IN MEMORIAM 2011
Peter Hobbs, American actor, "The Man With Two Brains", TV's "The Secret Storm" 01/18/1918 – 01/02/2011
Miriam Seegar, American actress, 1928's "Valley of the Ghosts" 09/01/1907 – 01/02/2011
Margot Stevenson, American actress, radio's "The Shadow" 02/08/1912 – 01/02/2011
Richard Winters, American World War II army officer, Company "E" commander featured in "Band of Brothers" 01/21/1918 – 01/02/2011
William F. Walsh, American politician, New York representative (1973-1979) 07/11/1912 – 01/08/2011
Audrey Lawson-Johnston, American-born British Lusitania passenger, last survivor of the sinking 02/05/1915 – 01/11/2011
Marcel Trudel, Canadian historian 05/29/1917 – 01/11/2011
Clemar Bucci, Argentine racecar driver 09/04/1920 – 01/12/2011
Georgia Carroll, American model, actress, and singer 11/18/1919 – 01/14/2011
Marty Gold, American composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist 12/26/1915 – 01/14/2011
Milton Rogovin, American social documentary photographer 12/30/1909 – 01/18/2011
R. Sargent Shriver, American vice-presidential candidate and government official, Peace Corps founder 11/09/1915 – 01/18/2011
Edgar Tafel, American architect, apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright 03/04/1912 – 01/18/2011
Bruce Gordon, American actor, TV's "The Untouchables" 02/01/1916 – 01/20/2011
Barney F. Hajiro, American World War II Medal of Honor recipient 09/16/1916 – 01/21/2011
Jack LaLanne, American bodybuilder and fitness expert 09/26/1914 – 01/23/2011
Daniel Bell, American sociologist, "The End of Ideology" 05/10/1919 – 01/25/2011
Milton Babbitt, American composer of serial and electronic music 05/10/1916 – 01/29/2011
Eunice Sanborn, American supercentenarian, world's oldest validated person at time of death 07/20/1896 – 01/31/2011
Doc Williams, American country music performer 06/26/1914 – 01/31/2011
Josefa Iloilo, Fijian president (2000-2009) 12/29/1920 – 02/06/2011
Maria Altmann, Austrian-born American art heiress, successfully sued Austria for paintings stolen by the Nazis 02/18/1916 – 02/07/2011
Tony Malinosky, American baseball player 10/05/1909 – 02/08/2011
Bill Justice, American Disney animator 02/09/1914 – 02/10/2011
Tom Carnegie, American sports announcer, Indianapolis Motor Speedway (1946-2006) 09/26/1919 – 02/11/2011
Betty Garrett, American actress, "On the Town", TV's "All in the Family", "Laverne and Shirley" 05/23/1919 – 02/12/2011
George Shearing, British-born American jazz pianist 08/13/1919 – 02/14/2011
Alfred Burke, British actor, TV's "Public Eye" 02/28/1918 – 02/16/2011
Bill Monroe, American journalist and moderator, TV's "Meet the Press" (1975-1984) 07/17/1920 – 02/17/2011
Buddy Lewis, American baseball player 08/10/1916 – 02/18/2011
Russell W. Peterson, American environmentalist and politician, Delaware governor (1969-1973) 10/03/1916 – 02/21/2011
Frank Buckles, American World War I veteran 02/01/1901 – 02/27/2011
Ruby Muhammad, American religious figure, "Mother of the Nation of Islam" 03/20/1906 – 03/02/2011
Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress and cabaret performer 09/17/1912 – 03/03/2011
Agnes-Marie Grisebach, German writer 09/02/1913 – 03/06/2011
Eddie Snyder, American songwriter, "Strangers in the Night", "Spanish Eyes" 02/22/1919 – 03/10/2011
Hugh Martin, American songwriter, "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", "The Trolley Song" 08/11/1914 – 03/11/2011
Marty Marion, American baseball player, coach, and manager 12/01/1917 – 03/15/2011
Murray Warmath, American football coach, University of Minnesota (1954-1971) 12/26/1912 – 03/16/2011
Michael Gough, British actor, the "Batman" film series 11/23/1916 – 03/17/2011
Dorothy Young, American entertainer, assistant to magician Harry Houdini (1925-1926) 05/03/1907 – 03/20/2011
