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People Who Died in the Year 2011
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January
Anne Francis
(actress) -- Dead. Pancreatic cancer. Died January 2, 2011.
Born September 16, 1930. Honey West and many more movies than you'd think, including the classic Forbidden Planet, and a guest spot on a Twilight Zone episode about a very dedicated shopper.
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Pete Postlethwaite
(actor) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Died January 2, 2011. Born February 7, 1946. Obediah in the Sharpe series, Danny in Brassed Off, Oscar-nominated for In the Name of the Father he appeared in Inception and The Town during the last year of his life.
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Dick King-Smith (writer/farmer) -- Dead. Died January 4, 2011. Born March 27, 1922. After many years of farming, wrote books like The Sheep-Pig (later made into Babe) and The Water Horse. IMDb Obituary
Jack Oliver (geophysicist) -- Dead. Died January 5, 2011. Born September 26, 1923. Proved the theory of continental drift. Obituary
Gerry Rafferty
(singer/songwriter) -- Dead. Liver failure/alcoholism. Died January 4, 2011. Born April 16, 1947.
Played in a group with Billy
Connolly before writing and performing '70s songs like "Stuck
in the Middle with You" and the very evocative "Baker Street"
("He's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands, and then
he'll settle down in some quiet little town and forget about
everything."), died same day as Dick King-Smith.
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John Roll
(federal judge) -- Dead. Murdered by terrorist. Died January 8, 2011. Born February 8, 1947.
Arizona federal judge who was "collateral damage" in the Representative Gabrielle Giffords assassination attempt (19 shot, 6 killed by a shooter with a legally-purchased semi-automatic weapon). Ironically ruled against background checks for gun buyers in 1994.
Christina Taylor Green (student) -- Dead. Murdered by terrorist. Died January 8, 2011. Born September 11, 2001. Youngest Arizona shooting victim, who ironically was born on 9/11 and died by a later act of terrorism. Obituary
Peter Yates
(director) -- Dead. Died January 9, 2011. Born July 24, 1928.
Bullitt, Breaking Away, The Dresser.
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John Dye (actor) -- Dead. Died January 10, 2011. Born January 31, 1963. Andrew on Touched by an Angel. IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Margaret Whiting
(singer) -- Dead. Died January 10, 2011. Born July 22, 1924.
Known for "That Old Black Magic" and "Moonlight in Vermont," married for fifteen years to Jack Wrangler.
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David Nelson (former actor/director) -- Dead. Colon cancer. Died January 11, 2011. Born October 24, 1936. The Ozzie and Harriett Show, Circus of the Stars (late '70s) IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Susannah York
(actress) -- Dead. Cancer. Died January 15, 2011. Born January 9, 1939.
Tom Jones, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (for which she received a Supporting
Actress Oscar nomination), The Shout and Superman.
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Don Kirshner (music publisher/producer) -- Dead. Heart failure. Died January 17, 2011. Born April 17, 1943. Very old friend of Bobby Darin, Kirshner went on to publish music by Carole King and Neil Sedaka, and later helped start groups like The Monkees and the Archies. IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Sargent Shriver
(public servant) -- Dead. Died January 18, 2011
Born November 9, 1915. First director of the Peace Corps, started VISTA and HeadStart.
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Jack LaLanne
(fitness guru) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died January 23, 2011
Born September 26, 1914. Had an exercise TV show from the '50s until the '80s, exercised for hours a day
until shortly before his death, famously said "I can't die. It would ruin my image."
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Daniel Bell (sociologist/writer) -- Dead. Died January 25, 2011. Born May 10, 1919. Wrote prescient books like The End of Ideology and The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, he disdained labels and said he was "...a socialist in economics, a liberal in politics and a conservative in culture." IMDb Obituary
Gladys Horton
(singer) -- Dead. Complications of a stroke. Died January 26, 2011. Born 1944.
Lead singer for the hit song "Please Mr. Postman" by the Marvelettes, the first major
girl group for Motown.
