Deaths in April 2012

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2012.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).

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April 2012

1

• Nancy Beckage, 61, American entomologist.
• Ekrem Bora, 78, Turkish actor, pulmonary edema.
• Alvin J. Boutte, 82, American banker and businessman.
• Lionel Bowen, 89, Australian politician, MP for Kingsford-Smith (1969–1990); Deputy Prime Minister (1983–1990), pneumonia.
• Sauro Bufalini, 70, Italian Olympic basketball player.
• Chang Mei-yao, 71, Taiwanese actress.
• Giorgio Chinaglia, 65, Italian footballer (Lazio, New York Cosmos), heart attack.
• Miguel de la Madrid, 77, Mexican politician, President (1982–1988), complications of pulmonary emphysema.
• Leila Denmark, 114, American supercentenarian, author, and physician, credited with developing a whooping cough vaccine.
• Peter M. Douglas, 69, German American environmental activist, lung and throat cancer.
• Klaus Dylewski, 95, German SS officer.
• Jamaa Fanaka, 68, American filmmaker.
• Sir Stan Yapp, 70, English politician.

2

• Jesús Aguilarte, 53, Venezuelan politician, Governor of Apure State (1999–2000; 2004–2011), shot.
• Russell Allen, 99, American cyclist.
• Benhuan, 104, Chinese Buddhist master, honorary president of the Buddhist Association of China.
• Rosario Bentivegna, 89, Italian partisan and doctor.
• Warren Bonython, 95, Australian conservationist, explorer, author, and chemical engineer.
• Roger Breske, 73, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Senate (1990–2008).
• Elizabeth Catlett, 96, American-born Mexican artist.
• Allie Clark, 88, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Athletics).
• Jim Delaney, 91, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) shot putter.
• Sarah Dreher, 75, American novelist and playwright.
• Pilar Fuertes Ferragut, 49, Spanish diplomat.
• Rychard Karpov, 80, Ukrainian Olympic boxer.
• John Kuenster, 87, American sportswriter, editor of Baseball Digest.
• Mauricio Lasansky, 97, Argentinian-born American printmaker.
• Jimmy Little, 75, Australian singer.
• Felice Ludovisi, 94, Italian painter.
• Alan Ruddock, 68, Irish martial artist and teacher.
• M. Saroja, 79, Indian film actress.
• Neslişah Sultan, 91, Turkish-born Ottoman and Egyptian royal, heart attack.

3

• Amer Al Midani, 55, Lebanese businessman.
• Lorne Benson, 81, Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
• Arduino Bertoldo, 79, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Foligno (1992–2008).
• Michael Bzdel, 81, Canadian Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Metropolitan of Winnipeg (1992–2006).
• Richard Descoings, 53, French academic director (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris).
• Frank Fucarino, 91, American basketball player (Toronto Huskies).
• Nicholas King, 79, American actor, preserved the Watts Towers.
• Efraím Basílio Krevey, 83, Brazilian Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of São João Batista em Curitiba (1978–2006).
• Mingote, 93, Spanish cartoonist, writer, and journalist.
• Govind Narain, 95, Indian civil servant, Governor of Karnataka (1977–1983).
• Airton Pavilhão, 77, Brazilian footballer.
• Xenia Stad-de Jong, 90, Dutch Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) athlete.
• Chief Jay Strongbow, 83, American professional wrestler (WWF).
• José María Zárraga, 81, Spanish footballer and manager.

4

• Muhammad Afrizal, 30, Indonesian boxer, PABA featherweight champion (2008), injuries sustained from bout.
• A. Dean Byrd, 64, American psychologist.
• Dimitris Christoulas, 77, Greek pensioner, suicide by gunshot.
• Eugénie De Keyser, 93, Belgian writer and art critic.
• Joe Doyle, 78–79, Irish cyclist.
• Anne Karin Elstad, 74, Norwegian author, stroke.
• Ficre Ghebreyesus, 50, Eritrean-American artist, heart failure.
• Josiah Henson, 90, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) wrestler, stroke and myocardial infarction.
• Aminul Islam, 40, Bangladeshi trade union leader.
• Nikolay Krasovsky, 87, Russian mathematician.
• Claude Miller, 70, French director, producer, and screenwriter.
• Helge Sverre Nesheim, 92, Norwegian broadcaster.
• Richard Okada, 66, American linguist, Professor of Japanese at Princeton University.
• Dubravko Pavličić, 44, Croatian footballer.
• Roberto Rexach Benítez, 82, Puerto Rican politician, President of the Senate (1993–1996).

