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Famous Deaths In February 2012

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* Charles Amer, 100, British football chairman (Middlesbrough F.C.). (death announced on this date)
* Eli Belyutin, 86, Russian artist. (Russian)
* Rich Brenner, 65, American sports anchor (WGHP), heart attack.
* Sailen Manna, 87, Indian footballer.
* Velloor G. Ramabhadran, 82, Indian mridangamist.
* Helga Vlahovic’, 67, Croatian journalist, producer and television personality, uterine cancer. (Croatian)

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* Lynn Compton, 90, American Army officer (Easy Company), appellate judge, and prosecutor of Sirhan Sirhan.
* A’rpa’d Fekete, 90, Hungarian football player and coach. (Spanish)
* Don Joyce, 82, American football player (Baltimore Colts, Denver Broncos, Minnesota Vikings).
* Yvonne Verbeeck, 98, Belgian actress. (Dutch)
* Zollie Volchok, 95, American basketball executive.
* Kazunori Yoneda, 61, Japanese volleyball coach (women’s national team), lung cancer. (Japanese)

25

* Rau’l Abzueta, 49, Venezuelan musician, stroke. (Spanish)
* Maurice André, 78, French classical trumpeter.
* Dee Cernile, 46, Canadian guitarist (Sven Gali), cancer.
* Lloyd R. George, 85, American politician, Arkansas state representative.
* Red Holloway, 84, American jazz saxophonist, stroke and kidney failure.
* Erland Josephson, 88, Swedish actor and author, leader of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, complications of Parkinson’s disease.
* Louisiana Red, 79, American blues musician, stroke.
* Thomas Watters, 99, Scottish veteran of the Spanish Civil War.

24

* Infanta Maria Adelaide of Portugal, 100, Portuguese royal. (Portuguese)
* Istva’n Anhalt, 92, Hungarian-born Canadian composer.
* Jan Berenstain, 88, American writer and illustrator (Berenstain Bears), stroke.
* Dennis Gomes, 68, American prosecutor and businessman (Resorts Casino Hotel), complications from kidney dialysis.
* Njenga Karume, 82, Kenyan businessman and politician, cancer.
* Howard Kissel, 69, American theatre critic (New York Daily News), complications of liver transplant.
* Theodore Mann, 87, American theatre producer and director.
* Terry Mathews, 47, American baseball player (Texas Rangers, Florida Marlins, Baltimore Orioles), heart attack.
* Kenneth Price, 77, American ceramics artist, cancer.
* Pery Ribeiro, 74, Brazilian singer, myocardial infarction. (Portuguese)
* Eliana Tranchesi, 55, Brazilian businesswoman (Daslu), lung cancer. (Portuguese)
* Kostas Tsiftis, 34, Greek journalist, heart attack. (Greek)

23

* Pandit Nidan Bandhu Banerjee, 89, Indian classical vocalist, age related illness.
* Joydeb Basu, 49, Indian poet, heart attack.
* Cathy Campbell, 49, New Zealand broadcaster, brain tumour.
* Stella Nardari-Vecchiato, 113, Italian supercentenarian, oldest person in Italy at time of her death, natural causes. (Italian)
* William Raggio, 85, American politician, Nevada State Senator (1972–2011), respiratory illness.
* Bruce Surtees, 74, American cinematographer (Lenny, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes).
* John Susac, 71, American neurologist (Susac’s syndrome), lung cancer.

22

* Frank Carson, 85, Northern Irish comedian.
* Marie Colvin, 56, American reporter (The Sunday Times), shelling.
* Nakamura Jakuemon IV, 91, Japanese kabuki actor, pneumonia. (Japanese)
* Lyudmila Kasatkina, 86, Russian actress, People’s Artist of the USSR. (Russian)
* Ko-ji Kita, 63, Japanese singer (Four Leaves), liver cancer. (Japanese)
* Thabang Lebese, 38, South African footballer.
* Lorin Levee, 61, American clarinetist (Los Angeles Philharmonic).
* Mike Melvoin, 74, American jazz pianist and composer, cancer.
* Dmitri Nabokov, 77, American opera singer and translator. (Dutch)
* Rémi Ochlik, 28, French photographer, shelling.
* Royal Academy, 25, Irish racehorse, old age.
* Marko Ruz(djak, 65, Croatian academic. (Croatian)
* Cuauhtémoc Sandoval Rami’rez, 61, Mexican politician, heart attack. (Spanish)
* Waldo Sauter, 90, American college baseball coach (Central Michigan University).
* Enzo Sellerio, 88, Italian photographer, heart attack. (Italian)
* Billy Strange, 81, American songwriter (“Limbo Rock”) and music arranger.

