Notable Deaths on November 11

Q: Who died on November 11?

Notable people who died on November 11 include: Arsacius of Tarsus, Yazid I, Petronas, Antony the Younger, Teutberga.

Q: What is John Stanley known for?

John Stanley, American author and illustrator (born 1914)

115 people 405 – 2024

November 11 has seen 115 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 405 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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1993 — John Stanley

American author and illustrator (born 1914)

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Beck remarked, "The only comic books I ever read and enjoyed were Little Lulu and Donald Duck".

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John Stanley was an American cartoonist and comic book writer, best known for writing Little Lulu comic book stories from 1945 to 1959

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While mostly known for scripting, Stanley also drew many of his stories, including the earliest issues of Little Lulu and its Tubby spinoff series

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His specialty was humorous stories, both with licensed characters and those of his own creation

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His writing style has been described as employing "colorful, S

Arsacius of Tarsus

Tarsian archbishop (born 324)

Arsacius of Tarsus was the intruding archbishop of Constantinople from 404 to 405, after the violent expulsion of John Chrysostom.

405

Yazid I

Muslim caliph (born 647)

Yazid ibn Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan, commonly known as Yazid I, was the second caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, ruling from April 680 until his death in November 683. His appointment by his father Mu'awiya I was the first…

683

Petronas

Byzantine general

Petronas was a notable Byzantine general and leading aristocrat during the mid-9th century. Petronas was a brother of Empress Theodora and hence brother-in-law of Emperor Theophilos, under whom he advanced to the high…

865

Antony the Younger

Byzantine monk and saint (born 785)

Saint Antony the Younger was a Byzantine military officer who became a monk and saint. He is commemorated by the Eastern Orthodox Church on 1 December.

865

Teutberga

queen of Lotharingia

Teutberga was a Frankish noblewoman and queen consort of Lothair II of Lotharingia. A member of the Bosonid dynasty, she became the central figure in one of the most politically charged marriage disputes of the 9th…

875

Constantine VIII

Byzantine emperor (born 960)

Constantine VIII was de jure Byzantine emperor from 962 until his death. He was the younger son of Emperor Romanos II and Empress Theophano. He was nominal co-emperor from 962, successively with his father; stepfather,…

1028

Udo of Nellenburg

Archbishop of Trier (during the siege of Tübingen)

Udo of Nellenburg was the Archbishop of Trier from 1066 until his death. He was an important mediator during the height of the Investiture Controversy.

1078

Peter Igneus

Italian Benedictine monk

Pietro Igneo was an Italian Roman Catholic Benedictine monk from the Vallombrosians branch. He also served as a cardinal and was named as the Cardinal-Bishop of Albano. He is often referred to as a member of the…

1089

Teresa of León

Countess of Portugal, Portuguese regent (born 1080)

Theresa was Countess of Portugal, and for a time claimant to be its independent Queen. She rebelled against her half-sister Queen Urraca of León. She was recognised as Queen by Pope Paschal II in 1116, but was captured…

1130

King William II of Sicily ("the Good") (born 1153)

William II, called the Good, was king of Sicily from 1166 to 1189. From surviving sources William's character is indistinct. Lacking in military enterprise, secluded and pleasure-loving, he seldom emerged from his…

1189

King Peter III of Aragon (born 1239)

Peter III of Aragon was King of Aragon, King of Valencia, and Count of Barcelona from 1276 to his death. At the invitation of some rebels, he conquered the Kingdom of Sicily and became King of Sicily in 1282, pressing…

1285

Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia (born c. 1285)

Stefan Uroš III, was King of Serbia from 6 January 1322 to 8 September 1331. Dečanski was the son of King Stefan Milutin. He defeated two other contenders to the Serbian throne. Stefan is known as Dečanski after the…

1331

Hans Tausen

Danish reformer (born 1494)

Hans Tausen (Tavsen) nicknamed the “Danish Luther” was the leading Lutheran theologian of the Danish Reformation. He served as Bishop of Ribe and published the first translation of the Pentateuch into Danish in 1535.

1561

Gerald FitzGerald

14th Earl of Desmond, Irish rebel

Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond, also counted as 15th or 16th, owned large part of the Irish province of Munster. In 1565 he fought the private Battle of Affane against his neighbours, the Butlers. After this,…

1583

Philippe de Mornay

French theorist and author (born 1549)

Philippe de Mornay, seigneur du Plessis Marly, usually known as Du-Plessis-Mornay or Mornay Du Plessis, was a French Protestant writer and member of the anti-monarchist Monarchomaques.

1623

Cornelis van Haarlem

Dutch painter and illustrator (born 1562)

Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem was a Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman, one of the leading Northern Mannerist artists in the Netherlands, and an important forerunner of Frans Hals as a portraitist.

