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Famous Deaths on February 11

February 11 Calendar

1680 Elisabeth of the Palatinate, German philosopher and abbess (corresponded with René Descartes), dies at 61
1685 David Teniers III, Flemish painter, dies at 46
1709 Louise Hollandine, Abbess and painter, daughter of King Frederik V of the Palatinate and Elizabeth Stuart, dies at 86
1713 Jahandar Shah, Mughal emperor of India (b. 1664)
1755 Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (b. 1675)
1762 Johann Tobias Krebs, German organist and composer, dies at 71
1763 William Shenstone, English poet, dies at 48
1797 Antoine Dauvergne, French composer, dies at 83
1806 Vicente Martín y Soler, Valencian composer, dies at 51
1828 DeWitt Clinton, American politician (Senator, Governor and Mayor of New York, had Erie Canal constructed), dies at 58
1829 Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (b. 1795)
1841 Ferdinand Olivier, German painter (Nazarene movement), dies at 55

American romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School), dies of pleurisy at 47

1862 Elizabeth Siddal, British poet and artist (b. 1829)
1868 Leon Foucault, French physicist whose pendulum proved that the Earth rotates, dies at 48
1870 Jacob de Kempenaer, Dutch lawyer and Minister of Internal Affairs (1848-49), dies at 76
1870 Leopold Eugen Mechura, Czech composer, dies at 66
1878 Gideon Welles, 24th U.S. secretary of the navy under presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, dies at 75
1879 Honoré Daumier, French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, dies at 70
1879 Willem Josephus van Zeggelen, Dutch author, dies at 67
1882 Gustav Schmidt, German composer and conductor, dies at 65
1888 William Kelly, American inventor (pneumatic process of steelmaking), dies at 76
1892 Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, Danish organist and composer, dies at 63
1894 Emilio Arrieta, Spanish opera and zarzuela composer (Maria), dies at 70
1899 George Morgan, 1st English motorist to die in an motor accident, dies
1901 Milan I, King of Serbia (1882-89) who unexpectedly abdicated in favor of his 12-year-old son Alexander I, dies at 56
1903 Henryk Szulc, Polish violinist and composer, dies at 67
1911 Albert Salomon Anselm von Rothschild, Austrian banker and member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria, dies at 66
1917 Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (b. 1872)
1918 Taytu Betul, Empress of Ethiopia (1889-13) and founder of Addis Ababa, dies at 66 or 67
1922 Gerard Bolland, Dutch philosopher (Bolland Society), dies at 67
1923 Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (b. 1847)
1927 Joel Engel, Russian musicologist (Jewish Folksongs), composer ("Numi, Numi"), and music publisher, dies at 58
1931 Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76
1937 Walter Burley Griffin, American architect (L-shaped floor plan, Carport) who designed Australia's capital Canberra and the NSW towns of Griffith and Leeton, dies of peritonitis at 60 after gall bladder surgery in Lucknow, India
1938 James A. Ten Eyck, American champion rower and coach (Ten Eyck Trophy namesake), dies at 86
1939 Franz Schmidt, Austro-Hungarian cellist, pianist, and composer, dies at 64
1940 Gunnar Höckert, Finnish athlete (Olympic gold 5,000m 1936), dies of war wounds at 29
1940 John Buchan, Scottish politician, Governor-General of Canada (1935-40), writer (The Thirty-Nine Steps) and historian dies at 64
1941 Rudolf Hilferding, Austrian-German Marxist economist( SPD Minister of Finance), dies in Gestapo custody at 63
1944 Ivan Sollertinski, friend of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, dies
1945 Al Dubin, Swiss-American song lyricist ("Tiptoe Through The Tulips"; "I Only Have Eyes For You"), dies at 53 [1]
1945 J S H Lokerman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Neugengamme
1948 Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at 50
1950 Kiki Cuyler, American Baseball HOF right fielder (World Series 1925 Pittsburgh Pirates; 4 × NL stolen base leader; MLB All Star 1934 Chicago Cubs), dies at 51
1952 Charles Scribner III, American book publisher, dies at 62
1954 Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, dies at 76
1958 Ernest Jones, Welsh psychoanalyst (biographer of Freud - Life & Work of Sigmund Freud), dies at 79
1959 Marshall Teague, American auto racer (Daytona Road Course Strictly Stock Car winner 1951, 52; AAA National Stock Car champion 1952, 54), dies in speed record attempt at 37
1961 Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor and director (Pygmalion), dies at 82
1961 Kate Carew [Mary Williams], American caricaturist, dies at 91
1963 Karl Frederick, American pistol shooter (Olympic gold 1920), dies at 82

