Notable Deaths on August 11th
August 11th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
480 |
Leonidas, King of Sparta (b. circa 540 BC) |
BC AD | |
353 |
Magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303) |
449 |
Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople |
897 |
Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona |
1171 |
Louis I, Earl of Wage/Rieneck, dies |
1180 |
Guillaume de/Willem van Sens, Fren master builder (Canterbury), dies |
1183 |
Christian I, archbishop of Mainz, dies |
1204 |
King Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199) |
1253 |
Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (b. 1194) and founder of the Order of Poor Ladies (the Poor Clares) |
1394 |
Jan III, mister of Polanen, dies |
1456 |
Janos Hunyadi, Hungarian general strategist, dies at about 49 |
1464 |
Nicholas van Cusa, philosopher/bishop of Brixen, dies |
1490 |
French van Brederode, leader of Hoeksen, dies at about 25 |
1494 |
Hans Memling, [John Memlinc], Flemish painter (Passietaferelen), dies |
1519 |
Johann Tetzel, Dominican monk, dies at about 79 |
1522 |
Martin Siebenborger, mayor of Vienna, beheaded |
1563 |
Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer (b. circa 1500) |
1578 |
Pedro Nunes, [Nonius], Port mathematician/astronomer (nonius), dies |
1589 |
Maarten Schenck van Nideggen, lt col (80 year war), dies at about 49 |
1596 |
Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585) |
1614 |
Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552) |
1656 |
Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (b. 1599) |
1729 |
Nicola Francesco Haym, composer, dies at 51 |
1757 |
Jose Pradas Gallen, composer, dies at 67 |
1774 |
Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (b. 1722) |
1778 |
Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies |
1778 |
Augustus Montague Toplady, The Silence of the Lambs |
1794 |
Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer, dies at 72 |
1813 |
Henry James Pye, English poet (b. 1745) |
1820 |
Janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56 |
1844 |
Jernej Kopitar, filmologist/censor (Slavic Grammatica), dies at 63 |
1851 |
Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (b. 1779) |
1852 |
Nicolaas Plomp, Dutch architect (Strugle), dies at 70 |
1854 |
Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (b. 1798) |
1860 |
James Wilson, politician |
1868 |
Halfdan Kierulf, composer, dies at 52 |
1868 |
Thaddeus Stevens, architect of Radical Reconstruction, dies at 76 |
1872 |
Lowell Mason, US organist/composer (Zebulo), dies at 80 |
1872 |
Lowell Mason, Titanic |
1886 |
Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b. 1843) |
1890 |
John Henry Newman, English cardinal, dies at 89 |
1892 |
Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813) |
1892 |
Ladislav Stroupeznický, Nasi furianti |
1901 |
Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier, dies at about 82 |
1903 |
Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (b. 1839) |
1908 |
Khudiram Bose, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1889) |
1911 |
Verner Clarges, The Face at the Window |
1912 |
Aleksei Sergeevich Suvorin, |
1919 |
Andrew Carnegie, US steel industrialist/philanthropist, dies of bronchial pneumonia at 83 |
1919 |
Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Carnegie |
1929 |
Luitz-Morat, Petit ange |
1931 |
Linda Loredo, Come Clean |
1935 |
William Watson, British poet (Purple East), dies |
1936 |
Blas Infante, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1885) |
1936 |
