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• Ronald D. Asmus
  Ronald D. Asmus
  Ronald Dietrich Asmus was an United States diplomat and political analyst. He, as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs , was instrumental in the expansion of NATO to include former members of the Eastern bloc and acted as a leading policy designer in the U.S.–Europe...
  
  , 53, American diplomat and political analyst, cancer. http://www.rferl.org/content/ron_asmus/24090068.html
• Pete Gray
  Pete Gray (activist)
  Peter Robert Gray was an Australian environmental activist, notable for two "landmark" court cases, and for having thrown his shoes in public at former Prime Minister of Australia John Howard in protest over Australia's participation in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.He was described in an obituary in...
  
  , 30, Australian environmental activist, bowel cancer. http://www.greenpeace.org.au/blog/?p=3236
• Richard Holmes
  Richard Holmes (military historian)
  Brigadier Edward Richard Holmes, CBE, TD, JP , known as Richard Holmes, was a British soldier and noted military historian, particularly well-known through his many television appearances...
  
  , 65, British military historian. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13251220
• Dorjee Khandu
  Dorjee Khandu
  Dorjee Khandu was an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress. He was the sixth Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh. He was reelected in 2009 general elections for the second term as the chief minister...
  
  , 56, Indian Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh
  Arunachal Pradesh
  Arunachal Pradesh is a state of India, located in the far northeast. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south, and shares international borders with Burma in the east, Bhutan in the west, and the People's Republic of China in the north. The majority of the territory is claimed by...
  
   (since 2007), helicopter crash. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Krishna-condoles-demise-of-Arunachal-CM-Khandu/articleshow/8158979.cms
• Mike Krsnich
  Mike Krsnich
  Michael Krsnich was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Milwaukee Braves during the 1960 and 1962 seasons. Listed at 6' 1", 190 lb., he batted and threw right handed...
  
  , 79, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves).
• Anthony Francis Mestice
  Anthony Francis Mestice
  Anthony Francis Mestice was the Roman Catholic titular bishop of Villa Nova and auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York....
  
  , 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York
  Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York
  The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York covers New York, Bronx, and Richmond counties in New York City , as well as Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester counties in New York state. There are 480 parishes...
  
   (1973–2001). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/poughkeepsiejournal/obituary.aspx?n=anthony-f-mestice&pid=150748477
• Harry S. Morgan
  Harry S. Morgan
  Harry S. Morgan was a German actor, producer and director of pornographic movies. He is famous for directing classic-style movies.-Life:...
  
  , 65, German pornographic actor, producer and director. http://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/porno-produzent/einer-seiner-letzten-drehs-17672204.bild.html (German) (body found on this date)
• Emilio Navarro
  Emilio Navarro
  Emilio "Millito" Navarro was the first Puerto Rican to play baseball in the Negro Leagues. At age 105, Navarro was also the oldest living professional baseball player to have played in the Negro Leagues.-Biography:...
  
  , 105, Puerto Rican Negro league baseball
  Negro league baseball
  The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relatively successful leagues beginning in...
  
   player. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hjZGnj1TpSjO43HDELBOE7tPUPGA?docId=25fa1868f9fc4e38960c82ebf0f07c50
• Evald Okas
  Evald Okas
  Evald Okas was an Estonian painter, probably best known for his portraits of nudes.-Biography:Okas was born in Tallinn, where he began his artistic career while studying at the State Art School...
  
  , 95, Estonian painter. http://uudised.err.ee/index.php?06228084 (Estonian)
• Daniel Quillen, 70, American mathematician. http://www.commalg.org/2011/05/daniel-quillen/
• Ernesto Sabato
  Ernesto Sabato
  Ernesto Sabato , was an Argentine writer, painter and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world throughout Latin America"...
  
  , 99, Argentine writer (El Túnel
  El Túnel
  The Tunnel is a dark, psychological novel written by Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato about a deranged porteño painter, Juan Pablo Castel, and his obsession with a woman...
  
  , On Heroes and Tombs), pneumonia. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/30/us-argentina-sabato-idUSTRE73T1AE20110430
• Edgar Seymour
  Edgar Seymour
  Edgar Duff Seymour was an American bobsledder who competed in the late 1950s.He attended the Pennsylvania State University from 1934 to 1938. At the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo he finished sixth with his partner Arthur Tyler in the two-man event.-References:* **Wallechinsky, David ....
  
  , 98, American Olympic bobsledder. http://www.tributes.com/show/Edgar-Seymour-91472067
• Apostolos Santas
  Apostolos Santas
  Apostolos Santas commonly known as Lakis, was a Greek veteran of the Resistance against the Axis Occupation of Greece during World War II, most notable for his participation, along with Manolis Glezos, in the taking down of the German flag from the Acropolis on 30 May 1941.Apostolos Santas was...
  
  , 89, Greek Resistance
  Greek Resistance
  The Greek Resistance is the blanket term for a number of armed and unarmed groups from across the political spectrum that resisted the Axis Occupation of Greece in the period 1941–1944, during World War II.-Origins:...
  
   veteran. http://news.in.gr/greece/article/?aid=1231105919 (Greek)
• Eddie Turnbull
  Eddie Turnbull
  Edward Hunter Turnbull was a Scottish professional football player and manager.During the late 1940s and 1950s he was one of the Famous Five, the noted Hibernian forward line, along with Gordon Smith, Bobby Johnstone, Lawrie Reilly, and Willie Ormond...
  
  , 88, Scottish football player and manager. http://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/news/20110430/eddie-turnbull_2262950_2350210

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• Waldemar Baszanowski
  Waldemar Baszanowski
  Waldemar Romuald Baszanowski , was a Polish weightlifter. He took part in four Olympic Games ....
  
  , 75, Polish weightlifter. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=trackandfield&id=6447999
• Robert B. Duncan
  Robert B. Duncan
  Robert Blackford Duncan was an American politician from the state of Oregon. A Democrat, he served multiple terms in the Oregon Legislative Assembly and as a U.S. congressman from Oregon. In the Oregon House of Representatives he served as speaker for four years, and in the U.S. House he...
  
  , 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Oregon
  Oregon
  Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...
  
   (1963–1967, 1975–1981). http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/04/former_us_rep_robert_duncan_di.html
• Salim Ghazal
  Salim Ghazal
  Salim Ghazal was a bishop in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. He was the auxiliary bishop of the Patriarchate of Antioch from 2001-2005.-Biography:...
  
  , 79, Syrian-born Lebanese Melkite Catholic
  Melkite Greek Catholic Church
  The Melkite Greek Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See as part of the worldwide Catholic Church. The Melkites, Byzantine Rite Catholics of mixed Eastern Mediterranean and Greek origin, trace their history to the early Christians of Antioch, Syria, of...
  
   hierarch, Curial bishop of Antioch for Melkites (2001–2005). http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Apr/30/Bishop-Salim-Ghazal-champion-of-coexistence-dies-age-80.ashx#axzz1KxI4F8gK
• Abdul Hameed, 83, Pakistani writer and novelist. http://www.bbcnewspakistan.com/a-hameed-a-well-known-writer-passed-away.html
• Jeff Kargola
  Jeff Kargola
  Jeff "Ox" Kargola was an American professional Freestyle Motocross rider. He was a member of the Metal Mulisha FMX team....
  
  , 27, American freestyle motocross
  Freestyle Motocross
  Freestyle Motocross is a variation on the sport of motocross in which motorcycle riders attempt to impress judges with jumps and stunts.The two main types of freestyle events are:...
  
   rider, race accident. http://sports.espn.go.com/action/fmx/news/story?id=6451910
• Vladimir Krainev
  Vladimir Krainev
  Vladimir Krainev was a Russian pianist and professor of piano, People's Artist of the USSR.-Biography:...
  
  , 67, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR
  People's Artist of the USSR
  People's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to citizens of the Soviet Union.- Nomenclature and significance :...
  
  , aortic aneurysm. http://kommersant.ru/doc/1633480 (Russian)
• David Mason, 85, British trumpeter, played trumpet solo on "Penny Lane
  Penny Lane
  "Penny Lane" is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney. It was credited to Lennon–McCartney.Recorded during the Sgt. Pepper sessions, "Penny Lane" was released in February 1967 as one side of a double A-sided single, along with "Strawberry Fields Forever". Both songs were later included...
  
  ", leukemia. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-david-mason-20110507,0,5885663.story
• Siamak Pourzand
  Siamak Pourzand
  Siamak Pourzand was an Iranian journalist and film critic. He was the manager of the Majmue-ye Farrhangi-ye Honari-ye Tehran—a cultural center for writers, artists, and intellectuals—and wrote cultural commentary for several reformist newspapers later shut down by the Iranian government...
  
  , 79, Iranian journalist and dissident, suicide by jumping. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/1/longtime-iranian-dissident-kills-self-to-prove-his/
• Joanna Russ
  Joanna Russ
  Joanna Russ was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny...
  
  , 74, American science fiction author, following a series of strokes. http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/04/joanna-russ-1937-2011/
• Walter Santoro
  Walter Santoro
  Walter Santoro Baratçabal was a Uruguayan lawyer and politician who served as the Minister of Work and Social Security of his nation from 1963 to 1964....
  
  , 89, Uruguayan politician, Minister of Industry (1963–1964), natural causes. http://www.elpais.com.uy/110429/ultmo-563259/ultimomomento/fallecio-el-ex-legislador-nacionalista-walter-santoro/ (Spanish)

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• Enrique Arancibia Clavel
  Enrique Arancibia Clavel
  Enrique Arancibia was a Chilean DINA agent, who resided in unofficial exile in Buenos Aires after the assassination of Chilean Army Chief of Staff René Schneider on 25 October 1970. He was arrested by Argentine intelligence officers shortly after the extradition of Michael Townley to the US, and...
  
  , 66, Chilean DINA agent. http://www.infobae.com/notas/578476-Muerte-y-misterio-en-el-centro-porteno-fue-hallado-sin-vida-Arancibia-Clavel.html (Spanish)
• William Campbell
  William Campbell (film actor)
  William Campbell was an American actor who appeared in supporting roles in major film productions and also starred in several low-budget B-movies, including two cult horror films.-Career:...
  
  , 87, American film and television actor (Love Me Tender
  Love Me Tender (1956 film)
  Love Me Tender is a 1956 American black-and-white CinemaScope motion picture directed by Robert D. Webb, and released by 20th Century Fox on November 21, 1956. The film, named after the song, stars Richard Egan, Debra Paget, and Elvis Presley in his film debut. It is in the Western genre with...
  
  , Star Trek
  Star Trek: The Original Series
  Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry, produced by Desilu Productions . Star Trek was telecast on NBC from September 8, 1966, through June 3, 1969...
  
  , Dementia 13
  Dementia 13
  Dementia 13 is a 1963 horror thriller released by American International Pictures, starring William Campbell, Patrick Magee, and Luana Anders. The film was written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Roger Corman...
  
  ). http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/01/local/la-me-william-campbell-20110501
• Gene Fekete
  Gene Fekete
  Eugene H. "Gene" Fekete is a former American football fullback and linebacker that played professionally in the National Football League.-College team career:...
  
  , 88, American football player (Cleveland Browns
  Cleveland Browns
  The Cleveland Browns are a professional football team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are currently members of the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  ). http://www.clevelandbrowns.com/news/article-1/Browns-mourn-loss-of-Fekete/ef570c0e-6d86-4444-8a89-30d4e6971440
• Erhard Loretan
  Erhard Loretan
  Erhard Loretan was a Swiss mountain climber.Loretan was born in Bulle in the canton of Fribourg. He trained as a cabinet-maker and mountain guide and began his climbing career at the age of 11...
  
  , 52, Swiss mountaineer, third climber to scale all 14 eight-thousander
  Eight-thousander
  The eight-thousanders are the fourteen independent mountains on Earth that are more than high above sea level. They are all located in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges in Asia....
  
  s, climbing accident. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13235979
• Willie O'Neill
  Willie O'Neill
  William "Willie" O'Neill was a Scottish football player who played for Celtic and Carlisle United as a full-back....
  
  , 70, Scottish football player (Celtic
  Celtic F.C.
  Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...
  
  ). http://news.stv.tv/scotland/west-central/245721-former-celtic-player-and-member-of-the-lisbon-lions-willie-oneill-dies/ (death announced on this date)
• Wilhelm Weidenbrück
  Wilhelm Weidenbrück
  Wilhelm Weidenbrück was a highly decorated Major in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves...
  
  , 96, German Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
  Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
  The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was a grade of the 1939 version of the 1813 created Iron Cross . The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was the highest award of Germany to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership during World War II...
  
   recipient. http://waz.trauer.de/Rudolf%20Florenz%20Ludwig%20Wilhelm-Weidenbr%C3%BCck/Trauerfall/450762.html (German)

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• Orlando Bosch
  Orlando Bosch
  Orlando Bosch Ávila was a Cuban exile militant, former Central Intelligence Agency-backed operative, and head of Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations, which the FBI has described as "an anti-Castro terrorist umbrella organization". Former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh called...
  
  , 84, Cuban exile, after long illness. http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/27/2188315/prominent-exile-militant-orlando.html
• Ibrahim Coulibaly
  Ibrahim Coulibaly
  Ibrahim Coulibaly was a military and rebel leader in Côte d'Ivoire. A Staff Sargent in the Armed Forces of Côte d'Ivoire, Coulibaly had served since at least the early 1990s. As Côte d'Ivoire slid into communal conflict, Coulibaly joined the 1999 coup led by Robert Guéï...
  
  , 47, Ivorian militia leader. http://www.silive.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/renegade-warlord-killed-in-ivory-coast/3b8cbdbcba0b450c992876d7dd859652
• Paul Vincent Donovan
  Paul Vincent Donovan
  Paul Vincent Donovan was a bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Kalamazoo in the state of Michigan from 1971-1994.-Biography:...
  
  , 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kalamazoo
  Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo
  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo is a Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan that encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry Counties. The Diocese consists of 46 parishes 13 missions,...
  
   (1971–1994). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdonovan.html
• Jack H. Goaslind
  Jack H. Goaslind
  Jack H. Goaslind, Jr. was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1978 to his death. He was the seventeenth general president of the Young Men organization of the church from 1990-98.-Early life and local church service:Goaslind was born in Salt Lake City,...
  
  , 83, American leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700130576/Elder-Jack-H-Goaslind-Jr-Mormon-emeritus-general-authority-dies-at-83.html
• Igor Kon
  Igor Kon
  Igor Semyonovich Kon was a Soviet and Russian philosopher, psychologist, and sexologist. His scientific publications have been translated into various languages.-Biography:...
  
  , 82, Russian philosopher, psychologist and sexologist. http://www.rosbalt.ru/moscow/2011/04/27/843957.html
• Rafael Menjívar Ochoa
  Rafael Menjívar Ochoa
  Rafael Menjívar Ochoa was a Salvadoran writer, novelist, journalist and translator.His father, the economist Rafael Menjívar Larín, was director of the University of El Salvador...
  
  , 51, Salvadoran writer, journalist and translator, cancer. http://www.telam.com.ar/vernota.php?tipo=N&idPub=220221&id=417822&dis=1&sec=7 (Spanish)
• Marian Mercer
  Marian Mercer
  Marian Ethel Mercer was an American actress and singer.Born in Akron, Ohio, she graduated from the University of Michigan, then spent several seasons working in summer stock. She made her Broadway debut in the chorus of the short-lived musical, Greenwillow in 1960...
  
  , 75, American actress (It's a Living), complications from Alzheimer's disease. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/theater/marian-mercer-actress-with-zany-streak-dies-at-75.html
• Dag Stokke
  Dag Stokke
  Dag Stokke was a Norwegian keyboardist, church organist and mastering engineer best known for his work with the Norwegian rock bands TNT and Vagabond...
  
  , 44, Norwegian keyboardist (TNT
  TNT (band)
  TNT is a Norwegian hard rock/glam metal band from Trondheim, formed in 1982. The band has released twelve studio albums, three EPs and two live albums while going through numerous line-up changes since its formation...
  
  ), church organist and mastering engineer, cancer. http://www.vg.no/musikk/artikkel.php?artid=10084893 (Norwegian)
• Harold Schnitzer
  Harold Schnitzer
  Harold J. Schnitzer was an American businessman, civic leader, and philanthropist. Schnitzer is best remembered for having made over $80 million in charitable gifts over the course of his lifetime, including the establishment of the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at Portland...
  
  , 87, American philanthropist and company executive (Schnitzer Steel
  Schnitzer Steel Industries
  Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. is an American steel manufacturing company headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1906, the company deals mainly in recycled steel. In 2004, the company was ranked fourth in The Seattle Times Northwest 100 list of public companies. As of 2006, it was the...
  
  ), cancer. http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Portland-philanthropist-Schnitzer-dies-at-87-1355511.php
• Harry Thuillier
  Harry Thuillier
  Harry Thuillier was an Irish fencer and broadcaster. He competed in the individual foil events at the 1952 and 1960 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
  , 85, Irish Olympic fencer and radio presenter. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0428/1224295621152.html
• Yvette Vickers
  Yvette Vickers
  Yvette Iola Vickers was an American actress, pin-up model and singer.-Early life and career:...
  
  , 81–82, American actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
  Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
  Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a 1958 American science fiction feature film produced by Bernard Woolner for Allied Artists Pictures. It was directed by Nathan H. Juran from a screenplay by Mark Hanna, and starred Allison Hayes, William Hudson and Yvette Vickers. The original music score was...
  
  ), singer and model (Playboy
  Playboy
  Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
  
  ). http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/05/early-playboy-playmate-and-b-movie-acress-yvette-vickers-found-dead-in-benedict-canyon.html (body discovered on this date).
• Michael Waltman
  Michael Waltman
  Michael Gordon Waltman was an American film and television actor. His credits included Tower of Terror, Beyond the Law and National Lampoon's Van Wilder....
  
  , 64, American actor (Beyond the Law, Tower of Terror
  Tower of Terror (film)
  Tower of Terror is a 1997 made-for-TV supernatural thriller directed by D. J. MacHale. It is based on the theme park attraction, The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, at Disney's Hollywood Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida and was originally a presentation of The...
  
  , National Lampoon's Van Wilder
  National Lampoon's Van Wilder
  National Lampoon's Van Wilder is a 2002 comedy film directed by Walt Becker that stars Ryan Reynolds as the main character. The film also stars Kal Penn, Tara Reid, and Daniel Cosgrove. It features Sophia Bush's acting debut...
  
  ). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=Michael-Waltman&pid=150833670
• David Wilkerson
  David Wilkerson
  David Ray Wilkerson was an American Christian evangelist, best known for his book The Cross and the Switchblade...
  
  , 79, American Christian evangelist and author (The Cross and the Switchblade
  The Cross and the Switchblade
  The Cross and the Switchblade is a book written in 1963 by pastor David Wilkerson with John and Elizabeth Sherrill. It tells the true story of Wilkerson's first five years in New York City, where he ministered to disillusioned youth, encouraging them to turn away from the drugs and gang violence...
  
