The removed names also appear as:
Andrés García, François Charlier, Gökhan Şengün, Michał Górny, Sébastien
Willemijns, Christopher Conroy, John E. Malmberg, Luca Altea, Peter Su,
S. Moonesamy, Samuel Listopad, Yasuharu Yamada, Karl Moerder

./contributors.sh found these extra ones that somehow had fallen
through the cracks and never gotten added here.

Reported-by: Frank Gevaerts

Dennis Clarke from Blastwave.org for ensuring that nightly builds run
smooth on Solaris!

I re-ran contributors.sh on all changes since 7.10 and I found these
contributors who are mentioned in the commits but never were added to
THANKS before!

I also removed a couple of duplicates (mostly due to different
spellings).

24 new great friends