Deaths in 2011
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- André Hodeir, 90, French author, jazz arranger and composer.
- Robert Lamoureux, 91, French comedian and film director.
- Sir Jimmy Savile, 84, British disc jockey, television presenter (Top of the Pops, Jim'll Fix It) and charity fundraiser.
- James Hillman, 85, Founder of archetypal psychology.
- Sue Lloyd, 72, British actress (The Ipcress File, The Stud, The Bitch).
- Roger Tallon, 82, French industrial designer.
- Heinz Bennent, 90, German actor.
- Freddie Gruber, 84, American jazz drummer.
- David Hess, 69, American actor, natural causes.
- Mikey Welsh, 40, American musician (Weezer).
- George Baker, 80, English actor (I, Claudius, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries), pneumonia following a stroke.
- Diane Cilento, 78, Australian actress.
- Charles Napier, 75, American actor (The Silence of the Lambs).
- Peter Przygodda, 69, German film editor, cancer.
- Bert Jansch, 67, Scottish folk guitarist, singer and songwriter, cancer.
- David Bedford, 74, British composer and musician.
- Marv Tarplin, 70, American guitarist and songwriter (The Miracles).
- Hella Haasse, 93, Dutch writer.
- Sylvia Robinson, 75, American singer, music producer and record label executive, heart failure.
- Leonard Dillon, 68, Jamaican musician (The Ethiopians), lung and prostate cancer.
- David Croft, 89, British television comedy writer and producer.
- Imre Makovecz, 75, Hungarian architect.
- David Zelag Goodman, 81, American screenwriter (Straw Dogs), progressive supranuclear palsy.
- Sergio Bonelli, 78, Italian comic book author and publisher.
- Jonathan Cecil, 72, English actor.
- John Du Cann, 65/66, British musician (Atomic Rooster), heart attack.
- Paulette Dubost, 100, French actress.
- Robert Whitaker, 71, British photographer.
- Frances Bay, 92, Canadian-born American character actress (Happy Gilmore, Blue Velvet, The Middle).
- Jordi Dauder, 73, Spanish actor.
- Richard Hamilton, 89, British artist.
- DJ Mehdi, 34, French musician.
- Andy Whitfield, 39, Welsh actor (Spartacus: Blood and Sand), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
- Cliff Robertson, 88, American actor (Charly, Spider-Man).
- Eddie Marshall, 73, American jazz drummer.
- Michael S. Hart, 64, American author, founder of Project Gutenberg.
- George Kuchar, 69, American film director.
- Janusz Morgenstern, 88, Polish filmmaker.
- Wardell Quezergue, 81, American music arranger, producer and bandleader, heart failure.
- Hugh Fox, 79, American poet and novelist.
- Rosel Zech, 69, German actress. (Veronika Voss, Aimée und Jaguar), cancer.
- Dan Sicko, 42, American music journalist, ocular melanoma.
- John Howard Davies, 72, English television producer and director (Fawlty Towers, The Good Life), former child actor (Oliver Twist), cancer.
- Samuel Menashe, 85, American poet, natural causes.
- Nick Ashford, 69, American R&B singer-songwriter (Ashford & Simpson), throat cancer.
- Jerry Leiber, 78, American songwriter ("Stand By Me", "Hound Dog", "Jailhouse Rock", "Kansas City"), cardiopulmonary failure.
- Jimmy Sangster, 83, British director and screenwriter (Hammer Films).
- Raúl Ruiz, 70, Chilean filmmaker, pulmonary infection.
- Gualtiero Jacopetti, 91, Italian documentary film director.
- Sif Ruud, 95, Swedish actress.
- John Wood, 81, English actor.
- Francesco Quinn, 48, Italian-born American actor (Platoon, The Young and the Restless), son of Anthony Quinn, apparent heart attack.
- Conrad Schnitzler, 74, German musician (Tangerine Dream, Kluster, Eruption, Berlin Express), stomach cancer.
- Gene McDaniels, 76, American singer-songwriter.
- Rei Harakami, 40, Japanese musician, cerebrovascular disease.
- Agota Kristof, 75, Hungarian-born French novelist.
- Jerome Liebling, 87, American photographer, filmmaker and academic (Hampshire College).
- Polly Platt, 72, American film producer (Say Anything...), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Jay Landesman and Fran Landesman
- Amy Winehouse, 27, British singer-songwriter ("Rehab").
- Lucian Freud, 88, German-born British painter
- Manuel Galbán, 80, Cuban guitarist, heart attack.
- Fonce Mizell, 68, American record producer (Mizell Brothers).
- Würzel, 61, English musician (Motörhead).
- Betty Ford, 93, American First Lady (1974–1977) and co-founder of addiction clinic.
