Notable Deaths on April 11

Q: Who died on April 11?

Notable people who died on April 11 include: Yang Guang, Donus, Herman I, Romanos III Argyros, Anawrahta.

Q: What is Otto Wagner known for?

Otto Wagner, Austrian architect and urban planner (born 1841)

122 people 618 – 2026

April 11 has seen 122 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 618 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · April 11 — Wikipedia

1918 — Otto Wagner

Austrian architect and urban planner (born 1841)

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By mid-1890s, he had already designed several buildings in what became known as the Vienna Secession style

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Beginning in 1898, with his designs of Vienna Metro stations, his style became floral and Art Nouveau, with decoration by Koloman Moser

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He was a leading member of the Vienna Secession movement of architecture, founded in 1897, and the broader Art Nouveau movement

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His later works, 1906 until his death in 1918, had geometric forms and minimal ornament, more clearly expressing their modern structure and materials

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Otto Koloman Wagner was an Austrian architect, furniture designer and urban planner

Yang Guang

Chinese emperor of the Sui Dynasty (born 569)

Emperor Yang of Sui, personal name Yang Guang (楊廣), alternative name Ying (英), childhood name Amo (阿摩), Xianbei name Puliuru Guang (普六茹廣), was the second emperor of the Sui dynasty of China.

618

Donus

pope of the Catholic Church (born 610)

Pope Donus was the bishop of Rome from 676 to his death on 11 April 678. Few details survive about him or his achievements beyond what is recorded in the Liber Pontificalis.

678

Herman I

chancellor and archbishop of Cologne

Herman I served as Archbishop of Cologne from 889, until his death around 924. He was the son of Erenfried I of Maasgau, of the Ezzonian dynasty. As chancellor of Zwentibold, King of Lotharingia, he helped to execute in…

924

Romanos III Argyros

Byzantine emperor (born 968)

Romanos III Argyros, or Argyropoulos, was Byzantine Emperor from 1028 until his death in 1034. He was a Byzantine noble and senior official in Constantinople when the dying Constantine VIII forced him to divorce his…

1034

Anawrahta

king of Burma and founder of the Pagan Empire (born 1014)

Anawrahta Minsaw was the founder of the Pagan Empire. Considered the father of the Burmese nation, Anawrahta turned a small principality in the dry zone of Upper Burma into the first Burmese Empire that formed the basis…

1077

Stanislaus of Szczepanów

bishop of Kraków (born 1030)

Stanislaus of Szczepanów was a Polish Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Kraków and was martyred by the Polish King Bolesław II the Bold. He is the patron saint of Poland.

1079

Stephen IV

king of Hungary and Croatia

Stephen IV was King of Hungary and Croatia, ascending to the throne between 1163 and 1165, when he usurped the crown of his nephew, Stephen III. He was the third son of Béla II of Hungary, and when his conspiracy…

1165

Llywelyn the Great

Welsh prince (born 1172)

Llywelyn ab Iorwerth or Llywelyn Fawr was Prince of Gwynedd from 1199 to 1240. His reign saw Gwynedd transformed from a territory suffering from thirty years of civil war into a polity which could exercise suzerainty…

1240

Ramadan ibn Alauddin

first known Muslim from Korea

Ramadan ibn Alauddin was a Yuan darughachi (governor) of Luchuan Prefecture in Rongzhou, Guangxi Province, of Muslim faith and Korean provenance. He served until his death in 1349. His existence is known only from an…

1349

Henry Beaufort

Cardinal, Lord Chancellor of England (born 1377)

Henry Beaufort was an English Catholic prelate and statesman who held the offices of Bishop of Lincoln (1398), Bishop of Winchester (1404) and cardinal (1426). He served three times as Lord Chancellor and played an…

1447

Gaston de Foix

French military commander (born 1489)

Gaston de Foix, duc de Nemours, nicknamed The Thunderbolt of Italy, was a famed French military commander of the Renaissance. Nephew of King Louis XII of France and general of his armies in Italy from 1511 to 1512, he…

1512

Thomas Wyatt the Younger

English rebel leader (born 1521)

Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger was an English politician and rebel leader during the reign of Queen Mary I; his rising is traditionally called "Wyatt's rebellion". He was the son of the English poet and ambassador Sir…

1554

Thomas Bromley

English lord chancellor (born 1530)

Sir Thomas Bromley was a 16th-century lawyer, judge and politician who established himself in the mid-Tudor period and rose to prominence during the reign of Elizabeth I. He was successively Solicitor General and Lord…

1587

John Lumley

1st Baron Lumley, English noble (born 1533)

John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley, KB was an English aristocrat, who is remembered as one of the greatest collectors of art and books of his age.

1609

Emanuel van Meteren

Flemish historian and author (born 1535)

Emanuel van Meteren or Meteeren was a Flemish historian and Consul for "the Traders of the Low Countries" in London. He was born in Antwerp, the son of Sir Jacobus van Meteren, Dutch financier and publisher of early…

1612

Edward Wightman

English minister and martyr (born 1566)

Edward Wightman was an English radical Anabaptist minister, who was known for his Nontrinitarian view.

1612

Marino Ghetaldi

Ragusan mathematician and physicist (born 1568)[citation needed]

Marino Ghetaldi was a Ragusan scientist. A mathematician and physicist who studied in Italy, England and Belgium, his best results are mainly in physics, especially optics, and mathematics. He was one of the few…

1626

Richard Simon

French priest and critic (born 1638)

Richard Simon CO, was a French priest, a member of the Oratorians, who was an influential biblical critic, orientalist and controversialist.

1712

John Robinson

English bishop and diplomat (born 1650)

John Robinson was an English diplomat and prelate. He became the Bishop of London and Dean of Windsor, succeeding to Henry Compton.

1723

Nikita Ivanovich Panin

Polish-Russian politician, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1718)

Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin was an influential Russian statesman and political mentor to Catherine the Great for the first 18 years of her reign (1762–1780). In that role, he advocated the Northern Alliance, closer…

1783

Karl Wilhelm Ramler

German poet and academic (born 1725)

Karl Wilhelm Ramler was a German poet who was the Berlin Cadet School master.

1798

Juan Santamaría

Costa Rican soldier (born 1831)

Juan Santamaría Rodríguez was a drummer in the Costa Rican army, officially recognized as the national hero of his country for his actions in the 1856 Second Battle of Rivas, in the Filibuster War. He died in the battle…

1856

Francisco González Bocanegra

Mexican poet and composer (born 1824)

Francisco González Bocanegra was a Mexican poet who wrote the lyrics of the Mexican National Anthem in 1853.

1861

Justo José de Urquiza

Argentine general, politician and first constitutional president of Argentina (born 1801)

Justo José de Urquiza y García was an Argentine general and politician who served as president of the Argentine Confederation from 1854 to 1860.

1870

Edward Canby

American general (born 1817)

Edward Richard Sprigg Canby was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. He served as a military governor after the war.

1873

David de Jahacob Lopez Cardozo

Dutch Talmudist (born 1808)

David de Jahacob Lopez Cardozo was a Dutch Talmudist and communal worker. He was sent at an early age to the bet ha-midrash 'Etz Chayyim, studied under Rabbi Berenstein at The Hague, and received his diploma of "Morenu"…

1890

Joseph Merrick

English man with severe deformities (born 1862)

Joseph Carey Merrick was an English man known for his severe physical deformities. He was first exhibited at a freak show under the stage name "The Elephant Man", and then went to live at the London Hospital, in…

1890

Constantin Lipsius

German architect and theorist (born 1832)

Johannes Wilhelm Constantin Lipsius was a German architect and architectural theorist, best known for his controversial design of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Exhibition Building (1883–1894) on the Brühl Terrace…

1894

Julius Lothar Meyer

German chemist (born 1830)

Julius Lothar Meyer was a German chemist. He was one of the pioneers in developing the earliest versions of the periodic table of the chemical elements. The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev and he both had worked with…

1895

Wade Hampton III

Confederate general and politician, 77th Governor of South Carolina (born 1818)

