December 11 - Deaths

Deaths

• 384 – Pope Damasus I
• 969 – Nikephoros II Phokas (b. c. 912)
• 1121 – Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Galilean political advisor (b. 1066)
• 1226 – Robert de Ros, English politician (b. 1177)
• 1241 – Emperor Ogedei Khan of the Mongol Empire
• 1282 – Prince Llywelyn the Last of Wales
• 1282 – Michael VIII Palaiologos (b. 1225)
• 1532 – Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455)
• 1582 – Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, Spanish territorial governor (b. 1508)
• 1694 – Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)
• 1737 – John Strype, English historian (b. 1643)
• 1747 – Edmund Curll, English bookseller (b. c. 1675)
• 1797 – Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
• 1840 – Emperor Kokaku of Japan (b. 1771)
• 1872 – King Kamehameha V of Hawaii (b. 1830)
• 1880 – Oliver Fisher Winchester, American businessman and politician (b. 1810)
• 1892 – William Milligan, Scottish theologian (b. 1821)
• 1909 – Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (b. 1855)
• 1918 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (b. 1876)
• 1920 – Olive Schreiner, South African writer (b. 1855)
• 1938 – Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1869)
• 1941 – John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (b. 1922)
• 1941 – Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (b. 1856)
• 1945 – Charles Fabry, French physicist (b. 1867)
• 1950 – Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1893)
• 1957 – Musidora (Jeanne Roques), French actress (b. 1889)
• 1959 – Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (b. 1900)
• 1964 – Sam Cooke, American singer (b. 1931)
• 1964 – Percy Kilbride, American actor (b. 1888)
• 1968 – Richard Sagrits, Estonian painter (b.1910)
• 1971 – Maurice McDonald, American fast-food entrepreneur (b. 1902)
• 1975 – Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (b. 1908)
• 1978 – Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1901)
• 1978 – Paul O'Dea, American baseball player (b. 1920)
• 1979 – James J. Gibson, American perceptual psychologist (b. 1904)
• 1983 – Sir Neil Ritchie, British General (b. 1897)
• 1984 – Oskar Seidlin, German-born American scholar (b. 1911)
• 1987 – G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (b. 1923)
• 1989 – Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
• 1991 – Robert Q. Lewis, American game show host (b. 1921)
• 1991 – Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author and critic (b. 1906)
• 1992 – Michael Robbins, English actor (b. 1930)
• 1993 – Elvira Popescu, Romanian-born French actress (b. 1894)
• 1994 – Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
• 1995 – Arthur Mullard, English comedy actor (b. 1910)
• 1996 – Willie Rushton, English cartoonist and magazine publisher (b. 1937)
• 1997 – Eddie Chapman, British World War II spy (b. 1914)
• 1998 – André Lichnerowicz, Polish-French physicist (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Lynn Strait, American singer (Snot) (b. 1968)
• 2000 – Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani diplomat and author (b. 1915)
• 2000 – David Lewis, American actor (b. 1916)
• 2003 – Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (b. 1927)
• 2004 – José Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1962)
• 2004 – Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand track & field coach (b. 1917)
• 2004 – M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (b. 1916)
• 2006 – Elizabeth Bolden, American supercentenarian (b. 1890)
• 2007 – Christie Hennessy, Irish singer (b. 1945)
• 2008 – Bettie Page, American model (b. 1923)
• 2008 – Maddie Blaustein, American voice actress (b. 1960)
• 2010 – Dick Hoerner, American football player (b. 1922)