21

* Ranil Abeynaike, 57, Sri Lankan cricketer and commentator, heart attack.
* Sarbari Roy Choudhury, 79, Indian sculptor, heart attack.
* Thom Enright, 59, American musician (The Young Adults), brain cancer.
* Manuel Franco da Costa de Oliveira Falca~o, 89, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Beja (1980–1999).
* Emlyn Hooson, Baron Hooson, 86, British politician, MP for Montgomeryshire (1962–1979).
* Colin Ireland, 57, British serial killer.
* Pierre Juneau, 89, Canadian broadcasting executive and federal cabinet minister, Minister of Communications (1975).
* Yasuhiko Kawamura, 71, Japanese baseball player (Chunichi Dragons), pancreatic cancer. (Japanese)
* Yusuf Kurçenli, 65, Turkish film director, cancer.
* Andreas Lunnan, 71, Norwegian journalist and musician. (Norwegian)
* Tom Martinez, 66, American football coach, heart attack.
* Asahi Matsui, 84, Japanese politician, pneumonia. (Japanese)
* John Michuki, 79, Kenyan politician, heart attack.
* Tsutomu Omori, 49, Japanese executive, suicide by hanging. (body found on this date)
* Christopher Reimer, 26, Canadian rock guitarist (Women, The Dodos).
* Benjamin Romualdez, 81, Filipino politician and diplomat, Governor of Leyte (1967–1986), cancer.
* Barney Rosset, 89, American publisher (Grove Press) and free speech advocate.
* Rami al-Sayed, Syrian journalist and blogger, shelling.

20

* Renato Dulbecco, 97, Italian-born American virologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1975).
* Knut Torbj?rn Eggen, 51, Norwegian Olympic football player and coach. (Norwegian)
* Asar Eppel, 77, Russian translator, stroke. (Russian)
* Sebhat Gebre-Egziabher, 76, Ethiopian author.
* Imanuel Geiss, 81, German historian. (German)
* Katie Hall, 73, American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1982–1985).
* S. N. Lakshmi, 85, Indian actress, cardiac arrest.
* Lydia Lamaison, 97, Argentine actress (Mun~eca Brava).
* Christoffer Schander, 51, Norwegian marine biologist. (Norwegian)
* Maya Sen, 84, Indian Rabindra Sangeet exponent, heart and thyroid problems.
* Edgardo Gabriel Storni, 75, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz (1984–2002). (Spanish)
* Kjell Thue, 92, Norwegian radio host. (Norwegian)
* Vitaly Vorotnikov, 86, Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (1988–1990).
* Sullivan Walker, 68, Trinidadian actor (The Cosby Show, Earth 2).

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* Georgi Cherkelov, 81, Bulgarian actor, stroke. (Bulgarian)
* Robin Corbett, Baron Corbett of Castle Vale, 78, British politician, MP for Hemel Hempstead (1974–1979) and Birmingham Erdington (1983–2001), cancer.
* Luc Flad, 76, Dutch footballer. (Dutch)
* Vito Giacalone, 88, American mobster.
* Peter Halliday, 87, Welsh actor.
* Eric Harris, 56, American football player (Toronto Argonauts, Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Rams), heart attack.
* J. Paul Hogan, 92, American research chemist.
* Steve Kordek, 100, American pinball machine designer.
* Ruth Barcan Marcus, 90, American philosopher and logician.
* Walter Schloss, 95, American investor and stock trader, leukemia.
* So Man-sul, 84, North Korean Zainichi activist, Chongryon Central Standing Committee chairman.
* Frits Staal, 81, Dutch philosopher. (Dutch)
* Herman G. Tillman, Jr., 89, American pilot (WWII, Korea, Vietnam), liver failure.
* Shigeo Uetake, 81, Japanese politician, bile duct cancer. (Japanese)
* Jaroslav Velinsky’, 79, Czech science fiction and detective author. (Czech)

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* Roald Aas, 83, Norwegian Olympic gold (1960) and bronze (1952) medal-winning speed skater. (Norwegian)
* Jo’zsef Breznay, 95, Hungarian painter. (Hungarian)
* George Brizan, 69, Grenadian politician, Prime Minister (1995), diabetes.
* Zvezdan C(ebinac, 72, Serbian football player and manager.
* Rose Cliver, 109, American centenarian, one of the last known survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
* Elizabeth Connell, 65, South African soprano singer, cancer.
* Clementina Di’az y de Ovando, 96, Mexican writer and academic.
* M. R. D. Foot, 92, English military historian.
* Ken Goodwin, 78, English comedian (The Comedians), Alzheimer’s disease.
* Mari’a Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, 90, Argentine business executive and philanthropist.
* Matt Lamb, 79, American painter.
* Bertie Messitt, 81, Irish Olympic athlete (1960).
* Roger Miner, 77, American federal appellate judge, heart failure.
* Cal Murphy, 79, Canadian football coach and general manager (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
* Sadao Sakamoto, 94, Japanese politician, stroke. (Japanese)
* Peter Sharp, 72, New Zealand first class cricketer (Canterbury) and cricket commentator, cancer.
* Ric Waite, 78, American cinematographer (Red Dawn, Footloose).

