Famous Deaths In December - 11

0384  On this day in history death of pope Damasus I  

0711  On December - 11 justitianus II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at about 42  

1121  On this day in history death of al-Afdal Shahanshah, Caliph of Egypt (b. 1066)  

1226  On December - 11 death of robert de Ros, English politician (b. 1177)  

1282  On December - 11 llywelyn ab Gruffydd, monarch of North Wales (1246-77), dies  

1282  On December - 11 death of llywelyn the Last (b. c.1228), the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, south Wales.  

1524  On this day in history death of henry Van Zutphen, Dutch protestant martyr, burned at stake  

1532  On December - 11 death of pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455)  

1573  Death of Alardus/Eilard de Waterlant, duke of Alva, hanged on this day in history.  

1582  Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, marquis of Soria, dies at about 75 on this day in history.  

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1595  Philip III van Croij, prince of Chimay/general, dies at 69 on December - 11.  

1610  Death of Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, buried at 32 on December - 11.  

1686  On December - 11 louis II Condé, duke of Bourbon, dies at 65  

1694  On December - 11 death of ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)  

1718  Death of Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), shot dead on this day in history.  

1737  On December - 11 death of john Strype, English historian (b. 1643)  

1747  On December - 11 death of edmund Curll, English bookseller (b. ca. 1675)  

1748  Ewald G von Kleist, German lawyer/inventor of condensator, dies at 55 on this day in history.  

1756  On this day in history theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king, dies  

1797  Death of Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722) on this day in history.  

1817  On this day in history max von Schenkendorf, German poet, dies at 34  

1831  On this day in history john George Schetky, composer, dies at 55  

1840  Death of Emperor Kokaku of Japan (b. 1771) on December - 11.  

1847  Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet, dies at 25 on December - 11.  

1857  On this day in history francois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze, composer, dies at 73  

1872  Death of Kamehameha V, Hawaiian king (b. 1830) on December - 11.  

1880  Death of Oliver Fisher Winchester, American businessman and politician (b. 1810) on December - 11.  

1891  Johan C J van Schagen, Dutch poet/writer (Narrenwijsheid), dies on this day in history.  

1892  Death of William Milligan, Scottish theologian (b. 1821) on this day in history.  

1899  On this day in history andrew "Andy" Wauchope, British general-major, dies in battle  

1902  On December - 11 matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica), dies at 68  

1903  On December - 11 patrick McShane, cricket player/ump (1884-85 Ashes series), dies  

1909  Death of Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (b. 1855) on December - 11.  

1911  On this day in history thomas Ball, US sculptor/painter/singer, dies at 92  

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1465  Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489) was born on December - 11.  

1475  Leo X, [Giovanni de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1513-21) was born on December - 11.  

1475  On this day in history birth of pope Leo X (d. 1521)  

1566  On December - 11 birth of manuel Cardoso, composer  

1676  Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer was born on December - 11.  

1709  On this day in history birth of louise Elisabeth of Orléans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1742)  

1712  On this day in history birth of francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedic (Viaggio in Russia)  

1725  On December - 11 birth of george Mason, American statesman (d. 1792)