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
• * Markus Wallner

  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.
• 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.