Biographies: Deaths of 2011

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Deaths of 2011

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• Osama bin Laden, terrorist
• Hugh Leo Carey, former New York Governor
• Warren Christopher, U.S. government official
• Clarence Clemons, musician
• Al Davis, coach, business personality

• Peter Falk, actor
• Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Representative
• Betty Ford, U.S. First Lady
• Joe Frazier, boxer
• Lucian Freud, painter
• Muammar Gaddafi, political leader
• Otto von Hapsburg, Austrian archduke
• Václav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, playwright
• Mark O. Hatfield, U.S. Senator
• Tim Hetherington, photographer, filmmaker
• Christopher Hitchens, writer
• Brian Jacques, author
• Steve Jobs, Co-Founder of Apple computers
• Jack Kevorkian, medical pathologist, activist, convict
• Kim Jong-il, reclusive leader of North Korea
• Nguyen Cao Ky, former leader of South Vietnam
• Jack LaLanne, fitness guru, television show host
• Sidney Lumet, director

• Wangari Maathai, activist, political figure
• Harry Morgan, actor
• David Nelson, actor, director
• Charles Harting Percy, U.S. Senator
• Roland Petit, French dancer and choreographer
• Pete Postlethwaite, actor

• Norman Ramsey, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
• Cliff Robertson, actor
• Andy Rooney, TV personality, journalist
• Jane Russell, actress
• Sherwood Schwartz, TV producer, writer
• John M. Shalikashvili, first foreign-born soldier to become chariman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Robert Sargent Shriver, U.S. public official
• Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, civil rights activist, minister
• Duke Snider, professional baseball player
• Elizabeth Taylor, actress
• Grete Waitz, Norwegian runner
• Malcolm Wallop, U.S. Senator
• Lanford Wilson, playwright
• Amy Winehouse, singer, songwriter
• Rosalyn S. Yalow, Nobel Prize-winning medical physicist
• Susannah York, actress