Year 2011 Review

News effect to the World 

January

January 1 – Estonia officially adopts the Euro currency and becomes the seventeenth Eurozone country
January 9–15 – Southern Sudan holds a referendum on independence. The Sudanese electorate votes in favour of independence, paving the way for the creation of the new state in July.
January 11 – Flooding and mudslides in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro kills 903.
January 14 – Arab Spring: The Tunisian government falls after a month of increasingly violent protests; President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees to Saudi Arabiaafter 23 years in power.
January 24 – 37 people are killed and more than 180 others wounded in a bombingat Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia.

February

February 11 – Arab Spring: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigns afterwidespread protests calling for his departure, leaving control of Egypt in the hands of the military until a general election can be held.
February 22 - March 14 – Uncertainty over Libyan oil output causes crude oil prices to rise 20% over a two-week period following the Arab Spring, causing the 2011 energy crisis.

March

March 11 – A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of Japan, killing 15,840 and leaving another 3,926 missing. Tsunami warnings are issued in 50 countries and territories. Emergencies are declared at four nuclear power plants affected by the quake.
March 15 – Arab Spring: Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain declares a three-month state of emergency as troops from the Gulf Co-operation Council are sent to quell the civil unrest.
March 17 – Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: The United Nations Security Council votes 10-0 to create a no-fly zone over Libya in response to allegations of government aggression against civilians.
March 19 – Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: In light of continuing attacks on Libyan rebels by forces in support of leader Muammar Gaddafi, military intervention authorized under UNSCR 1973 begins as French fighter jets make reconnaissance flights over Libya.

April

April 11 – Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo is arrested in his home in Abidjan by supporters of elected President Alassane Ouattara with support from French forces thereby ending the 2010–2011 Ivorian crisis and civil war.
April 29 – An estimated two billion people watch the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London.

May

May 1 – U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda, has been killed during an American military operation in Pakistan.
May 16 – The European Union agree to €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.
May 26 – Former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladić, wanted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, is arrested in Serbia.

June

June 4 – Chile's Puyehue volcano erupts, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand, Australia and forcing over 3,000 people to evacuate.
June 5 – Arab Spring: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh travels to Saudi Arabia for treatment of an injury sustained during an attack on the presidential palace. Protesterscelebrate his transfer of power to his Vice-President Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi.
June 12 – Arab Spring: Thousands of Syrians flee to Turkey as Syrian troops lay siege to Jisr ash-Shugur.

July

July 7 – The world's first artificial organ transplant is achieved, using an artificial windpipecoated with stem cells.
July 9 – South Sudan secedes from Sudan, per the result of the independence referendumheld in January.
July 20 Goran Hadžić is detained in Serbia, becoming the last of 161 people indicted by theInternational Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The United Nations declares a famine in southern Somalia, the first in over thirty years.
July 21 – Space Shuttle Atlantis lands successfully at Kennedy Space Center after completingSTS-135, concluding NASA's space shuttle program. July 22 – 76 people are killed in twin terrorist attacks in Norway after a bombing in the Regjeringskvartalet (the government center in Oslo) and a shooting at a political youth camp in the island of Utøya.
July 31 - September 24 – Arab Spring: Because of the uncertaintities associated with a clamp-down of the free press, there is believed to be at least 121 people killed in a Syrian Army tank raid on the town of Hama and over 150 people are reportedly killed across the country. The total dead throughout Syria may never be known, but an estimate as of September 24 is 3,000.

August

August 5 NASA announces that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured photographic evidence of possible liquid water on Mars during warm seasons. Juno, the first solar-powered spacecraft on a mission to Jupiter, is launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
August 20–28 – Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: In the Battle of Tripoli, Libyan rebels took control the nation's capital effectively overthrowing the government of Muammar Gaddafi.

September

September 5 – India and Bangladesh sign a pact to end their 40-year border demarcation dispute.
September 10 – Zanzibar ferry sinking: The MV Spice Islander I, carrying at least 800 people, sinks off the coast of Zanzibar, killing 240 people.
September 12 – Approximately 100 Kenyans die after a petrol pipeline explodes in Nairobi.
September 19 – With 434 dead, the United Nations launches a $357 million appeal for victims of the 2011 Sindh floods in Pakistan.