Wade Hampton III was an American politician from South Carolina. He was a prominent member of one of the richest families in the antebellum Southern United States, owning thousands of acres of cotton land in South…

1902

Gemma Galgani

Italian mystic and saint (born 1878)

Gemma Umberta Maria Galgani, also known as Gemma of Lucca, was an Italian mystic, canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church in 1940. She has been called the "daughter of the Passion" because of her profound imitation…

1903

James Anthony Bailey

American businessman, co-founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (born 1847)

James Anthony Bailey, was an American owner and manager of several 19th-century circuses, including the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

1906

Francis Pharcellus Church

American journalist and publisher, co-founded Armed Forces Journal and The Galaxy Magazine (born 1839)

Francis Pharcellus Church was an American publisher and editor. In 1897, Church wrote the editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus". Produced in response to eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon's letter asking…

1906

Henry Bird

English chess player and author (born 1829)

Henry Edward Bird was an English chess player, author and accountant. He wrote the books Chess History and Reminiscences and An Analysis of Railways in the United Kingdom.

1908

Richard Harding Davis

American journalist and author (born 1864)

Richard Harding Davis was an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama, known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish–American War, the Second Boer War, and World War I. His…

1916

Luther Burbank

American botanist and academic (born 1849)

Luther Burbank was an American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank primarily worked with fruits,…

1926

Kurtdereli Mehmet

Turkish wrestler (born 1864)

Kurtdereli Mehmet Pehlivan was a Turkish wrestler. He lived most of his life in the village of Kurtdere, 40 km from Balıkesir. He stood 6'5 (196 cm) tall and weighed 326 lb (148 kg).

1939

Kid Nichols

American baseball player and manager (born 1869)

Charles Augustus "Kid" Nichols was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher who played for the Boston Beaneaters, St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies from 1890 to 1906. A switch hitter who threw…

1953

Paul Specht

American violinist and bandleader (born 1895)

Paul Specht was an American dance bandleader popular in the 1920s.

1954

Konstantin Yuon

Russian painter and educator (born 1875)

Konstantin Fyodorovich Yuon or Juon was a Russian painter and theatre designer associated with Mir Iskusstva. Later, he co-founded the Union of Russian Artists and the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia.

1958

Rosa Grünberg

Swedish actress (born 1878)

Rosalie "Rosa" Grünberg was a Swedish actress and opera soprano singer. She was considered one of the Swedish opera scene's prima donnas.

1960

Ukichiro Nakaya

Japanese physicist and academic (born 1900)

Ukichiro Nakaya was a Japanese physicist and science essayist known for his work in glaciology and low-temperature sciences. He is credited with making the first artificial snowflakes.

1962

George Poage

American hurdler and educator (born 1880)

George Coleman Poage was an American track and field athlete. He was the first black and the first African-American athlete to win a medal in the Olympic Games, winning two bronze medals at the 1904 games in St. Louis.

1962

Axel Revold

Norwegian painter (born 1887)

Axel Revold was a Norwegian painter, illustrator, and art professor at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts for twenty years. He was highly decorated for his merits.

1962

Thomas Farrell

American general (born 1891)

Major General Thomas Francis Farrell was the Deputy Commanding General and Chief of Field Operations of the Manhattan Project, acting as executive officer to Major General Leslie R. Groves Jr.

1967

Donald Sangster

Jamaican lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Jamaica (born 1911)

Sir Donald Burns Sangster ON GCVO (26 October 1911 – 11 April 1967) was a Jamaican solicitor and politician, and the second Prime Minister of Jamaica.

1967

Cathy O'Donnell

American actress (born 1923)

Cathy O'Donnell was an American actress who appeared in The Best Years of Our Lives, Ben-Hur, and films noir such as Detective Story and They Live by Night.

1970

John O'Hara

American novelist and short story writer (born 1905)

John Henry O'Hara was an American writer. He was one of America's most prolific writers of short stories, credited with helping to invent The New Yorker magazine short story style. He became a best-selling novelist…

1970

Ernst Ziegler

German actor (born 1894)

Ernst Ziegler was a German film and television actor.

