October 11 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1188 – Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France
• 1303 – Pope Boniface VIII
• 1347 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1282)
• 1424 – Jan Žižka, leader of the Hussites (b. 1360)
• 1531 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (b. 1484)
• 1572 – Sulaiman Khan Karrani, Sultan of Bengal
• 1636 – Johann Albrecht Adelgrief, German man who claimed to be a prophet and was executed for witchcraft.
• 1705 – Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (b. 1663)
• 1708 – Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (b. 1651)
• 1721 – Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1636)
• 1725 – Hans Herr, Swiss-born Mennonite bishop (b. 1639)
• 1779 – Kazimierz Pułaski, Polish fighter for American independence (b. 1745)
• 1809 – Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (b. 1774)
• 1811 – Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (b. 1724)
• 1821 – John Ross Key, American judge and lawyer (b. 1754)
• 1852 – Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (b. 1823)
• 1889 – James Prescott Joule, English physicist (b. 1818)
• 1896 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
• 1896 – Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)
• 1897 – Léon Boëllmann, French composer (b. 1862)
• 1935 – Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868)
• 1940 – Lluís Companys, President of Generalitat of Catalonia (shot) (b. 1882)
• 1940 – Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
• 1961 – Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
• 1963 – Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)
• 1963 – Édith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
• 1965 – Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)
• 1965 – Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1884)
• 1971 – Chesty Puller, the most decorated American Marine in history (b. 1898)
• 1971 – Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51^st Yokozuna (b. 1944)
• 1976 – Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (b. 1897)
• 1977 – MacKinlay Kantor, American author (b. 1904)
• 1986 – Norm Cash, American baseball player (b. 1934)
• 1988 – Bonita Granville, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1989 – M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (b. 1904)
• 1991 – Steven Jesse Bernstein, American underground poet (suicide) (b. 1950)
• 1991 – Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (b. 1922)
• 1993 – Jess Thomas, American tenor (b. 1927)
• 1996 – Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (b. 1907)
• 1996 – Joe Morris, C.C., LL.D., Canadian trade unionist (b. 1913)
• 1996 – Renato Russo, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter (b. 1960)
• 1998 – Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Donald Dewar, first First Minister of Scotland (b. 1937)
• 2002 – Dina Pathak, Indian Actress (b. 1922)
• 2004 – Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b. 1919)
• 2005 – Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Linguist, and writer of Pakistan (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Cory Lidle, American baseball pitcher (b. 1972)
• 2007 – Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (b. 1915)
• 2007 – David Lee "Tex" Hill, World War II fighter pilot, flying ace, 1st American Volunteer Group (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Sri Chinmoy Chinmoy Kumar Ghose founder of the Sri Chinmoy meditation centres (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Jörg Haider, Austrian politician (b. 1950)
• 2008 – Neil Hefti, American jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Veronika Neugebauer, German actress and voice actress (b. 1969)