2011 in Austria
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Incumbents
Governors
- Burgenland: Hans Niessl
- Carinthia: Gerhard Dörfler
- Lower Austria: Erwin Pröll
- Salzburg: Gabi Burgstaller
- Styria: Franz Voves
- Tyrol: Günther Platter
- Upper Austria: Josef Pühringer
- Vienna: Michael Häupl
- Vorarlberg:
- Herbert Sausgruber (till December 7, 2011)
- Markus Wallner (since December 7, 2011)
Events
- July 16: The funeral of Otto von Habsburg takes place in Vienna attended by over 100,000 people
Births
Deaths
January
- January 3: Alfred Proksch, 102, Austrian athlete and graphic designer.[1]
- January 6: Rudi Bass, 96, Austrian-born American graphic artist, illustrator and writer.[2]
- January 15: Hilde Zach, 68, Austrian politician, Mayor of Innsbruck (2002–2010).[3]
- January 30: Michael Herzog, 58, Austrian ice hockey player.[4]
February
- February 1: Ernst Badian, 85, Austrian classical scholar and history professor (Harvard University), complications from a fall.[5]
- February 7: Maria Altmann, 94, Austrian-born American art heiress, after long illness.[6]
- February 12: Peter Alexander, 84, Austrian actor and singer.[7]
March
- March 15: Yakov Kreizberg, 51, Russian-born Austrian-American conductor.[8]
- March 19: Gustav Lantschner, 100, Austrian Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) alpine skier and actor.[9]
- March 29: Edith Klestil, 78, Austrian first lady (1992–1998), first wife of President Thomas Klestil, cancer.[10]
- March 31: Claudia Heill, 29, Austrian judoka, silver medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, suspected suicide.[11]
April
- April 17: Eric Gross, 84, Austrian-born Australian composer.[12]
- April 20: Erwin Strahl, 82, Austrian actor.[13]
May
- May 5: Friedrich Rückert, 90, Austrian Olympic hockey player.[14]
- May 30: Hans Nogler, 91, Austrian Olympic alpine skier.[15]
June
- June 6: Werner Fischer, 70, Austrian Olympic sailor.[16]
- June 14: Milivoj Ašner, 98, Croatian-born Austrian Nazi war criminal.[17]
- June 25: Dorothea Austin, 89, Austrian-born American pianist and composer.
July
- July 4: Otto von Habsburg, 98, Austro-Hungarian royal and politician, MEP (1979–1999).[18]
- July 6:
- Andreas Waldherr, 43, Austrian rally driver, workshop accident.[19]
- Gabriele Zeilinger, 93, Austrian Olympic fencer.[20]
- July 21: Franz Alt, 100, Austrian-born American mathematician.[21]
August
- August 11: Johann Traxler, 52, Austrian Olympic cyclist.[22]
- August 14: Fritz Bach, 77, Austrian-born American transplant physician and immunologist.[23]
September
- September 6: Archduke Felix of Austria, 95, Austrian royal, last surviving child of Charles I of Austria.[24]
- September 25: Sissy Löwinger, 70, Austrian actress, daughter of Paul Löwinger.[25]
October
- October 10: Otto Tausig, 89, Austrian writer, director and actor.[26]
- October 18: Michael Staikos, 65, Greek-born Austrian Orthodox hierarch, metropolitan bishop of Austria (since 1991).[27]
- October 28: Arnold Ruiner, 74, Austrian Olympic cyclist.[28]
November
- November 11: Hellmut May, 90, Austrian Olympic figure skater.[29]
- November 12: Evelyn Lauder, 75, Austrian-born American philanthropist (The Breast Cancer Research Foundation), creator of pink ribbon symbol, complications from ovarian cancer.[30]
- November 19: Peter Steinwender, 83, Austrian Olympian
- November 22:
- Sena Jurinac, 90, Bosnian-born Austrian opera singer.[31]
- Georg Kreisler, 89, Austrian-born American cabarettist, satirist, composer and author.[32]
- November 24: Ludwig Hirsch, 65, Austrian singer and actor, suicide by self-defenestration.[33]
December
- December 29: Leopold Hawelka, 100, Austrian coffee house owner (Café Hawelka).[34]