathsobituaries
  • Richard Pike
    Richard Pike
    Richard Andrew Pike was the Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 2006 - 2011.-Education:He attended Gosport County Grammar School . From Downing College, Cambridge he gained a 1st Class BA in Engineering in 1971, and later in 1977 gained a PhD...

    , 61, British chemist. http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2011/RichardPikedies.asp
  • Darioush Rezaeinejad
    Darioush Rezaeinejad
    Darioush Rezaeinejad was an Iranian shot dead in east Tehran by gunmen in July 2011 while he and his wife waited for their child outside a kindergarten...

    , 35, Iranian nuclear scientist, shot. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14263126
  • John Shalikashvili, 75, Polish-born American army general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
    Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
    The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is by law the highest ranking military officer in the United States Armed Forces, and is the principal military adviser to the President of the United States, the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council and the Secretary of Defense...

     (1993–1997), stroke. http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/23/john.shalikashvili.dies/
  • Elmer B. Staats
    Elmer B. Staats
    Elmer Boyd Staats was a public servant whose career from the late 1930s to the early 1980s was primarily associated with the Bureau of the Budget and the GAO. Staats was born June 6, 1914, in Richfield, Kansas, to Wesley F. and Maude Staats...

    , 97, American public servant, Comptroller General of the United States
    Comptroller General of the United States
    The Comptroller General of the United States is the director of the Government Accountability Office , a legislative branch agency established by Congress in 1921 to ensure the fiscal and managerial accountability of the federal government...

     (1966–1981). http://gao.gov/press/elmer_staats_2011jul25.html
  • Amy Winehouse
    Amy Winehouse
    Amy Jade Winehouse was an English singer-songwriter known for her powerful deep contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres including R&B, soul and jazz. Winehouse's 2003 debut album, Frank, was critically successful in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize...

    , 27, British singer-songwriter ("Rehab"), accidental alcohol poisoning. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14262237

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  • Franz Alt
    Franz Alt
    Franz Leopold Alt was an Austrian-born American mathematician who made major contributions to computer science in its early days...

    , 100, Austrian-born American mathematician. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=franz-l-alt&pid=152715888
  • Clément Cailleau
    Clément Cailleau
    Clément Cailleau C.S.Sp. was a French-born prelate. Cailleau served as the Prefect of the what is now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tambacounda in Senegal from August 13, 1970, until April 24, 1986. Tambacounda was elevated to a full Catholic diocese in 1989.Cailleau was born in Nueil-sur-Layon,...

    , 88, French-born Senegalese Roman Catholic prelate, Prefect of Tambacounda (1970–1986). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcailleau.html
  • Ashleigh Connor
    Ashleigh Connor
    Ashleigh Connor was an Australian soccer player, who played for the Central Coast Mariners in the Australian W-League....

    , 21, Australian soccer player, car accident. http://www.theage.com.au/sport/football/promising-soccer-star-dies-in-car-accident-20110721-1hqzt.html
  • Andrew Grant DeYoung
    Andrew Grant DeYoung
    Andrew Grant DeYoung was executed by the state of Georgia in H-5 of the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in Jackson, Georgia for murder. DeYoung was 37 when he died. His last words were "I'm sorry to everyone I hurt. I love you Dawn...

    , 37, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/21/andrew-deyoung-execution-dies_n_906414.html
  • Milly Del Rubio, 89, American singer (The Del Rubio Triplets). http://www.alleewillis.com/blog/2011/07/25/allee-willis%E2%80%99-kitsch-o%E2%80%99-the-day-%E2%80%93-r-i-p-milly-del-rubio/
  • Pedro Claro Meurice Estiu
    Pedro Claro Meurice Estiu
    Pedro Claro Meurice Estiu was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba....

    , 79, Cuban Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba
    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba is a Metropolitan Archdiocese, responsible for the dioceses of Guantánamo-Baracoa, Holguín and Santisimo Salvador de Bayamo y Manzanillo....

     (1970–2007). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmeurice.html
  • Elliot Handler
    Elliot Handler
    Elliot Handler was the co-founder of Mattel. With his wife, he was a developer of some of the biggest-selling toys in American history, including Barbie dolls, Chatty Cathy, Creepy Crawlers and Hot Wheels....

    , 95, American businessman, co-founder of Mattel
    Mattel
    Mattel, Inc. is the world's largest toy company based on revenue. The products it produces include Fisher Price, Barbie dolls, Hot Wheels and Matchbox toys, Masters of the Universe, American Girl dolls, board games, and, in the early 1980s, video game consoles. The company's name is derived from...

    , namer of the Barbie
    Barbie
    Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy-company Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959. American businesswoman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration....

     doll, creator of Hot Wheels
    Hot Wheels
    Hot Wheels is a brand of die cast toy car, introduced by American toymaker Mattel in 1968. It was the primary competitor of Matchbox until 1996, when Mattel acquired rights to the Matchbox brand from Tyco.-Models:...

    , heart failure. http://www.tmz.com/2011/07/22/elliot-handler-barbie-co-founder-died-dies-death-mattel/
  • William Hildenbrand
    William Hildenbrand
    William F. Hildenbrand was an American government officer who served as the Secretary of the United States Senate from 1981 to 1985....

    , 89, American government officer, Secretary of the United States Senate
    Secretary of the United States Senate
    The Secretary of the Senate is an elected officer of the United States Senate. The Secretary supervises an extensive array of offices and services to expedite the day-to-day operations of that body...

     (1981–1985). http://www.rollcall.com/issues/57_12/former_secretary_senate_dies_william_hildenbrand-207598-1.html
  • Yevgeny Lopatin, 93, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning (1952
    1952 Summer Olympics
    The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland in 1952. Helsinki had been earlier given the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were cancelled due to World War II...

    ) weightlifter. http://www.rfwf.ru/federation/news/689.html (Russian)
  • Slavomir Miklovš
    Slavomir Miklovš
    Slavomir Miklovš was the Greek Catholic bishop of Eparchy of Križevci, Croatia.Ordained to the priesthood in 1964, he became bishop of the eparchy in 1983 retiring in 2009....

    , 77, Croatian Greek Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Križevci
    Eparchy of Križevci
    The Eparchy of Križevci, sometimes referred to as the Croatian Greek Catholic Church or the Croatian Byzantine Catholic Church, is a recognized sui iuris Catholic Church listed in the Annuario Pontificio among the Eastern Catholic Churches of Constantinopolitan or Byzantine tradition as the Church...

     (1983–2009). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmiklovs.html
  • Bruce Sundlun
    Bruce Sundlun
    Bruce Sundlun was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as 71st Governor of Rhode Island from 1991 to 1995. He was Rhode Island's second Jewish governor, and the only Jewish governor in the United States during his two terms...

    , 91, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island
    Rhode Island
    The state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area...

     (1991–1995). http://www2.turnto10.com/news/2011/jul/21/former-ri-gov-bruce-sundlun-dies-91-ar-628792/
  • Kazimierz Świątek, 96, Estonian-born Belarusian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev (1991–2006). http://www.tvr.by/eng/society.asp?id=51590
  • Jack Thompson
    John Thompson (UK politician)
    John Thompson was a British Labour Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Wansbeck from 1983 to 1997.-References:*Times Guide to the House of Commons 1992...

    , 82, British politician, MP for Wansbeck
    Wansbeck (UK Parliament constituency)
    Wansbeck is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.- Boundaries :...

     (1983–1997). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/8673745/Jack-Thompson.html
  • Amelia Trice
    Amelia Trice
    Amelia "Amy" Cutsack Trice was an Native American leader from Idaho.Born in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, Trice was the chairwoman of the Kootenai tribe council. In 1974, while chairman, the Kootenai tribe declared war on the United States and was able to get a concession and land grant from the federal...

