December 11 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 384 – Pope Damasus I
  • 861 – Al-Mutawakkil, Abbasid Caliph (b. 822)
  • 969 – Nikephoros II Phokas (b. c. 912)
  • 1121 – Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Galilean political advisor (b. 1066)
  • 1226 – Robert de Ros, English politician (b. 1177)
  • 1241 – Emperor Ogedei Khan of the Mongol Empire
  • 1282 – Prince Llywelyn the Last of Wales
  • 1282 – Michael VIII Palaiologos (b. 1225)
  • 1532 – Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455)
  • 1582 – Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, Spanish territorial governor (b. 1508)
  • 1686 – Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (b. 1621)
  • 1694 – Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)
  • 1737 – John Strype, English historian (b. 1643)
  • 1747 – Edmund Curll, English bookseller (b. c. 1675)
  • 1797 – Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
  • 1826 – Empress Maria Leopoldina of Austria of Empire of Brazil (b. 1797)
  • 1840 – Emperor Kokaku of Japan (b. 1771)
  • 1872 – King Kamehameha V of Hawaii (b. 1830)
  • 1880 – Oliver Fisher Winchester, American businessman and politician (b. 1810)
  • 1892 – William Milligan, Scottish theologian (b. 1821)
  • 1906 – Charles Townsend, American fencer (b. 1872)
  • 1909 – Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (b. 1855)
  • 1918 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (b. 1876)
  • 1920 – Olive Schreiner, South African writer (b. 1855)
  • 1938 – Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1869)
  • 1941 – John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (b. 1922)
  • 1941 – Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (b. 1856)
  • 1945 – Charles Fabry, French physicist (b. 1867)
  • 1950 – Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1893)
  • 1957 – Musidora (Jeanne Roques), French actress (b. 1889)
  • 1959 – Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (b. 1900)
  • 1964 – Sam Cooke, American singer (b. 1931)
  • 1964 – Percy Kilbride, American actor (b. 1888)
  • 1968 – Richard Sagrits, Estonian painter (b. 1910)
  • 1968 – Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times 1935-61 (b. 1891)
  • 1971 – Maurice McDonald, American fast-food entrepreneur (b. 1902)
  • 1975 – Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (b. 1908)
  • 1978 – Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1901)
  • 1978 – Paul O'Dea, American baseball player (b. 1920)
  • 1979 – James J. Gibson, American perceptual psychologist (b. 1904)
  • 1983 – Sir Neil Ritchie, British General (b. 1897)
  • 1984 – Oskar Seidlin, German-born American scholar (b. 1911)
  • 1987 – G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (b. 1923)
  • 1989 – Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
  • 1991 – Robert Q. Lewis, American game show host (b. 1921)
  • 1991 – Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author and critic (b. 1906)
  • 1992 – Michael Robbins, English actor (b. 1930)
  • 1993 – Elvira Popescu, Romanian-born French actress (b. 1894)
  • 1994 – Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
  • 1995 – Arthur Mullard, English comedy actor (b. 1910)
  • 1996 – Willie Rushton, English cartoonist and magazine publisher (b. 1937)
  • 1997 – Eddie Chapman, British World War II spy (b. 1914)
  • 1998 – André Lichnerowicz, Polish-French physicist (b. 1915)
  • 1998 – Lynn Strait, American singer (Snot) (b. 1968)
  • 2000 – Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani diplomat and author (b. 1915)
  • 2000 – David Lewis, American actor (b. 1916)
  • 2003 – Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (b. 1927)
  • 2004 – José Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1962)
  • 2004 – Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand track & field coach (b. 1917)
  • 2004 – M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (b. 1916)
  • 2006 – Elizabeth Bolden, American supercentenarian (b. 1890)
  • 2007 – Christie Hennessy, Irish singer (b. 1945)
  • 2008 – Bettie Page, American model (b. 1923)
  • 2008 – Maddie Blaustein, American voice actress (b. 1960)
  • 2010 – Dick Hoerner, American football player (b. 1922)
  • 2011 – Susan Gordon, American child actress (b. 1949)
  • 2011 – John Patrick Foley, American cardinal (b. 1935)

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    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
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