Farewell
Among those who died in 2011...
Media and publishing
David Broder, political journalist with The Washington Post, died March 9, age 81.
Manning Marable, black-studies pioneer and biographer of Malcolm X, died April 1, age 60.
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Jane Scott, influential rock critic, died July 4, age 92.
Kara Kennedy, television producer and daughter of Ted Kennedy, died Sept. 16, age 51.
Eleanor Mondale, television journalist and daughter of Walter Mondale, died Sept. 17, age 51.
Andy Rooney, curmudgeonly 60 Minutes commentator, died Nov. 4, age 92.
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Tom Wicker, reporter and columnist for The New York Times, died Nov. 25, age 85.
Russell Hoban, author of Riddley Walker, died Dec. 13, age 86.
Christopher Hitchens, atheist iconoclast and master polemicist, died Dec. 15, age 62.
Stage and screen
Pete Postlethwaite, British character actor, died Jan. 2, age 64.
Romulus Linney, playwright and father of actress Laura Linney, died Jan. 15, age 80.
Maria Schneider, French actress who starred in Last Tango in Paris, died Feb. 3, age 58.
Jane Russell, movie star and WWII pinup, died Feb. 28, age 89.
Elizabeth Taylor, Oscar-winning actress renowned for her beauty and her many marriages, died March 23, age 79.
Sidney Lumet, director of Network, died April 9, age 86.
James Arness, portrayer of Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke, died June 3, age 88.
Peter Falk, rumple-coated star of Columbo, died June 23, age 83.
Cliff Robertson, actor who played JFK in PT 109, died Sept. 10, age 88.
Sue Mengers, agent to Hollywood stars, died Oct. 15, age 79.
Music and the arts
George Shearing, British-born jazz pianist and composer, died Feb. 14, age 91.
Phoebe Snow, singer-songwriter who sang “Poetry Man,” died April 26, age 60.
Gil Scott-Heron, whose spoken-word piece “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” set the stage for rap, died May 27, age 62.
Cy Twombly, abstract painter, died July 5, age 83.
Lucian Freud, British portrait painter, died July 20, age 88.
Amy Winehouse, British soul singer and songwriter, died July 23, age 27.
Jerry Leiber, lyricist of such hits as “Yakety Yak,” died Aug. 22, age 78.
Salvatore Licitra, powerful operatic tenor, died Sept. 5, age 43.
Politics
Sargent Shriver, 1972 Democratic vice presidential candidate and U.S. ambassador to France, died Jan. 18, age 95.
Warren Christopher, secretary of state under President Clinton, died March 18, age 85.
Geraldine Ferraro, Democratic congresswoman and 1984 vice presidential candidate, died March 26, age 75.
Lawrence Eagleburger, secretary of state in the final months of George H.W. Bush’s administration, died June 4, age 80.
Betty Ford, First Lady who openly discussed her breast cancer and alcohol addiction, died July 8, age 93.
Gen. John Shalikashvili, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Clinton, died July 23, age 75.
Charles Percy, moderate Republican senator from Illinois, died Sept. 17, age 91.
Laura Pollán, founder of Cuban dissident group Ladies in White, died Oct. 14, age 63.
Vaclav Havel, Czech dissident playwright turned president, died Dec. 18, age 75.
General
Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisian fruit seller whose self-immolation triggered the Arab Spring, died Jan. 4, age 26.
Jack LaLanne, energetic advocate of fitness and good nutrition, died Jan. 23, age 96.
Frank W. Buckles, last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I, died Feb. 27, age 110.
Edwin “Duke” Snider, slugger for the Dodgers in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, died Feb. 27, age 84.
Peter J. Gomes, preacher and Harvard Divinity School professor, died Feb. 28, age 68.
Owsley Stanley, underground LSD chemist and sound engineer for the Grateful Dead, died March 13, age 76.
Sidney Harman, hi-fi innovator and entrepreneur who bought Newsweek in 2010 for $1, died April 12, age 92.
Grete Waitz, Norwegian-born runner who won the New York City Marathon nine times, died April 19, age 57.
Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer who won the British Open three times and the Masters twice, died May 7, age 54.
Randy Savage, professional wrestler known as “Macho Man,” died May 20, age 58.
Jack Kevorkian, physician and activist for assisted suicide, died June 3, age 83.
Wangari Maathai, Kenyan advocate for reforestation and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, died Sept. 25, age 71.
Steve Jobs, co-founder and driving spirit of Apple Inc., died Oct. 5, age 56.
Joe Frazier, heavyweight boxing champion, died Nov. 7, age 67.
Patricia C. Dunn, former chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard, died Dec. 4, age 58.