17

* Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, 93, Dutch mathematician.
* Robert Carr, 95, British politician, MP for Mitcham (1950–1974) & Carshalton (1974–1976); Home Secretary (1972–1974).
* Joa~o Viegas Carrascala~o, 65, East Timorese politician. (Portuguese)
* Jordan da Costa, 79, Brazilian footballer (Flamengo), diabetes. (Portuguese)
* Clarence Dart, 91, American World War II fighter pilot (Tuskegee Airmen).
* Michael Davis, 68, American bassist (MC5), liver failure.
* Winkie Direko, 82, South African politician, Premier of the Free State (1999–2004), stroke.
* Tatyana Golikova, 66, Russian ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet). (Russian)
* Danny Halloran, 57, Australian VFL football player.
* Milorad Bibic’ Mosor, 59, Croatian journalist and writer. (Croatian)
* Ulric Neisser, 83, American psychologist.
* Howie Nunn, 76, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds).
* Atsuo Okunaka, 81, Japanese film director, heart failure. (Japanese)
* Frank Sanders, 62, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) ice hockey player, pancreatic cancer.
* Enrique Sierra, 54, Spanish musician, member of rock band Radio Futura, kidney disease. (Spanish)

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* Dus(ko Antunovic’, 65, Croatian Olympic water polo player and coach. (Croatian)
* Go”sta Arvidsson, 86, Swedish Olympic athlete. (Swedish)
* Chikage Awashima, 87, Japanese actress (Takarazuka Revue), pancreatic cancer. (Japanese)
* Gary Carter, 57, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Montreal Expos, New York Mets), brain tumor.
* Bubi Chen, 74, Indonesian jazz musician
* Baddeley Devesi, 70, Solomon Islander politician, first Governor-General (1978–1988).
* Warren Hudson, 49, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts, Winnipeg Blue Bombers), brain cancer.
* Reidar T. Larsen, 88, Norwegian politician, member of parliament (1973–1977). (Norwegian)
* John Macionis, 95, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) swimmer.
* Kathryn McGee, 91, American disability rights advocate.
* Jon McIntire, 70, American band manager (Grateful Dead), cancer.
* Harry McPherson, 82, American lawyer and lobbyist, advisor to Lyndon B. Johnson, cancer.
* Geevarghese Mar Osthathios, 93, Indian Orthodox bishop, Senior Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.
* Anil Ramdas, 54, Surinamese-born Dutch columnist and journalist (NRC Handelsblad).
* Anthony Shadid, 43, American journalist, asthma.
* Gene Vance, 88, American basketball player (Chicago Stags, Tri-Cities Blackhawks, Milwaukee Hawks).
* Dick Anthony Williams, 77, American actor (Edward Scissorhands, The Jerk, Homefront), after long illness.

15

* Charles Anthony, 82, American tenor, kidney failure.
* Sir Alan Cottrell, 92, British metallurgist and physicist.
* William H. Dabney, 77, American colonel, awarded Navy Cross.
* Jacques Duby, 89, French actor. (French)
* Pola Illéry, 103, Romanian film actress.
* Zelda Kaplan, 95, American socialite and philanthropist.
* Elyse Knox, 94, American actress and model, mother of Mark Harmon.
* Doug McNichol, 81, Canadian football player (Montreal Alouettes, Toronto Argonauts).
* Lina Romay, 57, Spanish actress.
* Clive Shakespeare, 62, British-born Australian guitarist (Sherbet) and record producer, prostate cancer.
* James Whitaker, 71, British journalist, royal editor of the Daily Mirror, cancer.
* Gerrit Ybema, 66, Dutch politician, lung cancer.
* John J. Yeosock, 74, American lieutenant general, lung cancer.