    , 75, American Kootenai tribal leader and activist, leader of the last Indian war against the United States, cancer. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/jul/29/kootenai-tribal-elder-trice-dies/
  • Elwy Yost
    Elwy Yost
    Elwy McMurran Yost, CM was a television host, best known for hosting CBC Television's weekday Passport to Adventure series from 1965–67, and TVOntario's weekday Magic Shadows, from 1974 until the mid-1980s, and Saturday Night at the Movies from 1974–99.-Early life:Born in Weston, Ontario, the son...

    , 86, Canadian television host and writer. http://www.thestar.com/news/books/article/1028603--elwy-yost-dies-at-85

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  • Armando Martín Borque
    Armando Martín Borque
    Armando Martín Borque was a spanish entrepreneur, was born in Soria, Spain in April 15, 1921 and at age of 5 arrived to Comarca Lagunera, and in 1968 was the Organización Soriana founder joint with Francisco Martín Borque, and was died in July 20, 2011 in Torreon, Coahuila.- Source :*...

    , 90, Spanish entrepreneur. http://mx.ibtimes.com/articles/15651/20110721/fallece-fundador-soriana-armando-martin-borque.htm (Spanish)
  • Blaize Clement
    Blaize Clement
    Blaize Clement was an American writer. She was best-known for her witty, light-hearted series of "Dixie Hemingway" mystery novels published by St. Martin's Press, a division of Macmillan...

    , 78, American mystery writer and psychologist, cancer. http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20110727/article/110729607
  • Lucian Freud
    Lucian Freud
    Lucian Michael Freud, OM, CH was a British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impasted portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time...

    , 88, German-born British painter. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/arts/lucian-freud-adept-portraiture-artist-dies-at-88.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto
  • Isaia Italeli
    Isaia Italeli
    Isaia Italeli Taeia , more commonly known as Isaia Italeli, was a Tuvaluan politician.He was elected to Parliament as MP for Nui in the September 2010 general election, at which time his elder brother, Sir Iakoba Italeli Taeia, was serving as Governor-General. On 29 September 2010, he was elected...

    , 40s, Tuvaluan Cabinet minister. http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=61940 (body found on this date)
  • Myra Kraft
    Myra Kraft
    Myra Nathalie Kraft, née Hiatt was an American philanthropist. She was the daughter of the late Worcester philanthropist Jacob Hiatt and wife of New England Patriots and New England Revolution owner Robert Kraft....

    , 68, American philanthropist, wife of New England Patriots
    New England Patriots
    The New England Patriots, commonly called the "Pats", are a professional football team based in the Greater Boston area, playing their home games in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium. The team is part of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National...

     owner Robert Kraft
    Robert Kraft
    Robert K. Kraft is an American business magnate. He is the Chairman and was the Chief Executive Officer of The Kraft Group, a diversified holding company with assets in paper and packaging, sports and entertainment, real estate development and a private equity portfolio...

    , cancer. http://www.tributes.com/show/Myra-Kraft-91956908
  • Gloria Sawai
    Gloria Sawai
    Gloria Sawai is an American-born fiction author who was based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She died on 20 July 2011....

    , 78, American-born Canadian author. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2011/07/21/edmonton-gloria-sawai-obit342.html
  • Mary Simpson
    Mary Simpson
    Mary Michael Simpson was an American minister. In 1977, she became one of the first women to be ordained a priest by the American Episcopal Church and was the first woman to hold the office of canon.-Life and career:...

    , 85, American minister, first woman to be ordained by the American Episcopal Church
    Episcopal Church (United States)
    The Episcopal Church is a mainline Anglican Christian church found mainly in the United States , but also in Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/23/us/23simpson.html?_r=1&ref=deathsobituaries
  • Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan
    Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan
    Tini "Whetu" Marama Tirikatene-Sullivan, ONZ was a New Zealand politician. She was an MP from 1967 to 1996, representing the Labour Party. At the time of her retirement, she was the second longest-serving MP in Parliament, being in her tenth term of office...

    , 79, New Zealand politician, longest-serving female member of the House of Representatives
    New Zealand House of Representatives
    The New Zealand House of Representatives is the sole chamber of the legislature of New Zealand. The House and the Queen of New Zealand form the New Zealand Parliament....

     (1967–1996). http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5327345/Whetu-Tirikatene-Sullivan-dies

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  • Aftab Ahmad Khan
    Aftab Ahmad Khan
    Lieutenant-General Aftab Ahmad Khan was a retired Pakistan Army Infantry Officer, born in Batala, Gurdaspur District, British India on Oct. 22, 1923 to the illustrious family of Khan Bahadur Mian Altaf Hussain Khan and Mehndi Begum....

    , 87, Pakistani military officer, heart attack. http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/07/general-aftab-ahmed-khan-dies/
  • Premangsu Chatterjee
    Premangsu Chatterjee
    Premangsu Mohan Chatterjee was an Indian first-class cricketer who represented Bengal as a left-arm medium bowler between 1946/47 and 1959/60, taking 134 first class wickets at 17.75...

    , 83, Indian cricketer. http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/522859.html
  • Peter Crampton
    Peter Crampton
    Peter Crampton was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 1999 representing the Humberside constituency. He was also the father of Times journalist Robert Crampton....

    , 79, British politician, member of the European Parliament
    Member of the European Parliament
    A Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...

     (1989–1999), suspected brain haemorrhage. http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/Tributes-politician-passion-peace-social-justice/story-12946882-detail/story.html
  • William Crozier
    William Crozier (Irish artist)
    William Crozier was an Irish-Scots still-life and landscape artist based in Hampshire, England and West Cork in Ireland. He was a member of Aosdana.-Life and works:...

    , 81, Irish artist. http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=william-crozier&pid=152527558
  • Bob Fraser
    Bob Fraser
    Bob Fraser was an American television producer, writer and actor.Fraser's most notable work is on the TV show Benson, where he played a recurring role as a state senator for 6 seasons, in addition to serving as a story editor, writer, and later producer of the series .After Benson, Fraser and...

    , 65–66, American actor, producer and writer, melanoma. http://www.backstage.com/bso/news-and-features-news/actor-and-coach-bob-fraser-dies-1005272192.story
  • Bolesław Gładych, 93, Polish World War II flying ace
    Flying ace
    A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an "ace" has varied, but is usually considered to be five or more...

    . http://www.polishairforce.pl/gladych.html (Polish)
  • Howard Hilton
    Howard Hilton
    Howard James Hilton was a Major League Baseball pitcher who appeared in two games with the St. Louis Cardinals at the start of the season....

    , 47, 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://www.vcstar.com/news/2011/jul/12/local-briefs/?partner=RSS
  • Ahmed Wali Karzai
    Ahmed Wali Karzai
    Ahmed Wali Karzai was a prominent politician in Afghanistan and the younger paternal half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and son of Abdul Ahad Karzai. As an elder of the Popalzai Pashtun tribe, he was elected to the Kandahar Provincial Council in 2005 and served as its chairman. Karzai...

    , 50, Afghan politician, brother of President Hamid Karzai
    Hamid Karzai
    Hamid Karzai, GCMG is the 12th and current President of Afghanistan, taking office on 7 December 2004. He became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001...

    , shot. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14118884
  • Jokapeci Koroi
    Jokapeci Koroi
    Jokapeci Talei Koroi was a Fijian politician. She was currently the President of the Fiji Labour Party and a Senator. She was appointed to the Senate in 2002 as one of 8 nominees of the Leader of the Opposition, Mahendra Chaudhry....

    , 79, Fijian politician, President of Fiji Labour Party
    Fiji Labour Party
    The Fiji Labour Party is a political party in Fiji, which holds observer status with the Socialist International. Most of its support at present comes from the Indo-Fijian community, although it is officially multiracial and its first leader was an indigenous Fijian, Dr. Timoci Bavadra. It is...

