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Googie Withers

Georgette Lizette Withers

Pakistan

1917 – 2011 (94 years old)

Beloved Anglo-Australian stage and film actress whose eight-decade career featured classics including Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, It Always Rains on Sunday, and Night and the City.

Sydney, Australia

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Roland Petit

Roland Petit

France

1924 – 2011 (87 years old)

Legendary French choreographer and dancer who revitalized 20th-century ballet with theatrical energy, creating Le Jeune Homme et la Mort and directing the Ballet National de Marseille for 26 years.

Paris, France

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Facundo Cabral

Rodolfo Enrique Facundo Cabral

Argentina

1937 – 2011 (74 years old)

Beloved Argentine singer-songwriter and philosopher whose 1970 song No soy de aquí ni soy de allá became an international humanist anthem, designated a UNESCO World Messenger of Peace.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Cy Twombly

Edwin Parker Twombly Jr.

United States

1928 – 2011 (83 years old)

Master American abstract painter and sculptor whose large-scale calligraphic scribbles, graffiti-like marks, and poetic invocations of classical mythology redefined post-war contemporary art.

Rome, Italy

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Anna Massey

Anna Raymond Massey

Great Britain

1937 – 2011 (73 years old)

Acclaimed English actress who won the BAFTA TV Award for Hotel du Lac and starred in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom and Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy.

London, United Kingdom

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Peter Falk

Peter Michael Falk

United States

1927 – 2011 (83 years old)

Iconic American actor who gained global affection as the rumpled, deceptively brilliant police detective Lieutenant Columbo, and starred in independent classics for John Cassavetes.

Los Angeles, United States

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Clarence Clemons

Clarence Anicholas Clemons Jr.

United States

1942 – 2011 (69 years old)

Towering American saxophonist known as 'The Big Man', whose soulful, soaring tenor sax solos formed the emotional heart of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band for four decades.

Palm Beach, United States

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M. F. Husain

मक़बूल फ़िदा हुसेन

India

1915 – 2011 (95 years old)

Iconic Indian modernist painter dubbed the 'Picasso of India', co-founder of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, celebrated for his dynamic galloping horses and monumental mythological epics.

Woking (Surrey), United Kingdom

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Claudio Bravo

Claudio Nelson Bravo Camus

Chile

1936 – 2011 (74 years old)

Renowned Chilean hyperrealist painter influenced by Spanish Golden Age masters like Zurbarán, celebrated for luminous still lifes, wrapped packages, and his palatial studio in Morocco.

Taroudant, Morocco

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Dimi Mint Abba

ديمي منت آبا (لولا منت سداتي)

Mauritania

1958 – 2011 (52 years old)

Immense Mauritanian singer and ardin (harp) player hailed as the 'Diva of the Desert', who won the 1976 Pan-Arab Youth Music Prize in Tunis and brought Saharan music to world festivals.

Nouakchott, Mauritania

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James Arness

James King Aurness

United States

1923 – 2011 (88 years old)

Towering 6-foot-7 American actor and decorated World War II veteran who starred as Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke for twenty seasons, one of television's longest-running roles.

Glendale, United States

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Clarice Taylor

Clarice Taylor

United States

1917 – 2011 (93 years old)

Pioneering African American stage and television actress, founding member of the Negro Ensemble Company, beloved as grandmother Anna Huxtable on The Cosby Show and Harriet on Sesame Street.

Englewood, United States

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Jeff Conaway

Jeffrey Charles William Michael Conaway

United States

1950 – 2011 (60 years old)

Charismatic American actor remembered as Kenickie in the blockbuster film musical Grease, struggling actor Bobby Wheeler on Taxi, and Security Chief Zack Allan on Babylon 5.

Los Angeles, United States

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Leonora Carrington

Mary Leonora Carrington

Great Britain

1917 – 2011 (94 years old)

British-born Mexican Surrealist painter, sculptor, and novelist celebrated for her enchanting, alchemical dreamscapes steeped in Celtic mythology, occult lore, and female autonomy.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Edward Hardwicke

Edward Cedric Hardwicke

Great Britain

1932 – 2011 (78 years old)

Distinguished English stage and screen actor celebrated worldwide as the definitive, intelligent Dr. John Watson opposite Jeremy Brett in Granada Television's Sherlock Holmes series.

Chichester, United Kingdom

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Snooky Young

Eugene Edward Young

United States

1919 – 2011 (92 years old)

Master American big band lead trumpeter celebrated for his powerful tone, impeccable plunger-mute technique, and decades of trumpet leadership with Count Basie and The Tonight Show Band.

Corona del Mar, United States

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Jackie Cooper

John Cooper Jr.

United States

1922 – 2011 (88 years old)

American actor and director who made history at age nine as the youngest nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Skippy, and later played Daily Planet editor Perry White in Superman.

Arlington, United States

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Marie-France Pisier

Marie-France Pisier

Vietnam

1944 – 2011 (66 years old)

Elegant French actress, screenwriter, and director discovered by François Truffaut as Colette in the Antoine Doinel cycle, who won consecutive César Awards for Cousin Cousine and Barocco.

Guéthary, France

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