14

* V. S. Acharya, 71, Indian politician.
* Aleksander Avdzhiev, 53, Bulgarian journalist and television presenter, cancer. (Bulgarian)
* Mike Bernardo, 42, South African boxer, kickboxer and martial artist.
* Zlatko Crnkovic’, 76, Croatian actor, cardiac arrest. (Croatian)
* Henri-Germain Delauze, 82, French engineer and diver, founder of COMEX. (French)
* Erwin Fiedor, 68, Polish Olympic ski jumper. (Polish)
* Shamim Ahmed Khan, 74, Indian sitar player, cardiac arrest.
* Kim Pong-chol, 69, North Korean politician.
* Tonmi Lillman, 38, Finnish musician (Ajattara, Sinergy, To/Die/For, Lordi).
* Earl Lindley, 78, American football player (Edmonton Eskimos).
* Tom McAnearney, 79, Scottish footballer (Sheffield Wednesday, Peterborough United, Aldershot).
* Dory Previn, 86, American singer-songwriter (Mythical Kings and Iguanas) and lyricist (Valley of the Dolls, Last Tango in Paris).
* Péter Rusora’n, 71, Hungarian water polo player and coach, Olympic champion. (Hungarian)

13

* Russell Arms, 92, American singer (Your Hit Parade) and actor (The Man Who Came to Dinner).
* Lillian Bassman, 94, American photographer.
* Ladislau Biernaski, 74, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sa~o José dos Pinhais (since 2006), cancer.
* Frank Bran~a, 77, Spanish film actor, respiratory failure. (Spanish)
* Al Brenner, 64, American football player (New York Giants, Hamilton Tiger-Cats).
* Jodie Christian, 80, American jazz pianist.
* Eamon Deacy, 53, Irish footballer, member of Aston Villa championship-winning team (1981), heart attack.
* Humayun Faridi, 59, Bangladeshi actor.
* Sho-zaburo- Fujino, 84, Japanese economist, pneumonia. (Japanese)
* David Griffiths, 84, British Anglican clergyman, Archdeacon of Berkshire (1987–1992).
* Anwar Kamal Khan, 64, Pakistani politician, cardiac failure.
* Akhlaq Mohammed Khan, 75, Indian poet, lyricist and academic, lung cancer.
* Keita Kushimaumi, 46, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach (Tagonoura), ischaemic heart disease. (Japanese)
* Mohamed Lamari, 72, Algerian general, Chief of Staff of the People’s National Army (1993–2004), heart attack.
* Earl Lindley, 78, American CFL football player (Edmonton Eskimos).
* Chieko Misaki, 90-91, Japanese actress, complications from dementia. (Japanese)
* Sanso’n, 87, Spanish football player. (Spanish)
* Alaxandros Schinas, 88, Greek journalist (Deutsche Welle), stroke. (Greek)
* Freddie Solomon, 59, American football player (Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers), colon and liver cancer.
* Edward Groesbeck Voss, 82, American botanist and lepidopterist.

12

* Cem Atabeyog(lu, 88, Turkish sports historian, journalist and writer, pioneer of Fenerbahçe men’s basketball team. (Turkish)
* Zina Bethune, 66, American actress (Sunrise at Campobello), hit-and-run.
* Malcolm Devitt, 75, English footballer.
* Denis Flannery, 83, Australian rugby league player.
* Adrian Foley, 8th Baron Foley, 88, British musician and aristocrat.
* Ritsuo Isobe, 89, Japanese businessman and bureaucrat (Ministry of Finance), renal pelvis cancer. (Japanese)
* David Kelly, 82, Irish actor (Fawlty Towers, Strumpet City, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).
* Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, 99, Dutch Olympic alpine skier (1936). (Dutch)
* John Severin, 90, American comic book artist (Hulk), co-founder of Mad magazine.
* Howard Zimmerman, 85, American professor of chemistry.

11

* Siri Bjerke, 53, Norwegian politician, Minister of the Environment (2000–2001), cancer. (Norwegian)
* Gene Crumling, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
* Aharon Davidi, 85, Israeli general. (Hebrew)
* Trent Frayne, 93, Canadian sportswriter.
* Whitney Houston, 48, American singer (“I Will Always Love You”) and actress (The Bodyguard).
* Issa al-Khouli, Syrian general, shot.
* Sergey Kolosov, 90, Russian film director, People’s Artist of the USSR. (Russian)
* Michitaka Konoe, 89, Japanese historian, head of the Konoe family, heart failure. (Japanese)
* Yo-ji Nagase, 80, Japanese politician, mayor of Kawaguchi, Saitama, pneumonia. (Japanese)
* John Sperry, 87, Canadian Anglican Bishop of the Arctic (1974–1990).
* Ryu-ichiro- Tachi, 90, Japanese economist, pneumonia. (Japanese)