  ), car accident. http://www.gtowntimes.com/local/Teen-Challenge-founder-killed-in-traffic-accident2011-04-27T18-30-09

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• Douglas Chaffee
  Douglas Chaffee
  Douglas Stewart Chaffee was an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.-Career:Douglas Chaffee has worked for TSR on the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, and the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game.Chaffee has also worked as head of IBM's Art Department, has done paintings...
  
  , 75, American artist. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/greenvilleonline/obituary.aspx?n=doug-chaffee&pid=150627520
• John Cossette
  John Cossette
  John Cossette was an American theater and television producer known for his work on televised award shows, especially the television broadcasts of the Grammy Awards....
  
  , 54, American television producer (Grammy Award
  Grammy Award
  A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
  
  s). http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42783136/ns/today-entertainment/
• Roger Gimbel
  Roger Gimbel
  Roger Gimbel was an American television producer who specialized in television movies. Many of Gimbel's television films dealt with real-life events, including Chernobyl: The Final Warning, S.O.S. Titanic, The Amazing Howard Hughes and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman...
  
  , 86, American Emmy Award-winning television producer (Chernobyl: The Final Warning
  Chernobyl: The Final Warning
  Chernobyl: The Final Warning is a 1991 made for television movie. The film chronicles the Chernobyl disaster.-Cast of Characters:*Jon Voight as Dr. Robert Gale*Jason Robards as Dr. Armand Hammer*Sammi Davis as Yelena Mashenko...
  
  , S.O.S. Titanic
  S.O.S. Titanic
  S.O.S. Titanic is a 1979 television movie that depicts the doomed 1912 voyage from the perspective of three distinct groups of passengers in First, Second, and Third Class, and respectively in a historically accurate fashion...
  
  ), pneumonia. http://www.newser.com/article/d9mssd9o1/roger-gimbel-emmy-winning-tv-producer-dies-at-86-worked-with-bing-crosby-sophia-loren.html
• Lynn Hauldren
  Lynn Hauldren
  Elmer Lynn Hauldren was an advertising copywriter based in Chicago who was best known for originating the television character The Empire Man, the spokesman for Empire Today.-Life and career:...
  
  , 89, American copywriter and product spokesperson (Empire Carpet
  Empire Today
  Empire Today, LLC is a Northlake, Illinois-based home improvement and home furnishing company, specializing in installed carpet, flooring, and window treatments. The company operates in more than 45 major metropolitan areas in the United States, making it one of the leading providers of installed...
  
  ). http://www.suntimes.com/5053412-417/empire-carpet-man-elmer-lynn-hauldren-dead-at-age-89.html
• José María Izuzquiza Herranz
  José María Izuzquiza Herranz
  José María Izuzquiza Herranz was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Jaén en Peru, Peru....
  
  , 85, Spanish-born Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Jaén en Peru
  Apostolic Vicariate of Jaén en Peru
  The Apostolic Vicariate of Jaén en Peru o San Francisco Javier is a Roman Catholic apostolic vicariate located in the city of Jaén in Peru.-History:...
  
   (1987–2001). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bizhe.html
• Sir Henry Leach
  Henry Leach
  Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Conyers Leach, GCB, DL was a former First Sea Lord, the professional head of the Royal Navy. Leach was the First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff between 1979 and 1982, being the professional head of the Navy at the time of the Falklands War...
  
  , 87, British admiral. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/8474861/Admiral-of-the-Fleet-Sir-Henry-Leach.html
• Jim Mandich
  Jim Mandich
  James Michael "Mad Dog" Mandich was a professional American football tight end with the Miami Dolphins. Mandich was an All-American at the University of Michigan. In 2004 he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. As color commentator for the Miami Dolphins , he was teamed with Jimmy...
  
  , 62, American football player and announcer (Miami Dolphins
  Miami Dolphins
  The Miami Dolphins are a Professional football team based in the Miami metropolitan area in Florida. The team is part of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  ), bile duct cancer. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/sports/dolphins/jim-mandich-beloved-as-a-miami-dolphins-player-1435582.html
• Islwyn Morris
  Islwyn Morris
  Islwyn Morris was a Welsh actor and director, best known for his roles in Welsh-language television.Morris was born in 1920 in Swansea and began his acting career in repertory theatre there, appearing with Maudie Edwards, among others....
  
  , 90, Welsh actor. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/uk-wales-south-west-wales-13193781
• Sadler's Wells
  Sadler's Wells (horse)
  Sadler's Wells was a Thoroughbred racehorse that was later a leading sire in France, Great Britain & Ireland and North America during the 1990s. He was foaled in 1981 in the United States, but achieved most of his racing and breeding fame in Europe....
  
  , 30, American racehorse. http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/exceptional-sire-sadlers-wells-dies-aged-30/849178/top/#
• Phoebe Snow
  Phoebe Snow
  Phoebe Snow was a fictional character created by Earnest Elmo Calkins to promote the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. The advertising campaign, based on a live model, using impressionistic techniques and a fictional character, was one of the first of its kind.-The advertising...
  
  , 60, American singer-songwriter ("Poetry Man
  Poetry Man
  "Poetry Man" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Phoebe Snow. The song was written by Snow, produced by Dino Airali, and first appeared on her 1974 self-titled debut album. On American Top 40 in September 1980, Casey Kasem claimed that Phoebe Snow said that the song is about Jackson Browne...
  
  "), brain hemorrhage. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/arts/music/phoebe-snow-bluesy-singer-songwriter-dies-at-58.html
• Samuel Zoll
  Samuel Zoll
  Samuel Edward Zoll was an American lawyer, judge and politician. He began his career as a high school teacher then became a lawyer, politician, then a judge. Later in life he was named to be Chief Justice of the District Courts in Massachusetts.-Early life and education:Zoll was born in Peabody,...
  
  , 76, American jurist and politician, Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts (1970–1973), gallbladder cancer. http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/salem/2011/04/former_salem_mayor_zoll_dies_a.html

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• Winrich Behr
  Winrich Behr
  Winrich Behr was a Panzer Captain and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross who was on the intelligence staff of the Sixth Army during the Stalingrad encirclement....
  
  , 93, German World War II Panzer
  Panzer
  A Panzer is a German language word that, when used as a noun, means "tank". When it is used as an adjective, it means either tank or "armoured" .- Etymology :...
  
   captain, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
  Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
  The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was a grade of the 1939 version of the 1813 created Iron Cross . The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was the highest award of Germany to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership during World War II...
  
  . http://anzeigen-suchen.sueddeutsche.de/gelanz/servlet/anzdescription.BinaryAnsicht?anzId=216995
• Ira Cohen
  Ira Cohen
  Ira Cohen was an American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker.Cohen lived in Morocco and in New York City in the 1960s, he was in Kathmandu in the 1970s and traveled the world in the 1980s, before returning to New York, where he spent the rest of his life...
  
  , 76, American poet, renal failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/arts/ira-cohen-an-artist-and-a-touchstone-dies-at-76.html
• William Craig, 86, Northern Irish politician, founder of Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, MP for Belfast East
  Belfast East (UK Parliament constituency)
  Belfast East is a Parliamentary Constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is Naomi Long of the Alliance Party, elected in 2010...
  
   (1974–1979). http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/hardline-unionist-bill-craig-dies-15147206.html
• Abdoulaye Hamani Diori
  Abdoulaye Hamani Diori
  Abdoulaye Hamani Diori was a Nigerien political leader and businessman. The son of Niger's first President, he waged a political and abortive military struggle against the Military regime that overthrew his father...
  
  , 65, Nigerien politician, after long illness. http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20110426-deces-niamey-abdoulaye-diori (French)
• María Isbert
  María Isbert
  María Isbert was a Spanish actress whose credits included more than 250 Spanish films during her career. Isbert worked with most major Spanish film actors and directors, including Luis García Berlanga and Luis Buñuel...
  
  , 94, Spanish actress. http://enmemoria.lavanguardia.es/actualidad/20110426/fallece-la-veterana-actriz-maria-isbert.html (Spanish)
• Lawrence Lee
  Lawrence Lee
  Lawrence Stanley Lee was a British stained glass artist, most notable for his design of the ten nave windows at Coventry Cathedral...
  
  , 101, British stained glass artist. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/may/12/lawrence-lee-obituary
• Joe Perry
  Joe Perry (American football)
  Fletcher Joseph "Joe" Perry was a professional American football fullback for the San Francisco 49ers from 1948 to 1950 , then 1950 to 1960 when the 49ers were absorbed into the NFL, the Baltimore Colts from 1961–1962, and finally back to the 49ers for his final year in football,...
  
  , 84, American football player (San Francisco 49ers
  San Francisco 49ers
  The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team was founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference and...
  
  ), member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
  Pro Football Hall of Fame
  The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame of professional football in the United States with an emphasis on the National Football League . It opened in Canton, Ohio, on September 7, 1963, with 17 charter inductees...
  
  . http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/25/SPBH1J75CV.DTL
• Poly Styrene
  Poly Styrene
  Poly Styrene was the stage name of Marianne Joan Elliott-Said , a British musician, songwriter and singer, most notably in the pioneering punk rock band X-Ray Spex.-Early life:...
  
  , 53, British musician (X-Ray Spex
  X-Ray Spex
  X-Ray Spex were an English punk band from London that formed in 1976.During their first incarnation , X-Ray Spex were “deliberate underachievers” and only managed to release five singles and one album...
  
  ), breast cancer. http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/punk-icon-poly-styrene-dies_1215007
• Gonzalo Rojas
  Gonzalo Rojas
  Gonzalo Rojas Pizarro was a Chilean poet. His work is part of the continuing Latin American avant-garde literary tradition of the twentieth century.- Biography :...
  
  , 93, Chilean poet. http://www.emol.com/noticias/magazine/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=477856 (Spanish)
• Güven Sazak
  Güven Sazak
  Güven Sazak was the 40th President of Türkiye Süper Ligi club Fenerbahçe SK between 1993-94. He has been a member of the club since 1958....
  
  , 76, Turkish businessman, chairman of Fenerbahçe S.K. (1993–1994). http://www.todayszaman.com/news-242090-former-fenerbahce--chairman-guven-sazak-passes-away.html
• Minoru Tanaka
  Minoru Tanaka (actor)
  was a Japanese actor born in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan. He was a graduate of the Tokyo metropolitan Yukigaya high school, Mumeijuku and was represented by JVC Entertainment Networks at the time of his death.- Film roles :* Uruu no Machi...
  
  , 44, Japanese actor (Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers
  Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers
  , an Ultraman Mebius theatrical film adaptation, was released in Japan on September 16, 2006. It is the 10th original film series in the Ultraman franchise, it also celebrates the 40th anniversary of the franchise. The movie peaked at 3rd in the Japanese box offices...
  
  , Kamen Rider W Returns - Kamen Rider Accel
  Kamen Rider W Returns
  is a set of two V-Cinema releases that serve as spin-offs of characters from the Kamen Rider W television series and films. These films focus on the characters of Ryu Terui as Kamen Rider Accel and Katsumi Daido as Kamen Rider Eternal...
  
  ), suspected suicide by hanging. http://www.ant-network.com/5294/minoru-tanaka-passed-away/
• Avraham Tiar, 87, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset
  Knesset
  The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.-Role in Israeli Government :The legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister , approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government...
  
   (1961–1969). http://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=432
• Bobby Thompson
  Bobby Thompson (baseball)
  Bobby La Rue Thompson [″Bull″] was an outfielder in Major League Baseball, playing mainly at centerfield for the Texas Rangers during the season. Listed at 5' 11", 175 lb., Thompson was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed...
  
  , 57, American baseball player (Texas Rangers
  Texas Rangers (baseball)
  The Texas Rangers are a professional baseball team in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, based in Arlington, Texas. The Rangers are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League, and are the reigning A.L. Western Division and A.L. Champions. Since , the Rangers have...
  
  ).http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries/browse_thread/thread/e908e70e58c8db5c
• Elizabeth Wicken
  Elizabeth Wicken
  Elizabeth Ann Wicken [nee Berthiaume] was a Canadian outfielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 2", 115 lb., Wicken batted and threw left handed....
  
  , 83, Canadian baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
  All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
  The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was a women's professional baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley which existed from 1943 to 1954. During the league's history, over 600 women played ball.-History:...
  
  ).

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• Sathya Sai Baba
  Sathya Sai Baba
  Śri Sathya Sai Baba , born as Sathyanarayana Raju was an Indian guru, spiritual figure, mystic, philanthropist, and educator. He claimed to be the reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi, a spiritual saint and miracle worker who died in 1918 and whose teachings were an eclectic blend of Hindu and...
  
  , 84, Indian spiritual guru, founder of the Sathya Sai Organization
  Sathya Sai Organization
  The Sathya Sai Organization was founded in the 1960s by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. The first Sai Centers were started in India under the name Sri Sathya Sai Seva Samithi...
  
  , multiple organ failure. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13180011
• Nawang Gombu
  Nawang Gombu
  Nawang Gombu was a Sherpa mountaineer.Gombu was born in Minzu, Tibet. He was the youngest Sherpa to reach 26,000 ft. In 1964, he became the first Indian and the third man in the world to summit Nanda Devi...
  
  , 79, Tibetan-born Indian mountaineer, after short illness. http://expressbuzz.com/sport/youngest-everest-mountaineer-passes-away/268591.html
• Alimirah Hanfere
  Alimirah Hanfere
  Sultan Alimirah Hanfere, sometimes written as Hanfare, was an Afar ruler. He was the most recent Sultan of the Aussa Sultanate, an Afar state which existed in present-day eastern Ethiopia.-Biography:...
  
  , 95, Ethiopian sultan of the Aussa Sultanate. http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/32880
• Sir Denis Mahon, 100, British art historian and philanthropist. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/apr/28/sir-denis-mahon-obituary
• Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu
  Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu
  Trần Lệ Xuân , popularly known as Madame Nhu, was considered the first lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963. She was the wife of Ngo Dinh Nhu who was the brother and chief adviser to President Ngo Dinh Diem...
  
  , 87, South Vietnamese First Lady (1955–1963), after short illness. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/world/asia/27nhu.html?ref=obituaries
• Joan Peyser
  Joan Peyser
  Joan Peyser was an American musicologist and writer, particularly known for her writing on 20th century music and for her biographies of George Gershwin, Pierre Boulez, and Leonard Bernstein...
  
  , 80, American musicologist, after heart surgery. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/arts/music/joan-peyser-bernstein-and-gershwin-biographer-dies-at-80.html?scp=1&sq=joan%20peyser&st=cse
• Marie-France Pisier
  Marie-France Pisier
  Marie-France Pisier was a French actress. She appeared in numerous films of the French New Wave and twice earned the national César Award for Best Supporting Actress.-Life and career:...
  
  , 66, French actress (The Other Side of Midnight
  The Other Side of Midnight (film)
  The Other Side of Midnight is a 1977 American film directed by Charles Jarrott and starring Marie-France Pisier, John Beck and Susan Sarandon...
  
  ), drowning. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jLhgC69MxffYcs5VeEfnbGxuxC1Q?docId=CNG.311ff618d7ac4d442e5627247e763672.801
• Colin Snedden
  Colin Snedden
  Colin Alexander Snedden was a New Zealand cricketer. Born in Auckland, he played first-class cricket for Auckland and played in one Test for the New Zealand cricket team against England, at Christchurch in March 1947. Five other New Zealanders made their debut in the same match...
  
  , 93, New Zealand cricketer. http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/38397.html

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• Ed Austin
  Ed Austin
  T. Edward "Ed" Austin, Jr. was an American politician and attorney. He served as mayor of Jacksonville, Florida from 1991 to 1995. He also served as the first Public Defender for Florida's Fourth Judicial Circuit from 1963 to 1968, and served as State Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit from...
  
  , 84, American attorney and politician, Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida (1991–1995). http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/article/201809/3/Update-Former-Jax-Mayor-Austin-was-Caring-Mentor-True-Statesman-
• Dmytro Blazheyovskyi
  Dmytro Blazheyovskyi
  Dmytro Blazheyovskyi was a Ukrainian scientist and religious writer. Blazheyovskyi authored over twenty-five scholarly articles on the history of the Ukrainian church...
  
  , 100, Ukrainian priest
  Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
  The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , Ukrainska Hreko-Katolytska Tserkva), is the largest Eastern Rite Catholic sui juris particular church in full communion with the Holy See, and is directly subject to the Pope...
  
  , historian and embroiderer. http://risu.org.ua/ua/index/all_news/catholics/ugcc/42011/ (Ukrainian)
• James Casey
  James Casey (Variety Artist)
  James Casey was at various times during his long career a Variety comedian on the English music-halls, a scriptwriter for BBC Radio's variety shows and situation comedies, and a senior BBC Radio Light Entertainment producer....
  
  , 88, British comedian. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8531655/James-Casey.html
• Sid Fournet
  Sid Fournet
  Sidney Fredrick Fournet was a former professional American football player who played defensive lineman for seven seasons for the Los Angeles Rams, Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Texans, and New York Jets...
  
  , 78, American football player (New York Jets
  New York Jets
  The New York Jets are a professional football team headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area. The team is a member of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  , Pittsburgh Steelers
  Pittsburgh Steelers
  The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team currently belongs to the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Founded in , the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC...
  
  ). http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5200&ATCLID=205142645
• David Hackett
  David Hackett
  David Low Hackett was an American official.Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, President John F. Kennedy appointed Hackett head of the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime. Later, Hackett headed a study group for the establishment of a domestic peace corps group which later...
  
  , 84, American government official (President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, 1961–1964), complications of diabetes. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/us/01hackett.html?ref=obituaries
• Tom King
  Tom King (musician)
  Thomas R. King was an American songwriter, guitarist, and arranger. He founded the 1960s rock band The Outsiders, and co-wrote the band's biggest hit song, "Time Won't Let Me".-Life and career:...
  
  , 68, American guitarist and songwriter (The Outsiders
  The Outsiders (American band)
  The Outsiders was an American rock and roll band from Cleveland, Ohio, that was founded and led by guitarist Tom King. The band is best known for its Top 5 hit "Time Won't Let Me" in early 1966, which peaked at #5 in the US, but the band had three other hit singles in 1966 and released a total of...
  
  ), heart failure. http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/04/cleveland_rocker_tom_king_is_d.html
• Peter Li Hongye
  Peter Li Hongye
  Peter Li Hongye was an Roman Catholic bishop from China.Li Hongye was the underground Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Luoyang. He died suddenly during the Easter Vigil liturgy.-Notes:...
  