     (1991–2011). http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=175037
  • Francisco Villagrán Kramer
    Francisco Villagrán Kramer
    Francisco Villagrán Kramer was a Guatemalan legal scholar and social democrat who served as vice president under General Romeo Lucas García beginning in 1978. He resigned from office on 1 September 1980, before his term ended, citing differences with the Lucas administration and disapproval of...

    , 84, Guatemalan politician, Vice President
    Vice President of Guatemala
    Vice President of Guatemala is a political position in Guatemala which is since 1966 elected concurrently with the position of President of Guatemala. Latest Vice President who took over as President was Gustavo Espina in 1993....

     (1978–1980). http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/world/americas/16villagran.html?_r=2
  • Kurt Lundquist
    Kurt Lundquist
    Kurt Anders Valdemar Lundquist was a Swedish athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. He was born in Kila....

    , 85, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (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...

    ) athlete. http://www.sok.se/5.1017605f109c54f7865800015181.html (Swedish)
  • Peter Newmark
    Peter Newmark
    Peter Newmark , was an English professor of translation at the University of Surrey.-Biography:He was one of the main figures in the founding of Translation Studies in the English-speaking world from the 1980s...

    , 95, British educator and scholar. http://www.est-translationstudies.org/news/2011_newmark.html
  • Charles Asa Schleck
    Charles Asa Schleck
    Charles Asa Schleck, CSC was a Roman Catholic prelate, who served as undersecretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, from 1995 to 2000....

    , 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, titular archbishop and under-secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
    Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
    The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples in Rome is the congregation of the Roman Curia responsible for missionary work and related activities...

     (1995–2000). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bschleck.html
  • Sherwood Schwartz
    Sherwood Schwartz
    Sherwood Charles Schwartz was an American television producer. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s, and created the television series Gilligan's Island on CBS and The Brady Bunch on ABC...

    , 94, American television producer, creator of The Brady Bunch
    The Brady Bunch
    The Brady Bunch is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz and starring Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, and Ann B. Davis. The series revolved around a large blended family...

     and Gilligan's Island
    Gilligan's Island
    Gilligan's Island is an American television series created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz and originally produced by United Artists Television. The situation comedy series featured Bob Denver; Alan Hale, Jr.; Jim Backus; Natalie Schafer; Tina Louise; Russell Johnson; and Dawn Wells. It aired for...

    . http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/television/6477139-417/creator-of-brady-bunch-gilligans-island-dies.html
  • Tony Stevens
    Tony Stevens (choreographer)
    Tony Stevens was an American choreographer, dancer and director who worked with, danced with and directed many of Broadway's and Hollywood's best theatrecentric actors and actresses, including Chita Rivera, Martin Short, Robert Redford and Gene Kelly.-Early life and career:Stevens was born in...

    , 63, American choreographer, dancer and actor, Hodgkin's lymphoma. http://www.playbill.com/news/article/152719-Choreographer-Tony-Stevens-Dies-at-63
  • Zdeněk Sýkora
    Zdeněk Sýkora
    Zdeněk Sýkora was a Czechoslovakian modern abstract painter and sculptor, and a pioneer of using computers in art.-Early life:...

    , 91, Czech abstract painter. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jul/19/zdenek-sykora-obituary

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  • Don Ackerman
    Don Ackerman
    Donald D. "Buddy" Ackerman was an American basketball player.Ackerman played collegiately for Long Island University. He was selected by the New York Knicks in the second round of the 1953 NBA Draft and played in 28 games for the Knicks in the 1953/54 season.- References :...

    , 80, American basketball player (New York Knicks
    New York Knicks
    The New York Knickerbockers, prominently known as the Knicks, are a professional basketball team based in New York City. They are part of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association...

    ), after short illness. http://www.liuathletics.com/news/2011/7/11/MBB_0711113200.aspx?path=mbball
  • Facundo Cabral
    Facundo Cabral
    Facundo Cabral was an Argentine singer and songwriter.He was best known as the composer of "No soy de aquí ni soy de allá" , which he improvised during one of his concerts...

    , 74, Argentine singer and songwriter, shot. http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/72549/singer-facundo-cabral-killed-in-guatemala
  • Ralph Goldston
    Ralph Goldston
    Ralph Peter Goldston was a running back and defensive back in the Canadian Football League who played nine seasons for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He helped the Tiger-Cats to two Grey Cup wins in 1957 and 1963. He was a 4 time all-star with the Ti-Cats, intercepting 32 passes and returning them for...

    , 82, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles
    Philadelphia Eagles
    The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

    , Hamilton Tiger-Cats
    Hamilton Tiger-Cats
    The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a Canadian Football League team based in Hamilton, Ontario, founded in 1950 with the merger of the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Wildcats. The Tiger-Cats play their home games at Ivor Wynne Stadium...

    ). http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/dneagles/Ex-Eagles-Goldston-dies.html
  • Carl T. Langford
    Carl T. Langford
    Carl T. Langford was the Mayor of Orlando, Florida from 1967 to 1980. He was also one of the first two Eagle Scouts in the state to be awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. Langford died on July 9, 2011 at the age of 92....

    , 92, American politician, Mayor of Orlando, Florida (1967–1980). http://www.wftv.com/news/28502302/detail.html
  • Percy Oliver
    Percy Oliver
    Percival "Percy" Cole Oliver was an Australian backstroke swimmer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.Oliver was born in Nedlands, Western Australia and attended Hale School...

    , 92, Australian Olympic swimmer. http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/9856393/tributes-as-was-oldest-olympian-is-laid-to-rest/
  • Arvo Salo
    Arvo Salo
    Arvo Jaakko Salo Henrikki , was a Finnish writer, journalist and politician. He served as an MP from 1966–70 and 1979–83 and was Finnish Minister of Education and Culture from 1982-1983....

    , 79, Finnish writer and politician, MP (1966–1970, 1979–1983) and Minister of Culture (1982–1983). http://yle.fi/alueet/satakunta/2011/07/arvo_salo_on_kuollut_2717815.html (Finnish)
  • Hideo Tanaka
    Hideo Tanaka (director)
    was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. He is known for his work in several adaptations of Shinji Wada's manga series Sukeban Deka as well as television series and movies from the Metal Hero Series...

    , 78, Japanese director (Sukeban Deka The Movie
    Sukeban Deka The Movie
    Sukeban Deka The Movie is a live action Japanese film that was released in 1987. The movie closely follows a TV and manga series written and illustrated by Shinji Wada. The movie stars Yoko Minamino and Yui Asaka, who were also in the TV series...

    ), stomach cancer. http://www.jiji.com/jc/zc?k=201107/2011071100682 (Japanese)
  • Lee Vines
    Lee Vines
    Lee Vines was a Canadian-born American television announcer and actor. He was best known to television audiences in the 1950s as the announcer on the What's My Line? game show. However, he also appeared as the announcer for numerous other television shows including The Name's the Same, Password...

    , 92, Canadian-born American television announcer (What's My Line?
    What's My Line?
    What's My Line? is a panel game show which originally ran in the United States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967, with several international versions and subsequent U.S. revivals. The game tasked celebrity panelists with questioning contestants in order to determine their occupations....

    ) and actor, complications from a fall and pneumonia. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings-20110711,0,3498749.story?page=2
  • Würzel
    Würzel
    Michael Burston commonly known by the stage name Würzel, was an English musician and formerly a guitarist in the British heavy metal band, Motörhead....

    , 61, British guitarist (Motörhead), ventricular fibrillation. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=160515

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  • Kenny Baker
    Kenny Baker (musician)
    Kenneth Clayton Baker was an American fiddle player best known for his 25-year tenure with Bill Monroe and his group The Bluegrass Boys.-Biography:...

    , 85, American fiddler, complications from a stroke. http://concertnews.co/kenny-baker-passes/
  • Roberts Blossom
    Roberts Blossom
    Roberts Scott Blossom was an American theater, film and television actor and poet. He is best known for his roles as Old Man Marley in Home Alone and as Ezra Cobb in the horror film Deranged...

