Deaths in 2011 facts for kids

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This article remembers some of the important people who passed away in 2011. These individuals were known for their work in many fields, like acting, music, sports, science, and politics. They left behind a legacy that continues to inspire people around the world.

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January

January 1 - Flemming Jørgensen, a Danish actor and musician, passed away at 63.
January 2 - Pete Postlethwaite, a British actor, died at 64 after an illness.
January 2 - Anne Francis, an American actress, passed away at 80.
January 2 - Richard Winters, a brave American paratrooper from World War II, died at 92.
January 4 - Salmaan Taseer, a Pakistani politician and Governor, died at 46.
January 4 - Gerry Rafferty, a Scottish singer-songwriter known for his music, passed away at 63.
January 4 - Dick King-Smith, a British writer famous for children's books like The Sheep-Pig (which became the movie Babe), died at 88.
January 6 - Gary Mason, a British boxer, died at 48 in an accident.
January 8 - John Roll, an American judge, passed away at 63.
January 9 - Peter Yates, a British movie director, died at 81.
January 10 - Margaret Whiting, an American singer, passed away at 86.
January 15 - Susannah York, a British actress, died at 72 after an illness.
January 18 - Sargent Shriver, an American politician who helped create programs like the Peace Corps, passed away at 95.
January 23 - Jack LaLanne, an American expert in physical fitness and nutrition, died at 96.
January 24 - Bernd Eichinger, a German movie producer and director, passed away at 61.
January 30 - John Barry, a British composer known for his movie scores, including James Bond films, died at 77.

February

February 3 - Maria Schneider, a French actress, passed away at 58 after an illness.
February 5 - Brian Jacques, a British writer known for his Redwall series, died at 71.
February 6 - Josefa Iloilo, the third President of Fiji, passed away at 90.
February 6 - Gary Moore, a Northern Irish musician, died at 58.
February 11 - Bad News Brown, a Canadian rapper, passed away at 33.
February 12 - Betty Garrett, an American actress, died at 91.
February 14 - George Shearing, a British-American jazz pianist, passed away at 91.
February 27 - Necmettin Erbakan, a former Prime Minister of Turkey, died at 84.
February 27 - Frank Buckles, the last living U.S. World War I veteran, passed away at 110 from natural causes.
February 28 - Jane Russell, an American actress, died at 89 after an illness.
February 28 - Annie Girardot, a French actress, passed away at 79 after an illness.

March

March 2 - Shahbaz Bhatti, a Pakistani politician, died at 42.
March 4 - Simon van der Meer, a Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize winner, passed away at 85.
March 5 - Alberto Granado, an Argentine-Cuban biochemist and writer, known for his travels with Che Guevara, died at 88.
March 8 - Mike Starr, the bassist for the band Alice in Chains, passed away at 44.
March 11 - Hugh Martin, an American songwriter who wrote "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," died at 96.
March 15 - Nate Dogg, an American musician, passed away at 41.
March 17 - Michael Gough, a British actor, died at 94.
March 18 - Warren Christopher, the 63rd United States Secretary of State, passed away at 85 after an illness.
March 19 - Knut, the world-famous polar bear from Berlin Zoo, died at 4.
March 23 - Elizabeth Taylor, a famous English-American actress, passed away at 79 after an illness.
March 26 - Geraldine Ferraro, an American lawyer and politician, who was a Vice Presidential candidate, died at 75.
March 26 - Diana Wynne Jones, a British writer of fantasy novels, passed away at 76 after an illness.
March 26 - Paul Baran, an American internet pioneer, died at 84 after an illness.
March 30 - Lyudmila Gurchenko, a Russian movie actress and singer, passed away at 75.

April

April 5 - Baruch Samuel Blumberg, an American physician and Nobel Prize winner, passed away at 85.
April 9 - Sidney Lumet, an American movie director, died at 86 after an illness.
April 14 - Walter Breuning, an American supercentenarian and the world's oldest man at the time, passed away at 114.
April 14 - William Lipscomb, an American Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, died at 91.
April 19 - Grete Waitz, a Norwegian marathon runner, passed away at 57 after an illness.
April 19 - Elisabeth Sladen, a British actress known for Doctor Who, died at 63 after an illness.
April 20 - Tim Hetherington, a British photojournalist and filmmaker, died at 40 in a conflict zone.
April 20 - Chris Hondros, an American photojournalist, died at 41 in a conflict zone.
April 23 - Norio Ogha, a Japanese businessman who helped develop the Compact Disc (CD), passed away at 81.
April 25 - Poly Styrene, a British musician, died at 53 after an illness.
April 26 - Phoebe Snow, an American singer-songwriter, passed away at 58 or 60.
April 30 - Ernesto Sabato, an Argentine writer and physicist, died at 99.