  , 91, Chinese underground Roman Catholic prelate, clandestine bishop of Luoyang. http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Death-of-underground-bishop-of-Luoyang.-Decades-under-house-arrest-and-hard-labour-21395.html
• Peter Lieberson
  Peter Lieberson
  Peter Lieberson was an American composer. He was ballerina and choreographer Vera Zorina and Goddard Lieberson, president of Columbia Records....
  
  , 64, American composer, complications of lymphoma. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/arts/music/peter-lieberson-64-composer-inspired-by-buddhism-dies.html
• Terence Longdon
  Terence Longdon
  Terence Longdon was an English actor. Longdon, born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire was best known for his lead role in the 1950s-1960s British TV series Garry Halliday where he played a Biggles-like pilot who flew into various adventure situations. In film he was Drusus, Messala's personal...
  
  , 88, British actor. http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/letters/feature.php/32011/remembering-terence-longdon
• Huey P. Meaux, 82, American record producer. http://www.29-95.com/music/story/producer-huey-p-meaux-dies
• Milorad Bata Mihailović
  Milorad Bata Mihailović
  Milorad Bata Mihailović ; 8 February 1923 – April 23, 2011) was a Serbian painter and member of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, who lived and worked in Paris and Belgrade.-Biography:...
  
  , 88, Serbian painter. http://www.blic.rs/Kultura/Vesti/249978/Umro-slikar-Milorad-Bata-Mihailovic (Serbian)
• Noxolo Nogwaza
  Noxolo Nogwaza
  Noxolo Nogwaza was a South African lesbian LGBT rights activist and organizer of the Ekurhuleni Pride Organising Committee. She was raped and murdered by assailants in KwaThema, Gauteng in an incident which was branded a hate crime....
  
  , 24, South African lesbian activist, stabbed. http://www.thenewage.co.za/blogdetail.aspx?mid=186&blog_id=%20565
• Norio Ohga
  Norio Ohga
  , otherwise spelled Norio Oga, was the former president and chairman of Sony Corporation, credited with spurring the development of the compact disc as a commercially viable audio format.-Early career:...
  
  , 81, Japanese businessman, president and CEO of Sony
  Sony
  , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
  
  , multiple organ failure. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13178548
• Ready Teddy
  Ready Teddy (horse)
  Ready Teddy was an eventing horse competitively ridden by New Zealand equestrian Blyth Tait. He is believed to be the only horse to have ever won individual gold at both the Olympic Games and the World Equestrian Games . He also won at the Burghley Horse Trials in 2000. Ready Teddy died on 23...
  
  , 23, New Zealand eventing
  Eventing
  Eventing is an equestrian event comprising dressage, cross-country, and show jumping. This event has its roots in a comprehensive cavalry test requiring mastery of several types of riding...
  
   horse, complications from colic. http://tvnz.co.nz/othersports-news/gold-medal-winning-horse-ready-teddy-dies-4139436
• Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill
  Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill
  Geoffrey Denis Erskine Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill, CBE, PC was a British hereditary peer and businessman, whose paternity and succession to the peerage were famously disputed in the "Ampthill Baby Case"....
  
  , 89, British politician. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldtoday/01.htm#d2e25
• Mohammad Abdus Sattar
  Mohammad Abdus Sattar
  Mohammad Abdus Sattar was an Indian footballer. He was also known as Madar Abdus Sattar.-Club career:Abdus Sattar started his career in Bangalore with the Bangalore Muslim Club, but shifted to Calcutta in 1949 for better opportunities and joined Mohammedan Sporting Club...
  
  , 85, Indian Olympic footballer, pneumonia. http://sports.ndtv.com/football/news/item/172487-former-indian-olympic-football-star-passes-away?tmpl=component&print=1
• Phillip Shriver
  Phillip Shriver
  Phillip Raymond Shriver was an American historian and college administrator who was president of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, from 1965 to 1981. -Biography:Phillip R. Shriver was born in Cleveland, Ohio...
  
  , 88, American historian and college administrator. http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2011/apr/25/longtime-miami-u-president-shriver-dies-88-ar-465541/
• Max van der Stoel
  Max van der Stoel
  Max van der Stoel, KCMG was a Dutch politician and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. He served as the first High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe....
  
  , 86, Dutch politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs
  Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Netherlands)
  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the Dutch ministry of foreign affairs: it is occupied with the external relations of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, including European cooperation and International development...
  
   (1973–1977, 1981–1982). http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/9616789/__Max_van_der_Stoel__86__overleden__.html
• John Sullivan
  John Sullivan (writer)
  John Richard Thomas Sullivan OBE was an English television scriptwriter responsible for several popular British sitcoms, including Only Fools and Horses, Citizen Smith and Just Good Friends....
  
  , 64, British writer (Only Fools and Horses
  Only Fools and Horses
  Only Fools and Horses is a British sitcom, created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom between 1981 and 1991, with sporadic Christmas specials until 2003...
  
  ), viral pneumonia. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13176198
• Dutch Tilders
  Dutch Tilders
  Dutch Tilders was a Netherlands-born Australian blues musician.-Biography:...
  
  , 69, Australian blues musician, cancer. http://www.digitalspy.com.au/music/news/a316220/aussie-musician-dutch-tilders-dies-aged-69.html

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• Moin Akhter
  Moin Akhter
  Moin Akhtar was a Pakistani television, film and stage actor, as well as a humorist, comedian, impersonator, and a host. He was also a play writer, singer, film director and a producer....
  
  , 60, Pakistani actor and comedian, heart attack. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011%5C04%5C23%5Cstory_23-4-2011_pg1_3
• Patrick Billingsley
  Patrick Billingsley
  Patrick Paul Billingsley was an American mathematician and stage and screen actor, noted for his books in advanced probability theory and statistics. He was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.After earning a Ph.D...
  
  , 85, American mathematician and actor. http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2011/04/29/patrick-billingsley-probability-theorist-and-actor-1925-2011
• Cheung Sai Ho, 35, Hong Kong footballer, suicide by jumping. http://www.goalgoalgoal.com/thread-300362-4-1.html (Chinese)
• Wiel Coerver
  Wiel Coerver
  Wiel Coerver was a football manager from the Netherlands and the developer of the Coerver Method, a soccer coaching technique. He won the UEFA Cup with Feyenoord Rotterdam in the 1973-1974 season....
  
  , 86, Dutch footballer and manager. http://www.vi.nl/Nieuws-item/199260/Icoon-Wiel-Coerver-op-86jarige-leeftijd-overleden.htm (Dutch)
• Eldon Davis
  Eldon Davis
  Eldon Carlyle Davis was an American architect, considered largely responsible for the creation of Googie architecture, a form of modern architecture originating in Southern California. Googie architecture is largely influenced by Southern California's car culture and the Space Age of the mid-20th...
  
  , 94, American architect, creator of Googie architecture
  Googie architecture
  Googie architecture is a form of modern architecture, a subdivision of futurist architecture influenced by car culture and the Space and Atomic Ages....
  
  , founder of Armet & Davis
  Armet & Davis
  Armet Davis Newlove Architects, formerly known as Armet & Davis, is a California based architectural firm known for working in the Googie architecture style that marks many distinctive coffee shops and eateries in Southern California. The firm designed Pann's, the first Norms Restaurant, the...
  
  . http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-me-eldon-davis-20110426,0,5591348.story?track=rss
• Hazel Dickens
  Hazel Dickens
  Hazel Jane Dickens was an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, double bassist and guitarist. She was the eighth child of an eleven-child mining family in West Virginia. Her music was characterized not only by her high, lonesome singing style, but also by her provocative pro-union, feminist songs...
  
  , 75, American bluegrass singer. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-mortem/post/hazel-dickens-dies-sang-of-hard-times/2011/04/22/AFurzaPE_blog.html
• Madhava Gudi
  Madhava Gudi
  Madhava Gudi was a Hindustani classical vocalist, specialising in Khayal and light forms.-Early life and background:...
  
  , 70, Indian Hindustani classical vocalist. http://www.hindu.com/2011/04/23/stories/2011042354210400.htm
• Siarhei Lahun
  Siarhei Lahun
  Siarhei Lahun was a Belarusian weightlifter.At the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships he ranked 10th in the 77 kg category, with a total of 342 kg....
  
  , 22, Belarusian weightlifter, car accident. http://naviny.by/rubrics/english/2011/04/23/ic_news_259_366547/
• Sidney Michaels
  Sidney Michaels
  Sidney Michaels was an American playwright best known for the early and mid 1960s works Tchin-Tchin, Dylan, and Ben Franklin in Paris.-External links:...
  
  , 83, American playwright and screenwriter (The Night They Raided Minsky's
  The Night They Raided Minsky's
  The Night They Raided Minsky's is a 1968 musical comedy film directed by William Friedkin and produced by Norman Lear. It is a fictional account of the invention of the striptease at Minsky's Burlesque in 1925...
  
  ), Alzheimer's disease. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118036056
• Merle Greene Robertson
  Merle Greene Robertson
  Merle Greene Robertson was an American artist, art historian, archaeologist, lecturer and Mayanist researcher, renowned for her extensive work towards the investigation and preservation of the art, iconography and writing of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Central America.-Early...
  
  , 97, American artist and archeologist. http://mesoweb.com/reports/Merle.html
• José Torres Martino
  José Torres Martino
  José Antonio Torres Martino was a Puerto Rican painter, artist, journalist and writer. Martino founded or expanded many of Puerto Rico's major media, artistic and journalism organizations...
  
  , 94, Puerto Rican painter and writer, after long illness. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110422/ap_on_en_ot/cb_obit_torres_martino
• João Maria Tudela
  João Maria Tudela
  João Maria Tudela was a Portuguese singer, musician and entertainer.-History:...
  
  , 81, Portuguese singer. http://www.publico.pt/Cultura/joao-maria-tudela-morreu-hoje-de-manha-no-hospital-de-cascais_1490960 (Portuguese)

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• Beverly Barton
  Beverly Barton
  Beverly Marie Beaver , better known as Beverly Barton, was an American author, known for her romantic suspense novels. She has written over thirty contemporary romance novels and created the popular The Protectors series for Harlequin Enterprises owned Silhouette’s Intimate Moments lines...
  
  , 64, American romance author, heart failure. http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20110423/NEWS/110429921?Title=Best-selling-author-Beverly-Barton-dies
• Tine Bryld
  Tine Bryld
  Tine Bryld was a social worker, writer, radio personality and editor of letter to the editor pages....
  
  , 71, Danish social worker, writer, radio host and letters editor. http://www.politiken.dk/kultur/ECE1262535/tine-bryld-er-doed/ (Danish)
• Annalisa Ericson
  Annalisa Ericson
  Annalisa Ericson was a Swedish actress best known for her roles in 58 Swedish movies between 1930 and 1991....
  
  , 97, Swedish actress (Summer Interlude
  Summer Interlude
  -Synopsis:Marie is a successful but emotionally distant prima ballerina in her late twenties. During a problem-filled dress rehearsal day for a production of the ballet Swan Lake she is unexpectedly sent the diary of her first love; a college-boy called Henrik whom she met and fell in love with...
  
  ). http://www.svd.se/kultur/skadespelerskan-annalisa-ericson-dod_6112117.svd (Swedish)
• Helen J. Frye
  Helen J. Frye
  Helen Jackson Frye was an American judge and attorney in the state of Oregon. Born in Southern Oregon, she served as an active federal district court judge in Portland, Oregon, for 15 years and as a judge for the Oregon Circuit Court for nine years...
  
  , 80, American federal judge, after long illness. http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/pioneering_oregon_judge_helen.html
• Reginald C. Fuller
  Reginald C. Fuller
  Reginald Cuthbert Fuller was ordained as a priest in 1931 by Cardinal Bourne, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, and appointed Canon of Westminster Cathedral by Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor in 2001...
  
  , 102, British Roman Catholic priest and author. http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=reginald-fuller&pid=150734578
• Harold Garfinkel
  Harold Garfinkel
  Harold Garfinkel was a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is known for establishing and developing ethnomethodology as a field of inquiry in sociology.-Biography:...
  
  , 93, American sociologist. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/us/04garfinkel.html?ref=obituaries
• W. J. Gruffydd
  W. J. Gruffydd (Elerydd)
  William John Gruffydd , better known by his bardic name of Elerydd, was a Welsh Baptist minister and poet who served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales between 1984 and 1987....
  
  , 94, Welsh poet. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-13168527
• Catharina Halkes
  Catharina Halkes
  Catharina Joanna Maria Halkes Halkes was a Dutch theologian and feminist, notable for having been the first Dutch professor of feminism and Christianity, at the Radboud University Nijmegen from 1983 to 1986...
  
  , 90, Dutch theologian and feminist http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2664/Nieuws/article/detail/1879654/2011/04/23/Kerkmoeder-Catharina-Halkes-overleden.dhtml Dutch
• Jim Heise
  Jim Heise
  James Edward Heise was a Major League Baseball pitcher.Heise attended West Virginia University. He was signed by the Washington Senators as an amateur free agent in 1956, and played briefly for the Senators in 1957....
  
  , 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators
  Minnesota Twins
  The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the...
  
  ), complications from surgery. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/os-obituary-jim-heise-042811-20110427,0,4610360.story
• Jess Stonestreet Jackson, Jr., 81, American wine entrepreneur, founder of Kendall-Jackson
  Kendall-Jackson
  Kendall-Jackson Vineyard Estates is a vineyard and winery, under the Kendall-Jackson brand, located in Santa Rosa, California in the Sonoma Valley wine country...
  
  , cancer. http://blog.kj.com/letter/
• Ken Kostick
  Ken Kostick
  Ken Kostick was a Canadian chef and television and radio personality, best known for co-hosting the television series What's for Dinner? with Mary Jo Eustace....
  
  , 57, Canadian cooking show host (What's for Dinner?), complications of pancreatitis
  Pancreatitis
  Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas. It occurs when pancreatic enzymes that digest food are activated in the pancreas instead of the small intestine. It may be acute – beginning suddenly and lasting a few days, or chronic – occurring over many years...
  
  . http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/04/23/kostick-obit.html
• Max Mathews
  Max Mathews
  Max Vernon Mathews was a pioneer in the world of computer music.-Biography:...
  
  , 84, American engineer and computer music composer, complications from pneumonia. http://www.modisti.com/11/2011/04/21/max-matthews-passed-away
• Muhannad, 41, Saudi al Qaeda fighter in Chechnya, shot. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/04/russian_forces_kill.php
• Sofía Silva, 82, Venezuelan winner of first Miss Venezuela
  Miss Venezuela
  The Miss Venezuela contest is the national beauty pageant of Venezuela and has been held since 1952. It is responsible for selecting the country's representatives to the Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss Earth and Miss International pageants .Under the direction of Osmel Sousa, Venezuela has...
  
   title (1952). (Spanish)
• Yoshiko Tanaka
  Yoshiko Tanaka
  was a Japanese actress. She was also famous as a member of the pop group Candies. While a member of Candies, Tanaka was known by the nickname Still at the height of its popularity, the group disbanded in 1978. Tanaka was also the sister-in-law of the well-known actress Masako Natsume.Tanaka was...
  
  , 55, Japanese actress (Godzilla vs. Biollante
  Godzilla vs. Biollante
  is a 1989 science fiction kaiju film written and directed by Kazuki Ōmori. It was the seventeenth film to be released in the Godzilla franchise and the second in terms of the franchise's Heisei period...
  
  ) and singer (Candies
  Candies (Japanese idol group)
  Candies was a famous Japanese idol group formed in 1973, their first single being "あなたに夢中" . Candies was composed of three girls: Ran Ito called Ran, Yoshiko Tanaka called Sue and Miki Fujimura called Miki...
  
  ), breast cancer. http://sankei.jp.msn.com/entertainments/news/110421/ent11042122490024-n1.htm (Japanese)
• Walter van de Walle
  Walter van de Walle
  Walter van de Walle was a Canadian politician from Alberta and former member of the Canadian House of Commons....
  
  , 88, Canadian politician, MP for Pembina
  Pembina (Alberta electoral district)
  Pembina was a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1988.This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Athabaska, Edmonton West, Jasper—Edson and Vegreville ridings....
  
   (1986–1988) and St. Albert (1988–1993). http://www.stalbertgazette.com/article/20110426/SAG0801/304269963/former-st-albert-mp-van-de-walle-dies

20

• Allan Brown, 84, Scottish football player and manager (Blackpool
  Blackpool F.C.
  Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 from the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. They are competing in the 2011–12 season of the The Championship, the second tier of professional football in England, having been relegated from the Premier League at the end of the...
  
  , Scotland). http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13142466.stm
• Tim Hetherington
  Tim Hetherington
  Timothy Alistair Telemachus Hetherington was a British-American photojournalistwith work that "ranged from multi-screen installations, to fly-poster exhibitions, to handheld device downloads." He was best known for the documentary film Restrepo , which he co-directed with Sebastian Junger; the...
  
  , 40, British photojournalist and filmmaker (Restrepo
  Restrepo (film)
  Restrepo is a 2010 documentary film about the Afghanistan war, directed by American journalist Sebastian Junger and British/American photojournalist Tim Hetherington....
  
  ), mortar attack. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/20/libya-killed-hetherington-restrepo
• Chris Hondros
  Chris Hondros
  Chris Hondros was an American Pulitzer Prize-nominated war photographer.-Biography:Chris Hondros was born in New York City to immigrant Greek and German parents who were child refugees after World War II...
  
  , 41, American photojournalist, mortar attack. http://usa.greekreporter.com/2011/04/20/photojournalist-chris-hondros-dies-from-attack-in-libya/
• Osvaldo Miranda
  Osvaldo Miranda (actor)
  Osvaldo Isaías Mathon Miranda was an Argentinian film and television actor whose credits also included more than fifty stage productions....
  
  , 95, Argentine actor (Cita en las estrellas
  Cita en las estrellas
  Cita en las estrellas is a 1949 Argentine romantic comedy film directed by Carlos Schlieper. It stars María Duval, Juan Carlos Thorry, Osvaldo Miranda and Héctor Calcaño. It premiered on January 13, 1949.- Plot :...
  
  ). http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/64981/actor-osvaldo-miranda-dies
• Madelyn Pugh
  Madelyn Pugh
  Madelyn Pugh , sometimes credited as Madelyn Pugh Davis, Madelyn Davis, or Madelyn Martin, was a television writer who became known in the 1950s for her work on the I Love Lucy television series....
  
  , 90, American screenwriter (I Love Lucy
  I Love Lucy
  I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on the Columbia Broadcasting System...
  
  , The Lucy Show
  The Lucy Show
  The Lucy Show is an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from 1962 until 1968. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965-66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program...
  
  , Here's Lucy
  Here's Lucy
  Here's Lucy is Lucille Ball's third network television sitcom. It ran on CBS from 1968 to 1974.-Background:Though The Lucy Show was still hugely popular during the previous season, finishing in the top five of the Nielsen Ratings , Ball opted to end that series at the end of that season and create...
  
