2011
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2011 (MMXI ) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar , the 2011th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 11th year of the 3rd millennium , the 11th year of the 21st century , and the 2nd year of the 2010s decade.
2011
A series of protests and government overthrows, known as the Arab Spring , swept through the Middle East in 2011.
2011 was designated as:
Events
January
February
March
April
May
May 1 – U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden , the founder and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda , was killed on May 2, 2011 (PKT , UTC+05 ) during an American military operation in Pakistan .[24]
May 10 –14 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2011 takes place in Düsseldorf , Germany , and is won by Azeri entrants Ell & Nikki with the song "Running Scared ".
May 16 – The European Union agrees to a €78 billion rescue deal for Portugal. The bailout loan will be equally split between the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism , the European Financial Stability Facility , and the International Monetary Fund .[25]
May 21 – Grímsvötn , Iceland's most active volcano, erupts and causes disruption to air travel in Northwestern Europe.[26]
May 22 – The 2011 Joplin tornado , an EF5 tornado , strikes Joplin, Missouri , killing 158 and injuring 1,150.
May 26 – Former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladić , wanted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, is arrested in Serbia .[27] [28]
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Births
Deaths
January
February
March
March 2 – Allan Louisy , 2nd Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (b. 1916 )
March 4
March 5 – Alberto Granado , Cuban writer and scientist (b. 1922 )
March 6 – Ján Popluhár , Slovak footballer (b. 1935 )
March 8 – Mike Starr , American musician (b. 1966 )
March 15 – Nate Dogg , American rapper (b. 1969 )
March 17
March 18 – Warren Christopher , American diplomat (b. 1925 )
March 21
March 23 – Elizabeth Taylor , British-American actress (b. 1932 )
March 26
March 27 – Farley Granger , American actor (b. 1925 )
March 29 – José Alencar , Brazilian politician, 23rd Vice President of Brazil (b. 1931 )
April
May
May 1 – Henry Cooper , British heavyweight boxer (b. 1934 )
May 2 – Osama bin Laden , Saudi-born leader of Al-Qaeda (b. 1957 )
May 3 – Jackie Cooper , American actor (b. 1922 )
May 4 – Sada Thompson , American actress (b. 1927 )
May 5
May 7
May 8 – Lionel Rose , Australian boxer (b. 1948 )
May 9 – Lidia Gueiler Tejada , 67th President of Bolivia (b. 1921 )
May 15 – Samuel Wanjiru , Kenyan athlete (b. 1986 )
May 17 – Harmon Killebrew , American baseball player (b. 1936 )
May 18 – Guy Razanamasy , 2-Time Prime Minister of Madagascar (b. 1928 )
May 19 – Garret FitzGerald , 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1926 )
May 20 – Randy Savage , American professional wrestler (b. 1952 )
May 23
May 27
May 29
May 30 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow , American physicist (b. 1921 )
May 31 – Pauline Betz , American tennis player (b. 1919 )
June
July
July 2 – Itamar Franco , 37th President of Brazil (b. 1930 )
July 4 – Archduke Otto of Austria , (b. 1912 )
July 5 – Cy Twombly , American painter (b. 1928 )
July 8
July 9 – Facundo Cabral , Argentine singer (b. 1937 )
July 10 – Roland Petit , French choreographer and dancer (b. 1924 )
July 12 – Tom Gehrels , American astronomer (b. 1925 )
July 15 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler , German landowner, politician, and businessman (b. 1928 )
July 17 – Juan María Bordaberry , 36th President of Uruguay (b. 1928 )
July 20 – Lucian Freud , German-born British painter (b. 1922 )
July 23
July 24 – G. D. Spradlin , American actor (b. 1920 )
July 25 – Mihalis Kakogiannis , Cypriot filmmaker (b. 1922 )
July 26 – Joe Arroyo , Colombian salsa and tropical music singer (b. 1955 )
July 28 – Abdul Fatah Younis , Libyan army commander (b. 1944 )
July 30 – Mario Echandi Jiménez , 47th President of Costa Rica (b. 1915 )
August
September
September 8 – Võ Chí Công , 5th President of Vietnam (b. 1912 )
September 10 – Cliff Robertson , American actor (b. 1923 )
September 11
September 12 – Alexander Galimov , Russian hockey player (b. 1985 )
September 13 – Richard Hamilton , British painter and collage artist (b. 1922 )
September 14 – Rudolf Mössbauer , German Nobel physicist (b. 1929 )
September 15 – Frances Bay , Canadian-American character actress (b. 1919 )
September 19 – George Cadle Price , 1st Prime Minister of Belize (b. 1919 )
September 20 – Burhanuddin Rabbani , President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996 (b. 1940 )
September 21 – Troy Davis , American murderer (b. 1968 )
September 22
September 25 – Wangari Maathai , Kenyan veterinary anatomist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1940 )
September 27 – Imre Makovecz , Hungarian architect (b. 1935 )
September 29
September 30
October
October 1 – Sven Tumba , Swedish hockey player (b. 1931 )
October 4 – Doris Belack , American actress (b. 1926 )
October 5
October 6 – Diane Cilento , Australian actress and author (b. 1933 )
October 7 – Ramiz Alia , 1st President of Albania (b. 1925 )
October 8 – Mikey Welsh , American musician and artist (b. 1971 )
October 10 – Jagjit Singh , Indian singer, composer and musician (b. 1941 )
October 11 – Frank Kameny , American gay rights activist (b. 1925 )
October 12 – Dennis Ritchie , American computer scientist (b. 1941 )
October 16 – Dan Wheldon , English racing car driver (b. 1978 )
October 18 – Norman Corwin , American radio writer, director and producer (b. 1910 )
October 20
October 22 – Sultan, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia , (b. 1930 )
October 23
October 24 – John McCarthy , American computer scientist (b. 1927 )
October 26 – Jona Senilagakali , Prime Minister of Fiji (b. 1929 )
October 29 – Jimmy Savile , English DJ, television presenter, media personality, and charity fundraiser (b. 1926 )
October 31
November
December
December 1 – Christa Wolf , German writer (b. 1929 )
December 3
December 4
December 5 – Violetta Villas , Polish singer (b. 1938 )
December 7 – Harry Morgan , American actor (b. 1915 )
December 11 – John Patrick Foley , American cardinal (b. 1935 )
December 13
December 14
December 15 – Christopher Hitchens , British-American writer (b. 1949 )
December 16
December 17
December 18 – Václav Havel , Czech playwright, 10th President of Czechoslovakia and 1st President of the Czech Republic (b. 1936 )
December 21 – Yevhen Rudakov , Ukrainian footballer (b. 1942 )
December 22 – William Duell , American actor and singer (b. 1923 )
December 24 – Johannes Heesters , Dutch actor and singer (b. 1903 )
December 26
December 27 – Helen Frankenthaler , American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1928 )
Nobel Prizes
New English words
See also
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