    , 87, American actor (Doc Hollywood
    Doc Hollywood
    Doc Hollywood is a 1991 American romantic comedy film based on the book, What? Dead...Again?, by Neil B. Shulman, M.D. The film stars Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, Woody Harrelson and Bridget Fonda. It was directed by Michael Caton-Jones. The filming took place in Micanopy, Florida.-Plot:Dr....

    , Escape from Alcatraz
    Escape from Alcatraz (film)
    Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American thriller film, directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood. It dramatizes possibly the only successful escape attempt from the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island. The film co-stars Fred Ward, and also features Patrick McGoohan as the...

    , Home Alone
    Home Alone
    Home Alone is a 1990 American Christmas comedy film written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. The film stars Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old boy, who is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to Paris for their Christmas vacation...

    ). http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/arts/roberts-blossom-quirky-character-actor-dies-at-87.html
  • William R. Corliss
    William R. Corliss
    William Roger Corliss was an American physicist and writer who was known for his interest in collecting data regarding anomalous phenomena. Arthur C. Clarke described him as "Fort's latter-day - and much more scientific - successor."-Biography:Starting in 1974, Corliss published a number of works...

    , 84, American physicist and writer. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/baltimoresun/obituary.aspx?n=william-roger-corliss&pid=152523465
  • Sam Denoff
    Sam Denoff
    Samuel Denoff was an American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, television producer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. With his long time collaborator Bill Persky he wrote and created the television show "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas.-External links:*- References :...

    , 83, American Emmy Award-winning television writer (The Dick Van Dyke Show
    The Dick Van Dyke Show
    The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American television sitcom that initially aired on the Columbia Broadcasting System from October 3, 1961, until June 1, 1966. The show was created by Carl Reiner and starred Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore. It was produced by Reiner with Bill Persky and Sam Denoff....

    , That Girl
    That Girl
    That Girl is an American television situation comedy that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the title character, Ann Marie, an aspiring actress, who had moved from her hometown of Brewster, New York to make it big in New York City...

    ), Alzheimer's disease. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-samuel-denoff-20110711,0,448514.story
  • Aleksis Dreimanis
    Aleksis Dreimanis
    Aleksis Dreimanis was a Canadian Quaternary geologist. He was born in Valmiera, Latvia.He first studied geology at the Institute of Palaeontology at the University of Latvia in Riga. In 1939, he worked as a lecturer at the University...

    , 96, Latvian-born Canadian geologist. http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20110712.93269586/BDAStory/BDA/deaths
  • Pete Duranko
    Pete Duranko
    Peter Nicholas Duranko was a college and professional American football player. A defensive end, he played college football at Notre Dame, and his professional career for the Denver Broncos...

    , 67, American football player (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...

    ), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , also referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a form of motor neuron disease caused by the degeneration of upper and lower neurons, located in the ventral horn of the spinal cord and the cortical neurons that provide their efferent input...

    . http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_18446945
  • Mary Fenech Adami
    Mary Fenech Adami
    Mary Fenech Adami was the wife of former President of Malta, Dr. Edward Fenech Adami, and was therefore the former First Lady of the Republic of Malta. She was married from 27 June 1965 to 8 July 2011,when she died.- References :**...

    , 77, Maltese First Lady (2004–2009), wife of Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of Malta
    The Prime Minister of Malta is the Head of Government of Malta.-Establishment of the office and developments:The office of "Head of Ministry" was created as soon as Malta was granted autonomous government in 1921. The 1921 constitution was suspended twice before being revoked...

     Eddie Fenech Adami
    Eddie Fenech Adami
    Edward “Eddie” Fenech Adami is a Maltese politician who was Prime Minister of Malta from 1987 until 1996 and again from 1998 until 2004...

    , heart attack. http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=128563
  • Betty Ford
    Betty Ford
    Elizabeth Ann Bloomer Warren Ford , better known as Betty Ford, was First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977 during the presidency of her husband Gerald Ford...

    , 93, American First Lady
    First Lady of the United States
    First Lady of the United States is the title of the hostess of the White House. Because this position is traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, the title is most often applied to the wife of a sitting president. The current first lady is Michelle Obama.-Current:The...

     (1974–1977) and co-founder of Betty Ford Center
    Betty Ford Center
    The Betty Ford Center , is a non-profit, separately licensed residential chemical dependency recovery hospital in Rancho Mirage, California, that offers inpatient, outpatient, and day treatment for alcohol and other drug addictions as well as prevention and education programs for family and children...

    . http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/lady-betty-ford-dead-93/story?id=3348308
  • Norman Hampson
    Norman Hampson
    Norman Hampson was the Professor of History at the University of York from 1974 to 1989. He was born in 1922 and educated at Manchester Grammar School and University College. His service in the Navy from 1941 to 1945 included two years as liaison officer with the Free French Navy...

    , 89, British historian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/sep/08/norman-hampson-obituary
  • Bidzina Kvernadze
    Bidzina Kvernadze
    Bidzina Kvernadze , , was a famous Georgian composer.Bidzina was born in Sighnaghi, the Kakheti region of former Soviet Georgia to Alexander Kvernadze, a pharmacist, and Nino Nadirashvili, a music teacher....

    , 82, Georgian composer, Parkinson's disease. http://medianews.ge/index.php/en/content/38820//
  • Camille Lembi Zaneli
    Camille Lembi Zaneli
    Camille Lembi Zaneli was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Isangi, Democratic Republic of the Congo....

    , 61, Congolese
    Democratic Republic of the Congo
    The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...

     Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Isangi (since 2000), plane crash
    Hewa Bora Airways Flight 952
    Hewa Bora Airways Flight 952 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight from N'djili Airport, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo to Bangoka International Airport, Kisangani. On 8 July 2011, the Boeing 727 operating the flight crashed on landing at Kisangani.-Aircraft:The aircraft involved...

    . http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/it1/Articolo.asp?c=503038 (Italian)
  • George McAnthony
    George McAnthony
    George McAnthony was a country singer and songwriter. Since 1988 he toured around Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and France....

    , 45, Italian country singer, heart attack. http://www.stol.it/Artikel/Chronik-im-Ueberblick/Lokal/George-McAnthony-ist-tot (German)
  • Paul Michael
    Paul Michael
    Paul Michael was an American actor best known for his role as TJ, the hapless boss of a burger bar in children's television show 'Spatz'. He was a regular guest star on American television appearing in Kojak, Hill Street Blues, Alias, Gilmore Girls and Frasier among others. He played a cop in...

    , 84, American actor, heart failure. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118039669
  • Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez
    Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez
    Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez was a Spanish-born Mexican philosopher, writer and professor born in Algeciras, Andalucia....

    , 95, Spanish-born Mexican philosopher, writer and educator. http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=405362&CategoryId=13003

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  • Ricardo Alegría
    Ricardo Alegría
    Ricardo Alegría was a Puerto Rican scholar, cultural anthropologist and archeologist known as the "Father of Modern Puerto Rican Archaeology".-Early years:...

    , 90, Puerto Rican anthropologist, complications of heart disease. http://www.wapa.tv/noticias/especiales/5-dias-de-duelo-por-muerte-de-don-ricardo-alegria_20110707091109.html (spanish)
  • Peter Aucoin
    Peter Aucoin
    Peter Charles Aucoin was a professor emeritus of political science and public administration at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. He is recognized as one of the leading theorists on the practice and reform of public administration and governance. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of...

    , 67, Canadian educator (Dalhousie University
    Dalhousie University
    Dalhousie University is a public research university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The university comprises eleven faculties including Schulich School of Law and Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine. It also includes the faculties of architecture, planning and engineering located at...

