Famous Deaths on January 11

1713 Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader (b. 1637)
1735 Danilo I, Vladika of Montenegro (b. c. 1670)
1753 Hans Sloane, Irish physician, naturalist and collector (providing the foundation of the British Museum), dies at 92
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 author, dies at 66
1775 Prithvi Narayan Shah, began the unification of modern Nepal (b. 1723)
1775 Yemelyan Pugachov, Don Cossack rebel, executed by tsarist Russia
1784 Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, Czech composer, dies at 59
1788 François Joseph Paul de Grasse, French admiral (commanded the French fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake), dies at 64
1791 William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717)
1797 Francis Lightfoot Lee, American advocate for independence (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 62
1801 Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Il Matrimonio Segreto), dies at 51
1836 John Molson, Canadian brewer (founded Montreal brewery Molsons), dies at 72
1843 Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, poet and composer of the lyrics to "Star Spangled Banner" dies at 63
1847 Caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld], German author, dies at 83
1856 Nikolai I Nadezjdin, Russian archaeologist, dies [NS=Jan 23]
1867 Sir Stuart Donaldson, first Premier of the Colony of New South Wales (b. 1812)
1868 Henry Haywood Bell, U.S. Rear Admiral (Union Navy), dies at 59
1870 Adolf Ganz, German composer and violinist, dies at 73

Gail Borden (1801-1874)

American manufacturer and inventor of condensed milk, dies at 72

1877 Pietro Romani, Italian conductor and composer, dies at 85

Theodor Schwann (1810-1882)

German physician, physiologist and co-originator of cell theory (Schwann cells; pepsin; metabolism), dies at 71

1885 Rodolphe Bresdin, French cartoonist and lithographer (Le Bon Samaritain), dies at 60
1891 Georges-Eugene, Baron Haussmann, French administrator and architect, dies at 81

Benjamin Butler (1818-1893)

American Major General (Union Army), Governor of Massachusetts (1883-84) and US presidential candidate (Greenback anti-monopoly ticket), dies of a bronchial infection at 74

1896 Francis Channing Barlow, American lawyer, Union general (US Civil War, meet with General John Brown Gordon at Gettysburg), dies from infuenza complications at 62
1898 Gaetano Capocci, Italian organist and composer (Responsori), dies at 86
1901 Vasily Kalinnikov, composer influenced by folksong, dies of tuberculosis at 34
1902 Johnny Briggs, English cricket all-rounder (33 Tests; 118 wickets @ 17.75), dies of complications from an epileptic seizure at 39
1905 Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Warsaw, Hasidic rabbi (b. 1847)

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

American writer and satirist (Devil's Dictionary, Nuggets & Dust), dies at 71

1914 Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named (b. 1842)

Constantine I (1868-1923)

