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This article is about the year 2011. For The Smithereens album, see 2011 (album). 2011 (MMXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2011th year of theCommon Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 11th year of the 3rd millennium, the 11th year of the21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2010s decade.

2011 was designated as:
 * International Year of Forests
 * International Year of Chemistry[1]
 * International Year for People of African Descent

Contents

 * 1Events
 * 2Births
 * 3Deaths
 * 4Nobel Prizes
 * 5New English words
 * 6References

January[edit]

 * January 1
 * Estonia officially adopts the Euro currency and becomes the 17th Eurozone country.[2]
 * A bomb explodes as Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, leave a new year service, killing 23 people.
 * January 4 – Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi dies after setting himself on fire a month earlier, sparking anti-government protests in Tunisia and later other Arab nations. These protests become known collectively as the Arab Spring.[3] [4]
 * January 9–15 – Southern Sudan holds a referendum on independence. The Sudanese electorate votes in favour of independence, paving the way for the creation of the new state in July.[5] [6]
 * January 9 – Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Orumiyeh in the northeast of the country, killing 77 people.
 * January 14 – The Tunisian government falls after a month of increasingly violent protests; President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees to Saudi Arabia after 23 years in power.[7] [8]
 * January 24 – 37 people are killed and more than 180 others wounded in a bombing at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia.[9] [10] [11]

February[edit]

 * February 11 – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigns after widespread protests calling for his departure, leaving control of Egypt in the hands of the military until a general election can be held.[12]
 * February 15 – The First Libyan Civil War starts.
 * February 22 – March 14 – Uncertainty over Libyan oil output causes crude oil prices to rise 20% over a two-week period following the Arab Spring,[13]  causing the 2011 energy crisis.
 * February 22 – A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes Christchurch, New Zealand. Over 180 people were killed, many within the CTV Building, including a large number of foreign citizens. A large number of foreign search and rescue workers responded to the event.

March[edit]

 * March 6 – Civil uprising phase of the Syrian Civil War is triggered when 15 youths in Daraa are arrested for scrawling graffiti on their school wall denouncing the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
 * March 11 – A 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of Japan, killing 15,840 and leaving another 3,926 missing. Tsunami warnings are issued in 50 countries and territories. Emergencies are declared at four nuclear power plants affected by the quake.[14]
 * March 15
 * Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain, declares a three-month state of emergency as troops from the Gulf Co-operation Council are sent to quell the civil unrest.[15] [16]
 * Protests breakout across Syria demanding democratic reforms, resignation of President Bashar al-Assad, and release of those imprisoned for the March 6 Daraa protest.<sup id="cite_ref-17">[17]  The government responds by killing hundreds of protesters and laying siege to various cities, beginning the Syrian Civil War.<sup id="cite_ref-18">[18]
 * March 17 – The United Nations Security Council votes 10–0 to create a no-fly zone over Libya in response to allegations of government aggression against civilians.<sup id="cite_ref-19">[19]
 * March 19 – In light of continuing attacks on Libyan rebels by forces in support of leader Muammar Gaddafi,<sup id="cite_ref-20">[20]  military intervention authorized under UNSCR 1973 begins as French fighter jets make reconnaissance flights over Libya.<sup id="cite_ref-21">[21]

April[edit]

 * April 2 – India wins the 2011 Cricket World Cup.
 * April 11 – Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo is arrested in his home in Abidjan by supporters of elected President Alassane Ouattara, with support from French forces; this effectively ends the 2010–11 Ivorian crisis and civil war.<sup id="cite_ref-22">[22]
 * April 15 – The Mexican town of Cherán is taken over by vigilantes in response to abuses from the local drug cartel. The new government is strongly focused on crime reduction and preserving the local environment.
 * April 25–28 – The 2011 Super Outbreak forms in the Southern, Midwest and Eastern United States with a tornadocount of 362; killing 324 and injuring over 2,200.
 * April 29 – An estimated two billion people<sup id="cite_ref-23">[23]  watch the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London.

