Famous Deaths on 11 Dec

Famous Deaths on 11 Dec

1121 - Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Caliph of Egypt (b. 1066)
1226 - Robert de Ros, English politician (b. 1177)
1282 - Llywelyn the Last, Prince of Gwynedd
1282 - Michael VIII Palaiologos, Greek Byzantine Emperor (b. 1225)
1532 - Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455)
1582 - Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1508)
1688 - James II of England, King of England, King of Scotland, King of Ireland and Duke of York
1694 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)
1737 - John Strype, English historian (b. 1643)
1747 - Edmund Curll, English bookseller (b. ca. 1675)
1797 - Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
1840 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (b. 1771)
1872 - Kamehameha V, Hawaiian king (b. 1830)
1880 - Oliver Fisher Winchester, American businessman and politician (b. 1810)
1892 - William Milligan, Scottish theologian (b. 1821)
1909 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (b. 1855)
1918 - Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (b. 1876)
1920 - Olive Schreiner, South African writer (b. 1855)
1938 - Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1869)
1941 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (b. 1922)
1941 - Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (b. 1856)
1945 - Charles Fabry, French physicist (b. 1867)
1950 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1893)
1957 - Musidora (Jeanne Roques), French actress (b. 1889)
1959 - Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (b. 1900)
1964 - Sam Cooke, American singer (b. 1931)
1964 - Percy Kilbride, American actor (b. 1888)
1971 - Maurice "Mac" McDonald, American fast-food pioneer (b. 1902)
1975 - Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (b. 1908)
1978 - Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1901)
1978 - Paul O'Dea, American baseball player (b. 1920)
1979 - James J. Gibson, American perceptual psychologist (b. 1904)
1983 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British General (b. 1897)
1984 - Oskar Seidlin, German-born American scholar (b. 1911)
1987 - G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (b. 1923)
1989 - Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
1991 - Robert Q. Lewis, American game show host and actor (b. 1921)
1991 - Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author and critic (b. 1906)
1992 - Michael Robbins, English actor (b. 1930)
1993 - Elvira Popescu, Romanian-born French actress (b. 1894)
1994 - Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
1995 - Arthur Mullard, English comedy actor (b. 1910)
1996 - Willie Rushton, English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor, performer and co-founder of the Private Eye satirical magazine. (b. 1937)
1998 - André Lichnerowicz, Polish-French physicist (b. 1915)
1998 - Lynn Strait, American singer (Snot) (b. 1968)
2000 - David Lewis, American actor (b. 1916)
2000 - Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author (b. 1915)
2003 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (b. 1927)
2004 - José Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1962)
2004 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach (b. 1917)
2004 - M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (b. 1916)
2006 - Elizabeth Bolden, American, oldest verified person in the world at the time of her death (b. 1890)
2007 - Grace Paley, American writer (b. 1922)
2007 - Christie Hennessy, Irish singer (b. 1945)
2007 - Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian Actress (b. 1981)
384 - Pope Damasus I