Deaths Date 2011 | History by KabAstro

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Jan 7 Derek Gardner, British Formula 1 car designer (b. 1931)
Jan 8 Hans Ulrich Engelmann, German composer (Ophelia), dies at 79
Jan 8 John Roll, United States Federal Judge (b.1947)
Jan 8 Thorbjørn Svenssen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1924)
Jan 8 Vang Pao, charismatic Laotian general who commanded a secret army of his mountain people in a long, losing campaign against Communist insurgents, dies at 81
Jan 9 Debbie Friedman, American singer-songwriter and arranger of Jewish religious music ("Mi Shebeirach"), dies of pneumonia at 59
Jan 9 Peter Yates, English film director (Breaking Away, Bullitt), dies at 81
Jan 10 Bosko Petrovic, Croatian jazz musician, founder of the Zagreb Jazz Quartet, dies at 75
Jan 10 Cookie Gilchrist, American football fullback (AFL All Star 1962-65; AFL MVP 1962; CFL All Star 1956-60), dies of chronic traumatic encephalopathy at 75
Jan 10 Liana Alexandra, Romanian pianist and composer, dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at 63
Jan 10 Margaret Whiting, American singer (It Might As Well Be Spring, Time After Time), dies at 86
Jan 11 David Nelson, American actor, director, and producer (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), dies at 74
Jan 12 Paul Picerni, American actor (The Untouchables), dies at 88
Jan 13 Ellen Stewart, American actress, director and founder of La Mama Theatre Group, dies at 91
Jan 14 Ben Wada, Japanese television producer (NHK), dies at 80

Jan 14 Trish Keenan, lead vocalist of English band Broadcast (b. 1968)
Jan 15 Nat Lofthouse, English Footballer (b. 1925)
Jan 17 Donald "Don" Kirshner, American rock & roll producer known as "The Man With the Golden Ear" (invented bubblegum music), dies at 76
Jan 18 Sargent Shriver, American politician and activist (Peace Corps), dies at 95
Jan 19 Ernest McCulloch, Canadian stem cell research pioneer, dies at 84
Jan 19 Wilfrid Sheed, British-American writer (Boys of Winter; Transatlantic Blues; The House That George Built), dies at 80
Jan 20 Bruce Gordon, American actor (The Untouchables), dies after long illness at 94
Jan 20 Reynolds Price, American writer (A Long and Happy Life; Kate Vaiden; Strengthened By a Pale Green Light), dies of complications after a heart attack at 77
Jan 21 Dennis Oppenheim, American conceptual artist (b.1938)
Jan 21 E. V. V. Satyanarayana, Indian Telugu Film Director, screenwriter and producer, dies at 54
Jan 23 Jack LaLanne, American fitness and nutritional expert, dies at 96
Jan 24 Bernd Eichinger, German film producer and director, dies at 61
Jan 24 Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian khayal (romance) and devotional (bhajan and abhangsad) singer, dies at 88
Jan 24 Peter Paul Zahl, German left-wing writer and printer (shot two police officers), dies at 66
Jan 26 Charlie Louvin [Loudermilk], American country singer-songwriter, and guitarist (Louvin Brothers - "The Only Way Out (Is to Walk Over Me)"), dies of cancer at 83

