Remembered
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Jagjit Singh
1941 – 2011
Singer, Composer
Indian ghazal singer and composer who helped bring the genre to a broad modern audience. Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagjit_Singh
Steve Jobs
1955 – 2011
Entrepreneur, Inventor, Designer, Computer scientist, Executive producer, Film producer
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and…
Wangarĩ Maathai
1940 – 2011
Teacher, Politician, Philanthropist, Biologist, Environmentalist
Wangarĩ Maathai (; 1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist who founded the Green Belt Movement, an environm…
Rudolf Mössbauer
1929 – 2011
Physicist, University teacher, Nuclear physicist
Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (German: [ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈmœsˌbaʊ̯ɐ] ; 31 January 1929 – 14 September 2011) was a German physicist who shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics…
Ajit Roy
1938 – 2011
Singer
Ajit Roy (29 June 1938 – 4 September 2011) was a Bangladeshi Rabindra Sangeet singer. During the Liberation War of 1971 he sang inspiring songs called Gana Sang…
Shammi Kapoor
1931 – 2011
Actor
Indian actor known for his energetic screen persona and popular Hindi films including Junglee and Kashmir Ki Kali. Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org…
Mishuk Munier
1959 – 2011
Journalist, Author
Ashfaque Munier (September 24, 1959 – August 13, 2011; known as Mishuk Munier) was a Bangladeshi media specialist and broadcast journalist. He was known for his…
Tareque Masud
1956 – 2011
Film producer, Lyricist, Film director, Screenwriter
Tareque Masud (Bengali pronunciation: [t̪aɾek masud̪]; 6 December 1956 – 13 August 2011) was a Bangladeshi independent film director, film producer, screenwrite…
Amy Winehouse
1983 – 2011
Singer-songwriter, Guitarist, Jazz musician, Jazz guitarist, Musician, Recording artist
Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was a British singer and songwriter. She is known for her distinctive contralto vocals, expressive and aut…
Aminul Islam (artist)
1931 – 2011
Artist
Aminul Islam (7 November 1931 – 8 July 2011) was a Bangladeshi artist. He was a part of Bangladesh modern art movement in 1950s. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in…
Betty Ford
1918 – 2011
Dancer, Writer, Autobiographer, Model, Women's rights activist, Politician
Elizabeth Anne Ford (née Bloomer; formerly Warren; April 8, 1918 – July 8, 2011) was First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977, as the wife of President…
Mohammad Kibria
1929 – 2011
Painter
Mohammad Kibria (c. 1929 – 7 June 2011) was a Bangladeshi artist. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1983 and Independence Day Award in 1999 by the Government of B…
Azam Khan
1950 – 2011
Songwriter, Singer
Mahbubul Haque Khan (28 February 1950 – 5 June 2011), known professionally as Azam Khan, was a Bangladeshi singer-songwriter, record producer, and the lead sing…
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
1921 – 2011
Physicist, Physician, University teacher, Biophysicist
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (July 19, 1921 – May 30, 2011) was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (toget…
Pilu Momtaz
— – 2011
Singer
Pilu Momtaz (c. 1953 – 23 May 2011) was a Bangladeshi singer. Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilu_Momtaz
Ila Majumder
— – 2011
Singer, Musician
Ila Majumder (9 September 1941 — 3 May 2011) was a Bangladeshi classical vocalist. Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy awarded her for the special contribution in the…
Osama bin Laden
1957 – 2011
Civil engineer, Businessperson, Jihadist, Terrorist, Building contractor
Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden (1957/58 – 2 May 2011) was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda, a Salafi jihadist militant organization, from 1…
Ernesto Sabato
1911 – 2011
Physicist, Writer, Painter, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Ernesto Sabato (Spanish: [ˈsaβaðo]; June 24, 1911 – April 30, 2011) was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter, and physicist. According to the BBC he "won so…
Sidney Lumet
1924 – 2011
Film director, Screenwriter, Film producer, Writer, Stage actor, Film actor
Sidney Arthur Lumet ( loo-MET; June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American film director. Lumet started his career in theatre before moving to directing tele…
Elizabeth Taylor
1932 – 2011
Philanthropist, Autobiographer, Stage actor, Television actor, Writer, Film actor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 194…