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Charlie Callas
(comic) -- Dead. Died January 27, 2011.
Born December 20, 1924. Funny man with a cross-eyed shtick,
John Barry (Composer) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died January 30, 2011. Born November 3, 1933. Won five Oscars (including for the scores of Out of Africa and Born Free) but may be most remembered for his scores for many James Bond movies. IMDb Obituary
February
Maria Schneider (actress) -- Dead. Cancer. Died February 3, 2011. March 27, 1952. Young star of the infamous Last Tango in Paris whose co-star was the much older Marlon Brando. IMDb Obituary
Brian Jacques
(writer) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died February 5, 2011. Born June 15, 1939.
Author of the Redwall series.
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Peggy Rea (actress) -- Dead. Congestive heart failure. Died February 5, 2011. Born March 31, 1921. TV actress who appeared on hundreds of shows, probably best-known as Grace's mother-in-law in Grace Under Fire. IBDB IMDb
Betty Garrett (actress) -- Dead. Aortic aneurysm. Died February 12, 2011. Born May 23, 1919. Many plays, the movie My Sister Eileen, Irene on All in the Family and Mrs. Babish on Laverne and Shirley. IBDB IMDb Obituary
Kenneth Mars (actor/video voice) -- Dead. Pancreatic cancer. Died February 12, 2011. Born April 14, 1936. Memorable in the first movie version of The Producers, had a great bit part in Young Frankenstein. IMDb IBDB Obituary
George Shearing
(jazz pianist) -- Dead. Congestive heart failure.
Died February 14, 2011. Born August 13, 1919. "Lullaby Of Birdland," performed until late
in his life.
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Nicholas Courtney (actor) -- Dead. Died February 22, 2011. Born February 16, 1928. Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart on many incarnations of Dr. Who IMDb Obituary
Jane Russell (actress, bra pitchwoman) -- Dead. Respiratory disease. Died February 28, 2011. Born June 21, 1921. The Outlaw, famous protege of Howard Hughes, later sold Playtex products on TV. IMDb Obituary
March
Hugh Martin
(songwriter/pianist) -- Dead. Died March 11, 2011. Born August 11, 1914.
Wrote the music for shows like Meet me in St. Louis (including the classic "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") and Best Foot Forward along with his partner Ralph Blane, inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983.
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Michael Gough
(actor) -- Dead. Died March 17, 2011. Born November 23, 1913.
Alfred in the Batman movies of the '80s and '90s, many bit parts on British TV including The Celestial Toymaker in an early episode of
Warren Christopher (politician) -- Dead. Bladder cancer. Died March 18, 2011. Born October 27, 1925. Secretary of State under Bill Clinton. IMDb Obituary
Elizabeth Taylor (actress/philanthropist) -- Dead. Congestive heart failure. Died March 23, 2011. Born February 27, 1932. Beautiful, usually soft-voiced actress who married Richard Burton twice and Eddie Fisher and Michael Todd once, among others. Did some amazing work, especially in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Make memorial contributions to: AIDS research (AMFAR, for which she was an active fundraiser). IBDB IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Diana Wynne Jones
(fantacist) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Died March 26, 2011. Born August 16, 1934.
One of the leading fantasy writers of the late 20th century, she wrote a number of fantasy series, Howl's Moving Castle, and The Tough Guide to Fantasyland.
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Geraldine A. Ferraro
(politician) -- Dead. Multiple myeloma. Died March 26, 2011
Born August 25, 1935. First female vice presidential candidate for a major party (1984).
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Farley Granger
(actor) -- Dead.
Born July 1, 1925. Extremely good-looking actor, probably best-known for the Hitchcock movies Rope and Strangers on a Train, longtime companion of Robert Calhoun.
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April
Kevin Jarre (screenwriter) -- Dead. Heart failure. Died April 3, 2011. Born August 6, 1954. Wrote Glory and Tombstone, Maurice Jarre's stepson. IMDb Obituary
Pierre Celis (brewer) -- Dead. Cancer. Died April 9, 2011. Born March 21, 1925. Belgian brewer who founded Celis beer in Texas (later bought by the Michigan Brewing Company).