    ). http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/07/08/in-memoriam-3/#disqus_thread
  • Bill Boddy
    Bill Boddy
    William "Bill" Boddy, MBE was a British journalist who was the editor of Motor Sport from 1936 to 1991. He contributed regularly to Motor Sport magazine, continuing a career that lasted eighty-one years.-Career:...

    , 98, British motor sport journalist. http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/2011/07/07/bill-boddy-mbe-1913-2011/
  • Allan W. Eckert
    Allan W. Eckert
    Allan W. Eckert was an American historian, historical novelist, and naturalist.-Biography:Eckert was born in Buffalo, New York and raised in the Chicago, Illinois area, but had been a long-time resident of Bellefontaine, Ohio, near where he attended university...

    , 80, American historian. http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20110709/NEWS01/107090311/
  • Manuel Galbán
    Manuel Galban
    Manuel Galbán was a Grammy winning Cuban guitarist, pianist and arranger, most notable for his work with Los Zafiros, Ry Cooder and the Buena Vista Social Club...

    , 80, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club
    Buena Vista Social Club
    The Buena Vista Social Club was a members club in Havana, Cuba that held dances and musical activities, becoming a popular location for musicians to meet and play during the 1940s...

    ), heart attack. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/manuel-galban-guitarist-whose-work-with-ry-cooder-brought-him-fame-beyond-his-native-cuba-2315363.html
  • Rasika Joshi
    Rasika Joshi
    Rasika Joshi :रसिका जोशी) was a noted Marathi and Hindi film actress. A celebrated Marathi theatre and Indian television actress, she was known for Maharashtrian roleplays in Bollywood movies.-Personal life:...

    , 39, Indian actress, leukemia. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-07-09/news-interviews/29754859_1_gayab-blood-cancer-ram-gopal-varma
  • Yuri Kukin
    Yuri Kukin
    Yuri Kukin was a Russian bard.He was born in 1932 in the town of Syasstroy in the Leningrad region. After graduating from the Institute of Physical Training in Leningrad in 1954, Kukin worked as a figure skating coach in sports schools...

    , 78, Russian singer-songwriter. http://www.rg.ru/2011/07/08/kukin-site.html (Russian)
  • Humberto Leal Garcia
    Humberto Leal Garcia
    Humberto Leal García, Jr. was a Mexican inmate on death row in the U.S. state of Texas for the May 21, 1994, rape, torture, and murder of Adria Sauceda in San Antonio. Despite calls from U.S. President Barack Obama, the U.S...

    , 38, Mexican murderer, lethal injection. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/08/humberto-leal-garcia-executed-texas
  • José Carlos Martínez
    José Carlos Martínez
    José Carlos Martínez was an Argentine politician, formerly of ARI. He sat in the Argentine Senate representing Tierra del Fuego Province....

    , 48, Argentine politician, Senator
    Argentine Senate
    The Argentine Senate is the upper house of the Argentine National Congress. It has 72 senators: three for each province and three for the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires...

     (since 2007), car crash. http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/ultimas/20-171723-2011-07-07.html (Spanish)
  • Rizalino Navarro
    Rizalino Navarro
    Rizalino S. Navarro was a Filipino businessman, business executive and politician. Navarro served as the Secretary of Trade and Industry from 1992 to 1996 within the Cabinet of former Philippines President Fidel Ramos....

    , 72, Filipino business executive, Secretary of Trade and Industry
    Department of Trade and Industry (Philippines)
    The Philippines’ Department of Trade and Industry , abbreviated as DTI is the executive department of the Philippine Government tasked to expand Philippine trade, industries and investments as the means to generate jobs and raise incomes for Filipinos...

     (1992–1996), heart attack. http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/07/07/11/ex-dti-chief-navarro-dies
  • Miguel Gatan Purugganan
    Miguel Gatan Purugganan
    Miguel Gatan Purugganan was a Philippine clergyman and Roman Catholic Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ilagan....

    , 79, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ilagan
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Ilagan
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ilagan is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines.Erected in 1970, the diocese is a suffragan of the Diocese of Tuguegarao....

     (1974–1999). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bpuru.html
  • Olav Versto
    Olav Versto
    Olav Versto was a Norwegian journalist and editor, primarily known for his work for the newspaper Verdens Gang.-Education and career:Versto received a cand.mag. degree from the University of Oslo in 1976...

    , 60, Norwegian journalist and editor (Verdens Gang
    Verdens Gang
    Verdens Gang , generally known under the abbreviation VG, is a Norwegian tabloid newspaper...

    ), apparent drowning. http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=10080256 (Norwegian)
  • Dick Williams
    Dick Williams
    Richard Hirschfeld "Dick" Williams was an American left fielder, third baseman, manager, coach and front office consultant in Major League Baseball. Known especially as a hard-driving, sharp-tongued manager from 1967–69 and 1971–88, he led teams to three American League pennants, one National...

    , 82, American baseball player and manager (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....

    ), Hall of Famer
    National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
    The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, operated by private interests serving as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, the display of...

    , ruptured aortic aneurysm. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6746798

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  • Steve Cardiff
    Steve Cardiff
    Steve Cardiff was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Mount Lorne in the Yukon Legislative Assembly.-Political career:He was first elected to the Yukon legislature in the 2002 general election and re-elected in 2006...

    , 53, Canadian politician, automobile accident. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/07/06/steve-cardiff-killed.html
  • Paul-André Crépeau
    Paul-André Crépeau
    Paul-André Crépeau, was a Canadian legal academic who led the reforms of the Civil Code of Quebec and the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms....

    , 85, Canadian legal academic. http://www.mcgill.ca/channels/announcements/item/?item_id=175751
  • Daniel Mortimer Friedman
    Daniel Mortimer Friedman
    Daniel Mortimer Friedman, was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.Born in New York, New York, Friedman received an A.B. from Columbia University in 1937, and an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1940...

    , 95, American jurist. http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2011/07/in-memory-judge-daniel-m-friedman.html
  • Mani Kaul
    Mani Kaul
    Mani Kaul was an Indian film director of Hindi films. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India where he was a student of Ritwik Ghatak and later became a teacher. Started his career with Uski Roti , which won him the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie, he went on to win...

    , 66, Indian filmmaker, after long illness. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14042013
  • George Edward Kimball
    George Edward Kimball
    George E. Kimball III was an American author and journalist who spent 25 years as a sports columnist for the Boston Herald before retiring in 2005...

    , 67, American boxing columnist (Boston Herald
    Boston Herald
    The Boston Herald is a daily newspaper that serves Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and its surrounding area. It was started in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States...

    ), esophageal cancer. http://bostonherald.com/sports/other_sports/general/view.bg?articleid=1350253&position=1
  • Marketa Kimbrell
    Marketa Kimbrell
    Marketa Kimbrell was an Czechoslovakian-born American actress and professor of acting and film directing. In 1970, Kimbrell and actor Richard Levy founded the New York Street Theater Caravan, a theater company which brought stage productions to audiences who otherwise might not have access to...

    , 82, American actress, Alzheimer's disease. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/arts/marketa-kimbrell-dies-at-82-co-founder-of-theater.html?_r=1
  • Warren Leslie
    Warren Leslie
    Warren Leslie was an American author, journalist, and business executive. Born in Manhattan, he served in the United States Marines during World War II and was educated at Yale University. He began his career as a reporter for The Dallas Morning News...

    , 84, American author, journalist and buisness executive. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/us/24leslie.html?ref=deathsobituaries
  • John Mackey
    John Mackey (American football)
    John Mackey was an American Football tight end who grew up in Roosevelt, Long Island and played for the Baltimore Colts and the San Diego Chargers . He played college football at Syracuse University...

    , 69, American Hall of Fame
    Pro Football Hall of Fame
    The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame of professional football in the United States with an emphasis on the National Football League . It opened in Canton, Ohio, on September 7, 1963, with 17 charter inductees...

     football player (Baltimore Colts
    Indianapolis Colts
    The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis. They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....

