Famous Deaths In December - 11

0384  Death of Pope Damasus I on this day in history.  

0711  On this day in history justitianus II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at about 42  

1121  Death of Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Caliph of Egypt (b. 1066) on December - 11.  

1226  Death of Robert de Ros, English politician (b. 1177) on this day in history.  

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

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

1524  On December - 11 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  On December - 11 death of alardus/Eilard de Waterlant, duke of Alva, hanged  

1582  On December - 11 fernando Alvarez de Toledo, marquis of Soria, dies at about 75  

1595  Philip III van Croij, prince of Chimay/general, dies at 69 on this day in history.  

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

1686  On this day in history louis II Condé, duke of Bourbon, dies at 65  

1694  Death of Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630) on December - 11.  

1718  On this day in history death of charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), shot dead  

1737  Death of John Strype, English historian (b. 1643) on this day in history.  

1747  Death of Edmund Curll, English bookseller (b. ca. 1675) on December - 11.  

1748  On this day in history ewald G von Kleist, German lawyer/inventor of condensator, dies at 55  

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 December - 11.  

1817  Max von Schenkendorf, German poet, dies at 34 on this day in history.  

1831  John George Schetky, composer, dies at 55 on this day in history.  

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

1847  Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet, dies at 25 on this day in history.  

1857  Francois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze, composer, dies at 73 on December - 11.  

1872  On December - 11 death of kamehameha V, Hawaiian king (b. 1830)  

1880  On December - 11 death of oliver Fisher Winchester, American businessman and politician (b. 1810)  

1891  On this day in history johan C J van Schagen, Dutch poet/writer (Narrenwijsheid), dies  

1892  On December - 11 death of william Milligan, Scottish theologian (b. 1821)  

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

1902  Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica), dies at 68 on this day in history.  

1903  On this day in history patrick McShane, cricket player/ump (1884-85 Ashes series), dies  

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

1911  Thomas Ball, US sculptor/painter/singer, dies at 92 on this day in history.  

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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  Pope Leo X (d. 1521) was born on this day in history.  

1566  Manuel Cardoso, composer was born on this day in history.  

1676  On December - 11 birth of johann Georg Weichenberger, composer  

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  George Mason, American statesman (d. 1792) was born on this day in history.