Deaths in July 2012

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

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

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

Video Deaths in July 2012

July 2012

1

• Dennis Eagan, 85, British hockey player and soldier.
• Peter E. Gillquist, 73, American archpriest (Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America), melanoma.
• Mike Hershberger, 72, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Athletics).
• Ossie Hibbert, 62, Jamaican musician, heart attack.
• Evelyn Lear, 86, American opera singer.
• Walter Lienert, 87, American Olympics gymnastics coach and judge.
• Fritz Pauer, 68, Austrian jazz pianist and composer.
• Alan G. Poindexter, 50, American NASA astronaut, jet ski accident.
• Jack Richardson, 78, American playwright and author.
• Odd Todnem, 89, Norwegian engineer.

2

• John E. Brooks, 88, American priest and educator, President of the College of the Holy Cross (1970-1994), lymphoma.
• Maurice Chevit, 88, French actor.
• Ben Davidson, 72, American football player (Oakland Raiders) and actor (Conan the Barbarian), prostate cancer.
• Gunnar Eide, 92, Norwegian actor and theatre director.
• Julian Goodman, 90, American broadcasting executive, President of NBC (1966-1974).
• Tsutomu Koyama, 75, Japanese volleyball player and coach, Olympic bronze medalist (1964), esophageal cancer.
• Angelo Mangiarotti, 91, Italian architect and industrial designer.
• Betty Meggers, 90, American archaeologist.
• Ed Stroud, 72, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators).
• Ben Van Os, 67, Dutch production designer and art director (Girl with a Pearl Earring), throat cancer.

3

• Nguy?n H?u Có, 87, Vietnamese general and political prisoner, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister of South Vietnam (1965-1967), diabetes.
• Andy Griffith, 86, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Matlock, Waitress), heart attack.
• Hugó Gruber, 74, Hungarian actor.
• Leo Kersley, 92, British dancer and teacher.
• Yvonne B. Miller, 77, American politician, first African-American female legislator of Virginia, stomach cancer.
• Sergio Pininfarina, 85, Italian senator for life and automotive designer (Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Fiat).
• Hollie Stevens, 30, American pornographic actress and model, cancer.
• Richard Alvin Tonry, 77, American politician and lawyer, U.S. Representative from Louisiana (1977), natural causes.
• Joseph Triay, 80, Gibraltarian lawyer and politician.
• Daphne Zepos, 52, Greek-born American author and chef, lung cancer.

4

• Ignatius Anandappa, 73, Sri Lankan Test match cricket umpire.
• Peter Bennett, 85, Australian football player and Olympic (1952, 1956) water polo player.
• Hiren Bhattacharyya, 80, Indian poet, lung infection.
• Paul Birch, 56, British scientist and author.
• Jimmy Bivins, 92, American heavyweight boxer, pneumonia.
• Vinzenz Guggenberger, 83, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Regensburg (1972-2004).
• Jeong Min-Hyeong, 25, South Korean football player, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Karen R. Keesling, 65, American civil servant, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (1988-1989).
• Sam Ojebode, 67, Nigerian footballer.
• Scamper, 35, American barrel racing horse.
• Eric Sykes, 89, British writer and actor (The Goon Show, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire).

5

• Howard Dorgan, 80, American academic.
• Rob Goris, 30, Belgian ice hockey player and cyclist, heart attack.
• Dick Greco, 87, American baseball player.
• Ruud van Hemert, 73, Dutch film director, cancer.
• Roland Hyatt, 50, Australian cricketer.
• Gerrit Komrij, 68, Dutch writer, cancer.
• Angeliki Koutsonikoli, 23, Greek cyclist.
• Colin Marshall, Baron Marshall of Knightsbridge, 78, British businessman and life peer.
• Bob Rowland Smith, 86, Australian politician, NSW Minister for Sport and Recreation (1988-1991).

