Deaths in 2011
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The following is a list of notable deaths in 2011.
January
- January 1 - Flemming Jørgensen, 63, Danish actor and musician.[1]
- January 1 - Faizal Yusof, 32, Malaysian actor, heart failure.[2]
- January 2 - Pete Postlethwaite, 64, British actor, cancer.[3]
- January 2 - Anne Francis, 80, American actress, pancreatic cancer.[4]
- January 2 - Richard Winters, 92, American paratrooper.[5]
- January 4 - Salmaan Taseer, 46, Pakistani politician, Governor of the Punjab, shot.[6]
- January 4 - Gerry Rafferty, 63, Scottish singer-songwriter, liver failure.[7]
- January 4 - Mohamed Bouazizi, 26, Tunisian fruit seller and figure in the Arab world uprising, suicide by burning.
- January 4 - Dick King-Smith, 88, British writer.[8]
- January 6 - Gary Mason, 48, British, boxer, road accident.[9]
- January 8 - John Roll, 63, American judge, shot.[10]
- January 9 - Peter Yates, 81, British movie director.[11]
- January 10 - John Dye, 47, American actor.[12]
- January 10 - Margaret Whiting, 86, American singer.[13]
- January 13 - Charles Muscat, 48, Maltese footballer.[14]
- January 14 - Mississippi Winn, 113, American supercentenarian.[15]
- January 15 - Nat Lofthouse, 85, English footballer.[16]
- January 15 - Susannah York, 72, British actress, bone cancer.[17]
- January 16 - Steve Prestwich, 56, Australian musician, brain tumour.[18]
- January 17 - Don Kirshner, 76, American music producer, heart failure.[19]
- January 18 - Sargent Shriver, 95, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.[20]
- January 21 - Dennis Oppenheim, 72, American artist, liver cancer.[21]
- January 23 - Jack LaLanne, 96, American physical fitness and nutrition expert, respiratory failure from pneumonia.[22]
- January 24 - Bernd Eichinger, 61, German movie producer and director, heart attack.[23]
- January 24 - Bhimsen Joshi, 88, Indian musician.[24]
- January 27 - Charlie Callas, 83, American comedian, natural causes.[25]
- January 29 - Milton Babbitt, 94, American composer.
- January 30 - John Barry, 77, British composer, heart attack.[26]
- January 31 - Eunice Sanborn, 114, American, world's second-oldest person at the time of her death.[27]
February
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- February 3 - Édouard Glissant, 82, French writer.[28]
- February 3 - Maria Schneider, 58, French actress, cancer.[29]
- February 4 - Martial Célestin, 97, Haitian lawyer and diplomat, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti.[30]
- February 4 - Lena Nyman, 66, Swedish actress.[31]
- February 5 - Brian Jacques, 71, British writer, heart attack.[32]
- February 6 - Josefa Iloilo, 90, 3rd President of Fiji.[33]
- February 6 - Gary Moore, 58, Northern Irish musician.[34]
- February 8 - Cesare Rubini, 87, Italian water polo player, basketball player and coach.[35]
- February 11 - Bo Carpelan, 84, Finnish poet and writer.[36]
- February 11 - Bad News Brown, 33, Canadian rapper.[37]
- February 12 - Betty Garrett, 91, American actress, aortic aneurysm.[38]
- February 12 - Peter Alexander, 84, Austrian actor and singer.[39]
- February 13 - Inese Jaunzeme, 78, Latvian javelin thrower.[40]
- February 14 - George Shearing, 91, British-American jazz pianist.[41]
- February 17 - Perry Moore, 39, American writer and movie producer.[42]
- February 19 - Dietrich Stobbe, 72, German politician, former Mayor of Berlin.[43]
- February 19 - Ollie Matson, 80, American football player, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, respiratory failure.[44]
- February 23 - Nirmala Srivastava, 87, Indian spiritual leader, founder of Sahaja Yoga religious movement.[45]
- February 24 - Anant Pai, 81, Indian educator and comics creator, heart attack.[46]
