October 11 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1188 – Robert I, Count of Dreux (b. 1123)
• 1303 – Pope Boniface VIII (b. 1235)
• 1347 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1282)
• 1424 – Jan Žižka, Czech general (b. 1360)
• 1531 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss pastor and theologian (b. 1484)
• 1572 – Sulaiman Khan Karrani, Indian sultan
• 1636 – Johann Albrecht Adelgrief, German man who claimed to be a prophet
• 1705 – Guillaume Amontons, French physicist (b. 1663)
• 1708 – Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher (b. 1651)
• 1721 – Edward Colston, English merchant and politician (b. 1636)
• 1725 – Hans Herr, Swiss bishop (b. 1639)
• 1779 – Casimir Pulaski, Polish soldier (b. 1745)
• 1809 – Meriwether Lewis, American soldier and explorer, co-leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (b. 1774)
• 1811 – Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (b. 1724)
• 1821 – John Ross Key, American judge and lawyer (b. 1754)
• 1852 – Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician (b. 1823)
• 1889 – James Prescott Joule, English physicist (b. 1818)
• 1896 – Edward Benson, English archbishop (b. 1829)
• 1896 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
• 1897 – Léon Boëllmann, French composer (b. 1862)
• 1932 – William Alden Smith, American politician (b. 1859)
• 1935 – Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868)
• 1940 – Lluís Companys, Spanish politician, 123rd President of Catalonia (b. 1882)
• 1940 – Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
• 1961 – Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1887)
• 1963 – Jean Cocteau, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1889)
• 1963 – Édith Piaf, French singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1915)
• 1965 – Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)
• 1965 – Walther Stampfli, Swiss politician (b. 1884)
• 1971 – Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (b. 1944)
• 1971 – Chesty Puller, American general (b. 1898)
• 1976 – Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (b. 1897)
• 1977 – MacKinlay Kantor, American author (b. 1904)
• 1986 – Norm Cash, American baseball player (b. 1934)
• 1988 – Bonita Granville, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1989 – M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (b. 1904)
• 1991 – Steven "Jesse" Bernstein, American poet (b. 1950)
• 1991 – Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (b. 1922)
• 1993 – Jess Thomas, American tenor (b. 1927)
• 1996 – Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (b. 1907)
• 1996 – Joe Morris, Canadian trade unionist (b. 1913)
• 1996 – Renato Russo, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Legião Urbana and Aborto Elétrico) (b. 1960)
• 1998 – Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Luc-Marie Bayle, French navy officer and painter (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Donald Dewar, Scottish politician, 1st First Minister of Scotland (b. 1937)
• 2002 – Dina Pathak, Indian actress (b. 1922)
• 2004 – Keith Miller, Australian cricketer and pilot (b. 1919)
• 2005 – Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Pakistani poet and journalist (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Cory Lidle, American baseball player (b. 1972)
• 2007 – Sri Chinmoy, Bengali-American spiritual leader and poet (b. 1931)
• 2007 – David Lee "Tex" Hill, Korean-American pilot (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Werner von Trapp, Austrian-Hungarian singer (b. 1915)
• 2008 – Jörg Haider, Austrian politician (b. 1950)
• 2008 – Ernst-Paul Hasselbach, Dutch television host and producer (b. 1966)
• 2008 – Neal Hefti, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Angelo DiGeorge, Italian-American endocrinologist (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Veronika Neugebauer, German actress (b. 1968)
• 2012 – Frank Alamo, French singer (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Pier Ugo Calzolari, Italian engineer and academic (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Helmut Haller, German footballer (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Edward Kossoy, Polish lawyer, publicist, and activist (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Erik Moseholm, Danish bassist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Édgar Negret, Colombian sculptor (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Sher Afgan Niazi, Pakistani politician (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Champ Summers, American baseball player (b. 1946)