1974

Jacques Prévert

French poet and screenwriter (born 1900)

Jacques Prévert was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. His best-regarded films formed part of the poetic realist movement, and…

1977

Phanishwar Nath 'Renu'

Indian author and activist (born 1921)

Phanishwar Nath Mandal 'Renu' was one of the most successful and influential writers of modern Hindi literature in the post-Premchand era. He is the author of Maila Anchal, which after Premchand's Godaan, is regarded as…

1977

Ümit Kaftancıoğlu

Turkish journalist and producer (born 1935)

Ümit Kaftancıoğlu was a Turkish TV producer, writer and columnist of the newspaper Cumhuriyet.

1980

Caroline Gordon

American author and critic (born 1895)

Caroline Ferguson Gordon was an American novelist and literary critic who, while still in her thirties, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1932 and an O. Henry Award in 1934. Her early fiction was influenced by her…

1981

Dolores del Río

Mexican actress (born 1904)

María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete, known professionally as Dolores del Río, was a Mexican actress. With a career spanning more than 50 years, she is regarded as the first major female Latin American…

1983

Edgar V. Saks

Estonian historian and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (born 1910)

Edgar Valter Saks was an Estonian amateur historian and author. He was the Estonian exile government's minister of education in exile from 1971 until his death.

1984

Bunny Ahearne

Irish-born English businessman (born 1900)

John Francis "Bunny" Ahearne was a British ice hockey administrator and businessman. He served rotating terms as president and vice-president of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) from 1951 to 1975, and was…

1985

John Gilroy

English artist and illustrator (born 1898)

John Thomas Young Gilroy was an English artist and illustrator, best known for his advertising posters for Guinness, the Irish stout. He signed many of his works, simply, "Gilroy".

1985

Enver Hoxha

Albanian educator and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Albania (born 1908)

Enver Halil Hoxha was an Albanian communist revolutionary, statesman, and political theorist who was the leader of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985. He was the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania…

1985

Erskine Caldwell

American novelist and short story writer (born 1903)

Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American novelist and short story writer. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States, in novels such as Tobacco Road (1932) and God's…

1987

Primo Levi

Italian chemist and author (born 1919)

Primo Michele Levi was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known works include: If…

1987

Harold Ballard

Canadian businessman (born 1903)

Harold Edwin Ballard was a Canadian businessman and sportsman. Ballard was an owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL) as well as their home arena, Maple Leaf Gardens. A member of the Leafs…

1990

Walker Cooper

American baseball player and manager (born 1915)

William Walker Cooper was an American professional baseball catcher and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher from 1940 to 1957, most notably as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals with whom he won…

1991

Bruno Hoffmann. German glass harp player (born 1913)

Bruno Hoffmann was a German glass harpist. Hoffmann is widely acknowledged as the virtuoso who reanimated contemporary interest in the glass harp and glass harmonica.

1991

James Brown

American actor and singer (born 1920)

James Edward Brown was an American film and television actor. He was perhaps best known for playing Lt. Ripley Masters in the American western television series The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin.

1992

Eve Merriam

American author and poet (born 1916)

Eve Merriam was an American poet and writer.

1992

Alejandro Obregón

Colombian painter, sculptor, and engraver (born 1920)

Alejandro Jesús Obregón Rosės was a Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver.

1992

Jessica Dubroff

American pilot (born 1988)

Jessica Whitney Dubroff was a seven-year-old American student pilot who died while attempting to become the youngest person to fly a light aircraft across the United States. On the second day of her attempt, the Cessna…

1996

Muriel McQueen Fergusson

Canadian lawyer and politician, Canadian Speaker of the Senate (born 1899)

Muriel McQueen Fergusson, was a Canadian activist, judge and politician. Fergusson served in the Senate of Canada and the first woman Speaker of the Senate. She is known for a long career of advocating for the less…

1997

Wang Xiaobo

contemporary Chinese novelist and essayist (born 1952)

Wang Xiaobo was a Chinese writer known for his sharp irony and critical spirit, through which he portrayed the absurdity and suffering of everyday life. Born in Beijing to an intellectual family, Wang was sent to rural…

1997

William H. Armstrong

American author and educator (born 1911)

William Howard Armstrong was an American writer of children's literature and educator, best known for his 1969 novel Sounder, which won the Newbery Medal.

