January 11 - Deaths

Deaths

• 314 – St. Miltiades
• 705 – Pope John VI
• 802 – St. Paulinus II of Aquileia
• 812 – Staurakios, Byzantine Emperor
• 844 – Michael I Rhangabes, Byzantine Emperor
• 1055 – Constantine IX Monomachos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1000)
• 1083 – Otto of Nordheim, Duke of Bavaria (b. c. 1020)
• 1494 – Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b. 1449)
• 1495 – Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1428)
• 1547 – Pietro Bembo, Italian author, literary theorist, and Catholic cardinal (b. 1470)
• 1641 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (b. 1583)
• 1696 – Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (b. 1616)
• 1703 – Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (b. 1632)
• 1713 – Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader (b. 1637)
• 1735 – Danilo I, Vladika of Montenegro (b. c.1670)
• 1753 – Sir Hans Sloane, Ulster-Scot physician and collector (b. 1660)
• 1762 – Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor (b. 1695)
• 1763 – Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (b. 1676)
• 1771 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (b. 1704)
• 1791 – William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717)
• 1798 – Erekle II, king of Kartli and Kakheti (b. 1720)
• 1801 – Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (b. 1749)
• 1836 – John Molson, Canadian brewer (b. 1763)
• 1843 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and writer of the poem that became the American national anthem (b. 1779)
• 1867 – Sir Stuart Donaldson, first Premier of the Colony of New South Wales (b. 1812)
• 1882 – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (b. 1810)
• 1891 – Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French civic planner (b. 1809)
• 1901 – Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (b. 1866)
• 1902 – Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862)
• 1904 – William Sawyer, Canadian politician (b. 1815)
• 1905 – Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Hasidic rabbi (b. 1847)
• 1914 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery is named (b. 1842)
• 1920 – Steinar Schjøtt, Norwegian educator, philologist and lexicographer (b. 1844)
• 1923 – King Constantine I of Greece (b. 1868)
• 1928 – Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)
• 1931 – James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852)
• 1941 – Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (b. 1868)
• 1944 – Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law (b. 1903)
• 1947 – Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born singer and entertainer (b. 1879)
• 1952 – Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France (b. 1889)
• 1952 – Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (b. 1885)
• 1953 – Noe Zhordania, Georgian Social-Democratic politician (b. 1868)
• 1954 – Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
• 1957 – Sir Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and early leading expert in Australian constitutional law (b. 1867)
• 1957 – Rose Sutro, American duo-pianist with her sister Ottilie (b. 1870)
• 1958 – Alec Rowley, English composer (b. 1892)
• 1958 – Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1961 – Elena Gerhardt, German mezzo-soprano singer (b. 1883)
• 1965 – Wally Pipp, American Major League Baseball player (b. 1893)
• 1966 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b. 1901)
• 1966 – Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889)
• 1966 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, third Prime Minister of independent India (b. 1904)
• 1968 – Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and Talmudic scholar, and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1876)
• 1969 – Richmal Crompton, British author (b. 1890)
• 1972 – Padraic Colum, Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore (b. 1881)
• 1975 – Max Lorenz, German heldentenor famous for Wagner roles (b. 1901)
• 1978 – Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet (b. 1927)
• 1979 – Jack Soo, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1980 – Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)
• 1981 – Beulah Bondi, American actress (b. 1888)
• 1983 – Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894)
• 1985 – Sir William McKell, Premier of New South Wales, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
• 1986 – Sid Chaplin, UK novelist (b. 1916)
• 1986 – Andrzej Czok, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948)
• 1987 – Albert Ferber, Swiss-English pianist (b. 1911)
• 1988 – Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, American World War II Marine aviator (b. 1912)
• 1988 – Florence Knapp, American, one-time oldest person in the world (b. 1873)
• 1988 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1989 – Ray Moore, Radio 2 DJ (b. 1942)
• 1991 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
• 1994 – Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician (b. 1902)
• 1995 – Josef Gingold, Russian-American violinist (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Lewis Nixon, U.S. Army officer (b. 1918)
• 1995 – Theodor Wisch, German general (SS) (b. 1907)
• 1998 – Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)
• 1999 – Fabrizio De André, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
• 1999 – Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (b. 1897)
• 1999 – Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Betty Archdale, Anglo-Australian educationalist and cricketer (b. 1907)
• 2000 – Ivan Combe, American inventor (b. 1911)
• 2000 – Bob Lemon, American baseball player (b. 1920)
• 2001 – Denys Lasdun, English architect (b. 1914)
• 2001 – Michael Williams, English actor (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Struan Sutherland, Australian medical researcher (b. 1936)
• 2002 – Henri Verneuil, French playwright and film director (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Mickey Finn, English drummer (T.Rex) (b. 1947)
• 2003 – Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Richard Simmons, American actor (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1938)
• 2005 – Jimmy Griffin, American musician (Bread) (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Fabrizio Meoni, Italian motorcyclist (b. 1957)
• 2006 – Nixzmary Brown, American child abuse victim (b. 1998)
• 2006 – Markus Löffel (Mark Spoon), German DJ (b. 1966)
• 2007 – Puchi Balseiro, Puerto Rican singer & songwriter (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Solveig Dommartin, French-German actress (b. 1961)
• 2007 – Robert Anton Wilson, American author (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, the first person to climb Mount Everest in 1953 (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (b. 1917)
• 2009 – David Vine, British sports broadcaster (b. 1935)
• 2010 – Miep Gies, Dutch Humanitarian, discoverer of Anne Frank's diary (b. 1909)
• 2010 – Mick Green, British guitarist (Johnny Kidd & The Pirates and Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas) (b. 1944)
• 2010 – Joe Rollino, American strongman, weightlifter and boxer (b. 1905)
• 2012 – Chuck Metcalf, American jazz double-bassist (b. 1931)