Pinetop Perkins, American blues musician 07/07/1913 – 03/21/2011
Harry Coover, American chemist and inventor, developed Super Glue 03/06/1917 – 03/26/2011
George Tooker, American magic realist painter 08/05/1920 – 03/27/2011
Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress 12/05/1917 – 03/28/2011
Hedda Sterne, Romanian-born American painter and printmaker 08/04/1910 – 04/08/2011
Orrin Tucker, American bandleader and composer 02/17/1911 – 04/09/2011
Sidney Harman, Canadian-born American stereo mogul, philanthropist, and magazine publisher, Newsweek 08/04/1918 – 04/12/2011
Eddie Joost, American baseball player and manager 06/05/1916 – 04/12/2011
Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian 09/21/1896 – 04/14/2011
William Lipscomb, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist 12/09/1919 – 04/14/2011
Sol Saks, American radio and television writer, creator of TV's "Bewitched" 12/13/1910 – 04/16/2011
Madelyn Pugh Davis, American screenwriter, TV's "I Love Lucy" 03/15/1921 – 04/20/2011
Harold Garfinkel, American sociologist, founder of ethnomethodology 10/29/1917 – 04/21/2011
Annalisa Ericson, Swedish actress, "Summer Interlude" 09/14/1913 – 04/22/2011
Denis Mahon, British art historian and collector 11/08/1910 – 04/24/2011
Gonzalo Rojas, Chilean poet 12/20/1917 – 04/25/2011
Emilio Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player 09/26/1905 – 04/30/2011
Evald Okas, Estonian painter 11/28/1915 – 04/30/2011
Ernesto Sábato, Argentine writer, "The Tunnel", "On Heroes and Tombs" 06/24/1911 – 04/30/2011
Claude Choules, British-born Australian World War I veteran (Served in British armed forces) 03/03/1901 – 05/05/2011
Arthur Laurents, American screenwriter, stage director, playwright, and librettist, "West Side Story" 07/14/1917 – 05/05/2011
Maurice Goldhaber, Austrian-born American physicist 04/18/1911 – 05/11/2011
Snooky Young, American jazz trumpeter 02/03/1919 – 05/11/2011
Bernard Greenhouse, American cellist 01/03/1916 – 05/13/2011
Joseph Wershba, American television producer, "See It Now", "60 Minutes" 08/19/1920 – 05/14/2011
Joseph Galibardy, Indian-born British Olympic gold medal-winning field hockey player 01/10/1915 – 05/17/2011
Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr., American politician, New Jersey representative (1953-1975) 01/17/1916 – 05/23/2011
Abdias do Nascimento, Brazilian civil rights leader, politician, writer, and actor 03/14/1914 – 05/23/2011
Leonora Carrington, British-born Mexican surrealist painter and writer 04/06/1917 – 05/25/2011
Paul J. Wiedorfer, American World War II Medal of Honor recipient 01/17/1921 – 05/25/2011
Bill Clements, American politician, Texas governor (1979-1983, 1987-1991) 04/17/1917 – 05/29/2011
Bill Roycroft, Australian Olympic gold medal-winning equestrian 03/17/1915 – 05/29/2011
Pauline Betz, American tennis player 08/06/1919 – 05/31/2011
Roc Hillman, American guitarist and songwriter, "Cumana", "My Devotion" 07/13/1910 – 05/31/2011
Hans Keilson, German-born Dutch psychoanalyst and novelist, "The Death of the Adversary" 12/12/1909 – 05/31/2011
Hugh Stewart, British film producer and editor, 1934's "The Man Who Knew Too Much" 12/14/1910 – 05/31/2011
Harry Bernstein, British-born American writer, "The Invisible Wall", "The Dream" 05/30/1910 – 06/03/2011
Pat Jackson, British television and film director, "Western Approaches" 03/26/1916 – 06/03/2011
Lilian Jackson Braun, American writer, "The Cat Who..." mystery series 06/20/1913 – 06/04/2011
M. F. Husain, Indian painter 09/17/1915 – 06/09/2011
Patrick Leigh Fermor, British travel writer 02/11/1915 – 06/10/2011
Gunnar Fischer, Swedish cinematographer, "The Seventh Seal", "Wild Strawberries" 11/18/1910 – 06/11/2011
John Hospers, American philosopher and 1972 Libertarian Party presidential candidate 06/09/1918 – 06/12/2011