- February 26 - Arnost Lustig, 84, Czech writer, cancer.[47]
- February 27 - Necmettin Erbakan, 84, former Prime Minister of Turkey.[48]
- February 27 - Frank Buckles, 110, American soldier, last living U.S. World War I veteran, natural causes.[49]
- February 28 - Jane Russell, 89, American actress, respiratory related illness.[50]
- February 28 - Annie Girardot, 79, French actress, Alzheimer's disease.[51]
March
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- March 2 - Shahbaz Bhatti, 42, Pakistani politician, shot.[52]
- March 2 - Thor Vilhjalmsson, 85, Icelandic writer.[53]
- March 3 - Allan Louisy, 94, former Prime Minister of Saint Lucia.[54]
- March 4 - Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 86, Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister, multiple organ failure.[55]
- March 4 - Simon van der Meer, 85, Dutch physicist, co-winner of 1984 Nobel Prize for Physics.[56]
- March 4 - Johnny Preston, 71, American singer, heart failure.[57]
- March 5 - Alberto Granado, 88, Argentine-Cuban biochemist, writer and travel companion of Che Guevara.[58]
- March 6 - Jan Popluhar, 75, Slovakian footballer.[59]
- March 8 - Mike Starr, 44, American bassist for the band Alice in Chains (body found on this date).[60]
- March 11 - Hugh Martin, 96, American songwriter ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") and movie composer (Meet Me in St. Louis), natural causes.[61]
- March 13 - Owsley Stanley, 76, American-Australian LSD producer, Grateful Dead sound engineer, automobile accident in Queensland, Australia.[62]
- March 15 - Nate Dogg, 41, American musician.[63]
- March 17 - Michael Gough, 94, British actor.[64]
- March 18 - Warren Christopher, 85, 63rd United States Secretary of State, complications from kidney and bladder cancer.[65]
- March 18 - Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Passy, 90, Monegasque princess.[66]
- March 18 - Jet Harris, 71, British musician (The Shadows), cancer.[67]
- March 19 - Knut, 4, world famous polar bear.[68]
- March 21 - Nikolai Andrianov, 58, Soviet gymnast, after long illness.[69]
- March 21 - Pinetop Perkins, 97, American blues musician.[70]
- March 23 - Elizabeth Taylor, 79, English-American actress, congestive heart failure.[71]
- March 26 - Geraldine Ferraro, 75, American lawyer, politician and Vice Presidential candidate.[72]
- March 26 - Diana Wynne Jones, 76, British writer, lung cancer.[73]
- March 26 - Paul Baran, 84, American internet pioneer, complications from lung cancer.[74]
- March 27 - Dorothea Puente, 82, American serial killer, natural causes.[75]
- March 27 - Farley Granger, 85, American actor, natural causes.[76]
- March 29 - Robert Tear, 72, Welsh tenor and conductor.[77]
- March 29 - Jose Alencar, 79, Brazilian Vice President.[78]
- March 30 - Lyudmila Gurchenko, 75, Russian movie actress and singer.[79]
April
- April 2 - Larry Finch, 60, American basketball player and coach.[80]
- April 5 - Ange-Felix Patasse, 74, former President of the Central African Republic.[81]
- April 5 - Baruch Samuel Blumberg, 85, American physician and Nobel Prize winner.[82]
- April 7 - Bruce Cowan, 85, Australian politician.[83]
- April 9 - Daniel Catán, 62, Mexican composer.[84]
- April 9 - Sidney Lumet, 86, American movie director and theatre director, lymphoma.[85]
- April 13 - Buster Martin, 97 or 104, French-British marathon runner.[86]
- April 14 - Walter Breuning, 114, American supercentenarian, world's oldest man.[87]
- April 14 - William Lipscomb, 91, American winner of 1976 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, pneumonia and complications from a fall.[88]
- April 15 - Vittorio Arrigoni, 36, Italian activist, murdered.[89]
- April 17 - Bhawani Singh, 79, Indian nobleman, titular Maharaja of Jaipur.[90]