King of Greece (1913-17, 20-22), dies at 54

1927 Andrzej Gawroński, Polish Indologist and scholar, dies at 41
1928 Thomas Hardy, English novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd) and poet, dies near Dorchester at 87
1929 Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban revolutionary, murdered at about 28
1931 James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852)
1941 Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (b. 1868)
1943 Agustín Pedro Justo, President of Argentina (1932-38) during the Infamous Decade, dies at 66
1943 Carlo Tresca, NY's Italian newspaper editor/anti-fascist, murdered
1944 Galeazzo count of Cortellazzo Ciano, Italian politician, dies
1945 Ada Negri, Italian poet and author (Il Libro di Mara, only woman admitted to Academy of Italy), dies at 74
1947 Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born vaudeville and film singer and entertainer dies at 68
1949 Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (Doubleday), dies at 49
1950 Karin Michaelis, Danish writer (The Dangerous Age), dies at 77
1952 Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor, dies at 66
1952 Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general (WWII, Indo-China), dies of cancer at 61
1953 Ernst Herman van Rappard, Dutch Nazi founder (NSNAP), dies at 53
1953 Hans Aanrud, Norwegian author (Storken), dies at 89
1953 Marcel Canneel, Flemish painter (Reuzenstoet), dies at 58
1953 Noe Zhordania, Georgian journalist and politician (Prime Minister, 1918-21; government -in-exile leader, 1921-53), dies at 84
1954 Edgard Tytgat, Flemish painter and etcher, dies at 77
1954 Emmy Arbous, Dutch actress/cabaret performer (Boefje), dies at 56
1954 Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (Brave Soldier), dies at 83
1955 Rodolfo Graziani, Italian Marshal, fascist and Viceroy of Italian East Africa, dies at 72
1957 Sir Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and early leading expert in Australian constitutional law (b. 1867)
1958 Alec Rowley, English composer, dies at 65
1959 Mohammed Zakaria Ghonein, discoverer of 6,000 yr old pyramid, dies
1960 Johan E. Elias, Dutch historian (Amsterdam's regency), dies at 84
1961 Elena Gerhardt, German mezzo-soprano singer (b. 1883)
1963 Arthur Nock, English-American historian (St Paul, history of religion), dies at 60
1965 Wally Pipp, American baseball first baseman (World Series 1923; AL HR leader 1916, 17; NY Yankees), dies from a heart attack at 71
1966 Alberto Giacometti, Swiss-French painter and sculptor, dies at 64
1966 Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner (Olympic gold 1912), dies at 76
1966 Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian politician and Prime Minister of India (1964-66), dies under suspicious circumstances at 61
1969 Richmal Crompton, British author (b. 1890)
1971 I. (Irene) Rice Pereira, American abstract artist dies aged 68
1973 Isabel Randolph, American actress (Missing Corpse), dies at 83
1973 Rudolf Kubin, Czech cellist, dies a day after 64th birthday
1975 Max Lorenz, German heldentenor famous for Wagner roles (b. 1901)
1976 Mervyn Grell, cricketer (Test WI v England 1930, 21 & 13, 0-17), dies
1978 Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet (b. 1927)
1978 Michael Bates, English actor (Clockwork Orange, Salt & Pepper), dies at 57
1979 Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German-French art dealer and publisher, dies at 94
1979 Jack Soo [Goro Suzuki], Japanese-American actor (Flower Drum Song, Barney Miller), dies of esophageal cancer at 61
1980 Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)
1981 Beulah Bondi, American actress (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 88
1983 Gerhard Barkhorn, German Luftwaffe fighter pilot and officer, dies from injuries sustained in a car crash at 63
1983 Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator, dies at 88
1983 Nikolaj V Podgorny, president USSR, dies at 79
1984 Fritz Geissler, German composer, dies at 62
1984 Jack La Rue, American actor and TV narrator (Lights Out, Mouthpiece, My Favorite Brunette), dies at 81
1985 Sir William McKell, Premier of New South Wales, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
1986 Sid Chaplin, UK novelist (b. 1916)
1987 Albert Ferber, Swiss-English pianist (b. 1911)
1988 Florence Knapp, American, one-time oldest person in the world (b. 1873)
1988 Isidor Isaac Rabi, American nuclear physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, dies at 89

Pappy Boyington (1912-1988)

American combat pilot and US Marine Corps fighter ace during World War II, dies of cancer at 75

1990 Kittens Reichert [Catherine Alma Reichert], American silent screen child actor [House of Cards, Les Misérables], dies at 79
1990 Mary Jane Carr, American actress (Forbidden Trail, Second Wife), dies

Carl David Anderson (1905-1991)

