2011 deaths

Eva Wenche Steenfeldt Stang (5 December 1917 – 28 March 2011), better known as Wenche Foss (Norwegian: [ˈvɛ̂ŋkə ˈfɔsː]), was a leading Norwegian actress of stage, screen and television.

David Servan-Schreiber (April 21, 1961 – July 24, 2011) was a French physician, neuroscientist and author. He was a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He was also a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine of Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1.

Brigadier General Antonio Rodríguez Balinas (February 28, 1928 – September 21, 2011) was the first commander of the Office of the First U.S. Army Deputy Command.

Jacques Thuillier, (March 18, 1928, Vaucouleurs, Meuse – October 18, 2011, Paris) was a French art historian specializing in 17th-century French painting.
Thuillier was an honorary professor at the Collège de France, where he taught history of artistic creation from 1977 to 1998. He was a renowned specialist of French painting and, alongside the late Anthony Blunt, a leading authority on Nicolas Poussin. He published seminal works on the leading French painters of the time, including Simon Vouet, Georges de La Tour, the Le Nain brothers, Laurent de La Hyre, Sébastien Bourdon, Jacques Blanchard and Lubin Baugin. His publications on those painters often took the form of both an exhibition catalogue and a catalogue raisonné based on extensive archival research.
An avid collector, Thuillier donated, while still alive, along with his brother Guy Thuillier, his collection of drawings (2,000) and engravings (13,000) to the Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy and part of his collection of paintings to the art museum at Vic-sur-Seille. He donated to the city of Nevers part of his archives, his library, a collection of drawings and engravings, and his collections of photographs, thus making the Nevers Médiathèque into a documentation centre for French painting of the 17th century. Another part of these archives and manuscripts is held at the INHA (fr), in Paris.

Roger Tallon (6 March 1929 – 20 October 2011) was a French industrial designer.

José Luis Moneró (April 6, 1921, in Juncos, Puerto Rico – February 15, 2011) was a Puerto Rican musician and bandleader.

Adolphe-Maria Gustave Hardy (23 July 1920 – 9 August 2011) was a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as bishop
of the Diocese of Beauvais, France from 1985 to 1995.

Maurice-Adolphe Gaidon (17 January 1928 – 14 November 2011) was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cahors, France.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1956, Gaidon became a bishop in 1973 retiring in 2004.

Louis Jean Dufaux (21 October 1931 – 14 April 2011) was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Grenoble-Vienne, France.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1958, Dufaux was named an auxiliary bishop in 1984. In 1988, he was named coadjutor bishop of the Grenoble-Vienne Diocese becoming bishop in 1989. Bishop Dufaux retired in 2006.

Arnaud Desjardins (French: [aʁno deʒaʁdɛ̃]; June 18, 1925 in Paris – August 10, 2011 in Grenoble) was a French author. He was a producer at the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française from 1952 to 1974, and was one of the first high-profile practitioners of Eastern religion in France. He worked on television documentaries about spiritual traditions not well known to many Europeans at the time, including Hinduism, Tibetan Buddhism, Zen, and Sufism from Afghanistan.