Deaths - June 2012

2nd
Richard Dawson, 79, English-born American actor (Hogan's Heroes), game show panelist (Match Game) and host (Family Feud), esophageal cancer.
LeRoy Ellis, 72, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers, Philadelphia 76ers, Baltimore Bullets), prostate cancer.
David C. Garrett, Jr., 90, American businessman, CEO of Delta Air Lines.
Kathryn Joosten, 72, American actress (Desperate Housewives, The West Wing), lung cancer.
Frazier Mohawk, 71, American record producer (Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds).
Oliver, c. 55, Congolese-born common chimpanzee noted for his upright stature and humanlike traits.

3rd
Carol Ann Abrams, 69, American film producer (The Ernest Green Story) and author, mother of J. J. Abrams, cancer.

4th
Jim Fitzgerald, 86, American businessman, majority owner of the Milwaukee Bucks (1976–1985) and Golden State Warriors (1986–1995).
Stan Jolley, 86, American art director and production designer (Witness, Superman, Caddyshack).
Herb Reed, 83, American singer (The Platters).

5th
Ray Bradbury, 91, American science fiction and fantasy author (Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes).
Caroline John, 71, British actress (Doctor Who).
Hal Keller, 83, American baseball player (Washington Senators) and executive (Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers), esophageal cancer.
Lucky Diamond, c. 15, American Maltese dog, Guinness World Record holder (dog most photographed with celebrities), cancer.

7th
F. Herbert Bormann, 90, American ecologist, discovered acid rain.
John T. Cunningham, 96, American historian, journalist, and writer.
Ping-ti Ho, 95, Chinese-born American historian.
Mervin Jackson, 65, American basketball player (Utah Stars).[77]
Lil Phat, 19, American rap artist ("Independent"), shooting.
Abid Hamid Mahmud, 55, Iraqi military officer, bodyguard and personal secretary of Saddam Hussein, execution by hanging.
John Medlin, 78, American banker, CEO of Wachovia (1977–1993), heart attack.
J. Michael Riva, 63, American production designer (The Color Purple, A Few Good Men, Iron Man), stroke.
Chuck Share, 85, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Pistons, St. Louis Hawks, Minneapolis Lakers).
Robert L. Washington III, 47, American comic book writer, co-creator of Static.
Bob Welch, 66, American musician (Fleetwood Mac, Paris) and songwriter ("Sentimental Lady"), suicide by gunshot.

8th
Pete Brennan, 75, American basketball player (New York Knicks), prostate cancer.
Frank Cady, 96, American actor (Green Acres, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Petticoat Junction).

10th
Jimmy Elledge, 69, American singer, complications following a stroke.
Judy Freudberg, 62, American television (Sesame Street) and film (The Land Before Time, An American Tail) writer, brain tumor.
Warner Fusselle, 68, American sportscaster (Brooklyn Cyclones, This Week in Baseball), heart attack.
Elvis J. Perrodin, 55, American jockey, cancer.
Eugene Selznick, 82, American Hall of Fame volleyball player and Olympic (1964, 1996, 2000) coach, pneumonia.

11th
Lee Allen, 77, American Olympic wrestler (1956, 1960) and coach (1980), heart failure.
Kinsey Anderson, 85, American professor of physics (University of California at Berkeley).
Dave Boswell, 67, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins), heart attack.
Ann Rutherford, 94, Canadian-born American actress (Gone with the Wind, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), heart disease.
Stay High 149, 61, American graffiti artist, complications of liver disease.

12th
Henry Hill, 69, American mobster, inspiration for the movie Goodfellas, heart condition.
Jung Ayul, 24, South Korean actress, suicide by hanging.
Annie B. Martin, 91, American civil rights activist.
Elinor Ostrom, 78, American economist and Nobel laureate (Economics, 2009), pancreatic cancer.
Don Woods, 84, American meteorologist and cartoonist, cancer.

14th
Jerry Tubbs, 77, American football player (Dallas Cowboys, Chicago Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers).
Yvette Wilson, 48, American comedian and actress (Moesha, The Parkers), cervical cancer.

16th
Howie Chizek, 65, American public address announcer (Cleveland Cavaliers, Cleveland Force) and talk radio host (WNIR), heart attack.
Dan Dorfman, 80, American financial journalist (CNN, CNBC), cardiogenic shock.
Susan Tyrrell, 67, American actress (Cry-Baby, Fat City, Forbidden Zone).

17th
Patricia Brown, 81, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League) and law librarian and professor (Suffolk University).
Rodney King, 47, American victim of videotaped police beating that sparked the 1992 Los Angeles riots, accidental drowning.

18th
Kay Christopher, 86, American film actress and model.
Dennis Hamilton, 68, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers), cancer.
Erica Kennedy, 42, American author and columnist.[233] (death announced on this date)
Jim Packard, 70, American public radio announcer (Whad'Ya Know?), cardiopulmonary disease.
Victor Spinetti, 82, Welsh comic actor (A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Magical Mystery Tour), prostate cancer.
Judith Wallerstein, 90, American psychologist and anti-divorce activist.
Ralph Wenzel, 69, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, San Diego Chargers), complications from dementia.

19th
Anthony Bate, 84, British actor (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy).
Gerry Bron, 79, British record producer and manager (Uriah Heep, Motörhead).
Jim Drake, 83, American aeronautical engineer, inventor of the windsurfer, complications from lung disease.
Richard Lynch, 72, American actor (Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: The Next Generation).

20th
Judy Agnew, 91, American Second Lady (1969–1973), widow of former Vice President Spiro Agnew.
Frieda Berryhill, 90, American anti–nuclear power activist.
LeRoy Neiman, 91, American artist.

21st
Richard Adler, 90, American Tony Award-winning producer and composer (Damn Yankees, The Pajama Game).g
Anna Schwartz, 96, American economist and author (A Monetary History of the United States).

22nd
Barry Becher, 71, American marketing expert (Ginsu knife), cancer.

23rd
Frank Chee Willeto, 87, American Navajo code talker in World War II, Congressional Silver Medal recipient, Vice President of the Navajo Nation (1998–1999).


24th
Darrel Akerfelds, 50, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies) and coach (San Diego Padres), pancreatic cancer.
Gad Beck, 88, German educator, author, and gay Holocaust survivor.
Jean Cox, 90, American opera singer.
Ted Luckenbill, 72, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors), cancer.

25th
Norman Felton, 99, British-born American television producer (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.)
George Randolph Hearst, Jr., 84, American businessman (Hearst Corporation), complications from a stroke.
Edgar Ross, 63, American boxer.

26th
Pat Cummings, 55, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Miami Heat).
Ann Curtis, 86, American Olympic gold and silver medal-winning (1948) swimmer.
Nora Ephron, 71, American screenwriter and film director (When Harry Met Sally..., Sleepless in Seattle, Julie & Julia), pneumonia.
Doris Singleton, 92, American actress (I Love Lucy, My Three Sons).

27th
Don Grady, 68, American actor (My Three Sons, The Mickey Mouse Club), cancer.

28th
Doris Sams, 85, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).