May

May 1 - Henry Cooper, a British heavyweight boxer, passed away at 76.
May 1 - Osama bin Laden, a leader of al-Qaeda, was killed at 54.
May 3 - Jackie Cooper, an American actor, passed away at 88 after an illness.
May 5 - Claude Choules, an Anglo-Australian World War I veteran and the last living combat veteran, died at 110.
May 7 - Seve Ballesteros, a Spanish golfer, passed away at 54 after an illness.
May 7 - Willard Boyle, a Canadian physicist and Nobel Prize winner, died at 86.
May 9 - Wouter Weylandt, a Belgian road bicycle racer, died at 26 in a race accident.
May 9 - Lidia Gueiler Tejada, a Bolivian politician and Bolivia's only female President, passed away at 89.
May 17 - Harmon Killebrew, an American baseball player, died at 74 after an illness.
May 19 - Garret FitzGerald, a former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland, passed away at 85 after a short illness.
May 20 - Randy Savage, an American professional wrestler, died at 58.
May 27 - Gil Scott-Heron, an American poet and musician, passed away at 62.
May 29 - Sergei Bagapsh, the President of Abkhazia, died at 62 after surgery complications.
May 30 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, an American physicist and Nobel Prize winner, passed away at 89.

June

June 3 - James Arness, an American actor, passed away at 88 from natural causes.
June 4 - Lawrence Eagleburger, an American diplomat and former Secretary of State, died at 80.
June 7 - Jorge Semprún, a Spanish writer and politician, passed away at 87.
June 9 - M. F. Husain, a renowned Indian artist, died at 95.
June 18 - Frederick Chiluba, the second President of Zambia, passed away at 68.
June 18 - Yelena Bonner, a Russian human rights activist, died at 88 after a long illness.
June 18 - Clarence Clemons, an American musician and actor, passed away at 69.
June 20 - Ryan Dunn, an American television personality and daredevil, died at 34 in a car accident.
June 23 - Peter Falk, an American actor famous for playing Columbo, passed away at 83.

July

July 2 - Itamar Franco, the 33rd President of Brazil, passed away at 81 after an illness.
July 3 - Anna Massey, a British actress, died at 73 after an illness.
July 8 - Betty Ford, a former First Lady of the United States and founder of the Betty Ford Center, passed away at 93.
July 20 - Lucian Freud, a German-born British painter, died at 88.
July 23 - Amy Winehouse, a talented English singer-songwriter, passed away at 27.
July 28 - Abdul Fatah Younis, a Libyan rebel leader, died at 67.
July 30 - Mario Echandi Jimenez, the 47th President of Costa Rica, passed away at 96.

August

August 2 - Baruj Benacerraf, a Venezuelan-born American immunologist and Nobel Prize winner, passed away at 90.
August 3 - Bubba Smith, an American football player and actor, died at 66.
August 7 - Nancy Wake, an Australian spy in World War II known as the "White Mouse," passed away at 98.
August 14 - Shammi Kapoor, an Indian movie actor and director, died at 79 after an illness.
August 22 - Jack Layton, a Canadian politician and leader of the NDP, passed away at 61 after an illness.
August 22 - Loriot, a German humorist, died at 87 from age-related causes.
August 29 - David Honeyboy Edwards, an American blues musician, passed away at 96.

September

September 5 - Salvatore Licitra, an Italian tenor, died at 43 from injuries in a motorcycle crash.
September 7 - Many ice hockey players and coaches were among the 44 people killed in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash. These included:
- Pavol Demitra, a Slovakian player.
- Stefan Liv, a Swedish player who won Olympic gold.
- Jan Marek, a Czech player.
- Brad McCrimmon, a Canadian coach.
- Ruslan Salei, a Belarusian player.
- Josef Vašíček, a Czech player who won the Stanley Cup.
September 10 - Cliff Robertson, an American actor, passed away at 88 from natural causes.
September 11 - Andy Whitfield, a Welsh actor, died at 39 after an illness.
September 14 - Rudolf Moessbauer, a German physicist and Nobel Prize winner, passed away at 82.
September 25 - Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmental and political activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, died at 71 after an illness.
September 30 - Ralph M. Steinman, a Canadian immunologist and Nobel Prize winner, passed away at 68 after an illness.

