Famous People Who Died In 2011
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 2011. This list includes people like Steve Jobs, Elizabeth Taylor, Muammar Gaddafi, Kim Jong-il, Randy Savage and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, artists, physicists and composers who died in 2011. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, India & Germany and many more countries.
Steve Jobs24 February 1955, American
Co-founder of Apple
Elizabeth Taylor27 February 1932, British, American
Muammar Gaddafi07 June 1942, Libyan
Randy Savage15 November 1952, American
Professional Wrestler
John Paul Getty III04 November 1956, American
Grandson of Jean Paul Getty
Christopher Hitchens13 April 1949, British, American
Author
Joe Frazier12 January 1944, American
Boxer
Kim Jong-il16 February 1941, North Korean
Former Supreme Leader of North Korea
Jimmy Savile31 October 1926, British
DJ, Television & Radio Personality
Harry Morgan10 April 1915, American
Actor
Sidney Lumet25 June 1924, American
Film Director
Jack Kevorkian26 May 1928, American
American pathologist
Svetlana Alliluyeva28 February 1926, Russian
Joseph Stalin's Daughter
Jane Russell21 June 1921, American
Actress
Sathya Sai Baba23 November 1926, Indian
Spiritual Guru
Diane Cilento05 October 1933, Australian
Actress
Cliff Robertson09 September 1923, American
Actor
Jack LaLanne26 September 1914, American
Fitness & Nutrition Expert
Jackie Cooper15 September 1922, American
Actor
Bhupen Hazarika08 September 1926, Indian
Musician, Singer, Poet, Filmmaker, Lyricist
Anne Francis16 September 1930, American
Actress
Jagjit Singh08 February 1941, Indian
Ghazal Singer
M. F. Husain17 September 1915, Indian
Painter
Wangari Maathai01 April 1940, Kenyan
Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Maria Altmann18 February 1916, Austrian, American
Art Collector
Nancy Wake30 August 1912, French, New Zealander, British
British Secret Agent During World War II
Har Gobind Khorana09 January 1922, American
Leonora Carrington06 April 1917, Mexican
Mexican Artist & Surrealist Painter
Bhimsen Joshi04 February 1922, Indian
Hindustani Classical Vocalist
Ken Russell03 July 1927, British
Film Director
Osama Bin Laden10 March 1957, Saudi Arabian
Terrorist
John Dye31 January 1963, American
Actor
Cy Twombly25 April 1928, American
Praemium Imperiale
Al Davis04 July 1929, American
American Football Coach & Executive
Margaret Field10 May 1922, American
Actress
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Andy Rooney14 January 1919, American
Lynn Margulis05 March 1938, American
Author
Lionel Rose21 June 1948, Australian
Boxer
Fe del Mundo27 November 1911, Filipino
Pediatrician
Amy Jade Winehouse14 September 1983, British
Singer-songwriter
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow19 July 1921, American
Medical Physicist
Baruj Benacerraf29 October 1920, Venezuelan
Immunologist
Baruch Samuel Blumberg28 July 1925, American
Physician, Geneticist
Michael Cacoyannis11 June 1921, Greek
Film Director
William Lipscomb09 December 1919, American
Chemist
Herbert A. Hauptman14 February 1917, American
Mathematician
Rudolf Mössbauer31 January 1929, German
Physicist
Simon van der Meer24 November 1925, Dutch
Physicist
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai24 December 1924, Nepalese
Former Prime Minister of Nepal
Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.27 August 1915, American
Physicist
Zyzz (Aziz Shavershian)24 March 1989, Australian, Thai, Russian
Body Builder, Internet Personality
Jonas Kubilius27 July 1921, Lithuanian
Mathematician
Amy Winehouse14 September 1983, British
Singer-songwriter, Guitarist, Jazz musician,
James Arness26 May 1923, American
actor, television actor, film actor
Peter Falk16 September 1927, American
Actor
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi05 January 1941, Indian
Cricketer
Andy WhitfieldBritish, Welsh
Model, Actor, Engineer
Jeff Conaway05 October 1950, American
Actor
Gary Moore04 April 1952, Irish, British
Guitarist
Seve Ballesteros09 April 1957, Spanish
Golfer, Architect
Gerry Rafferty16 April 1947, British
Singer-songwriter, Singer, Songwriter
Pete Postlethwaite07 February 1946, British
Actor
Heavy D24 May 1967, American
Actor, Musician, Rapper, Television actor, Record
Shammi Kapoor21 October 1931, Indian, British Indian Ocean Territory
Actor
Gil Scott-Heron01 April 1949, American
Singer, Writer, Composer, Poet, Pianist
Dennis Ritchie09 September 1941, American
Computer scientist, Programmer, Writer
Anwar al-Awlaki22 April 1971, American, Yemeni
Engineer
Otto von Habsburg20 November 1912, Austrian, German, Hungarian
Politician
Sargent Shriver09 November 1915, American
American Politician
Betty Ford08 April 1918, American
Former First Lady of the United States
Dan Wheldon22 June 1978, British
Motorcycle racer, Racecar driver
Salmaan Taseer31 May 1944, Pakistani
politician, businessperson, entrepreneur,
Lucian Freud08 December 1922, German, British
Painter, Illustrator, Printmaker
Gary Speed08 September 1969, British
Association football player, Association football
Michael Gough23 November 1916, Malaysian, British
Actor
Kara Kennedy27 February 1960, American
Television producer
Owsley Stanley19 January 1935, American
Chemist, Engineer, Audio engineer
Suze Rotolo20 November 1943, American
Author, Artist, Visual artist, Painter, Writer
Derek Boogaard23 June 1982, Canadian
ice hockey player
Kenneth Mars04 April 1935, American
Actor, Voice actor, Film actor, Television actor
Marco Simoncelli20 January 1987, Italian
Motorcycle racer
Mohamed Bouazizi29 March 1984, Tunisian
Street vendor
Surinder Kapoor23 December 1925, Indian
Film producer
Francesco Quinn22 March 1963, Italian, American
Actor, Television actor
John McAleese25 April 1949, British
Soldier
Henry Cooper03 May 1934, British
Boxer
Joe Simon11 October 1913, American
Cartoonist, Comics artist, Editor, Writer,
Dana Wynter08 June 1931, British, American
Television actor, Film actor, Actor
Frank Buckles01 February 1901, American
Military personnel
Linda Christian13 November 1923, Mexican
Actor, Film actor
Dolores Hope27 May 1909, American
Singer
Leon Botha04 June 1985, South African
Painter, Singer, Disc jockey
Jack Layton18 July 1950, Canadian
Politician, University teacher, Political
Helen Frankenthaler12 December 1928, American
Painter
Madame Nhu15 April 1924, Italian, Vietnamese
First Lady of South Vietnam
Donald Neilson01 August 1936, British
Robber, Kidnapper & Murderer