Carl Gandrup, Alone with the Devil |
1937 |
Bakr Sidqi, general/dictator of Iraq, dies |
1937 |
Edith Wharton [-Jones], US Pulitzer prize-winning author (House of Mirth), dies at 75 |
1937 |
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence |
1939 |
Jean Bugatti, Italian automobile designer (b. 1909) |
1942 |
Richard Heinrich Stein, composer, dies at 60 |
1945 |
Stefan Jaracz, Noc Listapodowa |
1945 |
Michel Carré, Athalie |
1949 |
Karl Weigl, composer, dies at 68 |
1949 |
Ted Bevis, Tarzan of the Apes |
1949 |
Kiki Palmer, The Wedding March |
1950 |
Sam Hellman, My Darling Clementine |
1950 |
Jindrich Fiala, Proc se nesmejes |
1951 |
Ebbe Hamerik, composer, dies at 52 |
1951 |
Ebbe Hamerik, Med båd og sejl på Isefjorden |
1952 |
Riccardo Martin, composer, dies at 77 |
1953 |
Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Heimliche Gegenwart), dies |
1953 |
Tazio Nuvolari, Totò al giro d'Italia |
1953 |
Frank Titus, If I Had a Million |
1954 |
Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (b. 1886) |
1954 |
Santo Trafficante, |
1954 |
Murray Kinnell, The Public Enemy |
1954 |
Miriam Nesbitt, The Ambassador's Daughter |
1955 |
Andrew B. Sterling, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger |
1955 |
Johnny Greer, The Merry Widow |
1955 |
Hugh Pryse, Three Cases of Murder |
1956 |
Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton) |
1956 |
Jackson Pollock, Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island |
1957 |
Dolores Johnson, Served Hot |
1958 |
Enrico Pea, Gli orizzonti del sole |
1958 |
Nellie Revell, The Magic Flame |
1959 |
Georges Hatot, Execution of Joan of Arc |
1959 |
Gustav Püttjer, Comradeship |
1959 |
Hal Boyer, Libel! |
1959 |
René Barberis, Ramuntcho |
1959 |
David Pinski, The Singing Blacksmith |
1961 |
Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian writer actor and director (b. 1910) |
1961 |
Edwin Wetzel, The Jolson Story |
1961 |
Lowell J. Farrell, Rope |
1962 |
Israel Crosby, Benny Goodman Orchestra |
1963 |
Clem Bevans, Saboteur |
1965 |
Bill Woodfull, cricketer (35 Tests for Australia), dies |
1966 |
Robert Wüllner, Peter Voss, der Millionendieb |
1968 |
Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian biblical scholar, dies |
1972 |
Max Theiler, S Afr/US microbiologist (vaccin-Nobel 1951), dies at 73 |
1973 |
Peggy Castle, actress (Lily Merrill-Lawman), dies of cirrhosis at 46 |
1973 |
John Selgrath, West Point of the Air |
1973 |
Carl Wester, The Hurricane Express |
1973 |
Jay Rescher, The Devil's Daughter |
1974 |
Jack Hill, cricketer (3 Tests for Australia 1953-55, 8 wickets), dies |
1974 |
Vicente Emilio Sojo, composer, dies at 86 |
1975 |
Anthony C McAuliffe, US gen/commandant 101st div (Nuts!), dies at 77 |
1975 |
Howard Wendell, actor (Black Dakotas), dies at 81 |
1977 |
Dewey Dick, Boots Malone |
1977 |
Jahar Roy, Ghoom Bhangar Gaan |
1978 |
Carlo Fiore, Man from Yesterday |
1978 |
Berta Ruck, Ossi hat die Hosen an |
1979 |
Gordon M. Davis, Escape in the Desert |
1980 |
Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910) |
1980 |
Harald Hejst, Kom sigøjner |
1980 |
Willi Forst, Bel Ami |
1981 |
Nevada Penn, Touch of Evil |
1982 |
Tom Drake, actor (Green Years, Warkill), dies of lung cancer at 63 |
1982 |
Folmar Blangsted, Rio Bravo |
1983 |
Frank M. Blount, The Grim Game |
1983 |
Johannes Curth, Tilman Riemenschneider |
1983 |
Walter Kutz, Zum Teufel mit der Penne - Die Lümmel von der ersten Bank, 2. Teil |
1983 |
Satsuo Yamamoto, Oh! The Nomugi Pass |
1983 |
Reid Kilpatrick, Allotment Wives |
1983 |
