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The following is a list of notable deaths in 2011.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
  • Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English
    English language
    English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

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  • Vasily Alekseyev, 69, Russian Olympic gold-medal winning weightlifter (1972
    1972 Summer Olympics
    The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from August 26 to September 11, 1972....

     and 1976
    1976 Summer Olympics
    The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1976. Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games on May 12, 1970, at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam, over the bids of Moscow and...

    ), heart failure. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/weightlifting/Two-time-Olympic-champion-Alekseyev-dies/articleshow/10871669.cms
  • Leonid Borodin
    Leonid Borodin
    Leonid Ivanovich Borodin was a Russian novelist and journalist. Born in Irkutsk, Borodin was a Christian and a Soviet dissident. In the 1960s he belonged to the anti-Communist All-Russian Social-Christian Union...

    , 73, Russian novelist, journalist and Soviet dissident
    Soviet dissidents
    Soviet dissidents were citizens of the Soviet Union who disagreed with the policies and actions of their government and actively protested against these actions through either violent or non-violent means...

    . http://www.openspace.ru/news/details/32196/ (Russian)
  • Don DeVito
    Don DeVito
    Don DeVito was an American record producer, music business executive and guitarist. His career was spent at Columbia Records, where his production credits included Bob Dylan's albums Blood on the Tracks, Desire and Street-Legal.-Life:He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and in his late teens began...

    , 72, American record company executive and producer. http://online.wsj.com/article/APc5229d99f9c9468b8fe0127bbc59103d.html
  • Mihailo Đurić, 86, Serbian philosopher. http://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=1021816 (Serbian)
  • John Edzerza
    John Edzerza
    John Edzerza was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of McIntyre-Takhini in the Yukon Legislative Assembly.-Political career:...

    , 63, Canadian politician, Yukon MLA
    Yukon Legislative Assembly
    -History:From 1900 to 1978, the elected legislative body in the Yukon was the Yukon Territorial Council, a ten-member body which did not act as the primary government, but was a non-partisan advisory body to the Commissioner of the Yukon...

     for McIntyre-Takhini (since 2002), leukemia. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2011/11/28/north-edzerza-dies.html
  • Michal Friedman, American actress and singer (Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
    Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
    is a novel by popular Japanese author Harutoshi Fukui . The novel takes place in Gundam's Universal Century timeline. Character and mechanical designs are provided by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and Hajime Katoki, respectively...

    , Winx Club
    Winx Club
    Winx Club is a 2004 Italian animated television series, created by Iginio Straffi and produced by Rainbow S.r.l.. The series is aimed toward children between the ages of five and twelve, but is also popular among teens...

    , Samurai Deeper Kyo
    Samurai Deeper Kyo
    is a manga series written and illustrated by Akimine Kamijyo. The manga was serialized from October 15, 1999 to May 10, 2006 in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine, and collected over 38 volumes....

    ), complications from childbirth. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-11-30/voice-actress-singer-michal-friedman-passes-away
  • Louis Hildebrandt, 93, American jockey. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/louis-hildebrandt-was-one-of-americas-oldest-living-jockeys-dies-at-93/2011/11/26/gIQAofa6zN_story.html
  • Karel Hubáček
    Karel Hubáček
    Karel Hubáček was a Czech architect who designed the Ještěd Tower and hotel atop the Ještěd mountain near Liberec.Hubáček's best known work was the Ještěd Tower, which was constructed between 1966 and 1973. In 1969, the Ještěd Tower received the Perret Prize from the International Union of...

    , 87, Czech architect, designer of the Ještěd Tower
    Ješted Tower
    Ještěd Tower is a 94 metre-tall tower used to transmit television signal built on the top of Ještěd mountain near Liberec in the Czech Republic....

    . http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/zpravy/czech-architect-hubacek-author-of-famous-jested-hotel-dies/719894
  • Erling Lægreid
    Erling Lægreid
    Erling Lægreid was a Norwegian journalist and non-fiction writer. He was born in Årdalstangen. He was assigned to the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1970. He hosted several program series, including Flimra, Ungdommens Radioavis and Søndagsavisa...

