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Those four were a given for our video, but it was unavoidable to leave out a hundred others. Some will be honored in tributes during next year's award shows, but below are a few more names of those who passed in 2011.
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- Christopher Hitchens, journalist and intellectual who died Thursday of complications from cancer of the esophagus. He was 62. Hitchens was a contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine; in an article posted Thursday night the magazine described him as an "incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant." For more about Hitchens, read The Cutline.
- Warren Christopher, 63rd Secretary of State
- Arch West, inventor of Doritos
- Maria Schneider, the French actress who played opposite Marlon Brando in the controversial 1972 film Last Tango in Paris
- Owsley Stanley, a sound engineer of many talents, including the construction of the "Wall of Sound," audio equipment towering above touring musicians
- Bil Keane, cartoonist who drew the long-running newspaper comic, "The Family Circus"
- Lawrence Eagleburger, Secretary of State under President George H.W. Bush
- Harry Coover, inventor of Super Glue
- Frank DiLeo, music executive and Michael Jackson's manager
- Hazel Dickens, American bluegrass singer and advocate for coal miners
- Gary Winick, independent film producer and director of the 2004 film 13 Going on 30
- Seve Ballesteros, Spanish professional golfer who won five major championships between 1979 and 1988
- Bill McKinney, who played a sadistic mountain man in the 1972 thriller Deliverance (you remember the line, right?)
- Karl Slover, who played one of the sleepy-head Munchkins in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz
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