October

October 4 2011 Mogadishu bombing: 100 people are killed in a car bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu. In Thailand, 657 people are killed by floods during a severe monsoon season, with 58 of the country's 77 provinces affected. The death toll from the flooding of Cambodia's Mekong River and attendant flash floods reaches 207.
October 18 – Israel and the Palestinian militant organization Hamas begin a major prisoner swap, in which the captured Israeli Armysoldier Gilad Shalit is released by Hamas in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian and Israeli-Arab prisoners held in Israel, including 280 prisoners serving life sentences for planning and perpetrating terror attacks.
October 20 Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is killed in Sirte, with National Transitional Council forcestaking control of the city, and ending the war. Basque separatist militant organisation ETA declares an end to its 43-year campaign of political violence, which has killed over 800 people since 1968.
October 23 – A magnitude 7.2 Mw earthquakes jolted eastern Turkey near the city of Van, killing 604 people, and damaging about 2,200 buildings. October 27 – After an emergency meeting in Brussels, the European Union announced an agreement to tackle the European sovereign debt crisis which includes a writedown of 50% of Greek bonds, a recapitalisation of European banks and an increase of the bailout fund of the European Financial Stability Facility totaling to €1 trillion.

October 31

Date selected by the UN as the symbolic date when global population reaches seven billion. UNESCO admitted Palestine as a member, following a vote in which 107 member states supported and 14 opposed.

November

November 26 – The Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, the most elaborate Martian exploration vehicle to date, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center. It is slated to land on Mars on August 5, 2012.  

December

• December 15 – The United States formally declares an end to the Iraq War.
• December 16 – Russia becomes WTO 153rd member.

News effect to the India

January

• January 1
• Union Home Ministry winds up the Srikrishna committee on Telangana following submission of its report
• Arabinda Rajkhowa, chairman of ULFA, released on bail from the Guwahati central prison
• India and Pakistan exchange the annual lists of their nuclear installations and facilities under the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear Installations, which was signed on December 31, 1988.
• Nagesh Pydah assumes charge as Chairman and Managing Director of Oriental Bank of Commerce

April

• April 2 – India wins the 2011 Cricket World Cup.
• April 30 – Dorjee Khandu, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh since 2007, dies in a helicopter crash.

May

• May 20 – Mamata Banerjee was sworn in as the first woman and 11th Chief Minister of West Bengal.
• May 25 – Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced of Rs. 22,500 Crores for African countries to develop infrastructure facilities on the eve of IInd Indo-Africa summit.

June

• June 11 – Senior journalist and investigations editor with English newspaper 'Mid-Day', J Dey, is shot dead in Mumbai.