    , San Diego Chargers
    San Diego Chargers
    The San Diego Chargers are a professional American football team based in San Diego, California. they were members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

    ). http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=6745011&campaign=rss&source=NFLHeadlines
  • Josef Suk
    Josef Suk (violinist)
    Josef Suk was a Czech violinist, violist, chamber musician and conductor, the grandson of Josef Suk, the composer and violinist, and great-grandson of Antonín Dvořák. In his home country he carried the title of National Artist....

    , 81, Czech violinist, prostate cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/arts/music/josef-suk-violinist-dies-at-81.html?_r=2&ref=deathsobituaries
  • Andreas Waldherr
    Andreas Waldherr
    Andreas Waldherr was an Austrian rally driver.- Career :In 2000 Andreas Waldherr achieved second place for diesel vehicles in the Rally Cup of the Supreme National Sports Commission for Motorsports of the Austrian Automobile, Motorcycle and Touring Club . He won the OSK Rally Cup for diesel...

    , 43, Austrian rally driver, workshop accident. http://www.vienna.at/rallye-staatsmeister-andreas-waldherr-von-pkw-erdrueckt/news-20110706-02544318 (German)
  • Mark Whitehead
    Mark Whitehead
    Mark Whitehead was an American cyclist. He competed in the Men's points race at the 1984 Summer Olympics and won ten National championship titles.-References:...

    , 50, American Olympic cyclist. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/olympian-whitehead-dies-in-texas
  • Keith Wilson
    Keith Wilson (production designer)
    Keith George Wilson was an award-winning production designer who began work at AP Films, working as art assistant on Fireball XL5 and many other Gerry Anderson productions to follow. As a production designer he created all the futuristic sets for Space: 1999 and Star Maidens...

    , 69, British production designer (Space: 1999
    Space: 1999
    Space: 1999 is a British science-fiction television series that ran for two seasons and originally aired from 1975 to 1977. In the opening episode, nuclear waste from Earth stored on the Moon's far side explodes in a catastrophic accident on 13 September 1999, knocking the Moon out of orbit and...

    ). http://www.fanderson.org.uk/news/keith_wilson_dies.html

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  • Jaap Blokker
    Jaap Blokker
    Jacob "Jaap" Blokker was a Dutch businessman and executive.Blokker was born in Amsterdam. From 1976 to 2010 he was general director of Blokker Holding, which operates a series of chain stores in various countries, the most well-known in the Netherlands is Blokker...

    , 69, Dutch businessman, cancer. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2011/07/jaap_blokker_of_blokker_retail.php
  • Neil Dougherty
    Neil Dougherty
    Cornelius Aaron "Neil" Dougherty was an American basketball coach, most recently the head coach at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas...

    , 50, American basketball coach (TCU). http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=6749091&campaign=rss&source=NCBHeadlines
  • Malcolm Forsyth
    Malcolm Forsyth
    Malcolm Forsyth, CM was a South African and Canadian trombonist and composer. His daughter is National Arts Centre Orchestra cellist Amanda Forsyth....

    , 74, South African-born Canadian trombonist and composer, pancreatic cancer. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/07/05/obit-forsyth-malcolm-composer.html
  • David Getches
    David Getches
    David Harding Getches was Dean and Raphael J. Moses Professor of Natural Resources Law at the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder, Colorado. He taught and wrote on water law, public land law, environmental law, and Indian law.- Biography :Getches was born in Abington, Pennsylvania in...

    , 68, American educator and Native American rights lawyer, pancreatic cancer. http://www.tributes.com/show/David-Getches-91865838
  • Armen Gilliam
    Armen Gilliam
    Armen Louis Gilliam nicknamed "The Hammer", was an American professional basketball player who played 13 years in the National Basketball Association from 1987–2000. He also played one season for the Pittsburgh Xplosion of the American Basketball Association...

    , 47, American basketball player (Phoenix Suns
    Phoenix Suns
    The Phoenix Suns are a professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association and the only team in their division not to be based in California. Their home arena since 1992 has been the US...

    , New Jersey Nets
    New Jersey Nets
    The New Jersey Nets are a professional basketball team based in Newark, New Jersey. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association...

    , Milwaukee Bucks
    Milwaukee Bucks
    The Milwaukee Bucks are a professional basketball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They are part of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was founded in 1968 as an expansion team, and currently plays at the Bradley Center....

    ), heart attack. http://www.wtae.com/r/28462069/detail.html
  • George Lang
    George Lang (restaurateur)
    George Lang was a Hungarian born American restaurateur.Lang was the only child of Simon Deutsch, a tailor, and Ilona Lang. He grew up in this "modestly prosperous" Jewish family in Székesfehérvár, Hungary where he practiced violin...

    , 86, Hungarian-born American restaurateur and cookbook author, Alzheimer's disease. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/nyregion/george-lang-of-cafe-des-artistes-dies-at-86.html?hp
  • Fonce Mizell, 68, American jazz and R&B record producer (Mizell Brothers
    Mizell Brothers
    The Mizell Brothers were a record producing team in the 1970s, consisting of Larry Mizell and Alphonso "Fonce" Mizell .-History:...

    ). http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/arts/music/fonce-mizell-songwriter-and-producer-dies-at-68.html
  • Mika Myllylä
    Mika Myllylä
    Mika Kristian Myllylä was a Finnish cross country skier who competed from 1992 to 2005. He won six medals at the Winter Olympics, earning one gold , one silver , and four bronzes .Myllylä also won a total of nine medals at the...

    , 41, Finnish cross country skier, 1998
    1998 Winter Olympics
    The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially the XVIII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 7 to 22 February 1998 in Nagano, Japan. Seventy-two nations and 2,176 participans contested in seven sports and 72 events at 15 venues. The games saw the introduction of Women's ice...

     Olympic gold medalist. http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2011/07/cross-country_skier_mika_myllyla_dies_aged_41_2705543.html (body found on this date)
  • Theodore Roszak
    Theodore Roszak (scholar)
    Theodore Roszak was professor emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay. He is best known for his 1969 text, The Making of a Counter Culture.-Background:...

    , 77, American scholar (The Making of a Counter Culture
    The Making of a Counter Culture
    The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition is a work of non-fiction by Theodore Roszak originally published in 1969....

    ), cancer. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-theodore-roszak-20110713,0,6564045.story
  • Hanna Segal
    Hanna Segal
    Hanna Segal was a British psychoanalyst and a follower of Melanie Klein. She was president of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and vice-president of the International Psychoanalytical Association...

    , 92, British psychoanalyst. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/14/hanna-segal-obituary
  • John Sweet, 95, American actor (A Canterbury Tale
    A Canterbury Tale
    A Canterbury Tale is a 1944 British film by the film-making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price and Sgt. John Sweet; Esmond Knight provided narration and played several small roles. For the postwar American release, Raymond Massey narrated...

    ). http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Obits/JohnSweet/index.html
  • Gordon Tootoosis, 69, Canadian actor (Pocahontas
    Pocahontas (1995 film)
    Pocahontas is the 33rd animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and was originally released to selected theaters on June 16, 1995 by Walt Disney Pictures...

    , Legends of the Fall
    Legends of the Fall
    Legends of the Fall is a 1994 epic drama film based on the 1979 novella of the same title by Jim Harrison. It was directed by Edward Zwick and stars Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins and Aidan Quinn. The film was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction , and Best...

    ) and activist, pneumonia. http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Canadian+actor+First+Nations+leader+Gordon+Tootoosis+dead/5055281/story.html
  • Cy Twombly
    Cy Twombly
    Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly, Jr. was an American artist well known for his large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic-style graffiti paintings, on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors...