American poet (The Colossus; Three Women), novelist (The Bell Jar), and posthumous Pulitzer Prize winner (Poetry, 1982), commits suicide at 30

1967 Edmond Hall, American jazz clarinetist (Red Allen; Teddy Wilson), bandleader (Café Society Band), and composer (Profoundly Blue), dies at 65
1968 Howard Lindsay, American playwright, actor and director (State of the Union), dies at 78
1969 James Lanphier, American actor (Flight of Lost Balloon), dies at 48
1970 Emil Ábrányi, Hungarian composer, conductor, and opera director, dies at 87
1970 H. M. Bateman, British cartoonist (The Man Who... series), dies at 82
1971 Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria
1972 Jan Wils, Dutch architect (Olympian Stadium, Amsterdam), dies at 80
1973 Elisabeth Achelis, American heiress, writer, and proponent of the 13-month World Calendar, dies at 93
1973 J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65
1974 Anna Q Nilsson, Swedish actress (Shenandoah; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Toll Gate; Sorrell & Son), dies at 85
1975 Richard Ratsimandrava, Malagasy soldier and statesman, assassinated (b. 1931)
1976 Alexander Lippisch, German scientist and pioneer of aerodynamics, dies at 81
1976 Charles "Charlie" Naughton, Scottish actor (Frozen Limits), dies at 89
1976 Frank Arnau [Heinrich Schmitt], German crime fiction writer, dies at 81
1976 Lee J. Cobb [Leo Jacoby], American actor (Virginian, 12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront), dies from a heart attack at 64
1977 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Indian leader and 5th President of India (1974-77), dies of a heart attack at 72
1977 Louis Beel, Dutch premier (1946-48, 58-59), dies at 74
1978 Harry Martinson, Swedish novelist and poet (Trade Wind-Nobel 1974), dies at 73
1978 James B. Conant, American chemist and President of Harvard University, dies at 84
1982 Eleanor Powell, American stage and screen actress and tap dancer (Born to Dance, Broadway Melody films), dies of ovarian cancer at 69
1982 Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (Rashomon, 7 Samurais), dies at 76
1982 Victor Jory, Canadian-American stage and screen actor (A Midsummer Night's Dream; Kings Row; Manhunt), dies of a heart attack at 79
1985 Ben Abruzzo, American businessman and balloonist (b. 1930)
1985 Heinz Roemheld, American film composer (Yankee Doodle Dandy; Ruby Gentry), dies of pneumonia at 83
1985 Henry Hathaway, American actor and director of westerns (Nob Hill), dies of a heart attack at 86
1986 Evelio Javier, Filipino politician, lawyer, and civil servant (b. 1942)

American sci-fi author (Dune series), dies of a massive pulmonary embolism after surgery for pancreatic cancer at 65

1989 George O'Hanlon, American actor (Life of Riley - "Calvin"' Joe McDoakes shorts), voice actor (The Jetsons - "George Jetson"), and screenwriter, dies after a stroke at 76
1989 Leon Festinger, American psychologist who developed the theory of cognitive dissonance, dies of cancer at 69
1991 Ajla Rachmanova, Russian-Austrian author (Students), dies at 92
1991 Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building, Centre Pompidou), dies at 90
1991 Robert W. Holley, American biochemist who worked with RNA (Nobel Prize 1968), dies at 71
1992 Raymond "Ray" Danton, American actor and director (Longest Day, Psychic Killer), dies at 60
1993 George Stephen, American inventor (Weber Kettle Grill), dies at 71
1993 Joy Garrett, American actress (Jo Johnson-Days of Our Lives), dies of liver failure at 47
1993 Oksana Kostina, Russian gymnast, dies in an auto accident
1994 Antonio Martin, Spanish cyclist, dies in cycling accident at 23
1994 Neil Bonnett, American race car driver, dies at 47
1994 Sorrell Booke, American actor (Boss Hogg in Dukes of Hazard), dies of colorectal cancer at 64
1994 Vincent Wigglesworth, British entomologist (Metamorphosis hormones), dies at 94
1994 William Conrad [John Cann], American actor (The Killers, Bullwinkle Show, Cannon), dies of a heart attack at 73
1996 Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet, commits suicide at 65
1996 Bob Shaw, Irish sci-fi writer, dies of cancer at 64
1996 Cyril Poole, English cricket batsman (3 Tests, 2 x 50; Nottinghamshire CCC), dies at 74
1996 Kebby Musokotwane, prime minister of Zambia in (1985-89), dies
1996 Phil Regan, American actor (Las Vegas Night, Dames, Housewife), dies at 88
1997 Don Porter, American actor (Gidget), dies at 84
1998 (Floyd) "Stumpy" Brady, American jazz trombonist (Andy Kirk, Teddy Wilson, Luckey Roberts), dies at 87
1999 Jaki Byard, American jazz pianist (Charlie Mingus), saxophonist, drummer, composer, arranger, and educator, dies from an unsolved gunshot at 76
2000 Jacqueline Auriol, French aviator, dies at 82
2000 Roger Vadim, French film director (And God Created Woman; Barbarella), dies of cancer at 72
2002 Barry Foster, British actor (b. 1931)
2002 Frankie Crosetti, American baseball shortstop and 3rd base coach (record 17 World Series titles as player and coach; NY Yankees), dies from complications of a fall at 91
2004 Ryszard Kukliński, Polish colonel and Cold War spy for NATO, dies at 73
2005 Jack L. Chalker, American author (b. 1944)
2006 Jackie Pallo, English professional wrestler, dies at 79
2006 Jockey Shabalala, South African singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), dies at 62