10

* Chuck Baird, 64, American deaf artist.
* Nikolaos Chios, 54, Greek journalist, cancer. [dead link] (Greek)
* Geoffrey Cornish, 97, American golf course architect.
* Emyr Daniel, 63, Welsh broadcaster and television producer.
* R. T. France, 73, British New Testament scholar.
* Ronald Fraser, 81, English historian.
* Joseph Gaggero, 84, Gibraltarian businessman.
* Filippo Giannini, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Rome (1980–1998).
* Francisco de Guruceaga Iturriza, 84, Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of La Guaira (1973–2001).
* Gloria Lloyd, 87, American actress (Temptation), daughter of Harold Lloyd.
* Lloyd Morrison, 54, New Zealand businessman (Infratil), leukemia.
* Wilmot Perkins, 80, Jamaican radio personality.
* Ivan Pravilov, 48, Ukrainian ice hockey coach, suspected suicide.
* James Riordan, 75, English novelist and academic.
* Ippei So-da, 81, Japanese actor, colon cancer. (Japanese)
* Jeffrey Zaslow, 53, American author and columnist, car accident.

9

* Jill Kinmont Boothe, 75, American alpine skier.
* Fred Dickson, 74, Canadian lawyer and politician, Senator (since 2009), colon cancer.
* O. P. Dutta, 90, Indian film director, complications of pneumonia.
* Josh Gifford, 70, British racehorse jockey and trainer, heart attack.
* John Hick, 90, English philosopher and theologian.
* Kiyoshi Kajiwara, 90, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, chief of the Ministry of Transport. (Japanese)
* Barbara Marianowska, 64, British-born Polish politician. (Polish)
* Dave Maynard, 82, American broadcaster (WBZ (AM), WBZ-TV), Parkinson’s disease.
* Joe Moretti, 73, British guitarist, lung cancer.
* Oscar Nu’n~ez, 83, Argentine actor (Good Life Delivery), cancer.
* Don Panciera, 84, American football player (Detroit Lions, Chicago Cardinals).
* Luka’s( Pr(ibyl, 33, Czech sports administrator, Vice-President of AC Sparta Prague.
* Shiro- Taihei, 55, Japanese comedian, actor and broadcast writer, ventricular fibrillation. (Japanese)
* Milan Zinaic’, 65, Croatian art historian and art critic. (Croatian)

8

* Adam Adamowicz, 42, American video game concept artist (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Fallout 3), cancer.
* Theophilus Brown, 92, American painter.
* Phil Bruns, 80, American actor (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; Barney Miller; The Great Waldo Pepper), natural causes.
* Dennis Callahan, 70, American politician, Mayor of Annapolis (1985–1989), heart attack.
* John Cunningham, 66, Irish journalist, editor of Connacht Tribune (1984–2007), illness.
* John Fairfax, 74, British ocean rower and adventurer.
* Giangiacomo Guelfi, 87, Italian opera singer. (Italian)
* Robert Hecht, Jr., 92, American antiquities dealer.
* Lew Hitch, 82, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers, Milwaukee Hawks, Philadelphia Warriors).
* Jorge Salvador Lara, 85, Ecuadorian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1966, 1976–1977).
* Laurie Main, 89, Australian-born character actor (Welcome to Pooh Corner).
* Ma’rcia Maria, 67, Brazilian actress, hemorrhage. (Portuguese)
* Enrique Moreno, 48, Spanish footballer. (Spanish)
* Gunther Plaut, 99, German-born Canadian rabbi and author.
* Jimmy Sabater, Sr., 75, American Latin musician.
* Allan Segal, 70, British documentary maker, cancer.
* Ib Holm S?rensen, Danish computer scientist. (death announced on this date)
* Luis Alberto Spinetta, 62, Argentine musician (Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible), lung cancer.
* Wando, 66, Brazilian singer, cardiorespiratory arrest. (Portuguese)

7

* Esfandiar Ahmadieh, 83, Iranian animator.
* James Baring, 6th Baron Revelstoke, 73, British aristocrat.
* Danny Clyburn, 37, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Tampa Bay Devil Rays), shot.
* Jim Dinwiddie, 63, American basketball player (University of Kentucky), apparent suicide by gunshot.
* Patricia Stephens Due, 72, American civil rights activist, cancer.
* Marie-Louise Haumont, 93, Belgian writer. (French)
* Florence Holway, 96, American advocate for rape victims.
* Harry Keough, 84, American soccer player and coach.
* Sergio Larrai’n, 81, Chilean photographer.
* Sho-ichi Sengoku, 62, Japanese zoologist, duodenal cancer. (Japanese)
* Phil Shanahan, 84, Irish hurler.

