August 11 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 480 BC - Leonidas, King of Sparta (b. circa 540 BC)


• 353 - Magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303)


• 449 - Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople


• 897 - Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona


• 1204 - King Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199)


• 1253 - Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (b. 1194)


• 1456 - John Hunyadi, regent of Hungary (b. 1387)


• 1464 - Nicholas of Cusa, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1401)


• 1494 - Hans Memling, Flemish painter (b. circa 1430)


• 1519 - Johann Tetzel, German opponent of the Reformation (b. 1465)


• 1563 - Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer (b. circa 1500)


• 1578 - Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (b. 1502)


• 1596 - Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)


• 1614 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)


• 1656 - Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (b. 1599)


• 1774 - Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (b. 1722)


• 1813 - Henry James Pye, English poet (b. 1745)


• 1851 - Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (b. 1779)


• 1854 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (b. 1798)


• 1886 - Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b. 1843)


• 1890 - John Henry Cardinal Newman, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1801)


• 1892 - Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)


• 1903 - Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (b. 1839)


• 1919 - Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1835)


• 1936 - Blas Infante, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1885)


• 1937 - Edith Wharton, American author (b. 1862)


• 1939 - Jean Bugatti, Italian automobile designer (b. 1909)


• 1953 - Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver (b. 1892)


• 1954 - Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (b. 1886)


• 1956 - Jackson Pollock, American artist (b. 1912)


• 1961 - Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian writer actor and director (b. 1910)


• 1972 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1899)


• 1974 - Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan musician.


• 1974 - Jan Tschichold, German typographer (b. 1902)


• 1980 - Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)


• 1982 - Tom Drake, American actor (b. 1918)


• 1984 - Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (b. 1892)


• 1984 - Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player (b. 1916)


• 1988 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)


• 1991 - J. D. McDuffie, American NASCAR driver (b. 1939)


• 1994 - Peter Cushing, British actor (b. 1913)


• 1995 - Phil Harris, American singer and comedian (b. 1904)


• 1996 - Rafael Kubelík, Czech-born conductor and composer (b. 1914)


• 1996 - Mel Taylor, American drummer (The Ventures) (b. 1933)


• 2000 - Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer (b. 1916)


• 2001 - Percy Stallard, English racing cyclist (b. 1909)


• 2002 - Galen Rowell, American photographer and mountain climber (b. 1940)


• 2003 - Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923)


• 2003 - Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach (b. 1937)


• 2005 - James Booth, English actor (b. 1927)


• 2006 - Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1925)