The following is a list of notable deaths in 2011.
January
January 1 - Flemming Jørgensen, 63, Danish actor and musician. January 1 - Faizal Yusof, 32, Malaysian actor, heart failure. January 2 - Pete Postlethwaite, 64, British actor, cancer. January 2 - Anne Francis, 80, American actress, pancreatic cancer. January 2 - Richard Winters, 92, American paratrooper. January 4 - Salmaan Taseer, 46, Pakistani politician, Governor of the Punjab, shot. January 4 - Gerry Rafferty, 63, Scottish singer-songwriter, liver failure. January 4 - Mohamed Bouazizi, 26, Tunisian fruit seller and figure in the Arab world uprising, suicide by burning. January 4 - Dick King-Smith, 88, British writer. January 6 - Gary Mason, 48, British, boxer, road accident. January 8 - John Roll, 63, American judge, shot. January 9 - Peter Yates, 81, British movie director. January 10 - John Dye, 47, American actor. January 10 - Margaret Whiting, 86, American singer. January 13 - Charles Muscat, 48, Maltese footballer. January 14 - Mississippi Winn, 113, American supercentenarian. January 15 - Nat Lofthouse, 85, English footballer. January 15 - Susannah York, 72, British actress, bone cancer. January 16 - Steve Prestwich, 56, Australian musician, brain tumour. January 17 - Don Kirshner, 76, American music producer, heart failure. January 18 - Sargent Shriver, 95, American politician, Alzheimer's disease. January 21 - Dennis Oppenheim, 72, American artist, liver cancer. January 23 - Jack LaLanne, 96, American physical fitness and nutrition expert, respiratory failure from pneumonia. January 24 - Bernd Eichinger, 61, German movie producer and director, heart attack. January 24 - Bhimsen Joshi, 88, Indian musician. January 27 - Charlie Callas, 83, American comedian, natural causes. January 29 - Milton Babbitt, 94, American composer. January 30 - John Barry, 77, British composer, heart attack. January 31 - Eunice Sanborn, 114, American, world's second-oldest person at the time of her death.
February
February 3 - Édouard Glissant, 82, French writer. February 3 - Maria Schneider, 58, French actress, cancer. February 4 - Martial Célestin, 97, Haitian lawyer and diplomat, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti. February 4 - Lena Nyman, 66, Swedish actress. February 5 - Brian Jacques, 71, British writer, heart attack. February 6 - Josefa Iloilo, 90, 3rd President of Fiji. February 6 - Gary Moore, 58, Northern Irish musician. February 8 - Cesare Rubini, 87, Italian water polo player, basketball player and coach. February 11 - Bo Carpelan, 84, Finnish poet and writer. February 11 - Bad News Brown, 33, Canadian rapper. February 12 - Betty Garrett, 91, American actress, aortic aneurysm. February 12 - Peter Alexander, 84, Austrian actor and singer. February 13 - Inese Jaunzeme, 78, Latvian javelin thrower. February 14 - George Shearing, 91, British-American jazz pianist. February 17 - Perry Moore, 39, American writer and movie producer. February 19 - Dietrich Stobbe, 72, German politician, former Mayor of Berlin. February 19 - Ollie Matson, 80, American football player, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, respiratory failure. February 23 - Nirmala Srivastava, 87, Indian spiritual leader, founder of Sahaja Yoga religious movement. February 24 - Anant Pai, 81, Indian educator and comics creator, heart attack. February 26 - Arnost Lustig, 84, Czech writer, cancer. February 27 - Necmettin Erbakan, 84, former Prime Minister of Turkey. February 27 - Frank Buckles, 110, American soldier, last living U.S. World War I veteran, natural causes. February 28 - Jane Russell, 89, American actress, respiratory related illness. February 28 - Annie Girardot, 79, French actress, Alzheimer's disease.