Deaths in June 2011
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Deaths in 2011
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....

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

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

 - 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....

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

 - 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:...

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

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

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

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  • David G. Boschert, 63, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates
    Maryland House of Delegates
    The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland, and is composed of 141 Delegates elected from 47 districts. The House chamber is located in the state capitol building on State Circle in Annapolis...

     (1999–2007), cancer. http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/06hse/former/html/msa02765.html
  • Barry Bremen, 64, American marketing executive and sports imposter, cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/us/11bremen.html
  • Karl Brommann
    Karl Brommann
    Karl Brommann was a Untersturmführer in the Waffen SS during World War II. Who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, for the destruction of 66 tanks along with 44 anti tank guns and 15 vehicles in the battle for Danzig...

    , 90, German Waffen-SS
    Waffen-SS
    The Waffen-SS was a multi-ethnic and multi-national military force of the Third Reich. It constituted the armed wing of the Schutzstaffel or SS, an organ of the Nazi Party. The Waffen-SS saw action throughout World War II and grew from three regiments to over 38 divisions, and served alongside...

     officer. http://www.saladeguerra.com.br/2011/07/nota-de-falecimento-karl-brommann.html (Portuguese)
  • Don Buddin
    Don Buddin
    Donald Thomas Buddin was an American professional baseball shortstop. He played all or part of six seasons in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox , Houston Colt .45s and Detroit Tigers . Listed at 5' 11" , 178 lb. , Buddin batted and threw right-handed...

    , 77, 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"...

    , Houston Colt .45s
    Houston Astros
    The Houston Astros are a Major League Baseball team located in Houston, Texas. They are a member of the National League Central division. The Astros are expected to join the American League West division in 2013. Since , they have played their home games at Minute Maid Park, known as Enron Field...

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

    ). http://www.meaningfulfunerals.net/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=1198581&fh_id=12529
  • Preston Carpenter
    Preston Carpenter
    Verba Preston Carpenter was a professional American football player who played wide receiver, tight end, running back and special teams for eleven seasons for five different teams in the National Football League and the American Football League...

    , 77, American football player (Cleveland Browns
    Cleveland Browns
    The Cleveland Browns are a professional football team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are currently members of the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

    , Pittsburgh Steelers
    Pittsburgh Steelers
    The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team currently belongs to the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Founded in , the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC...

    , Washington Redskins
    Washington Redskins
    The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team and members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, while its headquarters and training facility are at Redskin Park in Ashburn,...

    ). http://arkansasnews.com/2011/06/30/football-arkansas-great-carpenter-dies-at-77/
  • Christy Essien-Igbokwe
    Christy Essien-Igbokwe
    Christy Uduak Essien-Igbokwe also known as Nigeria's Lady of Songs put Nigeria's name on the world music map with her evergreen "Seun Rere" track. She was the first female president of the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria...

    , 50, Nigerian musician. http://www.nigeriadailynews.com/general/22983-singer-christy-essien-igbokwe-dead-at-age-51.html
  • Tom Kruse
    Tom Kruse (mailman)
    Esmond Gerald Kruse, MBE was a former mailman on the Birdsville Track in the border area between South Australia and Queensland...

    , 96, Australian outback
    Outback
    The Outback is the vast, remote, arid area of Australia, term colloquially can refer to any lands outside the main urban areas. The term "the outback" is generally used to refer to locations that are comparatively more remote than those areas named "the bush".-Overview:The outback is home to a...

     mailman and documentary subject (The Back of Beyond
    The Back of Beyond
    The Back of Beyond is a feature-length award-winning Australian documentary film produced and directed by John Heyer for the Shell Film Unit. In terms of breadth of distribution, awards garnered, and critical response, it is Heyer's most successful film...

    ). http://www.abc.net.au/rural/content/2011/s3257594.htm
  • Sir David Loram
    David Loram
    Vice Admiral Sir David Anning Loram KCB CVO was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic.-Naval career:...

    , 86, British admiral. http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=david-loram&pid=152501562
  • Ruth Roberts
    Ruth Roberts
    Ruth Roberts , was an American songwriter.Roberts was born at Port Chester, New York. She was educated at Port Chester High School, Northwestern University, and the Juilliard School. She had a long professional collaboration with lyricist Bill Katz...

    , 84, American songwriter ("Meet the Mets
    Meet the Mets
    "Meet the Mets" is the fight song of the New York Mets of Major League Baseball. It was written in 1961 by Ruth Roberts and Bill Katz. A rewritten and modernized version was recorded in 1984....

    "), lung cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/arts/music/ruth-roberts-meet-the-mets-songwriter-dies-at-84.html?_r=1&ref=deathsobituaries
  • Jimmy Roselli
    Jimmy Roselli
    Michael John "Jimmy" Roselli was one of the most significant Italian-American pop singers of his time, during an era of formidable competition from such performers as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Perry Como, Frankie Laine, Vic Damone and Jerry Vale.-Life:Jimmy Roselli's biggest and only pop hit was...

    , 85, American singer, heart complications. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118039374
  • Jay Dee Springbett
    Jay Dee Springbett
    Jay Dee Springbett was a British-born record executive who appeared as a judge on the singing competition Australian Idol during the show's seventh season in 2009...

    , 36, British-born Australian record industry executive and Australian Idol
    Australian Idol
    Australian Idol is a Logie Award-winning Australian singing competition, which began its first season on July 2003 and ended its run in November 2009. As part of the Idol franchise, Australian Idol originated from the reality program Pop Idol, which was created by British entertainment executive...

    judge. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/former-australian-idol-judge-jay-dee-springbett-found-dead-20110701-1gtmc.html
  • Georg Sterzinsky, 75, German Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Berlin
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Berlin
    The Archdiocese of Berlin is a Roman Catholic archdiocese, seated in Berlin and covering the northeast of Germany.As of 2004 the archdiocese has 386,279 Catholics out of the population of Berlin, most of Brandenburg and Hither Pomerania, i. e. the German part of Pomerania...

     (1989–2011), after long illness. http://www.radiovaticana.org/in2/articolo.asp?c=500509
  • Sean Wight
    Sean Wight
    John Phillip "Sean" Wight was a Scottish-Australian Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL.He is a member of the Melbourne Football Club Hall of Fame and was named as one of the 150 Heroes of the club during the club's 150th celebrations.The 185 cm tall, 85 kg Wight played for the...

    , 47, Scottish-born Australian football player, lung cancer. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/30/3257721.htm

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  • Billy Baldwin
    Billy Baldwin (baseball)
    Robert Harvey Baldwin was a backup outfielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1975 through 1976 for the 1975 Detroit Tigers and the 1976 New York Mets. Listed at 6'0", 175 lb., he batted and threw left handed....

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

    , New York Mets
    New York Mets
    The New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. They belong to Major League Baseball's National League East Division. One of baseball's first expansion teams, the Mets were founded in 1962 to replace New York's departed National League...

    ). http://www.ohio.com/sports/akron-native-and-former-big-league-baseball-player-billy-baldwin-dies-1.223941
  • Giorgio Bernardin
    Giorgio Bernardin
    Giorgio Bernardin was an Italian professional footballer who played as a defender for Sampdoria, Lecce, SPAL 1907, Internazionale, Triestina and Roma, as well as for Italy B....

    , 83, Italian footballer. http://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/ferrara/sport/calcio/2011/06/29/534262-spal_morto_bernardin.shtml (Italian)
  • Carlos Diarte
    Carlos Diarte
    Carlos Martínez Diarte , alias Lobo, was a Paraguayan football striker and coach.-As player:Diarte started his career in Olimpia Asunción and at the age of 16 he made his debut in the professional squad, helping Olimpia win the Paraguayan championship in 1971...

    , 57, Paraguayan footballer, cancer. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/deportes/Adios/Lobo/Diarte/exdelantero/paraguayo/Valencia/Zaragoza/elpepudep/20110629elpepudep_1/Tes (Spanish)
  • Benton Flippen
    Benton Flippen
    James Benton Flippen was an old-time fiddler from Mount Airy, North Carolina. He was one of the last surviving members of a generation of performers born in the early 20th century playing in the Round Peak style centering on Surry County, North Carolina...

    , 90, American fiddler, heart attack. http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2011/jun/30/wsmet01-fiddle-pioneer-benton-flippen-dies-ar-1166777/
  • Richard Fox
    Richard Fox (jockey)
    Richard Daniel Stuart Fox was a Irish-born British jockey and actor.Fox was born on March 6, 1954, in Cork, Ireland. He began apprenticeship to Irish horse trainer Seamus McGrath when he was 14 years old....

    , 57, Irish-born British jockey and actor. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/jun/28/richard-fox-dies
  • Osamu Kobayashi
    Osamu Kobayashi (voice actor)
    was a Japanese seiyū and actor from Tokyo and the former executive director of Dōjinsha Production. He was a baritone.-Television animation:* Alps Story: My Annette: Pierre...

    , 76, Japanese voice actor and executive director, pancreatic cancer. http://www.jiji.com/jc/zc?k=201107/2011070400365 (Japanese)
  • Newt Loken
    Newt Loken
    Newton C. Loken was an artistic gymnast and coach of gymnastics, trampolining and cheerleading. While a member of the Minnesota Golden Gophers men's gymnastics team, Loken was NCAA all-around gymnastics champion in 1942 and the Big Ten Conference all-around champion in 1941 and 1942...