  , The Mothers-in-Law
  The Mothers-in-Law
  The Mothers-in-Law is an American sitcom starring Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard as two matriarchs who were friends and next-door neighbors whose children's elopement rendered them in-laws. The show aired on NBC from September 1967 to April 1969; it was produced by Desi Arnaz after the dissolutions...
  
  ) and producer (Alice
  Alice (TV series)
  Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to July 2, 1985 on CBS. The series was based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start her life over again, and finds a job...
  
  ). http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-madelyn-pugh-davis-20110422,0,4154147.story
• Tul Bahadur Pun, 88, Nepali World War II veteran, recipient of the Victoria Cross
  Victoria Cross
  The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....
  
  , cardiac complications. http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=VC+winner+Pun+dies+at+92&NewsID=284880
• Hubert Schlafly
  Hubert Schlafly
  Hubert Joseph "Hub" Schlafly Jr. was an American electrical engineer who co-invented the teleprompter. Schlafly is also credited with spearheading the movement towards satellite television within the industry....
  
  , 91, American engineer, co-inventor of the TelePrompter
  Teleprompter
  An autocue is a display device that prompts the person speaking with an electronic visual text of a speech or script. Using a teleprompter is similar to the practice of using cue cards...
  
  . http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Hubert-J-Hub-Schlafly-Jr-pz-2500424526.html?x=0
• Kerry Smith
  Kerry Smith
  Kerry Lois Smith was a New Zealand actor and broadcaster. She was a presenter on the radio station The Breeze from 2006 to 2011. She was also a presenter for Radio Pacific and Radio Live. On television she was known for her role as "Magda" in the 1980s drama series Gloss...
  
  , 58, New Zealand actress and broadcaster, melanoma. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4911868/Broadcaster-Kerry-Smith-dies-after-cancer-battle
• Erwin Strahl
  Erwin Strahl
  Erwin Strahl was an Austrian actor. He was married to the Italian actress Franca Paris.He died on 20 April 2011 at the age of 82.-Selected filmography:* Franz Schubert * Der Jäger von Fall...
  
  , 82, Austrian actor. http://wien.orf.at/stories/511596/ (German)

19

• Anne Blonstein
  Anne Blonstein
  Anne Blonstein was a British poet and translator, long-resident in Basel, Switzerland, where she worked as a freelance translator and editor....
  
  , 52, British poet. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/anne-blonstein-experimental-poet-whose-work-was-informed-by-her-scientific-background-2281547.html
• Lynn Chandnois
  Lynn Chandnois
  Lynn Chandnois was a former standout professional American football player who earned All-American honors for the Michigan State Spartans in 1949, the NFL Player Of The Year award for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1952 and twice made it to the Pro Bowl.After both his parents died, Lynn, who was born...
  
  , 86, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers
  Pittsburgh Steelers
  The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team currently belongs to the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Founded in , the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC...
  
  ). http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=6403636&campaign=rss&source=ESPNUHeadlines
• Richard P. Klocko
  Richard P. Klocko
  Lieutenant General Richard Phillip Klocko was an American Air Force lieutenant general and command pilot who was director, Defense Communications Agency, Washington, D.C.-Biography:...
  
  , 96, American Air Force lieutenant general. http://www.observertoday.com/page/content.detail/id/558506/Richard-Philip-Klocko.html?nav=5008
• Norm Masters
  Norm Masters
  Norman Donald Masters was an American football offensive tackle for the Green Bay Packers. He was originally drafted by the Chicago Cardinals in the 1956 NFL Draft. He was 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighted 249 pounds...
  
  , 77, American football player (Green Bay Packers
  Green Bay Packers
  The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...
  
  ), cancer. http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20110420/PKR01/110420209/Masters-offensive-lineman-from-61-62-championship-teams-dies-77
• Aage Møst
  Aage Møst
  Aage Møst was a Norwegian journalist and sports official.He was born in Skotselv. He represented the clubs Bakke IF, Oslo-Studentenes IK, IL Tyrving and Høvik IF during his career. He was a journalist by education, and worked in Drammens Tidende, Sportsmanden and for many years in Aftenposten...
  
  , 87, Norwegian sports official, President of the Norwegian Athletics Association
  Norwegian Athletics Association
  The Norwegian Athletics Association is the national governing body for the sport of athletics in Norway, including track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking...
  
   (1956–1965). http://www.european-athletics.org/general-news/former-norwegian-federation-president-aage-most-passes-away.html
• Serge Nubret
  Serge Nubret
  Serge Nubret was a French professional bodybuilder, bodybuilding federation leader, movie actor and author. Serge was awarded many bodybuilding titles, including Mr. Europe , Mr. Universe and WBBG Pro. Mr. World...
  
  , 72, French bodybuilder and actor (Pumping Iron
  Pumping Iron
  Pumping Iron is a 1977 docudrama about the world of bodybuilding, focusing on the 1975 IFBB Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia competitions and the 100 days leading up to them. The film was inspired by a book of the same name, written by Charles Gaines and George Butler...
  
  ). http://www.musclesportmag.com/2011/04/24/the-death-of-serge-nubret-brings-up-more-family-poison-questions/
• Elisabeth Sladen
  Elisabeth Sladen
  Elisabeth Clara Heath-Sladen was an English actress best known for her role as Sarah Jane Smith in the British television series Doctor Who. She was a regular cast member from 1973 to 1976, alongside both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, and reprised the role many times in subsequent decades, both on...
  
  , 65, British actress (Doctor Who
  Doctor Who
  Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
  
  , The Sarah Jane Adventures
  The Sarah Jane Adventures
  The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British science fiction television series, produced by BBC Cymru Wales for CBBC, created by Russell T Davies and starring Elisabeth Sladen...
  
  ), cancer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13137674
• Grete Waitz
  Grete Waitz
  Grete Waitz was a Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder. Waitz won nine New York City Marathons between 1978 and 1988, more than any other runner in history...
  
  , 57, Norwegian marathon runner, cancer. http://running.competitor.com/2011/04/news/marathon-great-grete-waitz-passes-away_25541

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• Olubayo Adefemi
  Olubayo Adefemi
  Olubayo Adefemi was a Nigerian footballer.- International career :Adefemi represented his country at the 2008 Olympic Games, playing all the games and scoring a goal in a semifinal match against Belgium...
  
  , 25, Nigerian footballer, car accident. http://af.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idAFJOE73H06U20110418
• Sadiq Ali
  Sadiq Ali
  Sadiq Ali was a senior politician of Kashmir, India, a noted poet and writer and an active environmentalist. He was an elected legislator in the Kashmir State Assembly for three consecutive terms. Mr Sadiq Ali was born in Srinagar into an influential business family. His father, the late Mr...
  
  , 58, Indian politician. http://www.kashmirobserver.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7438:sadiq-ali-passes-away-&catid=2:local-news&Itemid=3
• Pietro Ferrero Jr.
  Pietro Ferrero Jr.
  Pietro Ferrero was a joint CEO of Italian confectionery company Ferrero SpA from 1997 until his death in April 2011....
  
  , 47, Italian businessman (Ferrero SpA
  Ferrero SpA
  Ferrero SpA is an Italian manufacturer of chocolate and other confectionery products, founded by confectioner Pietro Ferrero in 1946 and based in Alba, Piedmont, Italy. The company achieved success headed by Pietro's son Michele Ferrero, then Michele's son Pietro , who oversaw global business...
  
  ), bicycle accident. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/04/18/ferrero-head-dies-car-crash.html
• Kjell Håkonsen
  Kjell Håkonsen
  Kjell Håkonsen is a Norwegian harness racing coach and coachman. During his career, he had 5531 starts and won 1094 races. He is best known for having trained and coached Spikeld and Rex Rodney who many rank as Norway's best coach horses of all time...
  
  , 75, Norwegian harness racer and trainer. http://www.aftenbladet.no/sport/1366306/Kjell_Haakonsen_er_doed.html (Norwegian)
• Yu-ri Kim
  Yu-ri Kim
  Yu-ri Kim was a South Korean fashion model, who was active from late 2000s to early 2010s. Despite being considered one of the most promising models in the runway scene in South Korea, she died in the middle of her career after allegedly committing suicide.-Biography:Kim was born in Seoul and...
  
  , 22, South Korean fashion model, apparent suicide. http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/04/21/2011042100769.html
• Bob Plant
  Bob Plant (soldier)
  Arthur Blurton "Bob" Plant, MC was a soldier in the British Army.Plant was born in Burton upon Trent, and attended Burton Grammar School. He joined the British Army in September 1939, and six months later received a commission in the Royal Artillery...
  
  , 95, British soldier, recipient of the Military Cross
  Military Cross
  The Military Cross is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and other ranks of the British Armed Forces; and formerly also to officers of other Commonwealth countries....
  
  . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/8515230/Captain-Bob-Plant.html
• Mason Rudolph
  Mason Rudolph
  Edgar Mason Rudolph was an American golfer who won five times on the PGA Tour.-Early years and amateur career:...
  
  , 76, American golfer. http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/04/18/mason-rudolph-15-pga-tour-rookie-year-dies/
• Giovanni Saldarini
  Giovanni Saldarini
  Giovanni Saldarini was an Italian Cardinal and Archbishop Emeritus of Turin.-Early life:Saldarini was born in Cantù in the Italian province of Como, in Lombardy. He was educated at St Peter Martyr Seminary in Venegono and the Theological Faculty, Milan...
  
  , 86, Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Turin
  Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Turin
  The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Turin is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy. Founded in the 4th century and elevated to the dignity of an archdiocese on 21 May 1515, by Pope Leo X. Its mother church is the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist...
  
   (1989–1999), natural causes. http://www.libero-news.it/articolo.jsp?id=718538 (Italian)
• William Donald Schaefer
  William Donald Schaefer
  William Donald Schaefer was an American politician who served in public office for 50 years at both the state and local level in Maryland. A Democrat, he was mayor of Baltimore from 1971 to 1987, the 58th Governor of Maryland from January 21, 1987 to January 18, 1995, and the Comptroller of...
  
  , 89, American politician, Governor of Maryland
  Governor of Maryland
  The Governor of Maryland heads the executive branch of the government of Maryland, and he is the commander-in-chief of the state's National Guard units. The Governor is the highest-ranking official in the state, and he has a broad range of appointive powers in both the State and local governments,...
  
   (1987–1995), pneumonia. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-mortem/post/former-maryland-gov-william-donald-schaefer-has-died/2011/04/18/AFrJxS1D_blog.html
• Ivica Vidović
  Ivica Vidovic
  Ivica Vidović was a Croatian and Yugoslav actor who appeared in many classic films in the cinematic output of the former Yugoslavia....
  
  , 72, Croatian actor, after long illness. http://www.vecernji.hr/kultura/nakon-duge-bolesti-zagrebu-preminuo-glumac-ivica-vidovic-clanak-277948 (Croatian)

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• Nasser Al-Kharafi
  Nasser Al-Kharafi
  Nasser Al-Kharafi was a Kuwaiti businessman of M.A. Kharafi & Sons. His company has performed $4.3 billion in sales. His net worth increased because of rising share prices of several holdings including Mobile Telecommunications Co., National Bank of Kuwait and Americana, operator of U.S. fast...
  
  , 67, Kuwaiti businessman (M. A. Kharafi & Sons
  M. A. Kharafi & Sons
  M.A. Kharafi & Sons is a large private company based in Kuwait with a variety of commercial interests and revenues for 2006 estimated at USD$3.3 billion. The company is presently run by Nasser Al-Kharafi...
  
  ), heart attack. http://www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/168074/t/Nasser-Al-Kharafi-dies-in-Cairo/Default.aspx
• James S. Albus
  James S. Albus
  James Sacra Albus was an American engineer, Senior NIST Fellow and founder and former chief of the Intelligent Systems Division of the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology .- Biography :Born in Louisville Ky., Albus received the B.S...
  
  , 75, American engineer. http://www.tributes.com/show/James-Albus-91397829
• Bob Block
  Bob Block
  Bob Block was a British radio, television and film comedy scriptwriter.-Career:His earliest work was for radio, best known for co-writing the domestic sitcom Life with the Lyons for Ben Lyon, as well as working with Arthur Askey and Frankie Howerd.Block was best known for writing television...
  
  , 89, British comedy writer (Rentaghost
  Rentaghost
  Rentaghost is a British children's television comedy show, broadcast by the BBC between 6 January 1976 and 6 November 1984. The show's plot centred on the antics of a number of ghosts who worked for a firm called Rentaghost, which rented out the ghosts for various tasks.-Background:The company,...
  
  , Life with The Lyons
  Life With The Lyons
  Life with The Lyons was a British radio and television domestic sitcom dating from the 1950s .-Overview:Life with The Lyons was unusual in that it featured a real-life American family...
  
  ). http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4/2011/05/bob_block_life_with_the_lyons.html
• Joel Colton
  Joel Colton
  Joel G. Colton of Durham, North Carolina, was a modern history author. His textbook, A History of the Modern World, was included in the 1987 The New York Times list of the 19 textbooks considered classics in the field....
  
  , 92, American historian, heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/education/22colton.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
• Osamu Dezaki
  Osamu Dezaki
  , also known as , , or , was a Japanese director of anime born on November 18, 1943, in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan. His older brother, Satoshi Dezaki, is also an anime director....
  
  , 67, Japanese animator (Space Adventure Cobra
  Space Adventure Cobra
  is a space-opera manga series written and illustrated by Buichi Terasawa of the Black Sheep studio. The serialized form of Cobra originally appeared the Japanese shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump during 1978–1984...
  
  , Tomorrow's Joe
  Tomorrow's Joe
  is a critically acclaimed boxing manga written by Ikki Kajiwara and illustrated by Tetsuya Chiba in 1968 that was later adapted into an anime series and movie. It is most commonly referred to as Ashita no Joe. Outside Japan it is also referred to as Rocky Joe or Joe...
  
  ), lung cancer. http://sankei.jp.msn.com/entertainments/news/110418/ent11041811020008-n1.htm (Japanese)
• Alfred Freedman
  Alfred Freedman
  Alfred Mordecai Freedman was an American psychiatrist. A long-time educator and advocate of social justice, Freedman is known for leading the effort to have the American Psychiatric Association de-classify homosexuality as a mental illness.-Early life and education:Alfred Freedman was born January...
  
  , 94, American psychiatrist, declassified homosexuality as a mental illness, complications following hip surgery. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/health/21freedman.html
• Eric Gross
  Eric Gross
  Eric Gross AM was an Austrian-Australian pianist and composer.-Biography:Gross was born in Vienna and emigrated to England in 1938. From the age of fourteen, he worked as a pianist in bands and orchestras...
  
  , 84, Austrian-born Australian composer. http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/gross-eric
• Eddie Leadbeater
  Eddie Leadbeater
  Edric "Eddie" Leadbeater was an English cricketer who played in two Tests in 1951. He was born in Lockwood, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, and died in Huddersfield....
  
  , 83, English cricketer, after short illness. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-1378150/Yorkshire-England-spinner-Eddie-Leadbeater-passes-away.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
• Blair Milan
  Blair Milan
  Blair Milan was an Australian actor and television presenter. He appeared in programs such as Home and Away and All Saints, and was a presenter for Nickelodeon's Coast to Coast and the Go! channel....
  
  , 29, Australian actor and television presenter, acute myeloid leukaemia. http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/actor-bon-viveur-dies-suddenly-of-cancer-20110417-1djug.html
• Nikos Papazoglou
  Nikos Papazoglou
  Nikolaos Papazoglou was a Thessaloniki-born Greek singer-songwriter, musician and producer....
  
  , 63, Greek singer-songwriter, cancer. http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/23/40431
• AJ Perez
  AJ Perez
  Antonello Joseph "AJ" Sarte Perez was a Filipino actor. He was a member of ABS-CBN's Star Magic in Batch 13. He portrayed one of the lead characters in the 2009 miniseries Your Song Presents: Underage. In 2010, he played his first main role on primetime in the television series, Sabel...
  
  , 18, Filipino actor, traffic accident. http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/entertainment/04/16/11/actor-aj-perez-killed-tarlac-highway-accident
• Raúl Sánchez Díaz Martell
  Raúl Sánchez Díaz Martell
  Raúl Sánchez Díaz Martell was the Governor of Baja California from 1965 to 1971. He died on April 17, 2011 in Mexicali.-External links:*...
  
  , 96, Mexican politician, Governor of Baja California
  Governor of Baja California
  The Governor of Baja California represents the executive branch of the government of the state of Baja California, Mexico, per the state's constitution. The official title is "Free and Sovereign State of Baja California" , and the position is democratically elected for a period of 6 years, and is...
  
   (1965–1971). http://kxoradio.com/news/local/990-sanchez-diaz-passes-away-over-the-weekend.html
• Michael Sarrazin
  Michael Sarrazin
  Michael Sarrazin was a Canadian film and television actor who found fame opposite Jane Fonda in the drama film They Shoot Horses, Don't They? .- Early life :...
  
  , 70, Canadian actor (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; The Flim-Flam Man
  The Flim-Flam Man
  The Flim-Flam Man is a 1967 American film directed by Irvin Kershner, starring George C. Scott, Michael Sarrazin and Sue Lyon, based on the novel The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man by Guy Owen. The film boasts a cast of well-known character actors in supporting roles, including Jack Albertson, Slim...
  
  ; For Pete's Sake
  For Pete's Sake (film)
  For Pete's Sake is a 1974 American screwball comedy film directed by Peter Yates. The screenplay by Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin chronicles the misadventures of a Brooklyn housewife...
  
  ), cancer. http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Actor+Michael+Sarrazin+dies+Montreal/4635866/story.html
• Bhawani Singh, 79, Indian noble, titular Maharaja
  Maharaja
  Mahārāja is a Sanskrit title for a "great king" or "high king". The female equivalent title Maharani denotes either the wife of a Maharaja or, in states where that was customary, a woman ruling in her own right. The widow of a Maharaja is known as a Rajamata...
  
   of Jaipur
  Jaipur
  Jaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Founded on 18 November 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, the city today has a population of more than 3.1 million....
  
   (since 1970). http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-04-17/jaipur/29427553_1_maharaja-city-palace-diya-kumari
• Dennis E. Stowell
  Dennis E. Stowell
  Dennis E. Stowell was an American politician and chemical engineer from Utah. A Republican, he was a member of the Utah State Senate, representing the state's 28th senate district in Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Kane, Millard, and Washington Counties.Stowell earned bachelors and masters degrees in...
  
  , 66, American politician, member of the Utah State Senate
  Utah State Senate
  The Utah State Senate is the upper house of the Utah State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Utah. The Senate is composed of 29 elected members representing an equal number of constituent senatorial districts. Each senatorial district is composed of approximately 91,000 people...
  
