Deaths in February 2011

28th
* Nick LaTour, 82, American character actor and singer, complications from cancer.
* Jane Russell, 89, American actress (The Outlaw, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), respiratory illness.


27th
* Frank Alesia, 67, American actor and director (Pajama Party, Riot on Sunset Strip, C'mon, Let's Live a Little), natural causes.
* Frank Buckles, 110, American supercentenarian soldier, last living U.S. World War I veteran, natural causes.
* James Gruber, 82, American teacher and early gay rights activist, last surviving member of the Mattachine Society.
* Eddie Kirkland, 88, American blues guitarist, car accident.
* Duke Snider, 84, American Baseball Hall of Famer (New York Mets, San Francisco Giants).
* Gary Winick, 49, American film director (13 Going on 30, Letters to Juliet), pneumonia.


26th
* Judith Coplon, 89, American political analyst, convicted of espionage.
* Greg Goossen, 65, American baseball player (New York Mets) and actor (Wyatt Earp, Unforgiven).
* Shawn Lee, 44, American football player (Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears).
* James A. McClure, 86, American politician, U.S. Representative (1967–1973) and Senator from Idaho (1973–1991), following multiple strokes.
* Richard J. Naughton, 64, American vice admiral, Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy (2002–2003).
* Mark Tulin, 62, American bass player (The Electric Prunes, The Smashing Pumpkins), heart attack.


25th
* John Thomas Chambers, Jr., 82, American politician, only African-American Mayor of Annapolis (1981), heart attack.
* Rick Coonce, 64, American drummer (The Grass Roots).
* Manny Fried, 97, American playwright and actor.
* John Miner, 92, American attorney, prosecutor responsible for investigating the death of Marilyn Monroe.

22nd
* Nicholas Courtney, 81, British actor (Doctor Who).
* Beau Dollar, 69, American singer and drummer, long illness.
* Jean Dinning, 86, American songwriter ("Teen Angel"); sister of Mark Dinning.
* Bill Nimmo, 93, American radio and television announcer (Who Do You Trust?, The Jackie Gleason Show) and game show host (Keep It in the Family).

21st
* Bob Boyd, 55, American professional golfer, leukemia.
* Ben Fricke, 35, American football player (Dallas Cowboys), colon cancer.
* Edwin D. Kilbourne, 90, American research scientist and influenza vaccine expert.
* Bernard Nathanson, 84, American pro-choice activist and co-founder of NARAL, later pro-life activist and writer, cancer.
* Rudy Robbins, 77, American singer and actor.

20th
* Drew Baur, 66, American banker, co-owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, heart attack.
* Barbara Harmer, 57, British aviator, first female Concorde pilot, cancer.
* Betty Hicks, 90, American golfer (LPGA Tour), Alzheimer's disease.
* Troy Jackson, 35, American basketball player (AND1 Mixtape Tour).

19th
* Donald L. Cox, 74, American leader of the Black Panther Party.
* Max Wilk, 90, American playwright, screenwriter and author.

18th
* Walter Seltzer, 96, American film producer (Soylent Green, The Omega Man).

17th
* Ricky Bell, 36, American football player (Chicago Bears, Jacksonville Jaguars, Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
* Dave Duerson, 50, American football player (Phoenix Cardinals, New York Giants), suicide by gunshot.
* Bill Monroe, 90, American journalist, host of Meet the Press (1975–1984), complications from hypertension.
* Perry Moore, 39, American author (Hero) and film producer (The Chronicles of Narnia), apparent drug overdose.

16th
* Len Lesser, 88, American actor (Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond), cancer-related pneumonia.
* David Shapiro, 58, American jazz musician.

15th
* Charles Epstein, 77, American geneticist and Unabomber victim, pancreatic cancer.
* Joe Frazier, 88, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and manager (New York Mets).

14th
* David F. Friedman, 87, American film producer (Blood Feast), heart failure.
* Cecil Kaiser, 94, American Negro league baseball player, injuries from a fall.
* Catherine Masters, 111, British supercentenarian, third-oldest living person in the UK, last living person born in Scotland in the 19th century.
* John Strauss, 90, American film and television composer (Amadeus, Car 54, Where Are You?), Parkinson's disease.

14th
* Larry Holden, 49, Irish actor (Batman Begins, Memento), cancer.
* Inese Jaunzeme, 78, Latvian javelin thrower and Olympic gold medalist (1956 Melbourne).

12th
* Betty Garrett, 91, American actress (On the Town, All in the Family, Laverne & Shirley), aortic aneurysm.
* Kenneth Mars, 75, American actor (Young Frankenstein, The Producers, The Little Mermaid), pancreatic cancer.
* Bridgett Rollins, 54, American model (Playboy), cancer.
* Joanne Siegel, 93, American widow of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, model for Lois Lane.

11th
* Nubia Barahona, 10, American child abuse victim, beaten.
* Bad News Brown, 33, Canadian rapper and harmonica player, beaten and shot.
* Christian J. Lambertsen, 93, American diving engineer, inventor of first SCUBA device, renal failure.

10th
* Emory Bellard, 83, American college football coach (Texas A&M University, Mississippi State University), creator of wishbone offense, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Joshua Goldberg, 43, American website editor, son of Lucianne Goldberg and brother of Jonah Goldberg, injuries sustained in a fall.

8th
* Donald S. Sanford, 92, American film and television writer (Midway).
* Marvin Sease, 64, American blues singer, pneumonia.

6th
* Gary Moore, 58, Irish rock guitarist and singer (Thin Lizzy), heart attack.
* Ken Olsen, 84, American engineer, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation.

5th
* John Paul Getty III, 54, American heir and kidnapping victim, grandson of J. Paul Getty and father of Balthazar Getty, after long illness.
* Donald Peterman, 79, American cinematographer (Flashdance, Men in Black, Cocoon), complications from myelodysplastic syndrome.
* Peggy Rea, 89, American character actress (Grace Under Fire, The Dukes of Hazzard, Step by Step, The Waltons), heart failure.
* Charles E. Silberman, 86, American journalist and author (Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice), heart attack.
* Albert Yator, 17, Kenyan long-distance runner, world junior steeplechase medallist, bronchopneumonia.

4th
* Lena Nyman, 66, Swedish actress (I Am Curious (Yellow), I Am Curious (Blue), Autumn Sonata), cancer.
* Tura Satana, 72, American actress (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), heart failure.

3rd
* Maria Schneider, 58, French actress (Last Tango in Paris), cancer.

2nd
* Bill Foster, 78, American television director (Benson, Full House, The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults), cancer.

1st
* Douglas Haig, 90, American child actor. [333]