2011 in Italy

Incumbents

• President: Giorgio Napolitano
• Prime Minister: Silvio Berlusconi, Mario Monti

  [Silvio Berlusconi underage prostitution charges]

• Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is being investigated concerning allegations that he paid a 17-year-old girl for sex and that he lied and misused his power to have her released from police custody after she was arrested for theft.
• Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister.

  [Murder of [Meredith Kercher]]

• Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito had their murder convictions quashed and were released.

  Births

Deaths

• March 12 – Nilla Pizzi, 91, singer
• September 4 – Mino Martinazzoli, 79, politician
• September 13 – Walter Bonatti, 81, mountain climber and journalist
• September 26 – Sergio Bonelli, 78, publisher
• October 21 – Antonio Cassese, 74, jurist
• October 23 – Marco Simoncelli, 24, motorcycle racer
• December 25 – Giorgio Bocca, 91, essayist and journalist
• December 30 – Mirko Tremaglia, 85, politician