Famous Deaths Happened In May - 11

1304  Death of Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271) on this day in history.   

1610  On May - 11 matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies   

1631  On May - 11 christoph Buel, composer, dies at 57   

1672  Death of Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615) on this day in history.   

1708  Death of Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646) on May - 11.   

1723  On May - 11 death of jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656)   

1742  On this day in history francesco Stradivari, Ital violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 70   

1772  On this day in history death of joseph Kerckhoff, Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged   

1777  Death of George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b. 1719) on this day in history.   

1778  On this day in history william Pitt Sr, English premier (1756-61, 66-68), dies at 69   

1779  John Heart, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at about 68 on May - 11.   

1812  On May - 11 death of spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762)   

1819  Caspar Furstenau, composer, dies at 47 on May - 11.   

1845  On May - 11 karoly Filtsch, composer, dies at 14   

1848  Death of Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781) on this day in history.   

1849  Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, composer, dies at 38 on this day in history.   

1857  On this day in history e Francois Vidocq, French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81   

1871  John Herschel, cataloguer of southern hemisphere stars, dies at 79 on May - 11.   

1881  On May - 11 henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Journal Intime), dies at 59   

1885  Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist/composer/conductor, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1887  On this day in history death of jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b. 1802)   

1891  Death of A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820) on May - 11.   

1895  On May - 11 feliks Jaronski, composer, dies at 71   

1907  John Albert Delany, composer, dies at 54 on May - 11.   

1916  Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (s-effect), dies on May - 11.   

1917  Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.   

1920  On this day in history william D Howells, US author (A Woman's Reason), dies at 83   

1927  Henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90 on May - 11.   

1929  Death of Jozef MurgaÅ¡, Slovak inventor (b. 1864) on May - 11.   

1934  Death of Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852) on May - 11.   

1935  Edward H Thompson, US archaeologist (Mayan civilization), dies at 78 on this day in history.   

1937  On this day in history viliam Figus, composer, dies at 62   

1938  Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1939  On May - 11 death of evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)   

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1568  On May - 11 birth of christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (Battle of White Mountain)   

1571  Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637) was born on this day in history.   

1654  Cornelis van Alkemade, Dutch historian was born on May - 11.   

1720  On May - 11 birth of karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German adventurer (d. 1797)   

1722  Peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam) was born on this day in history.   

1731  On May - 11 birth of johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer   

1733  Victoire of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1799) was born on this day in history.   

1752  Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840) was born on May - 11.