    , 92, American gymnastics coach (University of Michigan
    University of Michigan
    The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

    ). http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-gym/spec-rel/062911aaa.html
  • Angélico Vieira
    Angélico Vieira
    Angélico Vieira , whose full name was Sandro Milton Vieira Angélico, was a Portuguese actor and singer. He was a former member of the Portuguese boy band, D'ZRT....

    , 28, Portuguese actor (Morangos com Açúcar
    Morangos com Açúcar
    Morangos com Açúcar is a Portuguese Teen drama. It is broadcasted daily on the Portuguese TV station TVI since 2003. In Portugal, it is currently on its eight season....

    ) and singer (D'ZRT
    D'ZRT
    D'ZRT was a Portuguese boy band consisting of Paulo Vintém, Angélico Vieira, Vítor Fonseca and Edmundo Vieira.The band was created when TVI cast a band for Morangos com Açucar. The four members portrayed Topê, David, Zé Milho and Ruca. Ruca already had musical experience as a contestant on Operação...

    ), car accident. http://www.luuux.com/entertainment/rip-ang%C3%A9lico-vieira
  • Michael Wenning
    Michael Wenning
    Michael H. Wenning was an American Presbyterian minister of South African birth.Born in Cape Town, Wenning was educated at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas and New York University . From 1969-77 he was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Durban, South Africa...

    , 75, South African-born American minister, leukemia and kidney failure. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-michael-wenning-20110630,0,7579247.story

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  • Edith Fellows
    Edith Fellows
    Edith Marilyn Fellows was an American actress who began her professional career at age 6.-Personal life:When she was a year old, she and her father and grandmother moved to Charlotte, North Carolina...

    , 88, American actress, natural causes. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118039260
  • Simon Heere Heeresma
    Simon Heere Heeresma
    Simon Heere Heeresma , was a Dutch author and poet.Simon Heere Heeresma was born in Amsterdam in 1932. His first collection of poetry, published in 1954, was called Children's Room, but his breakthrough came in the 1960s and 1970s in the Provo generation...

    , 79, Dutch writer. http://nos.nl/artikel/251326-schrijver-heere-heeresma-overleden.html (Dutch)
  • Norma Lyon
    Norma Lyon
    Norma Duffield Stong "Duffy" Lyon was an American farmer and artist nicknamed The Butter Cow Lady. She was known for creating elaborate butter sculptures at the Iowa State Fair from 1960 until 2006, when she retired...

    , 81, American farmer and butter sculpture
    Butter sculpture
    Butter sculptures often depict animals, people, buildings and other objects. They are best known as attractions at state fairs in the United States as lifesize cows and people, but can also be found on banquet tables and even small decorative butter pats. The earliest documented butter sculptures...

     artist. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/us/28lyon.html?_r=1
  • Robert Morris
    Robert Morris (cryptographer)
    Robert Morris , was an American cryptographer and computer scientist. -Family and Education:Morris was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were Walter W. Morris, a salesman, and Helen Kelly Morris...

    , 78, American cryptographer, complications of dementia. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/technology/30morris.html?_r=1
  • Sidney Hollis Radner
    Sidney Hollis Radner
    Sidney Hollis Radner was a retired rug salesman from Holyoke, Massachusetts, who owned one of the world's largest and most valuable collections of Harry Houdini artifacts...

    , 91, American collector of Harry Houdini
    Harry Houdini
    Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer noted for his sensational escape acts...

     memorabilia. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/8601662/Sidney-Radner.html
  • Alan Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry
    Alan Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry
    Alan Ferguson Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry, FRSE, FBA, PC was a Scottish lawyer and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom....

    , 66, British jurist, Supreme Court
    Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
    The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is the supreme court in all matters under English law, Northern Ireland law and Scottish civil law. It is the court of last resort and highest appellate court in the United Kingdom; however the High Court of Justiciary remains the supreme court for criminal...

     judge. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-13922675
  • Christopher Shale
    Christopher Shale
    Christopher Shale was a British businessman and Conservative politician. He was Chairman of the West Oxfordshire Conservative Association, and a close associate of Prime Minister and local MP David Cameron, who praised him for his "massive contribution to the Conservative Party, both locally and...

    , 56, British political aide. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/glastonbury/8599479/David-Camerons-local-Tory-chairman-found-dead-in-Glastonbury-toilet.html
  • Jan van Beveren
    Jan van Beveren
    Jan van Beveren was a Dutch football goalkeeper who played 32 caps for the Dutch National Team during the late 1960s and the 1970s....

    , 63, Dutch footballer and coach. http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4508/Sport/article/detail/2457645/2011/06/26/Oud-doelman-Jan-van-Beveren-overleden.dhtml (Dutch)
  • Barry Wilkins
    Barry Wilkins
    Barry James Wilkins was a professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League and the World Hockey Association during the 1960s and 1970s...

    , 64, Canadian hockey player (Vancouver Canucks
    Vancouver Canucks
    The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, :British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The Canucks play their home games at Rogers Arena, formerly known as General Motors Place,...

    , Boston Bruins
    Boston Bruins
    The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The team has been in existence since 1924, and is the league's third-oldest team and its oldest in the...

    ), lung cancer. http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Barry+Wilkins+first+Canucks+goal+scorer+passes+away/5014267/story.html

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  • George Ballas
    George Ballas
    George Charles Ballas was an American entrepreneur. He invented the first string trimmer, known as the Weed Eater in 1971...

    , 85, American entrepreneur, inventor of the Weed Eater
    Weed Eater
    Weed Eater was a string trimmer company founded in 1971 in Houston, Texas by George C. Ballas, Sr., the inventor of the device.The idea for the Weed Eater trimmer came to him from the spinning nylon bristles of an automatic car wash...

    . http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/deaths/7631466.html
  • Nick Charles
    Nick Charles
    Nicholas Charles Nickeas , better known as Nick Charles, was an American sportscaster and journalist. He was one of CNN's first on-air personalities and won three CableACE Awards for best sports program during his 17-year tenure as co-host of the network's Sports Tonight...

    , 64, American sportscaster (CNN Sports Tonight
    Sports Tonight (CNN)
    Sports Tonight was a show that aired on CNN from 1980 to 2001, and on CNNSI from December 12, 1996 to the station's demise on May 15, 2002. It normally aired at 11 p.m. ET.-The early years:...

    ), bladder cancer. http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/25/nick.charles.obit/
  • Shelby Grant
    Shelby Grant
    Shelby Grant , born Brenda Thompson, was an American actress whose credits included Our Man Flint, Fantastic Voyage and Medical Center.-Early life:...

    , 74, American actress (Our Man Flint
    Our Man Flint
    Our Man Flint is a 1966 action film that parodies of James Bond genre. The film was directed by Daniel Mann, written by Hal Fimberg and Ben Starr, and starring James Coburn as master spy Derek Flint...

    , Fantastic Voyage
    Fantastic Voyage
    Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 science fiction film written by Harry Kleiner, based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby.Bantam Books obtained the rights for a paperback novelization based on the screenplay and approached Isaac Asimov to write it....

    , Medical Center
    Medical Center (TV series)
    Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976.-Synopsis:The show starred James Daly as Dr. Paul Lochner and Chad Everett as Dr. Joe Gannon, surgeons working in an otherwise unnamed university hospital in Los Angeles. The show focused both on the lives of the doctors...

    ), brain aneurysm. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/venturacountystar/obituary.aspx?n=Shelby-Everett&pid=152267538
  • Martin H. Greenberg
    Martin H. Greenberg
    Martin Harry Greenberg was an American speculative fiction anthologist and writer.-Biography:Dr. Martin H. Greenberg was born March 1, 1941, to Max and Mae Greenberg in South Miami Beach, Florida...

    , 70, American anthologist, cancer. http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/06/martin-greenberg/
  • Jean Harris
    Jean Harris (activist)
    Jean Harris , born Kathie Jean Harris, was an American Democratic and LGBT rights activist. A longtime force in San Francisco politics, Harris served as chief of staff to former San Francisco Supervisor Harry Britt, who was appointed to the board in 1978 following the assassination of Supervisor...

    , 66, American politician and LGBT activist. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jean-harris-20110702,0,1560285.story
  • Jan Kułakowski, 80, Polish 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,...

     (2004–2009). http://www.wbj.pl/article-55107-polands-jan-kulakowski-dies-aged-81.html?typ=wbj
  • J.O. Patterson, Jr.
    J.O. Patterson, Jr.
    James Oglethorpe "J.O." Patterson, Jr. was a Bishop in the COGIC and a former Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee.-Biography:...

    , 76, American politician and religious leader, first black mayor of Memphis (1982). http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/jun/25/jo-patterson-jr-citys-first-black-mayor-dies/
  • Alice Playten
    Alice Playten
    Alice Playten was an American actress and singer.-Life and career:Born Alice Plotkin in New York City, Playten began her career in the Broadway musical Gypsy...

    , 63, American actress (Henry, Sweet Henry
    Henry, Sweet Henry
    Henry, Sweet Henry is a musical with a book by Nunnally Johnson and music and lyrics by Bob Merrill.Based on the novel The World of Henry Orient by Johnson's daughter Nora and the subsequent film of the same name, the plot focuses on Valerie and Marian, two wealthy, love-struck teenagers who stalk...

    ), heart failure. http://broadwayworld.com/article/Alice-Playten-Passes-Away-at-63-20110625
  • Goff Richards
    Goff Richards
    Goff Richards , sometimes credited as Godfrey Richards, was a prominent English brass band arranger and composer. He was born in Cornwall, studying at the Royal College of Music and Reading University. Between 1976 and 1989, he lectured in arranging and at Salford College of Technology. He was the...

