Deaths in 2011
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| *[[Peter Falk]], 83, American actor (''[[Columbo (TV series)|Columbo]]'', ''[[It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]'', ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]''). | *[[Peter Falk]], 83, American actor (''[[Columbo (TV series)|Columbo]]'', ''[[It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]'', ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]''). | ||
| *[[Fred Steiner]], 88, American television composer (''[[Perry Mason (TV series)|Perry Mason]], [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]], [[The Twilight Zone]]''). | *[[Fred Steiner]], 88, American television composer (''[[Perry Mason (TV series)|Perry Mason]], [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]], [[The Twilight Zone]]''). | ||
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- 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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