Deaths in January 2011

January 31st
* Charles Kaman, 91, American aeronautical engineer, founder of Kaman Aircraft and Ovation Guitar Company.
* Mark Ryan, 51, British musician (Adam and the Ants).
* Eunice Sanborn, 114, American supercentenarian, world's oldest living person at time of her death.
* Charles Sellier, 67, American film and television producer (The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams).
* Michael Tolan, 85, American actor (The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Mary Tyler Moore Show), heart disease and renal failure.
* Doc Williams, 96, American country music performer.

January 30th
* John Barry, 77, British film score composer (From Russia with Love, Chaplin, Out of Africa), five-time Academy Award winner, heart attack.
* J. Elliott Burch, 86, American hall of fame racehorse trainer, pneumonia.
* Hisaye Yamamoto, 89, American author.


January  29th
* Milton Babbitt, 94, American composer.

January 28th
* Hamida Barmaki, 40, Afghan law professor and human rights activist, suicide bomb attack.

January 27th
* Charlie Callas, 83, American comedian and actor (Silent Movie, Switch).
* William L. Eagleton, 84, American diplomat.
* Don Rondo, 81, American singer ("White Silver Sands"), lung cancer.


January 26th
* Gladys Horton, 65, American R&B singer (The Marvelettes), complications from a stroke.
* Charlie Louvin, 83, American country music singer (The Louvin Brothers), pancreatic cancer.
* Shawn McGrath, 34, American professional wrestler, suicide.

January 24th
* Bernd Eichinger, 61, German film producer and director (The NeverEnding Story), heart attack.
* David Frye, 77, American satirist and Richard Nixon impersonator, cardiopulmonary arrest.
* Barrie Lee Hall, Jr., 61, American jazz trumpeter and band leader (Duke Ellington).
* Chief White Eagle, 93, Canadian-born American Mohawk actor and stuntman.


January  23rd
* Jack LaLanne, 96, American fitness and nutritional expert, pneumonia.
* Poppa Neutrino, 77, American adventurer, crossed Atlantic Ocean on raft made of discarded material, heart failure.


January 22nd
* Bobby Poe, 77, American pop singer, songwriter and promoter, blood clot.
* William Schreyer, 83, American business executive, Chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch (1985–1993).

January 21st
* Theoni V. Aldredge, 88, Greek-born American costume designer (Ghostbusters, Network, The First Wives Club).
* Jay Garner, 82, American actor (Pennies from Heaven, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century), respiratory failure.
* Tony Geiss, 86, American television writer and composer (Sesame Street), Emmy award winner, complications from a fall.
* Barney F. Hajiro, 94, American soldier, was oldest living Medal of Honor recipient.
* Dennis Oppenheim, 72, American artist, liver cancer.

January 20th
* Bruce Gordon, 94, American character actor (The Untouchables), after long illness.
* F. A. Nettelbeck, 60, American poet.
* Sexy Cora, 23, German pornographic actress, complications from breast enlargement surgery.

January 18th
* Wilfrid Sheed, 80, English-born American novelist and essayist, urosepsis.
* Bob Young, 87, American news journalist and anchor (ABC World News).

January 18th
* Charlie Cowdrey, 77, American football coach (Illinois State University, Southwestern College).
* George Crowe, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
* Jerre Denoble, 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
* Jim McManus, 70, American tennis player.
* Sargent Shriver, 95, American diplomat and politician, Ambassador to France (1968–1970), Vice Presidential nominee (1972), complications from Alzheimer's disease.

January 17th
* Don Kirshner, 76, American record producer and songwriter, host of Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, heart failure.
* John Ross, 72, American activist, author and journalist, liver cancer.

January 16th
* Milton Levine, 97, American entrepreneur, inventor of Uncle Milton's Ant Farm.

January 15th
* Romulus Linney, 80, American playwright, father of actress Laura Linney, lung cancer.
* Ed Lowe, 64, American journalist (Newsday, The Long Island Press), liver cancer.
* Susannah York, 72, English actress (Tom Jones, Superman), bone marrow cancer.

January 14th
* Georgia Carroll, 91, American fashion model and actress (Yankee Doodle Dandy).
* Dr. Creep, 69, American television host.
* Marty Gold, 95, American composer, pianist and bandleader.
* Mississippi Winn, 113, American supercentenarian, Louisiana's oldest person.

January 13th* Tuviah Friedman, 88, Israeli Nazi hunter.

January 12th
* Josephine Harris, 69, American bookkeeper, survivor of the September 11 attacks, heart attack.
* Paul Picerni, 88, American actor (The Untouchables), heart attack.
* Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz, 52, American dog trainer (Bo) and author, respiratory distress.

January 11th
* Audrey Lawson-Johnston, 95, American-born British RMS Lusitania passenger and last survivor.
* Matti Mattson, 94, American veteran of the Spanish Civil War (Abraham Lincoln Brigade).
* David Nelson, 74, American actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), colon cancer.

Jauary 10th
* Bill Bower, 93, American aviator, last surviving pilot of Doolittle Raid, complications from a fall.
* John Dye, 47, American actor (Touched by an Angel), heart attack.
* Margaret Whiting, 86, American pop singer ("A Tree in the Meadow", "Moonlight in Vermont"), natural causes.

January 8th
* Del Reisman, 86, American television producer (The Twilight Zone, The Untouchables) and writer, President of WGAW (1991–1993), cardiac arrest.


January 7th
* Red Borom, 95, American baseba
* Val Puccio, 45, American professional wrestler.
* Bobby Robinson, 93, American record producer.

January 6th
* Tom Cavanagh, 28, American ice hockey player (San Jose Sharks), blunt force trauma.
* Francisco de la Rosa, 44, Dominican baseball player (Baltimore Orioles), after a long illness.
* Aron Kincaid, 70, American actor (The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini) and voice actor (Batman, The Transformers), heart failure.
* Donald J. Tyson, 80, American business executive, Chairman of Tyson Foods (1967–2001), cancer.
* Dagmar Wilson, 94, American anti-nuclear activist, heart failure.


January 5th
* Jim Duncan, 86, American football player and coach.

January 4th
* Grady Chapman, 81, American doo-wop singer (The Robins), heart failure.
* Gerry Rafferty, 63, Scottish singer-songwriter (Stealers Wheel), liver failure.


January 3rd
* Julia Bonds, 58, American activist, cancer.
* Jill Haworth, 65, English actress (Exodus, In Harm's Way, Cabaret, The Outer Limits), natural causes.
* Stanley Tolliver, 85, American attorney and civil rights advocate.


January 2nd
* Anne Francis, 80, American actress (Honey West, Forbidden Planet, The Twilight Zone), pancreatic cancer.
* Peter Hobbs, 92, French-born American character actor (Barney Miller, Lou Grant, The Odd Couple), after brief illness.
* Miriam Seegar, 103, American silent film actress and interior designer.
* Patricia Smith, 80, American actress (The Spirit of St. Louis, The Bob Newhart Show, The Debbie Reynolds Show), heart failure.
* Margot Stevenson, 98, American stage and radio actress (The Shadow).
* Richard Winters, 92, American army officer and World War II veteran, basis of book and miniseries Band of Brothers, Parkinson's disease.


January1st
* Charles Fambrough, 60, American jazz musician and composer.
* Gil Garfield, 77, American songwriter and musician (The Cheers), cancer.
* Verne Langdon, 69, American musician, record producer and make-up artist.
* Billy Joe Patton, 88, American golfer.