Did you know
Marley increased the visibility of Jamaican music worldwide and became a global figure in popular culture.
Notable Deaths on May 11
1981 — Bob Marley
Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1945)
May 11 has 56 recorded notable deaths across history, from 912 to 2026. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
56 source records
912 – 2026
Today in history
Major events on May 11
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 2010 David Cameron takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats form the country's first coalition government since the Second World War. Source
- 973 In the first coronation ceremony ever held for an English monarch, Edgar the Peaceful is crowned King of England, having ruled since 959 AD. His wife, Ælfthryth, is crowned queen, the first recorded coronation for a Queen of England. Source
- 2009 Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Source
- 1919 Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. Source
Did you know
Jerry Stiller spent many years as part of the comedy duo Stiller and Meara with his wife, Anne Meara, to whom he was married for over 60 years until her death in 2015.
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Rockefeller was the fifth child and only son of Standard Oil co-founder John D.
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Silverstein spent the last 36 years of his life in solitary confinement for killing corrections officer Merle Clutts at the Marion Penitentiary in Illinois.
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As an amateur, he won a gold medal in the middleweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
More major people who died on May 11
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2020
Jerry Stiller
American comedian, actor (born 1927)
Gerald Isaac Stiller was an American comedian and actor. He spent many years as part of the comedy duo Stiller and Meara with his wife, Anne Meara, to whom he was married for over 60 years until her death in 2015.
1960
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
American businessman and philanthropist (born 1874)
John Davison Rockefeller Jr. was an American financier and philanthropist. Rockefeller was the fifth child and only son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller.
2019
Thomas Silverstein
American murderer (born 1952)
Thomas Edward Silverstein was an American criminal who spent the last 42 years of his life in prison after being convicted of three separate murders, with a fourth murder conviction being overturned and Silverstein…
2006
Floyd Patterson
American boxer and actor (born 1935)
Floyd Patterson was an American professional boxer who competed from 1952 to 1972, and twice reigned as the world heavyweight champion between 1956 and 1962.
1920
James Colosimo
Italian-American mob boss (born 1878)
Vincenzo Colosimo, known as James "Big Jim" Colosimo or as "Diamond Jim", was an Italian-American Mafia crime boss who emigrated from Calabria, Italy, in 1895 and built a criminal empire in Chicago based on…
1994
Timothy Carey
American actor, director, and producer (born 1928)
Timothy Agoglia Carey was an American film and television character actor who was typically cast as manic or violent characters who are driven to extremes.
912
Leo VI the Wise
Byzantine Emperor, the second ruler of the Macedonian dynasty (born 866)
Leo VI, also known as Leo the Wise, was Byzantine Emperor from 886 to 912. The second ruler of the Macedonian dynasty, he was very well read, leading to his epithet.
1986
Fritz Pollard
American football player and coach (born 1894)
Frederick Douglass "Fritz" Pollard was an American professional football player and coach. In 1921, he became the first African-American head coach in the National Football League (NFL).
2009
Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda
Indian admiral (born 1915)
Admiral Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda, PVSM, AVSM was an Indian Navy admiral who served as the 6th Chief of the Naval Staff from 1 March 1970 until 28 February 1973.
1983
Zenna Henderson
American writer (born 1917)
Zenna Chlarson Henderson was an American elementary school teacher and science fiction and fantasy author. Her first story was published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1951.
2009
Abel Goumba
Central African physician and politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (born 1926)
Abel Nguéndé Goumba was a Central African politician. During the late 1950s, he headed the government in the period prior to independence from France, and following independence he was an unsuccessful candidate for…
2026
Brandon Clarke
Canadian-American basketball player (born 1996)
Brandon Clarke was a Canadian–American professional basketball player who served as a power forward for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
2009
Claudio Huepe
Chilean economist and politician, Chilean Minister Secretary-General of Government (born 1939)
Claudio Huepe García was a Chilean politician, engineer and economist, member of the Christian Democrat party, who occupied several government and political positions.
1988
Kim Philby
British-Soviet double agent (born 1912)
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union.
2019
Peggy Lipton
American actress, model, and singer (born 1946)
Margaret Ann Lipton was an American model, actress, and singer.
2005
Horton Davies
Welsh minister and historian (born 1916)
Horton Marlais Davies was a Welsh Protestant minister, historian of Christianity, and painter.
1849
Juliette Récamier
French businesswoman (born 1777)
Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier, known as Juliette, was a French socialite whose salon drew people from the leading literary and political circles of early 19th-century Paris.
2021
Colt Brennan
American quarterback (born 1983)
Colton James Brennan was an American football quarterback. He played college football for the Colorado Buffaloes, Saddleback Gauchos, and Hawaii Rainbow Warriors.
2021
Norman Lloyd
American actor, producer and director (born 1914)
Norman Nathan Lloyd was an American actor, producer, director, and centenarian with a career in entertainment spanning nearly a century.