Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Famous Deaths on 11 Nov

Famous Deaths on 11 Nov

1623 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (b. 1549)
1638 - Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem, Dutch painter (b. 1562)
1686 - Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor, and politician (b. 1602)
1686 - Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (b. 1621)
1724 - Joseph Blake (alias Blueskin), English highwayman (executed) (b. c. 1700)
1812 - Platon Levshin, Metropoitan of Moscow (b. 1737)
1831 - Nat Turner, American slave rebel (b. 1800)
1855 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
1862 - James Madison Porter, American politician (b. 1793)
1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (hanged) (b. c. 1855)
1880 - Lucretia Mott, American feminist and abolitionist (b. 1793)
1884 - Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827)
1887 - Haymarket defendants:
397 - Martin of Tours, French saint
405 - Arsacius, intruding archbishop of Constantinople
537 - Pope Silverius, saint
826 - Theodore the Studite, saint
865 - Petronas the Patrician, Byzantine General

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