Quite a list of famous people who have died in 2011

[Little-Acorn]

Elizabeth Taylor
Joe Frazier
Andy Rooney
Steve Jobs
Betty Ford
James Arness
Jack LaLanne

Any others?

Useful people, not bit actors, war enemies we killed, rappers, minor innovators etc.

[Noir]

Denis Ritchie, the creator of C (programming language) and a developer who pioneered and brought into existence Unix.

[Little-Acorn]

Denis Ritchie, the creator of C (programming language) and a developer who pioneered and brought into existence Unix.

WHOA!

I didn't even know.

He is major.

[Noir]

WHOA!

I didn't even know.

He is major.

If I remember right he died a week after Steve Jobs, so the tech news was already pretty saturated and there was little mention of it.

[Little-Acorn]

Oops... Harry Morgan just died today. (Col. Potter)

Also Joe Friday's partner. And he was the judge in "Inherit the Wind" about the Scopes trial.