6

* Peter Breck, 82, American actor (The Big Valley).
* Sharada Dwivedi, 69, Indian historian.
* Nikolay Evdakov, 47, Russian professional poker player.
* Tsuneo Fujita, 82, Japanese anatomist and endocrinologist (Niigata University), stroke. (Japanese)
* Vitaly Gorelik, 44, Russian mountaineer, heart attack.
* Yasuhiro Ishimoto, 90, Japanese photographer, complications following pneumonia and a stroke. (Japanese)
* Jiang Ying, 92, Chinese opera singer and music teacher.
* Noel Kelehan, 76, Irish musician (RTE’ Concert Orchestra).
* Jay Lambert, 86, American Olympic boxer.
* Juan Vicente Lezcano, 74, Paraguayan footballer. (Spanish)
* Matthew Mbu, 82, Nigerian politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister (1993).
* W?adys?aw Ogrodzin’ski, 93, Polish historian and writer. (Polish)
* Nuri Otay, 54, Turkish businessman. (Turkish)
* Norma Merrick Sklarek, 85, American architect, heart failure.
* Antoni Tàpies, 88, Spanish painter.
* Istva’n Udvardi, 51, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1980) water polo player. (Hungarian)
* Janice E. Voss, 55, American astronaut, cancer.
* David A. Winter, 81, Canadian academic.

5

* Blaine, 74, Canadian editorial cartoonist.
* Sam Coppola, 79, American actor (Saturday Night Fever, Fatal Attraction).
* Jazmi’n De Grazia, 27, Argentine model, drowned.
* Bill Hinzman, 75, American actor (Night of the Living Dead), cancer.
* Ray Honeyford, 77, English headmaster and writer.
* William D. Houser, 90, American admiral (WWII, Korea, Korea), Alzheimer’s disease and pneumonia.
* John Turner Sargent, Sr., 87, American publisher.
* Barnett K. Thoroughgood, 62, American Church of God in Christ pastor, archbishop of the Second Jurisdiction of Virginia, heart failure.
* Ante Vulin, 80, Croatian academic and architect. (Croatian)
* Mitsuhiko Yoshino, 80, Japanese mountain climber, heart failure. (Japanese)
* Lawrence Zhang Wen-Chang, 92, Chinese Roman Catholic priest, Apostolic Administrator of Zhaotong (since 2000).
* Jo Zwaan, 89, Dutch Olympic athlete. (Dutch)

4

* Hiroshi Ashino, 87, Japanese chanson singer, interstitial lung disease. (Japanese)
* Istva’n Csurka, 77, Hungarian playwright and politician, Chairman of the Hungarian Justice and Life Party (since 1993). (Hungarian)
* Robert Daniel, 75, American politician, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1973–1983).
* Mike deGruy, 60, American documentary filmmaker (Trials of Life, The Blue Planet), helicopter crash.
* Nigel Doughty, 54, British businessman, owner (since 1999) and chairman (2001–2011) of Nottingham Forest F.C.
* Joseph W. Estabrook, 67, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Services (since 2004) and Titular Bishop of Flenucleta.
* Jeff Fraza, 34, American professional boxer, struck by train.
* Andy Gabrielson, 24, American stormchaser, car accident.
* Robert Glaser, 91, American cognitive psychologist, complications from Alzheimer’s disease.
* Florence Green, 110, British supercentenarian, last surviving veteran of World War I.
* Fernando Lanhas, 88, Portuguese painter. (Portuguese)
* Hubert Leitgeb, 46, Italian Olympic biathlete, two-time world champion, avalanche. (German)
* Irene McKinney, 72, American poet, Poet Laureate of West Virginia (since 1994), cancer.
* Livio Minelli, 85, Italian boxer.
* Wendell Mitchell, 71, American politician, Alabama State Senator (1974–2010), heart failure.
* Pierre-Eugène Rouanet, 94, French-born Ivorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Daloa (1956–1975).
* Ja’nos Sebestyén, 80, Hungarian organist. (Hungarian)
* Giovanni Volta, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pavia (1986–2003).
* Andrew Wight, 51, Australian screenwriter and producer (Sanctum), helicopter crash.

