Deaths March 11 | History by KabAstro

Elagabalus (203/204-222 AD)

Roman Emperor (218-22), murdered by the Praetorian Guard at 18

222 Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus (b. 180). Ruler during her son's minority, murdered by the Praetorian Guard
638 Sophronius of Jerusalem, saint/patriarch of Jerusalem, dies
859 Eulogius of Cordoba, Spanish Bishop and Christian Martyr
1198 Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145)
1486 Albert III Achilles [Albrecht III], Elector of Brandenburg, dies at 71
1514 Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)
1575 Matthias Flacius, Croatian Lutheran Protestant reformer, dies at 55
1602 Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer
1607 Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer
1715 Jan-Erasmus Quellinus, Flemish painter (court painter to Emperor Leopold I), dies at 80
1722 John Toland, Irish rationalist philosopher, dies at 51
1759 John Forbes, British general (b. 1710)
1772 Johann George Reutter, composer, dies at 63
1786 Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress, dies at 71
1786 Jacobus Bellamy [Zelandus], Dutch poet, dies at 28
1787 Maximilien Gardel, French ballet dancer and choreographer (Menuet Reine), dies at 45
1807 Anton Eberl, Austrian composer, dies at 41
1820 Benjamin West, Anglo-American painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81
1826 Gervais-François Couperin, French organist and composer, dies at 66
1833 Fridolin Weber, German composer, dies at 71
1851 George McDuffie, Governor of South Carolina (b. 1790)
1854 Willard Richards, American physician and religious leader, dies at 49
1856 James Beatty, Irish railway engineer (b. 1820)
1857 Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author and poet (A la paz), dies at 84
1863 Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, English general (b. 1803)
1869 Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer, dies at 65
1870 Moshoeshoe I, King of Lesotho (1822-70), dies at about 47
1874 Charles Sumner, American politician, Senator Massachusetts (1851-74) and anti-slavery advocate, dies at 63
1894 John Selby, England cricket batsman (6 Tests, 2 x 50; Nottinghamshire CCC), dies of paralytic stroke at 44
1897 Berthold Tours, Dutch-English composer, dies at 58
1897 Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist and evangelist (The Greatest Thing in the World), dies at 45
1898 William Rosecrans, American Civil War Union general (b. 1819)
1900 Edmund Peate, cricketer (9 Tests for England 1881-86), dies
1907 Jean Casimir-Périer, French politician (President of France 1894-95), dies at 59
1907 Nikola Petkow, premier (Bulgaria), murdered
1908 Benjamin Waugh, English clergyman and social reformer who founded the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, dies at 69
1908 Peter Milne, Scottish composer, dies at 83
1913 John Shaw Billings, American librarian & surgeon, dies at 74
1915 Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (Robbery Under Arms), dies at 88
1919 Harald Fryklöf, Swedish composer, dies at 36
1920 Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
1921 Sherburne Wesley Burnham, American astronomer (binary stars), dies at 83
1925 Andreas Hallen, composer, dies at 78
1926 Biddy Anderson, South African cricket batsman (1 Test as captain; Western Province) and rugby union centre (3 Tests), dies at 51
1931 F. W. Murnau German film director (Nosferatu, The Last Laugh), dies of a car crash at 42
1932 Dora Carrington, British Bloomsbury artist commits suicide aged 38
1937 Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (b. 1860)
1937 Paul Scheinpflug, composer, dies at 61
1941 Walford Davies, British organist, composer, educator, and broadcaster (BBC), dies at 71
1944 Hendrik W. van Loon, Dutch-American radio commentator and writer, dies at 62
1944 Irvin S. Cobb, American writer and humorist (Old Judge Priest), dies at 67
1947 Victor Hely-Hutchinson, British composer (Carol Symphony), dies of pneumonia at 45
1949 Juan Lamote de Grignon, Catalan pianist, composer (La nit de Nadal (Christmas Night); Hespèria), and orchestra leader (Cobla Barcelona; València Municipal Orchestra), dies at 76
1950 Florence Arliss, British actress (Disraeli), dies at 78
1951 Philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at 66
1952 Pierre Renoir, French stage and film actor and director (b. 1885)

Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)

Scottish bacteriologist (invented penicillin; Nobel Prize 1945), dies of a heart attack at 73

1955 Oscar Mayer, Bavarian-born American meat packer (b. 1859)
1956 Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83

Richard E. Byrd (1888-1957)

