Sunday, December 18, 2011

Deaths in June 2011

June 30th
* Ruth Roberts, 84, American songwriter ("Meet the Mets"), lung cancer.

June 29th
* Billy Beck, 86, American actor and clown.
* Billy Costello, 55, American boxer, lung cancer.

June 27th

* Elaine Stewart, 81, American actress and model, after long illness.

June 26th

* Edith Fellows, 88, American actress, natural causes.
* Norma Lyon, 81, American farmer and butter sculpture artist.
* Robert Morris, 78, American cryptographer, complications of dementia.
* Sidney Hollis Radner, 91, American collector of Harry Houdini memorabilia.

June 25th

* George Ballas, 85, American entrepreneur, inventor of the Weed Eater.
* Nick Charles, 64, American sportscaster (CNN Sports Tonight), bladder cancer.
* Shelby Grant, 74, American actress (Our Man Flint, Fantastic Voyage, Medical Center), brain aneurysm.
* J.O. Patterson, Jr., 76, American politician and religious leader, first black mayor of Memphis (1982).
* Alice Playten, 63, American actress (Henry, Sweet Henry), heart failure.

June 24th

* F. Gilman Spencer, 85, American Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper editor.

June 23rd

* Gene Colan, 84, American comic book artist (Daredevil, Howard the Duck), complications from liver disease and a broken hip.
* Peter Falk, 83, American actor (Columbo, Murder, Inc., Pocketful of Miracles, The Princess Bride).
* Patricia Merbreier, 86, American actress and television personality (Captain Noah and His Magical Ark).
* Fred Steiner, 88, American television composer (Perry Mason, Star Trek, The Twilight Zone).

June 22nd

* David Rayfiel, 87, American screenwriter (Out of Africa, Three Days of the Condor), heart failure.

June 21st

* E. M. Broner, 83, American author, multiple organ failure.
* Mark Gerard, 76, American racehorse trainer.
* Anthony Herrera, 57, American actor (As the World Turns), cancer.
* Maria Gomes Valentim, 114, Brazilian supercentenarian, world's oldest person.

June 20th

* Ryan Dunn, 34, American reality television star (Jackass, Viva La Bam), car accident.
* Eric Swenson, 64, American businessman, co-founder of Thrasher, suicide by gunshot.

June 19th

* Don Diamond, 90, American actor (F Troop, The Adventures of Kit Carson, Zorro).

June 18th
* Clarence Clemons, 69, American saxophonist (E Street Band) and singer ("You're a Friend Of Mine"), complications following a stroke.
* A. Whitney Ellsworth, 75, American editor and publisher (The New York Review of Books), pancreatic cancer.

June 17th
* George M. White, 90, American architect, Architect of the Capitol (1971–1995), complications of Parkinson’s disease.

June 16th
* Claudia Bryar, 93, American actress (Psycho II).
* Wild Man Fischer, 66, American street musician, heart failure.

June 15th
* Bob Banner, 89, American television producer and director (The Carol Burnett Show), Parkinson's disease.
* Joko Beck, 94, American Zen Buddhist teacher, founder of the Ordinary Mind School, after long illness.
* Bill Haast, 100, American snake expert, director of the Miami Serpentarium.

June 14th
* Mack Self, 81, American rockabilly musician and songwriter.

June 13th
* David C. Baldus, 75, American educator and anti-death penalty activist, cancer.
* Betty Neumar, 79, American murder suspect.
* William J. Spahr, 89, American intelligence analyst (CIA) and author, pneumonia.
* Burt Styler, 86, American screenwriter, heart failure.

June 12th
* Carl Gardner, 83, American singer (The Coasters).
* Alan Haberman, 81, American grocer, first to use the barcode system, heart and lung disease.
* John Hospers, 93, American philosopher, first Libertarian Party presidential candidate (1972).
* Kathryn Tucker Windham, 93, American author and journalist.
* Laura Ziskin, 61, American film producer (Pretty Woman, Spider-Man, What About Bob?), breast cancer.

June 11th
* Paul Alter, 89, American television director (Family Feud).
* Gunnar Fischer, 100, Swedish cinematographer (The Seventh Seal).

June 10th
* Art Balinger, 96, American actor.
* Jeanne Bice, 71, American entrepreneur and television personality.
* Abdi Shakur Sheikh Hassan, Somali politician, Interior Minister (since 2010), suicide bombing.
* Al Schwimmer, 94, American-born Israeli businessman, founder of Israel Aerospace Industries.
* Carol Montgomery Stone, 96, American actress.

June 9th
* Alan Rubin, 68, American trumpeter (The Blues Brothers), lung cancer .

June 7th
* Genaro Hernández, 45, American boxer, cancer.
* Leonard B. Stern, 87, American television director, producer, and writer (Get Smart), creator of The Honeymooners, co-creator of Mad Libs.

June 6th
* John R. Alison, 98, American airman, launched the Allied Reoccupation of Burma during World War II.
* Eleanor Dapkus, 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League), breast cancer.
* Shrek, 16, New Zealand celebrity sheep, euthanised. [265]

June 4th
* Lilian Jackson Braun, 97, American author (Cat Who series), natural causes.
* Lindsey Durlacher, 36, American Greco-Roman wrestler.
* Lawrence Eagleburger, 80, American diplomat and politician, Secretary of State (1992–1993).
* Martin Rushent, 63, English record producer (Buzzcocks, Human League, The Stranglers).
* Betty Taylor, 91, American performer (Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue).

June 3rd
* James Arness, 88, American actor (Gunsmoke), natural causes.
* Wally Boag, 90, American performer (Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue).
* Papa Joe Chevalier, 62, American sports talk radio host, stroke.
* Andrew Gold, 59, American singer-songwriter ("Lonely Boy", "Thank You for Being a Friend"), heart attack.
* Jack Kevorkian, 83, American physician and right to die activist, pulmonary thrombosis.
* Benny Spellman, 79, American R&B singer, respiratory failure.

June 2nd
* Ray Bryant, 79, American jazz pianist, after long illness.
* Geronimo Pratt, 63, American political activist (Black Panther Party), heart attack.
* Joel Rosenberg, 57, American science fiction author, heart attack.
* Lavina Washines, 71, American tribal leader, first female leader of the Yakima Nation (2006–2008).

June 1st
* Jaehoon Ahn, 70, North Korean-born American journalist and researcher, founding director of Radio Free Asia Korean language service.

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