1999

Diana Darvey

English actress, singer and dancer (born 1945)

Diana Magdalene Roloff, known professionally as Diana Darvey, was a British actress, singer and dancer, best known for her appearances on The Benny Hill Show.

2000

Harry Secombe

Welsh-English actor (born 1921)

Sir Harry Donald Secombe was a Welsh actor, comedian, singer and television presenter. Secombe was a member of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show (1951–1960), playing many characters, most notably Neddie…

2001

Cecil Howard Green

English-American geophysicist and businessman, founded Texas Instruments (born 1900)

Cecil Howard Green was a British-born American geophysicist, electrical engineer, and electronics manufacturing executive, who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

2003

André François

Romanian-French cartoonist, painter, and sculptor (born 1915)

André François, born André Farkas, was a Hungarian-born French cartoonist. He was one of the most influential graphic artists of his generation. Since the 1960s he had worked primarily as a painter, sculptor,…

2005

Lucien Laurent

French footballer and coach (born 1907)

Lucien Laurent was a French footballer who played as a forward. Playing for France, at the 1930 FIFA World Cup, he scored the first ever FIFA World Cup goal against Mexico.

2005

June Pointer

American singer (born 1953)

June Antoinette Pointer was an American singer, best known as the youngest of the founding members of the vocal group the Pointer Sisters.

2006

DeShaun Holton

American rapper and actor (born 1973)

DeShaun Dupree Holton, known professionally as Proof, was an American rapper from Detroit, Michigan. During his career, he was a member of the groups 5 Elementz, Funky Cowboys, Promatic, Goon Sqwad, and D12. He was a…

2006

Roscoe Lee Browne

American actor and director (born 1922)

Roscoe Lee Browne was an American actor and director. He is perhaps best known for his many guest appearances on TV series from the 1970s and 1980s, as well as movies like The Cowboys (1972) with John Wayne, and The…

2007

Loïc Leferme

French diver (born 1970)

Loïc Leferme was a French diver who was the world free diving record holder until 2 October 2005, when he was surpassed by Herbert Nitsch. Loic was also a founder of AIDA in 1990 with Roland Specker and Claude Chapuis…

2007

Janet McDonald

American lawyer and author (born 1954)

Janet McDonald was an American writer of young adult novels as well as the author of Project Girl, a memoir about her early life in Brooklyn's Farragut Houses and struggle to achieve an Ivy League education. Her best…

2007

Ronald Speirs

Scottish-American colonel (born 1920)

Ronald Charles Speirs was a United States Army officer who served in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. He was initially assigned as a platoon leader in B Company…

2007

Kurt Vonnegut

American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (born 1922)

Kurt Vonnegut was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works over fifty…

2007

Merlin German

American sergeant (born 1985)

Merlin German was a United States Marine sergeant stationed in Iraq who survived a roadside bomb blast in 2005. He became a symbol of recovery throughout the United States, soon known as the "Miracle Marine," during the…

2008

Gerda Gilboe

Danish actress and singer (born 1914)

Gerda Gilboe was a Danish actress and singer. She appeared in 18 films between 1943 and 2003.

2009

Vishnu Prabhakar

Indian author and playwright (born 1912)

Vishnu Prabhakar was a Hindi writer. He had several short stories, novels, plays and travelogues to his credit. Prabhakar's works have elements of patriotism, nationalism and messages of social upliftment. He was the…

2009

Corín Tellado

Spanish author (born 1927)

María del Socorro Tellado López, known as Corín Tellado, was a Spanish writer of romantic novels and photonovels that were best-sellers in several Spanish-language countries. She published more than 4,000 titles and…

2009

Julia Tsenova

Bulgarian pianist and composer (born 1948)

Julia Tsenova was a Bulgarian composer, pianist and musical pedagogue.

