Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Asnaketch Worku

Ethiopia

1935-01-01 – 2011-09-14 (76 years old)

Pioneering Ethiopian cultural icon known as the 'Lady with the Krar', the first professional dramatic actress in Ethiopia and an incomparable master of traditional harp ballads.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Sciences & Discovery

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Rudolf Mössbauer

Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer

Germany

1929 – 2011 (82 years old)

German experimental physicist who discovered recoilless nuclear resonance absorption of gamma rays (the Mössbauer effect), awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics at age thirty-two.

Gräfelfing, Germany

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Richard Hamilton

Richard William Hamilton

Great Britain

1922 – 2011 (89 years old)

English painter and collage artist hailed as the father of Pop Art for his 1956 collage Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? and designer of The Beatles' White Album.

Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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Sports & Athletics

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Walter Bonatti

Italy

1930 – 2011 (81 years old)

Italian mountaineer and photojournalist, celebrated as one of the purest and greatest solo alpinists in history, pioneer of extreme climbing.

Porto Venere, Italy

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Mohammed Ghani Hikmat

محمد غني حكمت

Iraq

20 April 1929 – 12 September 2011 (82 years old)

Beloved 'Sheikh of Sculptors' whose iconic bronze public monuments—including Kahramana and Baghdad Saving Culture—grace the capital.

Baghdad, Iraq

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Andy Whitfield

Great Britain

1971 – 2011 (39 years old)

Welsh-Australian actor and engineer who captured global attention with his fierce and deeply humane performance as the Thracian gladiator in Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

Sydney, Australia

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

Cliff Robertson

Clifford Parker Robertson III

United States

1923 – 2011 (88 years old)

Academy Award-winning American actor who won Best Actor for Charly (1968), portrayed JFK in PT 109, played Uncle Ben in Spider-Man, and heroically exposed Hollywood studio embezzlement.

East Hampton, United States

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

Princess Lalla Aïcha

الأميرة للا عائشة

Morocco

1930 – 2011 (81 years old)

Eldest sister of King Hassan II who delivered the historic unveiled speech in Tangier in 1947 championing girls' education, later serving as Morocco's first female ambassador to London and Rome.

Rabat, Morocco

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Mohamed Boudhina

محمد بوذينة

Tunisia

1936 AD – 2011 (75 years old)

Venerated radio broadcaster and historian who authored monumental biographical encyclopedias of Tunisian musicians, artists, and poets, preserving oral memories of the nation's cultural golden age.

Hammamet, Tunisia

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Politics

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Asma Belkhodja-Uqda

أسماء بلخوجة

Tunisia

1930 AD – 2011 (81 years old)

Pioneering nationalist militant arrested for leading women's anti-colonial demonstrations in 1952, who co-founded the National Union of Tunisian Women (UNFT).

La Marsa, Tunisia

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René Perez

رينيه بيريز

Algeria

1940 – 2011 (71 years old)

Distinguished Jewish-Algerian tenor and oud virtuoso from Oran who dedicated his career to keeping the classical Tlemcen-Oran Gharnati tradition alive across the Mediterranean.

Oran, Algeria

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Politics

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Jack Layton

John Gilbert Layton

Canada

18 July 1950 – 22 August 2011 (61 years old)

Beloved leader of the New Democratic Party who led the historic 2011 'Orange Wave' to become Leader of the Official Opposition.

Toronto, Canada

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Kamal El-Shennawi

كمال الشناوي

Egypt

1918 – 2011 (92 years old)

One of the most celebrated and prolific leading men of the Golden Age of Egyptian cinema, starring in over 200 films opposite Faten Hamama, Shadia, and Soad Hosny across six decades.

6th of October City, Egypt

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

Hend Rostom

هند رستم

Egypt

1929 – 2011 (81 years old)

Iconic Egyptian actress dubbed 'The Marilyn Monroe of the East', immortalized for her fiery performance as Hanuma in Youssef Chahine's masterpiece Cairo Station (1958).

Cairo, Egypt

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Mark Hatfield

Mark Odom Hatfield

United States

1922 – 2011 (89 years old)

Prominent Oregon statesman who served two terms as governor and thirty years in the U.S. Senate, renowned for his principled Christian pacifism and opposition to the Vietnam War.

Portland, United States

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Roman Opałka

France

1931 – 2011 (79 years old)

French-born Polish conceptual painter who spent 46 years on a single monumental artistic project: painting consecutive numbers from 1 towards infinity to capture the passing of mortal time.

Paris, France

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Sports & Athletics

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