    , 66, English brass band arranger and composer, illness. http://thedeadrockstarsclub.com/2011.html
  • Betty Roberts
    Betty Roberts
    Betty Cantrell Roberts was a politician and judge in the U.S. state of Oregon. She was the 83rd Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, the highest state court in Oregon. She was the first woman on the Oregon Supreme Court, and had also been the first woman on the Oregon Court of Appeals...

    , 88, American politician and jurist, Oregon Supreme Court
    Oregon Supreme Court
    The Oregon Supreme Court is the highest state court in the U.S. state of Oregon. The only court that may reverse or modify a decision of the Oregon Supreme Court is the Supreme Court of the United States. The OSC holds court at the Oregon Supreme Court Building in Salem, Oregon, near the capitol...

     (1982–1986), pulmonary fibrosis. http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/06/betty_roberts_first_woman_on_t.html
  • Paulo Renato Souza
    Paulo Renato Souza
    Paulo Renato Costa Souza was a Brazilian economist and politician.-Life:...

    , 65, Brazilian politician, Minister of Education (1995–2002), heart attack. http://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2011/06/morre-o-ex-ministro-da-educacao-paulo-renato-de-souza.html (Portuguese)
  • Margaret Tyzack
    Margaret Tyzack
    Margaret Maud Tyzack, CBE was a British actress.-Early life:Tyzack was born in Essex, England, the daughter of Doris and Thomas Edward Tyzack. She grew up in West Ham...

    , 79, British actress (2001: A Space Odyssey
    2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
    2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, and co-written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, partially inspired by Clarke's short story The Sentinel...

    , Match Point
    Match Point
    Match Point is a 2005 dramatic thriller film written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Brian Cox and Penelope Wilton....

    ), short illness. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2008731/The-Forsyte-Saga-star-Margaret-Tyzack-dies-aged-79.html

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  • Echendu Adiele
    Echendu Adiele
    Echendu Adiele was a Nigerian professional footballer who played as a central defender.-Career:Adiele played club football in Nigeria for Sharks, and in Germany for Fortuna Düsseldorf, Borussia Neunkirchen, 1. FC Saarbrücken, SV Darmstadt 98 and SV Waldhof Mannheim....

    , 32, Nigerian footballer. http://sportdivang.blogspot.com/2011/06/echendu-adiele-is-dead.html
  • Ulrich Biesinger
    Ulrich Biesinger
    Ulrich "Uli" Biesinger was a German footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a forward.-Career:...

    , 77, German football player. http://www.fcaugsburg.de/cms/website.php?sid=52ab318789a4c5457b4cdbe17595d4d3&id=/index/aktuell/news/data14781.htm (German)
  • Yelena Bonner
    Yelena Bonner
    Yelena Bonner was a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and wife of the noted physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov. During her decades as a dissident, Bonner was noted for her characteristic blunt honesty and courage.-Youth:...

    , 88, Russian human rights activist, after long illness. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13828019
  • Frederick Chiluba
    Frederick Chiluba
    Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba was a Zambian politician who was the second President of Zambia from 1991 to 2002. Chiluba, a trade union leader, won the country's multi-party presidential election in 1991 as the candidate of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy , defeating long-time President...

    , 68, Zambian politician, President (1991–2002), heart attack. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-06/18/c_13936995.htm
  • Clarence Clemons
    Clarence Clemons
    Clarence Anicholas Clemons, Jr. , also known as The Big Man, was an American musician and actor. From 1972 until his death, he was a prominent member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, playing the tenor saxophone. He released several solo albums and in 1985, had a hit single with "You're a...

    , 69, American saxophonist (E Street Band
    E Street Band
    The E Street Band has been rock musician Bruce Springsteen's primary backing band since 1972.The band has also recorded with a wide range of other artists including Bob Dylan, Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply, Dire Straits, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Stevie Nicks, Tom Morello, Sting, Ian...

    ) and singer ("You're a Friend Of Mine
    You're a Friend Of Mine
    "You're a Friend of Mine" is a 1985 hit song, written by Narada Michael Walden and Jeffrey Cohen, with lead vocals by Clarence Clemons and Jackson Browne in a duet. At the time of the song's release, Clemons was already well known nationally as the saxophonist in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band....

    "), complications following a stroke. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/06/clarence_clemons_dies.html
  • A. Whitney Ellsworth
    A. Whitney Ellsworth
    Arthur Whitney Ellsworth was an American editor and publisher best known as the first publisher of The New York Review of Books.In 1957, Ellsworth was President of The Harvard Advocate...

    , 75, American editor and publisher (The New York Review of Books
    The New York Review of Books
    The New York Review of Books is a fortnightly magazine with articles on literature, culture and current affairs. Published in New York City, it takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity...

    ), pancreatic cancer. http://articles.philly.com/2011-06-24/news/29699347_1_publisher-new-york-review-book-editors
  • Karl Frei
    Karl Frei
    Karl Frei was a Swiss gymnast and Olympic Champion. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London where he received a gold medal in the rings discipline.-References:...

    , 94, Swiss gymnast, 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...

     Olympic gold medalist . http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/sport/aktuell/sporttickerdepartment/urnnewsmlwwwsda-atsch20110620brz521_1.10993436.html (German)
  • Brian Haw
    Brian Haw
    Brian William Haw was an English protester and peace campaigner who lived for almost ten years in a camp in London's Parliament Square from 2001, in a protest against UK and US foreign policy...

    , 62, British peace activist, lung cancer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13828800
  • Gustaf Kjellvander
    Gustaf Kjellvander
    Jan Gustaf Lennart Kjellvander , was a Swedish singer-songwriter. Before starting the Swedish outfit The Fine Arts Showcase he had two bands, Sideshow Bob and Songs of Soil .Gustaf was born in Sweden but grew up outside of Seattle...

    , 31, Swedish singer-songwriter. http://www.sydsvenskan.se/familj/dodsfall/article1500275/Gustaf-Kjellvander-ar-dod-.html (Swedish)
  • Robin Nash
    Robin Nash
    Robert Henry Douglas Drane, known professionally as Robin Nash , was a British television producer and executive, who was probably best known as producer of Top of the Pops from 1974 to 1981...

    , 84, British television producer. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/8611720/Robin-Nash.html
  • Bob Pease
    Bob Pease
    Robert Allen Pease was an analog integrated circuit design expert and technical author. He designed several very successful "best-seller" integrated circuits, many of them in continuous production for multiple decades...

    , 70, American integrated circuit engineer. http://www.edn.com/article/518569-Analog_engineering_legend_Bob_Pease_remembered.php
  • John Perumattam
    John Perumattam
    John Perumattam was an Indian Prelate of Roman Catholic Church.John Perumattam was born in Kakkoor, India, ordained a priest on March 11, 1951. Perumattam was appointed Exarch to the Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Ujjain on July 29, 1968 and would be ordained bishop May 15, 1977...

    , 89, Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic
    Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
    The Syro-Malabar Catholic Church in India is an East Syrian Rite, Major Archiepiscopal Church in full communion with the Catholic Church. It is one of the 22 sui iuris Eastern Catholic Churches in the Catholic Church. It is the largest of the Saint Thomas Christian denominations with more than 3.6...

     hierarch, Bishop of Ujjain (1968–1998). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bperu.html
  • Shlomo Pinto
    Shlomo Pinto
    Shlomo Pinto was an Israeli paralympic champion.Pinto was a soldier with the IDF's Golani Brigade during the Yom Kippur War...

    , 57, Israeli paralympic athlete. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4083745,00.html (Hebrew)

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  • Bob Banner
    Bob Banner
    Robert James Banner, Jr. was an American producer, writer and director. From 1967 to 1972 he co-produced The Carol Burnett Show.- Life and career :...

    , 89, American television producer and director (The Carol Burnett Show
    The Carol Burnett Show
    The Carol Burnett Show is a variety / sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, and Tim Conway. It originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 278 episodes and originated from CBS Television City's Studio 33...

    ), Parkinson's disease. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/arts/television/bob-banner-an-early-tv-producer-dies-at-89.html?_r=1&ref
  • Joko Beck
    Joko Beck
    Charlotte Joko Beck was an American Zen teacher and the author of the books Everyday Zen: Love and Work and Nothing Special: Living Zen. Born in New Jersey, she studied music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and worked for some time as a pianist and piano teacher...

    , 94, American Zen Buddhist teacher, founder of the Ordinary Mind School, after long illness. http://www.dannyfisher.org/2011/06/15/charlotte-joko-beck-1917-2011/
  • John Ehrman
    John Ehrman
    John Patrick William Ehrman FBA was a British historian, most notable for his three-volume biography of William Pitt the Younger....

    , 91, British historian. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/8583040/John-Ehrman.html
  • Ted Gray
    Ted Gray
    Ted Glenn Gray was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played eight seasons with the Detroit Tigers , and then had short stints during the season with the Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, and Baltimore Orioles.A native Detroiter, Gray was a star pitcher at Highland Park...

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

    ). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/palmbeachpost/obituary.aspx?n=Ted-Gray&pid=152171162
  • Bill Haast
    Bill Haast
    William E. "Bill" Haast was the director of the Miami Serpentarium Laboratories, a facility near Punta Gorda, Florida, which produces snake venom for medical and research use. Haast extracted venom from venomous snakes from the time he was a boy...