Jan 26 Gladys Horton, American pop singer (The Marvelettes- "Please Mr. Postman"; "Too Many Fish In The Sea"), dies at 65 [or 66]
Jan 29 Bruce Jackson, Australian audio engineer specializing in live concert mixing (Elvis Presley, 1973-77; Bruce Springsteen, 1978-88; Barbra Streisand, 1993-2007; Fleetwood Mac, 1997), dies as pilot in crash of private plane at 61
Jan 29 Emanuel Vardi, Israeli-American viola virtuoso and conductor (South Dakota Symphony 1978-82), dies at 95 [1]
Jan 29 Milton Babbitt, American mathematician, composer of serial and electronic music (Correspondences), and teacher (Princeton; Juilliard), dies at 94
Jan 30 John Barry [Prendergast], English film score composer (James Bond films; Born Free), dies at 77
Jan 31 Michael Tolan, American actor (Nurses, Senator), dies at 85
Feb 2 Defne Joy Foster, Turkish actress, presenter and VJ. (b. 1975)
Feb 2 Margaret John, Welsh actress (b. 1926)
Feb 3 Maria Schneider, French actress (Last Tango in Paris, Crime of Honor), dies at 58
Feb 3 Ron Piché, Quebec baseball player (Milwaukee Braves), dies at 75
Feb 4 Tura Satana, Japanese-American actress (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), dies at 72
Feb 4 Woodie Fryman, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1968, 76; Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers, Montreal Expos), dies at 70
Feb 5 Brian Jacques, English author, author of the Redwall series (b. 1939)
Feb 6 Gary Moore, Irish rock guitarist (Skid Row-Oh Pretty Woman), dies at 58
Feb 6 Kenneth H Olsen, American electrical engineer, and co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, dies at 84
Feb 8 Tony Malinosky, American baseball player (b. 1909)
Feb 10 Józef Życiński, Polish archbishop and philosopher, dies at 62
Feb 10 Trevor Bailey, English cricket all-rounder, writer and broadcaster (61 Tests, 1 x 100, 10 x 50, HS 134no, 132 wickets; BBC), dies in a fire in his retirement flat at 87
Feb 11 Chuck Tanner, American baseball manager (World Series 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates; Chicago WS, Oakland A's, Atlanta Braves), dies at 82

Feb 11 Tom Carnegie, American sports announcer (b. 1919)
Feb 12 Elizabeth "Betty" Garrett, American actress, comedian, singer and dancer (All in the Family), dies of an aortic aneurysm at 91
Feb 12 Gino Cimoli, American baseball player, dies at 81
Feb 12 Kenneth Mars, American actor (The Producers; What's Up, Doc?; Malcolm in the Middle), dies at 75
Feb 12 Mato Damjanović, Croatian chess grandmaster (b. 1927)
Feb 12 Peter Alexander [Ferdinand Maximilian Neumayer], Austrian actor and singer (Who Wants to Sleep?), dies at 84
Feb 13 (Thomas Patrick) "T. P." McKenna, Irish actor (Rivals; Holocaust), dies at 81
Feb 14 George Shearing, British-American blind jazz pianist (Lullaby of Birdland), dies at 91
Feb 15 Francois Nourissier, French journalist and writer (Un petit bourgeois; La crève), dies at 83
Feb 15 Joe Frazier, American baseball outfielder (Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Baltimore Orioles) and manager (NY Mets 1976–77), dies at 88
Feb 16 Alfred Burke, British actor (Public Eye, Backfire, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets), dies of a chest infection at 92
Feb 16 Justinas Marcinkevičius, Lithuanian poet and playwright (b. 1930)
Feb 16 Len Lesser, American actor (b. 1922)
Feb 17 Bill Monroe, American newscaster (NBC-TV, Congressional Report), dies at 90
Feb 17 Egbert van Paridon, Dutch actor and director (Flodder, The Assault), dies at 90
Feb 17 Steve Horn, American politician (Rep-R-California 1993-2003), dies at 79
Feb 18 Carlos Veerhoff, Argentine-born German composer, dies at 84
Feb 18 Marshall Stoneham, British physicist, dies at 70

Ollie Matson (1930-2011)

Feb 19 Pro/College Football Hall of Fame halfback (First-team All-Pro 1952, 54–59; Pro Bowl 1952, 54–58; NFL 1950s All Decade Team), dies of dementia at 80