May[edit]

 * May 1 – U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant groupAl-Qaeda, was killed on May 2, 2011 (PKT, UTC+05) during an American military operation in Pakistan.<sup id="cite_ref-24">[24]
 * May 16 – The European Union agrees to a €78 billion rescue deal for Portugal. The bailout loan will be equally split between the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism, the European Financial Stability Facility, and theInternational Monetary Fund.<sup id="cite_ref-25">[25]
 * May 21 – Grímsvötn, Iceland's most active volcano, erupts and causes disruption to air travel in Northwestern Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-26">[26]
 * May 22 – The 2011 Joplin tornado, an EF5 tornado that formed in Joplin, Missouri, kills 158 and injures 1,150.
 * May 26 – Former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladić, wanted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, is arrested in Serbia.<sup id="cite_ref-27">[27] <sup id="cite_ref-28">[28]

June[edit]

 * June 4 – Chile's Puyehue volcano erupts, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand and Australia, and forcing over 3,000 people to evacuate.
 * June 26 – July 17 – The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup takes place in Germany and is won by Japan.
 * June 28 – The Food and Agriculture Organization announces the eradication of the cattle plague rinderpest from the world.<sup id="cite_ref-29">[29]

July[edit]

 * July 9 – South Sudan secedes from Sudan, per the result of the independence referendum held in January.<sup id="cite_ref-30">[30]
 * July 12 – The planet Neptune completes its first orbit since it was discovered in 1846.<sup id="cite_ref-31">[31]
 * July 14 – South Sudan joins the United Nations as the 193rd member.<sup id="cite_ref-32">[32]
 * July 20
 * Goran Hadžić is detained in Serbia, becoming the last of 161 people indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.<sup id="cite_ref-33">[33]
 * The United Nations declares a famine in southern Somalia, the first in over 30 years.<sup id="cite_ref-34">[34]
 * July 21 – Space Shuttle Atlantis lands successfully at Kennedy Space Center after completing STS-135, concluding NASA's Space Shuttle program.<sup id="cite_ref-landing_times_35-0">[35]
 * July 22 – In Norway, Anders Behring Breivik kills 8 people in a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, then kills 69 at a massacre at a Workers' Youth League camp on the island of Utøya.<sup id="cite_ref-36">[36]
 * July 31 – In Thailand over 12.8 million people are affected by severe flooding. The World Bank estimates damages at 1,440 billion baht (US$45 billion).<sup id="cite_ref-time_37-0">[37]  Some areas are still six feet under water, and many factory areas remain closed at the end of the year. 815<sup id="cite_ref-38">[38]  people are killed, with 58 of the country's 77 provinces affected.<sup id="cite_ref-39">[39]

August[edit]

 * August – Stock exchanges worldwide suffer heavy losses due to the fears of contagion of the European sovereign debt crisis and the credit rating downgraded as a result of the debt-ceiling crisis of the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-40">[40] <sup id="cite_ref-41">[41]
 * August 5
 * NASA announces that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured photographic evidence of possible liquidwater on Mars during warm seasons.
 * Juno, the first solar-powered spacecraft on a mission to Jupiter, is launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.<sup id="cite_ref-42">[42]
 * August 20–28 – Libyan rebels take control of the capital Tripoli, effectively overthrowing the government of Muammar Gaddafi.<sup id="cite_ref-43">[43] <sup id="cite_ref-44">[44] <sup id="cite_ref-45">[45]

September[edit]

 * September 5 – India and Bangladesh sign a pact to end their 40-year border demarcation dispute.<sup id="cite_ref-46">[46]
 * September 10 – The MV Spice Islander I, carrying at least 800 people, sinks off the coast of Zanzibar, killing 240 people.<sup id="cite_ref-xinhua_47-0">[47]
 * September 12 – Approximately 100 people die after a petrol pipeline explodes in Nairobi.<sup id="cite_ref-48">[48]
 * September 17 – Occupy Wall Street protests begin in the United States. This develops into the Occupy movement which spreads to 82 countries by October.<sup id="cite_ref-cnn_49-0">[49] <sup id="cite_ref-adbusters1_50-0">[50] <sup id="cite_ref-51">[51] <sup id="cite_ref-52">[52] <sup id="cite_ref-guardian_53-0">[53] <sup id="cite_ref-theatlantic_54-0">[54] <sup id="cite_ref-55">[55] <sup id="cite_ref-56">[56] <sup id="cite_ref-guardian2_57-0">[57]
 * September 19 – With 434 dead, the United Nations launches a $357 million appeal for victims of the 2011 Sindh floods in Pakistan.<sup id="cite_ref-58">[58]