3

* Nikos Apergis, 65, Greek actor, playwright and politician, cancer. (Greek)
* Steve Appleton, 51, American businessman (Micron Technology), plane crash.
* HIM Damsyik, 82, Indonesian dancer and actor.
* Patricia Disney, 77, American philanthropist, Alzheimer’s disease.
* Nello Ferrara, 93, American businessman (Ferrara Pan Candy Company).
* Ben Gazzara, 81, American actor (Run for Your Life, Road House), pancreatic cancer.
* Terence Hildner, 49, American general, commander of the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary).
* Kumashi Kakehashi, 88, Japanese politician, stomach cancer. (Japanese)
* Raj Kanwar, 50, Indian film director and producer, kidney failure.
* Zalman King, 69, American film director (Wild Orchid) and producer (9½ Weeks), cancer.
* Karlo Maquinto, 21, Filipino boxer.
* Mayer Matalon, 89, Jamaican businessman.
* Andrzej Szczeklik, 73, Polish physician and educational administrator (Jagiellonian University Medical College). (Polish)
* Toh Chin Chye, 90, Singaporean politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1965–1968) and Minister for Health (1975–1981).
* Wilhelm Wachtmeister, 88, Swedish diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1974–1989).
* Samuel Youd, 89, British science fiction author (The Tripods, The Sword of the Spirits).
* Norton Zinder, 83, American microbiologist, pneumonia.

2

* Joyce Barkhouse, 98, Canadian children’s writer (Pit Pony), heart attack.
* Edgar Bessen, 78, German actor. (German)
* Paul Consbruch, 81, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn (1980–1999).
* Frederick William Danker, 91, American lexicographer and New Testament scholar.
* David Edelsten, 78, British writer and army officer.
* George Esper, 79, American reporter (Fall of Saigon) and professor.
* Elwyn Friedrich, 78, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player, myocardial infarction. (German)
* Luis Javier Garrido, 71, Mexican political analyst. [dead link] (Spanish)
* Dorothy Gilman, 88, American spy novelist (The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax), complications of Alzheimer’s disease.
* Jorge Glusberg, 79, Argentine author and curator, director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. (Spanish)
* Jane Ising, 110, German-born American academic and supercentenarian, wife of Ernst Ising.
* Nassib Lahoud, 67, Lebanese politician.
* James F. Lloyd, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1975–1981), stroke.
* Anil Mohile, 71, Indian music arranger, heart attack.
* John R. Pawson, 73, American rail transportation author.

1

* Herb Adams, 83, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
* Gerlando Alberti, 88, Italian Sicilian Mafioso, cancer. (Italian)
* Yona Baltman, 82, Israeli jurist, State Attorney (1982–1988). (Hebrew)
* Elizabeth Candon, 90, American Roman Catholic nun, president of Trinity College (Vermont), pulmonary fibrosis.
* Don Cornelius, 75, American television host and producer (Soul Train), suicide by gunshot.
* Angelo Dundee, 90, American boxing trainer (Muhammad Ali).
* Fabia’n Estapé, 88, Spanish economist.
* John Harrison, 87, Australian Olympic rower.
* Ruth Hausmeister, 99, German actress (The Longest Day). (German)
* Philip Hudsmith, 86, Canadian film director.
* Mike Kelley, 57, American artist, apparent suicide.
* Ladislav Kuna, 64, Slovak football player and manager. (Slovak)
* Robert Lawless, 74, American anthropologist.
* Anil Mohile, 71, Indian film music composer, heart attack.
* Ingolf Mork, 64, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper. (Norwegian)
* Taiji O-tani, 80, Japanese baseball umpire, heart failure. (Japanese)
* David Peaston, 54, American R&B singer, complications of diabetes.
* Lutz Philipp, 71, German Olympic athlete. (German)
* Gilbert Poirot, 67, French Olympic ski jumper. (French)
* Charlie Spoonhour, 72, American basketball coach (Southwest Missouri State, Saint Louis University), complications from lung disease.
* Jerry Steiner, 94, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Pistons).
* Andrzej Sztolf, 70, Polish Olympic ski jumper. (Polish)
* Wis?awa Szymborska, 88, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature (1996).

Whitney Houston Burial

February 20, 2012 by · Comments Off on Whitney Houston Burial 

Whitney Houston Burial, Whitney Houston was laid to rest on Sunday in a private burial before family and close friends near her birthplace in Newark, New Jersey, more than a week after her sudden death shocked the world.

The pop star, whose powerful voice fuelled her rise to fame in the mid-1980s with self-titled albums that made her a global pop star, died in a Beverly Hills hotel room last week. She was found underwater in a bathtub, but an exact cause of death has yet to be determined.

Dozens of fans lined the edge of street barriers as the procession carrying Houston’s body drove by under tight security from a funeral home in Newark, New Jersey to the Forest Lawn cemetery in nearby Westfield where Houston’s body was buried next to her father.

“It was emotional,” Teresa Giannetta, 35, who lives in Westfield and showed up with her daughter, Julia, 8, said after the hearse went by. Like many fans, Giannetta said she grew up listening to Houston’s music and likened the singer to “the voice of my childhood.”

“It’s bittersweet to have her buried so close to home for us,” she said.