5

• Keith Adams, 85, Australian adventurer and filmmaker.
• Abd al-Rahim Aqiqi Bakhshayishi, 70, Iranian jurist, writer, journalist and translator.
• Joe Avezzano, 68, American football player (Boston Patriots) and coach (Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders), heart attack.
• David Axon, 61, British astrophysicist.
• Pedro Bartolomé Benoit, 91, Dominican military general, Provisional President (1965).
• Angelo Castro, Jr., 67, Filipino journalist, The World Tonight anchor (1986–2009, 2011–2012), lung cancer.
• Cynthia Dall, 41, American musician.
• Attila Hazai, 44, Hungarian writer, suicide.
• Jim Herr, 87, American businessman, founder of Herr's Snacks.
• Jimmy Lawlor, 78, Irish footballer.
• Jim Marshall, 88, English businessman, founder of Marshall Amplification.
• Barney McKenna, 72, Irish musician (The Dubliners).
• Bingu wa Mutharika, 78, Malawian politician, President (since 2004), heart attack.
• Gil Noble, 80, American television reporter and host (Like It Is).
• Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, 76, German designer.
• Siegbert Salomon Prawer, 87, German-born British academic and writer.
• Bernard Rapoport, 94, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Regal Classic, 27, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• A. G. L. Shaw, 96, Australian historian.
• Stanislav Strnad, 81, Czech film director.
• Sir Peter Tapsell, 82, New Zealand politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (1993–1996).
• Dick Wearmouth, 85, Australian football player.
• Christer Zetterberg, 70, Swedish businessman.

6

• Boraî Bashir, 80, Sudanese footballer.
• Larry Canning, 86, English footballer (Aston Villa) and broadcaster, vascular dementia.
• Karl P. Cohen, 99, American mathematical physicist.
• Robin Denniston, 85, British book publisher.
• Fang Lizhi, 76, Chinese political activist and astrophysicist.
• Felipe Fernández García, 76, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ávila (1976–1991) and San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife (1991–2005).
• Promode Gogoi, 82, Indian politician.
• Roland Guilbault, 77, American rear admiral who commanded the USS Ticonderoga, the first Aegis cruiser.
• Dermot Hannafin (Snr), 84, Irish football player.
• Theunis Jonck, 86, South African Olympic weightlifter.
• Thomas Kinkade, 54, American painter, overdose of alcohol and Valium.
• Thomas Sancton, Sr., 97, American novelist and journalist.
• Michael Sands, 66, American show business publicist and alleged CIA operative, choked.
• Arnold Saul, 87, American tennis player and coach.
• Sheila Scotter, 91, Australian fashion editor (Vogue Australia).
• Reed Whittemore, 92, American poet.

7

• Michaelina Bellamy, 59, American singer, dancer, and actress, acute myeloid leukemia.
• Arthur Budd, 66, Australian footballer.
• Dennis De Souza, 77, Guyanese musician.
• Steven Kanumba, 28, Tanzanian actor and director.
• Alexander Leslie-Melville, 14th Earl of Leven, 87, Scottish peer and soldier, Lord Lieutenant of Nairn (1969–1999).
• Miss Read, 98, English writer.
• Satsue Mito, 97, Japanese zoologist.
• Ignatius Moses I Daoud, 81, Syrian Catholic cardinal, Patriarch of Antioch (1998–2001), stroke complications.
• David E. Pergrin, 94, American soldier, led the most decorated World War II engineering battalion.
• Bashir Ahmed Qureshi, 54, Pakistani politician, cardiac arrest.
• Tom Runnels, 78, American football player (Washington Redskins).
• Harold Robert Steacy, 88, Canadian mineralogist.
• Serafym (Verzun), 62, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Bishop of Zhytomyr (1992–1995), Archbishop of Rivne (1995–2000) and Kirovohrad (2002–2008).
• Anders Thor, 76, Swedish scientist and educator.
• Mike Wallace, 93, American news correspondent (60 Minutes).
• Jamshid Zokirov, 63, Uzbek actor.

8

• Mark Ayers, 63, American labor leader.
• Gordon Bagier, 87, British politician, MP for Sunderland South (1964–1987).
• Bram Bart, 49, Dutch voice actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Pat Carlin, 82, English footballer.
• Juventino Castro y Castro, 93, Mexican judge and politician.
• John Egan, 59, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• June Gibbs, 89, American politician, cancer.
• George Wilberforce Kakoma, 89, Ugandan musician, composer of the Ugandan national anthem.
• Blair Kiel, 50, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Indianapolis Colts, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), heart attack.
• Donal O'Brien, 72, Irish hurler.
• Anatoly Ravikovich, 75, Russian film actor (The Pokrovsky Gate), cancer.
• Jack Tramiel, 83, Polish-born American businessman, founder of Commodore and CEO of Atari.
• Al Veigel, 95, American baseball player (Boston Braves).
• Rikiya Yasuoka, 64, Japanese actor and singer, heart failure.
• Janusz K. Zawodny, 90, Polish-born American historian, World War II resistance fighter.

