Famous Deaths Happened In May - 11

1304  Death of Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271) on May - 11.   

1610  On May - 11 matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies   

1631  Christoph Buel, composer, dies at 57 on May - 11.   

1672  Death of Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615) on this day in history.   

1708  Death of Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646) on this day in history.   

1723  On May - 11 death of jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656)   

1742  On May - 11 francesco Stradivari, Ital violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 70   

1772  On May - 11 death of joseph Kerckhoff, Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged   

1777  Death of George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b. 1719) on this day in history.   

1778  On this day in history william Pitt Sr, English premier (1756-61, 66-68), dies at 69   

1779  John Heart, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at about 68 on May - 11.   

1812  On this day in history death of spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762)   

1819  On May - 11 caspar Furstenau, composer, dies at 47   

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

1848  On this day in history death of tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)   

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

1857  On May - 11 e Francois Vidocq, French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81   

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 this day in history.   

1887  Death of Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b. 1802) on this day in history.   

1891  On May - 11 death of a. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)   

1895  On May - 11 feliks Jaronski, composer, dies at 71   

1907  John Albert Delany, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history william D Howells, US author (A Woman's Reason), dies at 83   

1927  Henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90 on this day in history.   

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

1934  Death of Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852) on May - 11.   

1935  On May - 11 edward H Thompson, US archaeologist (Mayan civilization), dies at 78   

1937  On this day in history viliam Figus, composer, dies at 62   

1938  On this day in history arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81   

1939  Death of Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867) on May - 11.   

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1568  Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (Battle of White Mountain) was born on this day in history.   

1571  Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637) was born on this day in history.   

1654  Cornelis van Alkemade, Dutch historian was born on this day in history.   

1720  Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German adventurer (d. 1797) was born on this day in history.   

1722  On this day in history birth of peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam)   

1731  On this day in history birth of johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer   

1733  Victoire of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1799) was born on May - 11.   

1752  On May - 11 birth of johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)