6

• Ibrahim Balandiya, Sudanese politician, shot.
• Charles Drake, 30, American football player (New York Giants).
• Charles David Ganao, 85, Congolese politician, Prime Minister (1996-1997).
• Hani al-Hassan, 74, Palestinian politician and diplomat, complications of a stroke.
• Bruce B. Kendall, 93, American hotelier and politician.
• Alice Koroma, 80, Sierra Leonean politician, mother of president Ernest Bai Koroma.
• James McKinley, 67, American football coach and businessman.
• Bill Norrie, 83, Canadian politician and educator, Mayor of Winnipeg (1979-1992), Chancellor of the University of Manitoba (2001-2009), respiratory failure.
• Angelo Paternoster, 93, American football player (Washington Redskins).
• Sebastijan Pe?jak, 35, Slovenian darts player, traffic collision.
• Anthony Sedlak, 29, Canadian chef, suicide by drug overdose.
• Al Ulbrickson, 81, American rower.

7

• Renato Beghe, 79, American judge (United States Tax Court).
• Paul Coussa, 94, Syrian-born Iraqi Armenian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Baghdad (1983-2001).
• Ronaldo Cunha Lima, 76, Brazilian poet and politician, Governor of Paraíba (1991-1994), lung cancer.
• Mouss Diouf, 47, Senegalese-born French comedian, complications of a stroke.
• Dennis Flemion, 57, American rock musician (The Frogs), drowned.
• Colin Lamont, 70, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (1974-1977).
• Ralph Raymond Loffmark, 92, Canadian politician.
• Doris Neal, 83, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
• Jerry Norman, 75, American sinologist and linguist, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
• José Pauwels, 84, Belgian Olympic cyclist.
• Leon Schlumpf, 87, Swiss politician, Member of the Federal Council (1979-1987), President of the Confederation (1984).
• Jimmy Tansey, 83, English football player.

8

• Muhammed bin Saud Al Saud, 78, Saudi royal and politician, Minister of Defense (1960-1962), Governor of Al Baha (1987-2010).
• Chris Barber, 91, British businessman, chairman of Oxfam (1983-1989).
• Lionel Batiste, 81, American jazz musician (Treme Brass Band).
• Ernest Borgnine, 95, American actor (Marty, McHale's Navy, From Here to Eternity, SpongeBob SquarePants), renal failure.
• Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver, 86, British engineer and politician.
• Gyang Dalyop Datong, 53, Nigerian politician, Member of the House of Representatives (2003-2007), Senator (since 2007), heart attack.
• Dick Fowler, 80, Canadian politician, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1989-1993).
• Philip L. Fradkin, 77, American historian and author, cancer.
• Arnold B. Grobman, 93, American zoologist.
• Rodger Head, 73, Australian football player (St Kilda Football Club).
• William Innes Homer, 82, American art historian.
• Martin Pakledinaz, 58, American costume designer (My Week with Marilyn), cancer.
• Stuart R. Schram, 88, American physicist and political scientist.
• Boris Shramko, 92, Ukrainian historian.
• John Williams, 64, American football player (Baltimore Colts, Los Angeles Rams).

9

• Mario de Leon Baltazar, 85, Filipino Roman Catholic priest, Prelate of Batanes and the Babuyan Islands (1966-1995).
• Kenny Heitz, 65, American basketball player (UCLA), cancer.
• Chick King, 81, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals).
• Sir Terepai Maoate, 78, Cook Islands politician, Prime Minister (1999-2002), prostate cancer.
• Jacqueline Mazéas, 91, French athlete.
• Miinnehoma, 29, Irish-bred racehorse, winner of the 1994 Grand National. (death announced on this date)
• René Joseph Rakotondrabé, 79, Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Toamasina (1989-2008).
• Denise René, 99, French art dealer.
• Zsuzsi Roboz, 72, Hungarian painter.
• Eugênio Sales, 91, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal Protopriest, Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro (1971-2001), heart failure.
• Shin Jae-chul, 75, South Korean-born American martial artist.
• Brian Thomas, 72, Welsh rugby union player and manager (Neath RFC).
• Isuzu Yamada, 95, Japanese film actress (Yojimbo, Throne of Blood), multiple organ failure.