    , 72, Norwegian author and journalist. http://www.nrk.no/kultur-og-underholdning/1.7891089 (Norwegian)
  • Judy Lewis
    Judy Lewis
    Judy Lewis was an American actress, writer, producer, and therapist, and the secret biological daughter of actor Clark Gable and actress Loretta Young.-History:...

    , 76, American actress (General Hospital
    General Hospital
    General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....

    , The Secret Storm
    The Secret Storm
    The Secret Storm is a soap opera which ran on CBS from February 1, 1954 to February 8, 1974. The series was created by Roy Winsor, who also created the long-running soap operas Search for Tomorrow and Love of Life...

    ), daughter of Clark Gable
    Clark Gable
    William Clark Gable , known as Clark Gable, was an American film actor most famous for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh...

     and Loretta Young
    Loretta Young
    Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953...

    , cancer. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20111130_Judy_Lewis__daughter_of_Loretta_Young_and_Clark_Gable_dies.html
  • Ross MacManus
    Ross MacManus
    Ross MacManus was an English musician and trumpet player, who performed with Joe Loss and his orchestra, and the father of singer Elvis Costello....

    , 84, English musician, father of Elvis Costello
    Elvis Costello
    Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...

    . http://www.elviscostello.com/news/it-is-with-profound-sorrow-that-we-announce-the-passing-of-ross-macmanus-at-the-age-of-84/256
  • Hoddy Mahon
    Hoddy Mahon
    Horace J. "Hoddy" Mahon was the head coach of the Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball team during the 1981-82 season. He succeeded Bill Raftery and preceded P. J. Carlesimo. He was a longtime assistant coach for the Pirates and was hired to replace Raftery, who left to pursue his communications...

    , 79, American college basketball coach (Seton Hall University
    Seton Hall University
    Seton Hall University is a private Roman Catholic university in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1856 by Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan university in the United States. Seton Hall is also the oldest and largest Catholic university in the...

    ). http://obits.nj.com/obituaries/starledger/obituary.aspx?n=horace-j-mahon-hoddy&pid=154752582
  • Frederik Meijer, 91, American businessman, creator of the hypermarket
    Hypermarket
    In commerce, a hypermarket is a superstore combining a supermarket and a department store. The result is an expansive retail facility carrying a wide range of products under one roof, including full groceries lines and general merchandise...

    , Chairman of Meijer
    Meijer
    Meijer, Inc. is a regional American hypermarket chain based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Founded in 1934 as a supermarket chain, Meijer is credited with pioneering the modern supercenter concept in 1962. About half of the company's 196 stores are located in Michigan, with additional locations in...

     (1964–1990), stroke. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/fox17-fred-meijer-death-hypermarket-pioneer-fred-meijer-dies-20111125,0,3697640.story
  • Doug Moran, 86, Australian nursing home tycoon and philanthropist (Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
    Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
    The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize is an annual Australian portrait prize founded by Doug Moran in 1988, the year of Australia's Bicentenary. It is the richest portrait prize in the world with A$150,000 awarded to the winner and A$10,000 awarded to the runner-up...

    ). http://www.smh.com.au/national/reunited-family-loses-its-patriarch-20111126-1o0kx.html
  • Yukio Nishimoto
    Yukio Nishimoto
    was a Japanese baseball player and manager. He played for the Mainichi Orions from 1950 to 1955. As a manager he won eight Pacific League pennants. However his clubs would never go on to win the Japan Series, earning him the nickname "Great Tragic Leader". Nishimoto was inducted into the Japanese...

    , 91, Japanese baseball player and manager, heart failure. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/sports/T111126002710.htm
  • Coco Robicheaux
    Coco Robicheaux
    Curtis John Arceneaux better known by the name Coco Robicheaux, was an American blues musician and artist, from Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States.He was born in Merced, California...

