Deaths in July 2011

July 31st
* Dorothy Brunson, 72, American businesswoman, first black woman to own a radio station, ovarian cancer.


July 29th
* Gene McDaniels, 76, American singer-songwriter.


July 28th
* John Marburger, 70, American physicist and presidential adviser, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
* Brian O'Leary, 71, American scientist and NASA astronaut, cancer.


July 27th
* Richard Chavez, 81, American activist and labor organizer, brother of Cesar Chavez, complications from surgery.
* Charles Gittens, 82, American Secret Service agent, first black appointed to that position.
* Hideki Irabu, 42, Japanese baseball player (Chiba Lotte Marines, New York Yankees, Montreal Expos), suicide by hanging.
* Polly Platt, 72, American film producer (Say Anything...), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Sir John Rawlins, 89, British naval officer, pioneer of diving medicine.
* Judy Sowinski, 71, American roller derby skater and coach.


July 26th
* Frank Foster, 82, American jazz saxophonist and composer, complications from kidney failure.
* Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi, Libyan Army colonel, cousin and son-in-law of Muammar Gaddafi, air strike.
* Elmer Lower, 98, American broadcast executive, president of ABC News (1963–1974).


July 25th
* Arthur W. Murray, 92, American test pilot, Alzheimer's disease.
* Jeret Peterson, 29, American free style skier, 2010 Winter Olympics silver medalist, suicide by gunshot.


July 24th
* Tresa Hughes, 81, American actress (Another World, Don Juan DeMarco, Fame).
* Gilbert Luján, 70, American painter, prostate cancer.
* Christopher Mayer, 57, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard, Santa Barbara, Liar Liar).
* Dan Peek, 60, American singer-songwriter (America).
* G. D. Spradlin, 90, American actor (North Dallas Forty, The Godfather Part II).
* Jane White, 88, American actress (Beloved, Klute, Once Upon a Mattress).

July 23rd
* David Aiken, 93, American operatic baritone and opera director.
* Mathilde Aussant, 113, French supercentenarian, oldest person in France.
* Blair, 43, American poet.
* Milton Gwirtzman, 78, American speech writer, advisor to the Kennedy family, metastatic melanoma.
* Fran Landesman, 83, American lyricist and poet.
* Butch Lewis, 65, American boxing promoter, heart attack.
* Bill Morrissey, 59, American singer-songwriter.
* John Shalikashvili, 75, Polish-born American army general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1993–1997), stroke.
* Elmer B. Staats, 97, American public servant, Comptroller General of the United States (1966–1981).
* Amy Winehouse, 27, British singer-songwriter ("Rehab"), accidental alcohol poisoning.


July 22nd
* Tom Aldredge, 83, American actor (The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire), lymphoma.
* Linda Christian, 87, Mexican-born American actress, first Bond girl (1954 television adaptation of Casino Royale).
* Charles Taylor Manatt, 75, American lawyer and banker, Chair of Democratic National Committee (1981–1985), Ambassador to Dominican Republic (1999–2001), stroke.
* Tex Nelson, 74, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).


July 21st
* Andrew Grant DeYoung, 37, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
* Milly Del Rubio, 89, American singer (The Del Rubio Triplets).
* Elliot Handler, 95, American businessman, co-founder of Mattel, namer of the Barbie doll, creator of Hot Wheels, heart failure.
* William Hildenbrand, 89, American government officer, Secretary of the United States Senate (1981–1985).
* Amelia Trice, 75, American Kootenai tribal leader and activist, leader of the last Indian war against the United States, cancer.


July 20th
* Blaize Clement, 78, American mystery writer and psychologist, cancer.
* Myra Kraft, 68, American philanthropist, wife of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, cancer.
* Mary Simpson, 85, American minister, first woman to be ordained by the American Episcopal Church.


July 19th
* Lil Greenwood, 86, American vocalist (Duke Ellington Orchestra).
* James T. Molloy, 75, American government officer, last Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives (1974–1993), complications of diabetes.

July 18th
* Edson Stroll, 82, American actor (McHale's Navy), cancer.

July 17th
* Jim Kincaid, 76, American news correspondent (ABC News), anchorman (WVEC) and essayist, heart attack.
* Joe Morris, Sr., 85, American Navajo World War II code talker.
*Alex Steinweiss, 94, American graphic designer, inventor of the album cover

July 15th
* Helen Beverley, 94, American actress (Green Fields), natural causes.
* Ed Flesh, 79, American art director, inventor of the Wheel of Fortune wheel, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.


July 13th
* Jerry Ragovoy, 80, American songwriter ("Time Is on My Side"), stroke.


July 12th.
* Sherwood Schwartz, 94, American television producer, creator of The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island.


July 11th
* Henry Carlisle, 84, American translator, novelist and anti-censorship activist.
* Rob Grill, 67, American singer and songwriter (The Grass Roots).


July 10th
* Travis Bean, 63, American guitar maker, cancer.
* Kelly Thomas, 37, American homeless man, beaten.


July 8th
* Kenny Baker, 85, American fiddler, complications from a stroke.
* Roberts Blossom, 87, American actor (Doc Hollywood, Escape from Alcatraz, Home Alone).
* Sam Denoff, 83, American Emmy Award-winning television writer (The Dick Van Dyke Show, That Girl), Alzheimer's disease.
* Betty Ford, 93, American First Lady (1974–1977) and co-founder of Betty Ford Center.

July 6th
* Warren Leslie, 84, American author, journalist and buisness executive.

July 5th
* Neil Dougherty, 50, American basketball coach (TCU).
* Fonce Mizell, 68, American jazz and R&B record producer (Mizell Brothers).
* Theodore Roszak, 77, American scholar (The Making of a Counter Culture), cancer.
* John Sweet, 95, American actor (A Canterbury Tale).
* Gordon Tootoosis, 69, Canadian actor (Pocahontas, Legends of the Fall) and activist, pneumonia.


July 4th
* Lawrence R. Newman, 86, American advocate for the deaf.
* Jane Scott, 92, American rock music critic.

July 3rd
* Iain Blair, 69, British romance novelist, published under the name Emma Blair.

July 1st
* Jane Baker, 88, American community organizer and politician, first female Mayor of San Mateo, California.
* Charlie Craig, 73, American songwriter ("She's Single Again", "The Generation Gap"), lung cancer.
* Bud Grant, 79, American television executive, president of CBS (1980–1987).