10

• Maria Cole, 89, American jazz singer, widow of Nat King Cole, cancer.
• Michele Columbu, 98, Italian politician and writer.
• Lol Coxhill, 79, English jazz saxophonist, after short illness.
• Dolphy, 83, Filipino actor and comedian, multiple organ failure.
• Marian Filar, 94, Polish-born American concert pianist.
• Cheryll Heinze, 65, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (2002-2004), plane crash.
• Peter Kyros, 86, American politician, Representative from Maine (1967-1975).
• Fritz Langanke, 92, German Waffen SS lieutenant during World War II.
• Gaylon Lawrence, 78, American businessman.
• Berthe Meijer, 74, Dutch author, cancer.
• Viktor Suslin, 70, Russian composer.

11

• Bjørn Blakstad, 86, Norwegian diplomat.
• Dewayne Bunch, 50, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives (2010-2011), head injuries.
• Art Ceccarelli, 82, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics, Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles), cancer.
• Héctor Cornejo Chávez, 93, Peruvian politician.
• Marion Cunningham, 90, American cookbook author, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• Sir Carron Greig, 87, British business executive.
• Rutger Kopland, 77, Dutch poet, writer, and psychiatrist.
• Joe McBride, 74, Scottish football player (Celtic), complications of a stroke.
• Bobby Nicol, 76, Scottish football player (Hibernian).
• Richard Scudder, 99, American newspaper pioneer, founder of MediaNews Group.
• Harold Shukman, 81, British historian.
• André Simon, 92, French racing driver.
• Donald J. Sobol, 87, American writer (Encyclopedia Brown), gastric lymphoma).
• Sir Saxon Tate, 80, British businessman.
• Marvin Traub, 87, American business executive, CEO of Bloomingdale's, bladder cancer.

12

• Alimuddin, 81, Pakistani Test cricketer.
• Eddy Brown, 86, English footballer (Birmingham City).
• Cleveland Elam, 60, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Detroit Lions).
• Maita Gomez, 65, Filipino beauty queen and activist, Miss Philippines-World (1967), heart attack.
• Pier Luigi Mazzoni, 79, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Gaeta (1997-2007).
• Else Holmelund Minarik, 91, Danish-born American author (Little Bear), complications after heart attack.
• Roger Payne, 55, British mountaineer, avalanche.
• M. Anto Peter, 45, Indian computer scientist and technical writer, heart attack.
• Hamid Samandarian, 81, Iranian film and theater director, liver cancer.
• Dara Singh, 84, Indian wrestler and actor, multiple organ failure.
• George C. Stoney, 96, American documentary filmmaker and pioneer of public-access television.
• Ginny Tyler, 86, American voice actress (Davey and Goliath, Fantastic Four, Space Ghost).
• Denis Warner, 94, Australian journalist and historian.

13

• Shlomo Bentin, 65, Israeli neuropsychologist, recipient of the 2012 Israel Prize in psychology, traffic collision.
• Harry Betts, 89, American jazz composer and trombonist.
• Polde Bibi?, 79, Slovenian actor and politician.
• Sir Christopher Booth, 88, British clinician and medical historian.
• Warren Jabali, 65, American basketball player (Oakland Oaks), heart failure.
• Jerzy Kulej, 71, Polish politician, Olympic gold medal-winning (1964 and 1968) boxer, heart attack.
• Wayne Massarelli, 62, American makeup artist (The Muppets Take Manhattan, My Fellow Americans), liver cancer.
• Rolf Nilssen, 84, Norwegian politician.
• Pan Jiazheng, 84, Chinese hydraulic engineer.
• Hanifa Safi, Afghan politician, bomb blast.
• Sage Stallone, 36, American actor (Rocky V), son of Sylvester Stallone, heart failure.
• Jerold Starr, 71, American sociologist.
• Richard D. Zanuck, 77, American film producer (Jaws, Driving Miss Daisy, Cocoon, Road to Perdition), heart attack.

