Events from the year 2011 in Austria
Incumbents
President: Heinz Fischer Chancellor: Werner Faymann
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. January 6: Rudi Bass, 96, Austrian-born American graphic artist, illustrator and writer. January 15: Hilde Zach, 68, Austrian politician, Mayor of Innsbruck (2002–2010). January 30: Michael Herzog, 58, Austrian ice hockey player.
February February 1: Ernst Badian, 85, Austrian classical scholar and history professor (Harvard University), complications from a fall. February 7: Maria Altmann, 94, Austrian-born American art heiress, after long illness. February 12: Peter Alexander, 84, Austrian actor and singer.
March March 15: Yakov Kreizberg, 51, Russian-born Austrian-American conductor. March 19: Gustav Lantschner, 100, Austrian Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) alpine skier and actor. March 29: Edith Klestil, 78, Austrian first lady (1992–1998), first wife of President Thomas Klestil, cancer. March 31: Claudia Heill, 29, Austrian judoka, silver medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, suspected suicide.
April April 17: Eric Gross, 84, Austrian-born Australian composer. April 20: Erwin Strahl, 82, Austrian actor.
May May 5: Friedrich Rückert, 90, Austrian Olympic hockey player. May 30: Hans Nogler, 91, Austrian Olympic alpine skier.
June June 6: Werner Fischer, 70, Austrian Olympic sailor.Werner Fischer June 14: Milivoj Ašner, 98, Croatian-born Austrian Nazi war criminal. 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). July 6: Andreas Waldherr, 43, Austrian rally driver, workshop accident. Gabriele Zeilinger, 93, Austrian Olympic fencer. July 21: Franz Alt, 100, Austrian-born American mathematician.
August August 11: Johann Traxler, 52, Austrian Olympic cyclist. August 14: Fritz Bach, 77, Austrian-born American transplant physician and immunologist.
September September 6: Archduke Felix of Austria, 95, Austrian royal, last surviving child of Charles I of Austria. September 25: Sissy Löwinger, 70, Austrian actress, daughter of Paul Löwinger.
October October 10: Otto Tausig, 89, Austrian writer, director and actor. October 18: Michael Staikos, 65, Greek-born Austrian Orthodox hierarch, metropolitan bishop of Austria (since 1991). October 28: Arnold Ruiner, 74, Austrian Olympic cyclist.
November November 11: Hellmut May, 90, Austrian Olympic figure skater. November 12: Evelyn Lauder, 75, Austrian-born American philanthropist (The Breast Cancer Research Foundation), creator of pink ribbon symbol, complications from ovarian cancer. November 19: Peter Steinwender, 83, Austrian Olympian November 22: Sena Jurinac, 90, Bosnian-born Austrian opera singer. Georg Kreisler, 89, Austrian-born American cabarettist, satirist, composer and author. November 24: Ludwig Hirsch, 65, Austrian singer and actor, suicide by self-defenestration.
December December 29: Leopold Hawelka, 100, Austrian coffee house owner (Café Hawelka).
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