Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In March - 11

1919  Harald Fryklof, composer, dies at 36 on this day in history.   

1920  On March - 11 death of julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)   

1921  Sherburne W Burnham, US astronomer (binary stars), dies at 83 on this day in history.   

1925  Andreas Hallen, composer, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

1926  On this day in history john Henry Anderson, cricketer (score 32 & 11 in Test for S Afr), dies   

1931  On March - 11 death of f.W. Murnau, German film director (b. 1888)   

1937  On this day in history paul Scheinpflug, composer, dies at 61   

1941  On March - 11 walford Davies, British organist/composer, dies at 71   

1944  On this day in history hendrik W van Loon, Neth/US radio commentator/writer, dies at 62   

1947  On this day in history victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at 45   

1949  On March - 11 juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at 76   

1950  Florence Arliss, actress (Disraeli), dies at 78 on March - 11.   

1951  On this day in history philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at 66   

1952  Death of Pierre Renoir, French stage and film actor and director (b. 1885) on March - 11.   

1955  On March - 11 alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73   

1956  On March - 11 sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83   

1957  On this day in history richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68   

1958  On this day in history death of ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor of Legos (b. 1891)   

1959  Haydn Wood, composer, dies at 76 on March - 11.   

1960  Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1962  Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1963  On this day in history mahomed Nissar, cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wkts), dies   

1965  On this day in history death of james Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered   

1967  On this day in history geraldine Farrar, soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85   

1969  John Wyndham, [Parkes Lucas B Harris], author (Chrysalids), dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1970  Erle Stanley Gardner, US writer (Perry Mason), dies at 80 on March - 11.   

1971  On March - 11 philo T Farnsworth, US TV pioneer, dies at 64   

1972  Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1975  Philip Bezanson, composer, dies at 59 on March - 11.   

1977  On March - 11 death of alberto Rodriguez Larreta, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)   

1978  On this day in history death of claude François, French singer (b. 1939)   

1979  On this day in history victor Kilian, actor (Gentleman's Agreement), dies at 88   

1982  Edmund Cooper, British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came), dies at 55 on March - 11.   

1984  On this day in history nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76   

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1544  Torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia) was born on this day in history.   

1549  On this day in history birth of hendrik L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer   

1549  On this day in history birth of henric Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance poet (Hertspiegel)   

1596  On March - 11 birth of isaac Elsevier, book publisher   

1654  On this day in history birth of heinrich Georg Neuss, composer   

1683  On this day in history birth of giovanni Veneziano, composer   

1725  On March - 11 birth of henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)   

1731  On March - 11 birth of robert Treat Paine, judge, signer (Declaration of Independence)