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Habiba El Medkouri

حبيبة المذكوري

Morocco

1927 – 2011 (84 years old)

Historic pioneer of Moroccan dramatic performance, known as the 'First Lady of Radio Drama' whose expressive voice on Radio Maroc in 1952 broke social taboos to launch female acting in Morocco.

Rabat, Morocco

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Barbara Kent

Barbara Cloutman

Canada

1907 – 2011 (103 years old)

One of the last surviving adult stars of the Hollywood silent film era, who starred opposite Greta Garbo in Flesh and the Devil and played Harold Lloyd's leading lady in Welcome Danger and Feet First.

Palm Desert, United States

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Charles Napier

Charles Whitcomb Napier

United States

1936 – 2011 (75 years old)

Prolific, square-jawed American character actor with an unmistakable booming voice, famous for memorable roles in The Blues Brothers, Rambo: First Blood Part II, and The Silence of the Lambs.

Arvin, United States

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Bert Jansch

Herbert Jansch

Great Britain

1943 – 2011 (67 years old)

Legendary Scottish folk musician and acoustic guitarist whose intricate clawhammer fingerstyle technique profoundly influenced Jimmy Page, Neil Young, and Nick Drake.

London, United Kingdom

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Tatyana Lioznova

Татьяна Михайловна Лиознова

Russia

1924 – 2011 (87 years old)

Master Soviet film director who created Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973), the twelve-part television masterpiece that became the most popular and culturally influential spy drama in Russian history.

Moscow, Russia

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Paulette Dubost

Paulette Marie Emma Deplanque

France

1910 – 2011 (100 years old)

Centenarian French actress whose vibrant 80-year screen career encompassed over 250 films, immortalized as Lisette the chambermaid in Jean Renoir's masterpiece The Rules of the Game.

Arpajon, France

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Richard Hamilton

Richard William Hamilton

Great Britain

1922 – 2011 (89 years old)

English painter and collage artist hailed as the father of Pop Art for his 1956 collage Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? and designer of The Beatles' White Album.

Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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Mohammed Ghani Hikmat

محمد غني حكمت

Iraq

20 April 1929 – 12 September 2011 (82 years old)

Beloved 'Sheikh of Sculptors' whose iconic bronze public monuments—including Kahramana and Baghdad Saving Culture—grace the capital.

Baghdad, Iraq

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Andy Whitfield

Andy Whitfield

Great Britain

1971 – 2011 (39 years old)

Welsh-Australian actor and engineer who captured global attention with his fierce and deeply humane performance as the Thracian gladiator in Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

Sydney, Australia

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Cliff Robertson

Clifford Parker Robertson III

United States

1923 – 2011 (88 years old)

Academy Award-winning American actor who won Best Actor for Charly (1968), portrayed JFK in PT 109, played Uncle Ben in Spider-Man, and heroically exposed Hollywood studio embezzlement.

East Hampton, United States

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René Perez

رينيه بيريز

Algeria

1940 – 2011 (71 years old)

Distinguished Jewish-Algerian tenor and oud virtuoso from Oran who dedicated his career to keeping the classical Tlemcen-Oran Gharnati tradition alive across the Mediterranean.

Oran, Algeria

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Kamal El-Shennawi

كمال الشناوي

Egypt

1918 – 2011 (92 years old)

One of the most celebrated and prolific leading men of the Golden Age of Egyptian cinema, starring in over 200 films opposite Faten Hamama, Shadia, and Soad Hosny across six decades.

6th of October City, Egypt

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Hend Rostom

هند رستم

Egypt

1929 – 2011 (81 years old)

Iconic Egyptian actress dubbed 'The Marilyn Monroe of the East', immortalized for her fiery performance as Hanuma in Youssef Chahine's masterpiece Cairo Station (1958).

Cairo, Egypt

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Roman Opałka

Roman Opałka

France

1931 – 2011 (79 years old)

French-born Polish conceptual painter who spent 46 years on a single monumental artistic project: painting consecutive numbers from 1 towards infinity to capture the passing of mortal time.

Paris, France

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Annette Charles

Annette Cardona

United States

1948 – 2011 (63 years old)

American actress and dancer forever remembered for her show-stopping turn as 'Cha Cha' DiGregorio, the fierce dancer who wins the national dance-off with John Travolta in Grease (1978).

Los Angeles, United States

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Michael Cacoyannis

Μιχάλης Κακογιάννης

Cyprus

1921 – 2011 (90 years old)

Cypriot-Greek film director and theatrical visionary best known for his 1964 international classic Zorba the Greek and his acclaimed cinematic adaptations of Euripidean tragedies.

Athens, Greece

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Amy Winehouse

Amy Jade Winehouse

Great Britain

1983 – 2011 (27 years old)

Prodigious English singer and songwriter whose rich, expressive contralto and mix of soul, jazz, and R&B on Back to Black won five Grammy Awards and revived vintage soul music.

Edgware, United Kingdom

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Lucian Freud

Lucian Michael Freud

Germany

1922 – 2011 (88 years old)

British painter born in Germany, grandson of Sigmund Freud, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest figurative artists of the 20th century for his unsparing, intensely physical nudes and portraits.

London, United Kingdom

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