Deaths in April 2011

April 29th
* David Mason, 85, British trumpeter, played trumpet solo on "Penny Lane", leukemia.
* Joanna Russ, 74, American science fiction author, following a series of strokes.


April 28th
* William Campbell, 87, American film and television actor (Love Me Tender, Star Trek, Dementia 13).


April 27th
* Marian Mercer, 75, American actress (It's a Living), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* Harold Schnitzer, 87, American philanthropist and company executive (Schnitzer Steel), cancer.
* Yvette Vickers, 81–82, American actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman), singer and model (Playboy).  (body discovered on this date).
* Michael Waltman, 64, American actor (Beyond the Law, Tower of Terror, National Lampoon's Van Wilder).
* David Wilkerson, 79, American Christian evangelist and author (The Cross and the Switchblade), car accident.


April 26th
* Douglas Chaffee, 75, American artist.
* John Cossette, 54, American television producer (Grammy Awards).
* Roger Gimbel, 86, American Emmy Award-winning television producer (Chernobyl: The Final Warning, S.O.S. Titanic), pneumonia.
* Sadler's Wells, 30, American racehorse.
* Phoebe Snow, 60, American singer-songwriter ("Poetry Man"), brain hemorrhage.


April 25th
* Ira Cohen, 76, American poet, renal failure.
* Joe Perry, 84, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
* Elizabeth Wicken, 83, Canadian baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).

April 24th
* Marie-France Pisier, 66, French actress (The Other Side of Midnight), drowning.


April 23rd
* Tom King, 68, American guitarist and songwriter (The Outsiders), heart failure.
* Peter Lieberson, 64, American composer, complications of lymphoma.
* Norio Ohga, 81, Japanese businessman, president and CEO of Sony, multiple organ failure.


April 22nd
* Hazel Dickens, 75, American bluegrass singer.
* Sidney Michaels, 83, American playwright and screenwriter (The Night They Raided Minsky's), Alzheimer's disease.


April 21st
* Beverly Barton, 64, American romance author, heart failure.
* Jess Stonestreet Jackson, Jr., 81, American wine entrepreneur, founder of Kendall-Jackson, cancer.


April 20th
* Chris Hondros, 41, American photojournalist, mortar attack.
* Madelyn Pugh, 90, American screenwriter (I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy, The Mothers-in-Law) and producer (Alice).
* Hubert Schlafly, 91, American engineer, co-inventor of the TelePrompter.


April 19th
* Norm Masters, 77, American football player (Green Bay Packers), cancer.


April 18th
* Yu-ri Kim, 22, South Korean fashion model, apparent suicide.


April 17th
* Alfred Freedman, 94, American psychiatrist, declassified homosexuality as a mental illness, complications following hip surgery.
* Michael Sarrazin, 70, Canadian actor (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; The Flim-Flam Man; For Pete's Sake), cancer.
* Robert Vickrey, 84, American artist.


April 16th
* William A. Rusher, 87, American columnist, publisher of National Review (1957–1988).
* Sol Saks, 100, American screenwriter, creator of Bewitched.


April 14th
* Trevor Bannister, 76, British actor (Are You Being Served?, Last of the Summer Wine, The Dustbinmen), heart attack.
* Walter Breuning, 114, American supercentenarian, world's third oldest man ever.
* Jon Cedar, 80, American character actor (Hogan's Heroes), leukemia.
* Arthur Marx, 89, American writer, son of Groucho Marx.


April 12th
* Lee Bradley Brown, 39, British tourist, beaten in police custody.
* Sidney Harman, 92, American businessman and publisher (Newsweek), acute myeloid leukemia.


April 11th
* Billy Bang, 63, American jazz violinist, lung cancer.
* Larry Sweeney, 30, American professional wrestler and manager, suicide by hanging.

April 10th

* Violet Cowden, 94, American pilot, member of Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II, heart failure.
* Thelma Pressman, 89, American microwave cooking consultant, opened first microwave cooking school in the United States.


April 9th
* Jerry Lawson, 70, American videogame console engineer.
* Sidney Lumet, 86, American film director (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network), lymphoma.
* Roger Nichols, 66, American sound engineer and record producer (Steely Dan), pancreatic cancer.
* Yolande Palfrey, 54, British actress (Blake's 7, Doctor Who), brain tumour.
* Orrin Tucker, 100, American orchestra leader.
* Randy Wood, 94, American record producer, founder of Dot Records.


April 8th
* Mario Branch, 31, American football player (Tennessee Titans, Amsterdam Admirals, Philadelphia Soul), heart failure.

April 7th
* Edward Edwards, 77, American serial killer, natural causes.

April 6th
* L. J. Davis, 70, American writer.
* Coyote McCloud, 68, American disc jockey.
* Skip O'Brien, 60, American actor (CSI).

April 5th
* Baruch Samuel Blumberg, 85, American doctor, Nobel laureate in medicine, heart attack.
* Gil Robbins, 80, American folk singer (The Highwaymen) and actor, father of Tim Robbins, prostate cancer.


April 4th
* Scott Columbus, 54, American drummer (Manowar).

April 3rd
* Amy Applegren, 83, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
* Kevin Jarre, 56, American screenwriter (Tombstone, Glory, The Mummy), heart failure.
* Calvin Russell, 62, American protest singer-songwriter and guitarist.

April 2nd
* Jess Osuna, 82, American character actor (Three Days of the Condor).
* Bill Varney, 77, American sound editor (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future, Dune).
* Paul Violi, 66, American poet, cancer.