Here is a roll call of some of the people who died in 2011. (Cause of death cited for younger people if available.) JANUARY: Maj. Richard "Dick" Winters, 92. The man who fought in several major battles in World War II and whose quiet leadership was...

“Judy and my mother would never have allowed anyone to tell me my dog died or anything like that,” she says. Garland, 21 when she made Meet Me in St. Louis in early 1944, was extremely protective of O’Brien, once telling dancers on the set, “That...

‘June’s not going to get ahead, I’m going to win the competition!’ ” Old-time Hollywood directors often told terrible tales to child actors to get them to cry on-screen, but not to O’Brien. “Judy and my mother would never have allowed anyone to tell me...