Deaths - April 2012

1st
Leila Denmark, 114, American supercentenarian, author, and physician, credited with developing a whooping cough vaccine.
Jamaa Fanaka, 68, American filmmaker.

2nd
Elizabeth Catlett, 96, American-born Mexican artist.
Allie Clark, 88, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Athletics).
Jim Delaney, 91, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) shot putter.
Sarah Dreher, 75, American novelist and playwright.
Frank Fucarino, 91, American basketball player (Toronto Huskies).

3rd
Nicholas King, 79, American actor, preserved the Watts Towers.
Chief Jay Strongbow, 83, American professional wrestler.

5th
Joe Avezzano, 68, American football player (Boston Patriots) and coach (Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders), heart attack.
Jim Herr, 87, American businessman, founder of Herr's Snacks.
Barney McKenna, 72, Irish musician (The Dubliners).
Gil Noble, 80, American television reporter and host (Like It Is).

6th
Roland Guilbault, 77, American admiral who commanded the USS Ticonderoga, the first Aegis cruiser.
Thomas Kinkade, 54, American painter, overdose of alcohol and Valium.
Thomas Sancton, Sr., 97, American novelist and journalist.
Michael Sands, 66, American show business publicist and alleged CIA operative, choked.
Reed Whittemore, 92, American poet.

7th
David E. Pergrin, 94, American soldier, led the most decorated WWII engineering battalion.
Tom Runnels, 78, American football player (Washington Redskins).
Mike Wallace, 93, American news correspondent (60 Minutes).

8th
Blair Kiel, 50, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Indianapolis Colts, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), suspected heart attack.
Jack Tramiel, 83, Polish-born American businessman, founder of Commodore and CEO of Atari.
Al Veigel, 95, American baseball player (Boston Braves).
Janusz K. Zawodny, 90, Polish-born American historian, World War II resistance fighter.

9th
Takeshi Aono, 75, Japanese voice actor (Dragon Ball, One Piece), post-operative multiple cerebral infarction.
Richard Beyer, 85, American sculptor.
Barry Cahill, 90, Canadian-born American actor (Grand Theft Auto, Sweet Bird of Youth).
Mark Lenzi, 43, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1992) diver, hypotension.
Don Reed, 92, American football coach (Long Beach State 49ers), natural causes.

10th
Lili Chookasian, 90, American opera singer.
Kurt Crain, 47, American football player (Houston Oilers, Green Bay Packers).
Andy Replogle, 58, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers).
John Weaver, 92, American sculptor.

11th
Tippy Dye, 97, American college athlete, coach, and athletic director.
Hal McKusick, 87, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist, natural causes.

12th
Linda Cook, 63, American actress.
Andrew Love, 70, American saxophonist (The Memphis Horns), complications of Alzheimer's disease.
Amy Tryon, 42, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (2004) equestrian, accidental drug overdose.

13th
Marilyn Lovell Matz, 81, American actress (The Ghosts of Mississippi), therapist and activist.

14th
Miller Fisher, 98 Canadian neurologist.
Jonathan Frid, 87, Canadian actor (Dark Shadows), natural causes.
Ma Jaya, 71, American spiritual teacher, pancreatic cancer.
Martin Poll, 89, American film producer (The Lion in Winter), natural causes.
Edward Purrington, 82, American opera director.
Vincent F. Seyfried, 93, American historian.
Viro the virus, 31, American hip hop artist.

15th
Paul Bogart, 92, American Emmy Award-winning television director (All in the Family), natural causes.
Rich Saul, 64, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), leukemia.
Dwayne Schintzius, 43, American basketball player (New Jersey Nets), respiratory failure.
Joan Tozzer, 90, American figure skater.
Bob Wright, 86, American college basketball coach (Morehead State University).

16th
Ernest Callenbach, 83, American writer and environmentalist.
Teddy Charles, 84, American jazz musician and composer.
Arthur Nadel, 80, American fund manager and convicted embezzler.
Jack Streidl, 93, American football coach.

17th
J. Quinn Brisben, 77, American civil rights activist and Socialist candidate for U.S. President in 1992.
Stan Johnson, 75, American baseball player. (Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Athletics).
Irving Millman, 88, American virologist and microbiologist.
Ben H. Procter, 85, American author and football player (Los Angeles Rams), Parkinson's disease.
Stanley Rogers Resor, 94, American lawyer, Secretary of the Army (1965–1971).

18th
Dick Clark, 82, American television host and producer (American Bandstand, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, Pyramid), heart attack.
Hillman Curtis, 51, American graphic designer and filmmaker, colon cancer.
Cora Hansen, 113, American-born Canadian supercentenarian.
John O'Neil, 91, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
Robert O. Ragland, 80, American film score composer.
K. D. Wentworth, 61, American science fiction author, cancer and pneumonia.

19th
Ray Easterling, 62, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), suicide by gunshot.
Greg Ham, 58, Australian musician (Men at Work). (body found on this date)
Levon Helm, 71, American musician (The Band) and actor (Coal Miner's Daughter), throat cancer.

21st
Doris Betts, 79, American author, lung cancer.
Charles Colson, 80, American White House Counsel convicted in Watergate scandal, evangelist, founder of Prison Fellowship, brain hemorrhage.

23rd
Chris Ethridge, 65, American country rock bassist (International Submarine Band, The Flying Burrito Brothers).
Tommy Marth, 33, American musician (The Killers), suicide.
LeRoy T. Walker, 93, American track coach, Chairman of the US Olympic Committee (1992–1996).

24th
Fred Bradley, 91, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
John McGrath, 92, American army soldier and World War II Easy Company veteran.
Eusebio Razo, Jr., 46, Mexican-born American jockey, explosion.
Amos Vogel, 91, Austrian-born American film scholar, founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16.
George Vujnovich, 96, American OSS agent and leader of Operation Halyard, natural causes.

26th
Pete Fornatale, 66, American radio disc jockey (WNEW-FM, WFUV), brain aneurysm.
Floyd D. Hall, 96, American pilot, chairman and chief executive of Eastern Air Lines.
Margie Stewart, 92, American model and actress.

28th
Walter Matthews, 85, American actor (General Hospital).

29th
Amarilo Slim, 83, American professional gambler, winner of the 1972 World Series of Poker main event, colon cancer.
Dynaformer, 27, American racehorse and sire, euthanized.
Joel Goldsmith, 54, American film and television composer (Stargate), son of Jerry Goldsmith.
Jim McCrary, 72, American photographer.
Roland Moreno, 66, French inventor, creator of the smart card.
Kenny Roberts, 84, American country music singer and yodeler.

30th
George Murdock, 81, American actor (Barney Miller, Battlestar Galactica, The X-Files), cancer.
Billy Neighbors, 72, American football player (Boston Patriots, Miami Dolphins), heart attack.