Peter Xantho, The Virtues of Madame Douvay |
1984 |
Alfred A Knopf, US publisher, dies at 91 |
1984 |
Percy Mayfield, US singer (Hit the Road Jack), dies at 63 |
1984 |
Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian-German chess player (b. 1916) |
1984 |
Bella Muzsnay, A kis rongyos |
1984 |
Richard Fraser, Show Me the Way to Go Home |
1984 |
Raul de Carvalho, Bocage |
1984 |
Vera Brown, Redhead |
1984 |
Percy Mayfield, Philadelphia |
1984 |
Herminia Franco, Amalia |
1985 |
Nick Ceroli, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass |
1985 |
R.L. Hough, Fury at Furnace Creek |
1986 |
Chuck McKinley, American tennis player (1963 Wimbledon), dies of a brain tumour at 45 |
1986 |
Heinz Strehl, 1. FC Nürnberg gegen 1. FC Köln |
1986 |
Clem Ashby, My Bonnie Jean |
1986 |
Lubomir Kabakchiyev, Nakanune |
1987 |
Clara Peller, commercial spokesperson (Wendy's), dies at 86 |
1987 |
F. Herrick Herrick, Obeah |
1987 |
Metaksia Simonyan, Anahit |
1987 |
Zvonimir Bajsic, God |
1987 |
Zivko Cingo, The Great Water |
1987 |
Alexander Ziegler, Die Konsequenz |
1987 |
Archie L. Tegland, Never Help the Devil |
1987 |
Clara Peller, Moving Violations |
1988 |
Anne Ramsey, actress (Throw Mama From Train), dies of cancer at 59 |
1988 |
Jean-Pierre Ponnele, opera director (Carmina Burana), dies at 56 |
1988 |
Pauline Lafont, daughter of Bernadette, dies in hiking accident at 25 |
1988 |
Dragoslav Jankovic, Cao inspektore |
1988 |
Jean Morel, La cage aux rossignols |
1988 |
Jane Kenrick, Part Two |
1988 |
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Madama Butterfly |
1988 |
Bob Gunderson, Alias Jesse James |
1988 |
Pauline Lafont, Keep Your Right Up |
1988 |
Anne Ramsey, The Goonies |
1989 |
John Meillon, actor (Wild Duck, Crocodile Dundee), dies |
1989 |
Miroslaw Gruszczynski, Urodziny Matyldy |
1989 |
Bill Cody Jr., The Vanishing Riders |
1989 |
Hal Torey, Earth vs the Spider |
1989 |
John Meillon, Crocodile Dundee |
1990 |
David Wechsler, The Search |
1990 |
Tom McDermott, Mazes and Monsters |
1990 |
Frank Dascoli, Game 6 |
1990 |
Charles Marquis Warren, Gunsmoke |
1990 |
Bonnie Baker, You're the One |
1991 |
Jef Contryn, Flemish pioneer puppet theatre, dies at 89 |
1991 |
J. D. McDuffie, American NASCAR driver (b. 1939) |
1991 |
Helmut Walcha, The Tree of Life |
1991 |
Anthony Brito, Little Noises |
1991 |
J.D. McDuffie, Daytona 500 |
1991 |
Ludmila Roubíková, Jako knize Rohan |
1991 |
Utz Utermann, Chariots of the Gods |
1992 |
Olav Kyrre Grepp, Nine Lives |
1992 |
Kenji Nakagami, Himatsuri |
1993 |
György Sós, A világot jelentö deszkák |
1993 |
Marilyn Sitzman, Image of an Assassination: A New Look at the Zapruder Film |
1993 |
Philip Martell, To Sir, with Love |
1994 |
Dorothy Lousie Grenfell Williams, broadcaster, dies at 60 |
1994 |
Gordon Cullen, architect, dies at 80 |
1994 |
Mark "Red" Mitchell, actor (JFK, 8 Seconds, Want to Live), dies at 33 |
1994 |
Peter Cushing, actor (Star Wars, Dr Who), dies of cancer at 81 |
1994 |
Peter Cushing, Star Wars |
1994 |
Elias Canetti, Komödie der Eitelkeit |
1994 |
Stanislav Chekan, The Diamond Arm |
1994 |
Red Mitchell, JFK |
1995 |
Douglas John Gorman, businessman, dies at 58 |
1995 |
Herbert Whitton John Sumsion, organist/composer, dies at 96 |
1995 |
Kenneth Lo, cookery writer/restaurateur, dies at 81 |
1995 |
Phil Harris, American actor/singer, dies of heart failure at 91 |
1995 |
Wilbur Stark, tV/film producer, dies at 83 |
1995 |
Marek Gajewski, Album polski |
1995 |
Phil Harris, The Jungle Book |
1995 |
Georges Carrère, Hold-Up |
1995 |
Louise Lorimer, Compulsion |
