Deaths in History on July 11

1688 King Narai 'the Great' of the Ayutthaya Kingdom (Siam) (1656-88), dies at 55
1690 Friedrich H duke van Schomberg, marshal, dies in battle at 75
1766 Elizabeth Farnese, wife of Philip V of Spain (b. 1692)
1774 Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-born New York pioneer
1775 Simon Boerum, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1797 Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740)
1806 James Smith, Irish/US attorney/signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 87
1825 Thomas P. Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War soldier (b. 1744)
1844 Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
1847 Joachim le Sage ten Broek, Dutch notary and publicist, dies at 71
1866 James Henry Lane, US General during Civil War (Union) and Senator (Kansas), commits suicide at 52
1874 Xavier de Mérode, Belgium minister to the Pope in Rome, dies at 54
1876 Ottho Gerhard Heldring, Dutch preacher and reformer (Heldring Institutions), dies at 72
1882 Eugène Simonis, Belgian sculptor, dies on 72nd birthday
1889 Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author and poet, dies at 34
1896 Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian (Olympia), dies at 81
1898 Charles Chanoine, French lt/mass murderer in Senegal, dies
1909 Simon Newcomb, celestial mechanics authority (Stars), dies at 74
1914 Julius Rodenberg [Levy], German writer (Die Deutsche Rundschau), dies at 83
1916 Rik Wouters, Belgian painter (Lady in Blue), and sculptor (The Nymph), dies of cancer at 33

1921 Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist and inventor, dies at 75
1931 Jean-Louis Forain, French impressionist etcher and lithographer, dies at 78
1941 Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (discovered the Minoan palace of Knossos in Crete), dies at 90
1942 Simon de la Bella, Dutch president (NVV), dies in Dachau
1944 Wolfgang Redlich, German major/pilot, dies in battle
1948 Gerhard Kittel, German anti-semite theologist, dies

Shia Imam who was one of the founders of the All-India Muslim League and later President of the League of Nations (1937-38), dies at 79

American industrialist (RCA) and diplomat (Young Plan), dies at 87

1964 Maurice Thorez, French politician and secretary-general (French Communist Party), dies at 64
1966 Delmore Schwartz, American poet, short story writer and critic (Shenandoah), dies at 52
1967 Guy Favreau, French Canadian lawyer, politician and judge, dies at 50
1971 John W. Campbell, American sci-fi writer (Space Beyond), dies at 61
1974 Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish poet, novelist, and playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1951), dies at 83
1975 Kurt Pinthus, German-American writer, dies at 89
1979 Claude Wagner, French Canadian judge and politician, dies at 54
1983 Ross Macdonald [Kenneth Millar], American-Canadian detective novelist (Goodbye Look), dies at 67
1987 Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman, American Rosh Yeshiva (b. 1901)
1988 Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger, British sociologist and criminologist, dies at 91
1991 Hitoshi Igarashi, Japanese interpreter (Satanic Verses), murdered
1992 Annette Fischer, Danish chairman Amnesty International, dies in a car crash at 46
1992 Antoon Hubben, Dutch Mayor of Maasbree and trade union leader, dies at 73
1993 Deng Yingchao, high ranking communist China official, dies at 88
1993 Henri van Soede, sub commandant (WWII), dies at about 83
1993 Kelly Ahrendt, 1st death by rabies in NY since 1954, dies
1993 Sergey Vozovikov, cosmonaut, dies during underwater test at 34
1994 Alan David Melville, polymath, dies at 82

American computer scientist and entrepreneur who created the CP/M operating system, dies at 52

1994 James Topping, author of CP/M, dies at 52
1994 Wim Jurg, corrector/chairman (Werelddambond FMJD), dies at 49
1995 John Cruickshank, French scholar, dies at 70
1996 Martin Corbett, English gay rights activist (Gay Liberation Front, OutRage!), dies of AIDS at 51
2000 Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b. 1913)
2000 Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 78
2004 Laurance Rockefeller, American CEO (Chase Manhattan Bank) and philanthropist, dies at 94
2007 Alfonso López Michelsen, 24th President of Colombia (1974-78), dies at 94
2007 Ed Mirvish, American-Canadian businessman (Honest Ed's) and philanthropist, dies at 92
2007 Glenda Adams, Australian author (b. 1939)
2007 Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
2008 Michael DeBakey, Lebanese-American cardiac surgeon and artificial heart pioneer, dies at 99
2009 Ji Xianlin, Chinese linguist and paleographer (b.1911)
2013 Eugene Wilkinson, American naval officer, dies at 94
2013 Robert Crichton-Brown, Australian businessman and CEO (Rothmans International), dies at 93
2015 Claudia Alexander, Canadian-born American NASA Scientist (led Galileo mission to Jupiter), dies of cancer at 56
2018 Pat Swindall, American politician convicted of perjury (Rep-R-GA, 1985-89), dies at 67