A list of notables who died in 2011

John Adler, US congressman (New Jersey)

Harold Volkmer, US congressman (Missouri)

Robert Ellsworth, US congressman (Kansas)

Peter Frelinghuysen, US congressman (New Jersey)

Clarence Miller, US congressman (Ohio)

Erwin Mitchell, US congressman (Georgia)

Richard Mallary, US congressman (Vermont)

Howard Wolpe, US congressman (Michigan)

Perkins Bass, US congressman (New Hampshire)

James Quigley, US congressman (Pennsylvania)

Hugh Carey, New York governor

Walter Peterson, New Hampshire governor

Claude Kirk, Florida governor

Russell Peterson, Delaware governor, environmentalist

Ned McWherter, Tennessee governor

Bill Clements, Texas governor

Bruce Sundlun, Rhode Island governor

William Schaefer, Maryland governor, Baltimore mayor

Albert Rosellini, Washington governor

William Waller, Mississippi governor

Charles Manatt, Democratic party leader

Dorothy Rodham, political mentor

Milton Gwirtzman, political aide

Kara Kennedy, filmmaker

Richard Wirthlin, pollster

George Gallup, pollster

John Shalikashvili, Joint Chiefs leader

Noel Gayler, war hero

Richard Winters, war hero

Barney Hajiro, war hero

Violet Cowden, war hero

Paul Wiedorfer, war hero

Charles Murray, war hero

Joseph Carmichael, war hero

Frank Buckles, World War I doughboy

John Lounge, astronaut

Arthur Murray, test pilot

Betty Skelton, air daredevil

Betty Haas Pfister, aviatrix

Leonard Weinglass, defense attorney

Matthew Perry, legal pioneer

Ellen McCormack, antiabortion activist

David Hackett, public servant

David Sencer, public health official

Bernadine Healy, public health official

Virginia Knauer, consumer advocate

Judy Bonds, environmental activist

Clara Luper, civil rights activist

Arthur Evans, gay rights activist

Gus Tyler, labor leader

John Stott, evangelical leader

Jerome Shestack, attorney, diplomat

Norma Johnson, federal judge

Kenneth Dahlberg, Watergate figure

World affairs

Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz, Saudi Arabian defense minister

Nguyen Cao Ky, South Vietnamese leader

Tuviah Friedman, Nazi hunter

Mietek Pemper, compiler of Schindler’s List

Lana Peters, author, Josef Stalin’s daughter

Nancy Wake, WWII resistance leader

Josefa Iloilo, Fiji president

Necmettin Erbakan, Turkish prime minister

Fateh Singh Rathore, environmentalist

Allan Blakeney, Canadian health minister

Sathya Sai Baba, spiritual leader

Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, Vietnamese political figure

Ernesto Sabato, Argentine author, rights activist

Moshe Landau, Israeli Supreme Court judge

Lidia Gueiler Tejada, Bolivian president

Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian leader

Ferenc Madl, Hungarian president

Albertina Sisulu, antiapartheid leader

Edgar Tekere, Zimbabwe rights leader