People Who Died in 2011
A-E
- 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
F-L
- 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
M-Q
- 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
R-Z
- 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