- April 18 - Pietro Ferrero Jr., 47, Italian businessman, bicycle accident.[91]
- April 18 - William Donald Schaefer, 89, American politician and former Governor of Maryland.[92]
- April 19 - Grete Waitz, 57, Norwegian marathon runner, cancer.[93]
- April 19 - Elisabeth Sladen, 63, British actress, cancer.[94]
- April 20 - Tim Hetherington, 40, British photojournalist and moviemaker, mortar attack.[95]
- April 20 - Chris Hondros, 41, American photojournalist, mortar attack.[95]
- April 21 - Harold Garfinkel, 93, American sociologist.[96]
- April 23 - John Sullivan, 64, British television writer, viral pneumonia.[97]
- April 23 - Norio Ogha, 81, Japanese businessman, developer of the CD.[98]
- April 24 - Sathya Sai Baba, 84, Indian spiritual guru, multiple organ failure.[99]
- April 25 - Gonzalo Rojas, 93, Chilean poet.[100]
- April 25 - Poly Styrene, 53, British musician, breast cancer.[101]
- April 26 - Phoebe Snow, 58 or 60, American singer-songwriter, brain hemorrhage.[102][103]
- April 26 - Lynn Hauldren, 89, American pitchman, the Empire Man for Empire Today, natural causes.[104]
- April 27 - David Wilkerson, 79, American pastor, evangelist and author, car accident.[105]
- April 28 - Erhard Loretan, 52, Swiss mountain climber, climbing accident.[106]
- April 30 - Ernesto Sabato, 99, Argentine writer and physicist.[107]
May
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- May 1 - Henry Cooper, 76, British heavyweight boxer.[108]
- May 1 - Osama bin Laden, 54, al-Qaeda leader, killed by U.S. forces.[109][110]
- May 2 - Shigeo Yaegashi, 78, Japanese footballer.[111]
- May 3 - Jackie Cooper, 88, American actor, illness.[112]
- May 5 - Claude Choules, 110, Anglo-Australian World War I veteran, last living combat veteran.[113]
- May 7 - Seve Ballesteros, 54, Spanish golfer, brain cancer.[114]
- May 7 - Gunter Sachs, 78, German photographer and industrialist, suicide by gunshot.[115]
- May 7 - Willard Boyle, 86, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize winner.[116]
- May 8 - Cornell Dupree, 68, American Jazz and R&B guitarist.[117]
- May 9 - Wouter Weylandt, 26, Belgian road bicycle racer, race accident.[118]
- May 9 - Lidia Gueiler Tejada, 89, Bolivian politician, Bolivia's only female President.[119]
- May 13 - Derek Boogaard, 28, Canadian ice hockey player.[120]
- May 15 - Samuel Wanjiru, 24, Kenyan marathon runner, fall from balcony.[121]
- May 16 - Edward Hardwicke, 78, British actor.[122]
- May 17 - Harmon Killebrew, 74, American baseball player, esophageal cancer.[123]
- May 19 - Garret FitzGerald, 85, Irish Taoiseach, after short illness.[124]
- May 20 - Randy Savage, 58, American pro wrestler, heart attack and car accident.[125]
- May 21 - Bill Hunter, 71, Australian actor, liver cancer.[126]
- May 23 - Nasser Hejazi, 61, Iranian footballer, lung cancer.[127]
- May 23 - Xavier Tondo, 32, Spanish cyclist, crushed by a car.[128]
- May 25 - Leonora Carrington, 94, British-Mexican painter and novelist.[129]
- May 27 - Margo Dydek, 37, Polish basketball player, heart attack.[130]
- May 27 - Jeff Conaway, 60, American actor, overdose.[131]
- May 27 - Gil Scott-Heron, 62, American poet and rap musician.[132]
- May 29 - Sergei Bagapsh, 62, President of Abkhazia, complications after lung surgery.[133]
- May 29 - Ferenc Madl, 80, former President of Hungary.[134]
- May 29 - Bill Clements, 94, former Governor of Texas.[135]
- May 30 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, 89, American physicist, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[136]
- May 31 - Pauline Betz, 91, American tennis player.[137]
- May 31 - Andy Robustelli, 85, American football player and NFL Hall of fame member, complications of recent bladder surgery.[138]
- May 31 - Ezzatollah Sahabi, 81, Iranian politician, stroke.[139]
June
