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In the year 2011
1,003 Notable deaths
Phyllis Avery
American actress (1922–2011).
Born November 14th, 1922 in New York City.
Died May 19th, 2011 at 88 years old in Los Angeles (heart failure). [ref]
Alexander Galimov
Russian ice hockey player.
Born May 2nd, 1985 in Yaroslavl.
Died September 12th, 2011 at 26 years old in Moscow (aviation accident). [ref]
Willard Boyle
Canadian physicist and inventor.
Born August 19th, 1924 in Amherst.
Died May 7th, 2011 at 86 years old in Wallace (kidney disease). [ref]
Saad el-Shazly
Egyptian general (1922-2011).
Born April 1st, 1922 in Basyoun.
Died February 10th, 2011 at 88 years old in Cairo.
María Elena Walsh
Argentine author and composer.
Born February 1st, 1930 in Villa Sarmiento. [ref]
Died January 10th, 2011 at 80 years old in Buenos Aires (bone cancer). [ref]
David Kato
Ugandan lgbt activist (1964–2011).
Born February 15th, 1964 in Mukono District. [ref]
Died January 26th, 2011 at 46 years old in Mukono District (blunt trauma). [ref]
Bob Brookmeyer
American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer (1929–2011).
Born December 19th, 1929 in Kansas City.
Died December 16th, 2011 at 81 years old in New London (heart failure). [ref]
Gladys Horton
American singer.
Born May 30th, 1945 in Gainesville.
Died January 26th, 2011 at 65 years old in Sherman Oaks. [ref]
Yelena Bonner
Human rights activist in the former soviet union; wife of dissident andrei sakharov.
Born February 15th, 1923 in Mary.
Died June 18th, 2011 at 88 years old in Boston (heart failure). [ref]
Mohammed Ghani Hikmat
Sculptor (1929-2011).
Born April 20th, 1929 in Kadhimiya.
Died September 17th, 2011 at 82 years old in Amman. [ref]
Deaths 361 to 370 of 1003
It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks