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Ronald Speirs later became the American governor for Spandau Prison in Berlin.
Notable Deaths on April 11
2007 — Ronald Speirs
Scottish-American colonel (born 1920)
April 11 has 122 recorded notable deaths across history, from 618 to 2026. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
122 source records
618 – 2026
Today in history
Major events on April 11
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- 1814 The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time. Source
- 1968 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. Source
- 1921 Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan. Source
- 1713 France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Utrecht, bringing an end to the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War). Britain accepts Philip V as King of Spain, while Philip renounces any claim to the French throne. Source
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Llywelyn the Great's reign saw Gwynedd transformed from a territory suffering from thirty years of civil war into a polity which could exercise suzerainty over most other native Welsh rulers.
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John O'Hara became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30 with Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8.
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A member of the Leafs organization from 1940 and a senior executive from 1957, he became part-owner of the team in 1961 and was majority owner from February 1972 until his death.
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By mid-1890s, he had already designed several buildings in what became known as the Vienna Secession style.
More major people who died on April 11
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1240
Llywelyn the Great
Welsh prince (born 1172)
Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, also known as Llywelyn Fawr or Llywelyn the Great, was Prince of Gwynedd from 1199 until his death in 1240.
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.
1990
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.
1918
Otto Wagner
Austrian architect and urban planner (born 1841)
Otto Koloman Wagner was an Austrian architect, furniture designer and urban planner. He was a leading member of the Vienna Secession movement of architecture, founded in 1897, and the broader Art Nouveau movement.
2013
Hilary Koprowski
Polish-American virologist and immunologist (born 1916)
Hilary Koprowski was a Polish virologist and immunologist. He was the first scientist to produce attenuated poliovirus and to conduct large-scale clinical research studies of an oral polio vaccine.
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.
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.
1512
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.
1985
Bunny Ahearne
Irish-born English businessman (born 1900)
John Francis "Bunny" Ahearne was a British ice hockey administrator and businessman.
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.
1856
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.
1165
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.
2026
Phil Garner
American baseball player and manager (born 1949)
Philip Mason Garner was an American professional baseball player and manager.
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.
2014
Bill Henry
American baseball player (born 1927)
William Rodman Henry was an American professional baseball player.
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.
1985
Enver Hoxha
Albanian educator and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Albania (born 1908)
Enver Halil Hoxha was an Albanian communist politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who was the leader of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985.
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.
2024
Park Bo-ram
South Korean singer (born 1994)
Park Bo-ram was a South Korean singer. She took part in Mnet's SuperStar K2 and finished in eighth place. Park made her debut with release digital single "Beautiful" featuring Zico on August 7, 2014.