9

• Carol Adams, 94, American actress and dancer.
• Takeshi Aono, 75, Japanese voice actor (Dragon Ball, One Piece), post-operative multiple cerebral infarction.
• Reginald Askew, 83, British priest and academic.
• Richard Beyer, 85, American sculptor.
• Lester Breslow, 97, American physician.
• François Brigneau, 92, French journalist and author.
• Barry Cahill, 90, Canadian-born American actor (Grand Theft Auto, Sweet Bird of Youth).
• Dick Cullum, 81, English footballer.
• Chanig ar Gall, 89, French broadcaster, entertainer, and writer.
• John Golding, 82, British artist, art scholar and curator.
• José Guardiola, 81, Spanish singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1963).
• Ismail Haron, 66, Singaporean singer.
• Mark Lenzi, 43, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1992) diver, hypotension.
• Wiebo Ludwig, 70, Canadian environmental activist and convicted bomber, esophageal cancer.
• Miriam Mafai, 86, Italian journalist (La Repubblica), author and politician.
• Ivan Nagel, 80, German theater director.
• Simo Nikolić, 71, Croatian Olympic sailor.
• Meral Okay, 53, Turkish actress and screenwriter (Muhteşem Yüzyıl), cancer.
• Boris Parygin, 81, Russian philosopher and sociologist.
• Don Reed, 92, American football coach (Long Beach State 49ers), natural causes.
• Robert R. Sokal, 86, Austrian-born American biostatistician and entomologist.
• Malcolm Thomas, 82, Welsh rugby union player.

10

• Svein Aasmundstad, 77, Norwegian civil servant.
• John Anderson, 69, Northern Irish bioengineer.
• Luis Aponte Martínez, 89, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic prelate and first cardinal, Metropolitan Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico (1964–1999).
• Erdoğan Arıca, 57, Turkish football coach, lung cancer.
• Raymond Aubrac, 97, French WWII resistance fighter.
• Leonardo Mario Bernacchi, 79, Italian-born Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Camiri (1993–2009).
• Frank Bochow, 74, German trade unionist and diplomat.
• Barbara Buchholz, 52, German musician and composer, cancer.
• Virginia Spencer Carr, 82, American biographer.
• Maria-Pia Casilio, 76, Italian film actress.
• Lili Chookasian, 90, American opera singer.
• Kurt Crain, 47, American football player (Houston Oilers, Green Bay Packers).
• Dorothy Dermody, 102, Irish Olympic (1948) fencer.
• Zvi Dinstein, 86, Israeli politician, MK (1965–1974), pulmonary embolism.
• Carl Gatto, 74, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (since 2003), prostate cancer.
• Tichaona Mudzingwa, 69, Zimbabwean politician.
• Odd Rikard Olsen, 64, Norwegian newspaper editor and politician.
• Akin Omoboriowo, 81, Nigerian lawyer and politician.
• Andy Replogle, 58, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers).
• Afewerk Tekle, 80, Ethiopian artist, complications of stomach ulcer.
• Grant Tilly, 74, New Zealand actor (30 Days of Night).
• Carlos Truan, 76, American politician.
• N. Varadarajan, 88, Indian politician.
• John Weaver, 92, American sculptor.

11

• Julio Alemán, 79, Mexican actor, cancer.
• Ghamar Ariyan, 90, Iranian researcher and author.
• Ahmed Ben Bella, 93, Algerian politician, Prime Minister (1962–1963); President (1963–1965).
• Misbach Yusa Biran, 78, Indonesian film director.
• Roger Caron, 73, Canadian author, prison escape artist, and bank robber, infection.
• Eugene V. Clark, 86, American Roman Catholic priest.
• Steve Cokely, 59, American political researcher and lecturer.
• Tippy Dye, 97, American college athlete, coach, and athletic director.
• Peter Gerber, 88, Swiss politician.
• Gustaf Jansson, 90, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) athlete.
• Keith Leeson, 83, Australian Olympic hockey player.
• Bob Lewis, 86, American college basketball player (University of Utah).
• Gianni Marchetti, 78, Italian composer and songwriter.
• Moses Majekodunmi, 95, Nigerian politician, Minister of Health (1960–66).
• Hal McKusick, 87, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist, natural causes.
• Yolanda Mérida, 82, Mexican actress.
• Rainer Penkert, 90, German actor.
• Agustin Roman, 83, Cuban-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Miami (1979–2003), heart attack.

