The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2011.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
February 2011
1 Ernst Badian, 85, Austrian classical scholar and history professor (Harvard University), complications from a fall. Lennox Fyfe, Baron Fyfe of Fairfield, 69, British politician. Daniele Formica, 61, Irish-born Italian actor, theatre director and playwright, pancreatic cancer. Douglas Haig, 90, American child actor. Stanisław Michalski, 78, Polish actor. Derek Rawcliffe, 89, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway (1981–1991). Knut Risan, 80, Norwegian actor. Husik Santurjan, 91, Turkish-born Armenian archbishop of Armenian Apostolic Church. Les Stubbs, 81, British footballer.
2 Geoff Ainsworth, 64, Australian football player, cancer. Edward Amy, 92, Canadian brigadier general. Ian Anderson, 57, British politician, brain tumour. Darrel Baldock, 72, Australian football player and coach, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1972–1987) and Minister (1975–1982), stroke. Harriett Ball, 64, American educator, heart attack. *Armando Chin Yong, 53, Malaysian opera singer, heart disease. Jimmy Fell, 75, British footballer (Grimsby Town). Bill Foster, 78, American television director (Benson, Full House, The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults), cancer. Defne Joy Foster, 35, Turkish actress, presenter and VJ. Awal Gul, 48, Afghan detainee in Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, heart attack. Douglas M. Head, 80, American politician, Minnesota Attorney General (1967–1971). Rodney Hill, 89, British mathematician. Clark Hulings, 88, American realist painter and physicist. Margaret John, 84, British actress (High Hopes, Gavin & Stacey, Game of Thrones), liver cancer. Durga Mukherjee, 77, Indian cricketer. Eric Nicol, 91, Canadian writer. René Verdon, 86, French-born American White House Executive Chef, leukemia.
3 Ajib Ahmad, 63, Malaysian politician, Chief Minister of Johor (1982–1986). Édouard Glissant, 82, Martinican poet and writer. LeRoy Grannis, 93, American surfing photographer. Tony Levin, 71, British jazz drummer. Ron Piché, 75, Canadian baseball player (Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals), cancer. Maria Schneider, 58, French actress (Last Tango in Paris), cancer. Tatyana Shmyga, 82, Russian operetta singer and film actress (Hussar Ballad), People's Artist of the USSR, vascular disease. Machan Varghese, 50, Indian Malayalam film actor, cancer. Neil Young, 66, British footballer (Manchester City), cancer. Robert Young, 95, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) athlete.
4 Lu Bain, 68, Canadian football player. Martial Célestin, 97, Haitian lawyer and diplomat, Prime Minister (1988). Woodie Fryman, 70, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Montreal Expos).Former pitcher dies at 70 Michael Habeck, 66, German actor, after short illness. Fred Hole, 75, English art director (Return of the Jedi, Aliens, Empire of the Sun).Fred Hole Dame Olga Lopes-Seale, 92, Guyanese-born Barbadian broadcaster and singer. Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud, 37, Egyptian journalist, shot. Lena Nyman, 66, Swedish actress (I Am Curious (Yellow), I Am Curious (Blue), Autumn Sonata), cancer. Vasile Paraschiv, 82, Romanian political activist and dissident. Tura Satana, 72, American actress (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), heart failure. Earl Irvin West, 90, American church historian. Lee Winfield, 64, American basketball player (Seattle SuperSonics, Buffalo Braves), colon cancer.