14

• John Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott, 87, Scottish peer.
• Barton Biggs, 79, American businessman, bacterial infection.
• Don Brinkley, 91, American television writer (The Fugitive, The F.B.I., Trapper John, M.D.), natural causes.
• Frank R. Burns, 84, American football player and coach (Rutgers University), natural causes.
• Ennio Cardoni, 83, Italian footballer.
• Bohuslav Ceplecha, 35, Czech rally co-driver, race incident.
• Philip Crosland, 93, British journalist.
• Mohamed el-Bisatie, 74, Egyptian novelist and short story writer, liver disease.
• King Hill, 75, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles), cancer.
• Sir David House, 89, British Army general and Black Rod (1978-1985).
• Sixten Jernberg, 83, Swedish cross-country skier, Olympic gold medalist (1956, 1960, 1964), cancer.
• Ahmad Khan Samangani, 54-55, Afghan politician, member of the House of the People (since 2011), bomb blast.
• Roy Shaw, 76, British businessman and boxer.
• Enrique Silva Cimma, 93, Chilean politician, Foreign Minister (1990-1994), bronchial obstruction.
• Sidney Oslin Smith Jr., 88, American federal judge, cancer.

15

• Boris Cebotari, 37, Moldovan footballer, apparent suicide by jumping.
• Tsilla Chelton, 93, French actress (Tatie Danielle).
• Manuel Eguiguren Galarraga, 82, Spanish-born Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Vicar Apostolic of El Beni (1981-2007).
• Grant Feasel, 52, American football player (Baltimore Colts, Seattle Seahawks).
• Sir David Fraser, 91, British Army general.
• Ovadia Harari, 68, Israeli engineer, Israel Prize recipient.
• Celeste Holm, 95, American actress (Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve, Tom Sawyer), complications from a heart attack.
• Muzharul Islam, 88, Bangladeshi architect and urban planner, natural causes.
• Sadamu Komachi, 92, Japanese fighter pilot.
• Jacqueline Piatigorsky, 100, French-born American chess and tennis player, author and sculptor.
• Anne Spencer, 73, British naval officer.
• Yoichi Takabayashi, 81, Japanese film director, pneumonia.

16

• William Asher, 90, American television writer and director (Alice, Bewitched, I Love Lucy), Alzheimer's disease.
• Bob Babbitt, 74, American bass guitarist (The Funk Brothers), brain cancer.
• Stephen Covey, 79, American writer (The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People), complications after a bicycle accident.
• Gilbert Esau, 92, American politician.
• James F. Goodrich, 99, American businessman, Under Secretary of the Navy (1981-1987).
• Edward E. Hammer, 80, American electrical engineer.
• Antonín Holý, 75, Czech scientist, created most effective drugs for AIDS treatment, after long illness.
• Ben-ami Kadish, 88, Israeli-American mechanical engineer and spy.
• Martin Kenzie, 56, British second unit director and cinematographer (Aliens, Willow, Game of Thrones).
• Taras Kiktyov, 25, Ukrainian football player, after long illness.
• Ed Lincoln, 80, Brazilian composer and musician, respiratory failure.
• Jon Lord, 71, English composer and musician (Deep Purple), pulmonary embolism.
• Masaharu Matsushita, 99, Japanese businessman, President of Panasonic (1961-1977), natural causes.
• Joseph Nduhirubusa, 74, Burundian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ruyigi (1980-2010).
• Wendy Law Suart, 85, Australian travel writer.
• Giora Tzahor, 70, Israeli intelligence agent, traffic collision.
• Henryk Wasilewski, 59, Polish middle distance runner.
• Kitty Wells, 92, American country music singer ("It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", "Making Believe"), complications after a stroke.
• Sir David Williams, 91, British admiral, Governor of Gibraltar (1982-1985).

17

• Ottorino Pietro Alberti, 84, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia (1973-1987) and Cagliari (1987-2003).
• Balavant Apte, 73, Indian politician, chronic lung disease.
• Thomas John Curran, 88, American federal judge.
• Richard Evatt, 38, British boxer.
• Mrinal Gore, 84, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
• Paul Langlois, 85, Canadian politician.
• Jorge Legorreta, 62, Mexican architect and urbanist, stroke.
• Forrest S. McCartney, 81, American USAF lieutenant general, director of the Kennedy Space Center (1986-1991).
• Jean-François Mertens, 66, Belgian mathematician.
• ?lhan Mimaro?lu, 86, Turkish-born American composer and record producer, pneumonia.
• Ms. Melodie, 43, American rapper.
• Morgan Paull, 67, American actor (Blade Runner, Norma Rae, Patton), stomach cancer.
• William Raspberry, 76, American journalist and newspaper columnist (The Washington Post), prostate cancer.
• Marsha Singh, 57, British politician, MP for Bradford West (1997-2012).
• Wahengbam Nipamacha Singh, 82, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Manipur (1997-2001).
• Iet van Feggelen, 90, Dutch swimmer.
• William L. Wainwright, 64, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives (since 1991), cancer.

