The following 'celebrities' have died this year, but weren’t picked by any team this year. However, they have all been chosen by teams in previous years. Hopefully by listing them here, it will alert players to non-eligible picks & to give those who are now gone their brief moment of fame on this site. The other reason for listing them here is that the teams who chose them can rue their bad luck or decisions!!
| Name (click for biography) | Date of death |
| David Hart | 5th January 2011 |
| Wilfrid Sheed | 19th January 2011 |
| Daniel Bell | 25th January 2011 |
| John Barry | 30th January 2011 |
| Saleh Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Rajhi | 12th February 2011 |
| Judith Binney | 15th February 2011 |
| Alfred Burke | 17th February 2011 |
| Allan Louisy | 2nd March 2011 |
| Simon van der Meer | 4th March 2011 |
| Farley Granger | 27th March 2011 |
| Eddie Stobart | 31st March 2011 |
| Billy Gray | 11th April 2011 |
| Trevor Bannister | 14th April 2011 |
| Bob Block | 17th April 2011 |
| Grete Waitz | 19th April 2011 |
| Max Mathews | 21st April 2011 |
| Leslie J. Audus | 5th May 2011 |
| Garret FitzGerald | 19th May 2011 |
| Leonora Carrington | 25th May 2011 |
| Janet Brown | 27th May 2011 |
| Rosalyn Sussman Yalow | 30th May 2011 |
| Miriam Karlin | 3rd June 2011 |
| Harry Bernstein | 3rd June 2011 |
| Donald Hewlett | 4th June 2011 |
| Frederick Chiluba | 18th June 2011 |
| Cy Twombly | 5th July 2011 |
| Pete Duranko | 8th July 2011 |
| George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood | 11th July 2011 |
| Juan Maria Bordaberry | 17th July 2011 |
| Lord Richard Marsh | 29th July 2011 |
| Baruj Benacerraf | 2nd August 2011 |
| Shammi Kapoor | 14th August 2011 |
| Jerry Leiber | 22nd August 2011 |
| Vicco von Bülow | 22nd August 2011 |
| Alla Bayanova | 30th August 2011 |
| Wade Mainer | 12th September 2011 |
| Emanuel Litvinoff | 24th September 2011 |
| Wangari Maathai | 25th September 2011 |
| Anwar al-Awlaki | 30th September 2011 |
| Bert Jansch | 5th October 2011 |
| Har Gobind Khorana | 9th November 2011 |
| Karl Slover | 15th November 2011 |
| Anne McCaffery | 21st November 2011 |
| Sena Jurinac | 22nd November 2011 |
| Ken Russell | 27th November 2011 |
| Arthur Beetson | 1st December 2011 |
| Alan Sues | 1st December 2011 |
| Christopher Logue | 2nd December 2011 |
| Diana Gould | 3rd December 2011 |
| Dobie Gray | 6th December 2011 |
| Roy Tattersall | 9th December 2011 |
| George Whitman | 14th December 2011 |
| Nicol Williamson | 16th December 2011 |
| John Chamberlain | 21st December 2011 |
| Cheeta | 24th December 2011 |
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