Feb 20 Betty Hicks, American golfer, author (US Open runner-up 1948, 54), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 90
Feb 20 Terry Clements, American guitarist (Gordon Lightfoot), dies of complications from a stroke at 63
Feb 21 Bernard Nathanson, American abortionist turned pro-life activist (b. 1926)
Feb 22 Nicholas Courtney, British actor (Doctor Who, Incendiary), dies at 81
Feb 23 Jack Gottlieb, American composer, writer and editor, dies at 80
Feb 23 Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava, Indian founder of Sahaja Yoga, dies at 87
Feb 24 Anant Pai, Indian educationalist and creator of comics (b. 1929)
Feb 25 Rick Coonce, American rock drummer (Grass Roots), dies at 64
Feb 26 Arnošt Lustig, Czech writer (b. 1926)
Feb 26 Eugene Fodor, American classical violinist (1974 Tchaikovsky Award), dies from cirrhosis at 60
Feb 26 James A. McClure, American politician (R-Sen-Idaho), dies at 86

Duke Snider (1926-2011)

Feb 27 American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (8 x MLB All Star; World Series 1955, 59; Brooklyn / LA Dodgers), dies at 84

Feb 27 Eddie Kirkland, Jamaican-American blues guitarist, singer and harmonica player (Have Mercy On Me), dies in a car accident at 87
Feb 27 Frank Buckles, last surviving American World War I veteran (b. 1901)
Feb 28 Annie Girardot, French actress (Three Rooms in Manhattan, Gypsy, Jacko & Lise), dies at 79
Feb 28 Jane Russell, American actress and leading sex symbol in 1940s-50s (The Outlaw), dies at 89
Feb 28 Peter Gomes, Harvard University Chaplain (b. 1942)
Mar 1 John M. Lounge, American engineer and astronaut (STS 51-I, STS 26, STS 35), dies at 64
Mar 2 Čestmír Gregor, Czech composer, dies at 84
Mar 3 Aldo Clementi, Italian composer (Collage), and teacher (University of Bologna, 1971-92), dies at 85
Mar 3 Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress and comedienne (Siedem Kotów, Kabaret Starszych Panów), dies at 98
Mar 3 May Cutler, Canadian politician and publisher (b. 1923)
Mar 4 Alenush Terian, Iranian astronomer and physicist (b. 1920)
Mar 4 Arjun Singh, Indian politician (b. 1930)
Mar 4 Charles Jarrott, British film and television director (b. 1927)
Mar 4 Frank Chirkinian, American producer (b.c. 1926)
Mar 4 Johnny Preston, American pop singer (Running Bear), dies at 71
Mar 4 Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Indian politician and former Nepali Prime Minister (b. 1924)
Mar 4 Mikhail Simonov, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1920)
Mar 4 Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist who won the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carlo Rubbia, dies at 85
Mar 4 Vivienne Harris, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher (b.c. 1921)
Mar 8 Mike Starr (musician), American Musician (b. 1966)
Mar 9 David S. Broder, American journalist (Pulitzer 1973), dies at 81
Mar 9 Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer (youngest female Olympic Games medalist in an individual event [12] bronze 200m breaststroke 1936), dies at 86
Mar 10 Howard A. Roberts, American choral director (Leslie Uggams Show), dies at 86
Mar 11 Loleatta Holloway, American disco singer ("Love Sensation"), dies of heart failure at 64
Mar 12 Joe Morello, American jazz drummer (Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Blue Rondo à la Turk"), dies at 82
Mar 12 [Augustus] Owsley Stanley III, American audio engineer and LSD cook who worked with the Grateful Dead, dies in a car crash in Australia at 76

David Rumelhart (1942-2011)

Mar 13 American psychologist (backpropagation algorithm), dies of Pick's disease at 68

