August 11 - Deaths

Deaths

• 353 – Magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303)
• 449 – Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople (birth year unknown)
• 897 – Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona (birth year unknown)
• 1204 – King Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199)
• 1253 – Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (b. 1194)
• 1259 – Möngke Khan, Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (b. c. 1208)
• 1456 – John Hunyadi, regent of Hungary (b. 1387)
• 1464 – Nicholas of Cusa, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1401)
• 1494 – Hans Memling, Flemish painter (b. c. 1430)
• 1519 – Johann Tetzel, German opponent of the Reformation (b. 1465)
• 1563 – Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer (b. c. 1500)
• 1578 – Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (b. 1502)
• 1596 – Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)
• 1614 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)
• 1656 – Ottavio Piccolomini, Austrian-Italian field marshal (b. 1599)
• 1774 – Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (b. 1722)
• 1813 – Henry James Pye, English poet (b. 1745)
• 1851 – Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (b. 1779)
• 1854 – Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (b. 1798)
• 1886 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b. 1843)
• 1890 – John Henry Newman, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1801)
• 1892 – Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)
• 1903 – Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (b. 1839)
• 1908 – Khudiram Bose, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1889)
• 1919 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1835)
• 1936 – Blas Infante, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1885)
• 1937 – Edith Wharton, American novelist and designer (b. 1862)
• 1939 – Jean Bugatti, Italian automobile designer (b. 1909)
• 1953 – Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver (b. 1892)
• 1954 – Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (b. 1886)
• 1956 – Jackson Pollock, American artist (b. 1912)
• 1961 – Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian writer, actor and director (b. 1910)
• 1965 – Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer (b. 1897)
• 1972 – Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1899)
• 1974 – Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan musicologist and composer (b. 1887)
• 1974 – Jan Tschichold, German typographer (b. 1902)
• 1975 – Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Belarusian-born Israeli Zionist political figure, wife of Zalman Shazar (b. 1885)
• 1980 – Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)
• 1982 – Tom Drake, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1984 – Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., American publisher (b. 1892)
• 1984 – Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–born German chess player (b. 1916)
• 1988 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)
• 1991 – J. D. McDuffie, American NASCAR driver (b. 1938)
• 1994 – Peter Cushing, British actor (b. 1913)
• 1995 – Phil Harris, American singer and comedian (b. 1904)
• 1996 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1914)
• 1996 – Mel Taylor, American drummer (The Ventures) (b. 1933)
• 1996 – Baba Vanga, Macedonian-born Bulgarian prophet, mystic, clairvoyant and herbalist (b. 1911)
• 2000 – Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Percy Stallard, English cyclist (b. 1909)
• 2002 – Galen Rowell, American photographer and mountain climber (b. 1940)
• 2003 – Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach (b. 1937)
• 2005 – James Booth, English actor (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American founder of the Special Olympics, sister of John F. Kennedy (b. 1921)
• 2010 – Markus Liebherr, German born Swiss owner of Southampton Football Club (b. 1948)