12

• Uno Anton, 70, Estonian politician.
• Vladimir Astapovsky, 65, Soviet Olympic bronze medal-winning (1976) footballer.
• Kellon Baptiste, 38, Grenadian footballer, cancer.
• Mohit Chattopadhyay, 77, Indian playwright, dramatist, and poet, cancer.
• Linda Cook, 63, American actress.
• Nico dei Gabbiani, 67, Italian singer.
• Elizabeth Ferris, 71, British Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) diver.
• James Gallen, 83, American politician, complications from appendicitis.
• David Alan Gore, 58, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Rodgers Grant, 76, American jazz pianist, cancer.
• Steinbjørn B. Jacobsen, 74, Faroese poet and writer, Faroese Literature Prize recipient.
• Robert Kennedy, 73, Canadian publisher, complications from skin cancer.
• Andrew Love, 70, American saxophonist (The Memphis Horns), complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• Masakre, 57, Mexican professional wrestler, cancer.
• Bruce Morrison, 88, Australian football player.
• Manfred Orzessek, 78, German footballer.
• Amy Tryon, 42, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (2004) equestrian, accidental drug overdose.

13

• Miguel Albareda Creus, 93, Spanish chess player.
• Eunice Alberts, 84–85, American contralto.
• Victor Arnold, 75, American actor.
• Irving K. Barber, 89, Canadian forester and philanthropist.
• John Blane, 82, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Rwanda (1982–1985); Chad (1985–1988).
• William B. Buffum, 90, American diplomat, US Ambassador to Lebanon (1970–1974), natural causes.
• Cecil Chaudhry, 70, Pakistani fighter pilot, school principal, and activist, lung cancer.
• Florin Constantiniu, 79, Romanian historian.
• Erland Cullberg, 81, Swedish artist.
• William Alden Edson, 99, American scientist and engineer.
• Avraham Goldberg, 99, American-born Israeli Talmud scholar.
• Verónica Gómez, 26, Venezuelan volleyball player, heart failure.
• Shūichi Higurashi, 75, Japanese manga illustrator, painted cover for Big Comic (1970–2011), pneumonia.
• Ruth Davis Kohrt, 90, American librarian and novelist.
• Marilyn Lovell Matz, 81, American actress (Ghosts of Mississippi), therapist and activist.
• Peter Mullins, 86, Australian Olympic decathlete (1948), basketball player, and coach.
• Lewis Nordan, 72, American writer, pneumonia.
• Mario Rizzi, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Archbishop of Bagnoregio (since 1991), Apostolic Nuncio to Bulgaria (1991–1996).
• David S. Smith, 94, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Sweden (1976–1977).
• Robert Wigmore, 62, Cook Islands politician.

14

• Celal Başkale, Turkish Kurdish politician, killed.
• Émile Bouchard, 92, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
• Tom Farrell, 87, Canadian politician.
• William Finley, 69, American actor (Phantom of the Paradise), complications from surgery.
• C. Miller Fisher, 98, Canadian neurologist.
• Jonathan Frid, 87, Canadian actor (Dark Shadows), natural causes.
• Bela Gold, 97, Hungarian-born American businessman and professor.
• Ma Jaya, 71, American spiritual teacher, pancreatic cancer.
• Lee Kyung-hwan, 24, South Korean footballer (Suwon Bluewings), suicide by jumping.
• Eddie May, 68, English football player and manager.
• Piermario Morosini, 25, Italian footballer (Livorno), cardiac arrest.
• Martin Poll, 89, American film producer (The Lion in Winter), natural causes.
• Edward Purrington, 82, American opera director.
• Paulo César Saraceni, 78, Brazilian film director.
• Vincent F. Seyfried, 93, American historian.
• Per G. Stavnum, 70, Norwegian diplomat, ambassador to Lithuania (1991–1996); Vietnam (2000–2005).
• Synchronised, 9, Irish racehorse, euthanised after race fall.
• Viro the Virus, 33, American hip hop artist.
• Mikhail Voronin, 73, Ukrainian fashion designer.
• Cathie Wright, 82, American politician, California State Senator (1992–2000).

