Notable Deaths on May 11th
May 11th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1304 |
Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271) |
1610 |
Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies |
1631 |
Christoph Buel, composer, dies at 57 |
1672 |
Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615) |
1708 |
Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646) |
1723 |
Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656) |
1742 |
Francesco Stradivari, Ital violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 70 |
1772 |
Joseph Kerckhoff, Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged |
1777 |
George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b. 1719) |
1778 |
William Pitt Sr, English premier (1756-61, 66-68), dies at 69 |
1779 |
John Heart, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at about 68 |
1812 |
Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762) |
1819 |
Caspar Furstenau, composer, dies at 47 |
1845 |
Karoly Filtsch, composer, dies at 14 |
1848 |
Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781) |
1849 |
Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, composer and conductor, dies at 38 of a stroke |
1849 |
Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier, French socialite (b. 1777) |
1849 |
Otto Nicolai, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec |
1857 |
E Francois Vidocq, French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81 |
1857 |
François-Eugène Vidocq, Vidocq |
1871 |
John Herschel, cataloguer of southern hemisphere stars, dies at 79 |
1881 |
Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Journal Intime), dies at 59 |
1885 |
Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist/composer/conductor, dies at 73 |
1887 |
Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b. 1802) |
1891 |
A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820) |
1895 |
Feliks Jaronski, composer, dies at 71 |
1896 |
H.C. Brunner, The Seven Graces |
1897 |
Aleko Konstantinov, Bay Ganyo tragna po Evropa |
1907 |
John Albert Delany, composer, dies at 54 |
1913 |
Miklós Tihanyi, Keserü szerelem |
1916 |
Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (s-effect), dies |
1916 |
Max Reger, German composer/pianist/organist, dies at 43 |
1916 |
Max Reger, Fury |
1917 |
Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer, dies at 66 |
1920 |
William D Howells, US author (A Woman's Reason), dies at 83 |
1920 |
Jim Colosimo, |
1920 |
William Dean Howells, Christmas Every Day |
1926 |
Rafael Bouwmeester, Cirque hollandais |
1927 |
Henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90 |
1927 |
Juan Gris, Spanish cubist painter, dies at 40 |
1929 |
Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (b. 1864) |
1933 |
John G. Adolfi, The Man Who Played God |
1934 |
Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852) |
1935 |
Edward H Thompson, US archaeologist (Mayan civilization), dies at 78 |
1937 |
Viliam Figus, composer, dies at 62 |
1938 |
Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81 |
1938 |
Thelma Hill, Two Tars |
1939 |
Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867) |
1941 |
James C. Bradford, The Son of the Sheik |
1941 |
Peggy Shannon, Deluge |
1944 |
Henk Hos, resistance fighter, executed at 37 |
1944 |
Joseph A. McDonough, Show Boat |
1944 |
Herbie Kaye, I'm Looking Out the Window |
1945 |
Jan Sviták, Zivot vojenský, zivot veselý |
1945 |
André Bacqué, The Life of Moliere |
1945 |
William von Simpson, Die Barrings |
1945 |