Mar 14 Ronnie Hammond, American rock singer (Atlanta Rhythm Section, 1972–83 & 1988–2001 - "So In To You"), dies of heart failure at 60
Mar 15 Marty Marion, American baseball shortstop and manager (MLB All-Star 1943–50; NL MVP 1944; St. Louis Cardinals), dies from a heart attack at 93
Mar 15 Melvin Sparks, American soul-jazz, hard bop, jazz-blues, and session guitarist (Lou Donaldson, Houston Person, Jimmy McGriff), dies from complications of diabetes at 64
Mar 15 Nate Dogg [Nathaniel Dwayne Hale], American rapper ("Regulate"), dies from heart failure related to multiple strokes at 41
Mar 15 Smiley Culture [David Victor Emmanuel], British reggae singer ("Police Officer"; "Cockney Translation"), dies from a self-inflicted stab wound at 48
Mar 16 Richard Wirthlin, American political strategist for Ronald Reagan, dies at 80
Mar 17 Ferlin Husky, American country singer (Born to Lose, Gone), dies at 85
Mar 17 Michael Gough, English actor (Hammer Horror Films, Search for the Nile), dies at 94
Mar 18 Jet Harris [Terence Harris], English rock bassist (Drifters), dies of cancer at 71
Mar 18 Warren M Christopher, 63rd United States Secretary of State (1993-97), dies at 85
Mar 19 Kym Bonython, Australian radio broadcaster, jazz musician, speedway promoter, dies at 90
Mar 20 Johnny Pearson, British pianist, arranger, orchestra leader, and composer (Cilla Black; Top of the Pops; Dusty Springfield), dies at 85
Mar 21 Gerd Klier, German footballer (b. 1944)
Mar 21 Ladislav Novák, Czech footballer (b. 1931)
Mar 21 Nikolai Adrianov, Soviet-Russian gymnast (Olympic-4 gold/2 silver/bronze-1976), dies at 58
Mar 21 Pinetop Perkins, Member of the Blues Hall of Fame (b. 1913)

Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011)

Mar 23 English-American actress (Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), businesswoman, humanitarian, and serial bride, dies of congestive heart failure at 79

Mar 23 Fred Titmus, English cricket all-rounder (53 Tests, 153 wickets, 10 x 50s; Middlesex), dies at 78
Mar 26 Diana Wynne Jones, British sci-fi author (Drowned Ammet; Witch Week), dies of lung cancer at 76

Geraldine Ferraro (1935-2011)

Mar 26 American politician (US Representative from New York (D), 1979-85), and the 1st female vice-presidential nominee (1984), dies of nulitiple myelomaat 75

Mar 26 Harry Coover, American chemist and inventor of Superglue, dies at 94 [1]
Mar 26 Paul Baran, internet pioneer who helped create the technical underpinnings of Arpanet, dies at 84
Mar 26 Roger Abbott, Canadian comedian (Air Farce Live) (b. 1946)
Mar 27 Farley Granger, American actor (Arnold, Rope, Deathmask), dies at 85
Mar 28 Lee Hoiby, American concert pianist composer (1957 Arts & Letters; Summer and Smoke), dies at 85
Mar 28 Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress (b. 1917)
Mar 29 Ângelo de Sousa, Portuguese painter and sculptor (b. 1938)
Mar 31 Mel McDaniel, American country singer ("Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On"), dies of lung cancer at 68
Apr 1 Lou Gorman, American baseball executive (general manager Seattle Mariners, Boston Red Sox), dies at 82
Apr 2 George E Mahlberg, American astronomer (Mt Palomar/Mt Wilson, California, 1974-78), movie actor, sound engineer, and DJ (Dr. Cosmo), dies at 56
Apr 2 Larry Finch, American college basketball coach (University of Memphis 1986-97), dies at 60
Apr 3 Calvin Russell [Kosler], American blues, roots, and rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dream Of The Dog), dies of liver cancer at 62
Apr 4 Bronisław Kazimierz Przybylski, Polish composer (Requiem, In Memory of the Children – Martyrs of the War) and educator, dies at 69
Apr 4 Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, filmmaker and political activist, assassinated at 52
Apr 4 Scott Columbus, American heavy metal drummer (Manowar, 1983–91 & 1994–2008), takes his own life at 54
Apr 5 Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American scientist, (1976 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine, for work on Hepatitis B), dies at 85
Apr 6 Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Pakistani Sindhi scholar (compiled first Sindhi-English dictionary), dies at 93 [1]
Apr 7 Duke of Grafton, 11th Duke of Grafton, British peer, dies at 92
Apr 7 Pierre Gauvreau, Canadian painter, television writer and producer, dies at 88
Apr 8 Hedda Sterne, Romanian born American artist, dies at 100
Apr 9 Daniel Catán, Mexican composer (Rappaccini's Daughter; Florencia en el Amazonas), dies at 62
Apr 9 Roger Nichols, American recording engineer, producer and inventor (Steely Dan; John Denver), dies of pancreatic cancer at 66