1638

Joseph Blake

English criminal (born 1700)

Joseph "Blueskin" Blake was an 18th-century English highwayman and prison escapee.

1724

Platon Levshin

Russian metropolitan (born 1737)

Plato II or Platon II was the Metropolitan of Moscow from 1775 to 1812. He personifies the Age of Enlightenment in the Russian Orthodox Church.

1812

Nat Turner

American slave and rebel leader (born 1800)

Nat Turner was an enslaved Black carpenter and preacher who led a four-day rebellion of both enslaved and free Black people in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831.

1831

Søren Kierkegaard

Danish philosopher, author, and poet (born 1813)

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish Lutheran theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical texts on organized…

1855

Pedro V of Portugal (born 1837)

Dom Pedro V, nicknamed "the Hopeful", was King of Portugal from 1853 until his death in 1861.

1861

James Madison Porter

American lawyer and politician, 18th United States Secretary of War (born 1793)

James Madison Porter was an American politician who served as the 18th United States Secretary of War and a founder of Lafayette College.

1862

Ned Kelly

Australian bushranger (born 1855)

Edward Kelly was an Australian bushranger, gang leader and police-murderer. One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police.

1880

Lucretia Mott

American activist (born 1793)

Lucretia Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer. She had formed the idea of reforming the position of women in society when she was amongst the women excluded from the…

1880

Alfred Brehm

German zoologist, author, and illustrator (born 1827)

Alfred Edmund Brehm was a German zoologist and writer. His multi-volume book Brehms Tierleben, which he co-authored with Eduard Pechuël-Loesche, Wilhelm Haacke, and Richard Schmidtlein, became a household word for…

1884

Haymarket affair defendants:

The Haymarket affair, also known as the Haymarket massacre, the Haymarket riot, the Haymarket Square riot, or the Haymarket Incident, was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4,…

1887

George Engel

German-American businessman and activist (born 1836)

George Engel was a labor union activist executed after the Haymarket riot, along with Albert Parsons, August Spies, and Adolph Fischer.

1887

Adolph Fischer

German-American printer and activist (born 1858)

Adolph Fischer was an anarchist and labor union activist tried and executed after the Haymarket Riot.

1887

Albert Parsons

American journalist and activist (born 1848)

Albert Richard Parsons was an American left-wing newspaper editor, orator, and labor activist. As a teenager, he served in the military force of the Confederate States of America in Texas, during the American Civil War.…

1887

August Spies

American journalist and activist (born 1855)

August Vincent Theodore Spies was an American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper editor. One of the most prominent German-speaking anarchists in America during the decade of the 1880s, Spies was found…

1887

Pedro Ñancúpel

Chilean pirate active in the fjords and channels of Patagonia. He was executed.

Pedro María Ñancúpel Alarcón was a pirate and outlaw of Huilliche descent active in the archipelagoes of Chiloé, Guaitecas and other places in the fjords and channels of Patagonia in the 1880s, forming part of the…

1888

Liliuokalani of Hawaii (born 1838)

Liliʻuokalani was the only queen regnant and the last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ruling from January 29, 1891, until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom on January 17, 1893, in a coup that was led by…

1917

Henry Gunther

American soldier, believed to be the last man killed in World War I (born 1895)

Henry Nicholas John Gunther was an American soldier and possibly the last soldier of any of the belligerents to be killed during World War I. He was killed at 10:59 a.m., about one minute before the Armistice was to…

1918

George Lawrence Price

Canadian soldier, last casualty of the British Empire of World War I (born 1892)

Private George Lawrence Price was a Canadian soldier. He is traditionally recognized as the last soldier of the British Empire to be killed during the First World War.

1918

Pavel Chistyakov

Russian painter and educator (born 1832)

Pavel Petrovich Chistyakov was a Russian painter and art teacher, active in St. Petersburg and Tsarskoye Selo from Tsar Alexander II's reign through the Civil War days. He is known for historical and genre scenes as…

1919

Léon Moreaux

French target shooter (born 1852)

Léon Ernest Moreaux was a French sports shooter and Olympian who competed in pistol and rifle shooting in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

1921

Shibusawa Eiichi

Japanese businessman (born 1840)

Shibusawa Eiichi, 1st Viscount Shibusawa was a Japanese business magnate widely known today as the "Father of Japanese capitalism", having introduced Western capitalism to Japan after the Meiji Restoration. He…

1931

Bob Marshall

American author and activist (born 1901)

Robert Marshall was an American forester, writer and wilderness activist who is best remembered as the person who spearheaded the 1935 founding of the Wilderness Society in the United States. Marshall developed a love…