Stacia Napierkowska, Les vampires |
1945 |
Dolores Casey, Big Brown Eyes |
1947 |
Ture Rangstrom, composer, dies at 62 |
1947 |
Ture Rangström, Tonmålaren |
1947 |
James G. Woodbury, Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages |
1949 |
Adrianus PHA de Kleyn, throat/nose/otologist (ear doctor), dies at 65 |
1949 |
Edward M. Langley, Robin Hood |
1949 |
Herbert Waniek, The Tinker |
1952 |
Giovanni Tebaldini, composer, dies at 87 |
1953 |
Jean Adair, dies at 80 |
1953 |
Jean Adair, In the Name of the Law |
1953 |
Jean Adair, Arsenic and Old Lace |
1953 |
Margarete Kupfer, I Don't Want to Be a Man |
1954 |
Sait Faik Abasiyanik, Vesikali Yarim |
1955 |
G L Jessop, cricketer (match-winning batsman, brilliant field), dies |
1955 |
Emil Kosa, The Day the Earth Stood Still |
1955 |
Francis Pierlot, The Prisoner of Zenda |
1955 |
Étienne Arnaud, Saved from the Titanic |
1956 |
Walter S Adams, US astronomer/director of Mount Wilson, dies at 79 |
1956 |
Piotr Morskoy, Dakarguli saundje |
1956 |
Hugh Miller, The Love of Sunya |
1956 |
Takashi Matsumoto, Shishi no za |
1957 |
Claude Lapham, Feet First |
1958 |
Frank Jaquet, Ace in the Hole |
1958 |
Lucien Lelong, Lumières de Paris |
1959 |
Gene Havlick, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
1959 |
Marcella Albani, La città dell'amore |
1959 |
Alfred Tonkel, Night of the Execution |
1960 |
John D. Rockefeller Jr, American financier and philanthropist, dies of pneumonia at 86 |
1960 |
John D. Rockefeller Jr., |
1961 |
Uno Larsson, Summer with Monika |
1962 |
H.H. Hopple, Tell It to the Marines |
1963 |
Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888) |
1965 |
Ludovicus H "Lode" Baekelmans, Flemish playwright, dies at 86 |
1965 |
Roger Vailland, French author, dies at 57 |
1965 |
Roger Vailland, Les liaisons dangereuses |
1967 |
Yukiko Todoroki, Sanshiro Sugata |
1970 |
Johnny Hodges, American musician (b. 1906) |
1973 |
Grigory M Kosinzev, Russian director, dies |
1973 |
Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919) |
1976 |
Alvar Aalto, architect (Finlandia House), dies at 78 |
1976 |
Camille Schmit, composer, dies at 68 |
1976 |
J Anaya, Bolivian military/ambassador to France, murdered |
1976 |
Si Rose, Pufnstuf |
1976 |
Serafima Birman, Ivan the Terrible, Part I |
1977 |
Abilio Pereira de Almeida, Terra É Sempre Terra |
1978 |
John Clinge Doorenbos, Dutch journalist/poet, dies at 93 |
1978 |
Dragoljub Jovanovic, Otpisani |
1979 |
Joan Chandler, dies at 55 |
1979 |
Lester Raymond Flatt, musician (Ballad of Jed Clampett), dies at 64 |
1979 |
Annika Tretow, Sawdust and Tinsel |
1979 |
Tamara Adelgeym, Jewish Luck |
1979 |
Joan Chandler, Rope |
1979 |
Lester Flatt, Flatt, Clampett, and Scruggs |
1979 |
Josef Petrak, 1. April 2000 |
1979 |
Chet Stafford, Boeing, Boeing |
1981 |
Bob Marley, reggae singer, dies of brain & lung cancer at 36 |
1981 |
Hoyt J Fuller, editor (1st World magazine), dies at 57 |
1981 |
Ron Ormond, The Exotic Ones |
1981 |
James Dime, White Woman |
1981 |
Jan Koecher, Warszawska premiera |
1981 |
Sam Byrd, Follow Thru with Sam Byrd |
1981 |
Bob Marley, In the Name of the Father |
1982 |
Leigh Snowden, actress (Hot Rod Rumble), dies at 51 of cancer |
1982 |
Piet van Egmond, organist/conductor, dies at 70 |
1982 |
Leigh Snowden, All That Heaven Allows |
1983 |
Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, author (Anything Box), dies at 65 |
1983 |
Zenna Henderson, The People |
1984 |
Peter Sturm, Max und siebeneinhalb Jungen |
1984 |
Toni Turek, |
1985 |