    , 100, American snake expert, director of the Miami Serpentarium. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nhregister/obituary.aspx?n=bill-haast&pid=152015396
  • Zack du Plessis
    Zack du Plessis
    Zack du Plessis is a South African actor famous for his roles as Hendrik van Tonder in Orkney Snork Nie and as Frikkadel in Vetkoekpaleis. He died on 15 June 2011.-Filmography:* Winter van 14 Julie 1977* Pretoria, O Pretoria 1979...

    , 61, South African actor (Orkney Snork Nie
    Orkney Snork Nie
    Orkney Snork Nie was a popular Afrikaans sitcom, originally broadcast by the SABC in South Africa between 1989 and 1992. The name translates directly into Orkney Doesn't Snore, but the message being conveyed in Afrikaans is that the town isn't sleepy, there's always something happening...

    ). http://www.iol.co.za/tonight/news/local/zack-du-plessis-of-vetkoek-paleis-dies-1.1084506
  • Linda Scheid
    Linda Scheid
    Linda J. Scheid was a Minnesota politician and a member of the Minnesota Senate who represented District 46, which includes portions of the northwestern suburbs of Hennepin County in the Twin Cities metro area. A Democrat, she was first elected to the Senate in 1996, and was re-elected in 2000,...

    , 68, American politician, Minnesota state senator
    Minnesota Senate
    The Minnesota Senate is the upper house in the Minnesota Legislature. There are 67 members, half as many as are in the Minnesota House of Representatives. In terms of membership, it is the largest upper house of any state legislature. Each Senate district in the state includes an A and B House...

     (since 1997), ovarian cancer. http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/123963999.html
  • Sir Apenera Short
    Apenera Short
    Sir Apenera Pera Short KBE was a Cook Islands politician and from 1990 to 2000 was the Queen's Representative in the Cook Islands....

    , 95, Cook Islands politician, Queen's Representative
    Queen's Representative
    The Queen's Representative is the formal title given to the representative of Queen Elizabeth II, as Queen of New Zealand, in the Cook Islands....

     (1990–2000). http://www3.cookislandsnews.com/2011/June/Wed15/sir-apenera.php
  • Pavel Stolbov, 81, Russian gymnast, 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...

     Olympic gold medalist. http://sport.rian.ru/sport/20110615/388731620.html (Russian)

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  • René Audet
    René Audet
    René Audet was a Canadian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.Audet was born in Montreal, Quebec and ordained a priest May 30, 1948. He was appointed Auxiliary archbishop of the Archdiocese of Ottawa as well as Titular bishop of Chonochora on May 21, 1963 and ordained on July 31, 1963...

    , 91, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Joliette
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliette
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliette is a suffragan in Joliette of the Archdiocese of Montréal.-Ordinaries:*Joseph Alfred Archambault *Joseph-Guillaume-Laurent Forbes...

     (1968–1990). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/baudet.html
  • Geoffrey Fisken
    Geoffrey Fisken
    Geoffrey Bryson Fisken, DFC , was a New Zealand fighter pilot who was the British Commonwealth’s leading air ace in the Pacific theatre of World War II. He is credited with shooting down 11 Japanese aircraft.-Early life:...

    , 95, New Zealand 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.stuff.co.nz/national/5146184/NZ-World-War-Two-ace-dies-aged-96/
  • Carl Gardner
    Carl Gardner
    Carl Edward Gardner was an American singer, best known as the foremost member and founder of The Coasters. Known for the 1958 song "Yakety Yak", which spent a week as number one on the Hot 100 pop list, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.- Life and career :Gardner was born...

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

    ). http://pitchfork.com/news/42820-news-in-brief-the-coasters-carl-gardner-bob-mould-david-shizuo-hammer-sonar-festival/
  • Alan Haberman
    Alan Haberman
    Alan Haberman was an American supermarket executive who is credited with popularizing the use of the barcode in commerce internationally. Haberman was a founder and board member of the Uniform Code Council.-References:...

    , 81, American grocer, first to use the barcode
    Barcode
    A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data, which shows data about the object to which it attaches. Originally barcodes represented data by varying the widths and spacings of parallel lines, and may be referred to as linear or 1 dimensional . Later they evolved into rectangles,...

     system, heart and lung disease. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/business/16haberman.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
  • John Hospers
    John Hospers
    John Hospers was an American philosopher. In 1972 he was the first presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party, and the only minor party candidate to receive an electoral vote in the 1972 U.S. Presidential election....

    , 93, American philosopher, first Libertarian Party
    Libertarian Party (United States)
    The Libertarian Party is the third largest and fastest growing political party in the United States. The political platform of the Libertarian Party reflects its brand of libertarianism, favoring minimally regulated, laissez-faire markets, strong civil liberties, minimally regulated migration...

     presidential candidate (1972). http://www.lp.org/news/press-releases/john-hospers-first-libertarian-presidential-nominee-dies-at-93
  • Christopher Neame
    Christopher Neame (writer/producer)
    Christopher Elwin Neame was a British film producer and screenwriter. He was the son of film director Ronald Neame and of Beryl Heanly...

    , 68, British film and TV producer and writer, aneurysm. http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/jul/20/christopher-neame-obituary
  • Kathryn Tucker Windham
    Kathryn Tucker Windham
    Kathryn Tucker Windham was an American storyteller, author, photographer, and journalist. She was born in Selma, Alabama and grew up in nearby Thomasville....

    , 93, American author and journalist. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/books/kathryn-tucker-windham-southern-storyteller-dies-at-93.html
  • Sir John Wilton
    John Wilton (British diplomat)
    Sir Arthur John Wilton KCMG KCVO MC , known as John Wilton, was a British diplomat who was Ambassador to Kuwait and to Saudi Arabia ....

    , 89, British diplomat. http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=john-wilton&pid=151892502
  • Laura Ziskin
    Laura Ziskin
    Laura Ellen Ziskin was an American film producer. In 1990, Ziskin was the sole executive producer of the hit comedy Pretty Woman...

    , 61, American film producer (Pretty Woman
    Pretty Woman
    Pretty Woman is a 1990 romantic comedy film set in Los Angeles, California. Written by J.F. Lawton and directed by Garry Marshall, this motion picture features Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, and also Hector Elizondo, Ralph Bellamy, and Jason Alexander in supporting roles. Roberts played the only...

    , Spider-Man
    Spider-Man (film)
    Spider-Man is a 2002 American superhero film, the first in the Spider-Man film series based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. It was directed by Sam Raimi and written by David Koepp...

    , What About Bob?
    What About Bob?
    What About Bob? is a 1991 comedy film directed by Frank Oz, and starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. Murray plays Bob Wiley, a multiphobic psychiatric patient who follows his successful and egotistical psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin on vacation...

    ), breast cancer. http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/r-i-p-laura-ziskin/

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  • Paul Alter
    Paul Alter
    Paul Alter was a former American television director, specializing in game shows for Mark Goodson Productions...

    , 89, American television director (Family Feud
    Family Feud
    Family Feud is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. Two families compete against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey question posed to 100 people...

    ). http://www.emmys.tv/news/2011/emmy-winning-game-show-director-paul-alter-dies-89
  • Giorgio Celli
    Giorgio Celli
    Giorgio Celli was an Italian entomologist, ecologist, professor, writer, and politician.-Early life:Celli was born in Verona. After receiving his degree in agronomical sciences in 1959, Celli taught at the University of Bologna...

    , 75, Italian entomologist and politician (The Greens–European Free Alliance). http://www.corriere.it/cronache/11_giugno_11/giorgio-celli-entomologo-morto_5b3b53d8-943f-11e0-9db6-651cd37b13cb.shtml (Italian)
  • Gustav Ciamaga
    Gustav Ciamaga
    Gustav Ciamaga was a Canadian composer, music educator, and writer. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers, he was best known for his compositions of electronic music, although he produced several non-electronic works. His compositions have been...

    , 81, Canadian composer, music educator and writer, cancer. http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000716
  • Robert Marie Jean Victor de Chevigny
    Robert Marie Jean Victor de Chevigny
    Robert Marie Jean Victor de Boissonneaux de Chevigny was a French bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.Chevigny was born in Besançon, France and was ordained a priest on 3 October 1948 in the Holy Ghost Fathers. He was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Nouakchott on 21 December 1973 and ordained...

    , 90, French-born Mauritanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nouakchott (1973–1995). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bchevr.html
  • Jyotirmoy Dey
    Jyotirmoy Dey
    Jyotirmoy Dey , also known as Jyotendra Dey, Commander J, and J Dey, was an Indian journalist, crime and investigations editor for MiD DAY and an expert on the Mumbai underworld.He was shot dead by motorcycle-borne sharpshooters on 11 June 2011.-Career:Dey started his career with...

    , 56, Indian journalist, shot. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/J-Dey-The-eagle-who-dared/articleshow/8818986.cms
  • Gunnar Fischer
    Gunnar Fischer
    Gunnar Fischer was a Swedish cinematographer who worked with director Ingmar Bergman on several of the director's best-known films, including Smiles of a Summer Night and The Seventh Seal ....

    , 100, Swedish cinematographer (The Seventh Seal
    The Seventh Seal
    The Seventh Seal is a 1957 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Set during the Black Death, it tells of the journey of a medieval knight and a game of chess he plays with the personification of Death , who has come to take his life. Bergman developed the film from his own play...

