November 11 - Deaths

Deaths

• 405 – Arsacius of Tarsus, Tarsian religious figure (before 324)
• 537 – Pope Silverius (date of birth unknown)
• 826 – (feast day) Theodore the Studite, Byzantine monk (b. 759)
• 865 – Petronas the Patrician, Byzantine General
• 1623 – Philippe de Mornay, French writer (b. 1549)
• 1638 – Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter (b. 1562)
• 1675 – Guru Tegh Bahadur, Indian religious figure (b. 1621)
• 1686 – Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (b. 1621)
• 1686 – Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor, and politician (b. 1602)
• 1724 – Joseph Blake, English highwayman (b. c. 1700)
• 1812 – Platon Levshin, Metropoitan of Moscow (b. 1737)
• 1831 – Nat Turner, American slave rebel (b. 1800)
• 1855 – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
• 1862 – James Madison Porter, American politician (b. 1793)
• 1880 – Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (b. c.1855)
• 1880 – Lucretia Mott, American feminist and abolitionist (b. 1793)
• 1884 – Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827)
• 1887 – Haymarket defendants:
  • – George Engel (b. 1836)
  • – Adolph Fischer (b. 1858)
  • – Albert Parsons (b. 1848)
  • – August Spies (b. 1855)
• 1917 – Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii (b. 1838)
• 1918 – George Lawrence Price, Canadian WWI soldier (b. 1892)
• 1919 – Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter (b. 1832)
• 1931 – Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)
• 1938 – Mary Mallon, Irish-born American carrier of typhoid (b. 1869)
• 1939 – Bob Marshall, American conservationist (b. 1901)
• 1939 – Jan Opletal, Czech student and anti-Nazi demonstrator (b. 1915)
• 1945 – Jerome Kern, American composer (b. 1885)
• 1950 – Alexandros Diomidis, Greek banker and statesman (b. 1875)
• 1953 – Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1866)
• 1972 – Berry Oakley, American musician (Allman Brothers Band) (b. 1948)
• 1973 – Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1974 – Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (b. 1894)
• 1976 – Alexander Calder, American artist (b. 1898)
• 1977 – Greta Keller, Austrian cabaret singer and actress (b. 1903)
• 1977 – Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist and political activist (b. 1950)
• 1979 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born American film composer (b. 1894)
• 1984 – Martin Luther King, Sr., American civil rights figure (b. 1899)
• 1985 – Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1959)
• 1988 – William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (b. 1900)
• 1990 – Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (b. 1898)
• 1990 – Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet (b. 1909)
• 1990 – Attilio Demaría, Argentinian footballer (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Erskine Hawkins, American trumpeter and big band leader (b. 1914)
• 1994 – John A. Volpe, American politician and Nixon administration cabinet member (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Pedro Zamora, Cuban-born American TV personality and AIDS activist (b. 1972)
• 1994 – Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist, art historian and publicist (b. 1922)
• 1997 – Rodney Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950)
• 1998 – Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player (b. 1913)
• 1999 – Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)
• 1999 – Jacobo Timmerman, Argentine writer and journalist (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Miquel Martí i Pol, Catalan poet (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (b. 1948)
• 2005 – Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, British photographer (b. 1939)
• 2005 – Peter Drucker, American management theorist (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer and director (b. 1930)
• 2005 – Keith Andes, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2006 – Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (b. 1974)
• 2006 – Harry Lehotsky, American-born Canadian pastor and activist (b. 1957)
• 2007 – Delbert Mann, American film director (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Herb Score, American baseball player (b. 1933)
• 2009 – Dhanpat Rai Nahar, Indian labour leader (b. 1919)
• 2010 – Baby Marie Osborne, American actress (b. 1911)
• 2010 – William Edwin Self, American actor and television producer (b. 1921)