October[edit]

 * October 4 – The death toll from the flooding of Cambodia's Mekong river and attendant flash floods reaches 207.<sup id="cite_ref-59">[59]
 * October 18 – Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange: Israel and the Palestinian militant organization Hamas begin a major prisoner exchange, in which the captured Israeli Army soldier Gilad Shalit is released by Hamas in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian and Israeli-Arab prisoners held in Israel, including 280 prisoners serving life sentences for planning and perpetrating terror attacks.<sup id="cite_ref-60">[60] <sup id="cite_ref-61">[61] <sup id="cite_ref-62">[62]
 * October 20
 * Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is killed in Sirte, with National Transitional Council forces taking control of the city and ending the war.<sup id="cite_ref-63">[63] <sup id="cite_ref-64">[64] <sup id="cite_ref-65">[65] <sup id="cite_ref-66">[66]
 * Basque separatist militant organisation ETA declares an end to its 43-year campaign of political violence, which has killed over 800 people since 1968.<sup id="cite_ref-67">[67]
 * October 23 – A magnitude 7.2 Mw earthquake jolts eastern Turkey near the city of Van, killing over 600 people and damaging about 2,200 buildings.<sup id="cite_ref-68">[68]
 * October 27 – After an emergency meeting in Brussels, the European Union announces an agreement to tackle the European sovereign debt crisis which includes awritedown of 50% of Greek bonds, a recapitalisation of European banks and an increase of the bailout fund of the European Financial Stability Facility totaling to €1 trillion.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCleaders_69-0">[69] <sup id="cite_ref-70">[70]
 * October 31
 * Date selected by the UN as the symbolic date when global population reaches seven billion.<sup id="cite_ref-71">[71]
 * UNESCO admits Palestine as a member, following a vote which 107 member states support and 14 oppose.<sup id="cite_ref-72">[72]

November[edit]

 * November 26 – The Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, the most elaborate Martian exploration vehicle to date, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center. It lands on Mars on August 6, 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-73">[73] <sup id="cite_ref-74">[74] <sup id="cite_ref-75">[75]
 * November 30 – The United Kingdom severs diplomatic relations with Iran and expels diplomats, less than 24 hours after protesters attacked the British embassy in Tehran.<sup id="cite_ref-76">[76]

December[edit]

 * December 15 – The United States formally declares an end to the Iraq War. While this ends the insurgency, it begins another.<sup id="cite_ref-77">[77] <sup id="cite_ref-78">[78] <sup id="cite_ref-79">[79] <sup id="cite_ref-80">[80] <sup id="cite_ref-81">[81]
 * December 16 – Tropical Storm Washi causes 1,268 flash flood fatalities in the Philippines, with 85 people officially listed as missing.<sup id="cite_ref-washi_official_82-0">[82]
 * December 29 – Samoa and Tokelau move from east to west of the International Date Line, thereby skipping December 30, in order to align their time zones better with their main trading partners.<sup id="cite_ref-tribune_83-0">[83]

Births[edit]

 * January 8 – Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine of Denmark

Deaths[edit]
Main article: Deaths in 2011

Further information: Category:2011 deaths

January[edit]


Gerry Rafferty
 * January 2
 * Pete Postlethwaite, British actor (b. 1946)
 * Richard Winters, American paratrooper (b. 1918)
 * January 4
 * Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi of Iran (b. 1966)
 * Gerry Rafferty, Scottish musician (b. 1947)
 * January 15
 * Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (b. 1925)
 * Susannah York, British actress (b. 1939)
 * January 21 – Dennis Oppenheim, American artist (b. 1938)
 * January 29 – Milton Babbitt, American composer (b. 1916)
 * January 30 – John Barry, English composer (b. 1933)

February[edit]