    ). http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/gunnar-fischer-bergmans-cinematographer-dies-at-100/2011/06/12/AGMUomRH_story.html
  • Eliyahu M. Goldratt
    Eliyahu M. Goldratt
    Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt was an Israeli physicist who became a business management guru. He was the originator of the Optimized Production Technology, the Theory of Constraints , the Thinking Processes, Drum-Buffer-Rope, Critical Chain Project Management and other TOC derived tools.He authored...

    , 64, Israeli physicist and management guru. http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Obituary-Dr-Eli-Goldratt-physicist.6785665.jp
  • Kurt Nielsen
    Kurt Nielsen
    Kurt Nielsen was a Danish tennis player. He was born in Copenhagen, and is the only Danish tennis player ever to have played in a men's singles final in a Grand Slam tournament....

    , 80, Danish tennis player, only Dane to have played in a men's Grand Slam
    Grand Slam (tennis)
    The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...

     singles final. http://sporten.tv2.dk/tennis/article.php/id-40690871:dansk-tennislegende-er-d%C3%B8d.html (Danish)
  • Graham B. Purcell, Jr.
    Graham B. Purcell, Jr.
    Graham Boynton Purcell, Jr. was a United States Representative from Texas.Born in Archer City, Texas, Purcell attended the public schools and received his Bachelor of Science from The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas in 1946, and his LL.B...

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

     from Texas
    United States Congressional Delegations from Texas
    These are tables of congressional delegations from Texas to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.-United States Senate:-United States House of Representatives:...

     (1962–1973). http://www.wichita-falls.org/2011/06/11/wichita-falls-loses-legendary-judge-graham-purcell/
  • Seth Putnam
    Seth Putnam
    Seth Edward Putnam was the founder of grindcore band Anal Cunt. He was known for his brutal screaming and lyrics that either shock, offend, or invoke morbid humor...

    , 43, American musician (Anal Cunt
    Anal Cunt
    Anal Cunt, also known as AxCx and A.C., was an American grindcore band that formed in Newton, Massachusetts in 1988. Since its inception, the band underwent a number of line-up changes. Known for its grindcore musical style and controversial lyrics, Anal Cunt released eight full-length studio...

    ). http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=159315
  • Raúl Marcelo Pacífico Scozzina
    Raúl Marcelo Pacífico Scozzina
    Raúl Marcelo Pacífico Scozzina, O.F.M was a Argentine prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.Raúl Marcelo Pacífico Scozzina was born in San Martín Norte, Argentina and was ordained a priest on December 23, 1944 from the religious order Order of Friars Minor...

    , 89, Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Formosa (1957–1978). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bscozzina.html
  • Jack Smith
    Jack Smith (artist)
    Jack Smith was a British realist and, later, abstract artist.- Life :Jack Smith was born in 1928 in Sheffield, Yorkshire....

    , 82, British artist. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jun/17/jack-smith-obituary
  • William Carrington Thompson
    William Carrington Thompson
    William Carrington Thompson , known as W. Carrington Thompson, was an American jurist and politician....

    , 95, American politician and jurist, Virginia House of Delegates
    Virginia House of Delegates
    The Virginia House of Delegates is the lower house of the Virginia General Assembly. It has 100 members elected for terms of two years; unlike most states, these elections take place during odd-numbered years. The House is presided over by the Speaker of the House, who is elected from among the...

     (1959–1968), Virginia Senate (1968–1973) and Supreme Court
    Supreme Court of Virginia
    The Supreme Court of Virginia is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It primarily hears appeals from the trial-level city and county Circuit Courts, as well as the criminal law, family law and administrative law cases that go through the Court of Appeals of Virginia. It is one of...

     (1980–1983). http://www2.timesdispatch.com/lifestyles/2011/jun/12/TDOBIT01-retired-va-supreme-court-justice-w-carrin-ar-1102429/

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  • Jamil Fakhri
    Jamil Fakhri
    Jamil Fakhri , was a Pakistani film, TV and stage artist.Jamil Fakhri was born in Lahore in 1946. After graduation, he joined the National Bank of Pakistan. He started doing theater at Wapda Auditorium, Lahore, and at Alhamra. His popular stage plays include Andar Ana Mana Hai, Zuban Daraz and...

    , 65, Pakistani actor, after long illness. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011\06\10\story_10-6-2011_pg7_5
  • M. F. Husain, 95, Indian artist, heart attack. http://www.indiablooms.com/NewsDetailsPage/newsDetails090611g.php
  • Josip Katalinski
    Josip Katalinski
    Josip "Škija" Katalinski was a Bosnian football player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest football players from the former Yugoslavia.-Club career:...

    , 63, Bosnian footballer, after long illness. http://www.nezavisne.com/sport/fudbal/Umro-Josip-Katalinski-Skija-Video-92988.html (Croatian)
  • Tomoko Kawakami
    Tomoko Kawakami
    was a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo. Having graduated from the Toho Gakuen School of Music, Kawakami was affiliated with Production Baobab at the time of her death.-Career:...

    , 41, Japanese voice actress (Fushigi Yûgi
    Fushigi Yugi
    , also known as Curious Play, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yu Watase. Shogakukan published Fushigi Yûgi in Shōjo Comic in its original serialized form from May 1992 through June 1996. Viz Media released the manga series in English in North America starting in 1999...

    , Revolutionary Girl Utena
    Revolutionary Girl Utena
    is a manga by Chiho Saito and anime directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara. The manga serial began in the June 1996 issue of Ciao and the anime was first broadcast in 1997. The anime and manga were created simultaneously, but, despite some similarities, they progressed in different directions. A movie, was...

    ), ovarian cancer. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-06-10/utena-voice-actress-tomoko-kawakami-passes-away
  • Mike Mitchell, 55, American basketball player (Cleveland Cavaliers
    Cleveland Cavaliers
    The Cleveland Cavaliers are a professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They began playing in the National Basketball Association in 1970 as an expansion team...

    , San Antonio Spurs
    San Antonio Spurs
    The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. They are part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ....

    ), cancer. http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/spurs/article/Former-Spurs-star-Mitchell-dies-of-cancer-1416879.php
  • Idwal Robling
    Idwal Robling
    James Idwal Robling was a Welsh sports commentator, who worked for the BBC in Wales for almost 40 years.Robling was born in Ynyshir in the Rhondda Valley, where he attended the local grammar school. His education was interrupted by the Second World War, and upon being called up was accepted for...

    , 84, Welsh Olympic footballer and broadcaster. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/wales/13680785.stm
  • Billy Shipp
    Billy Shipp
    William Leonard Shipp is a former professional Canadian football player who played twelve seasons with the Canadian Football League's Montreal Alouettes and the Toronto Argonauts. He started his pro career in the NFL, playing one season for the New York Giants.-References:...

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

    , Toronto Argonauts
    Toronto Argonauts
    The Toronto Argonauts are a professional Canadian football team competing in the East Division of the Canadian Football League. The Toronto, Ontario based team was founded in 1873 and is one of the oldest existing professional sports teams in North America, after the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta...

    , Montreal Alouettes
    Montreal Alouettes
    The Montreal Alouettes are a Canadian Football League team based in Montreal, Quebec.The current franchise named the Alouettes moved to Montreal from Baltimore, Maryland, in 1996 where they had been known as the Baltimore Stallions...

    ). http://obits.al.com/obituaries/mobile/obituary.aspx?n=bill-shipp&pid=151753281
  • Ignazio Vella
    Ignazio Vella
    Ignazio A. "Ig" Vella was an American businessman and cheese maker who served on the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors.- Life, education, and career :...

    , 82, American artisanal cheesemaker
    Cheesemaker
    A cheesemaker is a person who makes cheese.The craft of making cheese dates back at least 4,000 years. Archaeological evidence exists of cheesemaking by the ancient Egyptian civilizations....

     and businessman, long illness. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ignazio-vella-20110617,0,6080026.story

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  • Anatole Abragam
    Anatole Abragam
    Anatole Abragam was a French physicist who wrote The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism and has made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. Originally from Russia, Abragam and his family emigrated to France in 1925.After being educated at the University of Paris, , he...

    , 96, French physicist. http://iramis.cea.fr/Phocea/Vie_des_labos/News/index.php?id_news=4524 (French)
  • Larry Border
    Larry Border
    Larry Border was an American Republican politician from West Virginia.Border served in the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1990 until his death; he was the minority chairman of the House Health and Human Resources Committee, and served on the Finance, House Rules, and Agriculture committees...

    , 60, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
    West Virginia House of Delegates
    The West Virginia House of Delegates is the lower house of the West Virginia Legislature. Only three states—Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia—refer to their lower house as the House of Delegates.-Historical:-Current:-District organization:...

     (since 1990), stroke. http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201106080842
  • Nasir Jalil
    Nasir Jalil
    Nasir Jalil was a footballer player who represented Singapore at international level in the late 1970s and early 1980s.Nicknamed The Crazy Horse, he is remembered for scoring the late equaliser in the Malaysia Cup final in 1977 at the Merdeka Stadium when he won the first of his two Malaysia Cups...

    , 56, Singaporean footballer. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/sportsnews/view/1134028/1/.html
  • George Landow, 67, American experimental filmmaker.http://www.expcinema.com/site/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1227%3Aowen-land-1944-2011&lang=en
  • Clara Luper
    Clara Luper
    Clara Shepard Luper was a civic leader, retired schoolteacher, and a pioneering leader in the American Civil Rights Movement...