American aviator and polar explorer (1st to reach both the North Pole and South Pole by air - disputed), dies at 68

1958 Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish carpenter, inventor, and toy maker (Lego Group), dies of a heart attack at 66
1959 Haydn Wood, English violinist, and composer of light classical music (Roses of Picardy), dies at 76
1959 Lester Dent, American writer (Doc Savage), dies at 54
1960 Roy Chapman Andrews, US scientist and explorer (found 1st known dinosaur eggs, director of the American Museum of Natural History), dies at 76
1962 Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79
1963 Mahomed Nissar, Indian cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wkts), dies at 52
1965 James Reeb, American minister and civil rights activist, dies from head injuries after being beaten in Selma, Alabama at 38
1967 Geraldine Farrar, soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85
1967 Joseph Forte, British-American actor (Reefer Madness; Life With Luigi), dies at of a heart attack at 75
1969 John Wyndham, American sci-fi author (Chrysalids), dies at 65

Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970)

American detective writer (Perry Mason), dies at 80

1971 Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (created electronic television, video camera tube), dies of pneumonia at 64
1971 Whitney Young Jr, American leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at 49
1972 Fredric Brown, American sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies at 65
1972 Zack Wheat, American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (NL batting champion 1918; Brooklyn Superbas / Dodgers / Robins 1909–26), dies of a heart attack at 83
1975 Philip Bezanson, American composer (Golden Child), and eductor, dies at 59
1975 Sammy Spear, American big band trumpet player and orchestra leader (The Jackie Gleason Show), dies of a heart attack at 65
1976 Louis Gesensway, Latvian-American violinist (Philadelphia Orchestra, 1926-71), and composer (Ode To Peace), dies at 70
1977 Alberto Rodriguez Larreta, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
1977 Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist (b. 1893)
1978 Claude François, French pop singer-songwriter ("Comme d'habitude"), electrocuted in a home mishap at 39
1979 Jeanne Leleu, French pianist and composer, dies at 80
1979 Victor Kilian, American actor (Gentleman's Agreement), dies at 88
1982 Edmund Cooper, British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came), dies at 55
1982 Horace Gregory, American poet, dies at 83
1983 Lurlean Hunter, American jazz singer, dies at 63
1984 Kostas Roukounas, Greek rembetiko singer and songwriter, dies at about 81 (b. 1903)
1984 Nakagawa Soen, Taiwanese-born Japanese Zen master and poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76
1986 Sherman Kent, American professor known as the father of intelligence analysis, dies at 82
1986 Sonny Terry, American bind Piedmont blues musician, dies at 74
1987 Joe Gladwin, British actor (Nearest and Dearest, No Hard Feelings), dies at 81
1988 Pham Hung, premier of Vietnam, dies at about 74
1989 James Kee, American politician (US Representatives for West Virginia, 1965-73), dies at 71
1989 Johan Fleerackers, Flemish civil servant and cultural attaché (Minister of Cutlure, 1965-77), dies at 57
1989 John Jay McCloy, American lawyer and banker (Secretary of War 1941-45, Chairman Chase Manhattan Bank, President of World Bank 1947-49), dies at 93
1989 William Challee, American stage and screen actor (Desperate; Five Easy Pieces; Moonchild), dies at 84
1990 Dean Horrix, English footballer (b. 1961)
1992 David Carroll, actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism at 41
1992 Manuel De Dios Unanue, US anti-drug journalist, murdered at 48
1992 Richard Brooks, American film director (Blackboard Jungle; In Cold Blood; Key Largo), dies at 79
1993 Dino Bravo, wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44
1993 Edgar Nelson Barclift, dancer, dies after lengthy illness at 76
1993 Jim Boyd, American country and western swing musician (and his Men of the West - "Waxahachie Dishwasher Boy"), dies at 78
1993 Manuel da Fonseca, Portuguese writer (Cerro Maior), dies at 81
1994 Jacques Doucet, French painter (Mostar Sarajevo), dies at 69
1995 Carel Birnie, found Utrecht Opera/Dutch Dance Theater, dies at 69
1995 Ernest Kabushemeye, Burundese minister of Mijnbouw, murdered
1995 Frank Fidler, English artist, dies at 84
1996 Barry Appleby, British cartoonist (The Gambols), dies at 86
1996 Charles Oatley, English electrical engineer (developed scanning electron microscope), dies at 92
1996 John Henry Pyle Pafford, librarian, dies at 96
1996 Vince Edwards, American actor, director, and singer (Ben Casey, The Devil's Brigade, Matt Lincoln, Firehouse), dies of cancer at 67
1997 Hugo Weisgall, American composer (4 Impressions), dies at 84
1997 Lars Ahlin, Swedish writer (My Death is My Own), dies at 81
1998 Jean Shiley, American high jumper (Olympic gold 1932), dies at 86
1999 Camille Laurin, Quebec psychiatrist and politician (Parti Québécois), dies at 76
1999 Herbert Jasper, Canadian physiologist and neurologist, dies at 92
1999 Stefan Schnabel, German actor (Anna, Dracula's Widow, Firefox), dies from a heart attack at 87
2000 Alfred Schwarzmann, German gymnast (Olympic gold individual, team, horse vault, 2 x bronze 1936; silver 1952), dies at 87
2002 James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
2003 Brian Cleeve, Irish author (b. 1921)
2003 Ivar Hansen, speaker of the Danish Folketing (b. 1938)
2006 Anthony Farrar-Hockley, English army officer (NATO Commander) and military historian, dies at 81
2006 Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, Canadian Hockey HOF right wing (11 x NHL All-star; 6 x Stanley Cup - Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers) and coach (NY Rangers, Atlanta Flames, Montreal Canadiens), dies at 75

