July 11 - Deaths

Deaths

• 472 – Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
• 937 – King Rudolph II of Burgundy
• 969 – Olga of Kiev
• 1174 – King Amalric I of Jerusalem (b. 1136)
• 1183 – Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1117)
• 1302 – Robert II of Artois, French soldier (b. 1250)
• 1535 – Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (b. 1484)
• 1581 – Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval hero
• 1679 – William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619)
• 1688 – King Narai of Siam (b. 1629)
• 1766 – Elizabeth Farnese, wife of Philip V of Spain (b. 1692)
• 1774 – Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-born New York pioneer (b. 1715)
• 1775 – Simon Boerum, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
• 1797 – Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740)
• 1806 – James Smith, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1719)
• 1825 – Thomas P. Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War soldier (b. 1744)
• 1844 – Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
• 1905 – Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian jurist and islamic modernist (b. 1849)
• 1909 – Simon Newcomb, American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
• 1929 – Billy Mosforth, English footballer (b. 1857)
• 1920 – Empress Eugénie de Montijo of France (b. 1826)
• 1936 – James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1937 – George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898)
• 1959 – Charlie Parker, English cricketer (b. 1882)
• 1966 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet (b. 1913)
• 1967 – Guy Favreau, Québécois, politician and judge (b. 1917)
• 1971 – John W. Campbell, American writer and editor (b. 1910)
• 1971 – Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1940)
• 1974 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
• 1976 – León de Greiff, Colombian poet (b. 1895)
• 1979 – Claude Wagner, French Canadian judge and politician (b. 1925)
• 1983 – Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b. 1915)
• 1987 – Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
• 1987 – Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman, American Rosh Yeshiva (b. 1901)
• 1989 – Sir Laurence Olivier, acclaimed English stage and screen actor (b. 1907)
• 1991 – Hitoshi Igarashi, English-Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses (b. 1947)
• 1994 – Gary Kildall, American computer programmer (b. 1942)
• 1994 – Savannah, American porn star (b. 1970)
• 1999 – Helen Forrest, American singer (b. 1917)
• 2000 – Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b. 1913)
• 2000 – Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Herman Brood, Dutch singer and artist (b. 1946)
• 2001 – Gaspare di Mercurio, Italian doctor and author (b. 1926)
• 2004 – Laurance Rockefeller, American conservationist and philanthropist (b. 1910)
• 2005 – Gretchen Franklin, English actress (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Don Starr, American actor (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Frances Langford, American actress and singer (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Jesús Iglesias, Argentine professional racing driver (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1965)
• 2006 – Barnard Hughes, American actor (b. 1915)
• 2006 – John Spencer, English snooker player (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
• 2007 – Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (b. 1913)
• 2007 – Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1914)
• 2007 – Glenda Adams, Australian author (b. 1939)
• 2008 – Michael DeBakey, American surgeon and inventor (b. 1908)
• 2009 – Arturo Gatti, Canadian boxer (b. 1972)
• 2009 – Go Mi-Young, South Korean female mountaineer (b. 1967)
• 2009 – Ji Xianlin, Chinese linguist and paleographer (b. 1911)
• 2010 – Walter Hawkins, Gospel music singer (b. 1949)
• 2010 – Bob Sheppard, New York Yankees and New York Giants announcer (b. 1910)