- June 1 - Haleh Sahabi, 54, Iranian humanitarian and activist, heart attack.[140]
- June 3 - Jack Kevorkian, 83, American physician and Assisted suicide activist.[141]
- June 3 - James Arness, 88, American actor, natural causes.[142]
- June 4 - Lawrence Eagleburger, 80, American diplomat and 62nd United States Secretary of State, pneumonia.[143]
- June 4 - Lilian Jackson Braun, 97, American writer, natural causes.[144]
- June 7 - Jorge Semprún, 87, Spanish writer and politician.[145]
- June 9 - M. F. Husain, 95, Indian artist, heart attack.[146]
- June 11 - Kurt Nielsen, 80, Danish tennis player.[147]
- June 11 - Seth Putnam, 43, American musician, heart attack.[148]
- June 11 - Eliyahu M. Goldratt, 64, Israeli physicist, after short illness.[149]
- June 14 - Peter Schamoni, 77, German movie director and producer.[150]
- June 18 - Frederick Chiluba, 68, second President of Zambia.[151]
- June 18 - Ulrich Biesinger, 77, German footballer.[152]
- June 18 - Yelena Bonner, 88, Russian Human rights activist, after long illness.[153]
- June 18 - Clarence Clemons, 69, American musician and actor, stroke.[154]
- June 20 - Ryan Dunn, 34, American television personality and daredevil, car accident.[155]
- June 21 - Maria Gomes Valentim, 114, Brazilian supercentenarian, world's oldest person.[156]
- June 23 - Gene Colan, 84, American comic book artist.[157]
- June 23 - Dennis Marshall, 25, Costa Rican footballer, car accident.[158]
- June 23 - Peter Falk, 83, American actor.[159]
- June 25 - Margaret Tyzack, 79, British actress, after short illness.[160]
- June 26 - Jan van Beveren, 63, Dutch footballer and coach.[161]
- June 27 - Elaine Stewart, 81, American actress, after long illness.[162]
- June 28 - Michael Wenning, 75, American minister, led Ronald Reagan's state funeral, leukemia and kidney failure.[163]
- June 30 - Georg Sterzinsky, 75, German cardinal.[164]
July
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- July 2 - Itamar Franco, 81, 33rd President of Brazil, complications from leukemia.[165]
- July 3 - Anna Massey, 73, British actress, cancer.[166]
- July 4 - Otto von Habsburg, 98, Austro-Hungarian nobleman, natural causes.[167]
- July 5 - Mika Myllyla, 41, Finnish cross-country skier.[168]
- July 5 - Cy Twombly, 83, American painter, cancer.[169]
- July 8 - Betty Ford, 93, former First Lady of the United States and founder of the Betty Ford Center.[170]
- July 9 - Michael Burston (Wurzel), 61, English musician (Motorhead).[171]
- July 10 - Roland Petit, 87, French choreographer.[172]
- July 11 - Tom Gehrels, 86, Dutch-American astronomer.[173]
- July 12 - Sherwood Schwartz, 94, American television producer.[174]
- July 17 - Juan Maria Bordaberry, 83, former President of Uruguay, after long illness.[175]
- July 17 - Takaji Mori, 67, Japanese footballer, renal pelvic cancer.[176]
- July 20 - Lucian Freud, 88, German-born British painter.[177]
- July 21 - Kazimierz Świątek, 96, former Catholic Cardinal of Belarus.[178]
- July 23 - Nguyen Cao Ky, 80, South Vietnamese air force chief and Prime Minister.[179]
- July 23 - Amy Winehouse, 27, English singer-songwriter, alcohol poisoning.[180]
- July 23 - John Shalikashvili, 75, American General, former Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.[181]
- July 23 - Robert Ettinger, 92, American academic.[182]
- July 24 - Virgilio Noe, 89, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.[183]
- July 24 - Dan Peek, 60, American singer.[184]
- July 25 - Mihalis Kakogiannis, 89, Cypriot movie director and producer.[185]
- July 25 - Jeret Peterson, 29, American freestyle skier and Olympic silver medal winner, self-inflicted gunshot.[186]
- July 26 - Margaret Olley, 88, Australian artist.[187]
- July 26 - Sakyo Komatsu, 80, Japanese science fiction writer.[188]
