Wikipedia:Requested articles/Deaths

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• Shigeru Araki, 63, Japanese actor (Kamen Rider Stronger) and drummer, pneumonia. (Japanese)
• Eiichi Shiga, 74, Japanese businessman, chairman of the Japan East Rugby Football Union, heart failure. (Japanese)
• Inge Bråten, 63, Norwegian cross-country skiing coach.
• Ryohei Komiyama, 95, Japanese businessman and editor, senility. (Japanese)
• Margarita Lilova, 76, Bulgarian-born Austrian opera singer.
• Gabriel ?epelea, 96, Romanian politician, MP (1990<96>2000), natural causes. (Romanian)
• Vladimir Ukhin, 81, Russian broadcaster. (Russian)
• René Berange, 72, French footballer. (French)
• David Holtzman, Canadian gay activist, heart attack.
• Karyn Kay, 63, American author and screenwriter, beaten.
• Isamu Miyazaki, 92, Japanese fighter pilot and midshipman (Imperial Japanese Navy). (Japanese)
• Ivan Oliger, 102, Russian zoologist and entomologist.
• Yoshikazu Shimizu, 58, Japanese journalist and editorial writer (Tokyo Shimbun), pancreatic cancer. (Japanese)
• Richie Teeter, 61, American drummer (The Dictators, Twisted Sister), esophageal cancer.
• Eiichi Uchiyama, 100, Japanese politician, mayor of Taito, Tokyo, senility. (Japanese)
• Jim Niven, Australian musician (The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, The Sports), cancer.
• Cleo Smith (producer), 93, American television producer (Here's Lucy). www.tvmediainsights.com/2012/04/remembering-cleo-smith/
• Mitsunori Tozawa, 79, Japanese archaeologist, Principal of Meiji University (1996<96>2000). (Japanese)
• Graciano Ravelo, 77, Venezuelan baseball player and coach (Tiburones de La Guaira), cancer. (Spanish)
• Steve Fredericks, 72, American sports journalist, pancreatic cancer.
• Kyuichi Hayashida, 90, Japanese politician, mayor of Minakuchi, Shiga, pneumonia. (Japanese)
• Kaku Mo-rin, 90, Taiwanese architect. (Japanese)
• Kofuku Kaminarimon, 77, Japanese rakugo storyteller, pharyngeal cancer. (Japanese)
• Yuichi Yamada, 81, Japanese teacher and professor, Principal of Meiji University (2000<96>2004). (Japanese)
• Toru Maeara, 88, Japanese teacher, Kikuchi Kan Prize winner, cerebral hemorrhage. (Japanese)
• Janet Roberts, 110, Scottish supercentenarian, oldest person in Scotland, granddaughter of William Grant.
• Hilde Sacré, 73, Belgian actress. (Dutch)
• Jose Wejebe, 54, Cuban-born American television and sports fishing personality, plane crash.
• Kunio Hiraki, 87, Japanese writer, kidney failure. (Japanese)
• Juan Carlos Figarella, Venezuelan state legislator, respiratory arrest.
• Hans Kreijns, 83, Dutch contract bridge champion. (Dutch)
• Claudia Boerner, 32, German fashion model, suicide. (German)
• Eduardo Luis Duhalde, 72, Argentine human rights activist, historian, and judge, aortic aneurysm. (Spanish)
• O'Brian Eselu. 56, American kumu hula and singer.
• Mária Kopp, 70, Hungarian physician, psychologist, and professor. (Hungarian)
• Christos Parlas, 76, Greek actor, pulmonary failure. (Greek)
• Masao Taki, 90, Japanese baseball player and coach, heart failure. (Japanese)
• Yonosuke Watanabe, 80, Japanese Noh performer. (Japanese)
• Chuichi Mukawa, 92, Japanese tanka poet (Waseda University), ischemic heart disease. (Japanese)