May 11 - Deaths

Deaths

• 912 – Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (b. 866)
• 1304 – Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271)
• 1610 – Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (b. 1552)
• 1672 – Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, Scottish royalist (b. 1615)
• 1708 – Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646)
• 1723 – Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656)
• 1777 – George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b. 1719)
• 1778 – William Pitt, the Elder, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708)
• 1779 – John Hart, delegate from New Jersey to the Continental Congress and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence(b. 1711)
• 1812 – Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)
• 1848 – Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)
• 1849 – Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier, French socialite (b. 1777)
• 1871 – John Herschel, British mathematician and astronomer (b. 1792)
• 1887 – Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b. 1802)
• 1891 – A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)
• 1916 – Max Reger, German composer (b. 1873)
• 1916 – Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)
• 1920 – William Dean Howells, American writer (b. 1837)
• 1927 – Juan Gris, Spanish cubist artist (b. 1887)
• 1929 – Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (b. 1864)
• 1934 – Blaise Diagne, Sengalese politician (b. 1872)
• 1934 – Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852)
• 1939 – Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)
• 1940 – Chujiro Hayashi, Japanese Reiki Master (b. 1880)
• 1955 – Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
• 1960 – John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American philanthropist (b. 1874)
• 1963 – Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
• 1966 – Alfred Wintle, British WW1 & WW2 soldier; author of "The Last Englishman" (b. 1897)
• 1970 – Johnny Hodges, American musician (b. 1906)
• 1973 – Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1976 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (b. 1898)
• 1979 – Lester Flatt, American bluegrass musician (b. 1914)
• 1981 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1897)
• 1981 – Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1945)
• 1985 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
• 1986 – Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (b. 1910)
• 1986 – Fritz Pollard, American football player (b. 1894)
• 1988 – Kim Philby, British spy (b. 1912)
• 1990 – Stratos Dionysiou, Greek singer (b. 1935)
• 1994 – Timothy Carey, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1996 – Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922)
• 1996 – Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria (b. 1904)
• 1998 – Oreste Kirkop, Maltese tenor and actor (b. 1923)
• 2000 – René Muñoz, Cuban actor, screenwriter of telenovelas (b. 1938)
• 2000 – Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907)
• 2001 – Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952)
• 2002 – Renaude Lapointe, French Canadian journalist and senator (b. 1912)
• 2003 – Noel Redding, English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (b. 1945)
• 2004 – Mick Doyle, Irish rugby union footballer and coach (b. 1941)
• 2004 – John Whitehead, American singer (McFadden & Whitehead) (b. 1949)
• 2005 – Michalis Genitsaris, Greek rebetiko singer and composer (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
• 2006 – Frankie Thomas, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Yossi Banai, Israeli singer (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan Head of State (O le Ao o le Malo) (b. 1913)
• 2007 – Bernard Gordon, blacklisted American screenwriter and producer (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Dottie Rambo, American gospel singer (b. 1934)
• 2008 – John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (Rush) (b. 1953)
• 2008 – Bruno Neves, Portuguese cyclist (b. 1981)
• 2010 – Frank Frazetta, American fantasy and science fiction artist (b. 1928)