- July 27 - Agota Kristof, 75, Hungarian writer.[189]
- July 28 - Abdul Fatah Younis, 67, Libyan rebel leader and government official, shot.[190]
- July 30 - Millangoda Raja, 70, Sri Lankan elephant.[191]
- July 30 - Mario Echandi Jimenez, 96, 47th President of Costa Rica, pneumonia.[192]
- July 31 - Eliseo Alberto, 59, Cuban-Mexican writer, complications from kidney transplant.[193]
August
- August 2 - Baruj Benacerraf, 90, Venezuelan-born American immunologist and Nobel Prize winner.[194]
- August 3 - Nikolay Petrov, 68, Russian pianist, stroke.[195]
- August 3 - Bubba Smith, 66, American football player and actor.[196]
- August 4 - Naoki Matsuda, 34, Japanese footballer, suspected heart attack.[197]
- August 5 - Andrzej Lepper, 57, Polish politician, suicide by hanging.[198]
- August 7 - Hugh Carey, 92, former New York Governor.[199]
- August 7 - Harri Holkeri, 74, 57th Prime Minister of Finland, after long illness.[200]
- August 7 - Nancy Wake, 98, Australian spy in World War II, known as the "White Mouse".[201]
- August 11 - Jani Lane, 47, American musician (Warrant).[202]
- August 14 - Shammi Kapoor, 79, Indian movie actor and director, renal failure.[203]
- August 14 - Albert N. Brown, 105, American soldier, last survivor of the Bataan Death March, heart ailment.[204]
- August 15 - Russell Armstrong, 47, American attorney and venture capitalist.[205]
- August 15 - Rick Rypien, 27, Canadian ice hockey player.[206]
- August 16 - Andrej Bajuk, 67, Slovenian banker and politician.[207]
- August 17 - Pierre Quinon, 49, French pole vaulter, suicide.[208]
- August 19 - Raul Ruiz, 70, Chilean movie director, pulmonary infection.[209]
- August 19 - Gun Hägglund, 79, Swedish television journalist.[210]
- August 22 - Jack Layton, 61, Canadian politician, leader of the NDP, cancer.[211]
- August 22 - Jerry Leiber, 78, American songwriter.[212]
- August 22 - Vicco von Buelow (Loriot), 87, German humorist, age-related causes.[213]
- August 25 - Lazar Mojsov, 90, Macedonian politician.
- August 26 - Aloysius Ambrozic, 81, Slovenian-Canadian cardinal, former Archbishop of Toronto.[214]
- August 26 - George Band, 82, British mountaineer.[215]
- August 27 - Stetson Kennedy, 94, American writer and Civil rights activist.[216]
- August 29 - David Honeyboy Edwards, 96, American blues musician.[217]
- August 31 - Wade Belak, 35, Canadian ice hockey player.[218]
- August 31 - Valery Rozhdestvensky, 72, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut.[219]
September
- September 3 - Sandor Kepiro, 97, Hungarian military officer.[220]
- September 5 - Salvatore Licitra, 43, Italian tenor, from injuries in a motorcycle crash.[221]
- September 5 - Vann Nath, 65, Cambodian painter.[222]
- September 7 - Notable ice hockey players and coaches among the 44 killed in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash:[223]
- Vitali Anikeyenko, 24, Ukrainian
- Mikhail Balandin, 31, Russian
- Gennady Churilov, 24, Russian
- Pavol Demitra, 36, Slovakian
- Robert Dietrich, 25, German
- Marat Kalimulin, 23, Russian
- Alexander Kalyanin, 23, Russian
- Alexander Karpovtsev, 41, Russian coach, world champion (as player, 1993), Stanley Cup champion (as player, 1994, with New York Rangers)[224]
- Andrei Kiryukhin, 24, Russian
- Nikita Klyukin, 21, Russian, world U18 champion (2007)
- Igor Korolev, 41, Russian coach[225]
- Stefan Liv, 30, Swedish, Olympic gold medalist (2006), world champion (2006)[226]
- Jan Marek, 31, Czech
- Brad McCrimmon, 52, Canadian coach, Stanley Cup champion (as player, 1989, with Calgary Flames)[227]
- Sergei Ostapchuk, 21, Belarusian
- Karel Rachůnek, 32, Czech, world champion (2010)[228]
- Ruslan Salei, 36, Belarusian
- Maxim Shuvalov, 18, Russian
- Kārlis Skrastiņš, 37, Latvian[229]
- Pavel Snurnitsyn, 19, Russian
