Deaths 2011

January:

2nd - Richard Winters, 92, American army officer and World War II veteran, basis of book and miniseries Band of Brothers, Parkinson's disease

3rd - Jill Haworth, 65, English actress (Exodus, In Harm's Way, Cabaret, The Outer Limits), natural causes.

4th - Ali-Reza Pahlavi, 44, Iranian royal, son of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, suicide by gunshot.

8th - Peter Donaldson, 58, Canadian actor (The Sweet Hereafter, Emily of New Moon, Road to Avonlea), lung cancer

9th - Vítor Alves, 75, Portuguese soldier and politician, member of the MFA, responsible for the Carnation Revolution, cancer

10th 0 Bill Bower, 93, American aviator, last surviving pilot of Doolittle Raid, complications from a fall.

10th - John Dye, 47, American actor (Touched by an Angel), heart attack

11th - Audrey Lawson-Johnston, 95, American-born British RMS Lusitania passenger and last survivor

11th - David Nelson, 74, American actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), colon cancer

13th - Tuviah Friedman, 88, Israeli Nazi hunter.

23rd - Jack LaLanne, 96, American fitness and nutritional expert, pneumonia

February

5th - John Paul Getty III, 54, American heir and kidnapping victim, grandson of J. Paul Getty and father of Balthazar Getty, after long illness

5th - Peggy Rea, 89, American character actress (Grace Under Fire, The Dukes of Hazzard, Step by Step, The Waltons), heart failure.

27th - Frank Buckles, 110, American supercentenarian soldier, last living U.S. World War I veteran, natural causes

March

11th - Hugh Martin, 96, American songwriter ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") and film composer (Meet Me in St. Louis), natural causes

16th - Lloyd Oliver, 88, American veteran, World War II code talker

18th- -Warren Christopher, 85, American diplomat, Secretary of State (1993–1997), complications from kidney and bladder cancer.

19th - Knut, 4, German-born polar bear, drowned

23rd - Dame Elizabeth Taylor, 79, British-American actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Cleopatra, BUtterfield 8), heart failure

26th - Geraldine Ferraro, 75, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York (1979–1985) and 1984 Vice Presidential nominee, multiple myeloma

April

3rd - Amy Applegren, 83, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).

24th - Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, 87, South Vietnamese First Lady (1955–1963), after short illness.

May

1st - Moshe Landau, 99, Israeli jurist, Chief Justice (1980–1982), presided over Adolf Eichmann's trial (1961).

2nd - Osama bin Laden, 54, Saudi founder of Al-Qaeda, planned September 11 attacks, shot.

27th - Jeff Conaway, 60, American actor (Grease, Taxi, Babylon 5

June

6th - John R. Alison, 98, American airman, launched the Allied Reoccupation of Burma during World War II

6th- Eleanor Dapkus, 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League), breast cancer

7th - Mietek Pemper, 91, Polish-born German Holocaust survivor, compiled and typed Oskar Schindler's list

12th - Geoffrey Fisken, 95, New Zealand World War II flying ace.

12th - Alan Haberman, 81, American grocer, first to use the barcode system, heart and lung disease

18th - Yelena Bonner, 88, Russian human rights activist, after long illness

23rd - Peter Falk, 83, American actor (Columbo, Murder, Inc., Pocketful of Miracles, The Princess Bride)

July

4th - Otto von Habsburg, 98, Austro-Hungarian royal and politician, MEP (1979–1999).

4th - Lawrence R. Newman, 86, American advocate for the deaf

8th - Betty Ford, 93, American First Lady (1974–1977) and co-founder of Betty Ford Center.

12th - Bolesław Gładych, 93, Polish World War II flying ace

17th - Joe Morris, Sr., 85, American Navajo World War II code talker

23rd - John Shalikashvili, 75, Polish-born American army general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1993–1997), stroke.

23rd - Amy Winehouse, 27, British singer-songwriter ("Rehab"), accidental alcohol poisoning

August

1st - Zhanna Prokhorenko, 71, Russian film actress (Ballad of a Soldier).

3rd - Rudolf Brazda, 98, German concentration camp prisoner, last known survivor of pink triangle homosexual deportation

3rd - Annette Charles, 63, American actress (Grease), complications of lung cancer.

14th- Albert Brown, 105, American veteran, oldest survivor of Bataan Death March

30th - Lou Zaeske, 69, American founder of English-only movement, advocate for Czech ethnic causes.

September

5th - Charles S. Dubin, 92, American film and television director (Hawaii Five-O, Kojak, M*A*S*H), natural causes

6th - Archduke Felix of Austria, 95, Austrian royal, last surviving child of Charles I of Austria

10th - Cliff Robertson, 88, American actor (Charly, Spider-Man, PT 109), natural causes.

15th - Dorothy Harrell, 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

16th - Kara Kennedy, 51, American television producer, daughter of Ted Kennedy, heart attack.

October

7th - Paul Kent, 80, American actor (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Three's Company), multiple myeloma

10th - Alan Fudge, 67, American actor (7th Heaven, Matlock, Hawaii 5-O), lung and liver cancer

12th - Patricia Breslin, 80, American actress (The People's Choice, Peyton Place, The Twilight Zone), wife of Art Modell, pancreatitis

20th - Jerzy Bielecki, 90, Polish social worker, survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp, Polish Righteous among the Nations recipient

20th - Muammar Gaddafi, 69, Libyan leader (1969–2011), shot

22nd - Sultan, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, 83, Saudi royal, Minister of Defense and Aviation (since 1962) and Crown Prince (since 2005).

28th - Ed Walker, 94, American World War II veteran and writer, last surviving member of Castner's Cutthroats.

November

4th - Andy Rooney, 92, American journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent (1978–2011), surgical complications

8th - Bil Keane, 89, American cartoonist (The Family Circus), heart failure

15th - Karl Slover, 93, Slovak-born American actor (The Wizard of Oz).

17th - Enric Garriga i Trullols, 85, Spanish Catalan independentist and defender of Occitan Nation.

22nd - Svetlana Alliluyeva, 85, Soviet-born American defector and author, daughter of Joseph Stalin, colon cancer

22nd - Danielle Mitterrand, 87, French activist, widow of François Mitterrand, First Lady of the French Republic (1981–1995).

30th - Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, 72, Albanian royal and politician, pretender to the Albanian throne (since 1961).

December

6th - Dobie Gray, 71, American singer ("The 'In' Crowd", "Drift Away").

7th - Harry Morgan, 96, American actor (M*A*S*H, Dragnet), pneumonia

8th - Nancy Hoyt, 56, American reality show contestant (The Amazing Race), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

17th - Kim Jong-il, 69 or 70, North Korean Supreme Leader (since 1994), heart attack.

18th - Václav Havel, 75, Czech playwright and politician, President of Czechoslovakia (1989–1992) and the Czech Republic (1993–2003).