Jane Russell
 * February 2 – Daniela Castelo, Argentine journalist (b. 1968)
 * February 3 – Maria Schneider, French actress (b. 1952)
 * February 4 – Martial Célestin, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1913)
 * February 5 – Brian Jacques, British author (b. 1939)
 * February 6
 * Josefa Iloilo, 2-Time President of Fiji (b. 1920)
 * Gary Moore, British musician (b. 1952)
 * February 8 – Cesare Rubini, Italian basketball player and coach (b. 1923)
 * February 12
 * Betty Garrett, American actress and dancer (b. 1919)
 * February 14 – George Shearing, British-American jazz pianist (b. 1919)
 * February 17 – Michelle Monkhouse, Canadian fashion model (b. 1991)
 * February 23 – Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava, Indian founder of Sahaja Yoga (b. 1923)
 * February 27 – Necmettin Erbakan, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1926)
 * February 28 – Jane Russell, American actress (b. 1921)

March[edit]


Alberto Granado



Elizabeth Taylor
 * March 2 – Allan Louisy, 2nd Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (b. 1916)
 * March 4
 * Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 30th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1924)
 * Simon van der Meer, Dutch Nobel physicist (b. 1925)
 * March 5 – Alberto Granado, Cuban writer and scientist (b. 1922)
 * March 6 – Ján Popluhár, Slovak footballer (b. 1935)
 * March 8 – Mike Starr, American musician (b. 1966)
 * March 15 – Nate Dogg, American rapper (b. 1969)
 * March 17 – Michael Gough, British actor (b. 1916)
 * March 18 – Warren Christopher, American diplomat (b. 1925)
 * March 21 – Nikolai Andrianov, Soviet-Russian gymnast (b. 1952)
 * March 23 – Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress (b. 1932)
 * March 26
 * Paul Baran, Polish-American computer engineer (b. 1926)
 * Geraldine Ferraro, American politician (b. 1935)
 * Diana Wynne Jones, British writer (b. 1934)
 * March 27 – Farley Granger, American actor (b. 1925)
 * March 29 – José Alencar, Brazilian politician (b. 1931)
 * March 31 – Mary Greyeyes, the first First Nations woman to join the Canadian Armed Forces (b. 1920)

April[edit]


William Lipscomb
 * April 5
 * Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician (b. 1925)
 * Ange-Félix Patassé, 5th President of the Central African Republic (b. 1937)
 * April 9 – Sidney Lumet, American film director (b. 1924)
 * April 14 – William Lipscomb, American chemist (b. 1919)
 * April 17 – AJ Perez, Filipino actor (b. 1993)
 * April 19 – Grete Waitz, Norwegian athlete (b. 1953)
 * April 19 – Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (b. 1946)
 * April 24 – Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1926)
 * April 30 – Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer (b. 1911)

May[edit]


Osama bin Laden



Jeff Conaway
 * May 2 – Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born leader of Al-Qaeda (b. 1957)
 * May 3 – Jackie Cooper, American actor (b. 1922)
 * May 5 – Claude Choules, Anglo-Australian military serviceman (b. 1901)
 * May 7
 * Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (b. 1957)
 * Willard Boyle, Canadian Nobel physicist (b. 1924)
 * May 9 – Lidia Gueiler Tejada, 67th President of Bolivia (b. 1921)
 * May 15 – Samuel Wanjiru, Kenyan athlete (b. 1986)
 * May 18 – Guy Razanamasy, 2-Time Prime Minister of Madagascar (b. 1928)
 * May 19 – Garret FitzGerald, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1926)
 * May 20 – Randy Savage, American professional wrestler (b. 1952)
 * May 23
 * Nasser Hejazi, Iranian footballer (b. 1949)
 * Xavier Tondo, Spanish professional racing cyclist (b. 1978)
 * May 27
 * Jeff Conaway, American actor (b. 1950)
 * Gil Scott-Heron, American poet and musician (b. 1949)
 * May 29
 * Sergei Bagapsh, Georgian-born politician (b. 1949)
 * Ferenc Mádl, 2nd President of Hungary (b. 1931)
 * May 30 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist (b. 1921)
 * May 31 – Pauline Betz, American tennis player (b. 1919)

June[edit]


Jack Kevorkian



Peter Falk
 * June 3 – Jack Kevorkian, American euthanasia advocate (b. 1928)
 * June 4 – Lawrence Eagleburger, American diplomat (b. 1930)
 * June 5 – Ludo Martens, Belgian writer and political activist (b. 1946)
 * June 7 – Jorge Semprún, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1923)
 * June 9
 * M. F. Husain, Indian painter (b. 1915)
 * Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress (b. 1970)
 * June 10
 * Brian Lenihan Jnr, Irish politician (b. 1959)
 * Patrick Leigh Fermor, British travel writer, scholar and soldier (b. 1915)
 * June 18
 * Frederick Chiluba, 2nd President of Zambia (b. 1943)
 * Clarence Clemons, American musician and actor (b. 1942)
 * June 20 – Ryan Dunn, American television personality (b. 1977)
 * June 23 – Peter Falk, American actor (b. 1927)
 * June 29 – Bob Brunning, British musician (b. 1943)