American novelist (Jaws, The Deep), dies at 65

2007 Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author (Simon and the Oaks), dies at 79
2008 Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical designer and helicopter aviation pioneer (PV Engineering Forum; Piasecki Helicopter Corp; Piasecki Aircraft Company), dies at 88
2008 Patsy O. Sherman, American chemist and co-inventor of Scotchgard, dies at 77 [1]
2008 Tom Lantos, American politician (Rep-D-California 1981-2008), dies at 80
2009 Estelle Bennett, American pop singer (The Ronettes - "Be My Baby"), dies at 67
2009 Marina Svetlova, American ballerina and choreographer (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo), dies at 86
2009 Peter Leng, British Army officer (Master General of the Ordnance, Command of the British Army forces in Northern Ireland), dies at 83
2009 Willem J. Kolff, Dutch-American Physician and Biomedical Engineer (artificial kidney, hemodialysis), dies at 97
2010 [Lee] Alexander McQueen, English fashion designer, commits suicide at 40
2011 Chuck Tanner, American baseball manager (World Series 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates; Chicago WS, Oakland A's, Atlanta Braves), dies at 82
2011 Tom Carnegie, American sports announcer (b. 1919)

American singer ("I Will Always Love You"; "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"), actress (The Bodyguard), and film producer (The Princess Diaries), dies from an accidental bathtub drowning at 48

2013 Rick Huxley, British rock guitarist (Dave Clark Five - "Glad All Over"), dies from emphysema at 72
2014 Alice Babs [Nilson], Swedish jazz singer (The Swe-Danes; Duke Ellington's Sacred Concerts), and actress (Swing It, Teacher!), dies of Alzheimer's disease complications at 90
2015 Bob Simon, American TV correspondent (CBS, 60 Minutes), dies after a car crash at 73
2015 Jerry Tarkanian, American collegiate basketball coach, 1961-2002 (California State, UNLV, Fresno State; career record: 784–202), dies at 84
2015 Roger Hanin, French actor (Navarro), dies at 89
2016 Kevin Randleman, American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler, dies of pneumonia complications at 44
2017 Harvey Lichtenstein, American head of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, dies at 87
2018 Vic Damone [Vito Farinola], American singer ("On the Street Where You Live"), entertainer, actor and TV presenter (Vic Damone Show), dies at 89
2020 (Bhekizizwe) Joseph Shabalala, South African singer, songwriter, founder and musical director of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, dies at 79
2020 Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball catcher and manager (first NPB batter to win Triple Crown 1965; Nankai Hawks), dies of heart failure at 84
2021 Joan Weldon, American actress (So This is Love, Them), dies at 90
2021 Phil Horrocks-Taylor, English rugby union fly half (9 caps England, 1 British & Irish Lions; Leicester Tigers), dies at 86
2023 Hans Modrow, German politician (last Communist Prime Minister of East Germany 1989-90), dies at 95
2024 Randy Sparks, American folk singer-songwriter and impresario (New Christy Minstrels), dies at 90

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