18

• A. Lee Chandler, 89, American jurist, Chief Justice of South Carolina (1994).
• Robert Creamer, 90, American sportswriter and author, prostate cancer.
• Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, 102, Israeli rabbi, leader of Orthodox Judaism, heart failure.
• Jean François-Poncet, 83, French politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1978-1981), stroke.
• Aston Greathead, 91, New Zealand artist.
• Harvey Hess, 73, American poet and arts critic.
• Rajesh Khanna, 69, Indian actor and film producer, cancer.
• Robert Kurz, 68, German philosopher.
• Seppo Liitsola, 79, Finnish ice hockey player and coach.
• Günther Maleuda, 81, German politician, President of the People's Chamber (1989-1990).
• Pancho Martin, 86, Cuban racehorse trainer (Sham).
• Isidoro Martínez-Vela, 87, Spanish Olympic swimmer. [1]
• Jack Matthews, 92, Welsh rugby union player and doctor.
• Dawoud Rajiha, 65, Syrian politician, Minister of Defense (since 2011), bomb blast.
• Assef Shawkat, 62, Syrian politician, deputy Minister of Defense, bomb blast.
• Ernest Toovey, 90, Australian cricketer and baseball player.
• Hasan Turkmani, 77, Syrian politician, Minister of Defense (2004-2009), Chief of Crisis Operations (since 2011), bomb blast.

19

• Humayun Ahmed, 63, Bangladeshi writer, colorectal cancer.
• Tom Davis, 59, American comedian and television writer (Saturday Night Live), throat and neck cancer.
• P. N. Dhar, 94, Indian economist.
• Brian Dobson, 80, English archaeologist.
• Mohammad Hassan Ganji, 100, Iranian meteorologist and academic, brain hemorrhage.
• Archer King, 95, American theatrical agent.
• Wilhelm Lehner, 97, German army officer, awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
• Anthony Melio, 80, American politician, Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1987-2010), complications from an appendectomy.
• Hans Nowak, 75, German footballer (FC Bayern Munich).
• William Staub, 96, American engineer, developer of the commercial treadmill.
• Omar Suleiman, 76, Egyptian general and politician, Vice President (2011), heart attack.
• E. V. Thompson, 81, British author.
• Sylvia Woods, 86, American restaurateur, founder of Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem, Alzheimer's disease.
• Valiulla Yakupov, 48, Russian Tatar Islamic cleric, shot.

20

• Sir Alastair Burnet, 84, British journalist and broadcaster, complications following strokes.
• Andrew Davidson, 2nd Viscount Davidson, 83, British peer and politician.
• Jack Davis, 81, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1952, 1956) hurdler, complications from a fall.
• Aharon Dolgopolsky, 81, Russian-born Israeli linguist.
• Tony Epper, 73, American actor and stuntman (Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Rock, Thelma and Louise), cancer.
• José Hermano Saraiva, 92, Portuguese historian and jurist.
• Hisham Ikhtiyar, 70 or 71, Syrian military and security official, injuries from bomb blast.
• Ahmed Jdey, 61, Tunisian author, historian, and professor.
• Max Leo, 70/71, German Olympic sledder.
• John Monteith, 81, British academic.
• Hanne Marthe Narud, 54, Norwegian political scientist, cancer.
• Sherman Pendergarst, 45, American mixed martial artist, cancer.
• Fioravante Perrotta, 80, American lawyer and political aide.
• Dorothy Germain Porter, 88, American golfer.
• Goldie Rogers, 61, Canadian professional wrestler, stroke.
• Simon Ward, 70, English actor (Loot, Young Winston, The Three Musketeers), after long illness.