July[edit]


Itamar Franco



Betty Ford



Amy Winehouse
 * July 2 – Itamar Franco, 37th President of Brazil (b. 1930)
 * July 4 – Archduke Otto of Austria, (b. 1912)
 * July 5 – Cy Twombly, American painter (b. 1928)
 * July 8
 * Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (b. 1924)
 * Betty Ford, American feminist, activist, philanthropist and First Lady of the United States (b. 1918)
 * July 9 – Facundo Cabral, Argentine singer (b. 1937)
 * July 10 – Roland Petit, French choreographer and dancer (b. 1924)
 * July 12 – Tom Gehrels, American astronomer (b. 1925)
 * July 15
 * Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler, german landowner, politician (CDU), manager and business man (b. 1928)
 * July 17 – Juan María Bordaberry, 36th President of Uruguay (b. 1928)
 * July 20 – Lucian Freud, German-born British painter (b. 1922)
 * July 23
 * Robert Ettinger, American academic (b. 1918)
 * Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, 8th Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam (b. 1930)
 * Amy Winehouse, British singer (b. 1983)
 * July 24 – Kaveinga Faʻanunu, Tongan politician (b. 1962)
 * July 25 – Mihalis Kakogiannis, Cypriot filmmaker (b. 1922)
 * July 26 – Joe Arroyo, Colombian salsa and tropical music singer (b. 1955)
 * July 28 – Abdul Fatah Younis, Libyan army commander (b. 1944)
 * July 30 – Mario Echandi Jiménez, 47th President of Costa Rica (b. 1915)

August[edit]


Jack Layton
 * August 2 – Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born American Nobel immunologist (b. 1920)
 * August 3 – Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (b. 1945)
 * August 5 – Aziz Shavershian, Russian-Australian bodybuilder (b. 1989)
 * August 7
 * Harri Holkeri, 36th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1937)
 * Nancy Wake, New Zealand-born French Resistance fighter (b. 1912)
 * August 12, – Ernie Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1924)
 * August 14 – Shammi Kapoor, Indian film actor and director (b. 1931)
 * August 16 – Andrej Bajuk, 3rd Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia (b. 1943)
 * August 19 – Raúl Ruiz, Chilean film director (b. 1941)
 * August 22
 * Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani, Prime Minister of Northern Yemen (b. 1939)
 * Jack Layton, Canadian politician (b. 1950)
 * Vicco von Bülow, German actor, comedian, and film director (b. 1923)
 * August 26 – Sylvia Siddell, New Zealand artist (b. 1941)
 * August 31 – Valery Rozhdestvensky, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (b. 1939)

September[edit]


Andy Whitfield



Rudolf Mössbauer



Wangari Maathai
 * September 4 – Dave Hoover, American comic book artist and animator (b. 1955)
 * September 8 – Võ Chí Công, 5th President of Vietnam (b. 1912)
 * September 10 – Cliff Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
 * September 11
 * Andy Whitfield, Welsh actor and model (b. 1971)
 * Christian Bakkerud, Danish race car driver (b. 1984)
 * September 12 – Alexander Galimov, Russian hockey player (b. 1985)
 * September 13 – Richard Hamilton, British painter and collage artist (b. 1922)
 * September 14 – Rudolf Mössbauer, German Nobel physicist (b. 1929)
 * September 16 – Kara Kennedy, American television producer (b. 1960)
 * September 19 – George Cadle Price, 1st Prime Minister of Belize (b. 1919)
 * September 20 – Burhanuddin Rabbani, President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996 (b. 1940)
 * September 21 – Troy Davis, American murderer (b. 1968)
 * September 22 – Aristides Pereira, 1st President of Cape Verde (b. 1923)
 * September 25 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan veterinary anatomist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1940)
 * September 27 – Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (b. 1935)
 * September 30
 * Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born terrorist and Islamist militant (b. 1971)
 * Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian Nobel immunologist and cell biologist (b. 1943)

