Famous Deaths Happened In May - 11

1304  On this day in history death of mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271)   

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

1631  On May - 11 christoph Buel, composer, dies at 57   

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

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

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 May - 11 william Pitt Sr, English premier (1756-61, 66-68), dies at 69   

1779  On this day in history john Heart, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at about 68   

1812  On this day in history 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  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 May - 11.   

1857  E Francois Vidocq, French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1871  John Herschel, cataloguer of southern hemisphere stars, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

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

1885  On May - 11 ferdinand Hiller, German pianist/composer/conductor, dies at 73   

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

1891  On this day in history 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  On this day in history karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (s-effect), dies   

1917  Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.   

1920  On May - 11 william D Howells, US author (A Woman's Reason), dies at 83   

1927  On this day in history henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90   

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  Edward H Thompson, US archaeologist (Mayan civilization), dies at 78 on May - 11.   

1937  Viliam Figus, composer, dies at 62 on May - 11.   

1938  On May - 11 arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81   

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 this day in history.   

1654  On this day in history birth of cornelis van Alkemade, Dutch historian   

1720  On this day in history birth of karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German adventurer (d. 1797)   

1722  Peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam) was born on May - 11.   

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  Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840) was born on May - 11.