    , 88, American civil rights activist, after long illness. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/us/12luper.html?ref=deathsobituaries#
  • John Mackenzie, 83, British film director (The Long Good Friday
    The Long Good Friday
    The Long Good Friday is a British gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. It was completed in 1979 but, because of release delays, it is generally credited as a 1980 film...

    , Ruby
    Ruby (film)
    Ruby is a feature film, released in the United States on March 27, 1992, about Jack Ruby, the Dallas, Texas nightclub owner who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement garage of a Dallas city police station in 1963. The film was directed by John Mackenzie and stars Danny Aiello , Sherilyn...

    ). http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Actor-and-filmmaker-John-Mackenzie.6783245.jp
  • Paul Massie
    Paul Massie
    Paul Massie was a Canadian actor and academic. He later became a theater professor at the University of South Florida in the 1970s...

    , 78, Canadian BAFTA-winning actor and educator. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118038694
  • Fazul Abdullah Mohammed
    Fazul Abdullah Mohammed
    Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was a member of al-Qaeda, and the leader of its presence in East Africa as of November 2009. Mohammed was born in Moroni, Comoros Islands and had Kenyan as well as Comorian citizenship...

    , 38?, Comorian al-Qaeda terrorist, planned 1998 United States embassy bombings
    1998 United States embassy bombings
    The 1998 United States embassy bombings were a series of attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998, in which hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the United States embassies in the East African capitals of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. The date of the...

    , shot. http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/06/11/somalia.qaeda.leader.dead/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
  • Jim Northrup, 71, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers
    Detroit Tigers
    The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...

    , 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...

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

    ), seizure. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110608&content_id=20225198¬ebook_id=20245554&vkey=notebook_det&c_id=det
  • Steve Popovich
    Steve Popovich
    Steve Popovich , was an American record company executive.Popovich was born in Nemacolin, Pennsylvania, and in 1962 started in the warehouse at Columbia Records Cleveland...

    , 68, American record executive, founder of Cleveland International Records
    Cleveland International Records
    Cleveland International Records is an independent record label formed in 1977 by Steve Popovich. One of the first albums the label released was 1977's Bat Out of Hell by Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf which has sold over 40 million copies worldwide. They have also released recordings by B.J...

    . http://www.cleveland.com/popmusic/index.ssf/2011/06/steve_popovich_founder_of_clev.html
  • Alan Rubin
    Alan Rubin
    Alan Rubin , also known as Mr. Fabulous, was an American musician. He played trumpet, flugelhorn, and piccolo trumpet....

    , 68, American trumpeter (The Blues Brothers
    The Blues Brothers
    The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revivalist band founded in 1978 by comedy actors Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live...

    ), lung cancer . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-alan-rubin-20110611,0,3513689.story
  • Roy Skelton
    Roy Skelton
    Roy William Skelton was an English actor and voice artist, whose voice was more familiar to television viewers than his name...

    , 79, British actor (Rainbow
    Rainbow (TV series)
    Rainbow is a British children's television series, created by Pamela Lonsdale, which ran twice weekly at 12:10 on Tuesdays and Fridays on the ITV network, from 16 October 1972 to 6 March 1992...

    , Doctor Who
    Doctor Who
    Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

    ), stroke. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13693811
  • Oliver William Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
    Oliver William Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
    The Very Reverend, the Honourable Oliver William Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was Dean of Lincoln in the latter part of the 20th century....

    , 85, British Anglican priest, Dean of Lincoln
    Dean of Lincoln
    The Dean of Lincoln is the head of the Chapter of Lincoln Cathedral in the city of Lincoln, England in the Diocese of Lincoln. The post is currently held by the Very Revd Philip John Warr Buckler, MA.-References:...

     (1969–1989). http://www.lincolncathedral.com/xhtml/default.asp?UserLinkID=62533

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  • Paul Dickson, 74, American football player (St. Louis Rams
    St. Louis Rams
    The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Rams have won three NFL Championships .The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland,...

    , Dallas Cowboys
    Dallas Cowboys
    The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football franchise which plays in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League . They are headquartered in Valley Ranch in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas...

    , Minnesota Vikings
    Minnesota Vikings
    The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings joined the National Football League as an expansion team in 1960...

    ), blood infection. http://www.startribune.com/sports/vikings/123583374.html
  • Angelino Fons
    Angelino Fons
    Angelino Fons Fernández , was a Spanish film director and screenwriter.-Career:Angelino Fons was born on March 6, 1936 in Madrid, just months before the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. He grew up in Murcia and Orihuela, where he moved with his family in 1940, there he studied at the Jesuit...

    , 75, Spanish film director. http://www.abc.es/20110607/cultura-cine/abci-muere-angelino-fons-201106071539.html (Spanish)
  • Walid Gholmieh
    Walid Gholmieh
    Dr. Walid Georges Gholmieh was the director of the Le Conservatoire libanais national supérieur de musique or The Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music...

    , 73, Lebanese musician, director of Conservatoire Libanais
    Conservatoire Libanais
    Le Conservatoire libanais national supérieur de musique or The Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music was founded in the 1930s by Wadih Sabra, composer of the national anthem of Lebanon. Sabra's goal was to establish an institute of higher learning for music. The Conservatoire, which is...

    . http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Music/2011/Jun-08/Lebanese-classical-music-paragon-dies.ashx
  • Genaro Hernández
    Genaro Hernandez
    Genaro Hernández was a Mexican-American boxer from South Central Los Angeles. Hernández was the former WBC, WBA, & Lineal super featherweight champion.-Pro career:...

    , 45, American boxer, cancer. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/06/former-world-champion-boxer-hernandez-from-la-dies-at-45.html
  • Liam Kelly
    Liam Kelly (Irish republican)
    Liam Kelly was an Irish republican, who was elected both to House of Commons of Northern Ireland and as a member of Seanad Éireann...

    , 88, Irish republican and politician. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/newsday/obituary.aspx?n=liam-kelly-william&pid=151703109
  • José Pagán
    José Pagán
    José Antonio Pagán Rodríguez was a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player.-Baseball career:Pagán made his major league debut with the San Francisco Giants on August 8, . He played for the Giants until 1965, then was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates. In he played his final career games with...

    , 76, Puerto Rican baseball player (San Francisco Giants
    San Francisco Giants
    The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....

    , Pittsburgh Pirates
    Pittsburgh Pirates
    The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League, and are five-time World Series Champions...

    ), Alzheimer's disease. http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=396711&CategoryId=13002
  • Mietek Pemper
    Mietek Pemper
    Mieczysław "Mietek" Pemper was a Polish-born German Holocaust survivor. Pemper helped compile and type Oskar Schindler's now-famous list, which saved 1,200 people from being killed in the Holocaust during World War II....

    , 91, Polish-born German Holocaust survivor, compiled and typed Oskar Schindler
    Oskar Schindler
    Oskar Schindler was an ethnic German industrialist born in Moravia. He is credited with saving over 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively.He is the subject of the...

    's list. http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=224583
  • Nataraja Ramakrishna
    Nataraja Ramakrishna
    Nataraja Ramakrishna was a dance guru from Andhra Pradesh, India. He was the chairman of Andhra Pradesh Sangeeta Nataka Academy...

    , 88, Indian dance guru, after long illness. http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/andhra-pradesh/article2084870.ece
  • Maksud Sadikov
    Maksud Sadikov
    Sadikov Maksud Ibnugadzharovich, -- , was a Professor in International Relations and Islamic Economics, a practicing Sufi, follower of Shaykh Said Afandi al-Chirkawi.- Biography :...

    , 48, Russian Islamic scholar and theologian, shot. http://en.rian.ru/russia/20110607/164501048.html
  • Jorge Semprún
    Jorge Semprún
    Jorge Semprún Maura was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the era of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain, but was expelled...

    , 87, Spanish writer and politician. http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/ultimas/20-169652-2011-06-07.html (Spanish)
  • Leonard B. Stern
    Leonard B. Stern
    Leonard Bernard Stern was an American screenwriter, film and television producer, director, and one of the creators, with Roger Price, of the classic word game Mad Libs.-Life and career:...

    , 87, American television director, producer, and writer (Get Smart
    Get Smart
    Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show starred Don Adams , Barbara Feldon , and Edward Platt...

    ), creator of The Honeymooners
    The Honeymooners
    The Honeymooners is an American situation comedy television show, based on a recurring 1951–'55 sketch of the same name. It originally aired on the DuMont network's Cavalcade of Stars and subsequently on the CBS network's The Jackie Gleason Show hosted by Jackie Gleason, and filmed before a live...

    , co-creator of Mad Libs
    Mad Libs
    Mad Libs is a phrasal template word game where one player prompts another for a list of words to substitute for blanks in a story, usually with funny results...

    . http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118038251?refCatId=14
  • Edgar Tekere
    Edgar Tekere
    Edgar Zivanai Tekere was a Zimbabwean politician. He was a president of the Zimbabwe African National Union who organised the party during the Lancaster House talks and served in government before his popularity as a potential rival to Robert Mugabe caused their...

    , 74, Zimbabwean politician, cancer. http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/zimbabwe/8264-tekere-dies.html
  • Gavriel Tsifroni
    Gavriel Tsifroni
    Gavriel Tsifroni was an Israeli journalist.- Biography :Tsifroni was born in Vilna in 1914. At the age of three he immigrated to Mandate Palestine with his family, which moved to Tel Aviv. From the age of 14 he worked in a bakery delivering bread to the residents of the town...

