Curated category
2011 deaths
- Elizabeth TaylorElizabeth Taylor was born on the 27th of February 1932 in Hampstead Garden Suburb, northwest London, in a family home called Heathwood.
- Amy WinehouseAmy Jade Winehouse died on the 23rd of July 2011, at her home in Camden Square, London. She was 27 years old. Her blood alcohol content was recorded at 0.416…
- Osamu DezakiOsamu Dezaki could freeze time. Not literally, but on screen he came as close as anyone in the history of Japanese animation.
- Gil Scott-HeronGil Scott-Heron was born on the 1st of April, 1949, in Chicago, and by the time he died on the 27th of May, 2011, he had changed American music in ways that…
- Sylvia RobinsonIn 2022, Sylvia Robinson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Ahmet Ertegun Award category, the first woman to receive that honor…
- Diana Wynne JonesDiana Wynne Jones was born in London on the 16th of August 1934, and by the time she died on the 26th of March 2011, she had written some of the most…
- Otto von HabsburgOtto von Habsburg was born on the 20th of November 1912 at Villa Wartholz in Reichenau an der Rax, at a moment when Austria-Hungary still stood as one of the…
- Flórián AlbertFlórián Albert stood on a pitch in England in 1966, and made a crowd forget about Pelé. That is not a small claim. Hungary were facing Brazil in a must-win…
- Maria DowlingMaria Dowling was born in 1955 and spent her career asking a question that most people never think to ask: what did it mean to be educated at the English…
- John McCarthy (computer scientist)John McCarthy coined the term "artificial intelligence" in the summer of 1956, and spent the rest of his life trying to build exactly what that phrase…
- Robert EttingerRobert Chester Wilson Ettinger was shot in Germany during World War II, left for dead in the field, and spent several years recovering in a Michigan hospital.
- Vincent CroninVincent Cronin's full name at birth was Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin, sometimes recorded as Cronogue. He was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, on the 24th…
- Richard Hamilton (artist)Richard William Hamilton arrived in the world on the 24th of February 1922 within the London district of Pimlico. He left school without any formal…
- Robert BerksRobert Berks spent a week or two getting to know you before he touched the clay. That was his method. If you were a living subject, he would invite you to…