1939

Muhittin Akyüz

Turkish general and diplomat (born 1870)

Muhittin Akyüz, known as Muhiddin Pasha until 1934, was a Turkish military officer and diplomat. He served for both the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army. He fought in the Gallipoli campaign during World War I where he…

1940

Munir Ertegun

Turkish diplomat (born 1883)

Mehmet Münir Ertegün was a Turkish legal counsel in international law to the "Sublime Porte" of the late Ottoman Empire and a diplomat of the Republic of Turkey during its early years. Ertegün married Emine Hayrünnisa…

1944

Jerome Kern

American composer (born 1885)

Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage…

1945

Loukas Kanakaris-Roufos

Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Foreign Minister (born 1878)

Loukas Kanakaris-Roufos was a Greek politician.

1949

Alexandros Diomidis

Greek banker and politician, 145th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1875)

Alexandros Diomidis was a governor of the Central Bank of Greece who became Prime Minister of Greece upon the death of Themistoklis Sofoulis.

1950

Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (born 1866)

Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine, later Princess Henry of Prussia, was the third child and third daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine. Her maternal…

1953

Behiç Erkin

Turkish colonel and politician, Turkish Minister of Environment and Urban Planning (born 1876)

Behiç Erkin was a Turkish career officer, Armenian genocide perpetrator, first director (1920–1926) of the Turkish State Railways, nationalized under his auspices, statesman and diplomat of the Turkish Republic. He was…

1961

Joseph Ruddy

American swimmer and water polo player (born 1878)

Joseph Aloysius Ruddy Sr. was an American competition swimmer and water polo player who competed for the New York Athletic Club and represented the United States at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri.

1962

Luis Arturo González López Guatemalan supreme court judge and briefly acting president (born 1900)

Luis Arturo González López was a Guatemalan attorney and politician who served as the acting President of Guatemala from 27 July 1957 to 24 October 1957. He became president after the assassination of Carlos Castillo…

1965

Jeanne Demessieux

French pianist and composer (born 1921)

Jeanne Marie-Madeleine Demessieux was a French organist, pianist, composer, and teacher. She was the chief organist at Saint-Esprit for 29 years and at La Madeleine in Paris starting in 1962. She performed…

1968

Berry Oakley

American bass player (born 1948)

Raymond Berry Oakley III was an American bassist and one of the founding members of the Allman Brothers Band. Known for his long, melodic bass runs, he was ranked number 46 on Bass Player magazine's list of "The 100…

1972

Artturi Ilmari Virtanen

Finnish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1895)

Artturi Ilmari Virtanen was a Finnish chemist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method".

1973

Richard von Frankenberg

German race car driver and journalist (born 1922)

Richard von Frankenberg was a German journalist and race car driver.

1973

Alfonso Leng

Chilean dentist, composer, and academic (born 1894)

Alfonso Leng Haygus was a post-romantic composer of classical music. He was born in Santiago, Chile. He wrote the first important symphonic work in Chilean tradition, "La Muerte de Alcino", a symphonic poem inspired by…

1974

Alexander Calder

American sculptor (born 1898)

Alexander "Sandy" Calder was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures. Calder preferred not to…

1976

Abraham Sarmiento

Jr., Filipino journalist and activist (born 1950)

Abraham "Ditto" Pascual Sarmiento Jr. was a Filipino student journalist who gained prominence as an early and visible critic of the martial law regime of dictator Ferdinand Marcos. As editor-in-chief of the Philippine…

1977

Dimitri Tiomkin

Ukrainian-American composer and conductor (born 1894)

Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a Russian and American film composer and conductor. Classically trained in Saint Petersburg before the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Berlin and then New York City after the Russian…

1979

Vince Gair

Australian politician, 27th Premier of Queensland (born 1901)

Vincent Clair Gair was an Australian politician. He served as Premier of Queensland from 1952 until 1957, when his stormy relations with the trade union movement saw him expelled from the Labor Party. He was elected to…

1980

Marcel Paul

French communist politician and Holocaust survivor (born 1900)

Marcel Paul was a French trade unionist and communist politician. He was also a Nazi concentration camp survivor and later served as a member of the French parliament.

1982

Martin Luther King

Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist (born 1899)

Martin Luther King, commonly known as Daddy King, was an American Baptist pastor, missionary, and civil rights activist who was an early figure in the civil rights movement. He served as the senior pastor of Atlanta's…

1984

Pelle Lindbergh

Swedish ice hockey player (born 1959)

Göran Per-Eric "Pelle" Lindbergh was a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender who played five seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was the first European-born goaltender to be…

1985

Arthur Rothstein

American photographer and educator (born 1915)

Arthur Rothstein was an American photographer. His career spanned five decades, and he received recognition as one of America's premier photojournalists.