    , 83, American painter, cancer. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iPveHcv9hN9zFBBZP9yZJai_0_Qw?docId=CNG.eca0b99829d410a9a9b56c3e05884cf1.451
  • Shinji Wada
    Shinji Wada
    was a Japanese manga artist in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, and best known for the creation of the Sukeban Deka franchise. He has been the cover artist for and had stories published in the bishōjo lolicon manga anthology series Petit Apple Pie....

    , 61, Japanese manga artist (Sukeban Deka
    Sukeban Deka
    is a Japanese detective action shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Shinji Wada and serialized on Hana to Yume. Sukeban Deka has been adapted into three live-action television series, an original video animation series and three feature films, the latest of which was released in 2006 as...

    ). http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2011/07/05/influential-manga-creator-shinji-wada-passes-away (death reported on this date)

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  • Şerban Cantacuzino
    Șerban Cantacuzino (actor)
    Prince Şerban Cantacuzino was a Romanian prince and actor, who appeared in more than a dozen television, film and musical roles during his career...

    , 70, Romanian actor and nobleman, descendant of Wallachia
    Wallachia
    Wallachia or Walachia is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians...

    n Prince Şerban Cantacuzino
    Serban Cantacuzino
    Șerban Cantacuzino was a Prince of Wallachia between 1678 and 1688.He took part in the Ottoman campaign ending in their defeat at the Battle of Vienna...

    . http://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-prince-serban-cantacuzino-dies-in-paris/28011/
  • Wes Covington
    Wes Covington
    John Wesley Covington , was a left fielder in Major League Baseball who played from through for the Milwaukee Braves, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers...

    , 79, American baseball player (Milwaukee 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....

    , Kansas City Athletics
    History of the Oakland Athletics
    The history of the Athletics Major League Baseball franchise spans the period from 1901 to the present day, having begun in Philadelphia before moving to Kansas City in 1955 and then to its current home in Oakland, California, in 1968.-The Johnson era:...

    , 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...

    ), cancer. http://www.jsonline.com/sports/125052799.html
  • John Davies Evans
    John Davies Evans
    John Davies Evans OBE was an English archaeologist and academic, renowned for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, and especially the prehistoric cultures of Malta. He was a former Director of the Institute of Archaeology in London, a position he held from 1975 until his...

    , 86, British archaeologist. http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=john-davies-evans&pid=152491178
  • Rusty Farley
    Rusty Farley
    Rusty Farley was a Republican politician from Oklahoma. Farley was the Representative for District 1 in the Oklahoma House of Representatives...

    , 57, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives
    Oklahoma House of Representatives
    The Oklahoma House of Representatives is the lower house of the Oklahoma Legislature, the legislative body of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Its members are responsible for introducing and voting on bills and resolutions, providing legislative oversight for state agencies, and helping to craft the...

     (2011). http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20110705_11_A12_CUTLIN976326
  • Otto von Habsburg
    Otto von Habsburg
    Otto von Habsburg , also known by his royal name as Archduke Otto of Austria, was the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary from 1916 until the dissolution of the empire in 1918, a realm which comprised modern-day Austria, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia,...

    , 98, Austro-Hungarian royal and politician, MEP
    Member of the European Parliament
    A Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...

     (1979–1999). http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=227816
  • Billy Hardee, 56, American football player (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...

    , Ottawa Rough Riders
    Ottawa Rough Riders
    The Ottawa Rough Riders were a Canadian Football League team based in Ottawa, Ontario, founded in 1876. One of the oldest and longest lived professional sports teams in North America, the Rough Riders won the Grey Cup championship nine times. Their most dominant era was the 1960s and 1970s, a...

    ), motorcycle accident. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=73587409
  • Zurab Kapianidze
    Zurab Kapianidze
    Zurab Kapianidze was a Georgian theater and film actor and philologist. He was also a member of the Parliament of Georgia from 1999 to 2003.-Biography:...

    , 74, Georgian actor and politician, MP
    Parliament of Georgia
    Parliament of Georgia is the supreme legislature of Georgia. It is unicameral and has 150 members, known as deputies, from which 75 members are proportional representatives and 75 are elected through single-member district plurality system, representing their constituencies...

     (1999–2003). http://www.1tv.ge/News-View.aspx?Location=24476&LangID=2
  • Pablo McNeil
    Pablo McNeil
    Pablo S. McNeil was a Jamaican sprint athlete and sprinting coach. He participated in the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics. McNeil reached the semifinal of the 100 metres in the 1964 Olympics, finishing sixth with a wind assisted run of 10.30 seconds...

    , 71, Jamaican Olympic athlete and coach, after long illness. http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=29887
  • Lawrence R. Newman
    Lawrence R. Newman
    Lawrence R. Newman , was a prominent deaf activist, educator and author who served two terms as President of the National Association of the Deaf from 1986 to 1990. He was named "California Teacher of the Year" in 1968...

    , 86, American advocate for the deaf. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-lawrence-newman-20110706,0,1990301.story
  • Jane Scott
    Jane Scott
    Jane Scott was an influential rock critic for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio. During her career she covered every major rock concert in Cleveland and was on a first name basis with many stars...

    , 92, American rock music critic. http://www.cleveland.com/popmusic/index.ssf/2011/07/jane_scott_legendary_plain_dea.html
  • William G. Thrash
    William G. Thrash
    William Gay Thrash was a retired United States Marine Corps three-star general and highly decorated Naval Aviator...

    , 94, American Marine Corps lieutenant general. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/islandpacket/obituary.aspx?n=william-g-thrash&pid=152408990
  • Neil Turner
    Neil Turner (Australian politician)
    Neil John Turner was a National Party of Australia politician from Queensland a former Minister of Transport and former Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.Turner was born in 1934 in Charleville...

    , 77, Australian politician, Speaker
    Speaker (politics)
    The term speaker is a title often given to the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body. The speaker's official role is to moderate debate, make rulings on procedure, announce the results of votes, and the like. The speaker decides who may speak and has the...

     of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
    Queensland Legislative Assembly
    The Queensland Legislative Assembly is the unicameral chamber of the Parliament of Queensland. Elections are held approximately once every three years. Voting is by the Optional Preferential Voting form of the Alternative Vote system...

     (1996–1998); MLA
    Member of the Legislative Assembly
    A Member of the Legislative Assembly or a Member of the Legislature , is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to the legislature or legislative assembly of a sub-national jurisdiction....

     for Warrego
    Electoral district of Warrego
    The district of Warrego is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The electorate lies in the extreme southwest of Queensland, running along the western part of the border with New South Wales...

     (1974–1986) and Nicklin
    Electoral district of Nicklin
    The district of Nicklin is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. The electorate is centred in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, and stretches north to Yandina, south to Eudlo and west to Kenilworth...

     (1990–1998). http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-04/former-mp-neil-turner-dies-aged-77/2782116
  • Gerhard Unger
    Gerhard Unger
    Gerhard Unger was a German light tenor born in Bad Salzungen. He studied in Berlin and began singing concerts and oratorios in 1945, once the war was over. He had his debut as an opera singer in 1947 in Weimar. From 1949 to 1961 he sang with the Berlin State Opera. When the Berlin Wall was...

    , 95, German opera singer. http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Unger-Gerhard.htm

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2

  • Itamar Franco
    Itamar Franco
    Itamar Augusto Cautiero Franco was a Brazilian politician and the President of Brazil from December 29, 1992, to January 1, 1995. During his long political career, Franco was also a Senator, Mayor, Ambassador, Governor and Vice President...

    , 81, Brazilian politician, President
    President of Brazil
    The president of Brazil is both the head of state and head of government of the Federative Republic of Brazil. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the Brazilian Armed Forces...

     (1992–1995), leukemia. http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/07/02/brazil.former.president/index.html?eref=edition_americas
  • Olivera Marković
    Olivera Marković
    Olivera Marković was a Serbian actress. She appeared in 170 films and television shows between 1946 and 2005. She won the Golden Arena for Best Actress in 1964 for her role in Službeni položaj.-Selected filmography:...

