Amedeo Guillet: who died on June 16 aged 101, was the Italian officer who led the last cavalry charge faced by the British Army.

Igor Birman, who died on April 6 aged 82, was a Russian economist who emigrated to America in 1974 but found his predictions that the Soviet economy would eventually implode disbelieved and ridiculed by western Sovietologists.

Andrew Gold, who has died aged 59, had three middle-of-the-road British chart hits in the late 1970s, beginning with Lonely Boy, which reached No 11 in April 1977.

Joanna Russ (February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011) was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing.

Jean Paul Getty III (4 November 1956 — 5 February 2011). was the eldest of the four children of Paul Getty, Jr. and Abigail (née Harris), and the grandson of oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty. Mutilated of one of his ears during his 1973 kidnapping.

Vladimir Krainev (Russian: Владимир Всеволодович Крайнев) (April 1, 1944 – April 29, 2011) was a Russian pianist and professor of piano, People's Artist of the USSR. In 1992, Krainev organized the first international competition of young pianists in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The competition is broadcast on radio and television.

Leonora Carrington: was a British-born Mexican artist, a surrealist painter and a novelist. She lived most of her life in Mexico City. She died on 25 May 2011 aged 94.

Lidia Gueiler Tejada (August 28, 1921 – May 9, 2011) was the first female President of Bolivia, serving in an interim capacity from 1979 to 1980. She was Bolivia's first (and thus far, only) female Head of State, and the second in Latin American history (the first was Isabel Peron in Argentina between 1974–1976).

Gerard Carlton "Pete" Lovely (April 11, 1926– May 15, 2011), was a racecar driver and businessman from the United States. He was born in Livingston, Montana.

María Mercader (6 March 1918 – 26 January 2011) was a Spanish film actress. She appeared in 40 films between 1923 and 1992. She was the second wife of film director Vittorio De Sica.[1] Her brother was Ramón Mercader[2] who became famous as the murderer of Leon Trotsky in 1940, in Mexico.

Nirmala Srivastava (née Nirmala Salve, more widely known as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) (March 21, 1923 – February 23, 2011) was the founder of Sahaja Yoga, a new religious movement. She proclaimed that she was the complete incarnation of the Adi Shakti, and is recognized as such by devotees in 140 countries.

Osamu Dezaki (November 18, 1943 - April 17, 2011): was a Japanese director of anime. He was known for his distinct visual style and his works on Astro Boy,, The Rose of Versailles and others.

Patrick Billingsley (May 3, 1925, Sioux Falls, South Dakota – April 22, 2011) was an American mathematician and stage and screen actor, noted for his books in advanced probability theory and statistics. He also had a part on The Untouchables

William Perry Moore IV also known as Perry Moore, was an American author, screenwriter, and film director. He was an executive producer of The Chronicles of Narnia film series and the author of Hero, an award-winning novel about a gay teenage superhero.He died on February 17, 2011 aged 39

Poly Styrene was the stage name of Marianne Joan Elliott-Said (3 July 1957 – 25 April 2011), a British musician, songwriter and singer, most notably in the pioneering punk rock band X-Ray Spex. dead at 53

Sri Sathya Sai Baba, born as Sathyanarayana Raju (23 November 1926 – 24 April 201), was an Indian guru, spiritual figure, philanthropist, and educator. He claimed to be the reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi, a spiritual saint and miracle worker who died in 1918 and whose teachings were an eclectic blend of Hindu and Muslim beliefs.

Saif al-Arab al-Gaddafi (Arabic: سيف العرب القذافي‎, lit. Sword of the Arabs; of the Gaddafa; 1982 – is the sixth son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. On 30 April 2011, the Libyan government reported that Saif and three of his young nieces and nephews were killed by a NATO airstrike on his house during the Libyan civil war. He was 29 Years old

Simon van der Meer (24 November 1925 – 4 March 2011) was a Dutch particle accelerator physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Carlo Rubbia for contributions to the CERN project which led to the discovery of the W and Z particles.

Timothy Alistair Telemachus Hetherington (5 December 1970 – 20 April 2011) was a British-American photojournalist. He was best known for the documentary film Restrepo (2010).Hetherington was killed while covering the 2011 Libyan civil war. He was 40 years old.

Tura Satana (July 10, 1938[1] – February 4, 2011) was an American actress and former exotic dancer. She was best known for her role as "Varla" in Russ Meyer's 1965 cult film, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!.