Famous Deaths on 11th March

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222 - Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus (b. 180). Ruler during her son's minority, murdered by the Praetorian Guard
222 - Elagabalus, Roman Emperor (218-22) murdered by the Praetorian Guard aged 18
638 - Sophronius of Jerusalem, saint/patriarch of Jerusalem, dies
859 - Eulogius of Cordoba, Spanish Bishop and Christian Martyr
1198 - Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145)
1486 - Albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg, dies at 71
1514 - Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)
1575 - Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520)
1602 - Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer
1607 - Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer
1715 - Jan-Erasmus Quellinus, Flemish painter, dies at 80
1722 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (b. 1670)
1759 - John Forbes, British general (b. 1710)
1772 - George Reuter, composer, dies at 63
1786 - Jacobus Bellamy, [Zelandus], Dutch/Swiss poet, dies at 28
1786 - Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1714)
1787 - Maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45
1807 - Anton Eberl, composer, dies at 41
1820 - Benjamin West, British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81
1826 - Gervais-Francois Couperin, composer, dies at 66
1833 - Fridolin Weber, composer, dies at 71
1851 - George McDuffie, Governor of South Carolina (b. 1790)
1854 - Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)
1856 - James Beatty, Irish railway engineer (b. 1820)
1857 - Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies at 84
1863 - Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, English general (b. 1803)
1869 - Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1803)
1870 - King Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho
1874 - Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63
1894 - John Selby, cricketer (6 Tests for England 1877-82), dies
1897 - Berthold Tours, composer, dies at 58
1897 - Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist, dies at 45
1898 - William Rosecrans, American Civil War Union general (b. 1819)
1900 - Edmund Peate, cricketer (9 Tests for England 1881-86), dies
1907 - Nikola Petkow, premier (Bulgaria), murdered
1907 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (b. 1847)
1908 - Peter Milne, composer, dies at 83
1908 - Revd Benjamin Waugh, American activist (b. 1839)
1915 - Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (b. 1826)
1919 - Harald Fryklof, composer, dies at 36
1920 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
1921 - Sherburne W Burnham, US astronomer (binary stars), dies at 83
1925 - Andreas Hallen, composer, dies at 78
1926 - John Henry Anderson, cricketer (score 32 & 11 in Test for S Afr), dies
1931 - F.W. Murnau, German film director (b. 1888)
1937 - Paul Scheinpflug, composer, dies at 61
1937 - Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (b. 1860)
1941 - Walford Davies, British organist/composer, dies at 71
1944 - Hendrik W van Loon, Neth/US radio commentator/writer, dies at 62
1947 - Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at 45
1949 - Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at 76
1950 - Florence Arliss, actress (Disraeli), dies at 78
1951 - Philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at 66
1952 - Pierre Renoir, French stage and film actor and director (b. 1885)
Penicillin Discoverer Alexander Fleming (1955) 1955 - Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73
1955 - Oscar Mayer, Bavarian-born American meat packer (b. 1859)
1956 - Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83
1957 - Richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68
1958 - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor of Legos (b. 1891)
1959 - Haydn Wood, composer, dies at 76
1960 - Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76
1962 - Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79
1963 - Mahomed Nissar, cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wkts), dies
1965 - James Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered
1967 - Geraldine Farrar, soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85
1969 - John Wyndham, [Parkes Lucas B Harris], author (Chrysalids), dies at 65
1970 - Erle Stanley Gardner, US writer (Perry Mason), dies at 80
1971 - Philo T Farnsworth, US TV pioneer, dies at 64
1971 - Roy Glenn, dies in Los Angeles at 56
Detective Writer Erle Stanley Gardner (1970) 1971 - Whitney M Young Jr, leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at 49
1972 - Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies at 65
1975 - Philip Bezanson, composer, dies at 59
1975 - Sammy Spear, orchestra leader (Dom Deluise Show), dies at 65
1975 - Walter Kinsella, actor (Happy-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 74
1977 - Alberto Rodriguez Larreta, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
1977 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist (b. 1893)
1978 - Claude François, French singer (b. 1939)
1979 - Victor Kilian, actor (Gentleman's Agreement), dies at 88
1982 - Edmund Cooper, British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came), dies at 55
1982 - Horace Gregory, American poet (b. 1898)
1984 - Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76
1984 - Kostas Roukounas, Greek rembetiko singer and song writer (b. 1903)
1986 - Sonny Terry, American blues musician (b. 1911)
1987 - [Wayne] Woody Hayes, football coach (Ohio State), dies at 74
1988 - Pham Hung, premier of Vietnam, dies at about 74
1989 - Johan Fleerackers, Flemish linguist, dies at 57
1989 - James Kee, American politician (b. 1917)
1989 - John J. McCloy, United States Secretary of War (b. 1895)
1990 - Dean Horrix, English footballer (b. 1961)
1992 - David Carroll, actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism at 41
1992 - Manuel De Dios Unanue, US anti-drug journalist, murdered at 48
1992 - Richard Brooks, director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo), dies at 79
1993 - Dino Bravo, wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44
1993 - Edgar Nelson Barclift, dancer, dies after lengthy illness at 76
1993 - Manuel da Fonseca, Portuguese writer (Cerro Maior), dies at 81
1994 - Jacques Doucet, French painter (Mostar Sarajevo), dies at 69
1995 - Carel Birnie, found Utrecht Opera/Dutch Dance Theater, dies at 69
1995 - Ernest Kabushemeye, Burundese minister of Mijnbouw, murdered
1995 - Frank Fidler, artist, dies at 84
1996 - Barry Appleby, cartoonist, dies at 86
1996 - Charles William Oatley, electrical engineer, dies at 92
1996 - Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson, public servant, dies at 70
1996 - John Henry Pyle Pafford, librarian, dies at 96
1996 - Vince Edwards, actor (Ben Casey), dies of cancer at 67
1999 - Camille Laurin, Quebec psychiatrist and politician (b. 1922)
2002 - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
2003 - Brian Cleeve, Irish author (b. 1921)
2003 - Ivar Hansen, speaker of the Danish Folketing (b. 1938)
2006 - Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
2006 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (b. 1941)
2007 - Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
2009 - Charles Lewis, Jr., American businessman, promoter and entertainer
2010 - Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1931)
2010 - Leena Peltonen-Palotie, Finnish human geneticist (b. 1952)
2010 - Merlin Olsen, American football player / Actor (b. 1940)
2012 - Sid Couchey, American comic book artist, dies at 92