    , 64, American blues musician and artist. http://offbeat.com/2011/11/26/coco-robicheaux-passes-after-collapsing-on-frenchmen-street/
  • Dane Searls
    Dane Searls
    Dane Searls was an Australian BMX rider. He created Giants of Dirt, Searls was one of the greatest dirt jumpers. He died 25 November 2011 after an unsuccessful attempt to jump into a swimming pool in Queensland, Australia. He suffered traumatic head and back injuries, and had remained in a coma...

    , 23, Australian BMX rider, diving accident. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/bmx-star-dane-searls-dies-20111125-1nxpv.html
  • Jean Casselman Wadds
    Jean Casselman Wadds
    Jean Casselman Wadds, OC was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Grenville—Dundas from 1958 to 1968. She sat as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party....

    , 91, Canadian politician, MP for Grenville—Dundas
    Grenville—Dundas
    Grenville—Dundas was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1968. It was located in the province of Ontario...

     (1958–1968); High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (1979–1983). http://www.recorder.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3384852
  • Tom Wicker
    Tom Wicker
    Thomas Grey "Tom" Wicker was an American journalist. He was best known as a political reporter and columnist for The New York Times.-Background and education:...

    , 85, American journalist, heart attack. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/us/tom-wicker-journalist-and-author-dies-at-85.html

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  • Montserrat Figueras
    Montserrat Figueras
    Montserrat Figueras García was a Catalan soprano who specialized in early music....

    , 69, Spanish soprano. http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/montserrat-figueras-has-died
  • Oscar Griffin, Jr., 78, American journalist, winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize
    1963 Pulitzer Prize
    -Journalism awards:*Public Service:**The Chicago Daily News, for calling public attention to the issue of providing birth control services in the public health programs in its area.*Local Reporting, Edition Time:...

    . http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/11/28/2521971/editor-who-won-pulitzer-for-estes.html
  • Ralph E. Haines, Jr.
    Ralph E. Haines, Jr.
    General Ralph Edward Haines, Jr. was a United States Army four-star general who served as Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1968, Commander, U.S. Army, Pacific from August 1968 to October 1970, and Commanding General, U.S. Continental Army Command , from 1970 to 1973...

    , 98, American general, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army
    Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army
    The Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army is the principal advisor and assistant to the Army Chief of Staff, the second-highest ranking officer in the US Army. He handles the day to day administration of the Army bureaucracy, freeing the Chief of Staff to attend to the interservice...

     (1967–1968). http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/25/us-army-haines-idUSTRE7AO00W20111125
  • Luis Fernando Jaramillo Correa
    Luis Fernando Jaramillo Correa
    Luis Fernando Jaramillo Correa worked for Goldman Sachs as an international advisor.He also served on the boards of directors of Interbolsa, S.A., Gerdau-Dicao, S.A...

    , 76, Colombian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs
    Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Colombia)
    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also known as the Chancellery, is the national executive ministry of the Government of Colombia responsible for the foreign relations of Colombia through its diplomatic missions abroad by formulating foreign policy relevant to the matters of the State, it is...

     (1990–1991). http://www.ensemana.com/noticias/20111123_5552323.asp (Spanish)
  • Gerald Laing
    Gerald Laing
    Gerald Ogilvie Laing was a British pop artist and sculptor. He lived in the Scottish Highlands.- Life :...

    , 75, British pop art
    Pop art
    Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...

    ist and sculptor. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-15861327
  • Barry Llewellyn, 63, Jamaican musician, founding member of The Heptones
    The Heptones
    The Heptones are a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae vocal trio most active in the 1960s and early 1970s. They were one of the more significant trios of that era, and played a major role in the gradual transition between ska and rocksteady with their three-part harmonies.-History:Leroy Sibbles, Earl...

    . http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/entertainment/-Barry-Heptones--dies-in-hospital_10257086
  • Christopher Ma
    Christopher Ma
    Christopher Yi-Wen Ma was a Washington Post Company vice president with responsibilities in planning and development of new business opportunities, particularly content-driven initiatives...

    , 61, American journalist, senior vice-president of The Washington Post
    The Washington Post
    The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...