   (2007–2011), cancer. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/51644960-90/stowell-sunday-kelly-noel.html.csp
• Ken Taylor, 88, British television scriptwriter (The Jewel in the Crown). http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/apr/27/ken-taylor-obituary
• Robert Vickrey
  Robert Vickrey
  Robert Remsen Vickrey was a Massachusetts-based artist and author who specialized in the ancient medium of egg tempera...
  
  , 84, American artist. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/arts/design/robert-vickrey-painter-of-magic-realism-school-dies-at-84.html
• Victor Ward
  Victor Ward
  Victor Vincent "Dick" Ward was a Canadian miner who was trapped in the mines during the 1956 Explosion.Ward was born in Springhill, Nova Scotia to Vincent and Laura Ward. He served on the HMCS Haida during World War II. He was working in the Springhill mines when the explosion occurred, trapping...
  
  , 87, Canadian miner, survivor of the 1956 Springhill Mine disaster
  Springhill mining disaster
  The term Springhill mining disaster can refer to any of three separate Canadian mining disasters which occurred in 1891, 1956, and 1958 in different mines within the Springhill coalfield, near the town of Springhill in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia....
  
  , after long illness. http://www.brownsfuneralhome.com/obituaries/61523

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• Gerry Alexander
  Gerry Alexander
  Franz Copeland Murray "Gerry" Alexander was a Jamaican cricketer who played 25 Tests for the West Indies...
  
  , 82, Jamaican cricketer. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sports/Former-Windies-captain-Gerry-Alexander-dies-at-82_8680968
• Bijan
  Bijan (designer)
  Bijan Pakzad , generally known simply as bijan ,was an Iranian designer of menswear and fragrances.- Personal history :...
  
  , 67, Iranian-born American fashion designer, stroke. http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/04/16/bijan.pakzad.obit/
• Allan Blakeney
  Allan Blakeney
  Allan Emrys Blakeney, PC, OC, SOM, QC, FRSC was the tenth Premier of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan from 1971 to 1982, and leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party .-Life and career:...
  
  , 85, Canadian politician, Premier of Saskatchewan (1971–1982), complications from liver cancer. http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/Former+Sask+Premier+Allan+Blakeney+dies/4628533/story.html
• Chinesinho
  Chinesinho
  Sidney Colônia Cunha , commonly known as Chinesinho, was a Brazilian footballer who played at both professional and international levels, as a midfielder.-Career:...
  
  , 76, Brazilian footballer, Alzheimer's disease. http://esportes.terra.com.br/futebol/estaduais/2011/noticias/0,,OI5080731-EI17147,00-Idolo+do+Palmeiras+morre+aos+anos+no+Rio+Grande+do+Sul.html (Portuguese)
• Stanley Glenn
  Stanley Glenn
  Stanley Glenn was a baseball catcher with the Philadelphia Stars of the Negro Leagues from 1944 to 1950. He also played three years in the minors and two in the Canadian senior Intercounty Baseball League in southwestern Ontario for the St...
  
  , 84, American baseball player and executive (Negro league baseball
  Negro league baseball
  The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relatively successful leagues beginning in...
  
  ).
• Bill Kinnamon
  Bill Kinnamon
  William Ervin Kinnamon was an umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the American League from 1960 to 1969....
  
  , 91, American Major League Baseball umpire.
• Serge LeClerc
  Serge LeClerc
  Serge LeClerc was a pardoned Canadian ex-criminal, former politician and co-author of the autobiography Untwisted....
  
  , 61, Canadian pardoned criminal and politician, MLA
  Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
  The 25th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan was in power from 2003 until November 20, 2007. It was controlled by the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party under premier Lorne Calvert.-Members:-By-elections:...
  
   for Saskatoon Northwest
  Saskatoon Northwest
  Saskatoon Northwest is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. It covers the neighborhoods of Lawson Heights, Silverwood Heights and the surrounding area...
  
   (2007–2010), complications from colon and bowel cancer. http://www.thestarphoenix.com/health/Former+Sask+Serge+LeClerc+dies/4628482/story.html
• William A. Rusher
  William A. Rusher
  William Allen Rusher was an American lawyer, author, activist, speaker, debater, and conservative syndicated columnist. He was one of the founders of the conservative movement and was one of its most prominent spokesmen for thirty years.- Early life :Rusher was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1923...
  
  , 87, American columnist, publisher of National Review
  National Review
  National Review is a biweekly magazine founded by the late author William F. Buckley, Jr., in 1955 and based in New York City. It describes itself as "America's most widely read and influential magazine and web site for conservative news, commentary, and opinion."Although the print version of the...
  
  (1957–1988). http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/264931/rip-kathryn-jean-lopez
• Dan Monroe Russell, Jr.
  Dan Monroe Russell, Jr.
  Dan Monroe Russell, Jr. was a United States federal judge.Born in Magee, Mississippi, Russell received a B.A. from the University of Mississippi in 1935, and an LL.B. from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1937. He was a claims adjuster in Jackson, Mississippi from 1937 to 1938. He...
  
  , 98, American federal judge, natural causes. http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Civil-rights-era-judge-in-Mississippi-dies-at-98-1340062.php
• Sol Saks
  Sol Saks
  Sol Saks was an American screenwriter best known as the creator of television sitcom Bewitched.-Career:...
  
  , 100, American screenwriter, creator of Bewitched
  Bewitched
  Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York and Dick Sargent , Agnes Moorehead, and David White. The show is about a witch who marries a mortal and tries to lead the life of a typical suburban...
  
  . http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sol-saks-creator-bewitched-dies-179865
• Hermod Skånland
  Hermod Skånland
  Hermod Skånland was a Norwegian economist and civil servant, who served as the Governor of the Central Bank of Norway from 1985 to 1993.- Biography :...
  
  , 85, Norwegian Central Bank governor (1985–1993). http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/04/17/nyheter/politikk/innenriks/norges_bank/16223888/ (Norwegian)
• Harold Volkmer
  Harold Volkmer
  Harold Lee Volkmer was an American politician from Missouri. He was a Democrat who served 20 years in the United States House of Representatives.-Early life and career:...
  
  , 80, American politician, U.S. Representative
  United States House of Representatives
  The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
  
   from Missouri
  United States Congressional Delegations from Missouri
  These are tables of congressional delegations from Missouri to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. -United States Senate:-Delegates from Missouri Territory:...
  
   (1977–1997), pneumonia
  Pneumonia
  Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...
  
  . http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2011/04/18/longtime-missouri-congressman-dies/

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• Vittorio Arrigoni
  Vittorio Arrigoni
  Vittorio Arrigoni was an Italian reporter, writer, pacifist and activist. Arrigoni worked with the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement in the Gaza Strip, from 2008 until his death...
  
  , 36, Italian activist, hanged. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4057332,00.html (body discovered on this date)
• Babu Baral
  Babu Baral
  Babu Baral was a Pakistani stage actor and comedian. Babu Baral started his career as a comedian from Gujranwala in 1982....
  
  , 47, Pakistani comedian, cancer. http://thenews.com.pk/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=14217
• Reno Bertoia
  Reno Bertoia
  Reno Peter Bertoia was an Italian-Canadian professional baseball player, playing infield for the Detroit Tigers , Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Athletics ....
  
  , 76, Italian-born Canadian baseball player (Detroit Tigers
  Detroit Tigers
  The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...
  
  , Minnesota Twins
  Minnesota Twins
  The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the...
  
  ), lymphoma. http://www.windsorstar.com/sports/Bertoia+remembered+baseball+pioneer/4622621/story.html
• Walter Brown
  Walter Brown (canoer)
  Walter Brown was an Australian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.-References:**...
  
  , 85, Australian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956
  1956 Summer Olympics
  The 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in Melbourne, Australia, in 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations...
  
  ) canoer. http://www.wa.canoe.org.au/default.asp?Page=21493
• William Cook, 80, American entrepreneur, philanthropist and historic preservationist, heart failure. http://www.ibj.com/bill-cook-medical-device-magnate-and-philanthropist-dies-at-80/PARAMS/article/26206
• Hélio Gueiros
  Hélio Gueiros
  Hélio Gueiros was a Brazilian politician who served as the Governor of Pará from 1987 to 1991. He also served as the Mayor of Belém from 1993 to 1996....
  
  , 85, Brazilian politician, Governor of Pará
  Pará
  Pará is a state in the north of Brazil. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest it also borders Guyana and Suriname, and to the northeast it borders the Atlantic Ocean. The capital is Belém.Pará is the most populous state...
  
   (1987–1991), Mayor of Belém
  Belém
  Belém is a Brazilian city, the capital and largest city of state of Pará, in the country's north region. It is the entrance gate to the Amazon with a busy port, airport and bus/coach station...
  
   (1993–1996), renal disease. http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/noticias/0,,OI5079677-EI7896,00-Morre+aos+anos+exgovernador+do+PA+Helio+Gueiros.html (Portuguese)
• Michael Hurley
  Michael Hurley (Jesuit)
  Father Michael Hurley, S.J., was an Irish Jesuit priest and theologian, who has been widely called the "father of Irish ecumenism" for promoting Christian unity. Hurley co-founded the Irish School of Ecumenics in 1970 and served as the school's director until 1980.Hurley was born in Ardmore,...
  
  , 87, Irish Jesuit and ecumenical theologian, co-founder of the Irish School of Ecumenics
  Irish School of Ecumenics
  The Irish School of Ecumenics is a new discipline within an aspirant School at Trinity College Dublin, and existed as an independent entity until negotiating admission to Trinity College about a decade ago. The ISE is dedicated to the promotion of ecumenism, religious reconciliation and interfaith...
  
  . http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/obituaries/2011/0416/1224294798316.html
• Vincenzo La Scola
  Vincenzo La Scola
  Vincenzo La Scola was an Italian tenor who had a successful international opera career and theatrical career for more than 25 years. He was particularly admired for his portrayals in operas by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Vincenzo Bellini...
  
  , 53, Italian tenor, heart attack. http://handelmania.libsyn.com/rest-in-peace-vincenzo-la-scola
• Bobo Osborne
  Bobo Osborne
  Lawrence Sidney "Bobo" Osborne was a Major League Baseball first baseman who played for six seasons. He played for the Detroit Tigers from 1957 to 1959 and from 1961 to 1962. He also played for the Washington Senators in 1963.-External links:...
  
  , 75, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers
  Detroit Tigers
  The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...
  
  ). http://www.masnsports.com/phil_wood/2011/04/bobo-osborne-1935-2011.html
• Nicholas Selby
  Nicholas Selby
  Nicholas Selby was a British television and theatre actor. He appeared in more than one hundred television dramas on the BBC and ITV during the course of his career, including Our Friends in the North, Poldark and House of Cards...
  
  , 85, British actor. http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Obituary-Nicholas-Selby-actor.6754140.jp
• Beryl Shipley
  Beryl Shipley
  Beryl Cylde Shipley was an American former basketball coach. Shipley was born in Kingsport, Tennessee. He was a longtime coach at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he broke the color barrier at that school, and faced intense criticism and opposition for doing so. In 1975 he became coach...
  
  , 84, American basketball coach (University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, or UL Lafayette, is a coeducational, public research university located in Lafayette, Louisiana, in the heart of Acadiana...
  
  , San Diego Conquistadors
  San Diego Conquistadors
  The San Diego Conquistadors, nicknamed the "Q's", were an American Basketball Association team based in San Diego, California. They were the only expansion team in the history of the ABA. The team played from 1972 to 1975. They were replaced in the ABA by the San Diego Sails.-San Diego...
  
  ). http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20110417/SPORTS/104170330
• E. T. York
  E. T. York
  E. Travis "E.T." York, Jr. was an American agronomist, professor, university administrator, agricultural extension administrator, and U.S. presidential adviser. York was a native of Alabama, and earned his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in agricultural sciences...
  
  , 88, American agronomist, educator and presidential adviser. http://news.ufl.edu/2011/04/15/e-t-york-dies/

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• Rosihan Anwar
  Rosihan Anwar
  Rosihan Anwar was a renowned Indonesian journalist and author.Rosihan Anwar was born in Kubang Nan Dua, West Sumatra. Rosihan received early education at HIS and MULO in Padang. He continued his school to AMS in Yogyakarta and often participated journalism workshop at Columbia University, New York...
  
  , 88, Indonesian journalist, heart failure. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/04/14/in-memoriam-rosihan-anwar-last-mohican.html
• Trevor Bannister
  Trevor Bannister
  Trevor Gordon Bannister was an English actor best known for playing the womanising junior salesman Mr. Lucas in the sitcom Are You Being Served? from 1972 to 1979, and for his role as Toby Mulberry Smith in the longest-running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine, from 2003 until it ended its run in 2010...
  
  , 76, British actor (Are You Being Served?
  Are You Being Served?
  Are You Being Served? is a British sitcom broadcast from 1972 to 1985. It was set in the ladies' and gentlemen's clothing departments of Grace Brothers, a large, fictional London department store. It was written mainly by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, with contributions by Michael Knowles and John...
  
  , Last of the Summer Wine
  Last of the Summer Wine
  Last of the Summer Wine is a British sitcom written by Roy Clarke that was broadcast on BBC One. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse on 4 January 1973 and the first series of episodes followed on 12 November 1973. From 1983 to 2010, Alan J. W. Bell produced and...
  
  , The Dustbinmen
  The Dustbinmen
  The Dustbinmen was a British television sitcom made by Granada Television for ITV, which starred Bryan Pringle, Trevor Bannister, Graham Haberfield and Tim Wylton. The show was a spin-off from a one-off 90-minute TV movie "There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah" written by Jack Rosenthal and...
  
  ), heart attack. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13098312
• Walter Breuning
  Walter Breuning
  Walter Breuning 1896 2011) was an American supercentenarian. He was the last known surviving man who was born in 1896. Breuning is the oldest undisputed American-born man on record. He was the last verified American man born in the 19th Century. At the time of his death, Breuning was the third...
  
  , 114, American supercentenarian, world's third oldest man ever. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13090291
• Jon Cedar
  Jon Cedar
  Jon Cedar was an American character actor, screenwriter and producer. Cedar's best known roles included Corporal Karl Langenscheidt on the CBS television series, Hogan's Heroes, which aired from 1965 to 1971...
  
  , 80, American character actor (Hogan's Heroes
  Hogan's Heroes
  Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to March 28, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during the Second World War. Bob Crane had the starring role as Colonel Robert E...
  
  ), leukemia. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hogans-heroes-actor-jon-cedar-179914
• Patrick Cullinan
  Patrick Cullinan
  Patrick Roland Cullinan was a South African poet and biographer.He was born in Pretoria into a significant diamond-mining family and attended Charterhouse School and Oxford University in England...
  
  , 77, South African writer. http://book.co.za/blog/2011/04/18/patrick-cullinan-rip/
• Louis Jean Dufaux
  Louis Jean Dufaux
  Louis Jean Dufaux was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Grenoble-Vienne, France....
  
  , 79, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Grenoble (1989–2006). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdufaux.html
• Bernie Flowers
  Bernie Flowers
  Benjamin Bernard "Bernie" Flowers was a former American football player who played at the end position for the Purdue University where he became a consensus first-team All-American in 1952...
  
  , 81, American football player (Baltimore Colts
  Indianapolis Colts
  The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis. They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  
  ). http://www.purduesports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/041511aaa.html
• Jean Gratton
  Jean Gratton
  Jean Gratton was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mont-Laurier, Canada.Ordained to the priesthood in 1952, Gratton was named bishop in 1978. Bishop Gratton retired in 2001.-Notes:...
  
  , 86, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mont-Laurier
  Roman Catholic Diocese of Mont-Laurier
  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mont-Laurier is a Roman Catholic diocese that includes part of the Province of Quebec. It is currently led by Bishop Vital Massé....
  
   (1978–2001). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgratton.html
• Cyrus Harvey, Jr.
  Cyrus Harvey, Jr.
  Cyrus "Cy" Isadore Harvey, Jr. was an American film distributor, the co-founder of Janus Films, and part-owner of the Brattle Theatre with his longtime business partner Bryant Haliday. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he was the son of Jewish immigrants...
  
  , 85, American entrepreneur, stroke. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/business/17harvey.html?ref=obituaries
• William Lipscomb
  William Lipscomb
  William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr. was a Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist working in nuclear magnetic resonance, theoretical chemistry, boron chemistry, and biochemistry.-Overview:...
  
  , 91, American chemist, pneumonia. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/us/16lipscomb.html?ref=obituaries
• Arthur Marx
  Arthur Marx
  Arthur Julius Marx was an American author, a former ranked amateur tennis player, and son of entertainer Groucho Marx and his first wife, Ruth Johnson....
  
  , 89, American writer, son of Groucho Marx
  Groucho Marx
  Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit. His rapid-fire delivery of innuendo-laden patter earned him many admirers. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/arts/arthur-marx-who-wrote-about-father-groucho-dies-at-89.html
• Rami Reddy
  Rami Reddy (actor)
  Rami Reddy was an Indian film actor in Telugu Cinema. He also tried as director and producer but was not successful. He is known for his negative roles, character roles and comedy timing. He was a well known villain and he had his own inimitable style with typical Telangana dialect...
  
  , 52, Indian actor, kidney failure. http://www.thehindu.com/arts/cinema/article1696518.ece?homepage=true

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• Danny Fiszman
  Danny Fiszman
  Daniel David Fiszman was a diamond dealer, best known as a shareholder in and director of Arsenal Football Club, and played a leading role in the club's move from Highbury to Ashburton Grove, now known as Emirates Stadium....
  
  , 66, British football director (Arsenal
  Arsenal F.C.
  Arsenal Football Club is a professional English Premier League football club based in North London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups...
  
  ), cancer. http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/danny-fiszman-1945-2011
• Seeta bint Abdul Aziz
  Seeta bint Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
  Seeta bint Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud, also spelled Sita, was a Princess of the House of Saud royal family and a full-sister of the current King of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah. She was the daughter of King Abdul-Aziz and Princess Fahda. She was married to Prince Abdullah bin Muhammad...
  
  , 80, Saudi royal, sister of King Abdullah
  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, is the King of Saudi Arabia. He succeeded to the throne on 1 August 2005 upon the death of his half-brother, King Fahd. When Crown Prince, he governed Saudi Arabia as regent from 1998 to 2005...
  
  , after long illness. http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article358173.ece

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• Sachin Bhowmick
  Sachin Bhowmick
  Sachin Bhowmick was an Indian Hindi film writer and director. Writing was his main work and he wrote stories or screenplays for over 94 films. He was also a regular contributor to Ultorath, a Bengali magazine on cinema.-Writing highlights:...
  
  , 80, Indian screenwriter, heart attack. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Screenwriter-Sachin-Bhowmick-passes-away/articleshow/7962839.cms
• Lee Bradley Brown
  Lee Bradley Brown
  Lee Brown was a Briton allegedly beaten to death by Dubai police. He had been arrested at the Burj Al Arab hotel, part of the Jumeirah Group, after being accused of physically and verbally abusing a female staff member....
  
