List of Famous people who died in 2011
Gundula Rapsch
John Adler
John Herbert Adler was an American lawyer, politician and a member of the Democratic Party who served for one term as the U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 3rd congressional district from 2009 until 2011. He lost his 2010 congressional election to former Philadelphia Eagles football player Jon Runyan. Prior to joining Congress, Adler was a member of the New Jersey Senate from 1992 to 2009, where he represented the 6th Legislative District.
Fred Hole
Fred Hole was an English art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Return of the Jedi.
Robert Easton
Robert Easton was an American radio, film, and television actor whose career spanned more than 60 years. His mastery of English dialect earned him the epithet "The Man of a Thousand Voices". For decades, he was a leading Hollywood dialogue or accent coach.
Len Lesser
Leonard King Lesser was an American character actor, known as Len Lesser. He was known for his recurring role as Uncle Leo in Seinfeld, starting during the show's second season in "The Pony Remark". Lesser was also known for his role as Garvin on Everybody Loves Raymond.
Jacobus Duivenvoorde
Jacobus Duivenvoorde was the Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Merauke, Indonesia.
Vasily Starodubtsev
Vasily Alexandrovich Starodubtsev was a Soviet and Russian politician and governor of Tula Oblast from 1997 to 2005. He was also one of the GKChP members during the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt and was a leader of the Agrarian Party of Russia.
Claude R. Kirk
Claude Roy Kirk Jr. was the 36th Governor of the U.S. state of Florida (1967–1971). He was the first Republican Governor of Florida since Reconstruction.
Mike Doyle
Michael Doyle was an English footballer, who spent the majority of his career with Manchester City and also played for Stoke City, Bolton Wanderers and Rochdale.
Roy Skelton
Roy William Skelton was an English actor and voice artist, whose voice was more familiar to television viewers than his name. Born in Nottingham to John H Skelton and Dorothy, he provided the voices for many characters on British television for nearly fifty years, particularly the characters of both Zippy and George on Rainbow, which the actor first joined in the early 1970s and performed on until it was axed in 1991. However, due to the fame of the characters, he continued to voice Zippy and George in guest appearances on television in series such as The Weakest Link and TV Burp until his death.