July

• July 13 – 2011 Mumbai bombings

October

• October 30 – 2011 F1 Race comes to India

Deaths

• January 2 – Bali Ram Bhagat, 88, former Lok Sabha Speaker.
• January 10 – Vivek Shauq, 47, actor, comedian.
• January 17 – Gita Dey, 79, actress.
• January 21 – E. V. V. Satyanarayana, 54, film director.
• January 24 – Bhimsen Joshi, 88, musician.
• January 28 – Sushil Kumar Dhara, 99, revolutionary.
• February 3 – Machan Varghese, 50, Malayalam film actor.
• February 12 – Vipindas, 72, cinematographer and director.
• February 19 – Suresh Babu, 58, athlete.
• February 20 – Malaysia Vasudevan, 66, actor and playback singer.
• February 21 – Aranmula Ponnamma, 96, Malayalam film actress.
• February 23 – Mullapudi Venkata Ramana, 79, screenwriter and film producer.
• February 24 – Anant Pai (Uncle Pai), 81, educationalist and comics writer.
• March 1 – Fateh Singh Rathore, 72, wildlife conservationist.
• March 3 – Goga Kapoor, 70, film actor.
• March 4 – Arjun Singh, 80, politician.
• March 10 – Baliram Kashyap, 74, politician.
• March 12 – Kumar Indrajitsinhji, 73, cricketer.
• March 19 – Navin Nischol, 65, actor.
• March 20 – Bob Christo, Indian actor of Australian origin.
• April 1 – Varkey Vithayathil, 83, cardinal and religious leader.
• April 3 – Rafique Alam, 81, politician.
• April 5 – Sujatha, 58, actress.
• April 12 – Sachin Bhowmick, 80, screenwriter.
• April 17 – Bhawani Singh, 79, titular Maharaja of Jaipur.
• April 22 – Madhava Gudi, 72, Hindustani classical vocalist.
• April 24 – Sathya Sai Baba, 84, Guru, spiritual leader & educator.
• April 30 – Dorjee Khandu, 56, politician, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh
• May 13 – Badal Sarkar, 85, dramatist
• May 15 – Mahendra Singh Tikait, 76, leader of farmers, President of the Bharatiya Kisan Union
• June 3 – Bhajan Lal, 80, two-time Chief Minister of Haryana
• June 7 – Nataraja Ramakrishna, 88, dance guru.
• June 9 – M. F. Husain, 95, painter
• June 11 – Jyotirmoy Dey, 55, journalist
• June 14 – Asad Ali Khan, 74, musician
• June 18 – John Perumattam, 89, Catholic hierarch
• June 21  – Kothapalli Jayashankar, 76, educator and politician
• Suresh Tendulkar, 72, economist
• June 29 – K. D. Sethna, 106, scholar and writer
• July 2 – Chaturanan Mishra, 86, politician and union leader.
• July 6 – Mani Kaul, 66, film director
• August 14 – Shammi Kapoor, 79, actor
• August 18 – Johnson Master, 58, musician
• September 22 – Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, 70, cricketer
• October 10 – Jagjit Singh, 70, singer
• November 5 – Bhupen Hazarika, 85, singer
• November 9 – Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-born American Nobel biochemist
• November 27 – Ustad Sultan Khan, 71, musician
• December 4 – Dev Anand, 88, actor and director

News effect to the Archaeology

• January : Teams commence a survey of the World War II Auxiliary Units headquarters site at Coleshill on the Oxfordshire/Wiltshire border in England.

Excavations

• Spring: Excavation of unused British escape tunnel "George" (c. September 1944) at the site of the Stalag Luft III camp in Żagań (present-day Poland) by a British team.

Publications

• Robert Van De Noort - North Sea Archaeologies: a maritime biography 10,000 BC–AD 1500 (Oxford University Press).
• February 16 - Scientists from the Natural History Museum publish an analysis of human skulls from 14,700 years BP found at Gough’s Cave in Cheddar Gorge, England, around 1987, which they believe were deliberately fashioned into ritual drinking cups. Human bones butchered and discarded nearby also suggest the practice of cannibalism.
• March - Archaeologists writing in Science argue that 15,500 BP finds from near Austin, Texas overturn the theory that the Clovis culture represents the earliest settlers in North America.

Finds

• January 11: An article in Journal of Archaeological Science reveals the discovery of the earliest known winemaking equipment in caves in Armenia, from 6,000 years BP.
• February 11 - Marine archaeologists from the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announce the discovery of artefacts from the whaling ship Two Brothers which sank off the French Frigate Shoals atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands on February 11, 1823 under Captain George Pollard, Jr.
• March 10 - English archaeologists report finding one of the earliest complete Neolithic pots in the country on a housing development in Didcot. It is thought to be about 5,500 years old.
• March 25 - The discovery of the Jordan Lead Codices, a series of codices from a cave in Jordan, is announced. The books, which reportedly contain early Christian symbols are purportedly around 2,000 years old. The authenticity of the codices is doubted.
• October 19 - The discovery of the United Kingdom mainland's first fully intact Viking ship burial site, at Ardnamurchan in the western Scottish Highlands, is announced.

Miscellaneous

• February 11 - The Pergamon Museum in Berlin stages a major exhibition of reconstructed Neo-Hittite sculpture and other material from Max von Oppenheim's collection (largely destroyed in 1943).
• July - The site of Venta Icenorum in Norfolk, England, is taken into public ownership.

Deaths

• February 19 - Anson Rainey, author and Professor Emeritus of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures and Semitic Linguistics at Tel Aviv University (b. 1930).
• April 11 - Lewis Binford, known for his development of processual archaeology.
• June 2 - Philip Rahtz, English archaeologist (b. 1921).

News effect to the Literature

Tomas Tranströmer wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Jennifer Egan wins the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel “A Visit From the Goon Squad”.
Julian Barnes wins the 2011 Man Booker Prize for fiction for his novel “The Sense of an Ending”.