    , heart attack. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/business/media/christopher-ma-washington-post-executive-dies-at-61.html
  • Carlos Moorhead
    Carlos Moorhead
    Carlos John Moorhead was a United States Congressman from California. Born in Long Beach, he attended the public schools of Glendale, graduated from Herbert Hoover High School in 1940 and earned a B.A. from the UCLA in 1943 and a J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School in 1949...

    , 89, American politician, U.S. Representative
    United States House of Representatives
    The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

     from California
    United States Congressional Delegations from California
    These are tables of congressional delegations from California in the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.-United States Senate:- Mid-term changes :-United States House of Representatives:...

     (1973–1997), Alzheimer's disease. http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_19413163
  • Henry Øberg
    Henry Øberg
    Henry Øberg, was a Norwegian football referee. He was a member of SK Falk, and from 1968 Hamar IL. He became a FIFA referee in 1967, and officiated in the Olympic football tournament in Münich in 1972 and in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.Øberg refereed 145 matches in the highest Norwegian league from...

    , 80, Norwegian football referee. http://www.vg.no/sport/fotball/norsk/artikkel.php?artid=10040486 (Norwegian)
  • Jim Rathmann
    Jim Rathmann
    Jim Rathmann was an American race car driver who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1960....

    , 83, American racing driver, winner of the 1960 Indianapolis 500
    1960 Indianapolis 500
    The 1960 Indianapolis 500 was an automobile race held at Indianapolis on Monday, May 30, 1960. The event was part of the 1960 World Drivers' Championship; the last Indianapolis 500 to be included in the Championship.- Classification :...

    . http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/racing/11/23/obit.jim.rathmann.ap/index.html
  • Joseph Sewall
    Joseph Sewall
    Joseph Sewall was an American politician and businessperson. He served four terms as President of the Maine Senate , which made him the longest serving President in Maine history....

    , 89, American politician, President of the Maine Senate (1975–1982). http://www.bangordailynews.com/2011/11/23/news/bangor/sewall-former-maine-senate-president-and-old-town-businessman-dies-at-89/
  • Rafiq Tağı
    Rafiq Tagi
    Rafiq Tağı, born Rafig Nazir oglu Taghiyev was an Azerbaijani journalist who worked for Sanat newspaper until police arrested him and Sanat editor Samir Sadagatoglu for "Europe and Us", an article that was deemed to be critical of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad...

    , 61, Azerbaijani journalist, stabbed. http://en.rsf.org/journalist-critical-of-islam-dies-23-11-2011,41447.html
  • Horacio Villafañe, 48, Argentine musician (Todos Tus Muertos
    Todos Tus Muertos
    Todos Tus Muertos is a punk and reggae band from Argentina created in 1985.-Members:* Felix Gutiérrez - bass and backing vocals * Pablo Molina - vocals, percussion * Christian Fabrizio - drums...

    ). http://www.telam.com.ar/nota/8175/ (Spanish)

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  • Gavin Bornholdt, 63, New Zealand Olympic sailor (1976
    1976 Summer Olympics
    The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1976. Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games on May 12, 1970, at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam, over the bids of Moscow and...

    ). http://notices.nzherald.co.nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/obituary.aspx?n=gavin-david-bornholdt&pid=154612470
  • Doyle Bramhall
    Doyle Bramhall
    Doyle Bramhall was an American singer-songwriter and drummer, closely associated with the music of Austin.-Biography:...

    , 62, American blues musician, heart failure. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Texas-bluesman-Bramhall-dies-at-62-2267502.php
  • Alun Evans, 69, Welsh football administrator, General Secretary of the Football Association of Wales
    Football Association of Wales
    The Football Association of Wales is the governing body of association football in Wales. It is a member of FIFA, UEFA and the IFAB.Established in 1876 , it is the third-oldest national association in the world, and is one of the four associations The Football Association of Wales (FAW) is the...