Kathryn Tucker Windham, American writer and storyteller 06/02/1918 – 06/12/2011
Maria Gomes Valentim, Brazilian supercentenarian, world's oldest validated person at time of death 07/09/1896 – 06/21/2011
Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, French Egyptologist 11/17/1913 – 06/23/2011
Otto von Habsburg, Austro-Hungarian-born royal and politician 11/20/1912 – 07/04/2011
Jane Scott, American rock critic 05/03/1919 – 07/04/2011
John Sweet, American actor, "A Canterbury Tale" 02/08/1916 – 07/05/2011
Betty Ford, American First Lady (1974-1977) 04/08/1918 – 07/08/2011
Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, Spanish-born Mexican philosopher and writer 09/17/1915 – 07/08/2011
Sherwood Schwartz, American television producer, "Gilligan's Island", "The Brady Bunch" 11/14/1916 – 07/12/2011
Googie Withers, British actress, "The Lady Vanishes", "Night and the City" 03/12/1917 – 07/15/2011
Alex Steinweiss, American graphic designer, originated album cover art 03/24/1917 – 07/17/2011
Elliot Handler, American businessman, co-founded Mattel toy company 04/09/1916 – 07/21/2011
Bruce Sundlun, American politician, Rhode Island governor (1991-1995) 01/19/1920 – 07/21/2011
Kazimierz Świątek, Estonian-born Belarusian cardinal 10/21/1914 – 07/21/2011
G. D. Spradlin, American actor, "The Godfather Part II", "Apocalypse Now" 08/31/1920 – 07/24/2011
John Stott, British theologian and evangelist 04/27/1921 – 07/27/2011
Mario Echandi Jiménez, Costa Rican president (1958-1962) 06/17/1915 – 07/30/2011
Sam Norkin, American caricaturist and illustrator 01/10/1917 – 07/30/2011
Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born American Nobel Prize-winning pathologist and immunologist 10/29/1920 – 08/02/2011
Clarence E. Miller, American politician, Ohio representative (1967-1993) 11/01/1917 – 08/02/2011
Ingrid Luterkort, Swedish actress 06/28/1910 – 08/03/2011
Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician 11/27/1911 – 08/06/2011
Hugh Carey, American politician, New York representative (1961-1974) and governor (1975-1982) 04/11/1919 – 08/07/2011
Nancy Wake, New Zealand-born Australian World War II resistance fighter 08/30/1912 – 08/07/2011
Roberto Busa, Italian Jesuit scholar, pioneer in the field of humanities computing 11/28/1913 – 08/09/2011
Friedrich Schoenfelder, German actor 10/17/1916 – 08/14/2011
Sif Ruud, Swedish actress, "Wild Strawberries" 05/06/1916 – 08/15/2011
Gualtiero Jacopetti, Italian documentarian, "Mondo Cane" 09/04/1919 – 08/17/2011
Michel Mohrt, French writer and literary historian 04/28/1914 – 08/17/2011
Stetson Kennedy, American writer, folklorist, and human rights activist 10/05/1916 – 08/27/2011
N. F. Simpson, British playwright, "One Way Pendulum" 01/29/1919 – 08/27/2011
David "Honeyboy" Edwards, American blues guitarist and singer 06/28/1915 – 08/29/2011
Charles S. Dubin, American television director, "Omnibus", "M*A*S*H" 02/01/1919 – 09/05/2011
Vő Chí Công, Vietnamese president (1987-1992) 08/07/1912 – 09/08/2011
Wade Mainer, American country music singer and banjoist 04/21/1907 – 09/12/2011
Frances Bay, Canadian actress, "Happy Gilmore", TV's "Seinfeld" 01/01/1919 – 09/15/2011
Otakar Vávra, Czech film director, "The Virgins' Club", "Romance for Cornet" 02/28/1911 – 09/15/2011
Lucien Jerphagnon, French philosophy historian 09/07/1921 – 09/16/2011
Charles Percy, American politician, Illinois senator (1967-1985) 09/27/1919 – 09/17/2011
Kurt Sanderling, German conductor 09/19/1912 – 09/17/2011
Dolores Hope, American singer and philanthropist, widow of comedian Bob Hope 05/27/1909 – 09/19/2011
Oscar Handlin, American historian, "The Uprooted" 09/29/1915 – 09/20/2011
Paulette Dubost, French actress, "The Rules of the Game", "Viva Maria!" 10/08/1910 – 09/21/2011
Danny Litwhiler, American baseball player and coach 08/31/1916 – 09/23/2011
