Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Sports & Athletics

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Seve Ballesteros

Severiano Ballesteros Sota

Spain

1957 – 2011 (54 years old)

Charismatic Spanish golfing genius who won five Major championships (three Open Championships, two Masters) and single-handedly transformed European golf into a global superpower.

Pedreña, Spain

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Sciences & Discovery

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Willard Boyle

Willard Sterling Boyle

Canada

1924 – 2011 (86 years old)

Canadian physicist who co-invented the Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) sensor at Bell Labs, winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics and enabling the digital imaging revolution.

Wallace, Canada

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Arts & Music

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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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Literature & Poetry

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Ernesto Sabato

Ernesto Sabato

Argentina

1911 – 2011 (99 years old)

Towering Argentine novelist and moral authority who wrote The Tunnel and On Heroes and Tombs, and led the landmark CONADEP investigation Nunca Más into military junta disappearances.

Pilar, Argentina

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Literature & Poetry

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Gonzalo Rojas

Gonzalo Rojas Pizarro

Chile

1916 – 2011 (94 years old)

One of Chile's greatest 20th-century poets, Cervantes Prize laureate, whose intense, rhythmic, and erotic verse explored mortality, love, and political exile.

Chillán, Chile

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Arts & Music

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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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Arts & Music

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Mikhail Kozakov

Михаил Михайлович Козаков

Russia

1934 – 2011 (76 years old)

Versatile Soviet-Russian and Israeli actor, theater director, and filmmaker who directed the beloved comedy classic The Pokrovsky Gate and was renowned for masterful recitations of Russian poetry.

Moscow, Russia

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Politics

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Allan Blakeney

Allan Blakeney

Canada

8 November 1925 – 16 April 2011 (85 years old)

Rhodes Scholar premier of Saskatchewan whose masterful state-led economic model nationalized potash and oil, and who secured provincial resource rights in the 1982 Constitution.

Regina, Canada

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Arts & Music

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Trevor Bannister

Trevor Gordon Bannister

Great Britain

1934 – 2011 (76 years old)

English comedic actor beloved worldwide as the cheekily insubordinate junior menswear salesman Mr. Dick Lucas in the iconic BBC sitcom Are You Being Served?.

Thames Ditton, United Kingdom

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Sciences & Discovery

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William Lipscomb

William Nunn Lipscomb Jr.

United States

1919 – 2011 (91 years old)

Eminent American chemist awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his groundbreaking structural and theoretical studies of borane chemical bonding.

Cambridge, United States

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Arts & Music

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Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet

United States

1924 – 2011 (86 years old)

Master American film director of gritty urban morality tales, who directed cinematic milestones including 12 Angry Men, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, and The Verdict.

New York City, United States

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Politics

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Ange-Félix Patassé

Ange-Felix Patasse

Central African Republic

1937-01-25 – 2011-04-05 (74 years old)

First democratically elected President of the Central African Republic (1993–2003) following multiparty elections, having previously served as an agronomist and Prime Minister.

Paoua, Central African Republic

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Sciences & Discovery

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Baruch Samuel Blumberg

Baruch Samuel Blumberg

United States

1925 – 2011 (85 years old)

American medical scientist who discovered the Hepatitis B virus, developed its diagnostic screening test, and invented the Hepatitis B vaccine, winning the 1976 Nobel Prize.

Philadelphia, United States

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History

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Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof

Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof

Gambia

1924 – 2011 (86 years old)

Gambian historian, politician, author, and Pan-Africanist activist who spearheaded anti-colonial campaigns in the 1950s.

Banjul, Gambia

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Manning Marable

William Manning Marable

United States

1950 – 2011 (60 years old)

Distinguished American historian and Columbia University professor who founded the Institute for Research in African-American Studies and won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his definitive biography of Malcolm X.

Hartsdale, United States

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Arts & Music

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Farley Granger

Farley Earle Granger II

United States

1925 – 2011 (85 years old)

Handsome American Hollywood leading man best remembered for his starring roles in two of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thrillers: Rope (1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951).

New York City, United States

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Geraldine Ferraro

Geraldine Anne Ferraro

United States

1935 – 2011 (75 years old)

Pioneering American politician and attorney who shattered political ceilings in 1984 as the first woman nominated for Vice President on a major American party presidential ticket.

Middle Village, United States

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Sciences & Discovery

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Paul Baran

Pessach Baran

Poland

1926 – 2011 (84 years old)

Polish-American engineer at the RAND Corporation who co-invented packet switching, conceiving the decentralized distributed communications architecture that became the ARPANET and Internet.

Palo Alto, United States

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