5 Fanizani Akuda, 78, Zimbabwean sculptor. Omar Amiralay, 66, Syrian filmmaker, heart attack. Eugeniusz Czajka, 83, Polish Olympic field hockey player. Ruth H. Funk, 93, American LDS Church youth leader (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). John Paul Getty III, 54, American heir and kidnapping victim, grandson of J. Paul Getty and father of Balthazar Getty, after long illness. Miriam Hansen, 61, American cinema scholar and professor (University of Chicago), cancer. Brian Jacques, 71, British fantasy author (Redwall), heart attack. Adjie Massaid, 43, Indonesian actor, under-23 national football team manager and politician, heart attack. Hiroko Nagata, 65, Japanese radical and murderer, vice-chairman of United Red Army. Donald Peterman, 79, American cinematographer (Flashdance, Men in Black, Cocoon), complications from myelodysplastic syndrome. Pertti Purhonen, 68, Finnish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1964) boxer, Alzheimer's disease. Martin Quigley Jr., 93, American publisher, spy and author. Peggy Rea, 89, American character actress (Grace Under Fire, The Dukes of Hazzard, Step by Step, The Waltons), heart failure. Charles E. Silberman, 86, American journalist and author (Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice), heart attack. Pavel Vondruška, 85, Czech conductor and actor, accidental fall. Albert Yator, 17, Kenyan long-distance runner, world junior steeplechase medallist, bronchopneumonia.
6 Andrée Chedid, 90, Egyptian-born French poet and novelist. Isabelle Corey, 71, French film actress, cancer. Billy Gallier, 78, British footballer (Tamworth) and manager. Josefa Iloilo, 90, Fijian politician, President (2000–2006; 2007–2009). Gary Moore, 58, Irish rock guitarist and singer (Thin Lizzy), heart attack. William Morais, 19, Brazilian footballer (América-MG), shot. John Nisby, 74, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington Redskins), pneumonia. Ken Olsen, 84, American engineer, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation. Aurel Smith, 95, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. James Watson, 59, British trumpeter, heart attack.
7 Maria Altmann, 94, Austrian-born American art heiress, after long illness. Jerry Ames, 80, American tapdancer and choreographer. Peter Feteris, 58, Dutch footballer. Hysen Hakani, 78, Albanian screenwriter and director, directed first Albanian short film. Bobby Kuntz, 79, American CFL player (Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger-Cats), Parkinson's disease. Eric Parsons, 87, British footballer. Ralph Pöhland, 64, German Olympic skier.Ralph Pöhland Bio, Stats, and Results Frank Roberts, 65, Australian boxer, first Australian Aboriginal Olympian (1964), heart attack.
8 Nick Arundel, 83, American journalist and publisher, pulmonary failure. Roza Baglanova, 89, Kazakh singer, People's Artist of the USSR. Luiz Bueno, 74, Brazilian race car driver, cancer. Elaine Crowley, 83, Irish author. Cliff Dapper, 91, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Bradley C. Livezey, 56, American ornithologist, car accident. Tony Malinosky, 101, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Marie-Rose Morel, 38, Belgian politician, cancer. Jorma Ojaharju, 72, Finnish author. Charles O. Perry, 81, American sculptor, stomach cancer. Angelo Reyes, 65, Filipino general and politician, suicide by gunshot. Cesare Rubini, 87, Italian basketball player and coach, water polo player. Donald S. Sanford, 92, American film and television writer (Midway). Marvin Sease, 64, American blues singer, pneumonia. Ferbent Shehu, 78, Albanian dancer and choreographer, heart attack. Eugenio Toussaint, 56, Mexican composer and jazz musician, heart attack.
9 Olga de Angulo, 55, Colombian Olympic swimmer. Miltiadis Evert, 71, Greek politician and minister, Mayor of Athens (1987–1989) and President of New Democracy (1993–1997). Leroy R. Hassell Sr., 55, American jurist, Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court (since 1989) and Chief Justice (2003–2011). David Sánchez Juliao, 65, Colombian author.Murió símbolo de la literatura colombiana Jimmy Lemi Milla, 62, Southern Sudanese politician, shot. Alicia Pietri, 87, Venezuelan First Lady (1969–1974; 1994–1999), widow of President Rafael Caldera.