15

• Fred Birchmore, 100, American adventurer.
• Paul Bogart, 92, American Emmy Award-winning television director (All in the Family), natural causes.
• Jesús Giles Sánchez, 50, Mexican politician, cancer.
• Hans Johansson, 85, Swedish Olympic equestrian.
• Peter McKenzie, 59, New Zealand conservationist, cancer.
• Yasushi Mieno, 88, Japanese banker, Governor of the Bank of Japan (1989–1994), cardiac arrest.
• Jenny Olsson, 32, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier, cancer.
• Bob Perani, 69, Italian-born American ice hockey player (Flint Generals).
• Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov, 73, Russian actor, complications from diabetes and stroke.
• Murray Rose, 73, Australian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956, 1960) swimmer, leukaemia.
• Samir Said, 48, Kuwaiti footballer, traffic collision.
• Rich Saul, 64, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), leukemia.
• Dwayne Schintzius, 43, American basketball player (New Jersey Nets), respiratory failure.
• James Shaner, 75, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1995–2006).
• Joan Tozzer, 90, American figure skater.
• Bob Wright, 86, American college basketball coach (Morehead State University).
• Tadashi Yamamoto, 76, Japanese businessman, founder of the Japan Center for International Exchange, gall bladder cancer.

16

• Sári Barabás, 98, Hungarian-born German opera singer, stroke.
• Marian Biskup, 89, Polish historian.
• Laura Bornholdt, 93, American historian and academic administrator.
• Ernest Callenbach, 83, American writer and environmentalist.
• Teddy Charles, 84, American jazz musician and composer.
• Jack Cohen, 93, American rabbi.
• Ray Davey, 97, Northern Irish Presbyterian minister, founder of the Corrymeela Community.
• Jean Fréchaut, 97, French cyclist.
• Margalith Galun, 85, Israeli lichenologist, after a lengthy illness.
• Alan Hacker, 73, British clarinetist.
• George Kunda, 56, Zambian politician, Vice President (2008–2011), anaemia.
• A.F. Millidge, 98, British arachnologist.
• Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, 98, Danish shipping magnate.
• Antoine Hamid Mourany, 82, Lebanese-born Syrian Maronite hierarch, Metropolitan of Damascus (1989–1999).
• Arthur Nadel, 80, American fund manager and convicted embezzler.
• Ngô Đình Lệ Quyên, 53, South Vietnamese-born Italian lawyer, daughter of Madame Nhu, traffic collision.
• Oyalı, 4, Turkish sheep, first cloned animal in Turkey, lung disease.
• Carlo Petrini, 64, Italian footballer.
• Graham Simpson, 68, British musician (Roxy Music).
• Randy Starkman, 51, Canadian sports journalist, pneumonia.
• Jack Streidl, 93, American football coach.

17

• Alexander Appleford, 90, English pilot.
• Barry Askew, 75, British newspaper editor (News of the World).
• Walter M. Baker, 84, American politician.
• Leila Berg, 94, British children's author.
• J. Quinn Brisben, 77, American civil rights activist and Socialist candidate for U.S. President in 1992.
• Jake Carter, 87, American basketball player.
• Tim Collins, 66, American golfer.
• Michael Green, New Zealand diplomat, cancer. (death announced on this date)
• Stan Johnson, 75, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Athletics).
• Almasbei Kchach, 53, Abkhazian politician, suicide by gunshot.
• Sukenobu Kudō, 84, Japanese speed skater (1952 Winter Olympics), renal failure.
• Irving Millman, 88, American virologist and microbiologist.
• Dimitris Mitropanos, 64, Greek singer, pulmonary edema.
• Nityananda Mahapatra, 99, Indian politician, poet, and journalist, natural causes.
• Jonathan V. Plaut, 69, American rabbi.
• Ben H. Procter, 85, American author and football player (Los Angeles Rams), Parkinson's disease.
• Stanley Rogers Resor, 94, American lawyer, Secretary of the Army (1965–1971).
• Jane Schaberg, 74, American biblical scholar.
• Dom Valentino, 83, American sports broadcaster.
• Louis Vorster, 45, South African-born Namibian cricketer, shot.

18

• Pavol Bencz, 75, Czechoslovak footballer.
• Arthur Bottom, 82, English footballer (York City).
• José Cerviño Cerviño, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tui-Vigo (1976–1996).
• Dick Clark, 82, American television host and producer (American Bandstand, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, Pyramid), heart attack.
• Peter Collis, 82, English artist.
• Graham Cooper, 75, English cricketer.
• Hillman Curtis, 51, American graphic designer and filmmaker, colon cancer.
• Tina De Mola, 88, Italian actress, singer and television personality.
• John Anthony Golding, 91, Turks and Caicos Islands administrator.
• René Lépine, 82, Canadian real estate developer, prostate cancer.
• Kristian Lund, 80, Norwegian military officer, engineer and politician.
• John O'Neil, 91, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
• Robert O. Ragland, 80, American film score composer.
• Sterling Ridge, 75, American politician, Mayor of Glendale, Arizona (1976–1980), three-term member of the Arizona House of Representatives.
• Col Saddington, 74, Australian football player.
• Naum Shopov, 78, Bulgarian actor.
• Åge Storhaug, 74, Norwegian Olympic (1960, 1964) gymnast, cancer.
• Fritz Theilen, 84, German resistance member.
• K. D. Wentworth, 61, American science fiction author, cancer and pneumonia.