2010

Larry Sweeney

American wrestler and manager (born 1981)

Alexander K. Whybrow was an American professional wrestler and manager, better known by his ring name Larry Sweeney. He performed primarily on the American independent circuit, but also competed in Canada, Mexico, Japan…

2011

Ahmed Ben Bella

Algerian soldier and politician, 1st President of Algeria (born 1916)

Ahmed Ben Bella was an Algerian politician, soldier and revolutionary who served as the head of government of Algeria from 27 September 1962 to 15 September 1963 and then the first president of Algeria from 15 September…

2012

Roger Caron

Canadian criminal and author (born 1938)

Roger "Mad Dog" Caron was a Canadian robber and the author of the influential prison memoir Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars (1978). At the time of publishing, Caron was 39 years old and had spent 23 years in…

2012

Tippy Dye

American basketball player and coach (born 1915)

William Henry Harrison "Tippy" Dye was an American college athlete, coach, and athletic director. As a basketball head coach, Dye led the University of Washington to its only NCAA Final Four appearance in 1953. As an…

2012

Hal McKusick

American saxophonist, clarinet player, and flute player (born 1924)

Hal McKusick was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, and flutist who worked with Boyd Raeburn from 1944 to 1945 and Claude Thornhill from 1948 to 1949.

2012

Agustin Roman

American bishop (born 1928)

Agustín Aleido Román Rodríguez was a Cuban-born prelate of the Román Catholic Church in the United States. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Miami in Florida from 1979 to 2003.

2012

Don Blackman

American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1953)

Don (Donald) Blackman was an American jazz-funk pianist, singer, and songwriter. He performed with Parliament-Funkadelic, Lenny White, Marcus Miller, Sting, Mary J. Blige, Earth, Wind and Fire and Louis Hayes.

2013

Sue Draheim

American fiddler (born1949)

Sue Draheim was an American fiddler, boasting a more than forty year musical career in the US and the UK. Growing up in North Oakland, Draheim began her first private violin lessons at age eleven, having started public…

2013

Grady Hatton

American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1922)

Grady Edgebert Hatton Jr. was an American professional baseball second baseman, third baseman, coach and manager. He played in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds / Redlegs, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox,…

2013

Thomas Hemsley

English actor and singer (born 1927)

Thomas Jeffrey Hemsley, CBE was an English baritone.

2013

Hilary Koprowski

Polish-American virologist and immunologist (born 1916)

Hilary Koprowski was a Polish virologist and immunologist active in the United States who demonstrated the world's first effective live polio vaccine. He authored or co-authored over 875 scientific papers and co-edited…

2013

Gilles Marchal

French singer-songwriter (born 1944)

Gilles Marchal, born Gilles Pastre, was a French songwriter and singer who reached the height of his career during the 1970s.

2013

Maria Tallchief

American ballerina (born 1925)

Maria Tallchief, born Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief, was an Osage ballerina. She was America's first major prima ballerina and the first Native American to hold the rank. Together with Georgian-American choreographer…

2013

Clorindo Testa

Italian-Argentinian architect (born 1923)

Clorindo Manuel José Testa was an Italian-Argentine architect and artist.

2013

Jonathan Winters

American comedian, actor and screenwriter (born 1925)

Jonathan Harshman Winters III was an American comedian, actor, author, television host, and artist. He started performing as a stand-up comedian before transitioning his career to acting in film and television. Winters…

2013

Rolf Brem

Swiss sculptor and illustrator (born 1926)

Rolf Brem was a Swiss sculptor, illustrator and graphic artist. He worked in Meggen close to Lake Lucerne.

2014

Edna Doré

English actress (born 1921)

Edna Lillian Doré was a British actress. She was known for her bit-part roles in sitcoms and for playing the character of Mo Butcher in EastEnders from 1988 to 1990.

