Deaths in 2011

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2011. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference, language of reference if not English.

January 2011

===5===Mick Karn,52,cancer,bass player with pop band Japan

Hélio Ary, 80, Brazilian actor, Alzheimer's disease. [1] (Portuguese)
Chrysanth Chepil, 73, Russian Orthodox Metropolitan of Vyatka and Slobodskoy. [2] (Russian)
Hadayatullah Hübsch, 64, German journalist. [3] (German)
Mick Karn, 52, Cypriot-born British musician (Japan). [4]
Tavo Kupinski, 36, Argentine guitarist (Los Piojos), car crash. [5] (Spanish)
Coen Moulijn, 73, Dutch footballer. [6] (Dutch)
Ali-Reza Pahlavi, 44, Iranian royal, son of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, suicide by gunshot. [7]
Gerry Rafferty, 63, Scottish singer-songwriter (Stealers Wheel), liver failure. [8]
Eva Strittmatter, 80, German author and poet. [9] (German)
Salmaan Taseer, 64, Pakistani politician, Governor of Punjab (since 2008), shot. [10]
Grete Helene Wiseth, 25, Norwegian handball player, car accident. [11] (Norwegian)
Ahmed Yamani, 86, Palestinian leader, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, stroke. [12]

Ronald Colapinto, 79, Canadian surgeon, liver cancer. [13]
Geraldo Flach, 65, Brazilian musician and composer, cancer. [14] (Portuguese)
Fadil Hadžić, 88, Croatian filmmaker, screenwriter, playwright and journalist. [15] (Croatian)
Jill Haworth, 65, English actress (Exodus, In Harm's Way, Cabaret, The Outer Limits), natural causes. [16]
Zbigniew Jaremski, 61, Polish Olympic silver medal-winning (1976) athlete. [17] (Polish)
Suchitra Mitra, 86, Indian singer, cardiac arrest. [18]
Alfred Proksch, 102, Austrian athlete and graphic designer. [19] (German)
Stanley Tolliver, 85, American attorney and civil rights advocate. [20]
Nakamura Tomijyuro V, 81, Japanese Kabuki actor. [21] (Japanese)

Anna Anni, 84, Italian costume designer (Otello). [22]
Jan van Beek, 85, Dutch journalist. [23] (Dutch)
Kate Ebli, 52, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives (2006–2010). [24]
Anne Francis, 80, American actress (Honey West, Forbidden Planet, The Twilight Zone), pancreatic cancer. [25]
Hanna Kraan, 64, Dutch children's author. [26] (Dutch)
Émile Masson Jr., 95, Belgian cyclist, winner of Paris–Roubaix and La Flèche Wallonne classic cycle races. [27]
John Osborne, 74, Montserratian politician, Chief Minister (1978–1991; 2001–2006), after long illness. [28]
Pete Postlethwaite, 64, British actor (In the Name of the Father, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, The Usual Suspects), cancer. [29]
William R. Ratchford, 76, American politician, Congressman from Connecticut (1979–1985), complications from Parkinson's disease. [30]
Eliseu Resende, 81, Brazilian senator, intestinal cancer. [31] (Portuguese).
Miriam Seegar, 103, American silent film actress. [32]
Yosef Shiloach, 69, Israeli actor. [33]
Letícia Ferreira de Souza, 110, Brazilian supercentenarian. [34] (Portuguese).
Robert Trumble, 91, Australian writer and musician. [35]
Szeto Wah, 79, Hong Kong political activist, lung cancer. [36]

Nikolay Alexandrovich Abramov, 26, Russian footballer. [37] (Russian)
Marin Constantin, 85, Romanian musician, conductor and composer. [38] (Romanian)
Charles Fambrough, 60, American jazz musician and composer. [39]
Gil Garfield, 77, American songwriter and musician (The Cheers), cancer. [40]
David Gurland, 43, American cabaret singer, brain hemorrhage. [41]
Bruce Halliday, 84, Canadian physician and politician, MP for Oxford (1974–1993). [42]
Gerd Michael Henneberg, 88, German actor. [43] (German)
Flemming Jørgensen, 63, Danish actor and musician (Bamses Venner), heart attack. [44] (Danish)
Verne Langdon, 69, American musician, record producer and make-up artist. [45]
John Olguin, 89, American-born Mexican museum director. [46]
Billy Joe Patton, 88, American golfer. [47]
Albert Raisner, 88, French television presenter and harmonica player. [48] (French)
Pradeep Vijayakar, 59, Indian sports journalist (The Times of India), cancer. [49]
Faizal Yusof, 32, Malaysian actor, heart attack. [50]