19

• Muhammad Mustafa Badawi, 86, Egyptian academic.
• Allison Baden-Clay, 43, Australian executive, murdered.
• Leopold David de Rothschild, 84, British financier and philanthropist.
• Richard T. Drinnon, 87, American historian.
• Ray Easterling, 62, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), suicide by gunshot.
• Greg Ham, 58, Australian musician (Men at Work).
• Levon Helm, 71, American musician (The Band) and actor (Coal Miner's Daughter), throat cancer.
• Mansur Kamaletdinov, 86, Russian ballet dancer and teacher.
• Ken Lowrie, 85, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (1968–1986).
• Jacques Martin, 52, Canadian Paralympian, gold medalist (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996), heart attack.
• Enrico Pedrini, 72, Italian art theorist.
• Murtaza Razvi, 47, Pakistani journalist, strangled.
• Chitturi Satyanarayana, 98, Indian surgeon.
• Meenakshi Thapar, 27, Indian actress (404), strangled.
• Mabel Van Camp, 91, Canadian judge, first woman on the Supreme Court of Ontario.
• Valeri Vasiliev, 62, Russian Olympic gold (1972, 1976) and silver (1980) medal-winning ice hockey player.
• Zozo Zarpa, 73, Greek actress, heart failure.

20

• Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro, 70, Mexican army general, shot.
• Ayten Alpman, 82, Turkish singer, respiratory failure.
• Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, 89, British politician and disability campaigner, MP for Stoke-on-Trent South (1966–1992).
• Alfie Biggs, 76, English footballer.
• Brian Boland, 80, Australian footballer.
• Matt Branam, 57, American academic, President of Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology (since 2009).
• Craig Cameron, 66, American ice hockey player.
• Peter Carsten, 83, German actor.
• George Cowan, 92, American physical chemist and member of Manhattan Project, injuries from a fall.
• Clément Haeyen, 84, Belgian Olympic (1960) weightlifter.
• Shannon Johnson, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Mike Lipari, 79, Canadian Olympic weightlifter.
• Joe Muranyi, 84, American jazz musician.
• Don Wedge, 82, American football referee (1972–1995).
• Bert Weedon, 91, English guitarist and composer.

21

• John S. Ballard, 89, American politician.
• Doris Betts, 79, American author, lung cancer.
• Ramón Búa Otero, 78, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tarazona (1982–1989) and Calahorra y La Calzada-Logroño (1989–2003).
• Charles Colson, 80, American White House Counsel convicted in Watergate scandal, evangelist, founder of Prison Fellowship, brain hemorrhage.
• Albert Falco, 84, French sea captain and scuba diver.
• Wim Franken, 90, Dutch composer and pianist.
• Lenny Gault, 78, American country music singer, cancer.
• Harry Heslet, 92, American baseball player.
• Brian Heward, 76, English footballer.
• Charles Higham, 81, English-born American biographer, heart attack.
• Heinz Jentzsch, 92, German racehorse trainer.
• Peter Milano, 82, American businessman.
• Frank Odoi, 64, Kenyan cartoonist, road accident.
• Jerry Toppazzini, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings).

22

• John Amabile, 73, American football scout (New York Giants), coach and player (Boston College).
• Gunnar Göransson, 78, Swedish Olympic cyclist.
• Bill Granger, 70, American author and columnist.
• Matti Kuosku, 71, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier.
• Petr Lisičan, 49, Czech Olympic cross-country skier.
• Buzz Potamkin, 66, American television producer.
• George Rathmann, 84, American businessman, first chief executive of Amgen, kidney failure.
• Aristarkh (Stankevich), 70, Belarusian Orthodox hierarch, Archbishop of Gomel and Zhlobin (since 1990).

