List of Famous people who died in 2011

Hugh Martin was an American musical theater and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright. He was best known for his score for the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis, in which Judy Garland sang three Martin songs, "The Boy Next Door," "The Trolley Song," and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." The last of these has become a Christmas season standard in the United States and around the English-speaking world. Martin became a close friend of Garland and was her accompanist at many of her concert performances in the 1950s, including her appearances at the Palace Theater.

Billy Beck was an American clown and character actor.

Anthony Francis Mestice served as the Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York and titular bishop of Villa Nova.

Hugh Leo Carey was an American politician and attorney. He served as a seven-term United States Representative from 1961 to 1974 as well as the 51st Governor of New York from 1975 to 1982.

Ned Ray McWherter was an American businessman and politician who served as the 46th Governor of Tennessee, from 1987 to 1995. Prior to that, he served as Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1973 to 1987, the longest tenure as Speaker up to that time.

Albert Dean Rosellini was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 15th governor of the state of Washington for two terms, from 1957 to 1965, and was both the first Italian-American and Roman Catholic governor elected west of the Mississippi River.