2011 in Austria
Events from the year '''2011 in Austria'''
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
- * Markus Wallner
Events
- July 16: The funeral of Otto von Habsburg takes place in Vienna attended by over 100,000 people
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.
- January 30: Michael Herzog, 58, Austrian ice hockey player.
February
- February 1: Ernst Badian, 85, Austrian classical scholar and history professor, 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 alpine skier and actor.
- March 29: Edith Klestil, 78, Austrian first lady, 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, 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.