Book Published in 2011
Literature

• T.C. Boyle – When the Killing's Done
• Geraldine Brooks – Caleb's Crossing (novel)
• Bonnie Jo Campbell – Once Upon a River
• Patrick deWitt – The Sisters Brothers
• E. L. Doctorow – All the Time in the World
• Steve Earle – I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
• Jeffrey Eugenides – The Marriage Plot
• Jonathan Evison – West of Here
• Robb Forman Dew – Being Polite to Hitler
• Charles Frazier – Nightwoods
• James Frey – The Final Testament of the Holy Bible
• Benjamin Hale – The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
• Ron Hansen – A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion
• Chad Harbach – The Art of Fielding
• Mat Johnson – Pym
• Haruki Murakami – 1Q84
• Téa Obreht – The Tiger's Wife
• Michael Ondaatje – The Cat's Table
• Ann Patchett – State of Wonder
• Chuck Palahniuk – Damned
• Tom Perrota – The Leftovers
• Arthur Phillips – The Tragedy of Arthur
• Karen Russell – Swamplandia!
• John Sayles – A Moment in the Sun
• Colm Tóibín – The Empty Family
• David Foster Wallace – The Pale King
• Daniel Woodrell – The Outlaw Album

Non-fiction

• Peter Bergen – The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda
• Mark Bowden – Worm: The First Digital World War
• Frank Brady – Endgame: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Bobby Fischer
• David Brooks – The Social Animal
• Brian Christian – The Most Human Human
• Richard Dawkins – The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
• Douglas Edwards – I'm Feeling Lucky
• T.J. English – The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge
• Tina Fey – Bossypants
• Joshua Foer – Moonwalking with Einstein
• James Gleick – The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
• Geoffrey Gray – Skyjack
• Brian Greene – The Hidden Reality
• Louis Hyman – Debtor Nation
• Steve Inskeep – Instant City
• David King – Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
• Erik Larson – In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
• Joseph Lelyveld – Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India
• Steven Levy – In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
• Charles C. Mann – 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
• David McCullough – The Greater Journey
• Ben Mezrich – Sex on the Moon
• Scott Miller – The President and the Assassin
• Errol Morris – Believing is Seeing
• Grant Morrison – Supergods
• Joyce Carol Oates – A Widow's Story
• Patton Oswalt – Zombie, Spaceship, Wasteland
• Dana Priest – Top Secret America
• Annie Proulx – Bird Cloud: A Memoir
• Janet Reitman – Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
• Tom Scocca – Beijing Welcomes You
• Tom Shales & J.A. Miller – Those Guys Have All the Fun
• Sarah Vowell – Unfamiliar Fishes
• Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie – The Declaration of Independents
• Daniel Yergin – The Quest
• Mitchell Zuckoff – Lost in Shangri-La

Poetry

• Rae Armantrout, Money Shot (February)
• Susan Howe, That This (February)
• Alice Notley, Culture of One (March)
• Billy Collins, Horoscopes for the Dead (April)
• Michael Palmer, Thread (May)
• Sarah Palin (edited by Michael Solomon), I Hope Like Heck (June 21)

Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Joe Abercrombie – The Heroes
• Daniel Abraham – The Dragon's Path
• Daniel Abraham (writing as James S.A. Corey) – Leviathan Wakes (with Ty Franck)
• Ann Aguirre – Aftermath
• Greg Bear – Halo: Cryptum
• Lauren Beukes – Zoo City
• Alex Bledsoe – Dark Jenny
• Alex Bledsoe – The Hum and the Shiver
• M. M. Buckner – The Gravity Pilot
• Robert Buettner – Undercurrents
• Jack Campbell – The Lost Frontier: Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnought
• Orson Scott Card – The Lost Gate
• Michael Crichton & Douglas Preston – Micro
• Ian Douglas – Center of Gravity
• David Anthony Durham – The Sacred Band
• Greg Egan – The Clockwork Rocket
• Kate Elliott – Cold Fire
• C.S. Friedman – Legacy of Kings
• Steven Gould – The 7th Sigma
• Michael Grant — Plague
• Mira Grant – Deadline
• Lev Grossman – The Magician King
• Stephen Hunt – The Rise of the Iron Moon
• N. K. Jemisin – The Kingdom of Gods
• Richard Kadrey – Aloha from Hell
• Stephen King — 11/22/63
• Sharon Lee & Steve Miller – Ghost Ship (novel)
• Pittacus Lore — The Power of Six
• Richard Matheson – Other Kingdoms
• George R. R. Martin – A Dance with Dragons
• Jack McDevitt – Firebird
• China Mieville – Embassytown
• Karen Miller – A Blight of Mages
• Richard K. Morgan – The Cold Commands
• Joseph Nassise – Eyes to See
• Terry Pratchett – Snuff
• Cherie Priest – Ganymede
• Hannu Rajaniemi – The Quantum Thief
• Brian Ruckley – The Edinburgh Dead
• Brandon Sanderson – The Alloy of Law
• John Scalzi – Fuzzy Nation
• Dan Simmons – Flashback
• Neal Stephenson – Reamde
• Charles Stross – Rule 34
• Michael Swanwick – Dancing with Bears
• Catherynne M. Valente – Deathless
• Vernor Vinge – The Children of the Sky
• Jo Walton – Among Others
• David Weber – How Firm a Foundation
• Robert Charles Wilson – Vortex
• Daniel Wilson – Robopocalypse
• Gene Wolfe – Home Fires

Young Adult

• Cynthia Hand — Unearthly (January 4)
• Courtney Allison Moulton — Angelfire (February 15)
• Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Rick Riordan, and Jude Watson – Vespers Rising (April 5)
• Josephine Angelini — Starcrossed (April 5) (Spain release)
• Kelley Armstrong — The Gathering (April 12)
• K. A. Applegate – Re-release of Animorphs books
• Rick Riordan – The Throne of Fire (May 3)
• Rick Riordan – The Son of Neptune (October 4th)
• Anthony Horowitz — Scorpia Rising
• Christopher Paolini — Inheritance

Crime and Thriller

• Jeff Abbott – Adrenaline
• Ace Atkins – The Ranger
• Kate Atkinson – Started Early, Took My Dog
• Steve Berry – The Jefferson Key
• James Lee Burke – Feast Day of Fools
• Lee Child – The Affair
• Edward Conlon – Red on Red
• Michael Connelly – The Fifth Witness
• John Connolly – The Burning Soul
• Jeffrey Deaver – Carte Blanche
• Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee – Forbidden
• Ted Dekker – The Priest's Graveyard
• Sue Grafton – V is for Vengeance
• John Grisham – The Litigators
• Morag Joss – Among the Missing
• Stuart M. Kaminsky – A Whisper to the Living
• Henning Mankell – The Troubled Man
• Jo Nesbo – The Snowman
• T. Jefferson Parker – The Border Lords
• George Pelecanos – The Cut
• Ralph Peters – The Officers' Club
• James Rollins – The Devil's Colony
• John Sandford – Buried Prey
• Marcus Sakey – The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes
• Bernard J. Schaffer – Whitechapel
• Duane Swierczynski – Fun and Games
• Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan – The Night Eternal
• Nicolaas Vergunst – Knot of Stone
• S.J. Watson – Before I Go to Sleep

News effect to the Art

• April 3 – The Chinese artist and dissident Ai Wei Wei is arrested and detained and his studio sealed off, by the government of the Peoples Republic of China, during an apparent crackdown by the regime on activists and dissidents. The PRC government later states that Wei Wei is being held while investigated for economic crimes.
• April 16 – Turner Contemporary art gallery, designed by David Chipperfield, opens in Margate, Kent, England.
• May 1 - UK publication of @earth
• May 21 – The Hepworth Wakefield art gallery, designed by David Chipperfield, opens to the public in West Yorkshire, England.
• June 22 – The Chinese legal authorities release Ai Weiwei on bail after three months detention, after being charged for alleged tax evasion. His incarceration was widely viewed as an attempt to silence a prominent critic while authorities had time to decide on legal grounds for prosecuting him, and his detention prompted condemnation of the Chinese government from some corners of the globe.[2] According to the China's Foreign Ministry, he is prohibited from leaving Beijing without permission for one year. After his release Ai declined to give interviews saying that he is not allowed to talk.
• September – firstsite's new art gallery, designed by Rafael Viñoly, opens in Colchester, England.
• October 28 – ArcelorMittal Orbit, designed by Anish Kapoor, erected at Olympic Park, London.
• November 8- Rhein II by the German photographer Andreas Gursky sells for $4.3m (£2.7m) at Christies, New York becoming the most expensive photograph ever sold.
• November 15- Ai Weiwei pays 8.45 million Yuan in taxes after receiving a large number of donations from supporters who believe the debt was politcially motivated because of his criticism of the Chinese government.