2014

Bill Henry

American baseball player (born 1927)

William Rodman Henry was an American professional baseball player. A left-handed pitcher, he appeared in Major League Baseball between 1952 and 1969 for the Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco…

2014

Lou Hudson

American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1944)

Louis Clyde Hudson was an American National Basketball Association (NBA) player, who was an All-American at the University of Minnesota and a six-time NBA All-Star, scoring 17,940 total points in 13 NBA seasons.

2014

Myer S. Kripke

American rabbi and scholar (born 1914)

Myer Samuel Kripke was an American rabbi, scholar, and philanthropist. He was based in Omaha, Nebraska.

2014

Sergey Nepobedimy

Russian engineer (born 1921)

Sergey Pavlovich Nepobedimy was a Soviet designer of rocket weaponry. He was the Head and Chief Designer of the Kolomna Mechanical Engineering Design Bureau (1965-1989). Born in Ryazan, USSR, he graduated from Bauman…

2014

Jesse Winchester

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1944)

James Ridout "Jesse" Winchester Jr. was an American-Canadian musician and songwriter. He was born and raised in the southern United States. Opposed to the Vietnam War, he moved to Canada in 1967 to avoid the draft.…

2014

Jimmy Gunn

American football player (born 1948)

Jimmy Gunn was an American professional football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He was born in Augusta, Arkansas. He prepped at Lincoln High School in San Diego.

2015

Muhammad Kamaruzzaman

Bangladeshi journalist and politician (born 1952)

Muhammad Kamaruzzaman was a Bangladeshi politician and journalist who served as the senior assistant secretary general of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and was convicted of war crimes during the 1971 independence war of…

2015

François Maspero

French journalist and author (born 1932)

François Maspero was a French author and journalist, best known as a publisher of leftist books in the 1970s. He also worked as a translator, translating the works of Joseph Conrad, Mehdi Ben Barka, and John Reed,…

2015

Hanut Singh

Indian general (born 1933)

Lieutenant General Hanut Singh Rathore, PVSM MVC(6 July 1933 – 10 April 2015) was an Indian General Officer. He was a recipient of India's second highest military decoration, the Maha Vir Chakra, for his role in the…

2015

Tekena Tamuno

Nigerian historian and academic (born 1932)

Tekena Nitonye Tamuno was a Nigerian historian and Vice-chancellor of the University of Ibadan. He was the President of the Board of Trustees of Bells University of Technology.

2015

J. Geils

American singer and guitarist (born 1946)

John Warren Geils Jr., was an American guitarist. He was known as the leader of the J. Geils Band.

2017

Mark Wainberg

Canadian researcher and HIV/AIDS activist (born 1945)

Mark Arnold Wainberg, was a Canadian HIV/AIDS researcher and HIV/AIDS activist. He was the director of the McGill University AIDS Centre at the Montreal Jewish General Hospital and Professor of Medicine and of…

2017

John Horton Conway

English mathematician (born 1937)

John Horton Conway was an English mathematician. He was active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. He also made contributions to many branches of…

2020

Mauro Viale

Argentine journalist (born 1947)

Mauricio Goldfarb, better known as Mauro Viale, was an Argentine journalist and television presenter. He started out in sports and later turned to general and entertainment journalism.

2021

Park Bo-ram

South Korean singer (born 1994)

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Mike Berry

British singer and actor (born 1942)

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Phil Garner

American baseball player and manager (born 1949)

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Cambodia Invasion — April 11, 1970

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Otto Wagner — Austrian architect (1841–1918)

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Death year1918

Known forHe was a leading member of the Vienna Secession movement of architecture, founded in 1897, and the broader Art Nouveau movement

Deaths on this date122 (618 – 2026)

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During the Pazigyi massacre, an airstrike conducted by the Myanmar Air Force kills at least 100 villagers in Pazigyi, Sagaing Region. Wikipedia →

2021

Twenty-year-old Daunte Wright is shot and killed in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, by officer Kimberly Potter, sparking protests in the city, when the officer mistakes her pistol for her taser. Wikipedia →

2018

An Ilyushin Il-76 owned and operated by the Algerian Air Force crashes near Boufarik, Algeria, killing 257. Wikipedia →

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