October

October 5 - Bert Jansch, a Scottish folk guitarist and singer-songwriter, passed away at 67 after an illness.
October 5 - Steve Jobs, an American businessman and co-founder of Apple Inc., died at 56 after an illness.
October 6 - Diane Cilento, an Australian actress, passed away at 78 after an illness.
October 12 - Dennis Ritchie, an American computer scientist who helped create the C programming language, died at 70.
October 16 - Dan Wheldon, a British auto racer, died at 33 in a racing accident.
October 20 - Muammar al-Gaddafi, a Libyan military ruler, was killed at 69.
October 23 - Marco Simoncelli, an Italian motorcycle racer, died at 24 in a race crash.
October 23 - Herbert A. Hauptman, an American mathematician and Nobel Prize winner, passed away at 94.
October 23 - John McCarthy, an American computer scientist who helped create the field of artificial intelligence, died at 84.
October 29 - Jimmy Savile, a British television presenter and charity fundraiser, passed away at 84.

November

November 4 - Alfonso Cano, a Colombian guerrilla leader, died at 63 during a military operation.
November 4 - Andy Rooney, an American journalist, passed away at 92.
November 7 - Joe Frazier, an American heavyweight boxing champion, died at 67 after an illness.
November 8 - Valentin Kozmich Ivanov, a Russian footballer, passed away at 76 after an illness.
November 8 - Heavy D, a Jamaican-American rapper, died at 44.
November 9 - Har Gobind Khorana, an Indian-born American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner, passed away at 89.
November 21 - Anne McCaffrey, an American science fiction and fantasy writer, died at 85.
November 22 - Danielle Mitterrand, a French activist and former First Lady of France, passed away at 87.
November 22 - Svetlana Alliluyeva, a Soviet-born American writer and daughter of Joseph Stalin, died at 85 after an illness.
November 27 - Gary Speed, a Welsh footballer and coach, passed away at 42.
November 27 - Ken Russell, a British movie director, died at 84.

December

December 1 - Christa Wolf, a German writer and novelist, passed away at 82 after a long illness.
December 4 - Dev Anand, an Indian movie actor, director, and producer, died at 88.
December 4 - Sócrates, a Brazilian footballer and physician, passed away at 57.
December 7 - Harry Morgan, an American actor, died at 96.
December 15 - Christopher Hitchens, a British-American writer, journalist, and critic, passed away at 62 after an illness.
December 17 - Kim Jong-il, the leader of North Korea, died at 69 or 70.
December 17 - Cesaria Evora, a Cape Verdean singer, passed away at 70.
December 18 - Václav Havel, a Czech playwright, statesman, and former President, died at 75 after a long illness.
December 24 - Johannes Heesters, a Dutch-born actor, singer, and entertainer, passed away at 108.
December 26 - Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., a Mexican movie and television actor, died at 71 after an illness.

Images for kids

Gerry Rafferty (1947-2011)
Sargent Shriver (1915-2011)
Bad News Brown (1977-2011)
Jane Russell (1921-2011)
Alberto Granado (1922-2011)
Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011)
Geraldine Ferraro (1935-2011)
Sidney Lumet (1924-2011)
Walter Breuning (1896-2011)
Jackie Cooper (1922-2011)
Garret FitzGerald (1926-2011)
Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011)
Jorge Semprún (1923-2011)
Peter Falk (1927-2011)
Betty Ford (1918-2011)
Amy Winehouse (1983-2011)
Loriot (1923-2011)
David Honeyboy Edwards (1915-2011)
Pavol Demitra (1974-2011)
Ruslan Salei (1974-2011)
Rudolf Moessbauer (1929-2011)
Wangari Maathai (1940-2011)
Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
Herbert A. Hauptman (1917-2011)
John McCarthy (1927-2011)
Valentin Kozmich Ivanov (1934-2011)
Danielle Mitterrand (1924-2011)
Vaclav Havel (1936-2011)
Kim Jong-il (1941-2011)
Johannes Heesters (1903-2011)

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