Famous Deaths In May - 11

1304  Death of Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271) on May - 11.   

1610  Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies on this day in history.   

1631  On this day in history christoph Buel, composer, dies at 57   

1672  Death of Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615) on May - 11.   

1708  Death of Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646) on May - 11.   

1723  Death of Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656) on this day in history.   

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

1772  On this day in history death of joseph Kerckhoff, Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged   

1777  On May - 11 death of george Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b. 1719)   

1778  William Pitt Sr, English premier (1756-61, 66-68), dies at 69 on this day in history.   

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 May - 11 caspar Furstenau, composer, dies at 47   

1845  Karoly Filtsch, composer, dies at 14 on May - 11.   

1848  On this day in history death of tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)   

1849  On May - 11 carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, composer, dies at 38   

1857  On May - 11 e Francois Vidocq, French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81   

1871  John Herschel, cataloguer of southern hemisphere stars, dies at 79 on May - 11.   

1881  On May - 11 henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Journal Intime), dies at 59   

1885  Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist/composer/conductor, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

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

1891  Death of A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820) on May - 11.   

1895  Feliks Jaronski, composer, dies at 71 on May - 11.   

1907  John Albert Delany, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.   

1916  On May - 11 karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (s-effect), dies   

1917  On May - 11 otto Adolf Klauwell, composer, dies at 66   

1920  William D Howells, US author (A Woman's Reason), dies at 83 on this day in history.   

1927  On May - 11 henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90   

1929  Death of Jozef MurgaÅ¡, Slovak inventor (b. 1864) on this day in history.   

1934  Death of Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852) on this day in history.   

1935  Edward H Thompson, US archaeologist (Mayan civilization), dies at 78 on May - 11.   

1937  On May - 11 viliam Figus, composer, dies at 62   

1938  Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1939  On May - 11 death of evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)   

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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 May - 11 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)