Deaths November 11 | History by KabAstro

Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)

Italian singer, theorbo player, and composer, dies at 58

1724 Joseph Blake, alias "Blueskin", a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London. (b. c. 1700)
1755 Johan van de Bergh, Leids regent, dies at 91
1772 Jan Maurits Quinkhard, Dutch portrait painter, dies at 84
1810 Johan Zoffany, German-born painter patronized by David Garrick and the British Royal family), dies at 77
1812 Platon Levshin, Metropoitan of Moscow (b. 1737)

Nat Turner (1800-1831)

American leader of a major slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831, hanged at 31

1855 Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher, dies at 42
1861 Pedro V, King of Portugal (1853-61), known as "The Hopeful", dies of typhoid and/or cholera at 24
1862 James Madison Porter, American politician (b. 1793)
1871 William Lonsdale, English geologist and paleontologist (fossil coral), dies at 77

Lucretia Mott (1793-1880)

American Quaker, abolitionist and women's right activist (1st Woman's Rights Convention), dies at 87

Ned Kelly (1854-1880)

Australian outlaw and bushranger, executed at 25

1884 Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827)
1886 Paul Bert, Auxerre, French Zoologist, Physiologist and pioneer of aerospace medicine whose study of the effects of air pressure on the body made possible space and ocean exploration, dies of dysentery at 53
1895 Julius Tausch, German composer, dies at 68
1901 Antonio Zamara, Austrian harpist, teacher, and composer, dies at 72
1907 Henry Gadsby, English musician and composer, dies at 64
1912 Jose Canalejas Y Mendez, premier Spain, murdered
1912 Józef Wieniawski, Polish pianist, composer, conductor and teacher, dies at 75
1917 Liliuokalani [Lydia Kamakaʻeha], last queen of Hawaii (1891-93), dies from a stroke at 79
1918 George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last person to be killed in WW I (b. 1892)
1918 Victor Adler, Austrian politician (Minister of Foreign Affairs), dies at 66
1927 Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen, Danish Botanist and Geneticist (provided evidence for Hugo de Vries' mutation theory), dies at 70
1929 Mieczyslaw Soltys, Polish composer, dies at 66
1930 William Whysall, British cricketer (4 Tests for England 1924-30), dies at 43
1931 Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)
1936 Edward German, English Welsh composer (Merrie England), dies at 74

Typhoid Mary (1869-1938)

Irish-American patient best known as 'Typhoid Mary' and the first person in the United States known to be immune to typhoid, dies at 69

1939 Jan Opletal, Czech student, victim of Nazi violence in Prague
1942 Anton Hendrik Blaauw, Dutch botanist (Perception of the Lichtes), dies at 60
1942 Hector Abbas, Flemish actor and director (Rosa Lynd Company), dies at 58
1944 Gerrit Grijns, Dutch researcher and co-discoverer of vitamin B1 (thiamine), dies at 79

Jerome Kern (1885-1945)

American composer (Sally; Leave It To Jane), dies at 60

1947 Martin Dibelius, German theologist (That Drawer Jahwes), dies at 64
1953 Irene of Hesse and by Rhine, German granddaughter of Queen Victoria and wife of a Prussian prince, dies at 87
1954 J. Rosamond Johnson, American composer ("Lift Every Voice And Sing"), dies at 81
1955 John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1913-18), dies at 87
1956 Marie Hall, British concert violinist, dies at 72
1960 Red Byron, American auto racer (NASCAR Strictly Stock Series C'ship 1949), dies from a heart attack at 45
1962 George Hoyt, American Basketball Hall of Fame referee (author "The Theory and Practice of Basketball Officiating"), dies at 79
1962 Joseph Allen Jr, American actor (The Night Before the Divorce, Motor Madness), dies at 44
1964 Edward Steuermann, Austrian American composer, dies at 72
1964 H[enry] Beam Piper, American sci-fi author (4 Day Planet), dies at 60
1965 Gaston Glass, French American actor (Opening Your Eyes), dies after long illness at 65
1967 (Robert Jordan) "Smoki" Whitfield, American actor (Bomba the Jungle Boy; Lord of the Jungle; Swamp Fox), dies of a heart attack at 49
1967 Harry Seymour, American composer, actor (Tenderfoot), dies of a heart attack at 76
1968 Janet Sobel [Jennie Olechovsky], Ukrainian-American abstract expressionist and drip-paint pioneering artist (Milky Way), dies at 75
1968 Jeanne Demessieux, French organist and composer (Te Deum), dies at 47
1969 Frank Newburg, American actor (Homemaker), dies at 83
1971 A. P. Herbert, English journalist and writer (Punch, Helen), dies at 81
1971 Sylvia Brett, Lady Brooke and Ranee of Sarawak, dies at 86
1972 Berry Oakley, American rocker and bass player (The Allman Brothers Band), dies in motorcycle crash at 24
1973 Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish Chemist and Nobel laureate, dies at 78
1974 Alfonso Leng, Chilean dentist and composer (Doloras), dies at 90
1974 Jane Ace, American comedian (Easy Aces), dies at 74
1975 Marty May, American actor (Fireball Fun For All), dies at 79