1995 |
Karel Berman, Juliette |
1995 |
Kenneth Lo, Gladiatorerna |
1995 |
Wilbur Stark, The Thing |
1995 |
Patricia Wilder, The Big Broadcast of 1938 |
1995 |
Young Jue, Surf Ninjas |
1996 |
Mel Taylor, drummer, dies at 63 |
1996 |
Rafael Jeronym Kubelik, conductor, dies at 82 |
1996 |
Sigmund Koch, psychologist/philosopher, dies at 79 |
1996 |
Rafael Kubelík, Symphonie Nr. 3 Es-Dur opus 55 (Eroica) von Ludwig van Beethoven |
1996 |
Randall Kim, Bu Lai'a the Hawaiian Superman |
1996 |
Mel Taylor, Zoolander |
1996 |
Frank Kuenstler, Guns of the Trees |
1996 |
Henry Slate, Pete's Dragon |
1996 |
Charles Brehm, On Trial: Lee Harvey Oswald |
1996 |
Charles McGregor, Blazing Saddles |
1997 |
Jerzy Jaraczewski, Fundamenty |
1997 |
Jacques Robert, The Monocle |
1998 |
Chris Idoine, The 66th Annual Academy Awards |
1998 |
Gary Lisz, I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can |
1998 |
Derek Newark, The Blue Max |
1999 |
Mimi Pollak, Autumn Sonata |
1999 |
Altina Carey, George Grosz' Interregnum |
1999 |
Robert Dorfmann, Papillon |
2000 |
Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer (b. 1916) |
2000 |
Ric Roman, The Big Heat |
2000 |
P. Jairaj, Don |
2000 |
Milt Rosen, Legends Are Forever |
2000 |
Otto Czarski, Das Echo |
2000 |
Will H. Hays Jr., You're My Everything |
2000 |
Eddie Powell, Alien |
2001 |
Percy Stallard, English racing cyclist (b. 1909) |
2001 |
William Sellers, The Gunfighter |
2001 |
Ljubica Janicijevic, Destination Death |
2001 |
Bertil Sohlberg, En vår i vapen |
2001 |
Walter Kempley, Didi - Der Doppelgänger |
2001 |
Lester Pine, Claudine |
2001 |
Orlando Dias, 007 1/2 no Carnaval |
2002 |
Galen Rowell, American photographer and mountain climber (b. 1940) |
2002 |
Madge Miller, The Third Ear |
2002 |
Galen Rowell, Desert Vision |
2002 |
Nancy Chaffee, Sports Parade: Glamour in Tennis |
2002 |
Alpha Robertson, 4 Little Girls |
2003 |
Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923) |
2003 |
Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach, dies in a car accident at 66 |
2003 |
Else-Marie, Hvor går Karl hen? |
2003 |
Diana Mosley, The Churchills |
2003 |
Don King, We Stand Alone Together |
2003 |
Herb Brooks, Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team |
2003 |
Jean Drejac, Life of Pi |
2004 |
Hal Sheiner, Target Zero |
2004 |
Ed Bauer, Toen Tom hoorde dat hij dood was |
2004 |
Wolfgang Mommsen, Wer ist der größte Deutsche? |
2004 |
Joe Falls, The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg |
2005 |
James Booth, English actor (b. 1927) |
2005 |
Carl Harms, Winnie-the-Pooh |
2005 |
Manfred Korfmann, The Truth of Troy |
2005 |
Al Carmines, Kojak: The Price of Justice |
2005 |
Jack Hinkle, Blade Runner |
2005 |
James Booth, Zulu |
2005 |
'Double Duty' Radcliffe, Double Duty |
2005 |
Gisela Schmidting, Professor Nachtfalter |
2005 |
Erkko Kivikoski, Night by the Seashore |
2006 |
Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1925) |
2006 |
Ann Stockton, The Dead |
2006 |
George T. Lee, Local Hero |
2006 |
Alvin Cooperman, Ain't Misbehavin' |
2006 |
Reed Sherman, Big Daddy |
2006 |
Mike Douglas, The Incredible Shrinking Woman |
2006 |
Robert Trumbull, Undercover Brother |
2007 |
Franz Antel, Der Bockerer |
2007 |
Roberto Gavioli, The Magic Bird |
2007 |
Marian Wisniowski, The Saragossa Manuscript |
2007 |
Richard Compton, Babylon 5: The Gathering |
2008 |
Don Helms, Episode #2.11 |
2008 |
Agneta Bolme Börjefors, Det svänger i backen |
2008 |
Bill Cotton, Knowledge Itself Is Power |
2008 |
Günther Schifter, Hallo Freunde |
2008 |