Chester Gould, cartoonist (Dick Tracy), dies at 84 |
1985 |
Garmt Stuiveling, literatrary (Ego & Echo), dies at 77 |
1985 |
Jorja Curtright, actor (Whistle Stop), dies of a heart attack |
1985 |
Samuel Frith, English co-founder of soccer team (Bradford City), dies |
1985 |
Patricia McGerr, Johnny Lingo |
1985 |
Chester Gould, Dick Tracy |
1985 |
Milton Seaman, The Purple Rose of Cairo |
1985 |
Jorja Curtright, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing |
1986 |
Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (b. 1910) |
1986 |
Fritz Pollard, American football player (b. 1894) |
1986 |
Fritz Pollard, Rockin' the Blues |
1986 |
Florence Johns, The Auction Block |
1986 |
Wallace Chewning, The Big Country |
1986 |
Edoardo Anton, Il segno di Venere |
1986 |
Arnold Stoltz, Nightwork |
1987 |
Thomas Benton Roberts, Liberty |
1987 |
James Jesus Angleton, Marilyn Monroe: Murder on Fifth Helena Drive |
1988 |
H A R (Kim) Philby, British double agent, dies |
1988 |
Kim Philby, |
1989 |
Wanda Orzechowska, Zlota maska |
1989 |
Giannis Papaioannou, Edge of Night |
1990 |
Venedikt Yerofeyev, Moskau - Petuschki |
1990 |
Fred Williams, What's Up, Doc? |
1990 |
Heidemarie Hatheyer, I accuse |
1990 |
Stratos Dionysiou, The Love of Ulysses |
1990 |
Hanne Wieder, The Haunted Castle |
1991 |
Filip J Field, dies at 67 |
1991 |
Ho Dam, foreign minister North-Korea (1970-83), dies |
1991 |
Wladyslaw Eiger, Dwie Joasie |
1991 |
Dino Di Luca, The Cardinal |
1991 |
John Elias, Battlestar Galactica |
1992 |
Carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90 |
1992 |
Elizabeth McDonald, inventor (Spic & Span), dies at 98 |
1992 |
Kurt Bendix, Miss April |
1992 |
William A. Mueller, Island in the Sky |
1992 |
Emil Kolozsvári Grandpierre, A törökfejes kopja |
1992 |
Cecil Higgins, The Outlaw Josey Wales |
1992 |
Jovan Milicevic, Hanka |
1993 |
Anne-Marie Mühle, Kronbruden |
1993 |
Frank Biro, Between Jobs |
1994 |
Alfred James Broomhall, methodist Missionary, dies at 82 |
1994 |
Danny Overbea, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 68 |
1994 |
Leonard Friedman, violinist, dies at 63 |
1994 |
Lewis B Puller, US writer (Pulitzer 1992), commits suicide at 48 |
1994 |
Timothy Carey, dies of stroke at 64 |
1994 |
Wick Ederveen, Romeo |
1994 |
Henri Guisol, Lola Montès |
1994 |
Timothy Carey, Paths of Glory |
1994 |
Nikolay Fyodorov, Bobik v gostyakh u Barbosa |
1995 |
Arthur Lubin, director (Francis The Talking Mule, Mr Ed), dies at 96 |
1995 |
David Avidan, poet/writer, dies at 62 |
1995 |
William John Phillips, actor (Nothing but a Man), dies at 80 |
1995 |
David Avidan, A Message from the Future |
1995 |
John Phillips, Becket |
1995 |
Mia Martini, Jacques Chazot |
1995 |
Byron P. Cavnar, Rain Man |
1996 |
Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher, dies at 85 |
1996 |
Joan Thirkettle, journalist, dies at 48 |
1996 |
Malcolm MacEwen, writer, dies at 84 |
1996 |
Nnamdi Azikiwe, Pres of Nigeria (1963-66), dies |
1996 |
Walter Hyatt, #Musician, dies at 46 |
1996 |
Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922) |
1996 |
Walter Hyatt, Clay Pigeons |
1996 |
Rodney Culver, Super Bowl XXIX |
1996 |
Seiichi Fukuda, Madame O |
1996 |
Vittorio Sala, Costa Azzurra |
1996 |
Jerry Murad, Footlight Varieties |
1997 |
Brenda Carlin, TV producer/wife of comedian George Carlin, dies at 57 |
1997 |
Ernie Fields, Episode #3.9 |
1997 |
Hans Bradtke, Definitely, Maybe |
1997 |
Peter Stackpole, The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind |
1997 |
Howard Morton, The Mechanic |
1997 |