Houston was laid to rest in her burial site after stars, family and friends mourned her in a spirited Baptist funeral service at her hometown church on Saturday. The New Hope Baptist Church in Newark was where Houston honed her wide vocal range as a young choral singer with her mother Cissy Houston, a backup singer for Aretha Franklin.

Whitney Houston Funeral Televised

February 17, 2012 by · Comments Off on Whitney Houston Funeral Televised 

Whitney Houston Funeral Televised, As preparations continue for what’s expected to be a star-studded funeral for Whitney Houston, New Jersey police have urged fans to stay away from the private service.

On Thursday, Newark police said that six square blocks around the New Hope Baptist Church, where Houston began singing as a child, would be cordoned off on Saturday and that fans would not be allowed in.

Newark police director Samuel DeMaio advised fans to stay home to watch the funeral, which will be broadcast on TV and streamed online. He also said there would be no procession from Newark’s Whigham Funeral Home, where Houston’s body is resting, to the church.

However, as of Friday morning, fans and media had already gathered outside the church.

In New Jersey, devotees have left flowers, photos, messages and other tribute items to the singer at the church, the funeral home and the school renamed for Houston. Fans have appealed for a public memorial where they can also unite to grieve the singer.

The singer’s final resting place will be next to her father, John Russell Houston Jr., at the Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, N.J. following Saturday’s funeral, a source close to the family told The Associated Press.

New Hope Baptist Church

February 14, 2012 by · Comments Off on New Hope Baptist Church 

New Hope Baptist Church, Whitney Houston’s funeral will be held at noon on Saturday at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, both Houston’s rep and a Whigham Funeral Home staff member confirmed to Us Weekly Tuesday.
The funeral is by “invitation only” and there will be “no wake.” A source adds that “anyone not invited will stand outside.”

The 48-year-old Grammy winner’s mother, Cissy, “was at the funeral home until 2 a.m.” Tuesday, the source tells Us. Dismissing previously reported venues, Cissy “made it clear that a funeral must be inside a church, and the Prudential Center is not an appropriate venue,” the source adds.

Houston’s body was transported by private jet Monday to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. It was then taken to Whigham Funeral Home in Newark, where her father, John, was laid to rest in 2003.

The “I Will Always Love You” singer was discovered partially submerged in a bathtub inside her Beverly Hilton hotel room Saturday; paramedics pronounced Houston dead at 3:55 p.m.

“This is an unimaginable tragedy and we will miss her terribly,” the Houston family told Us in a statement. “We appreciate the outpouring of love and support from her fans and friends.”

Houston is survived by daughter Bobbi Kristina, 18, and her mother, Cissy.

Jennifer Hudson Tribute To Whitney Houston

February 13, 2012 by · Comments Off on Jennifer Hudson Tribute To Whitney Houston 

Jennifer Hudson Tribute To Whitney Houston, Jennifer Hudson honored the late Whitney Houston at the 2012 Grammy Awards Sunday with a rendition of Houston’s famous “I Will Always Love You.”

Hudson sang the touching song, wearing a subtle black gown as photos of late musicians were lit above her.

Houston died Saturday, one day shy of the famous awards show. The Grammy Awards crew scrambled to get a impromptu tribute together to honor one of the most famous names in music during the most famous nights in music.

Hudson seemed like the perfect fit for the tribute. The “American Idol” star like Houston, has a notably strong voice, though Hudson didn’t use it to outdo the late singer’s famous song. Instead, Hudson sang a softer version of the “The Bodyguard” song.

The song was introduced to the world thanks to Dolly Parton but in 1992, Houston recorded the song for “The Bodyguard” soundtrack and the song became famous. Houston’s version was a massive success, appearing at 68 on Billboard’s “Greatest Songs of All Time” and spent 14 weeks at the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

“Whitney, we love you,” said Hudson to a standing ovation.

Saturday, Houston was found submerged in her bathtub while preparing for a pre-Grammy party at the Beverly Hilton. Attempts to revive her were unsuccessful and she was pronounced dead around 3:55 p.m.

Her official cause of death won’t be released until toxicology reports come back. The results should be back in around six to eight weeks.

Houston’s 18-year-old daughter with ex-husband Bobby Brown, Bobbi took the news the hardest. She was denied access to see her her mother in the hotel room by police and the following day, was hospitalized with reported anxiety.

Ex-husband Bobby Brown, who was married to Houston for 15 years until they divorced in 2007, was performing in Southaven, Miss. Saturday night when Houston died. He appeared visibly shaken and told the crowd “I would like to say, I love you, Whitney. The hardesnt thing for me to do is come on this stage.”

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