     (1982–1995), after long illness. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15706644.stm
  • Zbigniew Jaworowski
    Zbigniew Jaworowski
    Zbigniew Jaworowski was a Polish physician, and alpinist.-Life:Zbigniew Jaworowski was chairman of the Scientific Council of the Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection in Warsaw and former chair of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation...

    , 84, Polish physicist. http://www.nowpublic.com/world/dr-zbigniew-jaworowski-dies
  • Evelyn Lauder
    Evelyn Lauder
    Evelyn Lauder was an American socialite and philanthropist who has been credited as one of the creators and popularizers of the pink ribbon as a symbol for awareness of breast cancer....

    , 75, Austrian-born American philanthropist (The Breast Cancer Research Foundation
    The Breast Cancer Research Foundation
    The Breast Cancer Research Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to achieve prevention and a cure for breast cancer in our lifetime by providing critical funding for innovative clinical and translational research at leading medical centers worldwide, an...

    ), creator of pink ribbon
    Pink ribbon
    The pink ribbon is an international symbol of breast cancer awareness. Pink ribbons, and the color pink in general, identify the wearer or promoter with the breast cancer brand and express moral support for women with breast cancer....

     symbol, complications from ovarian cancer. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45273062
  • Julius C. Michaelson
    Julius C. Michaelson
    Julius Cooley Michaelson served as Rhode Island Attorney General from 1975 to 1979 and was the Democratic U.S. Senate nominee in 1982 against liberal Republican John Chafee....

    , 89, American politician, Rhode Island Attorney General
    Attorney General
    In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general, or attorney-general, is the main legal advisor to the government, and in some jurisdictions he or she may also have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions.The term is used to refer to any person...

     (1975–1979) and State Senator (1962–1974). http://news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2011/11/chafee-orders-r.html
  • Hasan Moghaddam, Iranian general, commander in the Revolutionary Guard, explosion
    Bidganeh explosion
    Bidganeh arsenal explosion was a large explosion that occurred about 13:30 local time, 12 November 2011 in Iran's Moddares garrison missile base...

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/iran-says-revolutionary-guard-commander-killed-in-accidental-explosion-was-key-missile-pioneer/2011/11/13/gIQA33aRIN_story.html
  • Eva Monley, 88, German-born Kenyan film location scout (Empire of the Sun
    Empire of the Sun (film)
    Empire of the Sun is a 1987 American coming of age war film based on J. G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. Steven Spielberg directed the film, which stars Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, and Nigel Havers...

    , Lawrence of Arabia
    Lawrence of Arabia (film)
    Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel through his British company, Horizon Pictures, with the screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. The film stars Peter O'Toole in the title role. It is widely...

    ). http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118046383
  • Peter Roebuck
    Peter Roebuck
    Peter Michael Roebuck was an English cricketer who achieved later renown as an Australian newspaper columnist and radio commentator. A consistent county performer with over 25,000 runs, and "one of the better English openers of the 1980s", Roebuck captained the English county side Somerset...

    , 55, British-Australian cricketer and columnist, suicide by defenestration. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/nov/14/peter-roebuck-sexual-assault-claims?newsfeed=true
  • Jim Sullivan
    Jim Sullivan (curler)
    James David "Jim" Sullivan was a Canadian curler from Saint John, New Brunswick. He was a renowned curler, being Skip of the Jim Sullivan Rink which captured the 1987 New Brunswick and Canadian Junior Men’s Curling Championships, and the 1988 World Junior Men’s Curling Championships...

    , 43, Canadian curler, world junior champion
    World Junior Curling Championships
    The World Junior Curling Championships is an annual curling tournament featuring the world's best curlers who are 21 years old or younger. The competition for both men and women occur at the same venue. The men's tournament has occurred since 1975 and the women's 1988...

     (1988). http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2011/11/14/nb-jim-sullivan-curling-champ-died.html
  • Ilya Zhitomirskiy
    Ilya Zhitomirskiy
    Ilya Zhitomirskiy was a Russian-American software developer and entrepreneur. Zhitomirskiy was a co-founder and developer of the open-source social network DIASPORA* and software service Diaspora.-Early life:...