Sidney Lumet (1924-2011)

Apr 9 American film director (Group, Pawnbroker, Fail Safe), dies of lymphoma at 86

Apr 10 Homer Smith, American football coach (b. 1931)
Apr 10 Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer (b. 1964)
Apr 11 Billy Bang [William Walker], American free jazz violinist and composer, dies of lung cancer at 63
Apr 11 La Esterella [Ester Lambrechts], Flemish pop singer ("Oh Lieve Vrouwetoren"), dies at 91
Apr 11 Lacy Gibson, American Chicago-style blues guitarist, singer and songwriter ("Switchy Titchy"), dies of a heart attack at 74
Apr 12 Eddie Joost, American baseball shortstop (MLB All Star 1949, 52; World Series 1940 Cincinnati Reds; Philadelphia Athletics) and manager (Philadelphia A's), dies at 94
Apr 14 Trevor Bannister, British actor (Are You Being Served?), dies at 76
Apr 14 Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian (b. 1896)

William Lipscomb (1919-2011)

Apr 14 American chemist working in nuclear magnetic resonance, theoretical chemistry, boron chemistry, and biochemistry (Nobel 1976), dies at 91

Apr 15 Vittorio Arrigoni, Italian peace activist, dies at 36
Apr 16 Allan Blakeney, Canadian politician (10th Premier of Saskatchewan), dies at 85
Apr 16 Bijan, Iranian men's apparel designer (Bijan), dies of stroke at 71
Apr 16 Gerry Alexander, West Indian cricket wicket-keeper (25 Tests, top score 108, 90 dismissals), dies at 82
Apr 16 Harold Volkmer, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri, dies at 80
Apr 16 Paul Des Marais, American composer, dies at 90 [1]
Apr 16 William A. Rusher, American lawyer and columnist, dies at 87
Apr 17 AJ Perez, Filipino teen actor (b. 1993)
Apr 17 Eric Gross, Austrian-Australian pianist, composer (Na shledanou v Praze (Good-bye in Prague); Moonscape), conductor, and educator (University of Sydney, 1960-91), dies at 84
Apr 17 Everard Goodman, English real estate developer (Tops Estates), dies at 79
Apr 17 Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (Seduction, They Shoot Horses Don't They), dies at 70
Apr 17 Nikos Papazoglou, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
Apr 18 Mason Rudolph, American golfer (Ryder Cup 1971; PGA C'ship 1973 3rd), dies at 76
Apr 18 Olubayo Adefemi, Nigerian footballer, dies at 25
Apr 18 William Donald Schaefer, American politician (Gov-D-Md), dies at 89
Apr 19 Elisabeth Sladen, British actress (b. 1946)

Grete Waitz (1953-2011)

Apr 19 Norwegian long distance athlete (9 x NYC Marathon titles; World C'ship gold 1983; 5 x gold World Cross Country; WR x 4), dies of cancer at 57

Apr 19 Jaroslav Smolka, Czech composer (Metamorfosi), music director, dramaturge, pedagogue, and musicologist, dies at 78
Apr 20 Chris Hondros, American photographer (b. 1970)
Apr 20 Madelyn Pugh, American television writer (I Love Lucy), dies at 90
Apr 20 Tim Hetherington, British-American photojournalist (b. 1970)
Apr 20 Zoltán Sztáray, Hungarian writer, dies at 92
Apr 22 Moin Akhter, Pakistani actor, dies at 60
Apr 22 Wiel Coerver, Dutch soccer manager (developer of Coerver Method, football coaching technique), dies of pneumonia at 86
Apr 23 Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill, dies at 89