Günther Schiffer, Bellaria - So lange wir leben! |
2008 |
George Deem, The Art of Painting |
2008 |
George Furth, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
2008 |
Vlastimir Gavrik, The Master and Margaret |
2008 |
Jonathan Boudreaux, Margaret Bourke-White |
2008 |
Ilse Dubois, Paths of Glory |
2008 |
Péter Bognár, Max |
2008 |
Fred Sinowatz, Wetten, dass..? aus Bremen |
2008 |
Yorgos Naidas, Yagonan: The Dark Days of Doom |
2009 |
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of Special Olympics, sister of John F. Kennedy (b. 1921) |
2009 |
Valerio Lazarov, La última moda |
2009 |
Madlena Vishnevskaya, Greshnye apostoly lyubvi |
2009 |
Aykut Oray, Sellâle |
2009 |
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero |
2009 |
Kitty White, The Night of the Hunter |
2009 |
James A. Dennett, The Fugitive |
2009 |
Barbara Joyce, Sneak Attack |
2010 |
Markus Liebherr, German born Swiss owner of Southampton Football Club (b. 1948) |
2010 |
Eitan Djiji, My Homework Ate My Dog |
2010 |
Wieslaw Paraszczak, Where Eskimos Live |
2010 |
Cleatus Barnett, In Our Lives |
2010 |
Zofia Lubartowska-Brodacka, Wolne miasto |
2010 |
Nick Nicholson, Platoon |
2010 |
Darren Pomerantz, Who Ever Told You It Was Okay to Dream Anyway...? |
2010 |
Sheldon Feldner, Escape from Alcatraz |
2010 |
Nellie King, Roberto Clemente |
2010 |
Dan Rostenkowski, Happenstance |
2010 |
Bruno S., The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser |
2011 |
Jani Lane, American heavy metal musician (Warrant) dies of alcohol poisoning aged 47 |
2011 |
Robert Breer, Fuji |
2011 |
Richard Turner, Come Rain or Shine |
2011 |
Kalju Karask, Keskpäevane praam |
2011 |
Stephan Meloy, The Raid: Redemption |
2011 |
Scott LeDoux, After the Hits/Keeping Up with the Salahis/Back in Bellaire |
2011 |
Don Chandler, AFL-NFL World Championship Game |
2012 |
Carlo Curley, Episode #5.3 |
2012 |
Tyrone Mims, Teaser |
2012 |
Kuno Knöbl, Das Lied an die fliegenden Fische |
2012 |
Bill Rafferty, Above the Rim |
2012 |
Aleksei Zalivalov, Window to Paris |
2012 |
Edith Schneider, The Quiller Memorandum |
2012 |
Lucy Gallardo, Cosecharás tu siembra |
2012 |
Pakelika, Experiments |
2012 |
Michael Dokes, Donovan 'Razor' Ruddock vs. Michael Dokes |
2012 |
Sid Waddell, 1854: The Seafarer |
2012 |
Von Freeman, If I'm Not Home |
2012 |
Henning Moritzen, The Celebration |
2013 |
Eliza Gerner, Gluha kuca |
2013 |
Ingeborg Forrest, Martin |
2013 |
Nello Ajello, Assalto al consumatore |
2013 |
Henry Polic II, The Astrologer |
2013 |
Aleksey Anisimov, Kazachya byl |
2013 |
Alicia Tyler, Freakaholics |
2014 |
Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (Mork & Mindy, Good Will Hunting), commits suspected suicide at 63 |
2014 |
Jean-Claude Brisville, Le souper |
2014 |
Simon Leys, The Emperor's New Clothes |
2014 |
Franca Tamantini, My Friends |
2014 |
Joe Viskocil, Terminator 2: Judgment Day |
2014 |
Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting |
2014 |
Anthony Plomitallo, Part 3 |
2014 |
Liz Holzman, Fly |
2014 |
Marika Rózsahegyi, Mici néni két élete |
2015 |
Nour El-Sherif, The Yacoubian Building |
2015 |
Harald Nielsen, Episode dated 7 November 2007 |
2015 |
Anne Strieber, The Life After Death Project |
2015 |
Craig Patton, Poor White Trash |
2015 |
Eddie Cusic, Delta Blues |
2016 |
Longtime ESPN host John Saunders dead at age 61 |
2016 |
Barry Jenner, star of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, dies aged 75 |
2016 |
Sasi Shankar, National Award-winning Malayalam filmmaker, dies aged 58 |
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