Exhibitions

• Thomas Lawrence: "Regency Power and Brilliance", Yale Center for British Art, February 24 – June 5, 2011
• “Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter: L’amour Fou”, curated by John Richardson and Dianne Widmaier Picasso, Gagosian Gallery 522 West 21st Street New York City, April 14 – July 15, 2011
• Julian Schnabel: "Permanently Becoming and the Architecture of Seeing" curated by Norman Rosenthal , the Museo Correr Venice, Italy, June 4 – November 27, 2011
• "Twombly-Poussin Arcadian Painters" at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, June 29 – September 25, 2011

Awards

• The Venice Biennial :
• The Lion d'or (Golden Lion) for best national pavilion-Germany exhibiting the work of Christoph Schlingensief
• The Lion d'or for lifetime achievement – Franz West and Sturtevant
• The Lion d'or for best artwork in the main exhibition – Christian Marclay
• The Silver Lion for most promising new artist – Haroun Mizra
• The Archibald Prize 2011- Ben Quilty

Deaths

• January 4 – B. H. Friedman, 84, writer, author of the first biography on Jackson Pollock
• January 5 – Malangatana Ngwenya, 74, Mozambican painter and poet
• January 9 – Makinti Napanangka, 80s, Australian Papunya Tula artist
• January 11 – Won-il Rhee, 50, South Korean digital art curator
• January 13 – Ellen Stewart, 91, Founder of La MaMa E.T.C., New York, designer
• January 20 – Alan Uglow, 69, British-born American painter
• January 21 – Dennis Oppenheim, 72, American sculptor
• February 8 – Charles O. Perry, 81, American sculptor
• February 11 – Roy Gussow, 92, American sculptor
• February 25 – Suze Rotolo, 67, American book artist
• March 10 – Gabriel Laderman, 81, American painter
• March 13 – Leo Steinberg, 90, American art historian and critic
• March 27 – George Tooker, 90, American painter
• March 30 – Jorge Camacho, 77, Cuban Painter
• April 8 – John McCracken, 76, American sculptor and painter
• April 8 – Hedda Sterne, 100, Romanian born, American painter
• April 12 – Miroslav Tichý, 84, Czech photographer
• May 13 – Stephen De Staebler, 79, American sculptor and printmaker
• May 18 (body found on this date) - Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, 60, Polish born American painter
• May 25 – Leonora Carrington, 94, British born, surrealist painter, who lived in Mexico
• June 4 – Claudio Bravo, 74, Chilean painter
• June 9 – M. F. Husain, 95, Indian painter
• June 16 – Twins Seven Seven, 67, Nigerian painter and sculptor
• June 20 – Thomas N. Armstrong III, 78, American curator and museum director (Whitney Museum of American Art and the Andy Warhol Museum)
• June 22 – Robert Miller, 72, American gallerist
• July 5 – Cy Twombly, 83, American painter
• July 17 – Alex Steinweiss, 94, American graphic designer, inventor of the album cover
• July 20 – Lucian Freud, 88, British painter
• July 31 - John Hoyland, 76, British painter
• August 6 - Roman Opalka, 79, French-born Polish painter
• August 21 - Budd Hopkins, 80, American painter
• August 23 - Jeanette Ingberman, 59, American curator co-founder of Exit Art
• September 5 - Vann Nath, 66, Cambodian painter
• September 13 - Richard Hamilton. 89, British painter
• September 16 - Stephen Mueller, 63, American painter
• October 24 - Bruno Weber, 80, Swiss artist and architect
• November 13 - Pat Passlof, 83, American painter
• November 23 - Gerald Laing, 75, British painter and sculptor
• November 26 - Manon Cleary, 69, American painter
• December 8 - Jerry Robinson, 89, American comic book artist and reputed creator of The Joker