Slobodan Milošević (1941-2006)

President of Serbia (1991-97) and Yugoslavia (1997-2000), dies at 64

2007 Betty Hutton [Elizabeth June Thornburg], American actress, dancer, singer and comedian (Greatest Show on Earth), dies of colon cancer a 86
2008 Dave Stevens, American illustrator and comic artist (The Rocketeer), dies at 52
2009 Charles Lewis, Jr., American businessman, promoter and entertainer
2010 Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1931)
2010 Leena Peltonen-Palotie, Finnish human geneticist (b. 1952)
2010 Merlin Olsen, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and actor (Father Murphy), dies of cancer at 69
2011 Loleatta Holloway, American disco singer ("Love Sensation"), dies of heart failure at 64
2012 Hans G. Helms, German writer and composer, dies at 79
2012 Sid Couchey, American comic book artist, dies at 92
2014 Bob Crow, English trade union leader (National Union RMT), dies of a heart attack at 52
2015 Jimmy Greenspoon, American session and touring rock organist (Three Dog Night - "Joy to the World"), dies of metastatic melanoma at 67
2015 Ralph Taeger, American actor (Klondike, Acapulco, Hondo), dies at 78
2016 Iolanda Balaș, Romanian high jumper (Olympic gold 1960), dies at 79
2018 Karl Lehmann, German clergyman and Catholic cardinal (Bishop of Mainz, 1983-2016), dies at 81
2018 Ken Dodd, British singer and comedian described as "the last great music hall entertainer," dies of complications from a chest infection at 90
2019 Hal Blaine [Harold Belsky], American pop and rock session drummer (The Wrecking Crew), dies at 90
2019 Willie Ellison, American NFL running back. 1967-74 (Pro Bowl 1971; Los Angeles Rams, Kansas City Chiefs), dies at 73
2020 Charles Wuorinen, American contemporary classical pianist, conductor, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer (Time's Encomium; Marimba Variations; Brokeback Mountain), dies at 81
2020 Michel Roux, French chef and restaurateur (Le Gavroche, 1st Michelin three-starred restaurant in Britain), dies at 78
2021 Gerald Hartley, American composer, choral director, and educator, dies at 99
2022 Timmy Thomas, American R&B singer-songwriter ("Why Can't We Live Together"), dies of cancer at 77
2023 Amy Fuller, American rower (World C'ship gold W 8+, 6 x silver; Olympic silver Coxless four 1992), dies from breast cancer at 54
2023 Harry "Bud" Grant, American Pro Football HOF coach (NFL Coach of the Year 1969 Minnesota Vikings; 4 x Grey Cup C'ship Winnipeg Blue Bombers) and basketball forward (NBA C'ship 1950 Minnesota Lakers), dies at 95 [1]
2023 John Jakes, American writer (North and South; Sir Scoundrel; Great Women Reporters), dies at 90
2024 Emilio Correa, Cuban boxer (Olympic gold welterweight 1972; World C'ship gold 1974), dies at 70