March 11 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1425 BC – Thutmose III, Egyptian pharaoh
• 222 – Elagabalus, Roman Emperor
• 222 – Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus (b. 180)
• 859 – Eulogius of Cordoba, Spanish Bishop and Christian Martyr
• 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)
• 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)
• 1866 – Ulysses F. Doubleday, American congressman (b. 1792)
• 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)
• 1915 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (b. 1826)
• 1920 – Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
• 1926 – Usui Mikao, Japanese founder of Reiki (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)
• 1949 – Anastasios Charalambis, Greek general and interim Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1862)
• 1952 – Pierre Renoir, French stage and film actor and director (b. 1885)
• 1955 – Sir 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 – Philo T. Farnsworth, American television pioneer (b. 1906)
• 1971 – Whitney Young, American civil rights leader (b. 1921)
• 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)
• 1978 – Sofia Vembo, Greek Female Singer, dubbed the "Singstress of Victory" (b. 1910)
• 1982 – Edmund Cooper, English author (b. 1926)
• 1982 – Horace Gregory, American poet (b. 1898)
• 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),
• 1995 – Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (b. 1945)
• 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 – Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
• 2006 – Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (b. 1941)
• 2007 – Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Charles Lewis, Jr., American businessman, promoter and entertainer (b. 1963)
• 2010 – Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1931)
• 2010 – Leena Peltonen-Palotie, Finnish human geneticist (b. 1952)
• 2010 – Merlin Olsen, American football player / Actor (b. 1940)