Famous Deaths In May - 11

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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1568  On May - 11 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  On this day in history birth of karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German adventurer (d. 1797)  

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  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)