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

American sculptor (mobiles), dies at 78

1976 Eric Davies, South African cricket fast bowler (5 Tests, 7 wickets; East Province, Transvaal), dies at 67
1977 Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist and political activist, dies at 27
1977 Greta Keller, Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (b. 1903)
1978 Bennie Borgmann, American Basketball Hall of Fame forward and coach (Kingston Colonials, Original Celtics; coach Syracuse Nationals), dies at 77
1979 Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian-American film score composer and conductor (Academy Award 1954-High & Mighty), dies at 85
1980 Benode Behari Mukherjee, Indian blind artist (Lives of Medieval Saints fresco), dies at 76 [1]
1982 Gösta Törner, Swedish hot jazz and session trumpeter and bandleader, dies at 70
1984 Jan Novák, Czech classical composer and contemporary Latin poet, dies at 63
1984 Martin Luther King Sr, US vicar and father of MLK Jr., dies at 84
1985 Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish NHL goaltender, 1981-86, Vezina Award winner (Philadelphia Flyers), dies after drunk driving collision between his Porsche and wall at 26
1986 Roger C. Carmel, American actor (Star Trek - "Harry Mudd"; The Mothers-in-Law - "Roger"), dies at 54
1987 Lowell T. Coggeshall, American medical scientist and US Secretary of HEW (1956-58), dies at 86
1987 Nico Slothouwer, poet (Liefdesstratenplan), commits suicide at 30
1988 William Ifor Jones, Welsh organist and conductor, dies at 88
1989 Jay DeFeo, American visual artist (The Rose), dies of cancer at 60 [1]
1990 Alexis Minotis [Alexandros Minotakis], Greek actor (The Merchant of Venice; King Lear), dies at 90
1990 Attilio Demaría, Argentinian footballer, dies at 81
1990 Lisa Kirk, American Broadway singer and actress (Kiss Me Kate), dies of lung cancer at 65
1992 Aleksandr Yakovlevich Petrushenko, cosmonaut, dies at 50
1992 Giulio Carlo Argan, Italian art critic/mayor of Rome, dies at 83
1992 Peter Gretton, British vice admiral, dies at 80
1993 Erskine Hawkins, American trumpeter, big band leader, and composer ("Tuxedo Junction:' "After Hours"), dies at 79

H. R. Haldeman (1926-1993)

Nixon's White House Chief of Staff during Watergate, dies at 67

1993 Olavi Pesonen, Finnish composer, dies at 84
1994 Elizabeth Maconchy (LeFanu), Irish-English composer, notably of string quartets, and contemporary music promoter, dies at 87
1994 Ernest Clark, British actor (Gandhi; The Dam Busters; Doctor in the House), dies at 82
1994 Frances Tustin, English child psychologist, dies at 81
1994 Frank McGuire, American basketball coach (won 550 games in 30 college seasons), dies at 80
1994 John Volpe, American politician (61st and 63rd Governor of Massachusetts) and U.S. Secretary of Treasury (1969-73), dies at 85
1994 Pedro Zamora, Cuban American AIDS Activist, dies at 22
1995 Charles Scribner IV, American literary publisher, dies at 74
1995 Corneliu Coposu, Romanian politician (Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party), dies while undergoing treatment for lung cancer at 79
1995 Jean-Louis Curtis [Albert Laffitte], French novelist (The Forests of the Night), dies at 78
1995 Kenneth S. Goldstein, American folklorist and record producer, dies at 68
1995 René Wellek, Czech-American writer (Concepts of Criticism), dies at 92
1996 Jo Baker, American blues-rock vocalist (Elvin Bishop), dies of liver disease at 48
1997 Rodney Milburn, American athlete (Olympic gold 110m hurdles 1972), dies in a work accident at 49
1998 Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player (b. 1913)
1998 Patrick "Paddy" Clancy, Irish folk singer, harmonic player, and songwriter (The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - "Carrickfergus"), dies of lung ccancer at 76
1999 Jack Plimsoll, South African cricket fast bowler (1 Test, BB 3-143; manager RSA team to England 1965), dies at 82
1999 Jacobo Timmerman, Argentine writer and journalist (b. 1923)
1999 Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)
1999 Vivian Fuchs, English geologist and explorer (led Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1st to cross Antarctica via South Pole), dies at 91
2000 Hugo Pos, Surinamese-Dutch poet and writer, dies at 86
2004 Dayton Allen, American comedian (Steve Allen Show, The Cotton Club), dies from a stroke at 85
2004 Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (b. 1948)

