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John McCarthy
Sciences & Discovery
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John McCarthy

John McCarthy
🇺🇸 United States
1927 – 2011 (84 years old)

Visionary American computer scientist who coined the term 'Artificial Intelligence' (AI), developed the Lisp programming language, and pioneered time-sharing computing systems.

Stanford, United States
Marco Simoncelli
Sports & Athletics
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Marco Simoncelli

Marco Simoncelli
🇮🇹 Italy
1987 – 2011 (24 years old)

Beloved Italian MotoGP rider and 2008 250cc World Champion 'SuperSic', celebrated for his soaring mop of hair, aggressive riding spirit, and infectious joy that captured the hearts of millions of motorsport fans.

Coriano (Rimini), Italy
Arts & Music
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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
Norman Corwin
Literature & Poetry
15
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Norman Corwin

Norman Lewis Corwin
🇺🇸 United States
1910 – 2011 (101 years old)

Revered American writer, director, and producer during the Golden Age of Radio whose patriotic broadcast On a Note of Triumph celebrated the end of World War II in Europe before 60 million listeners.

Los Angeles, United States
Dan Wheldon
Sports & Athletics
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Dan Wheldon

Daniel Clive Wheldon
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1978 – 2011 (33 years old)

Charismatic British open-wheel racing driver who won the 2005 IndyCar Series championship and captured two dramatic victories at the Indianapolis 500 in 2005 and 2011.

Saint Petersburg, United States
Barbara Kent
Arts & Music
11
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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
Dennis Ritchie
Sciences & Discovery
12
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Dennis Ritchie

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie
🇺🇸 United States
1941 – 2011 (70 years old)

Foundational American computer scientist at Bell Labs who created the C programming language and co-developed the Unix operating system, establishing the architectural bedrock of modern digital technology.

Berkeley Heights, United States
Al Davis
Sports & Athletics
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Al Davis

Allen Davis
🇺🇸 United States
1929 – 2011 (82 years old)

Legendary football executive and principal owner of the Oakland Raiders for nearly five decades, whose famous motto 'Just win, baby' and outlaw Silver and Black spirit defined the franchise.

Oakland, United States
Charles Napier
Arts & Music
8
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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
Bert Jansch
Arts & Music
9
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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
Steve Jobs
Sciences & Discovery
12
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Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs
🇺🇸 United States
1955 – 2011 (56 years old)

Visionary American entrepreneur, industrial designer, and co-founder of Apple Inc. who revolutionized personal computing, animated films at Pixar, digital music with the iPod, and smartphones with the iPhone.

Palo Alto, United States
Ralph M. Steinman
Sciences & Discovery
13
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Ralph M. Steinman

Ralph Marvin Steinman
🇨🇦 Canada
1943 – 2011 (68 years old)

Canadian immunologist at Rockefeller University who discovered dendritic cells, revolutionizing immunology and receiving the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine posthumously.

Hawthorne, United States
Tatyana Lioznova
Arts & Music
12
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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
Literature & Poetry
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Margaret Ogola

Margaret Atieno Ogola
🇰🇪 Kenya
1958-06-12 – 2011-09-21 (53 years old)

Renowned pediatrician and author whose epic 1994 debut novel 'The River and the Source' won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature.

Nairobi, Kenya
Paulette Dubost
Arts & Music
13
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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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