  , 39, British tourist, beaten in police custody. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1376649/British-tourist-Lee-Bradley-Brown-beaten-death-Dubai-police-cell.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
• Ronnie Coyle
  Ronnie Coyle
  Ronnie Coyle was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a defender.-Early life:Coyle was born in Glasgow and educated at St. Gerard's Secondary School...
  
  , 46, Scottish footballer (Celtic
  Celtic F.C.
  Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...
  
  , Raith Rovers
  Raith Rovers F.C.
  Raith Rovers Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Kirkcaldy, Fife. They are members of the Scottish Football League, currently playing in the First Division, having secured promotion from the Second Division as champions in 2009. Rovers have won one national trophy, the...
  
  ), leukemia. http://news.stv.tv/scotland/east-central/243391-ex-celtic-and-raith-rovers-star-dies-of-leukaemia/
• Sidney Harman
  Sidney Harman
  Sidney Harman was an American businessman active in education, government, industry, and publishing. He was the Chairman Emeritus of Harman International Industries, Inc. Harman served as the U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce in 1977 and 1978. As of August 2010 Harman was also the publisher of...
  
  , 92, American businessman and publisher (Newsweek
  Newsweek
  Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
  
  ), acute myeloid leukemia. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/arts-patron-industrialist-sidney-harman-dies-at-92/2011/04/13/AFj2Y1YD_story.html
• Eddie Joost
  Eddie Joost
  Edwin David Joost was a shortstop and manager in American Major League Baseball. In 1954, Joost became the third and last manager in the 54-year history of the Philadelphia Athletics. Under Joost, the A's finished last in the American League and lost over 100 games...
  
  , 94, American baseball player and manager (Philadelphia Athletics
  Oakland Athletics
  The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the O.co Coliseum....
  
  , Cincinnati Reds
  Cincinnati Reds
  The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the National League Central Division. The club was established in 1882 as a charter member of the American Association and joined the National League in 1890....
  
  ). http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/eddie-joost-1916-2011/
• Buster Martin
  Buster Martin
  Pierre Jean "Buster" Martin claimed to be the United Kingdom's oldest employee, stating that he was born in 1906....
  
  , 104?, French-born British longevity claimant. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13068053
• Aleksandar Petaković
  Aleksandar Petakovic
  Aleksandar Petaković was a Serbian football player and manager.-External links:* at Reprezentacija.rs* at Playerhistory....
  
  , 81, Serbian football player. http://www.reprezentacija.rs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2242:in-memoriam-aleksandar-petakovic-1930-2011&catid=25:vesti (Serbian)
• Jānis Polis
  Jānis Polis
  Jānis Polis , was a Soviet and Latvian pharmacologist and the developer of one of the first methods of synthesis of rimantadine, which was discovered in 1963 by William W. Prichard of Du Pont & Co. He was born in Eleja parish, Latvia. On 6 February 2009 Polis was awarded the WIPO Award for...
  
  , 72, Latvian pharmacologist, discovered rimantadine
  Rimantadine
  Rimantadine is an orally administered antiviral drug used to treat, and in rare cases prevent, influenzavirus A infection. When taken within one to two days of developing symptoms, rimantadine can shorten the duration and moderate the severity of influenza. Both rimantadine and the similar drug...
  
  . http://www.telegraf.lv/news/umer-izobretately-remantadina (Russian)
• Ioan Şişeştean
  Ioan Şişeştean
  Ioan Şişeştean was the bishop of the Greek Catholic Diocese of Maramureş, Romania.Ordained in 1972, Şişeştean was named bishop in 1994 and died while still in office.-Notes:...
  
  , 74, Romanian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Maramureş
  Greek Catholic Diocese of Maramureş
  The Greek Catholic Eparchy of Maramures was founded as a consequence of the Concordate between the Holy See and The Romanian State concluded on May 10th 1927 and ratified on June 10th 1929....
  
   (since 1994). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsise.html
• Désiré Tagro
  Désiré Tagro
  Désiré Asségnini Tagro was an Ivorian politician who served as the Minister of the Interior and chief of staff for former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo during the 2010–2011 Ivorian crisis...
  
  , 52, Ivorian politician, Interior Minister, chief of staff for Laurent Gbagbo
  Laurent Gbagbo
  Laurent Koudou Gbagbo served as the fourth President of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 until his arrest in April 2011. A historian by profession, he is also an amateur chemist and physicist....
  
  , shot. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/174525.html
• Miroslav Tichý
  Miroslav Tichý
  Miroslav Tichý was a photographer who from the 1960s to 1985 took thousands of surreptitious pictures of women in his hometown of Kyjov in the Czech Republic, using homemade cameras constructed of cardboard tubes, tin cans and other at-hand materials. Most of his subjects were unaware they are...
  
  , 84, Czech photographer. http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/news/Miroslav-Tichy-Subv-2444.shtml?imw=Y

11

• Billy Bang
  Billy Bang
  Billy Bang was an American free jazz violinist and composer.-Biography:...
  
  , 63, American jazz violinist, lung cancer. http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/jazz-violinist-billy-bang-dies_1212237
• Lewis Binford
  Lewis Binford
  Lewis Roberts Binford was an American archaeologist known for his influential work in archaeological theory, ethnoarchaeology and the Paleolithic period...
  
  , 80, American archaeologist, heart failure. http://dougsarchaeology.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/passing-of-a-legend/
• Akis Cleanthous
  Akis Cleanthous
  Akis Cleanthous was a Cypriot politician and financial analyst. Cleanhous served as the chairman of the Cyprus Stock Exchange from 2003 to 2007 and Minister of Education and Culture from 2007 until 2008. He was a member of the Democratic Party , a center-right political party.Cleanthous was born...
  
  , 47, Cypriot politician, chairman of the Stock Exchange
  Cyprus Stock Exchange
  The Cyprus Stock Exchange or CSE is a stock exchange located in Nicosia, Cyprus. It was established under the Cyprus Securities and Stock Exchange Law which provides for the development of the securities market in Cyprus and for the establishment and operation of the Cyprus Stock Exchange, and was...
  
   (2003–2007), Minister of Education and Culture (2007–2008), heart attack. http://www.financialmirror.com/News/Cyprus_and_World_News/23135
• John D'Orazio
  John D'Orazio
  John Biase D'Orazio was a Western Australian politician. A pharmacist by trade, he served as mayor of the City of Bayswater from 1983 until 2000, then was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly electorate of Ballajura in 2001, where he served until 2008.Elected as a member of the...
  
  , 55, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
  Western Australian Legislative Assembly
  The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Perth....
  
   for Ballajura
  Electoral district of Ballajura
  Ballajura was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1996 to 2005.The district was based in the north-eastern suburbs of Perth...
  
   (2001–2008), heart attack during surgery. http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/john-dorazio-dead-at-55-20110412-1dbos.html
• La Esterella
  La Esterella
  La Esterella, born Esther Lambrechts was a Flemish singer. She was best known for her classic "Oh Lieve Vrouwetoren". She had a typical deep voice, causing her to be called sometimes the Belgian Zarah Leander...
  
  , 91, Flemish singer. http://www.flanderstoday.eu/content/face-flanders-la-esterella
• Billy Gray
  Billy Gray
  William Patrick "Billy" Gray was an English professional association footballer and manager who played initially as a winger....
  
  , 83, English footballer (Nottingham Forest). http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13056013.stm
• Murtaza Hassan
  Murtaza Hassan
  Murtaza Hassan , more commonly known by his stage name Mastana, was a Pakistani comedian, famous for his stage work.-Biography:...
  
  , Pakistani stage comedian, hepatitis and liver cancer. http://dunyanews.tv/index.php?key=Q2F0SUQ9MiNOaWQ9MjM3Njg=
• Sir Simon Milton
  Simon Milton (politician)
  Sir Simon Henry Milton was a British Conservative politician. He lately served as London's Deputy Mayor for Policy and Planning, and before that was a leader of Westminster City Council and Chairman of the Local Government Association.-Early life:Milton was the son of Clive and Ruth Milton and was...
  
  , 49, British politician, London Deputy Mayor for Policy and Planning, after short illness. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13045928
• Doug Newlands
  Doug Newlands
  Douglas Haigh "Doug" Newlands was a Scottish professional association footballer who played as a winger.-References:* at the Post-War Players Database...
  
  , 79, Scottish footballer (Aberdeen
  Aberdeen F.C.
  Aberdeen Football Club are a Scottish professional football club based in Aberdeen...
  
  , Burnley
  Burnley F.C.
  Burnley Football Club are a professional English Football League club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Nicknamed the Clarets, due to the dominant colour of their home shirts, they were founder members of the Football League in 1888...
  
  ). http://www.clarets-mad.co.uk/news/tmnw/doug_newlands_passes_away_668219/index.shtml
• Peter Ruehl
  Peter Ruehl
  Vincent Peter Ruehl, known as Peter Ruehl was an American-born Australian newspaper columnist, best known for the humorous column he wrote thrice weekly for The Australian Financial Review, in which he offered an American view on life in Australia...
  
  , 64, American-born Australian columnist. http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/newspaper-columnist-peter-ruehl-dies-20110412-1dbza.html
• Angela Scoular
  Angela Scoular
  Angela Margaret Scoular was an English actress.-Early life:Her father was an engineer and she was born in London. She attended St.George's School, Harpenden, Queen's College, Harley Street and RADA.-Career:...
  
  , 65, British actress, suicide by poisoning. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8447229/Mystery-over-death-of-the-wife-of-Leslie-Phillips.html
• Larry Sweeney
  Larry Sweeney
  Alexander K. Whybrow was an American professional wrestler and manager, better known by his ring name Larry Sweeney...
  
  , 30, American professional wrestler and manager, suicide by hanging. http://www.f4wonline.com/content/view/20213/
• Eric Wall
  Eric Wall
  The Rt Rev Eric St Quintin Wall was the second Bishop of Huntingdon from 1972 to 1980 and from then on an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese of Gloucester. The son of a clergyman, he was born on 19 April 1915 and educated at Clifton College and Brasenose College, Oxford...
  
  , 95, British Bishop of Huntingdon
  Bishop of Huntingdon
  The Bishop of Huntingdon is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Ely, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after Huntingdon, the historic county town of Huntingdonshire, England....
  
  . http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/section.asp?id=111120

10

• Jimmy Briggs
  Jimmy Briggs
  James "Jimmy" Briggs was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a full back. Briggs played the majority of his career with Dundee United, making nearly 400 appearances and captaining the side when they defeated Barcelona in their first European campaign in the 1960s...
  
  , 74, Scottish footballer (Dundee United). http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Obituary-Jimmy-Briggs-footballer.6751328.jp
• Bill Brill
  Bill Brill
  William "Bill" Brill was an American sportswriter and author. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and spent his youth in Middlesex County, Virginia. Brill attended Duke University before began his sports writing career with the Covington Virginian in 1952...
  
  , 79, American sportswriter and newspaper editor, esophageal cancer. http://www.roanoke.com/news/breaking/wb/282962
• Violet Cowden
  Violet Cowden
  Violet "Vi" Cowden was an American aviator who served as a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II. Cowden was one of the surviving members of the 1,074 WASPs, who were the first women to fly American military planes.Cowden was born Violet Thurn and raised on a farm in...
  
  , 94, American pilot, member of Women Airforce Service Pilots
  Women Airforce Service Pilots
  The Women Airforce Service Pilots and its predecessor groups the Women's Flying Training Detachment and the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron were pioneering organizations of civilian female pilots employed to fly military aircraft under the direction of the United States Army Air Forces...
  
   during World War II, heart failure. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-violet-cowden-20110417,0,3646004.story
• Don Merton
  Don Merton
  Donald Merton, QSM was a New Zealand conservationist best known for saving the black robin from extinction. He also discovered the lek breeding system of the kakapo....
  
  , 72, New Zealand conservationist. http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/newsdetail1.asp?storyID=194260
• Thelma Pressman
  Thelma Pressman
  Thelma Pressman was a pioneering microwave cooking consultant, product development consultant, and cookbook author. In 1969 she opened the first microwave cooking school in the United States. She was the author of several microwave cookbooks and was a regular columnist for Bon Appétit magazine...
  
  , 89, American microwave cooking
  Microwave oven
  A microwave oven is a kitchen appliance that heats food by dielectric heating, using microwave radiation to heat polarized molecules within the food...
  
   consultant, opened first microwave cooking school
  Cooking school
  A cooking school or culinary school is an institution devoted to education in the art and science of food preparation. It also awards degrees which indicate that a student has undergone a particular curriculum and therefore displays a certain level of competency...
  
   in the United States. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thedesertsun/obituary.aspx?n=thelma-pressman&pid=144772864
• Mikhail Rusyayev
  Mikhail Rusyayev
  Mikhail Anatolyevich Rusyayev was a Russian professional footballer.- Career :He made his debut in the Soviet Top League in 1982 for FC Spartak Moscow...
  
  , 46, Russian footballer. http://www.ua-football.com/foreign/russia/4da410e7.html (Russian)
• Bob Shaw, 89, American football player (Los Angeles Rams
  St. Louis Rams
  The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Rams have won three NFL Championships .The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland,...
  
  ). http://www.leaderpost.com/sports/Former+Saskatchewan+Roughriders+coach+Shaw+dies/4611623/story.html
• Homer Smith, 79, American football coach (Army Black Knights
  Army Black Knights
  Army Black Knights is the name of the athletics teams of the United States Military Academy. They participate in NCAA Division I-A as a non-football member of the Patriot League, a Division I Football Bowl Subdivision independent school, and a member of Atlantic Hockey, the Collegiate Sprint...
  
  ), cancer. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6347070
• Francis E. Sweeney
  Francis E. Sweeney
  Francis Edward Sweeney, Sr. was an American politician and jurist of the Ohio Democratic party. He served as a justice on the Ohio Supreme Court from 1993 to 2004...
  
  , 77, American jurist, Ohio Supreme Court justice (1993–2004). http://www.wkyc.com/news/state/article/185223/23/Former-Supreme-Court-Justice-Francis-Sweeney-Sr-has-died
• Stephen Watson
  Stephen Watson
  Stephen Watson was a South African poet.Most of his poetry is about the city of Cape Town, where he lived most of his life. He was a professor in English at the University of Cape Town...
  
  , 56, South African writer and critic, cancer. http://www.artlink.co.za/news_article.htm?contentID=26907

9

• Pierre Celis
  Pierre Celis
  Pierre Celis was a Belgian brewer who opened his first brewery in 1966 to revive the wit beer style in his hometown of Hoegaarden.-Early life:...
  
  , 86, Belgian brewer (Celis
  Celis
  Celis is a beer brand. Originally an independent based in Austin, Texas, it is now owned by Michigan Brewing Company.HistoryIn 1966, a milkman named Pierre Celis in the town of Hoegaarden decided to revive witbier, a regional beer style that had become extinct almost a decade earlier when the...
  
  ), cancer. http://www.gva.be/nieuws/geldzaken/guid/a8fe7ca4-565f-486d-bfe8-f1b421d96511.aspx (Dutch)
• Robert Coleman-Senghor, 71, American English professor, torn aorta. http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2011/04/cities/cotati-council-member-dies-of-aorta-tear/
• Nicholas Goodhart
  Nicholas Goodhart
  Rear Admiral Hilary Charles Nicholas 'Nick' Goodhart CB Legion of Merit FRAeS RN rtd was an engineer and aviator who invented the mirror-sight deck landing system for aircraft carriers. He was also a world champion and record breaker in gliding.-Early life:He was born at Inkpen, Berkshire, the son...
  
  , 91, British marine engineer and glider pilot. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8468948/Rear-Admiral-Nicholas-Goodhart.html
• Jerry Lawson
  Jerry Lawson (engineer)
  Gerald Anderson "Jerry" Lawson was an American electronic engineer known for his work in designing the Fairchild Channel F video game console....
  
  , 70, American videogame console engineer. http://www.1up.com/news/video-game-pioneer-jerry-lawson-dies
• Sidney Lumet
  Sidney Lumet
  Sidney Lumet was an American director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his credit. He was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director for 12 Angry Men , Dog Day Afternoon , Network and The Verdict...
  
  , 86, American film director (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon
  Dog Day Afternoon
  Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, written by Frank Pierson, and produced by Martin Bregman. The film stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, Penny Allen, James Broderick, and Carol Kane. The title refers to the "dog days of summer".The film was...
  
  , Network
  Network (film)
  Network is a 1976 American satirical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer about a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System , and its struggle with poor ratings. The film was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet...
  
  ), lymphoma. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/09/sidney-lumet-dead_n_847014.html
• Roger Nichols, 66, American sound engineer and record producer (Steely Dan
  Steely Dan
  Steely Dan is an American rock band; its core members are Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop...
  
  ), pancreatic cancer. http://thedeadrockstarsclub.com/2011.html
• Yolande Palfrey
  Yolande Palfrey
  Yolande Palfrey was a British actress.She appeared in many BBC programmes including Pennies from Heaven, Measure for Measure, Elizabeth Alone, Wings, Blake's 7 , Crime and Punishment, Nanny, and Doctor Who .She also appeared in The...
  
  , 54, British actress (Blake's 7
  Blake's 7
  Blake's 7 is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC for its BBC1 channel. The series was created by Terry Nation, a prolific television writer and creator of the Daleks for the television series Doctor Who. Four series of Blake's 7 were produced and broadcast between 1978...
  
  , Doctor Who
  Doctor Who
  Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
  
  ), brain tumour. http://scifi.thedailyglobe.com/2011/04/30/obituary-yolande-palfrey/
• Orrin Tucker
  Orrin Tucker
  Robert Orrin Tucker was an American bandleader born in St. Louis, Missouri, whose theme song was "Drifting and Dreaming". His biggest hit was "Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!" , sung by vocalist "Wee" Bonnie Baker....
  
  , 100, American orchestra leader. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=robert-orrin-tucker&pid=150250690
• Randy Wood
  Randy Wood (producer)
  Randolph Clay "Randy" Wood was an American record producer who founded Dot Records. Wood died from complications from a fall at his home in La Jolla, California, on April 9, 2011, at the age of 94.-References:...
  
  , 94, American record producer, founder of Dot Records
  Dot Records
  Dot Records was an American record label and company that was active between 1950 and 1977. It was founded by Randy Wood. In Gallatin, Tennessee, Wood had earlier started a mail order record shop, known for its radio ads on WLAC in Nashville and its R&B air personality Bill "Hoss" Allen...
  
  . http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110413/GALLATIN01/110413044/Randy-Woods-Dot-Records-founder-dies-94

8

• Mario Branch
  Mario Branch
  Mario Branch was an American football offensive tackle. He was signed by the Tennessee Titans as an undrafted free agent in 2003, but did not make the team in two seasons. He was allocated to NFL Europe in 2004 to play for the Amsterdam Admirals. He played for the Philadelphia Soul in 2005 and for...
  