Sidney Lumet (director) -- Dead. Lymphoma. Died April 9, 2011. Born June 25, 1924. Directed many movies including Twelve Angry Men, Network, and The Verdict, once married to Gloria Vanderbilt and was later Lena Horne's son-in-law. IBDB IMDb Obituary
Trevor Bannister (actor) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died April 14, 2011. Born August 14, 1934. Mr. Lucas on Are You Being Served?. IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Michael Sarrazin (actor) -- Dead. Cancer. Died April 17, 2011. Born May 22, 1940. Starred in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and The Reincarnation of Peter Proud. IMDb Obituary
Elisabeth Sladen (actress) -- Dead. Cancer. Died April 19, 2011. February 1, 1948. Sarah Jane in Dr. Who in the '70s and in The Sarah Jane Adventures in the '00s. IMDb
Tim Hetherington
(war photographer) -- Dead. Libyan war mortar
attack. Died April 20, 2011. Born December 5, 1970. Longtime
war photographer, he co-directed the Oscar-nominated documentary
Restrepo.
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Chris Hondros
(war photographer) -- Dead. Libyan war mortar
attack. Died April 20, 2011. Born March 14, 1970. A Pulitzer
finalist.
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Madelyn Pugh Davis (writer) Dead. Died April 20, 2011. Born March 15, 1921. Longtime writing partner of Bob Carroll, Jr., they wrote for Lucille Ball's many TV shows. She later wrote for The Mothers-in-Law and produced Alice, married for a few years to Quinn Martin. IMDb Obituary
Norio Ohga (Sony president/opera singer) -- Dead. Multiple organ failure. Died April 23, 2011. Born January 29, 1930. Studied opera and later became the Sony executive who designed and promoted the CD. Obituary
Phoebe Snow
(singer) -- Dead. Died April 26, 2011. Born July 17, 1950. "Poetry Man" was a big hit for her in 1975, cared for a disabled daughter until her death in 2007, performed many commercial jingles, suffered a stroke in early 2010.
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William Campbell (actor) -- Dead. Died April 28, 2011. Born October 30, 1923. TV and B-movie actor, best-known for "The Squire of Gothos" on Star Trek. IMDb
Joanna Russ (writer) -- Dead. Strokes. Died April 29, 2011. Born February 22, 1937. Writer and critic. "When It Changed"
May
Jackie Cooper (director/actor) -- Dead. Died May 3, 2011. Born September 15, 1922. Child star in the original The Champ, appeared in a few Our Gang shorts, played Perry White in the Reeve Superman movies, directed many TV shows, including 14 episodes of M*A*S*H. IBDB IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Sada Thompson (actress) -- Dead. Died May 4, 2011. Born September 27, 1929. The mother in Family. IBDB IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Arthur Laurents (playwright/director) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died May 5, 2011. Born July 14, 1918. Wrote the scrpts for West Side Story and Gypsy. IBDB IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Seve Ballesteros
(golfer) -- Dead. Brain cancer. Died May 7, 2011. Born April 9, 1957. Spanish golfer who won both the British Open and Masters very young
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Barbara Stuart (actress) -- Dead. Died May 15, 2011. Born January 3, 1930. Semi-regular on TV shows for 50 years, from The Great Gildersleve (Bessie) to Gomer Pyle (Bunny) to Huff (Alice), ex-wife of Richard Gautier. IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Jeff Conaway (actor) -- Dead. Pneumonia/sepsis. Died May 27, 2011. Born October 5, 1950. May be currently best-known for Celebrity Rehab, he initially became famous from Grease, Taxi and was later on Babylon 5. IBDB IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Clarice Taylor (actress) -- Dead. Died May 30, 2011. Born September 20, 1917. Best-known for playing Cliff Huxtable's mother on The Cosby Show, also appeared in The Wiz and Sesame Street. IBDB IMDb Obituary
Rosalyn Yalow
(medical physicist) -- Dead. Died May 30, 2011. Born July 19, 1921.
