Famous Deaths In May - 11
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
1304 Death of Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271) on May - 11.
1610 On this day in history matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies
1631 Christoph Buel, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.
1672 Death of Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615) on May - 11.
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 this day in history.
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 May - 11.
1778 William Pitt Sr, English premier (1756-61, 66-68), dies at 69 on this day in history.
1779 John Heart, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at about 68 on this day in history.
1812 Death of Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762) on this day in history.
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 On this day in history carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, composer, dies at 38
1857 E Francois Vidocq, French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81 on May - 11.
1871 On May - 11 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 On this day in history death of jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b. 1802)
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 this day in history john Albert Delany, composer, dies at 54
1916 On May - 11 karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (s-effect), dies
1917 Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.
1920 On this day in history william D Howells, US author (A Woman's Reason), dies at 83
1927 On May - 11 henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90
1929 Death of Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (b. 1864) on May - 11.
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 Viliam Figus, composer, dies at 62 on May - 11.
1938 Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81 on this day in history.
1939 On this day in history death of evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)
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