Elizabeth Taylor died on 23 March 2011 in Los Angeles, aged 79. A British-American actress, Taylor was born in London to American parents and became a child star in National Velvet at age twelve. As an adult she starred in A Place in the Sun, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Butterfield 8 and the lavish epic Cleopatra, and she won Academy Awards for Butterfield 8 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Her stormy marriages, including two to the actor Richard Burton, made her one of the most closely followed celebrities of her time. She was one of the first major stars to campaign against AIDS, co-founding the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985. She was made a Dame in 2000.
Before and after
- 11 March 2011Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
- 11 March 20112011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
- from 15 March 2011 to 8 December 2024Syrian Civil War
- from 19 March 2011 to 31 October 20112011 military intervention in Libya
- 23 March 2011Death of Elizabeth Taylor
- 31 March 2011Creation of elementary OS
- 7 April 2011Shaar HaNegev school bus attack
- from 17 April 2011 to 19 May 2019Premiere of Game of Thrones
- 29 April 2011Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton
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