21

• Alexander Cockburn, 71, Scottish political journalist and writer, cancer.
• Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith, 89, British glaciologist.
• Ismail Hutson, 73, Malaysian actor, heart complications.
• Marie Kruckel, 88, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
• Andrzej ?apicki, 87, Latvian-born Polish actor.
• Susanne Lothar, 51, German actress (The White Ribbon).
• Mike Lynn, 76, American football executive (Minnesota Vikings).
• Ali Podrimja, 69, Albanian poet.
• James D. Ramage, 96, American naval aviator.
• Angharad Rees, 68, Welsh actress (Poldark), pancreatic cancer.
• Gene Stipe, 85, American politician, Oklahoma State Senator (1957-2003).
• Vida Stout, 82, New Zealand academic.
• Don Wilson, 74, English cricketer.

22

• Leonard Alexander, 90, Australian cricketer.
• Miguel Arteche, 86, Chilean poet and novelist.
• Eric Bell, 82, English footballer (Bolton Wanderers), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Jim Carlen, 79, American college football player and coach.
• Miguel Gaspar, 84, Mexican baseball player. (Spanish)
• Ding Guangen, 82, Chinese politician, Minister of Railways (1985-1988).
• Kashinath Jalmi, 62, Indian politician.
• Ernie Machin, 68, English footballer (Coventry City, Plymouth Argyle).
• Nan Merriman, 92, American opera singer.
• George Armitage Miller, 92, American psychologist (The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two).
• Vincent O'Keefe, 92, American Jesuit cleric, President of Fordham University (1963-1965).
• Oswaldo Payá, 60, Cuban dissident, recipient of the 2002 Sakharov Prize, traffic collision.
• Fern Persons, 101, American actress (Field of Dreams, Hoosiers, Risky Business).
• Frank Pierson, 87, American film director and screenwriter (Dog Day Afternoon, Cool Hand Luke, A Star is Born), natural causes.
• Håkon Randal, 82, Norwegian politician.
• Roberto Sebastian, 68, Filipino government official, heart attack.
• Ed Stevens, 87, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates).
• Bohdan Stupka, 70, Ukrainian actor, People's Artist of USSR, bone cancer.
• Herbert Vogel, 89, American modern art collector and philanthropist, natural causes.
• Warren Winkelstein, 90, American epidemiologist.

23

• Lars Ardelius, 85, Swedish psychologist and novelist, heart failure.
• Mirjana Gross, 90, Croatian historian.
• Graham Jackson, 45, British conductor and music director.
• Margaret Mahy, 76, New Zealand children's author, cancer.
• Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen, 86, German noble.
• Louise Nippert, 100, American baseball team owner (Cincinnati Reds) and arts patron.
• Peaks and Valleys, 20, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Molson Export Million Stakes (1995). (death announced on this date)
• Sally Ride, 61, American physicist and astronaut, first American woman in space, pancreatic cancer.
• Lakshmi Sahgal, 97, Indian politician, army officer and revolutionist of the Indian independence movement, cardiac arrest.
• John Treloar, 84, Australian Olympic (1952) sprinter, Commonwealth Games gold medalist.
• Esther Tusquets, 75, Spanish publisher, writer and essayist, pneumonia.
• José Luis Uribarri, 75, Spanish television presenter and director (Televisión Española), cerebral hemorrhage.
• Duane Wood, 74, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs).