  , 31, American football player (Tennessee Titans
  Tennessee Titans
  The Tennessee Titans are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. They are members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Previously known as the Houston Oilers, the team began play in 1960 as a charter...
  
  , Amsterdam Admirals
  Amsterdam Admirals
  The Amsterdam Admirals were a professional American football team in NFL Europe based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.-History:The Admirals were formed in 1995 as part of the NFL's plan to restart the World League of American Football, to be based entirely in Europe...
  
  , Philadelphia Soul
  Philadelphia Soul
  The Philadelphia Soul are an Arena Football League team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They began play in as an expansion team. The team plays in the Eastern Division of the American Conference. They won their first ArenaBowl in 2008, defeating the San Jose SaberCats 59–56 in ArenaBowl XXII...
  
  ), heart failure. http://blogs.tennessean.com/titans/2011/04/08/former-titan-lineman-branch-dies-at-age-31/
• Daniel Catán
  Daniel Catán
  Daniel Catán was a Mexican composer of Russian Sephardic Jewish descent known particularly for his operas and his creative friendship with the tenor Plácido Domingo.-Career:...
  
  , 62, Mexican composer. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/04/composer-daniel-catan-dies-unexpectedly-at-62.html
• David S. Clarke
  David S. Clarke
  David Stuart Clarke AO was an Australian businessman. He attended Knox Grammar School on Sydney's North Shore, the University of Sydney , and Harvard Business School . Clarke was Executive Chairman of Macquarie Bank from its formation in 1985 until March 2007, when he ceased executive duties...
  
  , 69, Australian businessman, chairman of Macquarie Group
  Macquarie Group
  Macquarie Group Limited is a global investment banking and diversified financial services group, providing banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services to institutional, corporate and retail clients and counterparties around the world...
  
   (1985–2007), stomach cancer. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/city-beat/former-macquarie-chairman-david-clarke-dies/story-fn4xq4zx-1226036107875
• John McCracken
  John McCracken
  John Harvey McCracken was a contemporary artist who lived and worked in Santa Fe, New Mexico and New York.- Education/teaching :...
  
  , 76, American sculptor. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-john-mccracken-20110410,0,179396.story
• John Pugsley
  John Pugsley
  John Allen Pugsley was an American voluntaryist libertarian political and economics commentator, lecturer, and author.-Biography:...
  
  , 77, American libertarian
  Libertarianism
  Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...
  
   speaker and writer. http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/85033.html
• Donald Shanks
  Donald Shanks (bass-baritone)
  Donald Robert Shanks AO OBE was an Australian bass-baritone singer who sang over 65 principal roles with Opera Australia and other companies in Australia and overseas....
  
  , 70, Australian operatic bass-baritone, heart attack. http://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/Article/254105,legendary-australian-opera-singer-donald-shanks-dies-of-heart-attack.aspx
• Vasilijs Stepanovs
  Vasilijs Stepanovs
  Vasilijs Stepanovs was a Latvian weightlifter. In the 1956 Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal in the 82.5 kg weight category, with the total result of 427.5 kg. He had also won gold medal in the World Championships in 1955 and gold medal in the European Championships 1955.-...
  
  , 83, Latvian weightlifter and Olympic silver medalist (1956 Melbourne
  1956 Summer Olympics
  The 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in Melbourne, Australia, in 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations...
  
  ). http://sportacentrs.com/speka_sports/11042011-muziba_aizgajis_olimpiskais_vicecempions_ (Latvian)
• Hedda Sterne
  Hedda Sterne
  Hedda Sterne was an artist best remembered as the only woman in a group of Abstract Expressionists known as "The Irascibles" which consisted of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and others...
  
  , 100, Romanian-born American painter and printmaker. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/arts/design/hedda-sterne-artist-of-many-styles-dies-at-100.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
• Elena Zuasti
  Elena Zuasti
  Elena Zuasti was a Uruguayan stage actress and comedienne.- Biography :Zuasti was born in Montevideo in 1935. She graduated twenty years later from the Dramatic Art School and managed to enter the National Comedy, where she remained until 1976. She also taught stage performance for many decades,...
  
  , 75, Uruguayan stage actress and comedienne, heart failure. http://www.elpais.com.uy/110409/pespec-558964/espectaculos/dolor-en-el-teatro-murio-elena-zuasti/ (Spanish)

7

• Bruce Cowan
  Bruce Cowan
  David Bruce Cowan, AM was an Australian politician and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Tom Lewis and Sir Eric Willis...
  
  , 85, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives
  Australian House of Representatives
  The House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia; it is the lower house; the upper house is the Senate. Members of Parliament serve for terms of approximately three years....
  
   (1980–1993). http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/bruce-cowan-ofarrells-fatherinlaw-dies-20110407-1d5po.html
• Edward Edwards
  Edward Edwards (serial killer)
  Edward Wayne Edwards was a convicted American serial killer. Edwards escaped from jail in Akron, Ohio in 1955 by pushing past a guard and fled across the country, holding up gas stations for money. He never wore a mask because he wanted to be famous. In 1961, he landed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted...
  
  , 77, American serial killer, natural causes. http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Serial-killer-sentenced-to-death-dies-in-prison-1329494.php
• Hugh FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton
  Hugh FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton
  Hugh Denis Charles FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton, was the son of Charles FitzRoy, 10th Duke of Grafton, and his first wife Lady Doreen Maria Josepha Sydney Buxton, second daughter of Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton. He was known until 1970 as the Earl of Euston.-Biography:He was born in 1919 in...
  
  , 92, British aristocrat. http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/131830/grafton
• Pierre Gauvreau
  Pierre Gauvreau
  Pierre Gauvreau was a Québécois painter who has also worked in film and television productions.He was born in Montreal, and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, today part of UQAM...
  
  , 88, Canadian painter and television screenplay writer. http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/arts_et_spectacles/2011/04/08/001-pierre-gauvreau-mort.shtml (French)
• Blažena Holišová
  Blažena Holisová
  Blažena Holisová was a Czech actress. She starred in the 1969/1970 film Witchhammer under director Otakar Vávra.Holisová died on April 7, 2011. She was 80 years old.-References:...
  
  , 80, Czech film and theatre actress. http://kultura.idnes.cz/zemrela-filmova-a-divadelni-herecka-blazena-holisova-bylo-ji-80-let-pyh-/divadlo.aspx?c=A110408_094005_divadlo_ob (Czech)
• Arthur Lessac
  Arthur Lessac
  Arthur Lessac was the creator of Lessac Kinesensic Training for the voice and body. Lessac’s voice text teaches the “feeling process” for discovering vocal sensation in the body for developing tonal clarity, articulation, and for better connecting to text and the rhythms of speech.-Development of...
  
  , 101, American voice trainer. http://www.acting.uniri.hr/2011/04/arthur-lessac-passed-away/?lang=en
• E. J. McGuire, 58, Canadian ice hockey coach and scout, cancer. http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=558573
• Hedzer Rijpstra
  Hedzer Rijpstra
  Hedzer Rijpstra was a Dutch politician. He was born in Zelhem and died in Oegstgeest in the age 91.-References:...
  
  , 91, Dutch politician. http://www.nieuwsbank.nl/inp/2011/04/08/H057.htm (Dutch)
• Victor Surdu
  Victor Surdu
  Raul-Victor Surdu-Soreanu was a Romanian politician who served as the country's first post-Communist Minister of Agriculture following the 1989 Revolution. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party ....
  
  , 63, Romanian politician, first post-Communist Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
  Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Romania)
  The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Romania is one of the nineteen ministries of the Government of Romania.The current Minister is Valeriu Tabără. The first post-Communist Minister of Agriculture was Victor Surdu....
  
  . http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iFmQzNMsYnJ0H_iP8DKexJQzAsew?docId=6492869

6

• Thøger Birkeland
  Thøger Birkeland
  Thøger Birkeland was a Danish teacher and writer mostly known for his children's books.Birkeland was born in Kalundborg. The most notable of his works are Saftevandsmordet and the stories about Krummerne...
  
  , 89, Danish children's book author. http://www.information.dk/telegram/264678 (Danish)
• Igor Birman
  Igor Birman
  Igor Yakovlevich Birman was a Russian-American economist. Received his Ph.D. in 1960. Authored a number of books translated into four languages and some 200 articles in professional periodicals and also in the popular press .-Biography:Birman was born in Moscow in 1928,...
  
  , 85, Russian-born American writer and economist. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/igor-birman-economist-who-predicted-collapse-of-soviet-economy-dies-at-82/2011/04/19/AFh062EE_story.html
• Jim Blair
  Jim Blair
  James "Jim" Blair was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a striker. Active between 1967 and 1977 in Scotland, England and Belgium, Blair made 158 appearances in the Scottish Football League and the Football League, scoring 65 goals.Born in Calderbank, Blair played youth football for...
  
  , 64, Scottish footballer, natural causes. http://www.saintmirren.org/pages/?p=2827
• John Bottomley
  John Bottomley
  John Bottomley was a Canadian singer-songwriter. Bottomley was born in Toronto in 1960 and died in 2011 in Brackendale, British Columbia...
  
  , 50, Canadian singer-songwriter, suicide. http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2011/11/c3105.html
• Mike Campbell
  Mike Campbell (farmer)
  Michael "Mike" Campbell was a white African farmer from the district of Chegutu in Zimbabwe...
  
  , 78, Zimbabwean farmer, challenged Robert Mugabe
  Robert Mugabe
  Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980...
  
   (Campbell v Zimbabwe
  Mike Campbell (Pvt) Ltd and Others v Republic of Zimbabwe
  Mike Campbell Ltd et al. v. Republic of Zimbabwe is a case decided by the Southern African Development Community Tribunal...
  
  ), complications from torture. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/8439131/Mike-Campbell.html
• L. J. Davis
  L. J. Davis
  Lawrence James Davis , better known as L. J. Davis, was an American writer, whose novels focussed on Brooklyn, New York.Cowboys Don't Cry...
  
  , 70, American writer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/arts/l-j-davis-journalist-and-novelist-dies-at-70.html
• Frederick Lindsay
  Frederick Lindsay
  Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Robert Lindsay MC, DSO was a British field hockey player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics....
  
  , 97, British Olympic silver medal-winning (1948
  1948 Summer Olympics
  The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in London, England, United Kingdom. After a 12-year hiatus because of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics since the 1936 Games in Berlin...
  
  ) field hockey player. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8505507/Lieutenant-Colonel-Robin-Lindsay.html
• Coyote McCloud
  Coyote McCloud
  Coyote William McCloud was a popular radio disc jockey in Nashville, Tennessee. For over 30 years, he was a drive-time personality at several Nashville radio stations. He first became well-known in the early 1970s on WMAK-AM, then a market-dominant rock and roll station, as host of its 7...
  
  , 68, American disc jockey. http://www.wkrn.com/story/14398780/longtime-nashville-dj-dies
• Johnny Morris
  Johnny Morris (footballer)
  John "Johnny" Morris was an English former footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Manchester United, Derby County and Leicester City....
  
  , 87, English footballer. http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/sport/Morris-shone-Rams-post-war-power/article-3424839-detail/article.html
• Skip O'Brien
  Skip O'Brien
  Bernard Francis O'Brien , better known as Skip O'Brien, was an American actor. Although he appeared in such films as 1997's Liar Liar and 2007's The Hitcher, he is perhaps best known for his recurring role as Detective Ray O'Riley from 2000–2003 on the American television show CSI...
  
  , 60, American actor (CSI
  CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...
  
  ). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/app/obituary.aspx?n=Skip-OBrien&pid=150085896
• Fritiof S. Sjöstrand
  Fritiof S. Sjöstrand
  Fritiof Stig Sjöstrand was a Swedish physician and histologist born in Stockholm. He started his medicial education at Karolinska Institutet in 1933, where he received his Ph.D. Karolinska Institutet in 1944...
  
  , 98, Swedish physician and histologist. http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/fbb.aspx?c=15415
• F. Gordon A. Stone
  F. Gordon A. Stone
  Francis Gordon Albert Stone CBE, FRS, FRSC was an English chemist who was a prolific and decorated scholar. He specialized in the synthesis of main group and transition metal organometallic compounds. He received his B.A. in 1948 and Ph.D. in 1951, both from Cambridge University, England, where...
  
  , 85, British chemist. http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2011/7593.html
• Sujatha
  Sujatha (actress)
  Sujatha was a popular South Indian actress who has performed in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi language films, and was best known for restraint and subtlety in portrayal of varied emotions. Sujatha was introduced to the Tamil film industry by veteran director K. Balachander as a...
  
  , 58, Indian actress. http://timesofindia.hotklix.com/link/News/India/Sujatha-Actress-Dead-Welcome-to-news-website
• Hans Tiedge
  Hans Tiedge
  Hans-Joachim Tiedge was a head of West Germany's counter-intelligence in the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Cologne. He was revealed to be an East German spy when he defected to the East on August 19, 1985. He had been recruited by Markus Wolf...
  
  , 73, German spy. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8448961/Hans-Joachim-Tiedge.html

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• Baruch Samuel Blumberg
  Baruch Samuel Blumberg
  Baruch Samuel "Barry" Blumberg was an American doctor and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , and the President of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death.Blumberg received the Nobel Prize for "discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin...
  
  , 85, American doctor, Nobel laureate in medicine, heart attack. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/medicine-obituaries/8433131/Professor-Baruch-Blumberg.html
• Ange-Félix Patassé
  Ange-Félix Patassé
  Ange-Félix Patassé was a Central African politician who was President of the Central African Republic from 1993 until 2003, when he was deposed by the rebel leader François Bozizé...
  
  , 74, Central African
  Central African Republic
  The Central African Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the north east, South Sudan in the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo in the south, and Cameroon in the west. The CAR covers a land area of about ,...
  
   politician, Prime Minister (1976–1978) and President (1993–2003). http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ioPwyrjquxHY3DAfkIZlrOzvNnWA?docId=CNG.5608774259bde2e96ee4c17501ae73ed.931
• Gil Robbins
  Gil Robbins
  Gilbert Lee "Gil" Robbins was an American folk singer, folk musician and actor. Robbins was a former member of the folk band, The Highwaymen. The New York Times described Robbins as a "fixture on the folk-music scene." He was the father of actor and director, Tim Robbins.-Early life:Robbins was...
  
  , 80, American folk singer (The Highwaymen
  The Highwaymen (folk band)
  The Highwaymen were a circa 1960 "collegiate folk" group, which originated at Wesleyan University and had a Billboard number-one hit in 1961 with "Michael" and another Top 20 hit in 1962 with "Cottonfields"...
  
  ) and actor, father of Tim Robbins
  Tim Robbins
  Timothy Francis "Tim" Robbins is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musician. He is the former longtime partner of actress Susan Sarandon...
  
  , prostate cancer. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=13339566
• Larry Shepard
  Larry Shepard
  Lawrence William Shepard was a manager in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1968 to 1969. During his playing days, Shepard was a right-handed pitcher who played minor league baseball from 1941 through 1956, with time out for military service during World War II...
  
  , 92, American baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates
  Pittsburgh Pirates
  The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League, and are five-time World Series Champions...
  
  ) and coach (Cincinnati Reds
  Cincinnati Reds
  The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the National League Central Division. The club was established in 1882 as a charter member of the American Association and joined the National League in 1890....
  
  ). http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/04/06/pirates-manager-reds-coach-shepard-dies/

4

• John Adler
  John Adler
  John Herbert Adler was a U.S. Representative for , serving from 2009 until 2011. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was formerly a member of the New Jersey Senate from 1992 to 2009, where he represented the 6th Legislative District. The district stretches from the suburbs of Philadelphia...
  
  , 51, American politician, U.S. Representative
  United States House of Representatives
  The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
  
   from New Jersey
  United States Congressional Delegations from New Jersey
  These are tables of congressional delegations from New Jersey to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. -United States Senate:-United States House of Representatives:-Sources:* *...
  
   (2009–2011), infective endocarditis
  Infective endocarditis
  Infective endocarditis is a form of endocarditis, or inflammation, of the inner tissue of the heart, such as its valves, caused by infectious agents. The agents are usually bacterial, but other organisms can also be responsible....
  
  . http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20110404/NEWS01/304050031/Former-Congressman-Adler-dies-51
• Scott Columbus
  Scott Columbus
  Scott Columbus was an American musician and the former drummer of Manowar. Reportedly he was discovered by a female fan of the band, beating aluminium in a local foundry...
  
  , 54, American drummer (Manowar). http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=156340
• Jackson Lago
  Jackson Lago
  Jackson Kléper Lago was a Brazilian physician and politician. He served as governor of Maranhão from January 1, 2007 to April 16, 2009, when the Brazilian Supreme Electoral Court repealed his term...
  
  , 76, Brazilian politician, Governor of Maranhão
  Maranhão
  Maranhão is a northeastern state of Brazil. To the north lies the Atlantic Ocean. Maranhão is neighbored by the states of Piauí, Tocantins and Pará. The people of Maranhão have a distinctive accent...
  
   (2007–2009), cancer. http://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2011/04/morre-jackson-lago-ex-governador-do-maranhao.html (Portuguese)
• Ned McWherter
  Ned McWherter
  Ned Ray McWherter was an American politician who served as the 46th Governor of Tennessee from 1987 to 1995. He was a Democrat.McWherter was born in Palmersville, Weakley County, Tennessee...
  
  , 80, American politician, Speaker
  Speaker (politics)
  The term speaker is a title often given to the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body. The speaker's official role is to moderate debate, make rulings on procedure, announce the results of votes, and the like. The speaker decides who may speak and has the...
  
   of the Tennessee House of Representatives
  Tennessee House of Representatives
  The Tennessee House of Representatives is the lower house of the Tennessee General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee.-Constitutional requirements:...
  
   (1973–1987) and Governor (1987–1995), cancer. http://www.waaytv.com/news/local/story/Former-TN-Governor-Ned-McWherter-Dies/ccZF17gG6EiMBrtfK2NstQ.cspx
• Juliano Mer-Khamis
  Juliano Mer-Khamis
  Juliano Mer-Khamis was an Israeli actor, director, filmmaker and political activist of Jewish and Christian Arab parentage. On 4 April 2011, he was assassinated by a masked gunman in the Palestinian city of Jenin, where he established the Freedom Theatre....
  
  , 52, Israeli actor and political activist, shot. http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-actor-juliano-mer-khamis-shot-dead-in-jenin-1.354044
• Wayne Robson
  Wayne Robson
  Wayne Robson was a Canadian television, film and stage actor best known for playing the part of Mike Hamar, an ex-convict and sometime thief, on the Canadian sitcom The Red Green Show from 1993 to 2006, as well as in the 2002 film Duct Tape Forever.Robson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia...
  
