RIP 2011

On this day of recovery, and the start of what we all hope will be a fabulous year (it can only get better, surely?), it is worth remembering all those people we lost during 2011.

It is quite a list!

Dan Frazer, 90, American actor (Kojak)
Ronnie Wolfe, 89, British television comedy writer and producer (On The Buses)
Vaclav Havel, 75, Czech statesman
Cesoria Evora, 70, Cape Verdian singer
Christopher Hitchens, 62, British author and journalist
Billie Jo Spears, 74, American singer
Harry Morgan, 96, American actor (M.A.S.H.)
Dobie Gray, 71, American singer
Mark Kingston, 77, British theatre and television character actor
Dev Anand, 88, Bollywood actor
Ken Russell, 84, British film director
Shelagh Delaney, 72, English playwright (A Taste of Honey)
Dulcie Gray, 95, English actress
John Neville, 86, British-born Canadian actor (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen)
Richard Morant, 66, British actor (Flashman)
Jason Pollock, 64, Gay Pride and Gay Mardi Gras organiser
Mark Hall, 74, British animator (Danger Mouse)
Joe Frazier, 67, American boxer
Andrea True, 68, American adult film star and disco singer
Loulou de la Falaise, 63, French fashion muse and designer
Christiane Legrand, 81, French jazz singer
Sir Jimmy Savile, 84, British disc jockey, television presenter
Beryl Davis, 87, British big band singer and actress
Edmundo Ros, 100, Trinidadian/British bandleader
Sue Lloyd, 72, British actress (The Ipcress File, Crossroads)



Betty Driver, 91, British singer and actress (Coronation Street)
Rob Buckman, 63, British-born Canadian oncologist and comedian (Don't Ask Me)
George Baker, 80, British actor (I, Claudius, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries)
Steve Jobs, 56, American computer entrepreneur and inventor, co-founder of Apple
David Croft, 89, British television comedy writer and producer (Are You Being Served?, Dad's Army)
Dolores Hope, 102, American philanthropist, widow of Bob Hope
Andy Whitfield, 39, Welsh-born Australian actor (Spartacus: Blood and Sand)
Nick Ashford, 70, American R&B singer (Ashford & Simpson)
Jerry Leiber, 78, American songwriter (Leiber & Stoller)
Stan Barstow, 83, English novelist (A Kind of Loving)
Amy Winehouse, 27, British singer-songwriter
Milly Del Rubio, 89, American singer (The Del Rubio Triplets)
Lucian Freud, 88, German-born British painter
Googie Withers, 94, English actress (Within These Walls)
Betty Ford, 93, American First Lady
Anna Massey, 73, British actress
Margaret Tyzack, 79, British actress
Peter Falk, 83, American actor
Donald Hewlett, 90, English actor (It Ain't Half Hot Mum)
Martin Rushent, 63, English record producer (Buzzcocks, Human League, The Stranglers)
Andrew Gold, 59, American singer-songwriter
Miriam Karlin, 85, British actress and activist
Simon Brint, 60, British musician (Raw Sex from French & Saunders show)
Janet Brown, 87, British actress and impersonator
Flick Colby, 65, American dancer and choreographer (Pan's People)
Kathy Kirby, 72, British singer
Seve Ballesteros, 54, Spanish golfer
John Walker, 67, American musician (The Walker Brothers)
Dame Elizabeth Taylor, 79, British-born American actress
Phoebe Snow, 60, American singer
Arthur Laurents, 93, American playwright, librettist and stage director
Sir Henry Cooper, 76, British Olympic heavyweight boxer



Poly Styrene, 53, British musician (X-Ray Spex)
John Sullivan, 64, British writer (Only Fools and Horses)
Elisabeth Sladen, 65, British actress (Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures)
Michael Sarrazin, 70, Canadian actor (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?)
Trevor Bannister, 76, British actor (Are You Being Served?)
Farley Granger, 85, American actor (Strangers on a Train, Rope)
Loleatta Holloway, 64, American soul and disco musician
Michael Gough, 94, British actor (Batman)
Jane Russell, 89, American actress
Nicholas Courtney, 81, British actor (The Brigadier in Doctor Who)
Sir George Shearing, 91, British-born American jazz pianist
Gary Moore, 58, Irish rock guitarist and singer (Thin Lizzy)
Maria Schneider, 58, French actress (Last Tango in Paris)
John Barry, 77, British film score composer
Susannah York, 72, English actress
Margaret Whiting, 86, American pop singer
Helene Palmer, 82, British actress (Ida Clough in Coronation Street)
Mick Karn, 52, Cypriot-born British musician (Japan)
Gerry Rafferty, 63, British singer-songwriter
Anne Francis, 80, American actress (Forbidden Planet)
Pete Postlethwaite, 64, British actor

Obviously this can never be comprehensive, and certainly does not mention the villains who got their just desserts.

RIP.