Famous Deaths on 11 Jan

Famous Deaths on 11 Jan

1055 - Constantine IX Monomachos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1000)
1083 - Otto of Nordheim, Duke of Bavaria (c. 1020)
1494 - Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b. 1449)
1495 - Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1428)
1547 - Pietro Bembo, Italian author, literary theorist, and Catholic cardinal (b. 1470)
1641 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (b. 1583)
1696 - Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (b. 1616)
1703 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (b. 1632)
1713 - Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader (b. 1637)
1735 - Danilo I , Vladika of Montenegro (b. c. 1670)
1753 - Sir Hans Sloane, Ulster-Scot physician and collector (b. 1660)
1762 - Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor (b. 1695)
1763 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (b. 1676)
1771 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (b. 1704)
1775 - Prithvi Narayan Shah, began the unification of modern Nepal (b. 1723)
1791 - William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717)
1801 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (b. 1749)
1836 - John Molson, Canadian brewer (b. 1763)
1843 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and writer of the American national anthem (b. 1779)
1867 - Sir Stuart Donaldson, first Premier of the Colony of New South Wales (b. 1812)
1882 - Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (b. 1810)
1891 - Baron Georges Haussmann, French civic planner whose name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris (b. 1809)
1901 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (b. 1866)
1902 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862)
1905 - Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Hasidic rabbi (b. 1847)
1914 - Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named (b. 1842)
1923 - King Constantine I of Greece (b. 1868)
1928 - Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)
1931 - James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852)
1941 - Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (b. 1868)
1944 - Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law (b. 1903)
1947 - Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born singer and entertainer (b. 1879)
1952 - Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France (b. 1889)
1952 - Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (b. 1885)
1954 - Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
1957 - Sir Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and early leading expert in Australian constitutional law (b. 1867)
1958 - Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
1958 - Alec Rowley, English composer (b. 1892)
1961 - Elena Gerhardt, German mezzo-soprano singer (b. 1883)
1966 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889)
1966 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b. 1901)
1966 - Lal Bahadur Shastri, third Prime Minister of independent India (b. 1904)
1968 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
1969 - Richmal Crompton, British author (b. 1890)
1972 - Padraic Colum, Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore (b. 1881)
1975 - Max Lorenz, German heldentenor famous for Wagner roles (b. 1901)
1978 - Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet (b. 1927)
1979 - Jack Soo, American actor (b. 1917)
1980 - Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)
1981 - Beulah Bondi, American actress (b. 1888)
1983 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894)
1985 - Sir William McKell, Premier of New South Wales, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
1986 - Sid Chaplin, UK novelist (b. 1916)
1987 - Albert Ferber, Swiss-English pianist (b. 1911)
1988 - Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, American WW II Marine aviator (b. 1912)
1988 - Florence Knapp, American, one-time oldest person in the world (b. 1873)
1991 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
1994 - Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician (b. 1902)
1995 - Josef Gingold, Russian-American violinist (b. 1909)
1998 - Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)
1999 - Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (b. 1897)
1999 - Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (b. 1921)
1999 - Fabrizio de André, Italian singer (b. 1940)
2000 - Betty Archdale, Anglo-Australian educationalist and cricketer (b. 1907)
2000 - Bob Lemon, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2000 - Ivan Combe, American inventor (b. 1911)
2001 - Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (b. 1914)
2001 - Michael Williams, British actor, husband of Judi Dench (b. 1935)
2002 - Struan Sutherland, Australian medical researcher (b. 1936)
2002 - Henri Verneuil, French playwright and film director (b. 1920)
2003 - Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (b. 1925)
2003 - Richard Simmons, American actor (b. 1913)
2003 - Mickey Finn, English drummer (T. Rex) (b. 1947)
2005 - Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (b. 1913)
2005 - Fabrizio Meoni, Italian motorcyclist (b. 1957)
2005 - James Griffin, American musician (Bread) (b. 1943)
2005 - Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1938)
2006 - Markus Löffel (Mark Spoon), German DJ (b. 1966)
2006 - Nixzmary Brown, American child abuse victim (b. 1998)
2007 - Solveig Dommartin, French-German actress (b. 1961)
2007 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author (b. 1932)
2007 - Puchi Balseiro, Puerto Rican singer & songwriter (b. 1926)
2008 - Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (b. 1917)
2008 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, the 1st person to climb Mt Everest in 1953 (b. 1919)
314 - St. Miltiades
705 - Pope John VI
802 - St. Paulinus II of Aquileia
812 - Staurakios, Byzantine Emperor
844 - Michael I Rhangabes, Byzantine Emperor