Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Arts & Music

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Annette Charles

Annette Cardona

United States

1948 – 2011 (63 years old)

American actress and dancer forever remembered for her show-stopping turn as 'Cha Cha' DiGregorio, the fierce dancer who wins the national dance-off with John Travolta in Grease (1978).

Los Angeles, United States

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Sports & Athletics

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Andrea Pazzagli

Andrea Pazzagli

Italy

1960 – 2011 (51 years old)

Italian football goalkeeper who guarded the goal for Arrigo Sacchi's legendary AC Milan side, winning the 1990 European Cup, European Super Cup, and Intercontinental Cup.

Florence, Italy

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Sports & Athletics

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Hideki Irabu

伊良部 秀輝

Japan

1969 – 2011 (42 years old)

Flamethrowing Japanese pitcher whose 99 mph fastball dominated Japan's Pacific League before he signed with the New York Yankees, winning two World Series championships.

Los Angeles, United States

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Sports & Athletics

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Jacques Fatton

Jacques Fatton

France

1925 – 2011 (85 years old)

Prolific Swiss international striker nicknamed 'Jacky', who scored 274 league goals for Servette FC and famously scored twice against Brazil in the 1950 World Cup.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Jeret Peterson

Jeret 'Speedy' Peterson

United States

1981 – 2011 (29 years old)

Fearless American freestyle aerial skier nicknamed 'Speedy', who invented the breathtaking 'Hurricane' jump (three flips and five twists) to win Olympic silver at Vancouver 2010.

Boise, United States

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Arts & Music

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Michael Cacoyannis

Μιχάλης Κακογιάννης

Cyprus

1921 – 2011 (90 years old)

Cypriot-Greek film director and theatrical visionary best known for his 1964 international classic Zorba the Greek and his acclaimed cinematic adaptations of Euripidean tragedies.

Athens, Greece

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Sciences & Discovery

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David Servan-Schreiber

David Servan-Schreiber

France

1961 – 2011 (50 years old)

French neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and physician whose international bestsellers Healing Without Freud or Prozac and Anticancer pioneered integrative medicine and lifestyle oncology.

Veauville-lès-Baons, France

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Amy Winehouse

Amy Jade Winehouse

Great Britain

1983 – 2011 (27 years old)

Prodigious English singer and songwriter whose rich, expressive contralto and mix of soul, jazz, and R&B on Back to Black won five Grammy Awards and revived vintage soul music.

Edgware, United Kingdom

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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John Shalikashvili

John Malchase David Shalikashvili

Poland

1936 – 2011 (75 years old)

General who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1993 to 1997, the first foreign-born person to hold America's highest military post, having risen from drafted private.

Arlington, United States

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Arts & Music

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Lucian Freud

Lucian Michael Freud

Germany

1922 – 2011 (88 years old)

British painter born in Germany, grandson of Sigmund Freud, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest figurative artists of the 20th century for his unsparing, intensely physical nudes and portraits.

London, United Kingdom

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Googie Withers

Georgette Lizette Withers

Pakistan

1917 – 2011 (94 years old)

Beloved Anglo-Australian stage and film actress whose eight-decade career featured classics including Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, It Always Rains on Sunday, and Night and the City.

Sydney, Australia

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Roland Petit

Roland Petit

France

1924 – 2011 (87 years old)

Legendary French choreographer and dancer who revitalized 20th-century ballet with theatrical energy, creating Le Jeune Homme et la Mort and directing the Ballet National de Marseille for 26 years.

Paris, France

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Facundo Cabral

Rodolfo Enrique Facundo Cabral

Argentina

1937 – 2011 (74 years old)

Beloved Argentine singer-songwriter and philosopher whose 1970 song No soy de aquí ni soy de allá became an international humanist anthem, designated a UNESCO World Messenger of Peace.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Sports & Athletics

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Mika Myllylä

Mika Kristian Myllylä

Finland

1969 – 2011 (41 years old)

One of Finland's greatest cross-country skiers, who won Olympic gold in the 30 km classical at Nagano 1998 and claimed four gold medals at World Championships.

Kokkola, Finland

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Cy Twombly

Edwin Parker Twombly Jr.

United States

1928 – 2011 (83 years old)

Master American abstract painter and sculptor whose large-scale calligraphic scribbles, graffiti-like marks, and poetic invocations of classical mythology redefined post-war contemporary art.

Rome, Italy

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Otto von Habsburg

Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius von Habsburg-Lothringen

Austria

1912 – 2011 (98 years old)

The last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary who renounced his claim to the imperial throne, fiercely opposed Hitler, and served as a Member of the European Parliament for two decades, co-organizing the 1989 Pan-European Picnic.

Vienna, Austria

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Anna Massey

Anna Raymond Massey

Great Britain

1937 – 2011 (73 years old)

Acclaimed English actress who won the BAFTA TV Award for Hotel du Lac and starred in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom and Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy.

London, United Kingdom

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Peter Falk

Peter Michael Falk

United States

1927 – 2011 (83 years old)

Iconic American actor who gained global affection as the rumpled, deceptively brilliant police detective Lieutenant Columbo, and starred in independent classics for John Cassavetes.

Los Angeles, United States

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