October[edit]


Steve Jobs



Muammar Gaddafi
 * October 1 – Sven Tumba, Swedish hockey player (b. 1931)
 * October 5
 * Steve Jobs, American computer entrepreneur (b. 1955)
 * Charles Napier, American actor (b. 1936)
 * October 7 – Ramiz Alia, 1st President of Albania (b. 1925)
 * October 12 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
 * October 16 – Dan Wheldon, English racing car driver (b. 1978)
 * October 20 – Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan dictator (b. 1942)
 * October 22 – Sultan, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, (b. 1930)
 * October 23
 * Terry Moriarty, Australian rules footballer (b. 1925)
 * Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician and Nobel laureate in chemistry (b. 1917)
 * Bronislovas Lubys, 5th Prime Minister of Lithuania (b. 1938)
 * Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle road racer (b. 1987)
 * October 24 – John McCarthy, American computer scientist (b. 1927)
 * October 26 – Jona Senilagakali, Prime Minister of Fiji (b. 1929)
 * October 29 – Jimmy Savile, English DJ, television presenter, media personality and charity fundraiser (b. 1926)
 * October 31
 * Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer (b. 1941)
 * Ali Saibou, 3rd President of Niger (b. 1940)

November[edit]


Joe Frazier



Danielle Mitterrand
 * November 4
 * Alfonso Cano, Colombian militant leader (b. 1948)
 * Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., American Nobel physicist (b. 1915)
 * November 7 – Joe Frazier, American boxer (b. 1944)
 * November 8
 * Heavy D, Jamaican-born American actor, rapper (b. 1967)
 * Valentin Ivanov, Russian footballer (b. 1934)
 * November 9 – Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-born American Nobel biochemist (b. 1922)
 * November 11 – Francisco Blake Mora, Mexican politician (b. 1966)
 * November 21 – Anne McCaffrey, American-born Irish writer (b. 1926)
 * November 22
 * Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin (b. 1926)
 * Danielle Mitterrand, First Lady of France (b. 1924)
 * Paul Motian, American jazz drummer (b. 1931)
 * November 25 – Vasily Alekseyev, Soviet-Russian weightlifter (b. 1942)
 * November 27
 * Ken Russell, British film director (b. 1927)
 * Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and coach (b. 1969)
 * November 28
 * Charles Thomas Kowal, American astronomer (b. 1940)
 * Ante Marković, 9th Prime Minister of SFR Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
 * November 29 – Patrice O'Neal, American comedian and radio personality (b. 1969)

December[edit]


Christopher Hitchens



Kim Jong-il
 * December 1 – Christa Wolf, German writer (b. 1929)
 * December 4 – Sócrates, Brazilian footballer (b. 1954)
 * December 5 – Violetta Villas, Polish singer (b. 1938)
 * December 7 – Harry Morgan, American actor (b. 1915)
 * December 13 – Russell Hoban, American-British writer (b. 1925)
 * December 14 – Joe Simon, American comic book writer and artist (b. 1913)
 * December 15 – Christopher Hitchens, British-American writer (b. 1949)
 * December 17
 * Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer (b. 1941)
 * Kim Jong-il, Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (b. 1941/42)
 * December 18 – Václav Havel, Czech playwright, 10th President of Czechoslovakia and 1st President of the Czech Republic (b. 1936)
 * December 24 – Johannes Heesters, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1903)
 * December 26 – Kennan Adeang, 3-Time President of Nauru (b. 1942)
 * December 27 – Helen Frankenthaler, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1928)

Nobel Prizes[edit]

 * Chemistry – Dan Shechtman<sup id="cite_ref-84">[84]
 * Economics – Christopher A. Sims and Thomas J. Sargent<sup id="cite_ref-85">[85]
 * Literature – Tomas Tranströmer<sup id="cite_ref-86">[86]
 * Peace – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakel Karman<sup id="cite_ref-87">[87]
 * Physics – Saul Perlmutter, Adam G. Riess, and Brian P. Schmidt<sup id="cite_ref-88">[88]
 * Physiology or Medicine – Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann, and Ralph M. Steinman<sup id="cite_ref-89">[89]

New English words[edit]

 * blockchain<sup id="cite_ref-90">[90]

References[edit]
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