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In the year 2011
1,038 Notable deaths
Frank Kameny
American activist.
Born May 21st, 1925 in New York City.
Died October 11th, 2011 at 86 years old in Washington, D.C. (cardiovascular disease). [ref]
John Wood
English actor.
Born July 5th, 1930 in Derbyshire. [ref]
Died August 6th, 2011 at 81 years old in Gloucestershire. [ref]
John Neville
English actor.
Died November 19th, 2011 at 86 years old in Toronto (Alzheimer's disease). [ref]
Elliot Handler
American businessman (1916-2011).
Born April 9th, 1916 in Chicago.
Died July 21st, 2011 at 95 years old in Los Angeles (heart failure). [ref]
Len Lesser
American actor and comedian (1922-2011).
Born December 3rd, 1922 in The Bronx.
Died February 16th, 2011 at 88 years old in Burbank (pneumonia). [ref]
Ilyas Kashmiri
Pakistani al-qaeda militant.
Born February 10th, 1964 in Azad Kashmir.
Died June 3rd, 2011 at 47 years old in North Waziristan (drone warfare). [ref]
Moin Akhter
Pakistani comedian (1950–2011).
Born December 24th, 1950 in Karachi.
Died April 22nd, 2011 at 60 years old in Karachi. [ref]
Sultan bin Abdulaziz
Crown prince of saudi arabia, second deputy prime minister, and the minister of defense (1926-2011).
Born January 5th, 1926 in Riyadh.
Died October 22nd, 2011 at 85 years old in New York City (colorectal cancer).
Duke Snider
Major league baseball outfielder (1926-2011).
Born September 19th, 1926 in Los Angeles.
Died February 27th, 2011 at 84 years old in Escondido. [ref]
Eleanor Mondale
American actress, infotainer and radio personality (1960-2011).
Born January 19th, 1960 in Minneapolis.
Died September 17th, 2011 at 51 years old in Prior Lake (brain cancer). [ref]
Yvette Vickers
Actress, singer and model (1928-2011).
Born August 26th, 1928 in Kansas City.
Died April 27th, 2011 at 82 years old in Benedict Canyon (arteriosclerosis). [ref]
Madame Nhu
First lady of south vietnam (1924-2011).
Born August 22nd, 1924 in Hanoi.
Died April 24th, 2011 at 86 years old in Rome. [ref]
Anne McCaffrey
American-irish novelist (1926–2011).
Born April 1st, 1926 in Cambridge.
Died November 21st, 2011 at 85 years old in Newcastle (stroke). [ref]
Fe del Mundo
Filipina pediatrician.
Born November 27th, 1911 in Intramuros.
Died August 6th, 2011 at 99 years old in Quezon City (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Bert Jansch
Scottish folk musician (1943–2011).
Born November 3rd, 1943 in Glasgow.
Died October 5th, 2011 at 67 years old in Hampstead (lung cancer). [ref]
Gunter Sachs
Photographer, author and industrialist (1932-2011).
Born November 14th, 1932 in Switzerland, Schonungen.
Died May 7th, 2011 at 78 years old in Gstaad (gunshot wound). [ref]
Laura Ziskin
American film and television producer (1950–2011).
Born March 3rd, 1950 in San Fernando Valley.
Died June 12th, 2011 at 61 years old in Santa Monica (breast cancer). [ref]
Sherwood Schwartz
American television writer and producer (1916–2011).
Born November 14th, 1916 in Passaic.
Died July 12th, 2011 at 94 years old in Los Angeles (infectious disease). [ref]
Edward Hardwicke
English actor (1932-2011).
Born August 7th, 1932 in London. [ref]
Died May 16th, 2011 at 78 years old in Chichester (cancer). [ref]
Rick Rypien
Canadian ice hockey player.
Born May 16th, 1984 in Blairmore.
Died August 15th, 2011 at 27 years old in Crowsnest Pass. [ref]
Patrick Leigh Fermor
British author, scholar and soldier (1915–2011).
Born February 11th, 1915 in London.
Died June 10th, 2011 at 96 years old in Dumbleton. [ref]
David Croft
English writer, producer and director (1922-2011).
Born September 7th, 1922 in Sandbanks.
Died September 27th, 2011 at 89 years old in Tavira. [ref]
Helen Frankenthaler
American painter (1928–2011).
Born December 12th, 1928 in Manhattan. [ref]
Died December 27th, 2011 at 83 years old in Darien. [ref]
Troy Davis
American convicted murderer (1968-2011).
Born October 9th, 1968 in Butts County.
Died September 21st, 2011 at 42 years old in Jackson (lethal injection).
Nusrat Bhutto
Iranian-born pakistani politician (1929-2011).
Born March 23rd, 1929 in Isfahan. [ref]
Died October 23rd, 2011 at 82 years old in Dubai (stroke). [ref]
Deaths 126 to 150 of 1038
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. Marcus Aurelius