The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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. December 2011 1 Solomon Abera, 43, Eritrean journalist. Shingo Araki, 72, Japanese animation artist and character designer (Yu-Gi-Oh!, Galaxy Express 999). Eric Arnott, 82, British eye surgeon. Arthur Beetson, 66, Australian rugby league footballer, first Indigenous Australian to captain a national team in any sport, heart attack. Andrei Blaier, 78, Romanian film director and screenwriter, after long illness. Martina Davis-Correia, 44, American civil rights activist, breast cancer. Ragnhild Hveger, 90, Danish swimmer, Olympic silver medalist (1936). Ted Lapka, 91, American football player (Washington Redskins). François Lesage, 82, French embroidery designer. Bill McKinney, 80, American actor (Deliverance, The Outlaw Josey Wales, First Blood), esophageal cancer. Mr. Ebbo, 37, Tanzanian rapper, leukemia. Purificacion Quisumbing, 77, Filipino human rights advocate, Chairperson of Commission on Human Rights (2002–2008), multiple myeloma. Louis Silverstein, 92, American artist and graphic designer. Alan Sues, 85, American comic (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), heart attack. Hippolyte Van den Bosch, 85, Belgian football player. Christa Wolf, 82, German writer. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, 65, American psychoanalyst, biographer of Hannah Arendt, pulmonary embolism. 2 Robert Lawrence Balzer, 99, American wine journalist. Bruno Bianchi, 56, French cartoonist and animator (Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats), co-creator of Inspector Gadget. Laurent Fuahea, 84, Tongan-born Wallisian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Wallis et Futuna (1974–2005). Chiyono Hasegawa, 115, Japanese supercentenarian, nation's oldest person and world's second oldest living person. Pavle Jurina, 57, Croatian handball player and coach. Christopher Logue, 85, British poet. David Montgomery, 84, American historian, brain hemorrhage. Artur Quaresma, 94, Portuguese footballer. Patrick Sheridan, 89, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1990–2001). Bill Tapia, 103, American ukulelist. Howard Tate, 72, American soul singer. 3 Jalal Alamgir, 40, Bangladeshi academic, drowning. Dev Anand, 88, Indian actor, cardiac arrest. James A. Barclay, 88, Scottish Canadian engineer and executive, golfer, and golf historian, natural causes. Louky Bersianik, 81, Canadian novelist. Philip "Fatis" Burrell, 57, Jamaican record producer, stroke. Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer, 77, German writer. Sabri Godo, 82, Albanian politician, writer and scriptwriter, founder and president of the Republican Party of Albania, lung cancer. Karl-Axel Karlsson, 72, Swedish Olympic sport shooter (1972, 1976). Sam Loxton, 90,