Historical Deaths for Yesterday

🏥 Famous Historical Deaths - Dec 11

0711 Justitianus II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at about 42

1282 Llywelyn ab Gruffydd, monarch of North Wales (1246-77), dies

1282 Michael VIII, Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1259-82), dies

1524 Henry Van Zutphen, Dutch protestant martyr, burned at stake

1573 Alardus/Eilard de Waterlant, duke of Alva, hanged

1582 Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, marquis of Soria, dies at about 75

1595 Philip III van Croij, prince of Chimay/general, dies at 69

1610 Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, buried at 32

1610 Forges Dimitri 2, czar of Russia, murdered

1686 Louis II Cond‚, duke of Bourbon, dies at 65

1718 Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), shot dead

1748 Ewald G von Kleist, German lawyer/inventor of condensator, dies at 55

1756 Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king, dies

1817 Max von Schenkendorf, German poet, dies at 34

1831 John George Schetky, composer, dies at 55

1847 Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet, dies at 25

1857 Fran‡ois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze, composer, dies at 73

1891 Johan C J van Schagen, Dutch poet/writer (Narrenwijsheid), dies

1899 Andrew "Andy" Wauchope, British general-major, dies in battle

1899 Lord Winchester, British marquis/major, dies in battle

1902 Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica), dies at 68

1903 Patrick McShane, cricket player/ump (1884-85 Ashes series), dies

1911 Thomas Ball, US sculptor/painter/singer, dies at 92

1918 Ivan Cankar, Slavic author (Hlapec Jernej), dies at 42

1930 Friedrich von Bernhardi, German war theorist/historian, dies at 81

1933 Emile C Wauters, Belgian painter (Van der Goes Klooster), dies at 87

1955 Franz Adolf Syberg, composer, dies at 51

1955 Johan C Altorf, sculptor (October 3 Monument), dies at 79

1964 Percy Kilbride, actor (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies at 76

1964 Sam Cooke, rock vocalist, shot to death at 29

1967 Howard Freeman, actor (Double Dynamite), dies after illness in NYC

1967 Richard Stohr, composer, dies at 93

1967 Victor De Sabata, composer, dies at 75

1968 Nadine Riga, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 59

1972 John Mills, cricketer (7 Tests for NZ in early 1930's, 241 runs), dies

1972 Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Zolushka), dies at 66

1974 Reed Hadley, actor (Racket Squad, Public Defender), dies at 63

1979 Claire Carleton, NYC, actress (Alice-Cimarron City), dies at 66

1983 Szymon Laks, composer, dies at 82

1984 George Waggner, director/writer, dies at 90

1986 Paul Keenan, actor (Summer Fantasy), dies at 30

1990 Fernand J Collin, Belgian economist/banker, dies at 92

1991 Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Prof (Swedish Academy), dies

1991 Daniel Simon Scott, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 71

1991 Headman Tshabala, musician (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), slain at 44

1991 Robert Q Lewis, US comic/TV panel member (RQL Show), dies at 70

1992 Michael Robbins, actor (Lunch Hour, On the Buses), dies at 62

1992 Vilma Banky, silent film actress (Eagle, Rebel), dies at about 90

1993 Ales Gartner, Slavic ski trainer of Norway, dies at 45

1993 Eliva "Elvire" Popesco, Romanian/French actress (Le roi), dies at 99

1994 Stanislaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major (WW II), dies at 102

1994 Yao Yilin, Vice PM of China (1979), dies

1995 Arthur Mullard, comedian, dies at 82

1995 John Heawood, actor singer/choreographer (Pleasure Garden), dies at 75

1995 Robert Shelton (Shapiro), journalist, dies at 69

1996 Herbert Sally Frankel, economist, dies at 93

1996 Robert Bromston Thesiger Daniell, soldier, dies at 95

1996 W G G Duncan-Smith, fighter pilot, dies at 82

1996 William George Rushton, actor (TW3)/author/cartoonist, dies at 59

1997 Kenneth WIlliam Gatland, aerospace scientist, dies at 73

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