American physicist (1936 Nobel Prize for physics), dies at 85

1993 Lacey Fosburgh, author (Closing Time), dies of breast cancer at 50
1994 Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician, dies at 92
1994 John Bradley, United States Navy corpsman, one of six who raised flag on top of Mt. Suribachi (see Iwo Jima), dies of a stroke at 70
1994 Roger "Ram" Ramirez, American jazz piano player and composer, dies at 80
1995 John AG Gere, English art historian (Raphael & his Circle), dies at 73
1995 Josef Gingold, Russian-American violinist (Primrose Quartet; Cleveland Orchestra, 1947-60) and pedagogue (Indiana University, 1960-95), dies following a heart attack at 85
1995 Onat Kutlar, Turkish screenplay/producer (Hazal), murdered at 59
1996 Eric Hebborn, artist/faker, dies at 61
1996 Harold Walter Bailey, British philologist (Khotanese, Sanskrit, scholar who spoke 50 languages), dies at 96
1996 Hubert Nicholson, poet/novelist, dies at 87
1996 Ike Isaacs, Burmese-English jazz guitarist, dies at 76
1997 Cavan O'Connor, British singer ("I'm Only a Strolling Vagabond"), dies at 97
1997 Duncan Wood, television director and producer, dies at 71
1997 Helen Foster Snow, American journalist (reported from China in the 1930s), dies at 89
1997 Sheldon Leonard, American actor, producer and director (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie), dies at 89
1998 C V Gadkari, Indian cricket batsman 6 Tests, 1 x 50; Maharashtra, Services), dies at 69
1998 Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (Fidelio), dies at 71
1999 Brian Moore, Irish novelist (Catholics, Doctor's Wife), dies at 77
1999 Fabrizio de André, Italian singer-songwriter (Storia di un impiegato), dies of lung cancer at 58
1999 Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (The Corn King and the Spring Queen), dies at 101
2000 Betty Archdale OBE, Anglo-Australian educationalist and English cricket batsman and captain (5 Tests), dies at 92
2000 Bob Lemon, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (MLB All-Star 1948–54; World Series 1948; no-hitter 1948, White Sox; Cleveland Indians) and manager (KC Royals, Chicago White Sox; World Series NY Yankees 1978), dies at 79
2000 Helena Carter [Helen Rickerts], American model and actress (Invaders from Mars), dies at 76
2000 Ivan Combe, American inventor of personal care products (Clearasil), dies at 88
2000 Phil Carrick, English cricketer (Yorkshire County Cricket Club), dies at 47
2001 Michael Williams, British actor, husband of Judi Dench (b. 1935)
2001 Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (b. 1914)
2002 (Charles) Gene Dinwiddie, American blues saxophonist (Paul Butterfield Blues Band), dies at 65
2002 George Jinda, Hungarian-American smooth jazz and world music percussionist (Special EFX), dies from multiple medical condition complications at 41
2002 Henri Verneuil, French-Armenian playwright and film director (Mélodie en sous-sol), dies at 81
2002 Struan Sutherland, Australian medical researcher (b. 1936)
2003 Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (The Naked Childhood), dies at 77
2003 Mickey Finn, British rock percussionist and bongocero (T. Rex), dies at 55
2003 Richard Simmons, American actor (Sergeant Preston of the Yukon), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 89
2003 William Joseph Russo, American composer, dies at 74
2004 Mervyn Pike [Baroness Pike], British politician (C), dies at 85
2005 Fabrizio Meoni, Italian motorcyclist (b. 1957)
2005 Jimmy Griffin, American pop singer, guitarist and songwriter, (Bread), and Academy Award winner ("For All We Know"), dies of cancer at 61
2005 Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (b. 1913)
2005 Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane - "White Rabbit"; New Riders of the Purple Sage), dies of colon cancer at 66
2006 Markus Löffel (Mark Spoon), German DJ (b. 1966)
2006 Nixzmary Brown, American child abuse victim, dies from extreme abuse
2007 (Aurea) "Puch" Balseiro, Puerto Rican bolero and filin singer-songwriter and guitarist, dies at 80
2007 Robert Anton Wilson, American author (b. 1932)
2007 Solveig Dommartin, French-German actress (b. 1961)
2008 Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (b. 1917)

Edmund Hillary (1919-2008)

New Zealand explorer and mountaineer who was 1st to scale Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay, dies from a heart attack at 88

2009 David Vine, British sports broadcaster (BBC Match of the Day, World Snooker C'ships, Olympics coverage), dies of a heart attack at 74
2009 Tom O'Horgan, American musical theater director (Hair; Jesus Christ Superstar), dies from complications of Alzheimer's disease at 84
2009 Vivian Ridler, British scholar and printer (Oxford University), dies at 95
2010 Éric Rohmer [Maurice Schérer], French director, journalist and teacher (My Night at Maud's, Claire's Knee, Le rayon vert), dies at 89
2010 Georgy Garanian, Armenian-Russian jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer, dies of cardiac arrest at 75
2010 Joe Rollino, American strongman, weightlifter, and boxer (b. 1905)
2010 Mick Green, British rock guitarist (The Pirates; Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas), dies of heart failure at 65
2010 Miep Gies, Dutch discoverer of Anne Frank's diary and friend of the Frank family, dies at 100
2011 David Nelson, American actor, director, and producer (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), dies at 74
2013 Aaron H. Swartz, American computer programmer, dies from an apparent suicide at 26
2013 Lars Werner, Swedish communist leader, dies at 77
2013 Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (Swept Away; Flash Gordon: Summer Night), dies from pancreatic cancer at 71

