List of Famous people who died in 2011

Allan Emrys Blakeney was the tenth Premier of Saskatchewan from 1971 to 1982, and leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP).

Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer was a German physicist best known for his 1957 discovery of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics. This effect, called the Mössbauer effect, is the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy.

Kazimierz Cardinal Świątek was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who was most known for his resistance to Cold War-era Soviet Communism and for his service in Minsk, Belarus. Cardinal Swiatek was the former Metropolitan Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev, and Apostolic Administrator of Pinsk.

Kiyonori Kikutake was a prominent Japanese architect known as one of the founders of the Japanese Metabolist group. He was also the tutor and employer of several important Japanese architects, such as Toyo Ito, Shōzō Uchii and Itsuko Hasegawa.

Kurt Sanderling, CBE was a German conductor.

Yvette Vickers was an American actress, pin-up model and singer.

Christopher Mayer, also known as Chip Mayer, was an American film and TV actor who was best known for portraying Vance Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard for 19 episodes during season 5 when cousins Coy and Vance Duke temporarily replaced Bo and Luke Duke.

David Rayfiel was an American screenwriter and frequent collaborator of director Sydney Pollack.

André Hodeir was a French violinist, composer, arranger and musicologist.