Famous Deaths on 11 Mar

Famous Deaths on 11 Mar

1198 - Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145)
1486 - Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (b. 1414)
1514 - Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)
1575 - Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520)
1602 - Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer
1607 - Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer
1722 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (b. 1670)
1759 - John Forbes, British general (b. 1710)
1786 - Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1714)
1801 - Paul I of Russia, Russian tsar (b. 1754)
1820 - Benjamin West, English-American painter (b. 1738)
1847 - Johnny Appleseed, American pioneer agronomist (b. 1774)
1851 - George McDuffie, Governor of South Carolina (b. 1790)
1854 - Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)
1856 - James Beatty, Irish railway engineer (b. 1820)
1863 - Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, English general (b. 1803)
1869 - Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1803)
1870 - King Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho
1874 - Charles Sumner, American politician (b. 1811)
1898 - William Rosecrans, American Civil War Union general (b. 1819)
1907 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (b. 1847)
1908 - Revd Benjamin Waugh, American activist (b. 1839)
1920 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
1931 - F.W. Murnau, German film director (b. 1888)
1937 - Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (b. 1860)
1944 - Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-born American historian (b. 1882)
1952 - Pierre Renoir, French stage and film actor and director (b. 1885)
1955 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
1955 - Oscar Mayer, Bavarian-born American meat packer (b. 1859)
1957 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (b. 1888)
1958 - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor of Legos (b. 1891)
1960 - Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer and adventurer (b. 1884)
1967 - Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b. 1882)
1969 - John Wyndham, English author (b. 1903)
1970 - Erle Stanley Gardner, American novelist (b. 1889)
1971 - Whitney Young, American civil rights leader (b. 1921)
1971 - Philo T. Farnsworth, American television pioneer (b. 1906)
1977 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist (b. 1893)
1977 - Alberto Rodriguez Larreta, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
1978 - Claude François, French singer (b. 1939)
1982 - Horace Gregory, American poet (b. 1898)
1982 - Edmund Cooper, English author (b. 1926)
1984 - Kostas Roukounas, Greek rembetiko singer and song writer (b. 1903)
1986 - Sonny Terry, American blues musician (b. 1911)
1987 - Joe Gladwin, English actor (b. 1906)
1989 - James Kee, American politician (b. 1917)
1989 - John J. McCloy, United States Secretary of War (b. 1895)
1990 - Dean Horrix, English footballer (b. 1961)
1992 - Richard Brooks, American film director (b. 1912)
1993 - Dino Bravo, Italian-born professional wrestler (b. 1949)
1996 - Vince Edwards, American film actor and director (b. 1928)
1999 - Camille Laurin, Quebec psychiatrist and politician (b. 1922)
2002 - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
2003 - Brian Cleeve, Irish author (b. 1921)
2003 - Ivar Hansen, speaker of the Danish Folketing (b. 1938)
2006 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (b. 1941)
2006 - Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
2007 - Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
222 - Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus (b. 180)
222 - Elagabalus, Roman Emperor
859 - Eulogius of Cordoba, Spanish Bishop and Christian Martyr