Famous Deaths on 11th April

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678 - Donus, Italian Pope (676-78), dies
1034 - Romanus III Argyrus, Byzantine emperor (1028-34), assasinated by wife
1240 - Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies
1500 - Michael T Marullus, Greeks poet, drowns
1512 - Gaston de Foix, French pretender to Navarra throne, dies in battle
1554 - Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (b. 1521)
1612 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (b. 1566)
1626 - Marin Getaldić, Croatian mathematician (b. 1568)
1648 - Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer, dies at 53
1712 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (b. 1638)
1723 - John Robinson, English diplomat (b. 1650)
1729 - Manuel de Egues, composer, dies at 71
1783 - Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64
1798 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)
1810 - Jakob Zupan, composer, dies at 75
1812 - Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Opfer Noachs), dies at 35
1838 - Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull), murdered at 40
1839 - John Galt, Scottish writer (Last of the Lairds), dies at 59
1842 - John England, bishop of Charleston Carolina, dies
1853 - Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer, dies
1854 - Karl Adolph von Basedow, German DR (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55
1856 - Juan Santamaría, national hero of Costa Rica (b. 1831)
1861 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (b. 1824)
1873 - Edward Canby, U.S. general (b. 1817)
1875 - Heinrich Schwabe, discoverer (11-year sunspot cycle), dies
1881 - Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (Torn Trondal), dies at 40
1887 - Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer, dies at 54
1890 - Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man" (b. 1862)
1894 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (b. 1832)
1901 - Ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer, dies at 74
1902 - ... Potgieter, South African Boer general, dies in battle
1903 - Gemma Galgani, Italian saint, dies at 25
1906 - Georgi Apollonovitch Gapon, Rus-orthodox clergyman/tsarist agent, dies
1906 - James A Bailey, circus showman (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 58
1906 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)
1908 - Henry Bird, English Chess player and author (b. 1829)
1916 - Richard Harding Davis, journalist, dies at 52
1918 - Arthur Ochse, cricketer (WW I played for S Afr in 1889 aged 19), dies
1921 - Augusta Victoria, Queen of Prussia/wife of Emperor Wilhelm II, dies
Horticulturist Luther Burbank (1926) 1926 - Luther Burbank, American botanist (b. 1849)
1936 - Mitya Stillman, composer, dies at 44
1939 - SS Van Dine, [William Huntingdon Wright], detective writer, dies at 50
1945 - Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish resistance fighter (in Dachau), dies at 29
1947 - Louise Peete, American murderess (b. 1880)
1952 - Wadi' Sabra, composer, dies at 76
1953 - Kid Nichols, American baseball player (b. 1869)
1958 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (b. 1875)
1961 - Francis de Bourguignon, composer, dies at 70
1967 - Donald Sangster, Jamaican prime-minister (b. 1911)
1969 - Ludvig Irgens Jensen, composer, dies at 74
1970 - Cathy O'Donnell, dies at 66
1970 - John H O'Hara, US journalist (Pal Joey, Rage to Live), dies at 65
1973 - Ted Decorsia, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon), dies at 69
1974 - Curt Conway, dies
1975 - Dorothy Patten, dies at 70
1976 - Liam Dunn, dies a 59
1977 - Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1980 - Charlotte Henry, dies
1980 - Florence Lake, dies
1981 - Marie Ney, dies at 85
1983 - Dolores Del Rio, actress (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 78
1985 - Enver Hoxha, party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76
1985 - Bunny Ahearne, British ice hockey promoter (b. 1900)
1987 - Erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83
1987 - Kent Taylor, actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders), dies at 79
1987 - Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67
1988 - Jeff Donnell, actor (Hoedown, 9 Girls), dies at 66 of a heart attack
1989 - Henk van Galen Last, Dutch journalist, dies at 68
1990 - Barbara Ann Miller, dies
1990 - Harold Ballard, Canadian ice hockey club owner and executive (b. 1903)
1990 - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1904)
1991 - Tom Rosqui, dies at 62
1992 - Adele Dixon, singer/actress (Uneasy Virtue), dies of pneumonia at 83
1992 - Eve Merriam, poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of cancer at 75
1992 - James Brown, actor (Rip-Adv of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 72
1992 - Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter (b. 1920)
1993 - Mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered
1993 - Rachmon Nabiyev, President of Tadzjikistan (1973..92), dies at 63
1994 - Johan Block, Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia), dies at 64
1996 - Daniel Wolf, journalist, dies at 80
1996 - Edwin Clarke, historian/neurologist, dies at 76
1996 - Jessica Dubroff, hoped to be youngest to fly across US, crashed at 7
1996 - Louis Osman, artist/goldsmith/craftsman, dies at 82
1996 - Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, advertising magnate, dies at 89
1997 - Michael Dorris, writer, commits suicide at 52
2000 - Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
2001 - Sandy Bull, American musician (b. 1941)
2001 - Harry Secombe, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1921)
2003 - Cecil Howard Green, British geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900)
2005 - André François, French cartoonist (b. 1915)
2005 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)
2006 - June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (b. 1953)
2006 - Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
2007 - Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (b. 1925)
2007 - Kurt Vonnegut, American author (b. 1922)
2007 - Ronald Speirs, American Army officer(CO of Easy Company) (b. 1920)
2007 - Janet McDonald, American novelist (b. 1954)
2008 - Merlin German, United States Marine
2009 - Corín Tellado, Spanish romance novelist (b. 1927)
2011 - La Esterella, Flemish singer (b. 1919)
2012 - Ahmed Ben Bella, First president of Algeria, dies at 93