- Daniil Sobchenko, 20, Russian, world junior champion (2011)[230]
- Ivan Tkachenko, 31, Russian
- Pavel Trakhanov, 33, Russian
- Yuri Urychev, 20, Russian, world junior champion (2011)
- Josef Vašíček, 30, Czech, world junior champion (2000), world champion (2005), Stanley Cup champion (2006, with Carolina Hurricanes)[231]
- Alexander Vasyunov, 23, Russian
- Alexander Vyukhin, 38, Ukrainian
- Artem Yarchuk, 21, Russian
- September 8 - Vo Chi Cong, 99, former President of Vietnam.[232]
- September 10 - Cliff Robertson, 88, American actor, natural causes.[233]
- September 11 - Andy Whitfield, 39, Welsh actor, cancer.[234]
- September 12 - Alexander Galimov, 26, Russian ice hockey player, injuries from plane crash.[235]
- September 13 - Richard Hamilton, 89, British painter and collage artist.[236]
- September 13 - Walter Bonatti, 81, Italian mountaineer.[237]
- September 14 - Rudolf Moessbauer, 82, German physicist and Nobel Prize winner[238]
- September 17 - Kurt Sanderling, 98, German conductor.[239]
- September 19 - Dolores Hope, 102, American singer and philanthropist.[240]
- September 19 - George Cadle Price, 92, 1st Prime Minister of Belize.[241]
- September 20 - Burhanuddin Rabbani, 71, former President of Afghanistan, bomb attack.[242]
- September 21 - Paulette Dubost, 100, French actress.[243]
- September 22 - Aristides Pereira, 87, 1st President of Cape Verde.[244]
- September 22 - Knut Steen, 86, Norwegian sculptor.[245]
- September 25 - Theyab Awana, 21, Emirati footballer, traffic accident.[246]
- September 25 - Wangari Maathai, 71, Kenyan environmental and political activist (2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner), cancer.[247]
- September 27 - Imre Makovecz, 75, Hungarian architect.[248]
- September 29 - Tatyana Lioznova, 87, Russian movie director.[249]
- September 29 - Hella Haasse, 93, Dutch writer.[250]
- September 30 - Anwar al-Awlaki, 40, American-born Yemeni terrorist and Islamist militant, airstrike.[251]
- September 30 - Ralph M. Steinman, 68, Canadian immunologist (announced on October 3 as joint winner of the Nobel Prize), pancreatic cancer.[252]
October
- October 1 - Sven Tumba, 80, Swedish ice hockey player, golfer and footballer, prostate cancer.[253]
- October 1 - David Bedford, 74, English composer, lung cancer.[254]
- October 4 - Yelena Chernykh, 32, Russian theatre actress, car crash.[255]
- October 5 - Bert Jansch, 67, Scottish folk guitarist, singer and songwriter, cancer.[256]
- October 5 - Steve Jobs, 56, American businessman (Apple Inc.), pancreatic cancer.[257]
- October 5 - Charles Napier, 75, American actor.[258]
- October 6 - Diane Cilento, 78, Australian actress, cancer.[259]
- October 7 - Ramiz Alia, 85, Albanian politician and former President, lung complications.[260]
- October 10 - Jagjit Singh, 70, Indian musician, brain haemorrhage.[261]
- October 10 - Albert Rosellini, 101, American politician and former Governor of Washington, natural causes.[262]
- October 12 - Dennis Ritchie, 70, American computer scientist.[263]
- October 16 - Dan Wheldon, 33, British auto racer, racing accident.[264]
- October 17 - Manfred Gerlach, 83, German politician and last Chairman of the State Council of East Germany.[265]
- October 18 - Norman Corwin, 101, American radio writer, director and producer.[266]
- October 20 - Muammar al-Gaddafi, 69, Libyan military ruler, killed.[267]
- October 21 - Edmundo Ros, 100, Trinidadian bandleader.[268]
- October 22 - Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, 83, Saudi crown prince, after long illness.[269]
- October 22 - Robert Pierpoint, 86, American television journalist who covered six Presidents, complications of hip surgery.[270]
- October 23 - Nusrat Bhutto, 82, Iranian-born former First Lady of Pakistan.