Winner of a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1977.
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June
Joel Rosenberg (writer) -- Dead. Heart attack Died June 2, 2011. Born May 1, 1954. Writer who was also very active in the gun rights movement.
James Arness (actor) -- Dead. Died June 3,2011. Born May 26, 1923. Gunsmoke, brother of Peter Graves. IMDb Obituary
Jack Kevorkian (pathologist) -- Dead. Pulmonary thrombisis. Died June 3, 2011. Born May 26, 1928. Pathologist who helped bring assisted suicide out of the closet, served time in prison for helping with one of them, wrote Prescription Medicide IMDb Obituary
Clarence Clemons (musician) -- Dead. Stroke. Died June 18, 2011. Born January 11, 1942. Played a wailing sax for the E Street Band. IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Peter Falk
(actor) -- Dead. Alzheimer's Died June 23, 2011.
Born September 16, 1927. Played the iconic Columbo -
"Now let me see if I have this straight..."
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Margaret Tyzack (actress) -- Dead. Died June 25, 2011. Born September 9, 1931. British stage actress who starred as Antonia in I, Claudius, Winifred in The Forsythe Saga and Miss Seymour in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, very brief appearance (and one of the only women) in 2001. IBDB IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
July
Roberts Blossom (poet/spooky actor) -- Dead. Died July 8, 2011. Born March 25, 1924. Yep, you'd remember him from Close Encounters and Resurrection. IBDB IMDb Obituary
Betty Ford (former first lady, clinic founder) -- Dead. Died July 8, 2011. Born April 8, 1918. Refreshingly outspoken First Lady, founded substance abuse clinics. IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Sherwood Schwartz (producer/composer) -- Dead. Died July 12, 2011. Born November 14, 1916. Producer of many popular shows of the '60s and '70s like Gilligan Island and The Brady Bunch and wrote their memorable theme songs IMDb Obituary
Amy Winehouse (performer) -- Dead. Death by misadventure - had five times the legal limit of alcohol in her system. Died July 23, 2011. Born September 14, 1983. Grammy-award-winning singer better known for living out her demons in public. IMDb Obituary
Max Henry Weil (physician) -- Dead. Prostate cancer. Died July 29, 2011. Born circa 1927. One of the initial developers of intensive care units, Weil was the inventor of CPR. Obituary
August
William Sleator
(YA writer) -- Dead. Died August 3, 2011. Born February 13, 1945. Prolific writer, wrote House and Stairs and The Angry Moon.
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Nickolas Ashford
(singer/songwriter) -- Dead. Throat cancer. Died August 22, 2011. Born May 4, 1942. With professional and life partner Valerie Simpson, Ashford & Simpson wrote for Ray Charles and Diana Ross ("Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand"), and performed their own music as Ashford and Simpson: "Solid."
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Jerry Leiber
(lyricist) -- Dead. Cardio-pulmonary failure. Died August 22, 2011. Born April 25, 1933. With professional partner Mike Stoller, Leiber wrote the lyrics for songs like "Hound Dog," "Jailhouse Rock," "Stand by Me" (with Ben E. King) and the Peggy Lee standard "Is That All There Is?."
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September
Michael S. Hart
(geek/futurist) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died September 6, 2011. Born March 8, 1947. Creator of Project Gutenberg.
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Cliff Robertson (actor) -- Dead. Died September 10, 2011. Born September 9, 1923. Won a Best Actor Oscar for Charly, Spider-man (the Maguire version), quasi-"blacklisted" after blowing the whistle on an unethical producer, pilot, married to Dina Merrill for twenty years. IBDB IMDb Obituary
Andy Whitfield
(actor) -- Dead. Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. Died September 11, 2011. Born July 17, 1972. Unknown actor cast as Spartacus for cable, but got sick after the first year and had to be replaced.
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Dolores Hope
(singer) -- Dead. Died September 19, 2011.
Born May 27, 1909. Sometimes performed with her husband, started recording albums in her 70s, made it to 102!