10 Trevor Bailey, 87, British Test cricketer and BBC radio broadcaster (Test Match Special), house fire. Emory Bellard, 83, American college football coach (Texas A&M University, Mississippi State University), creator of wishbone offense, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Doug Davis, 66, American football player (Minnesota Vikings). Claus Helmut Drese, 88, German theatre and opera administrator. Saad el-Shazly, 88, Egyptian military leader. Michael Harsgor, 86, Israeli historian. Bill Justice, 97, American animator (Peter Pan, Bambi, Alice in Wonderland). Blanche Honegger Moyse, 101, American conductor. Oleg Lavrentiev, 84, Russian nuclear physicist. Jon Petrovich, 63, American journalist, executive at CNN, cancer. Sam Plank, 62, British radio broadcaster, cancer. Fred Speck, 63, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings). Lynne Walker, 54, British music and theatre critic, cancer. Józef Życiński, 62, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Lublin (since 1997), myocardial infarction.
11 Nubia Barahona, 10, American child abuse victim, beaten. Reynaldo de Barros, 79, Brazilian politician, mayor of São Paulo (1979–1982).Copied archive of news of death Bad News Brown, 33, Canadian rapper and harmonica player, beaten and shot. Sir Arthur Bryan, 87, British businessman. Tom Carnegie, 91, American sports announcer (Indianapolis Motor Speedway). Bo Carpelan, 84, Finnish poet and author. John Clay, 86, English cricketer. Steve Dacri, 58, American magician, cancer. Joe R. Greenhill, 96, American attorney, Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court (1972–1982). Roy Gussow, 92, American sculptor (Infinity), heart attack. Gerry Huth, 77, American football player (New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings). Christian J. Lambertsen, 93, American diving engineer, inventor of first SCUBA device, renal failure. Earle Morris Jr., 82, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina (1971–1975). Josef Pirrung, 61, German footballer, cancer. Chuck Tanner, 82, American baseball manager (Chicago White Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates) and player (Los Angeles Dodgers), after long illness.
12 Peter Alexander, 84, Austrian actor and singer. Kevin Barry Sr., 74, New Zealand boxing coach, after long illness. Gino Cimoli, 81, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates), heart and kidney complications. Mato Damjanović, 83, Croatian chess grandmaster. Hal Dean, 89, American football player (Los Angeles Rams).Hal Stone Dean Ernesto De Pascale, 52, Italian music promoter, producer and critic. Mark C. Ebersole, 89, American educator. James Elliott, 82, British-born Australian actor (Number 96), Lewy body dementia. Betty Garrett, 91, American actress, singer and dancer (On the Town, All in the Family, Laverne & Shirley), aortic aneurysm. Fedor den Hertog, 64, Dutch cyclist and Olympic medallist, prostate cancer. Andrzej Kłopotowski, 75, Polish Olympic swimmer. Konstantinos Kosmopoulos, 83, Greek politician, Mayor of Thessaloniki (1989–1999). Kenneth Mars, 75, American actor (Young Frankenstein, The Producers, The Little Mermaid), pancreatic cancer. John Monson, 11th Baron Monson, 78, British aristocrat and politician, head injuries following a fall. Kyllikki Naukkarinen, 85, Finnish Olympic hurdler Saleh Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi, 90, Saudi Arabian businessman, founder of Al-Rajhi Bank, heart attack. Joanne Siegel, 93, American widow of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, reported model for the character of Lois Lane. Vipindas, 72, Indian cinematographer and director, short illness. Frank Whitten, 68, New Zealand actor (Outrageous Fortune), cancer.
13 Arnfinn Bergmann, 82, Norwegian ski jumper and Olympic champion, after brief illness. Bustanil Arifin, 85, Indonesian politician. Manuel Esperón, 99, Mexican composer and actor. Louis Grisius, 74, Luxembourgish Olympic cyclist. Oakley Hall III, 60, American playwright, heart attack. Dona Hardy, 98, American actress (The Truman Show, When Harry Met Sally..., Superbad). Inese Jaunzeme, 78, Latvian javelin thrower and Olympic gold medalist (1956 Melbourne).