Genine Graham, Phantom Caravan |
1997 |
Brenda Carlin, George Carlin: Jammin' in New York |
1997 |
Catherine McLeod, Days of Our Lives |
1998 |
Gene Fowler Jr., It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World |
1998 |
Willy Corsari, Het mysterie van de Mondscheinsonate |
1998 |
Helena McCarthy, Staggered |
1998 |
Rudolf S. Joseph, Summer Storm |
1998 |
Edward Schaaf, Up! |
1999 |
Elaine Fifield, The Show Parade |
1999 |
Silvio Previato, Dietro la pianura |
1999 |
Birdy Sweeney, The Crying Game |
1999 |
Stella Francis, Ebb Tide |
1999 |
Nina Kazarinova, Eti... tri vernye karty... |
1999 |
Lulla Rosenfeld, Paris Blues |
1999 |
Eleonora Ezra, Barierata |
2000 |
Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907) |
2000 |
Faruk Kenç, Çakircali Mehmet Efe |
2000 |
David Bretherton, Cabaret |
2000 |
Robinson Stone, Stalag 17 |
2000 |
Mervyn Mills, The Long Haul |
2000 |
William Dale Jennings, The Cowboys |
2000 |
Paula Wessely, Masquerade in Vienna |
2000 |
René Muñoz, Mi pequeña Soledad |
2000 |
Verna Aardema, Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears |
2000 |
Janou Saint-Denis, Bonheur d'occasion |
2001 |
Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952) |
2001 |
Michael J. Bird, Return to Yesterday |
2001 |
Wolfgang Arps, Das Käthchen von Heilbronn |
2001 |
Balázs Szuhay, A baromfiudvar réme |
2001 |
Jan Kropácek, The Elementary School |
2001 |
Heskel Brisman, Carnival of Blood |
2001 |
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
2001 |
Klaus Schlesinger, Matulla und Busch |
2001 |
Jesús Aguirre, Episode dated 29 January 1993 |
2002 |
Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (b. 1905) |
2002 |
Renaude Lapointe, French Canadian journalist and senator (b. 1912) |
2002 |
Bill Peet, Cinderella |
2002 |
Christopher Lofton, All My Children |
2002 |
Patrick Fyffe, Look After the Pennies |
2002 |
Joseph Bonanno, Bonanno: A Godfather's Story |
2002 |
Nika Turbina, Eto bylo u morya |
2002 |
Richard Ching, My Chorus |
2002 |
John Sharnik, Meze Waltera Hortona |
2003 |
Noel Redding, English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (b. 1945) |
2003 |
José Manuel Lara, Episode dated 9 October 1992 |
2003 |
Grzegorz Sielski, The Woodpecker Told the Owl |
2003 |
Artie Fielder, Six Weeks |
2003 |
Kiro Cortosev, Vreme, zivot |
2003 |
King Hernandez, Liar Liar |
2004 |
John Whitehead, American singer (McFadden & Whitehead) (b. 1949) |
2004 |
Mick Doyle, Irish rugby union footballer and coach |
2004 |
Per Øivind Heradstveit, Studio A |
2004 |
John Wylie, The Hudsucker Proxy |
2004 |
Gene Sprague, The Bridge |
2004 |
Yefim Berezin, Shtepsel zhenit Tarapunku |
2004 |
Robert Cabal, Around the World in Eighty Days |
2004 |
John Whitehead, Shrek 2 |
2004 |
Zhenhua Niu, The Soong Sisters |
2005 |
Michalis Genitsaris, Greek rebetiko singer and composer (b. 1917) |
2005 |
Michalis Genitsaris, Ilias Petropoulos: A World Underground |
2005 |
Jay Dare, Great Guns |
2006 |
Floyd Patterson, American boxer, dies at 71 |
2006 |
Frankie Thomas, American actor (b. 1921) |
2006 |
Yossi Banai, Israeli singer (b. 1932) |
2006 |
Konrad Kittner, Kein Pardon |
2006 |
Mauri Front, Finlandia-talo |
2006 |
Mony Dalmès, The Swindle |
2006 |
Zoran Gluscevic, I'll Be Back |
2006 |
Ricardo Fernández, Without Compassion |
2006 |
Frankie Thomas, The Major and the Minor |
2006 |
Byron Morrow, Colossus: The Forbin Project |
2006 |
Floyd Patterson, World's Heavyweight Championship Fight: Floyd Patterson Heavyweight Champion of the World versus Ingemar Johansson Heavyweight Champion of Europe |