24

• Hamlet Bareh, 81, Indian writer, historian and film director.
• Nevin Çokay, 82, Turkish painter and teacher. (Turkish)
• Sir Kenneth Crook, 91, British diplomat, Ambassador to Afghanistan (1976-1979).
• Chad Everett, 75, American actor (Medical Center), lung cancer.
• Irvin Faust, 88, American author and educator, stroke.
• Thelma Glass, 96, American civil rights leader, academic and geographer, last surviving member of the Women's Political Council.
• Sherman Hemsley, 74, American actor (The Jeffersons, Amen, Dinosaurs), superior vena cava syndrome.
• Larry Hoppen, 61, American singer and musician (Orleans), suicide.
• Robert Ledley, 86, American scientist, inventor of the full-body CT scanner, Alzheimer's disease.
• Themo Lobos, 83, Chilean comic book writer and artist, respiratory failure. (Spanish)
• John Atta Mills, 68, Ghanaian politician, President (since 2009).
• Nancy Mudge, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
• Mavelikkara Velukkutty Nair, 85, Indian musician.
• Michael H. Nash, 66, American historian, pulmonary embolism.
• Gregorio Peces-Barba, 74, Spanish politician and jurist, President of the Congress of Deputies (1982-1986) and co-author of Spanish Constitution, renal failure.
• Prime Defender, 8, British racehorse, winner of the Duke of York Stakes (2010), myocardial infarction.
• Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche, 57, Tibetan lama and teacher.
• Thanasis Tribonias, 28, Greek footballer, traffic collision. (Greek)
• James West, 98, American psychiatrist and surgeon, co-founder of the Betty Ford Center.

25

• David Barby, 63, British antiques expert (Bargain Hunt), stroke.
• James Coward, 97, British military aviator.
• Paul Frieden, 87, Luxembourgian Olympic athlete.
• Suzy Gershman, 64, American author, widow of Michael Gershman, brain cancer.
• B. R. Ishara, 77, Indian film director, tuberculosis.
• Barry Langford, 86, British television director and producer.
• Bruno Mazza, 88, Italian football player.
• Greg Mohns, 62, American CFL coach and executive (BC Lions, Toronto Argonauts), throat cancer.
• Marceau Stricanne, 92, French footballer. (French)
• Franz West, 65, Austrian artist, liver disease.

26

• Hüseyin Akta?, 71, Turkish Olympic marathon runner.
• Don Bagley, 84, American jazz bassist and composer.
• Miriam Ben-Porat, 94, Israeli Supreme Court judge, State Comptroller.
• Karl Benjamin, 86, American painter, heart failure.
• M. Patton Echols, 86, American attorney and politician.
• Walter Goss, 84, American sound engineer (Deliverance, The Deep, Mean Streets).
• Lupe Ontiveros, 69, American actress (Desperate Housewives, Selena, The Goonies), liver cancer.
• Pat Porter, 53, American Olympic (1984, 1988) distance runner, plane crash.
• Neil Reed, 36, American basketball player (Indiana) involved in Bob Knight controversy, heart attack.
• Ralph Slatyer, 83, Australian biologist, Chief Scientist (1989-1992).
• Mary Tamm, 62, English actress (Doctor Who), cancer.
• James D. Watkins, 85, American Naval officer and cabinet member, Chief of Naval Operations (1982-1986), Chair of the President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic (1987-1988), Secretary of Energy (1989-1993), heart failure.

27

• Norman Alden, 87, American actor (Back to the Future, Ed Wood, Tora! Tora! Tora!), natural causes.
• R. G. Armstrong, 95, American actor (Predator, Dick Tracy, El Dorado) and playwright, natural causes.
• Darryl Cotton, 62, Australian singer (Zoot, Cotton Keays & Morris) and television host (The Early Bird Show), liver cancer.
• Geoffrey Hughes, 68, English actor (Coronation Street, Yellow Submarine, Keeping Up Appearances), prostate cancer.
• Art Malone, 64, American football player (Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles).
• Tony Martin, 98, American actor and singer, widower of Cyd Charisse, natural causes.
• Russ Mayberry, 86, Scottish-born American television director (Kojak, Magnum P.I., The Brady Bunch).
• Emmanuel Otteh, 85, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Issele-Uku (1996-2003).
• Bruce Schultz, 80, Australian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Grafton (1985-1998).
• Hans Svedberg, 80, Swedish ice hockey player.
• Jack Taylor, 82, English football referee, officiated 1974 FIFA World Cup Final.
• Jan Tr?bka, 81, Polish academic.
• Carl-Ludwig Wagner, 82, German politician, Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate (1988-1991).

