List of Famous people who died in 2011

Vann Nath was a Cambodian painter, artist, writer, and human rights activist. He was the eighth Cambodian to win the Lillian Hellman/Hammett Award since 1995. He was one of only seven known adult survivors of S-21 camp, where 20,000 Cambodians were tortured and executed during the Khmer Rouge regime.

Anar Jamal oghly Mammadkhanov was a Member of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan, social activist and the captain of Parni iz Baku KVN team.

James Rizzi was an American pop artist who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York.

Yekaterina Nikolaevna Golubeva was a Russian actress, perhaps best known for her role in the 1999 French film Pola X.

Hans-Joachim Tiedge was a head of West Germany's counter-intelligence in the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) in Cologne. He was revealed to be an East German spy when he defected to the East on August 19, 1985. He had been recruited by Markus Wolf. In the four years prior to his defection, he was responsible tor tracking down East German spies, but with little success. In the same period, the East Germans captured 168 West German spies. He was thought to have defected for personal reasons, as he had not, apparently, been discovered. His treachery was called the most damaging of the Cold War for the Federal Republic of Germany, resulting in the recall of numerous West German agents still in the field and plunging the West German counterespionage service into ruins.

Philip A. Luty was an English anti-gun control activist notable for the production of homemade firearms and manuals providing instruction in the same. He was charged with illegal arms construction in the late 1990s and sentenced to four years in prison, with other investigations ongoing at the time of his death.

James Idwal Robling was a Welsh sports commentator, who worked for the BBC in Wales for almost 40 years.

Hadayatullah Hübsch was a German author, journalist, poet, political activist of the 68s movement and, following his conversion to Ahmadiyya Islam, long-time spokesman of the Ahmadi Community in Germany. He also served as an Imam of the Noor Mosque in Frankfurt. From 1991 to 1998 he was chairman of the Association of German Writers (VdS) in Hesse and in his last years he worked as a writer in Frankfurt.

Charlotte Kerr was a German director, film producer, actress, writer and journalist.

Christiane Legrand was a French soprano.