    , 96, Israeli journalist. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4079860,00.html (Hebrew)
  • Haim Yisraeli
    Haim Yisraeli
    - Biography :Yisraeli was born in 1927 in the town of Motal in Belarus . He was named after his uncle Rabbi Meir Haim Dolenko , the rabbi of Motal ....

    , 84, Israeli civil servant. http://www.jewpi.com/died-haim-yisraeli-advisor-of-14-defense-ministers-of-israel/

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  • John R. Alison
    John R. Alison
    - External links :* The All-American Airman, Walter J. Boyne, March 2000*John R. Alison Papers, 1945–1957*John R. Alison Collection, including extended video interview available online.*" John R. Alison Enshrinee Biography...

    , 98, American airman, launched the Allied Reoccupation of Burma during World War II. http://www.finanznachrichten.de/20448270
  • John Boswall
    John Boswall
    John Boswall was a British actor probably best known for playing Wyvern in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest....

    , 91, British actor. http://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/9098680.Acting_elite_bid_farewell_to_John_at_Woodchester_funeral/
  • Claudio Cavazza
    Claudio Cavazza
    Claudio Cavazza is an Italian entrepreneur, Chairman and founder of the Sigma-Tau pharmaceutical company.-History:...

    , 77, Italian entrepreneur, founder of Sigma-Tau
    Sigma-Tau
    Sigma-Tau Industrie Farmaceutiche Riunite, referred to as Sigma-Tau, emerges in 1957 from the entrepreneurial initiative of research chemist Claudio Cavazza...

     pharmaceuticals. http://en.defiante.com/html/EFpZykkuEVmtSXFLGv.shtml
  • Bill Closs
    Bill Closs
    William Thomas "Bill" Closs was a American basketball player. He played collegiately for Rice University. In his final year, he led the Southwest Conference in scoring and was All-American in 1943...

    , 89, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors, Fort Wayne Pistons). http://www.riceowls.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/060811aaa.html
  • Declan Costello
    Declan Costello
    Declan Costello was an Irish jurist and Fine Gael party politician, who served as a Teachta Dála for twenty years, as Attorney General for four years and as a High Court judge for another twenty years before his retirement....

    , 84, Irish politician, TD
    Teachta Dála
    A Teachta Dála , usually abbreviated as TD in English, is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas . It is the equivalent of terms such as "Member of Parliament" or "deputy" used in other states. The official translation of the term is "Deputy to the Dáil", though a more literal...

     for Dublin North West
    Dublin North West (Dáil Éireann constituency)
    Dublin North–West is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 3 deputies...

     (1951–1969); Dublin South West
    Dublin South West (Dáil Éireann constituency)
    Dublin South–West is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 4 deputies...

     (1973–1977), Attorney General
    Attorney General of Ireland
    The Attorney General is a constitutional officer who is the official adviser to the Government of Ireland in matters of law. He is in effect the chief law officer in Ireland. The Attorney General is not a member of the Government but does participate in cabinet meetings when invited and attends...

     (1973–1977) and High Court judge. http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0606/costellod.html
  • Eleanor Dapkus
    Eleanor Dapkus
    Eleanor Dapkus [Wolf] was a center fielder and pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 6", 160 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.-Women in baseball:...

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

    ), breast cancer.
  • Dulce Figueiredo
    Dulce Figueiredo
    Dulce Maria de Guimarães Figueiredo was the wife of former Brazilian president João Figueiredo and thus the First Lady of Brazil from 1979 to 1985. A widow since 1999, she died June 6, 2011 at a clinic in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro aged 83.-References:...

    , 83, Brazilian First Lady (1979–1985), widow of João Figueiredo. http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/noticias/0,,OI5172583-EI306,00-Morre+no+Rio+a+exprimeiradama+Dulce+Figueiredo.html (Portuguese)
  • Benjamín González
    Benjamín González
    Benjamín González was an athlete from Spain. He competed in the 400 and 800 metres.González won a bronze medal in 400 m at the 1982 European Indoor Championships. At the inaugural World Indoor Games in 1985 he and finished second in the 800 metres behind compatriot Colomán Trabado...

    , 53, Spanish Olympic athlete, mountaineering accident. http://es.eurosport.yahoo.com/09062011/47/fallece-olimpico-benjamin-gonzalez.html (Spanish) (body found on this date)
  • Stefan Kuryłowicz
    Stefan Kuryłowicz
    Stefan Marian Kuryłowicz was a Polish architect and professor who is widely credited with transforming the architecture and skyline of Warsaw, Poland, in the twenty years following the collapse of Communism in 1989...

    , 62, Polish architect, plane crash. http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/25347,Obituary-%E2%80%93-architect-Stefan-Kurylowicz
  • Masashi Ohuchi
    Masashi Ohuchi
    was a Japanese medal-winning weightlifter. Ohuchi won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the 1964 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He won two gold medals at the Asia Games in 1966 and 1970. He further became the world champion in Light-Heavy lighting at...

    , 67, Japanese weightlifter, Olympic silver (1968
    1968 Summer Olympics
    The 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City, Mexico in October 1968. The 1968 Games were the first Olympic Games hosted by a developing country, and the first Games hosted by a Spanish-speaking country...

    ) and bronze (1964
    1964 Summer Olympics
    The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan in 1964. Tokyo had been awarded with the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subsequently passed to Helsinki because of Japan's...

    ) medalist. http://www.iwf.net/newsletter/newsletter18.html
  • Shrek
    Shrek (sheep)
    Shrek was a Merino wether belonging to Bendigo Station, a sheep station near Tarras, New Zealand, who gained international fame in 2004 after he avoided being caught and shorn for six years. Merinos are normally shorn annually, but Shrek apparently hid in caves, avoiding muster...

    , 16, New Zealand celebrity sheep, euthanised. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5105798/Shrek-NZs-most-famous-sheep-put-down

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  • Lee J. Ames
    Lee J. Ames
    Lee Judah Ames was an American artist noted for his Draw 50... learn-to-draw books.He was born in Manhattan, New York. His first job at age eighteen was at Walt Disney Studios. He has since led a career as an advertising artist, fine artist, cartoonist, designer, animation in-betweener,...

    , 90, American artist and illustrator, heart failure. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=70987768
  • James Arness
    James Arness
    James King Arness was an American actor, best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon in the television series Gunsmoke for 20 years...

    , 88, American actor (Gunsmoke
    Gunsmoke
    Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....

    ), natural causes. http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-james-arness-20110604,0,6262500.story
  • Harry Bernstein
    Harry Bernstein
    Harry Louis Bernstein was a British-born American writer whose first published book, The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers, dealt with his long suffering mother Ada's struggles to feed her six children; an abusive, alcoholic father, Yankel; the anti-Semitism Bernstein and his Jewish...

    , 101, British-born American author. http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/obit/2011-06-04-harry-bernstein-obit_n.htm
  • Wally Boag
    Wally Boag
    Wallace Vincent "Wally" Boag was an American performer known for his starring role in Disney's long-running stage show the Golden Horseshoe Revue. This is not a poster. It was an advertisement published in Variety....

    , 90, American performer (Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue
    Golden Horseshoe Saloon
    -External links:*...

    ). http://ocresort.ocregister.com/2011/06/03/disney-legend-wally-boag-dies/79355/
  • Marion Fuller Brown
    Marion Fuller Brown
    Marion Fuller Brown was an American politician and environmental activist. She was a co-founder of the nonprofit environmental advocacy organization Scenic America....

    , 94, American politician and environmental activist. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/us/17brown.html?_r=1&ref=deathsobituaries
  • Papa Joe Chevalier
    Papa Joe Chevalier
    Armand "Papa Joe" Chevalier was a sports radio and talk radio host from Las Vegas, Nevada. His show, "The Papa Joe Show," was heard on Sporting News Radio until 2005. Papa Joe had brief stints in independent syndication, on , and Sports Byline USA, and the now-defunct Sports Fan Radio Network...

    , 62, American sports talk radio host, stroke. http://www.lvrj.com/sports/-papa-joe-chevalier-dies-at-age-62-123167828.html?ref=828
  • Bruce Crozier
    Bruce Crozier
    Bruce Crozier was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Essex for the Ontario Liberal Party.-Background:...

    , 72, Canadian politician, Ontario
    Legislative Assembly of Ontario
    The Legislative Assembly of Ontario , is the legislature of the Canadian province of Ontario, and is the second largest provincial legislature of Canada...

     MPP for Essex South (1993–1999) and Essex
    Essex (provincial electoral district)
    Essex is a provincial electoral district in southwestern, Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.It was created in 1999 from Essex South, Essex—Kent and Windsor—Sandwich. It also existed from 1867 to 1874....

     (since 1999), aortic aneurysm. http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1002784--retiring-liberal-mpp-bruce-crozier-dead
  • Andrew Gold
    Andrew Gold
    Andrew Maurice Gold was an American singer, musician and songwriter. His works include the Top 10 single "Lonely Boy" , as well as the singles "Thank You for Being a Friend" , and "Never Let Her Slip Away" ....

    , 59, American singer-songwriter ("Lonely Boy
    Lonely Boy (Andrew Gold song)
    "Lonely Boy" is a song written and recorded by Andrew Gold in 1976 for his album What's Wrong with This Picture? The song features backing vocals provided by Linda Ronstadt . When released as a single in 1977, the song became a top-twenty hit in both the United States and the United Kingdom...