    , 86, Serbian actress. http://www.blic.rs/Kultura/Vesti/263528/Preminula-glumica-Olivera-Markovic (Serbian)
  • Ross Martin
    Ross Martin (skier)
    Ross Martin was an Australian cross country skier who competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics. He came 60th out of 72 competitors in the 15 km event and 60th out of 63 in the 30 km event.-External links:**...

    , 68, Australian Olympic cross-country skier, cycling accident. http://manly-daily.whereilive.com.au/news/story/olympic-skier-dies-in-tragic-bike-accident/
  • Chaturanan Mishra
    Chaturanan Mishra
    Chaturanan Mishra was an Indian politician and trade unionist. Mishra, who was born in Nahar, Madhubani District, was a key leader of the Communist Party of India in Bihar, and served as the Agriculture Minister of India in the United Front government.-Quit India Movement:Mishra took part in the...

    , 86, Indian politician and trade union leader, after long illness. http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2154001.ece
  • Sir Oliver Napier
    Oliver Napier
    Sir Oliver Napier was the first leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. In 1974 he served as the first and only Legal Minister and head of the Office of Legal Reform in the Northern Ireland power-sharing executive set up by the Sunningdale Agreement.-Early life:Napier was educated at St...

    , 75, Northern Irish politician, leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
    Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
    The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland is a liberal and nonsectarian political party in Northern Ireland. It is Northern Ireland's fifth-largest party overall, with eight seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly and one in the House of Commons....

     (1972–1984). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-14001215
  • Robert Sklar
    Robert Sklar
    Robert Anthony Sklar was an American historian specializing in the history of cinema.Robert Anthony Sklar began his career as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He received a Ph.D. in the history of American civilization from Harvard University in 1965...

    , 75, American film historian, cycling accident. http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/07/robert_sklar_19.php
  • Juno Stover-Irwin
    Juno Stover-Irwin
    Juno Stover-Irwin was a four-time Olympic diver for the United States. Primarily a 10-meter platform performer, Irwin was a native of Los Angeles, California; she attended Hoover High School and Glendale Community College.-Biography:As Juno Stover, she placed fifth at the 1948 Olympics in London...

    , 82, American diver, Olympic silver (1956
    1956 Summer Olympics
    The 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in Melbourne, Australia, in 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations...

    ) and bronze (1952
    1952 Summer Olympics
    The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland in 1952. Helsinki had been earlier given the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were cancelled due to World War II...

    ) medalist. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/insidebayarea/obituary.aspx?n=juno-irwin-cox&pid=152435489
  • Bruno Wu, 39, Chinese businessman, heart attack. http://www.netxt.com/pak-tong-coo-died-bruno-wu-died-three-it-elite-within-9-days

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  • Jane Baker
    Jane Baker (mayor)
    Jane Elaine Baker was an American politician, community organizer and former cooking show host. Baker on the city council of San Mateo, California, for twenty years. She was appointed the Mayor of San Mateo on six occasions, becoming San Mateo's first female mayor.-Early life:Baker was born in Ohio...

    , 88, American community organizer and politician, first female Mayor of San Mateo, California
    San Mateo, California
    San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a population of approximately 100,000 , it is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the east, Belmont to the south,...

    . http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/07/BAL71K77RF.DTL
  • Leslie Brooks
    Leslie Brooks
    Leslie Brooks , born Virginia Leslie Gettman, was an American film actress.At the beginning of her career she appeared as "Lorraine Gettman". As Leslie Brooks, she began appearing in movie bit roles in 1941...

    , 89, American actress. http://westernboothill.blogspot.com/2011/08/rip-leslie-brooks.html
  • Edmund Snow Carpenter
    Edmund Snow Carpenter
    Edmund "Ted" Snow Carpenter was an anthropologist best known for his work on tribal art and visual media.-Early life:...

    , 88, American anthropologist. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/arts/edmund-carpenter-archaelogist-and-anthropologist-dies-at-88.html?hpw
  • Charlie Craig
    Charlie Craig
    Charlie Craig was a Grammy-nominated songwriter born and raised in Watts Mill, South Carolina. He relocated to Nashville and spent over 40 years in the music industry. Some of his songs have been recorded by Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Alan Jackson, Travis Tritt, Johnny Cash, Aaron Tippin and...

    , 73, American songwriter ("She's Single Again
    She's Single Again
    "She's Single Again" is a single by American country music artist Janie Fricke. Released in 1985, it was the first single from the album Somebody Else's Fire. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart....

    ", "The Generation Gap
    The Generation Gap (song)
    "The Generation Gap" was a single by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus. It was released on RCA Records in 1988 as a single-only release. It was written by Charlie Craig, Betty Craig, Jim Hayner and was a cover of Jeannie C. Riley's 1970 country song. The B-side, "Jungle Bells" was written by Dave...

    "), lung cancer. http://www.charliecraig.com/index.htm
  • Willie Fernie, 82, Scottish footballer, Alzheimer's disease. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13990325.stm
  • Bud Grant
    Bud Grant (broadcaster)
    B. Donald "Bud" Grant was an American television executive. He served as the President of CBS Entertainment from CBS Entertainment 1980 until 1987...

    , 79, American television executive, president of CBS
    CBS
    CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

     (1980–1987). http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118040373
  • Anne LaBastille
    Anne LaBastille
    Anne LaBastille was an American author and ecologist. She was the author of more than a dozen books, including Woodswoman, Beyond Black Bear Lake, Woodswoman III, Woodswoman IIII, Assignment:Wildlife, and Women of the Wilderness. She also wrote more than 150 popular articles and over 25 scientific...

    , 75, American author and ecologist. http://pressrepublican.com/0100_news/x981129279/Legendary-Woodswoman-Anne-LaBastille-dies
  • Bébé Manga
    Bébé Manga
    Elizabeth Bessem Ayamo Manga , also known as Bébé Manga, was a Cameroonian makossa singer whose best-known song is "Ami O". She is considered one of the most popular makossa singers of the 1980s....

    , 60, Cameroonian singer, cardiac arrest. http://www.topmedias.org/2011/07/02/bebe-manga-est-morte-dun-arret-cardiaque-4033.html (French)
  • Bob McCann
    Bob McCann
    Robert Glen McCann was an American professional basketball player. He was listed as a power forward at 6'7" and 244–248 lbs. McCann died in July of 2011.McCann was born in Morristown, New Jersey...

    , 47, American basketball player (Minnesota Timberwolves
    Minnesota Timberwolves
    The Minnesota Timberwolves are an American professional basketball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association . Founded in 1989, the team is currently owned by Glen Taylor...

    , Washington Bullets
    Washington Wizards
    The Washington Wizards are a professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C., previously known as Washington Bullets. They play in the National Basketball Association .-Early years:...

    ), heart failure. http://www.msueagles.com/news/2011/7/1/MBB_0701114948.aspx?path=mbball
  • Harold Nelson
    Harold Nelson (athlete)
    William Harold Nelson was a New Zealand long distance runner from Nelson, New Zealand.At the 1950 British Empire Games he won the gold medal in the 6 miles track race. He also won the silver medal in the 3 miles event at the same games...

    , 88, New Zealand Olympic runner. http://nz.sports.yahoo.com/news/article/-/9779906/empire-games-gold-medallist-passes-away/
  • Jean-Louis Rosier
    Jean-Louis Rosier
    Jean-Louis Rosier is the son of Louis Rosier. Together they won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1950. The Charade Circuit near Clermont-Ferrand is also named after them.-References:...

    , 86, French racecar driver. http://www.lemans.org/fr/courses/24h/actualites/Louis_Rosier_Jr_%281925%E2%88%922011%29_4471.html (French)
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