2006 |
Christiane Muller, Going Places |
2007 |
Malietoa Tanumafili II, Sovereign Ruler of Samoa (b. 1913) |
2007 |
Bernard Gordon, blacklisted American author (b. 1918) |
2007 |
David Lang, Hellcats of the Navy |
2007 |
Bernard Gordon, 55 Days at Peking |
2007 |
Stanley Holden, Liberace |
2007 |
Fred Burns, Stuck on You |
2007 |
Winifred Mann, Tell Me a Riddle |
2007 |
Norman Frank, Episode #1.37 |
2007 |
Elizabeth Greenberg, Brokeback Mountain |
2007 |
Barbara Maier, A Doll's House |
2008 |
Dottie Rambo, American gospel singer (b. 1934) |
2008 |
John Rutsey, Canadian drummer, formerly for Canadian progressive rock band Rush (b.1953) |
2008 |
Bruno Neves, portuguese cyclist that died in competition (b.1981) |
2008 |
Hiroko Seki, Kiki's Delivery Service |
2008 |
Dick Sutcliffe, Lost in a Cave |
2008 |
John Rutsey, |
2008 |
Curtis Whitley, Super Bowl XXIX |
2008 |
Dottie Rambo, The Preacher's Wife |
2008 |
Jeff Haley, Beverly Hills Cop |
2009 |
Leonard Shlain, Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology |
2009 |
Takashi Miki, Tokyo Story |
2009 |
Dan Ammerman, Local Hero |
2009 |
Dolores Sutton, Crimes and Misdemeanors |
2009 |
Mark Landon, Goodbye America |
2009 |
Shanti Lekha, Saru Bima |
2010 |
Frank Frazetta, American fantasy and science fiction artist (b. 1928) |
2010 |
Tito Romalio, Nachalnik Chukotki |
2010 |
Doris Eaton, Man on the Moon |
2010 |
Massimo Sarchielli, Ladyhawke |
2010 |
Maciej Kozlowski, Schindler's List |
2010 |
Bud Mahurin, War Planes of World War II |
2010 |
Walker Mahurin, Korea: Stalin's Secret Air War |
2010 |
István Móczár, Útvesztö |
2011 |
Jase Draper, Marie and Paul's Dance Lesson |
2011 |
Laurie Abdo, Ghost |
2011 |
Madalyn Minch, Bette Midler in Concert: Diva Las Vegas |
2011 |
Snooky Young, Episode dated 7 January 1992 |
2011 |
Robert 'Tractor' Traylor, The Brewster Project |
2012 |
Roland Shaw, Song of Norway |
2012 |
Frank Wills, Baltimore Orioles vs. Toronto Blue Jays |
2012 |
Ramesh Mehta, Jesal Toral |
2012 |
Alma Bella, Punyal na ginto |
2012 |
László Seregi, A mikádó |
2012 |
Tony DeZuniga, Jonah Hex |
2012 |
Grant Jeffrey, Shadow Government |
2012 |
John Fabild, Over gaden - Neden vandet |
2013 |
Jack Butler, American football player, dies from complications from staph infection at 85 |
2013 |
Isao Natsuyagi, The Land of Hope |
2013 |
David Connell, Wolfen |
2013 |
Igor Yurash, Milyy Ep |
2013 |
Gilberto Gazcón, Rage |
2013 |
Jack Butler, The Fall of '55 |
2013 |
Ollie Mitchell, The Concert for Bangladesh |
2013 |
Arnold Peters, Episode #1.2 |
2014 |
Vernon Lewis, Thor |
2014 |
Rimma Narinyan, Soshedshie s nebes |
2014 |
Polly Noble, Katherine Jenkins |
2014 |
Margareta Pogonat, Meandre |
2014 |
Jeb Magruder, Watergate |
2014 |
Barbara Knudson, Stage to San Dimas |
2014 |
Ernesto Cabrejos, The Motorcycle Diaries |
2015 |
Gideon Singer, Jailbirds |
2015 |
Jef Geeraerts, The Memory of a Killer |
2015 |
Mohammad Ali Sepanlou, Tehran, Conceptual Art |
2015 |
Janine Guyon, Le voleur de riens |
2015 |
Roman Huszczo, Straszydla |
2015 |
Stan Cornyn, The Phynx |
2017 |
Twin Peaks and Kill Bill actor Michael Parks dies aged 77 |
2017 |
Former Chinese vice-premier Qian Qichen dies, aged 90 |
2017 |
Robert Miles known for 1990s hit 'Children' dies aged 47 |
2017 |
Former Chinese vice-premier Qian Qichen dies, aged 90 |
2017 |
ABC journalist Mark Colvin dies aged 65 |
2018 |
Acclaimed indigenous actor Tom E Lewis dies aged 59 |
2018 |
Longtime AP journalist Carl Craft dies at age 79 |
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