Ariel Sharon (1928-2014)

Israeli general, politician and Prime Minister of Israel (2001-06), dies from heart failure at 85

Anita Ekberg (1931-2015)

Swedish actress (La Dolce Vita) and Miss Sweden 1950, dies at 83

2016 Gilberto Mendes, Brazilian composer, dies at 93
2016 Monty Irvin, American Baseball HOF outfielder (4 x NgL All-Star, NgL World Series 1946 Newark Eagles; MLB All-Star 1952, World Series 1954 NY Giants), dies at 96
2017 François Van der Elst, Belgian soccer winger (44 caps; Anderlecht, West Ham Utd), dies from cardiac arrest at 62
2017 José Vicente Asuar, Chilean electronic music composer, dies at 83
2018 Doug Barnard Jr, American politician (Rep-D-GA, 1977-93), dies at 95
2018 Edgar Ray Killen, American convict, former preacher, K.K.K. member and murderer, dies at 92
2019 J. D. Gibbs, American auto racer, team owner (Joe Gibbs Racing), dies of degenerative neurological disease at 49
2019 Michael Atiyah, English mathematician (Atiyah-Singer Index, Fields Medal 1966), dies at 89
2021 Colin McDonald, Australian cricket batsman (47 Tests, 5 x 100s; Victoria), dies at 92
2021 Kathleen Heddle, Canadian rower (Olympic gold coxless pair, 8's 1992; double sculls 1996), dies from breast and lymph node cancer at 55

Sheldon Adelson (1933-2021)

American business magnate (CEO of Las Vegas Sands casino company) and major political donor to the GOP and Israel, dies at 87 [1]

2021 Wálter Taibo, Uruguayan soccer goalkeeper (30 caps; Huracán, C.A. Peñarol), dies at 89
2021 William Edgar Thornton, American medical doctor, USAF officer, and astronaut (STS-8, STS-51B), dies at 91
2022 Ahmet Çalık, Turkish soccer centre-back (8 caps; Gençlerbirliği, Galatasaray, Konyaspor), dies in a traffic accident at 27
2022 Anatoly Alyabyev, Russian biathlete (Olympic gold USSR 20km individual, 4 × 7.5km relay 1980), dies from COVID-19 at 70
2022 David-Maria Sassoli, Italian politician and journalist, European Parliament President (2019-22), dies at 65
2022 Don Sutherin, American Canadian Football HOF defensive back/placekicker (Grey Cup 1963, 65, 68, 69; Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Ottawa Rough Riders), dies at 85
2022 Magawa, African Giant Pouched rat (1st rat to be awarded a PDSA award for finding landmines for APOPO), laid to rest after dying in retirement in Tanzania at 8
2022 Rosa Lee Hawkins, American pop singer (The Dixie Cups - "Chapel Of Love"; "Iko Iko"), dies from surgery complications at 76
2022 Tim Rosaforte, American golf writer (Sports Illustrated, Golf Digest) and broadcaster (USA Network, Golf Channel), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 66
2023 (Mildred) "Carole" Cook, American stage and screen actress (The Lucy Show; The Incredible Mr. Limpet; Sixteen Candles), dies at of heart failure at 98
2023 Charles Kimbrough, American stage and screen actor (Murphy Brown - "Jim"; Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 86
2023 Charles White, American College Football Hall of Fame running back (Heisman Trophy 1979, USC; Pro Bowl 1987, Cleveland Browns, LA Rams), dies at 64
2023 Yukihiro Takahashi, Japanese pop-rock drummer and singer (Yellow Magic Orchestra), dies from complications of a brain tumor at 70