- Cy Twombly, 83, American painter, cancer.
- Anna Massey, 73, British actress (Frenzy, Hotel du Lac).
- Len Sassaman, 31, American cryptographer, suicide.
- Jimmy Roselli, 85, American singer, heart complications.
- Simon Heere Heeresma, 79, Dutch writer.
- Peter Falk, 83, American actor (Columbo, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Princess Bride).
- Fred Steiner, 88, American television composer (Perry Mason, Star Trek, The Twilight Zone).
- David Rayfiel, 87, American screenwriter (Out of Africa, Three Days of the Condor), heart failure.
- Darryl Pandy, 48, American house vocalist ("Love Can't Turn Around"), after short illness.
- Gunnar Fischer, 100, Swedish cinematographer.
- Carl Gardner, 83, American singer (The Coasters).
- Kenny Hawkes, British DJ and music producer, after short illness.
- Jorge Semprún, 87, Spanish writer and politician.
- Martin Rushent, 63, English record producer (Buzzcocks, Human League, The Stranglers).
- Ray Bryant, 79, American jazz pianist, after long illness.
- James Arness, 88, American actor (Gunsmoke), natural causes.
- Jack Kevorkian, 83, American right to die activist, pulmonary thrombosis.
- Adolfas Mekas, 85, Lithuanian film director.
- Gil Scott-Heron, 62, American poet, musician and author.
- Leonora Carrington, 94, British-born Mexican painter and novelist.
- Dolores Fuller, 88, American actress (Glen or Glenda).
- John Walker, 67, American musician (The Walker Brothers), liver cancer.
- Dana Wynter, 79, American actress (Invasion of the Body Snatchers).
- Ira Cohen, 76, American poet.
- Poly Styrene, 53, British musician X-Ray Spex, breast cancer.
- Marie-France Pisier, 66, French actress (Trans-Europ-Express), drowning.
- Huey P. Meaux, 82, American record producer.
- Miroslav Tichý, 84, Czech photographer.
- Roger Nichols, 66, American sound engineer and record producer (Steely Dan), pancreatic cancer.
- Hedda Sterne, 100, Romanian-born American painter and printmaker.
- Sidney Lumet, 86, American film (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network) and theater director, lymphoma.
- Farley Granger, 85, American actor (Strangers on a Train), natural causes.
- Thomaz Farkas, 86, Hungarian-born Brazilian photographer, multiple organ failure.
- Lula Côrtes, 61, Brazilian musician (Paêbirú), throat cancer.
- Diana Wynne Jones, 77, British fantasy author, cancer.
- Elizabeth Taylor, 79, English-born American actress (Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), congestive heart failure.
- Loleatta Holloway, 64, American soul and disco musician.
- Melvin Sparks, 64, American jazz and soul guitarist, heart attack.
- Smiley Culture, 48, British reggae singer and DJ, apparent suicide by stabbing.
- Leo Steinberg, 90, American art historian.
- St. Clair Lee, 66, American musician (Hues Corporation).
- Walter Zacharius, 87, American publisher (Lancer Books, Kensington Books), cancer.
- Jane Russell, 89, American actress (The Outlaw, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), respiratory illness.
- Annie Girardot, 79, French actress, Alzheimer's disease.
- Kenneth Mars, 74, American actor (Young Frankenstein, The Producers), pancreatic cancer.
- David F. Friedman, 87, American film producer (Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS), heart failure.
- Marvin Sease, 64, American blues singer.
- Maria Altmann, 94, Austrian-born American art heiress, after long illness.
- Lena Nyman, 66, Swedish actress (I Am Curious (Yellow), I Am Curious (Blue), Autumn Sonata).
- Tura Satana, 72, American actress (Irma la Douce, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill), heart failure.
- Maria Schneider, 58, French actress (Last Tango in Paris), cancer.
- John Barry, 77, English film score composer, heart attack.
- Milton Babbitt, 94, American composer.
- Charlie Louvin, 83, American country music singer (The Louvin Brothers), pancreatic cancer.
- Daniel Bell, 91, American sociologist.
- Bernd Eichinger, 61, German film producer and director.
- Dennis Oppenheim, 72, American artist, liver cancer.
- F. A. Nettelbeck, 60, American poet.
- Susannah York, 72, English actress, cancer.
- Peter Yates, 82, British film director and producer (Bullitt, Breaking Away, Krull).
- Bobby Robinson, 93, American record producer.
- Jill Haworth, 65, English actress (Exodus, In Harm's Way, Cabaret, The Outer Limits), natural causes.
- Mick Karn, 52, Cypriot-born British musician (Japan).
- Gerry Rafferty, 63, Scottish singer-songwriter (Stealers Wheel).
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