23

• Navodaya Appachan, 81, Indian film producer, cancer.
• Lillemor Arvidsson, 68, Swedish trade union leader and politician, Governor of Gotland (1998–2004).
• Breda Beban, 59, Serbian film and video artist.
• Eunice Bommelyn, 85, American Tolowa cultural advocate, Tolowa language proponent, and historian.
• Peter Boothman, 68–69, Australian guitarist, composer, and educator.
• Hacho Boyadzhiev, 80, Bulgarian television and film director.
• Michael Brinton, 70, British businessman, Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire (since 2001), cancer.
• Yvonne Brown, 59, American politician, cancer.
• Billy Bryans, 64, Canadian musician and producer (Parachute Club), lung cancer.
• Carmen Bunster, 94, Chilean actress.
• Chang Myung-sam, 48, Korean taekwondo practitioner, car accident.
• Roland Dale, 84, American football player (Washington Redskins).
• Michael DeBose, 58, American politician, Member of the Ohio House of Representatives (2002–2010), complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Chris Ethridge, 65, American country rock bassist (International Submarine Band, The Flying Burrito Brothers), pancreatic cancer.
• Veriano Luchetti, 73, Italian opera singer.
• Tommy Marth, 33, American musician (The Killers), suicide by gunshot.
• Raymond Thorsteinsson, 91, Canadian geologist.
• LeRoy T. Walker, 93, American track coach, Chairman of the US Olympic Committee (1992–1996).
• Flo Whyard, 95, Canadian politician, Mayor of Whitehorse (1981–1983), Yukon territorial minister (1975–1978), editor of the Whitehorse Star.

24

• Svetlana Berzina, 80, Russian Egyptologist.
• Sheena Bora, 25, Indian executive, strangulation.
• Fred Bradley, 91, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
• William A. Campbell, 95, American USAF colonel, member of the Tuskegee Airmen.
• William Chapman, 88, American operatic baritone and stage actor.
• Nell Ginjaar-Maas, 80, Dutch politician, State Secretary for Education and Science (1982–1989).
• Daniel McGillivray Brown, 89, Scottish chemist.
• Erast Parmasto, 83, Estonian mycologist.
• Miguel Portas, 53, Portuguese politician, Member of the European Parliament for Portugal (since 2004), lung cancer.
• Eusebio Razo, Jr., 46, Mexican-born American jockey, explosion.
• Shireen Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Brompton, 67, British peer, councillor for Brompton ward, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (since 1998).
• Yugo Sako, 84, Japanese movie director, aspiration pneumonia.
• Village Kid, 31, Australian standardbred racehorse.
• Amos Vogel, 91, Austrian-born American film scholar, founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16.
• George Vujnovich, 96, American OSS agent and leader of Operation Halyard, natural causes.
• Ambrose Weekes, 93, British Anglican bishop, first Suffragan Bishop in Europe.
• Thomas Christian Wyller, 89, Norwegian political scientist.

25

• Gerry Bahen, 83, Australian football player and administrator.
• Ben Blacknall, 65, American football player and coach.
• Rolando Ramos Dizon, 67, Filipino educator, Chairman of the Commission on Higher Education (2003–2004).
• Ben Gabriel, 94, Australian actor and director.
• Sir Brandon Gough, 74, British businessman, Chancellor of the University of East Anglia (since 2003).
• Harry Hicks, 86, British Olympic runner.
• Denny Jones, 101, American politician, member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1973–1999).
• Moscelyne Larkin, 87, American ballerina.
• Louis le Brocquy, 95, Irish painter.
• Stephen Maxwell, 69, Scottish politician.
• Hysni Milloshi, 66, Albanian politician.
• Ian Oswald, 82, Scottish sleep researcher.
• Paul L. Smith, 75, American actor (Popeye, Dune, Maverick).
• Jan Bernard Szlaga, 71, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pelplin (since 1992), duodenal ulcer hemorrhage.
• Brij Bhushan Tiwari, 71, Indian politician, heart attack.

26

• Roy Claughton, 84, Australian politician.
• Clarence Cormier, 81, Canadian politician.
• Pete Fornatale, 66, American radio disc jockey (WNEW-FM, WFUV), brain aneurysm.
• Franco Fraticelli, 83, Italian film editor.
• Floyd D. Hall, 96, American pilot, chairman and chief executive of Eastern Air Lines.
• Ardian Klosi, 55, Albanian political analyst, publicist, and writer, suicide by hanging.
• Ted Newall, 76, Canadian businessman.
• José Martins Ribeiro Nunes, 85, Brazilian naval pilot.
• Terence Spinks, 74, British Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) boxer.
• Margie Stewart, 92, American model and actress.
• Chut Wutty, 40, Cambodian environmental activist, shot.