Wilson Greatbatch, American engineer and inventor, created implantable cardiac pacemaker 09/06/1919 – 09/27/2011
Johnny Wright, American country music performer 5/13/1914 – 09/27/2011
Pierre Dansereau, Canadian ecologist 10/05/1911 – 09/28/2011
Hella Haasse, Dutch writer, "In a Dark Wood Wandering" 02/02/1918 – 09/29/2011
Philip Hannan, American archbishop 05/20/1913 – 09/29/2011
Ralph Hodgin, American baseball player 02/10/1915 – 10/04/2011
Albert Rosellini, American politician, Washington governor (1957-1965) 01/21/1910 – 10/10/2011
Barbara Kent, Canadian-born American actress, 1926's "Flesh and the Devil" 12/16/1907 – 10/13/2011
Betty Driver, British singer and actress, TV's "Coronation Street" 05/20/1920 – 10/15/2011
Pete Rugolo, Italian-born American composer and arranger 12/25/1915 – 10/16/2011
Norman Corwin, American radio writer, director, and producer 05/03/1910 – 10/18/2011
Edmundo Ros, Trinidadian-born musician and bandleader 12/07/1910 – 10/21/2011
Herbert A. Hauptman, American Nobel Prize-winning mathematician 02/14/1917 – 10/23/2011
Perkins Bass, American politician, New Hampshire representative (1955-1963) 10/06/1912 – 10/25/2011
Alvin Schwartz, American comic book writer, "Batman", "Superman" 11/17/1916 – 10/28/2011
Axel Axgil, Danish gay rights activist 04/03/1915 – 10/29/2011
Sam Fink, American illustrator and calligrapher 05/27/1916 – 11/01/2011
Sickan Carlsson, Swedish actress 08/12/1915 – 11/02/2011
Sid Melton, American actor, TV's "Make Room for Daddy", "Green Acres" 05/23/1917 – 11/02/2011
Norman F. Ramsey, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist 08/27/1915 – 11/04/2011
Andy Rooney, American humorist and political commentator, TV's "60 Minutes" 01/14/1919 – 11/04/2011
Hal Kanter, American screenwriter and television producer, "Julia", "All in the Family" 12/18/1918 – 11/06/2011
Lisbeth Movin, Danish actress, "Day of Wrath", "Babette's Feast" 08/25/1917 – 11/07/2011
Benny McCoy, American baseball player 11/09/1915 – 11/09/2011
Nick Strincevich, American baseball player 03/01/1915 – 11/11/2011
Dulcie Gray, British actress, "They Were Sisters", TV's "Howard's Way" 11/20/1915 – 11/15/2011
Karl Slover, German-born American actor, munchkin from "The Wizard of Oz" 09/21/1918 – 11/15/2011
Ömer Lütfi Akad, Turkish film director, "Strike the Whore" 09/02/1916 – 11/19/2011
Russell Garcia, American composer, arranger, and trumpeter 04/12/1916 – 11/19/2011
Ruth Stone, American poet 06/08/1915 – 11/19/2011
Sena Jurinac, Yugoslavian-born Austrian opera singer 10/24/1921 – 11/22/2011
Walter Doniger, American screenwriter and television director, "Peyton Place" 07/01/1917 – 11/24/2011
Jeno Paulucci, American businessman, founded Jeno's Pizza Rolls and Chung King 07/07/1918 – 11/24/2011
Bill Tapia, American ukulelist 01/01/1908 – 12/02/2011
Harry Morgan, American actor, "The Ox-Bow Incident", TV's "Dragnet", "M*A*S*H" 04/10/1915 – 12/07/2011
Jacques Debary, French actor, TV's "Les Cinq Dernières Minutes" 11/25/1914 – 12/09/2011
Boris Chertok, Polish-born Russian rocket designer 03/01/1912 – 12/14/2011
Joe Simon, American comic book artist and writer, co-creator of "Captain America" 10/11/1913 – 12/14/2011
Dan Frazer, American actor, "Lilies of the Field", TV's "Kojak" 11/20/1921 – 12/16/2011
Werner Otto, German entrepreneur, founder of the Otto mail-order company 08/13/1909 – 12/21/2011
Johannes Heesters, Dutch-born Austrian actor and singer 12/05/1903 – 12/24/2011
Ted Beard, American baseball player 01/07/1921 – 12/30/2011
Ronald Searle, British cartoonist, "St. Trinian's School" 03/03/1920 – 12/30/2011
Eleanor Ross Taylor, American poet 06/30/1920 – 12/30/2011
Eva Zeisel, Hungarian-born American ceramist and industrial designer 11/13/1906 – 12/30/2011
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