  , 64, Canadian actor (The Red Green Show
  The Red Green Show
  The Red Green Show is a Canadian television comedy that aired on various channels in Canada, with its ultimate home at CBC Television, and on Public Broadcasting Service stations in the United States, from 1991 until the series finale April 7, 2006 on CBC...
  
  ). http://www.theatermania.com/canada/news/04-2011/canadian-actor-wayne-robson-has-died_35866.html
• Craig Thomas
  Craig Thomas (author)
  David Craig Owen Thomas was a Welsh author of thrillers, most notably the Mitchell Gant series.-Background:...
  
  , 68, Welsh author, pneumonia. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/cardiffonline/cardiff-news/2011/04/09/firefox-writer-craig-thomas-dies-after-cancer-battle-91466-28488659
• Juan Tuñas
  Juan Tuñas
  Juan Tuñas Bajeneta, nicknamed "Romperredes" was a Cuban footballer. He played for the Cuban clubs Juventud Asturiana and Centro Gallego, and was the oldest surviving member of the Cuba national football team that played at the 1938 FIFA World Cup in France, scoring a goal against Romania .After...
  
  , 93, Cuban footballer. http://www.laprensagrafica.com/el-salvador/lodeldia/182985-murio-el-cubano-juan-tunas-el-mundialista-mas-longevo-de-concacaf-.html (Spanish)
• Vakur Versan
  Vakur Versan
  Vakur Versan was a Turkish jurist and professor of administrative law at İstanbul University. He was one of the first legal scholars in modern Turkey.- Biography :Vakur Versan was born in İstanbul which was the capital of Ottoman Empire...
  
  , 93, Turkish jurist, professor of administrative law (Istanbul University
  Istanbul University
  Istanbul University is a Turkish university located in Istanbul. The main campus is adjacent to Beyazıt Square.- Synopsis :A madrasa, a religious school, was established sometime in the 15th century after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. An institution of higher education named the...
  
  ). http://www.istanbul.edu.tr/iuha/?page=print/news&int_Id=4014 (Turkish)
• Boško Vuksanović
  Boško Vuksanovic
  Boško Vuksanović was a Yugoslavian water polo player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He was part of the Yugoslav team which won the silver medal in the 1952 tournament...
  
  , 83, Croatian water polo player. http://www.b92.net/sport/vaterpolo/vesti.php?yyyy=2011&mm=04&dd=04&nav_id=504010 (Croatian)

3

• Rafique Alam
  Rafique Alam
  Rafique Alam , popularly known as Alam Saheb, was an Indian politician who had been active in politics for six decades. He was a union minister and a member of the Indian National Congress since the beginning of his political career in early 1960s.-References:...
  
  , 81, Indian politician, heart attack. http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?717501
• Amy Applegren
  Amy Applegren
  Amy Irene "Lefty" Applegren was a pitcher and infielder who played from 1944 through 1953 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5'4, 125 lb., she batted and threw left-handed.-Early life:...
  
  , 83, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
  All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
  The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was a women's professional baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley which existed from 1943 to 1954. During the league's history, over 600 women played ball.-History:...
  
  ).
• Ulli Beier
  Ulli Beier
  Horst Ulrich Beier was a German editor, writer and scholar, who had a pioneering role in developing literature, drama and poetry in Nigeria, as well as literature, drama and poetry in Papua New Guinea...
  
  , 88, German writer. http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/ArtsandCulture/5687071-147/ulli_beier_dies_at_88_.csp
• William Henry Bullock
  William Henry Bullock
  William Henry Bullock was an American Roman Catholic churchman. At the time of his death, he was Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Madison....
  
  , 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Des Moines
  Roman Catholic Diocese of Des Moines
  The Diocese of Des Moines is the Roman Catholic diocese for the southwestern quarter of the state of Iowa.Dioecesis Desmoinensis is the Latin title of the diocese, and the Diocese of Des Moines is the corporate title of the diocese. The Cathedral parish for the Diocese is St. Ambrose's Cathedral....
  
   (1987–1993) and Madison
  Roman Catholic Diocese of Madison
  The Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin, is the Roman Catholic Diocese for the southwest corner of Wisconsin. It comprises Columbia, Dane, Grant, Green, Green Lake, Iowa, Jefferson, LaFayette, Marquette, Rock and Sauk counties. The area of the diocese is approximately...
  
   (1993–2003), lung cancer. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbullock.html
• Martin Horton
  Martin Horton
  Martin John Horton was an English cricketer, who played in two Tests in 1959. He was born in Worcester, England, and played the bulk of his first-class cricket for his native county....
  
  , 76, English cricketer, after long illness. http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/131700/horton
• Kevin Jarre
  Kevin Jarre
  Kevin Jarre was an American screenwriter, actor, and film producer.Jarre was born in Detroit, Michigan, to actress Laura Devon who subsequently married Maurice Jarre in the mid-1960s, and hence was the adoptive half-brother to French composer Jean-Michel Jarre...
  
  , 56, American screenwriter (Tombstone
  Tombstone (film)
  Tombstone is a 1993 American action film set in the Old West directed by George P. Cosmatos, along with uncredited directorial efforts by actor Kurt Russell and writer Kevin Jarre. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Jarre....
  
  , Glory, The Mummy
  The Mummy (1999 film)
  The Mummy is a 1999 American adventure film written and directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah and Kevin J. O'Connor, with Arnold Vosloo in the title role as the reanimated mummy. The film features substantial dialogue in ancient Egyptian language, spoken...
  
  ), heart failure. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-kevin-jarre-20110422,0,6990580.story
• Edith Klestil
  Edith Klestil
  Edith Klestil was the first wife of Thomas Klestil, the former federal president of Austria....
  
  , 78, Austrian first lady
  First Lady
  First Lady or First Gentlemanis the unofficial title used in some countries for the spouse of an elected head of state.It is not normally used to refer to the spouse or partner of a prime minister; the husband or wife of the British Prime Minister is usually informally referred to as prime...
  
   (1992–1998), first wife of President Thomas Klestil
  Thomas Klestil
  Thomas Klestil was an Austrian diplomat and politician. He was elected the tenth President of Austria in 1992 and was re-elected to the position in 1998...
  
  , cancer. http://www.austriantimes.at/news/General_News/2011-04-04/32019/Ex-First_Lady_dies_of_cancer (death announced on this date)
• Yevgeny Lyadin
  Yevgeny Lyadin
  Yevgeny Ivanovich Lyadin . was a Russian football manager and former player.Lyadin was the first foreign professional football manager to coach a club in the Iranian Football League after the Iranian Revolution. In 1994 while coaching F.C...
  
  , 84, Russian footballer. http://www.euro-football.ru/article/29/776294 (Russian)
• Marian Pankowski
  Marian Pankowski
  Marian Pankowski was a Polish writer, poet, literary critic and translator.Pankowski was born in Sanok. He was a member of the Polish resistance during World War II, and a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camps...
  
  , 91, Polish writer. http://www.rp.pl/artykul/2,636844.html (Polish)
• William Prusoff
  William Prusoff
  William Herman Prusoff was a pharmacologist who was an early innovator in antiviral drugs, developing idoxuridine, the first antiviral agent approved by the FDA, in the 1950s, and co-developing stavudine, one of the earliest AIDS drugs, in the mid-1980s.-References:...
  
  , 90, American pharmacologist. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/health/research/07prusoff.html
• Calvin Russell
  Calvin Russell (musician)
  Calvin Russell was an American blues rock/roots rock singer-songwriter and guitarist.Born Calvert Russell Kosler, at the age of twelve he started to learn guitar and at thirteen joined a band called 'The Cavemen'. In 1989 he met Patrick Mathe of the French record label New Rose...
  
  , 62, American protest singer-songwriter and guitarist. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118034876
• Mandi Schwartz
  Mandi Schwartz
  Mandi Jocelyn Schwartz was a Canadian player with the Yale Bulldogs women's ice hockey team. In December 2008 — her junior year at Yale University — Schwartz was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. Her diagnosis and search for a bone marrow or stem cell transplant resulted in bone marrow...
  
  , 23, Canadian college ice hockey player, acute myeloid leukemia. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=6287495&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines
• Gustavo Sondermann, 29, Brazilian racing driver, race crash. http://globoesporte.globo.com/motor/stock-car/noticia/2011/04/apos-forte-acidente-gustavo-sondermann-falece-por-morte-cerebral.html (Portuguese)
• John A. Tory
  John A. Tory
  John Arnold Tory, QC was a Canadian lawyer and corporate executive. Born in Toronto, he was one of two sons of John Stewart Donald Tory...
  
  , 81, Canadian lawyer and corporate executive, stroke. http://www.thestar.com/news/article/968486--john-a-tory-81-leading-lawyer-and-towering-contributor

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• Reshat Bardhi
  Reshat Bardhi
  Reshat Bardhi or Kryegjshi Baba Haxhi Dede Reshat Bardhi was an Albanian religious leader and the former leader of the Bektashi Order, an Islamic Sufi order based in Albania and other country.-Life:...
  
  , 76, Albanian religious figure, head of the Bektashi
  Bektashi
  Bektashi Order or Bektashism is an Islamic Sufi order founded in the 13th century by the Persian saint Haji Bektash Veli. In addition to the spiritual teachings of Haji Bektash Veli the order was significantly influenced during its formative period by both the Hurufis as well as the...
  
   order. http://english.albeu.com/albania-news/world%E2%80%99s-spiritual-father-of-bektashi-order,-father-reshat-bardhi,-dies/33423/
• Larry Finch
  Larry Finch
  Larry Finch was a player and coach for the University of Memphis men's basketball team. He is perhaps most famous for leading the Memphis State Tigers to the NCAA men's basketball championship game in 1973 in a heroic loss to the UCLA Bruins, led by Bill Walton.- Playing career :Finch was born in...
  
  , 60, American basketball player and coach (Memphis Tigers). http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/apr/02/memphis-basketball-legend-larry-finch-dies-age-60/
• John C. Haas
  John C. Haas
  John Charles Haas was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the chairman of global chemical company Rohm and Haas from 1974 to 1978. He was the son of the company's co-founder Otto Haas. John Haas died of natural causes on April 2, 2011, at the age of 92.-External links:* bio at Rohm...
  
  , 92, American businessman (Rohm and Haas
  Rohm and Haas
  Rohm and Haas Company, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based company, manufactures miscellaneous materials. Formerly a Fortune 500 Company, Rohm and Haas employs more than 17,000 people in 27 countries, with its last sales revenue reported as an independent company at USD 8.9 billion. On July 10,...
  
  ), natural causes. http://www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?S=14371337
• Efrain Loyola
  Efrain Loyola
  Efrain Loyola was a Cuban flautist from Cienfuegos, who had the distinction of being one of the oldest active flautists in the world, had a career that spanned over 7 decades and for a period, was a captain in the Cuban militia and fought in the War against the Bandits.-Early life:Loyola worked as...
  
  , 94, Cuban flautist. http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2011/0402-Cubas-Most-Longevous-Flutist-Passed-Away.htm
• James McNulty
  James McNulty (politician)
  James Carroll Patrick McNulty was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was an administrator and teacher by career.The son of Joseph and Monica McNulty, he attended...
  
  , 92, Canadian politician, MP for Lincoln
  Lincoln (electoral district)
  Lincoln was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1883 and from 1904 to 1997. It was on the Niagara Peninsula in the Canadian province of Ontario...
  
   (1962–1968) and St. Catharines
  St. Catharines (electoral district)
  St. Catharines is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968.It consists of the part of the City of St. Catharines lying north of a line drawn from west to east along St. Paul Street West, St...
  
   (1968–1972). http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3058666
• Jess Osuna
  Jess Osuna
  Jess Osuna was an American character actor whose credits included Three Days of the Condor and My Old Man....
  
  , 82, American character actor (Three Days of the Condor
  Three Days of the Condor
  Three Days of the Condor is a 1975 American action thriller film produced by Stanley Schneider and directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay, by Lorenzo Semple Jr...
  
  ). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=jess-osuna&pid=150093975
• Tom Silverio
  Tom Silverio
  Tomás Roberto Silverio Veloz was a Major League Baseball outfielder who played for three seasons. He played for the California Angels from 1970 to 1972, playing in 31 career games. His son, Nelson Silverio, was a coach for the New York Mets in 2004.-External links:...
  
  , 65, Dominican-born American baseball player (California Angels
  Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
  The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are a professional baseball team based in Anaheim, California, United States. The Angels are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The "Angels" name originates from the city in which the team started, Los Angeles...
  
  ). http://www.almomento.net/news/130/ARTICLE/84216/2011-04-02.html (Spanish)
• Bill Varney
  Bill Varney
  Harold William Varney , better known as Bill Varney, was an American motion picture sound mixer. A two-time Academy Award winner, Varney shared the Academy Award for Best Sound for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 and Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981...
  
  , 77, American sound editor (Raiders of the Lost Ark
  Raiders of the Lost Ark
  Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford. It is the first film in the Indiana Jones franchise...
  
  , Back to the Future
  Back to the Future
  Back to the Future is a 1985 American science-fiction adventure film. It was directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale, produced by Steven Spielberg, and starred Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover and Thomas F. Wilson. The film tells the story of...
  
  , Dune
  Dune (film)
  Dune is a 1984 science fiction film written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1965 Frank Herbert novel of the same name. The film stars Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides, and includes an ensemble of well-known American and European actors in supporting roles. It was filmed at the Churubusco...
  
  ). http://obits.al.com/obituaries/mobile/obituary.aspx?n=Harold-Varney&pid=150005285
• Paul Violi
  Paul Violi
  Paul Randolph Violi was an American poet born in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Splurge, Fracas, The Curious Builder, Likewise, and most recently Overnight...
  
  , 66, American poet, cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/books/paul-violi-poet-dies-at-66.html?ref=obituaries

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• Peter Baumann
  Peter Baumann (psychiatrist)
  Peter Baumann was a Swiss psychiatrist who engendered controversy for conducting physician assisted suicides.- Background :Baumann began practising when 38 years old in Zurich. He employed body therapy in addition to more conventional methods and attracted attention with his comments on Swiss...
  
  , 75, Swiss psychiatrist. http://www.lvz-trauer.de/9426418 (German)
• Lou Gorman
  Lou Gorman
  James Gerald "Lou" Gorman was an American baseball executive, and the former general manager of the Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball...
  
  , 82, American baseball executive and general manager (Boston Red Sox
  Boston Red Sox
  The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...
  
  , Seattle Mariners
  Seattle Mariners
  The Seattle Mariners are a professional baseball team based in Seattle, Washington. Enfranchised in , the Mariners are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Safeco Field has been the Mariners' home ballpark since July...
  
  ). http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2011/04/former_red_sox_1.html?p1=News_links
• Jane Gregory
  Jane Gregory
  Jane Gregory , was an international equestrian. She first rode for her country in 1994, competing in the World Equestrian Games of that year, and competed for Great Britain in Dressage at the Atlanta and Beijing Olympic Games.-Early life :Born in Bromley, Kent, Gregory came from a non-equestrian...
  
  , 51, British Olympic equestrian, heart attack. http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/headlines/8960724.Husband_leads_tributes_to_Olympic_dressage_rider/?ref=rss
• George Gryaznov, 77, Russian Orthodox
  Russian Orthodox Church
  The Russian Orthodox Church or, alternatively, the Moscow Patriarchate The ROC is often said to be the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches in the world; including all the autocephalous churches under its umbrella, its adherents number over 150 million worldwide—about half of the 300 million...
  
   Archbishop of Chelyabinsk
  Chelyabinsk
  Chelyabinsk is a city and the administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located in the northwestern side of the oblast, south of Yekaterinburg, just to the east of the Ural Mountains, on the Miass River. Population: -History:...
  
   and Zlatoust
  Zlatoust
  Zlatoust is a city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Ay River , west of Chelyabinsk. Population: 181,000 ; 161,000 ; 99,000 ; 48,000 ; 21,000 ....
  
   (1989–1996), stroke. http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/1442573.html (Russian)
• Manning Marable
  Manning Marable
  William Manning Marable was an American professor of public affairs, history and African-American Studies at Columbia University. Marable founded and directed the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. Marable authored several texts and was active in progressive political causes...
  
  , 60, American professor (Columbia University
  Columbia University
  Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
  
  ). http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-manning-marable-20110404,0,4826721.story
• Edel Ojeda
  Edel Ojeda
  Edel Malpica Ojeda was a Mexican Olympic boxer. Ojeda took part in the 1948 London Olympics. After retiring from boxing, he founded a successful electrical company.-References:...
  
  , 82, Mexican Olympic boxer. http://www.oem.com.mx/esto/notas/n2026182.htm (Spanish)
• Georgi Rusev
  Georgi Rusev
  Georgi Iliev Rusev was a Bulgarian theatre and film actor.Rusev created a real gallery of colorful characters for about four decades in the film industry. He became famous as a master of the so called "second plan roles".-Biography and Career:...
  
  , 82, Bulgarian theatre and film actor. http://www.dnevnik.bg/bulgaria/2011/04/01/1069269_pochina_aktyorut_georgi_rusev/ (Bulgarian)
• Siri Skare
  Siri Skare
  Siri Skare was the first female aviator in the armed forces of Norway. She died during a demonstration in Mazar-i-Sharif in 2011.-Early life:Skare was originally from Åndalsnes, Møre og Romsdal, Norway...
  
  , 52, Norwegian lieutenant colonel
  Lieutenant colonel
  Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies and most marine forces and some air forces of the world, typically ranking above a major and below a colonel. The rank of lieutenant colonel is often shortened to simply "colonel" in conversation and in unofficial correspondence...
  
  , first Norwegian female military pilot. http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/04/01/nyheter/afghanistan/utenriks/forsvaret/16041989/ (Norwegian)
• Mar Varkey Vithayathil, 83, Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic
  Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
  The Syro-Malabar Catholic Church in India is an East Syrian Rite, Major Archiepiscopal Church in full communion with the Catholic Church. It is one of the 22 sui iuris Eastern Catholic Churches in the Catholic Church. It is the largest of the Saint Thomas Christian denominations with more than 3.6...
  
   hierarch, Cardinal (from 2001), Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly (from 1999). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bvith.html
• Brynle Williams
  Brynle Williams
  Brynle Williams was a North Wales Assembly Member for the Welsh Conservative Party in the National Assembly for Wales. Elected from the North Wales Regional list, he was Shadow Minister for Rural Affairs from 2007-2011...
  
  , 62, Welsh activist (fuel protests) and politician, AM
  National Assembly for Wales
  The National Assembly for Wales is a devolved assembly with power to make legislation in Wales. The Assembly comprises 60 members, who are known as Assembly Members, or AMs...
  
   for North Wales (from 2003). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-12932066