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Arch West (marketer) -- Dead. Died September 20, 2011. Born September 8, 1914. Longtime employee of Frito-Lay who suggested the development of Doritos and helped to market them. Obituary
October
Doris Belack (actress) -- Dead. Died October 4, 2011. Born February 26. 1926. Very active theater and TV actress (may be best-known as a judge from Law and Order) who did the occasional flick (the producer in Tootsie). IBDB IMDb Obituary
Fred Shuttlesworth (civil rights leader/minister) -- Dead. Died October 5, 2011. Born March 18, 1922. One of the leaders of the civil rights movement in the South, especially in Birmingham, Alabama in the early '60s, survived multiple assassination attempts. IMDb Obituary
Steve Jobs
(Entrepreneur/geek) -- Dead. [rumors]. Pancreatic cancer. Died October 5, 2011.
Born February 24, 1955. College drop-out who founded Apple and
NeXT and bought Pixar, in and out of the computer industry several times, resigned from Apple several months before his death.
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Diane Cilento (Actress) -- Dead. Died October 6, 2011. Born October 5, 1933. Oscar-nominated for Tom Jones, married to Sean Connery for eleven years and to Anthony Shaffer until his death. IBDB IMDb Obituary
George Baker (actor) -- Dead. Pneumonia/stroke. Died October 7, 2011. Born April 1, 1931. Best-known as Wexford in the The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, he played Tiberius in I, Claudius IBDB IMDb Obituary
Dennis Ritchie (uber-geek) -- Dead. Died October 8, 2011. Born September 8, 1941. The father of Unix (with Kenneth Thompson) and C, wrote the seminal The C Programming Manual (with Brian Kernighan) and won the Turing Prize. Obituary
Sue Mengers
(agent) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died October 15, 2011. Born September 2, 1932. Agent of many '70s stars including Ali McGraw, Tatum O'Neal, Barbra Streisand and Gene Hackman, hosted gatherings of the famous at her house until shortly before her death.
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Robert Pierpoint (reporter) -- Dead. Surgery after a broken hip. Died October 22, 2011. Born May 16, 1925. Longtime CBS White House reporter, from the '50s through the '70s. IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Elizabeth Winship (Ask Beth) -- Dead. Died October 23, 2011. Born May 17, 1921. Wrote a common-sense, syndicated advice column aimed at teens from 1963 until 1998. Obituary
John McCarthy (AI theorist/LISP inventor) -- Dead. Heart disease. Died October 24, 2011. Born
September 4, 1927. Longtime computer professor, he developed the ideas
about Artificial Intelligence and timesharing, co-founded the MIT AI
Lab with Marvin Minsky, won the
Turing Award.
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Gil Cates (producer/director) -- Dead. Died October 31, 2011. Born June 6, 1934. Producer of many Oscar telecasts in the '90s and '00s. IBDB IMDb Obituary
November
John F. Burke (surgeon/chemical engineer) -- Dead. Pancreatic cancer. Died November 2, 2011. Born July 7, 1922. Developer of the first artifical skin. Obituary
Sid Melton
(actor) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died November 2, 2011. Born May 22, 1917. Bit player on many TV shows, Sofia's husband (in flashbacks) in The Golden Girls, Alf on Green Acres, Charlie on various shows with Danny Thomas.
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Leonard
Stone (actor) -- Dead. Cancer Died November
2, 2011. Born November 3, 1923. Tons of TV, but may be best-known as
Violet's father in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate
Factory.
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Norman Ramsey
(physicist) -- Dead. Died November 4, 2011.
Born August 27, 1915. A member of the Manhattan project, he went on to develop the atomic clock and won a Nobel prize for physics.
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Andy Rooney
(Commentator) -- Dead. Complications after
surgery. Died November 4, 2011.
Born January 14, 1919. Long-time CBS journalist who opined on
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Joe Frazier
(boxer) -- Dead. Liver cancer. Died November
7, 2011. Born January 12, 1944. Heavyweight champion of the
world, eventually lost the title to George Foreman.