    ", "Thank You for Being a Friend
    Thank You for Being a Friend
    "Thank You For Being A Friend" is a song written by Andrew Gold, who recorded it for his third album, All This and Heaven Too. The single version reached number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978....

    "), heart attack. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13666487
  • Pat Jackson
    Pat Jackson
    Patrick Douglas Selmes Jackson was an English film and television director.Born in Eltham, Jackson worked as a production assistant on the 1936 short film Night Mail. He directed a number of documentaries in the mid-1930's. His debut feature film was 1944's Western Approaches. Jackson spent some...

    , 95, English film and television director. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/pat-jackson-director-who-learnt-his-trade-on-night-mail-and-went-on-to-make-one-of-the-finest-wartime-films-2311583.html
  • John Henry Johnson
    John Henry Johnson
    John Henry Johnson was an American football fullback. He played from 1954 to 1965 for the San Francisco 49ers, the Detroit Lions, and the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League...

    , 81, American football player (San Francisco 49ers
    San Francisco 49ers
    The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team was founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference and...

    , Pittsburgh Steelers
    Pittsburgh Steelers
    The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team currently belongs to the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Founded in , the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC...

    ) and Hall of Famer
    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...

     . http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_18203171?nclick_check=1
  • Miriam Karlin
    Miriam Karlin
    Miriam Karlin, OBE was a British actress who worked on screen for over 60 years. She was best known for her role as Paddy in The Rag Trade, a 1960s BBC and 1970s LWT sitcom , especially for her catchphrase "Everybody out!"...

    , 85, British actress and activist, cancer. http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/32408/rag-trade-actress-miriam-karlin-dies
  • Ilyas Kashmiri
    Ilyas Kashmiri
    Ilyas Kashmiri was a Pakistani film actor.Born in Muhalla Dara Shikoh, near Rewali Cinema, in Lahore, Punjab, British India, he started his film career from Bombay. In Bombay, the first film in which he appeared as a hero was Malika, directed and produced by Nazir...

    , 47, Pakistani jihadist militant, leader of Harkatul Jihad al-Islami, drone strike
    Unmanned aerial vehicle
    An unmanned aerial vehicle , also known as a unmanned aircraft system , remotely piloted aircraft or unmanned aircraft, is a machine which functions either by the remote control of a navigator or pilot or autonomously, that is, as a self-directing entity...

    . http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13653324
  • Jack Kevorkian
    Jack Kevorkian
    Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian , commonly known as "Dr. Death", was an American pathologist, euthanasia activist, painter, composer and instrumentalist. He is best known for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he said he assisted at least 130 patients to...

    , 83, American physician and right to die
    Right to die
    The right to die is the ethical or institutional entitlement of the individual to commit suicide or to undergo voluntary euthanasia. Possession of this right is often understood to mean that a person with a terminal illness should be allowed to commit suicide or assisted suicide or to decline...

     activist, pulmonary thrombosis. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43265235/
  • Bhajan Lal
    Bhajan Lal
    Bhajan Lal was a politician and two-time chief minister from the northern Indian state of Haryana.-Early life:...

    , 80, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Haryana (1979–1985; 1991–1996), cardiac arrest. http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/article2074044.ece
  • Peter Murphy
    Peter Murphy (broadcaster)
    Peter David Murphy was a Irish radio and television broadcaster, best known as the host of the RTÉ's Cross Country Quiz.-Background and early life:...

    , 88, Irish television presenter (RTÉ
    Raidió Teilifís Éireann
    Raidió Teilifís Éireann is a semi-state company and the public service broadcaster of Ireland. It both produces programmes and broadcasts them on television, radio and the Internet. The radio service began on January 1, 1926, while regular television broadcasts began on December 31, 1961, making...

    ). http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0604/murphyp.html
  • Sammy Ofer
    Sammy Ofer
    Sammy Ofer KBE was a businessman, shipping tycoon and one of the wealthiest people in Israel, although most of his time he spent abroad, and managed his businesses from Monte Carlo in Monaco...

    , 89, Israeli businessman, after long illness. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/world/middleeast/05ofer.html?_r=1&ref=deathsobituaries
  • Ray Pahl
    Ray Pahl
    Raymond Edward Pahl was a British sociologist, best known for his studies of social interaction, polarisation, work and friendship in suburban and post-industrial communities.-Life and career:...

    , 75, British sociologist, cancer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/jul/26/ray-pahl-obituary?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
  • Benny Spellman
    Benny Spellman
    Benny Spellman was an American rhythm and blues singer, best known for his 1962 hit "Lipstick Traces ," written by Allen Toussaint and the original version of "Fortune Teller", covered by The Rolling Stones among others. "Lipstick Traces" reached #28 on the US Billboard Black singles chart and #80...

    , 79, American R&B singer, respiratory failure. http://www.wwltv.com/news/RB-legend-Benny-Spellman-dies-123172068.html
  • Gus Tyler
    Gus Tyler
    August "Gus" Tyler was an American socialist activist of the 1930s, a labor union official, author, and newspaper columnist...

    , 99, American socialist activist. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/nyregion/gus-tyler-firebrand-of-labor-movement-dies-at-99.html?_r=1&ref=deathsobituaries
  • Jan van Roessel
    Jan van Roessel
    Jan van Roessel was a Dutch football player.-Club career:A big striker and fierce header of the ball, Van Roessel was picked up at LONGA by Willem II in Tilburg in 1951, and won the 1952 Dutch league title and in 1955 the first professional Eredivisie championship...

    , 86, Dutch Olympic footballer (Willem II Tilburg
    Willem II Tilburg
    Willem II , also known as Willem II Tilburg, is a football club based in Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands. The team was founded on 12 August 1896 as Tilburgia...

    ). http://www.vi.nl/Nieuws-item/201569/Oudinternational-Jan-van-Roessel-86-overleden.htm

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  • Jaehoon Ahn
    Jaehoon Ahn
    Jaehoon Ahn was a North Korean-born American journalist and researcher. Ahn worked as a researcher for the Washington Post for more than twenty-five years, until 1996. He was also the founding director of Radio Free Asia's Korean language service in 1997 and a board member of U.S...

    , 70, North Korean-born American journalist and researcher, founding director of Radio Free Asia
    Radio Free Asia
    Radio Free Asia is a private, nonprofit corporation that operates a radio station and Internet news service. RFA was founded by an act of the US Congress and is operated by the Broadcasting Board of Governors . The RFA is supported in part by grants from the federal government of the United States...

     Korean language service. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jaehoon-ahn-reporter-and-post-researcher-dies/2011/06/09/AGNjEGPH_story.html
  • Munir Dar
    Munir Dar (field hockey)
    Munir Ahmed Dar was a field hockey player from Pakistan, who won the silver medal with the Men's National Hockey Team at the 1956 and 1964 Summer Olympics.Munir Dar died on June 1, 2011.-References:...

    , 76, Pakistani field hockey player, 1960
    1960 Summer Olympics
    The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held from August 25 to September 11, 1960 in Rome, Italy...

     Olympic gold medalist. http://tribune.com.pk/story/180248/hockey-legend-munir-dar-passes-away/
  • Matt Fong
    Matt Fong
    Matthew Kipling Fong was a Republican who served as the 30th California State Treasurer and was also the adopted son of Democrat March Fong Eu, the 25th California Secretary of State....

    , 57, American politician, California State Treasurer
    California State Treasurer
    The California State Treasurer is responsible for the state's investment and finance. The post has more narrow responsibilities and authority than the California State Controller...

     (1995–1999), skin cancer. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-matt-fong-20110602,0,7796338.story?track=rss
  • Frank Ponta
    Frank Ponta
    Ponta coached several medal winning Paralympic athletes including Louise Sauvage and Priya Cooper. He was Sauvage's first coach, starting when Sauvage was a junior competitor. Sauvage described Ponta's coaching style as patient....

    , 75, Australian paralympian
    Paralympic Games
    The Paralympic Games are a major international multi-sport event where athletes with a physical disability compete; this includes athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and Cerebral Palsy. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which are held immediately following their...

    , after long illness. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/pioneering-paralympian-frank-ponta-dies-aged-75/story-e6frg7mf-1226068021006
  • Devi Prasad
    Devi Prasad (artist)
    Devi Prasad was an Indian artist and peace activist. He was a pioneering studio potter, painter, designer, photographer, art educator and peace activist.-Early life:...

    , 89, Indian artist and peace activist. http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/aug/09/devi-prasad-obituary
  • Haleh Sahabi
    Haleh Sahabi
    Haleh Sahabi was an Iranian humanitarian and democracy activist. She was the daughter of former Iranian MP and veteran opposition figure Ezzatollah Sahabi, and the granddaughter of Yadollah Sahabi...

    , 54, Iranian humanitarian, daughter of Ezzatollah Sahabi
    Ezzatollah Sahabi
    Ezzatollah Sahabi was an Iranian scholar, humanitarian, democracy activist, politician and former parliament member. He was famous for his political-economical social analysis, and also for the many years of imprisonment in both the pre-revolution and post-revolution eras...

    , cardiac arrest. http://iranian.com/main/2011/jun/haleh-sahabi
  • Al Wiggins
    Al Wiggins
    Albert M. Wiggins, Jr was an American swimmer who attended the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, a former world record holder in the butterfly, and NCAA swimming champion at The Ohio State University. He is a member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame...

    , 76, American Olympic swimmer, aortic dissection. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11157/1151664-122-0.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml
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