Yasser Arafat (1929-2004)

Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004) and 1994 Nobel peace prize winner, dies in Paris at 75

2005 Keith Andes, American actor (Farmer's Daughter, Away All Boats), commits suicide at 85
2005 Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer and director (Lion of the Dessert), dies at 75
2005 Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, British photographer, dies at 66
2005 Peter Drucker, Austrian-American management theorist, dies at 95
2006 Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (Home and Away), dies at 32
2006 Harry Lehotsky, American Canadian pastor and activist, dies at 49
2006 Ronnie Stevens, English actor (Rodney in "Dick & Duchess"), dies at 81
2007 Dick Nolan, American football head coach (San Francisco 49ers 1968-75, New Orleans Saints 1978-80), dies at 75
2007 John Peterson, American drummer (the Beau Brummels), dies at 65
2008 Herb Score, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1955, 56; Cleveland Indians) and announcer (Cleveland Indians 1964-97), dies at 75
2009 Andrew Sloan, British police officer (Chief Constable of Strathcourt), and investigation innovator, dies at 78
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)
2011 Georges Papy, Belgian mathematician (Numbers Game), dies at 91
2012 Rex Hunt, British diplomat and Governor of the Falkland Islands (1982-1985), dies at 86
2013 Billy Adamson, Scottish drummer (The Searchers, 1969-98), dies at 69
2013 Eddie McGrady, Northern Irish politician (SDLP) unseated Enoch Powell, dies at 78
2013 George Reinholt, American actor (Steve-Another World, One Life to Live), dies at 73
2014 Big Bank Hank [Henry Lee Jackson] American rapper (The Sugarhill Gang - "Rapper's Delight"), dies of cancer at 58
2014 James Erb, American composer, arranger, and musicologist (Shenendoah), dies at 88
2015 Philthy Animal [Phil Taylor], English rock drummer (Motörhead), dies from liver failure at 61
2016 Ilse Aichinger, Austrian writer (Die größere Hoffnung), dies at 95
2016 Raynoma Singleton [Gordy], music producer and singer-songwriter (Motown), dies at 79
2016 Robert Vaughn, American actor (The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - "Napoleon Solo"; The Young Philadelphians; S.O.B.), dies of leukemia at 83
2017 Bobby Matos, American session percussionist, Latin jazz timbalero, and bandleader, dies at 76
2017 Francesco "Frank" Corsaro, American opera director (The Night of the Iguana, Play of the Week), dies at 92
2019 Dotty Mack, American TV personality known as the "Queen of Pantomime" (The Paul Dixon Show; The Dotty Mack Show), dies at 90
2019 Zeke Bratkowski, American football quarterback (Super Bowl I, II; NFL C'ship 1965–67; Green Bay Packers HOF), dies from a heart attack at 88
2020 Carlos Campos, Chilean soccer striker (39 caps; Universidad de Chile 259 games), dies from respiratory failure at 83
2020 Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahraini royal and politician, world's longest serving Prime Minister (1970-2020), dies at 84

F. W. de Klerk (1932-2021)

South African President (1989-94) and winner of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela, dies of cancer at 85

2021 Graeme Edge, British rock drummer, and poet (Moody Blues - "The Dream"; "Morning Glory"), dies at 80
2021 Harris Fawell, American lawyer and politician (US Rep-R-IL, 1985-99), dies from complications of Alzheimer's disease at 92
2022 (Julian) Keith Levene, British rock guitarist (The Clash, 1976; Public Image Ltd, 1978-83), dies of liver cancer at 65
2022 (Leo) Gallagher, American stand-up comic and watermelon smasher, dies of multiple organ failure at 76 [1]
2022 John Aniston, American actor (Search for Tomorrow, Day of Our Lives), dies at 89
2022 Nik Turner, British jazz-rock fusion saxophonist, flute player, singer, and composer (Hawkwind), dies at 82
2023 Kyle LeDuc, American auto racer (COR Pro 4 2020; LOORRS Pro 4 2012, 14–17, 19), dies of head and neck cancer at 42