28

• Vartan Achkarian, 76, Lebanese Armenian Catholic hierarch, Auxiliary Bishop of Beirut (1987-2011).
• Adam Cullen, 46, Australian painter.
• Phyllis Deane, 93, British economic historian.
• Amos Degani, 86, Israeli politician.
• Peter Evans-Freke, 11th Baron Carbery, 92, Anglo-Irish peer.
• Colin Horsley, 92, New Zealand-born British classical pianist.
• Carol Kendall, 94, American author (The Gammage Cup, The Whisper of Glocken).
• James Marriott, 39, British film critic and author.
• Sepp Mayerl, 75, Austrian mountaineer, climbing incident.
• William F. Milliken, Jr., 101, American aerospace engineer, automotive engineer and racecar driver.
• Ruth Mott, 95, British television cook.
• David Thomas, 53, English cricketer, complications of multiple sclerosis.

29

• Tatiana Egorova, 42, Russian football manager and player.
• John P. Finnegan, 85, American actor (JFK, Last Action Hero, Mars Attacks!), complications from pneumonia
• August Kowalczyk, 90, Polish actor, last survivor of 1942 Auschwitz concentration camp breakout.
• Chris Marker, 91, French writer, photographer, documentary film director (La jetée) and multimedia artist.
• Suzanne Martel, 87, Canadian writer.
• James Mellaart, 87, English archaeologist, excavator of Çatalhöyük.
• Sluggy Ranks, 45, Jamaican dancehall musician, injuries sustained in a car crash.
• Vempati Chinna Satyam, 82, Indian dancer and teacher, multiple organ failure.
• Heinz Staab, 86, German chemist.
• John Stampe, 55, Danish footballer, cancer.

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• Maeve Binchy, 72, Irish novelist (Circle of Friends), columnist and public speaker, heart attack.
• George F. Cahill, Jr., 85, American scientist.
• Bill Doss, 43, American rock singer and guitarist (The Olivia Tremor Control, The Apples in Stereo).
• Stig Ossian Ericson, 88, Swedish actor and script writer.
• Christopher Evans, 102, English chaplain and theologian.
• Les Green, 70, English footballer (Derby County) and manager (Tamworth), cancer.
• Jonathan Hardy, 71, New Zealand actor (Farscape, Mad Max, Moulin Rouge!) and screenwriter (Breaker Morant).
• József Hunics, 76, Hungarian Olympic sprint canoer.
• Bill Kitchen, 51, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), heart attack.
• Mary Louise Rasmuson, 101, American philanthropist.
• Héctor Tizón, 82, Argentinian writer and diplomat.

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• César Amaro, 64, Uruguayan classical guitarist.
• Kevin Best, 80, Australian artist.
• Marie Brenden, 74, Norwegian politician.
• Roy Bryce-Laporte, 78, American sociologist.
• Lucien Daloz, 81, French Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Besançon (1980-2003).
• Mollie Hunter, 90, Scottish writer.
• Iryna Kalynets, 72, Ukrainian writer and Soviet dissident, wife of Ihor Kalynets, after long illness.
• Sydney Knowles, 90, British frogman.
• Rudolf Kreitlein, 92, German football referee (1966 FIFA World Cup).
• Curt Levine, 64, American politician and attorney.
• Tess Mallos, 79, Australian cookbook author.
• Abdi Jeylani Malaq Marshale, c. 43, Somali journalist and comedian, shot.
• Mutsuko Miki, 95, Japanese activist, widow of former Prime Minister Takeo Miki, colon cancer.
• Ítalo Piaggi, 77, Argentine army officer (Battle of Goose Green).
• Lucio Quarantotto, 55, Italian songwriter and composer ("Con te partirò"), suicide by defenestration.
• Alfredo Ramos, 87, Brazilian footballer and coach.
• Ardalion Rastov, 86, Russian engineer and military designer.
• Stefan Siczek, 74, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Radom (since 1992).
• Tony Sly, 41, American punk rock singer and guitarist (No Use for a Name).
• Gore Vidal, 86, American playwright, novelist (Myra Breckinridge), political commentator and actor (Gattaca), pneumonia.

Maps Deaths in July 2012

References

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