    , 22, Russian-born American Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Diaspora
    Diaspora (software)
    Diaspora is a free personal web server that implements a distributed social networking service. Installations of the software form nodes which make up the distributed Diaspora social network....

     social network site, apparent suicide. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/co-founder-social-network-diaspora-184353108.html

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  • Gumaa Al-Shawan
    Gumaa Al-Shawan
    Gumaa Al-Shawan was an Egyptian double agent who worked for the Israeli Mossad from 1967 until 1973. He provided the Israelis with false military information with the help of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate.-Biography:Ahmed Al-Hawan was born and raised in Suez...

    , 74, Egyptian intelligence agent. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1672444.php/Egypt-s-most-famous-spy-on-Israel-dies-at-74
  • Cahit Aral
    Cahit Aral
    Hüseyin Cahit Aral was a Turkish engineer, politician and former government minister.Cahit Aral was born 1927 in Elazığ to primary school teacher parents Fatma and Hakkı Aral. His was named in honor of the writer and journalist Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın...

    , 84, Turkish engineer and politician, Minister of Industry and Commerce
    Ministry of Industry and Commerce (Turkey)
    The Ministry of Industry and Commerce is a government ministry office of the Republic of Turkey, responsible for industrial and commercial affairs in Turkey....

     (1983–1987). http://www.haberturk.com/gundem/haber/684690-eski-bakan-cahit-aral-vefat-etti (Turkish)
  • Fanny Edelman
    Fanny Edelman
    Fanny Jacovkis, better known as Fanny Edelman was an Argentine politician that was part of the International Brigades in defense of the Second Spanish Republic. She was president of the Communist Party of Argentina until the day of her death....

    , 100, Argentine politician, President of the PCA
    Communist Party of Argentina
    The Communist Party of Argentina is a communist party from Argentina. It was founded in 1918.At the 2005 legislative elections, the Party joined the Encuentro Amplio with other left-wing parties in Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires Province...

    . http://www.cubanradio.cu/index.php/news-on-the-radio/1-national-news/1332-fanny-edelman-communist-and-forerunner-of-womens-struggles-passes-away-
  • Sam Fink
    Sam Fink
    Sam Fink was an American calligrapher.He created illustrated and inscribed editions of various historically significant American documents. His book, The Constitution of the United States of America, was well received. The art from the book was displayed at a courthouse in Pennsylvania...

    , 95, American calligrapher. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/arts/sam-fink-letterer-and-illustrator-of-historical-texts-dies-at-95.html?ref=obituaries
  • Richard Gordon
    Richard Gordon (film producer)
    Richard Gordon was a British-born producer and financier of horror films.-Career:As a youth, Gordon displayed a love of films from an early age. While he was in school, he wrote articles on the subject, edited fan club magazines, and organized a film society...

    , 85, British horror film producer. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-richard-gordon-20111103,0,4233442.story
  • André Hodeir
    André Hodeir
    André Hodeir was a French violinist, composer, arranger and musicologist.-Biography:André Hodeir was born in Paris. His initial training was as a classical violinist and composer. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he took Olivier Messiaen's analysis class, and won first prizes in...

    , 90, French author, jazz arranger and composer. http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/actualite/index.php?&m=11&y=2011 (French)
  • Christiane Legrand
    Christiane Legrand
    Christiane Legrand was a French singer.Legrand was born in Paris, the daughter of film composer Raymond Legrand, who wrote "Irma la Douce."She studied piano and classical music from the time she was four...

    , 81, French jazz singer. http://www.tsfjazz.com/tsf-en-bref.php?id=1574
  • Sergio Montiel
    Sergio Montiel
    Sergio Alberto Montiel was an Argentinian politician, lawyer, and professor of constitutional law at the National University of the Littoral. Monitel served as Governor of Entre Ríos Province for two nonconsecutive terms: He was first elected on October 30, 1983, and served his first term until 1987...

    , 84, Argentine politician, Governor of Entre Ríos
    Entre Ríos Province
    Entre Ríos is a northeastern province of Argentina, located in the Mesopotamia region. It borders the provinces of Buenos Aires , Corrientes and Santa Fe , and Uruguay in the east....