- October 23 - Marco Simoncelli, 24, Italian motorcycle racer, race crash.[271]
- October 23 - Bronislovas Lubys, 73, Lithuanian entrepreneur and former Prime Minister, heart attack.[272]
- October 23 - Herbert A. Hauptman, 94, American mathematician, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[273]
- October 23 - John McCarthy, 84, American computer scientist, heart disease.[274]
- October 25 - Tom McNeeley, 74, American heavyweight boxer.[275]
- October 26 - Jona Senilagakali, 81, Fijian physician, diplomat and 7th Prime Minister of Fiji.[276]
- October 28 - Jiri Grusa, 72, Czech diplomat and writer.[277]
- October 29 - Jimmy Savile, 84, British television presenter and charity fundraiser.[278]
- October 31 - Florian Albert, 70, Hungarian footballer, heart attack.[279]
- October 31 - Alfred Hilbe, 83, 6th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein.
- October 31 - Ali Saibou, 71, 3rd President of Niger.[280]
November
December
- December 1 - Christa Wolf, 82, German writer and novelist, after long illness.[281]
- December 1 - Arthur Beetson, 66, Australian rugby league player and coach (Eastern Suburbs, Queensland, Australia), heart attack.[282]
- December 2 - Chiyono Hasegawa, 115, Japanese supercentenarian and second-oldest living person, natural causes.[283]
- December 2 - Bill Tapia, 103, American musician.[284]
- December 4 - Dev Anand, 88, Indian movie actor, director and producer, cardiac arrest.[285]
- December 4 - Sócrates, 57, Brazilian footballer and physician, septic shock.[286]
- December 4 - Matti Yrjana Joensuu, 63, Finnish crime fiction writer, after short illness.[287]
- December 5 - Darrell K. Sweet, 77, American artist.[288]
- December 5 - Violetta Villas, 73, Belgian-born Polish singer, songwriter, composer and actress.[289]
- December 6 - Barbara Orbison, 61, German-born American record producer and music publisher, widow of Roy Orbison, pancreatic cancer.[290]
- December 7 - Harry Morgan, 96, American actor, pneumonia.[291]
- December 7 - Jerry Robinson, 89, American comic book artist.[292]
- December 8 - Zelman Cowen, 92, 19th Governor-General of Australia.[293]
- December 11 - John Patrick Foley, 76, American Roman Catholic cardinal, leukemia and anemia.[294]
- December 12 - Malina Olinescu, 37, Romanian singer, suicide.[295]
- December 13 - Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, 69, German footballer.
- December 14 - Boris Chertok, 99, Soviet-Russian rocket scientist and engineer.[296]
- December 14 - George Whitman, 98, American bookstore proprietor, complications from a stroke.[297]
- December 14 - Joe Simon, 98, American comic book writer.[298]
- December 15 - Christopher Hitchens, 62, British-American writer, journalist and critic, complications from esophageal cancer.[299]
- December 16 - Bob Brookmeyer, 81, American jazz musician.[300]
- December 16 - Nicol Williamson, 75, British actor, esophageal cancer.
- December 17 - Kim Jong-il, 70, North Korean leader, heart attack.[301]
- December 17 - Cesaria Evora, 70, Cape Verdean singer, cardiorespiratory insufficiency and hypertension.[302]
- December 18 - Václav Havel, 75, Czech playwright, statesman and President of both Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, after long illness.[303]
- December 20 - Hana Andronikova, 44, Czech writer and playwright, cancer.[304]
- December 24 - Vitaly Tseshkovsky, 67, Russian chess player.[305]
- December 24 - Johannes Heesters, 108, Dutch-born actor, singer and entertainer.[306]
- December 26 - Sarekoppa Bangarappa, 79, Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Karnataka.[307]
- December 26 - Sam Rivers, 88, American jazz musician and composer.[308]
- December 26 - Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., 71, Mexican movie and television actor, son of Pedro Armendáriz, eye cancer.[309]
- December 27 - Helen Frankenthaler, 83, American painter, after long illness.[310]
- December 27 - Michael Dummett, 86, British philosopher.[311]
- December 27 - Clifford Darling, 89, former Governor-General of the Bahamas.[312]
- December 29 - Leopold Hawelka, 100, Austrian cafetier.[313]
- December 30 - Ricardo Legorreta, 80, Mexican architect.[314]
- December 30 - Ronald Searle, 91, British artist and cartoonist.
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