27

• Wayne Aiken, 76, Canadian football player.
• Ron Ballatore, 71, American swimming coach, bone cancer.
• Daniel Boatwright, 82, American politician, California State Senator (1980–1996).
• Anatoly Lebed, 48, Russian army officer, Hero of the Russian Federation.
• Takayoshi Nagamine, 66, Japanese karate master and trainer.
• František Procházka, 50, Czech Olympic bronze medal-winning (1992) ice hockey player.
• Ari Magder, 28, Canadian child actor (Shining Time Station), complications from pneumonia.
• Harold Pupkewitz, 96, Lithuanian-born Namibian businessman, heart attack.
• René Rouffeteau, 86, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) cyclist.
• Bill Skowron, 81, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox), heart failure.
• Allen Tough, 76, Canadian scientist, complications of multiple system atrophy.
• Abu Mohammad Jawad Walieddine, 96, Lebanese Druze religious leader.
• David Weiss, 65, Swiss artist (Peter Fischli & David Weiss).

28

• Sir Fred Allen, 92, New Zealand rugby player, captain, and coach, leukemia.
• Bobby Alto, 73, American actor, comedian and performer, complications of stroke.
• Charles Barron, 76, Scottish writer, playwright, teacher and lecturer, multi-organ failure.
• Harald Bergseth, 88, Norwegian soil scientist.
• John Birch, 82, British musician.
• Matilde Camus, 92, Spanish poet.
• H. Fred Clark, 75, American pediatrician, medical scientist, and social activist.
• Giorgio Consolini, 91, Italian singer.
• Jim Downing, 65–66, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Joaquín Dualde, 79, Spanish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) field hockey player.
• Al Ecuyer, 74, American-born Canadian football player (Edmonton Eskimos).
• Stein Johnson, 90, Norwegian Olympic (1948, 1952) discus thrower.
• Jackie Kelso, 90, American jazz musician.
• Walter Mathews, 85, American actor (General Hospital).
• Patricia Medina, 92, British actress, natural causes.
• Dudley Peake, 77, Welsh footballer.
• Milan N. Popović, 87, Serbian psychiatrist and author.
• Sir John Quinton, 82, British banker (Barclays).
• Aberdeen Shikoyi, 27, Kenyan rugby player, spinal cord injury sustained in match play.
• Tom Spence, 50, Scottish footballer, suspected heart failure.
• Geoffrey Tyler, 91, British educationalist.
• Ervin Zádor, 76, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic gold medalist (1956).

29

• Amarillo Slim, 83, American professional gambler, winner of the 1972 World Series of Poker main event, colon cancer.
• Éric Charden, 69, French singer, lymphoma.
• Wiesław Chrzanowski, 88, Polish politician and professor, Marshal of the Sejm (1991–1993).
• Jean Desmasures, 83, French Olympic field hockey player.
• Dynaformer, 27, American racehorse and sire, euthanized.
• Shukri Ghanem, 69, Libyan politician, Prime Minister (2003–2006) and Minister of Oil (2006–2011).
• Joel Goldsmith, 54, American film and television composer (Stargate), son of Jerry Goldsmith.
• Daisy Junor, 92, Canadian baseball player (AAGPBL).
• Joram Lindenstrauss, 75, Israeli mathematician.
• Jim McCrary, 72, American photographer.
• Roland Moreno, 66, French inventor, creator of the smart card.
• Kenny Roberts, 84, American country music singer and yodeler.
• Jean Tschabold, 86, Swiss Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) gymnast.
• Idar Ulstein, 78, Norwegian businessman, cancer.

30

• Cliff Ashby, 92, British poet and novelist.
• Finn Benestad, 82, Norwegian musicologist.
• Ernst Bolldén, 45, Swedish wheelchair table tennis player and Paralympian gold (1996) and bronze (1996, 2000) medalist, bladder cancer.
• Tomás Borge, 81, Nicaraguan politician and poet, founder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, pneumonia.
• Alexander Dale Oen, 26, Norwegian Olympic silver medal-winning (2008) swimmer, cardiac arrest.
• Alexandru Dincă, 66, Romanian handball player.
• Bob Finkel, 94, American producer and director, age-related illnesses.
• Giannis Gravanis, 54, Greek footballer (Panionios F.C.).
• Andrew Levane, 92, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals, Milwaukee Hawks) and coach (New York Knicks, St. Louis Bombers).
• William Burley Lockwood, 95, British linguist.
• George Murdock, 81, American actor (Barney Miller, Battlestar Galactica, The X-Files), cancer.
• Billy Neighbors, 72, American football player (Boston Patriots, Miami Dolphins), heart attack.
• Benzion Netanyahu, 102, Israeli historian, academic, and Revisionist Zionist activist, father of Benjamin Netanyahu.
• Arturo Andrés Roig, 89, Argentine philosopher.
• Achala Sachdev, 91, Indian actress.
• Sicelo Shiceka, 45, South African politician, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (since 2009).

External links

• List of April 2012 deaths at IMDb