     (1983–1987; 1999–2003). http://www.ellitoral.com/index.php/diarios/2011/11/02/politica/POLI-04.html (Spanish)
  • Dorothy Howell Rodham, 92, American homemaker, mother of Hillary Rodham Clinton
    Hillary Rodham Clinton
    Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the...

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/dorothy-rodham-mother-of-hillary-clinton-dead-at-92/2010/09/21/gIQAwFWXcM_story.html
  • Eilaine Roth
    Eilaine Roth
    Eilaine Roth [″I″] was an outfielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 2", 123 lb., she batted and threw right-handed....

    , 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL
    All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
    The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was a women's professional baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley which existed from 1943 to 1954. During the league's history, over 600 women played ball.-History:...

    ).
  • Héctor Rueda Hernández
    Héctor Rueda Hernández
    Héctor Rueda Hernández, was a Colombian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.Hernández was born in Colombia and ordained a priest on December 15, 1946. Hernández was appointed the bishop of the Archdiocese of Bucaramanga on May 5, 1960 and ordained bishop on June 19, 1960...

    , 90, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Medellín (1991–1997). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/brued.html
  • Seppo Sanaksenaho
    Seppo Sanaksenaho
    Seppo Sanaksenaho was a Finnish politician who served as the Mayor of Vaasa from 1997 to 2001.Sanaksenaho was born in Oulu, Finland, in 1938. He earned an engineering degree from the Helsinki University of Technology, which now forms part of Aalto University...

    , 73, Finnish politician, Mayor of Vaasa
    Vaasa
    Vaasa is a city on the west coast of Finland. It received its charter in 1606, during the reign of Charles IX of Sweden and is named after the Royal House of Vasa...

     (1997–2001). http://www.yle.fi/alueet/pohjanmaa/2011/11/seppo_sanaksenaho_on_kuollut_2993618.html (Finnish)
  • Katherine Siva Saubel
    Katherine Siva Saubel
    Katherine Siva Saubel was a Native American scholar, educator, tribal leader, author, and activist committed to preserving her Cahuilla history, culture and language. Her efforts focused on preserving the language of the Cahuilla people...

    , 91, American Cahuilla
    Cahuilla
    The Cahuilla, Iviatim in their own language, are Indians with a common culture whose ancestors inhabited inland areas of southern California 2,000 years ago. Their original territory included an area of about . The traditional Cahuilla territory was near the geographic center of Southern California...

     tribal leader and activist, one of the last speakers of the Cahuilla language
    Cahuilla language
    Cahuilla is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language, spoken by the Cahuilla tribe, living in the Coachella Valley, San Gorgonio Pass and San Jacinto Mountain region of Southern California. Cahuilla call themselves Iviatam, speakers of 'Ivia' - the 'original' language. A 1990 census revealed 35 speakers...

    . http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/06/local/la-me-katherine-siva-saubel-20111106
  • Robert A. Scalapino
    Robert A. Scalapino
    Robert Anthony Scalapino was an American political scientist particularly involved in East Asian studies. He was one of the founders and first chairman of the National Committee on United States – China Relations...

    , 92, American political scientist. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/11/113_98244.html
  • Ricardo Watty Urquidi
    Ricardo Watty Urquidi
    Ricardo Watty Urquidi was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Tepic in Nayarit, Mexico.Born in San Diego, California, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1968. In 1980 he was named bishop. He died in Tepic on November 1, 2011, aged 73, from pancreatic cancer....

    , 73, American-born Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tepic
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Tepic
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tepic is in Mexico and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara.-Ordinaries:*Ignacio Díaz y Macedo *Andrés Segura y Domínguez *Manuel Azpeitia Palomar...

     (since 2008), pancreatic cancer. http://www.ncronline.org/news/us-born-mexican-bishop-dies-pancreatic-cancer

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Deaths in 2001
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Deaths in 2000
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Deaths in 1999
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