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Andrea True (odd jobs, including disco diva and porn star) -- Dead. Heart failure. Died November 7, 2011. Born July 26, 1943. Performer and co-writer of disco-era earworm "More, More, More." IMDb Obituary
Bil Keane
(cartoonist) -- Dead. Heart failure. Died
November 8, 2011. Born October 5, 1922. Creator
of and longtime cartoonist for The Family Circus.
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Lee Pockriss
(songwriter) -- Dead. Died November 14, 2011.
Born January 20, 1924. Co-wrote "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow
Polka Dot Bikini," "Catch a Falling Star," and "Teen Angel," sang in The Cuff Links
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Mark Hall (TV producer) -- Dead. Cancer. Died November 17, 2011. Born May 17, 1936. The man behind Danger Mouse, Count Duckula and The Wind in the Willows. IMDb Obituary
John Neville (actor) -- Dead. Died November 19, 2011. Born May 2, 1925. Shakespearean actor who may be best known as Baron von Munchausen and the "Well-Manicured Man" on X-Files IMDb Obituary
Anne McCaffrey
(writer) -- Dead. Stroke. Died November 21,
2011. Born April 1, 1926. Award-winning writer of the Dragonrider/Pern series.
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Ken Russell
(director) -- Dead. Strokes. Died November
27, 2011. Born July 3, 1927. Directed
the controversial movies Women in Love, The
Devils and Tommy.
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December
Alan Sues
(comic) -- Dead. Died December 1, 2011.
Born March 7, 1926. Breathless regular on Laugh-In, Uncle
Al, the kiddie's pal.
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Lawrence Balzer
(writer) -- Dead. Died December 2, 2011.
Born June 6, 1912. He wrote about wine for over 70 years and
helped to popularize California wines.
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Mary Ellen Avery
(physician) -- Dead. Died December 4, 2011. Born May 6, 1927.
Developed a treatment for respiratory distress syndrome which saved many premature babies, first pediatrician to lead the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Marion Dougherty (casting directory) -- Dead. Died December 4, 2011. Born 1923. Revolutionized how TV and movies are cast; was in charge of casting movies like Lenny, Reds and the Tim Burton Batman movies, inspired the documentary Casting by: Revolution in Hollywood.
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Darrell
K. Sweet
(artist) -- Dead. Died December 5, 2011.
Born 1934. Science fiction and western artist since the '70s, may
be best-known for the Wheel of Time covers.
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Harry Morgan (actor) -- Dead. Died December 7, 2011. Born April 10, 1915. Lots of movies, but probably best-known as Col. Potter on the M*A*S*H TV show. IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Russell Hoban
(writer) -- Dead. Died December 13, 2011. Born February 4, 1925. Wrote a number of books including Riddley Walker and Turtle Diary.
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Christopher Hitchens
(writer) -- Dead. Esophageal cancer/pneumonia.
Died December 15, 2011. Born April 13, 1949. Societal
commentator who wrote a variety of books including God Is not
Great. "If I could change just one thing, it would be to
disassociate the idea of faith from virtue."
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Nicol Williamson (actor) -- Dead. Esophageal cancer. Died December 16, 2011. Born September 14, 1936. Merlin in Excalibur, Holmes in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, recorded an audiobook of The Hobbit in the '70s.
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Robert Easton
(actor/dialect coach) -- Dead. [rumors] Died December 16, 2011
Born November 23, 1930. He had over a 50 year acting career,
starred in Stingray and may be remembered as Sparks in the
movie Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
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Vaclav Havel
(former Czech president/playwright) -- Dead.
Died December 18, 2011. Born October 5, 1936. Served as the first democratially-elected Czech president from 1990-2003, fought lung cancer for many years.
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Cheetah
(chimp) -- Dead. Kidney failure. Died December
24, 2011. Tarzan co-star in the 30s, spent a very long retirement swinging from bar to bar in a Florida zoo, Guinness Book of World's Records have named him the world's oldest chimp.
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