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A Chronology Of Those Who Died In 2011

A Chronology Of Those Who Died In 2011

Last updated on: December 31, 2011 at 5:01 am by

A Chronology Of Those Who Died In 2011 2011-12-31T05:01:45-07:00

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July 2

—Itamar Franco, 81, a former Brazilian president known as the leader who in the 1980s tamed inflation in Latin America’s largest country, in Sao Paulo. He had leukemia and pneumonia.

July 4

— Otto von Hapsburg, 98, the oldest son of Austria’s last emperor and longtime head of one of Europe’s most influential families, in Poecking, Germany. No cause of death was given.

— Serban Cantacuzino, 70, a Romanian prince and actor who starred in films, musicals and children’s serials, in Paris. No cause of death was given.

July 5

— Eric Twombly, 83, a celebrated American painter whose large-scale works featuring scribbles, graffiti and unusual materials fetched millions at auctions, in Rome. He had cancer.

July 7

— Manuel Galban, 80, an award-winning Cuban guitarist who rose to international fame as a member of the Buena Vista Social Club musical collective, in Havana of a heart attack.

July 8

— Betty Ford, 93, the former U.S. first lady whose triumph over drug and alcohol addiction became a beacon of hope for addicts and the inspiration for her Betty Ford Center, in Rancho Mirage, California. No cause of death was given.

— Billy Blanco, 87, a Brazilian composer at the heart of the Bossa Nova movement when it bloomed in the early 1960s, in Rio de Janeiro of complications from a stroke.

July 9

—Facudo Cabral, 74, one of Latin America’s most admired folk singers who was also a novelist, in Guatemala City, when carloads of gunmen ambushed his vehicle.

July 10

— Roland Petit, 87, acclaimed French choreographer whose creations dazzled stages from Paris to Hollywood and inspired dancers, writers and designers, in Geneva. No cause of death was given.

July 12

— Zdenek Sykora, 91, a Czech painter who was one of the first to use computers in his geometric paintings, in Louny, Czech Republic. No cause of death was given.

July 14

—Leo Kirch 84, a German media mogul whose television empire collapsed in a spectacular bankruptcy nearly a decade ago, in Munich. He had long suffered severe diabetes.

July 15

— Googie Withers, 94, a British actress and Hollywood golden age staple best known for her appearance in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes,” in Sydney, Australia. No cause of death was given.

July 17

— Juan Maria Bordaberry, 83, former president-turned dictator whose coup launched more than a decade of military rule in Uruguay, at home in Montevideo, where he was serving a sentence for efforts to eliminate leftist dissent in the 1970s. He had been suffering from breathing problems and other illnesses.

July 18

— Magnus Malan, 81, a former South African defense minister who was considered responsible for many of the country’s military operations against the anti-apartheid struggle, in Cape Town. No cause of death was given.

July 20

— Lucien Freud, 88, a towering and uncompromising figure in the art world for more than 50 years known for his intense realist portraits, particularly of nudes, in London after an undisclosed illness.

July 21

— Kazimierz Swiatek, 96, a cardinal and former leader of the Roman Catholic church in Belarus who survived a Soviet death sentence and nearly a decade in the gulag, in Pinsk. No cause of death was specified.

— Elliott Handler, a pioneering toy maker who with his wife, inventor of the Barbie doll, grew Mattel from a picture-framing business to the largest U.S. toy company, in Century City, California of heart failure.

July 22

— Pedro Meurice, 79, Roman Catholic archbishop emeritus of Santiago de Cuba and a critic of the Castro government, in Miami. No cause of death was given.

— Charles T. Mannett, 75, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and former U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic during the Clinton administration, in Richmond, Virginia, of complications from a stroke.

July 23

— Nguyen Cao Ky, 80, the flamboyant former air force general who ruled South Vietnam for two years during the Vietnam war, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he was being treated for respiratory complications.

— Amy Winehouse, 27, a dazzling, versatile singer blessed with a mind that produced bitterly honest lyrics who made headlines because of drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders and destructive relationships, in London of alcohol poisoning.

July 24

— John Shalikashvili, 75, a retired U.S. Army general who was the first foreign-born chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and counseled President Bill Clinton on the use of troops in Bosnia and other trouble spots, in Washington state of complications from a stroke.

— Virgilio Noe, 89, an Italian cardinal who once was in charge of the upkeep of St. Peter’s Basilica and was a former master of pontifical ceremonies, in Rome. No cause of death was given.

July 26

— Joe Arroyo, 56, a famed Colombian singer and composer of such salsa classics as “La Rebellion” and “Echo pa’lante,” in Barranquilla, Colombia after treatment in hospital for hypertension and fluid in his lungs.

July 27

— John Stott, 90, a minister who led a resurgence of evangelism in Britain and went on to become one of the most influential evangelical thinkers of the 20th century, in Lingfield, England. No cause of death was given, but his health had been deteriorating.

— Pietro Sambi, 73, an archbishop and papal ambassador to the United States who helped bring about a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and clerical sex abuse victims, in Baltimore of post-operative complications.

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