Famous Deaths In May - 11
Tuesday, 09 August 2022
1304 On this day in history death of mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271)
1610 On this day in history matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies
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 May - 11 death of jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646)
1723 Death of Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656) on May - 11.
1742 On May - 11 francesco Stradivari, Ital violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 70
1772 Death of Joseph Kerckhoff, Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged on this day in history.
1777 Death of George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b. 1719) on this day in history.
1778 On May - 11 william Pitt Sr, English premier (1756-61, 66-68), dies at 69
1779 On May - 11 john Heart, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at about 68
1812 Death of Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762) on May - 11.
1819 Caspar Furstenau, composer, dies at 47 on May - 11.
1845 Karoly Filtsch, composer, dies at 14 on May - 11.
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 this day in history.
1871 On this day in history john Herschel, cataloguer of southern hemisphere stars, dies at 79
1881 Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Journal Intime), dies at 59 on May - 11.
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 On May - 11 death of a. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)
1895 On May - 11 feliks Jaronski, composer, dies at 71
1907 On this day in history john Albert Delany, composer, dies at 54
1916 Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (s-effect), dies on May - 11.
1917 Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.
1920 William D Howells, US author (A Woman's Reason), dies at 83 on May - 11.
1927 Henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90 on May - 11.
1929 On this day in history death of jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (b. 1864)
1934 On May - 11 death of orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852)
1935 Edward H Thompson, US archaeologist (Mayan civilization), dies at 78 on May - 11.
1937 On this day in history viliam Figus, composer, dies at 62
1938 Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81 on May - 11.
1939 Death of Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867) on this day in history.
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