Famous Deaths Happened In May - 11

1304  Death of Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271) on this day in history.   

1610  Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies on May - 11.   

1631  On this day in history christoph Buel, composer, dies at 57   

1672  On this day in history death of charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615)   

1708  On this day in history death of jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646)   

1723  Death of Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656) on May - 11.   

1742  Francesco Stradivari, Ital violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 70 on May - 11.   

1772  On this day in history death of joseph Kerckhoff, Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged   

1777  On May - 11 death of george Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b. 1719)   

1778  William Pitt Sr, English premier (1756-61, 66-68), dies at 69 on May - 11.   

1779  On May - 11 john Heart, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at about 68   

1812  On May - 11 death of spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762)   

1819  On this day in history caspar Furstenau, composer, dies at 47   

1845  On May - 11 karoly Filtsch, composer, dies at 14   

1848  On May - 11 death of tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)   

1849  Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, composer, dies at 38 on this day in history.   

1857  E Francois Vidocq, French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81 on May - 11.   

1871  John Herschel, cataloguer of southern hemisphere stars, dies at 79 on May - 11.   

1881  Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Journal Intime), dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1885  Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist/composer/conductor, dies at 73 on May - 11.   

1887  Death of Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b. 1802) on May - 11.   

1891  Death of A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820) on May - 11.   

1895  Feliks Jaronski, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1907  On May - 11 john Albert Delany, composer, dies at 54   

1916  Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (s-effect), dies on May - 11.   

1917  On this day in history otto Adolf Klauwell, composer, dies at 66   

1920  William D Howells, US author (A Woman's Reason), dies at 83 on this day in history.   

1927  Henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90 on May - 11.   

1929  On this day in history death of jozef MurgaÅ¡, Slovak inventor (b. 1864)   

1934  On this day in history death of orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852)   

1935  Edward H Thompson, US archaeologist (Mayan civilization), dies at 78 on this day in history.   

1937  On May - 11 viliam Figus, composer, dies at 62   

1938  Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1939  Death of Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867) on this day in history.   

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1568  On this day in history birth of christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (Battle of White Mountain)   

1571  Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637) was born on May - 11.   

1654  Cornelis van Alkemade, Dutch historian was born on May - 11.   

1720  Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German adventurer (d. 1797) was born on May - 11.   

1722  On May - 11 birth of peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam)   

1731  On May - 11 birth of johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer   

1733  On May - 11 birth of victoire of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1799)   

1752  On this day in history birth of johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)