1985

Charles Groves Wright Anderson

South African-Australian colonel and politician (born 1897)

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Groves Wright Anderson was a South African-born Australian soldier, farmer, and politician. He was a recipient of the Victoria Cross and a member of the Australian House of Representatives.

1988

William Ifor Jones

Welsh conductor and organist (born 1900)

William Ifor Jones was a Welsh conductor and organist. Born into a large coal-mining family and raised in Merthyr Tydfil, Jones studied at the Royal Academy of Music as a scholarship student in London from 1920 to 1925.…

1988

Attilio Demaría

Argentinian footballer (born 1909)

Atilio José Demaría, Italianized as Attilio Demaria, was an Italian Argentine footballer, who played as a striker. He played club football in Argentina and Italy. At international level, he represented Argentina in the…

1990

Sadi Irmak

Turkish physician and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1904)

Mahmut Sadi Irmak was a Turkish academic in physiology, politician and former Prime Minister of Turkey.

1990

Alexis Minotis

Greek actor and director (born 1900)

Alexis Minotis was a Greek actor and director.

1990

Yiannis Ritsos

Greek poet and playwright (born 1909)

Yiannis Ritsos was a Greek poet and communist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II. While he disliked being regarded as a political poet, he has been called "the great poet of the Greek left".

1990

Erskine Hawkins

American trumpet player and bandleader (born 1914)

Erskine Ramsay Hawkins was an American trumpeter and big band leader from Birmingham, Alabama, dubbed "The 20th Century Gabriel". He is best remembered for composing the jazz standard "Tuxedo Junction" (1939) with…

1993

John A. Volpe

American soldier and politician, 61st Governor of Massachusetts (born 1908)

John Anthony Volpe was an American businessman, diplomat, and politician from Massachusetts. A son of Italian immigrants, he founded and owned a large construction firm. Politically, he was a Republican in increasingly…

1994

Tadeusz Żychiewicz

Polish journalist, historian, and publicist (born 1922)

Tadeusz Żychiewicz was a Polish journalist, art historian, religious publicist, theologist, Biblicist, feuilletonist and editor of Tygodnik Powszechny, soldier of Armia Krajowa.

1994

Rod Milburn

American hurdler and coach (born 1950)

Rodney Milburn Jr. was an American hurdler who won gold at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich in the 110 m hurdles.

1997

William Alland

American film producer and writer (born 1916)

William Alland was an American actor, film producer and writer, mainly of Western and science-fiction/monster films, including This Island Earth, It Came From Outer Space, Tarantula!, The Deadly Mantis, The Mole People,…

1997

Frank Brimsek

American ice hockey player and soldier (born 1913)

Francis Charles "Mr. Zero" Brimsek was an American professional ice hockey player. He was a goaltender for ten seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Boston Bruins and Chicago Black Hawks. He won the Calder…

1998

Paddy Clancy

Irish singer and actor (born 1922)

Patrick Michael Clancy, usually called Paddy Clancy or Pat Clancy, was an Irish folk singer best known as a member of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. In addition to singing and storytelling, Clancy played the…

1998

Mary Kay Bergman

American voice actress (born 1961)

Mary Kay Bergman, also briefly credited as Shannen Cassidy, was an American voice actress and voice-over teacher. She was the official voice of the Disney character Snow White from 1989 to 1999 and the lead female voice…

1999

Jacobo Timerman

Argentinian journalist and author (born 1923)

Jacobo Timerman was a Soviet-born Argentine publisher, journalist, and author, who is most noted for his confronting and reporting the atrocities of the Argentine military regime's Dirty War during a period of…

1999

Sandra Schmitt

German skier (born 1981)

Sandra Schmitt was a German freestyle skier. In 1998, she came 9th in the Women's Moguls contest at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. She became the Women's Dual Moguls World Champion in 1999. Schmitt died with her…

2000

Erna Viitol

Estonian sculptor (born 1920)

Erna Viitol was an Estonian sculptor.

2001

Frances Ames

South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist (born 1920)

Frances Rix Ames was a South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist, best known for leading the medical ethics inquiry into the death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, who died from medical…

2002

Miquel Martí i Pol

Catalan poet (born 1929)

Miquel Martí i Pol was one of the most popular and widely-read Catalan poets of the twentieth century, publishing more than 1,500 poems.

2003

Dayton Allen

American comedian and voice actor (born 1919)

Dayton Allen was an American comedian and voice actor. He was one of the "men in the street" on The Steve Allen Show. His catchphrase was "Why not, Bubbe?"

2004

Yasser Arafat

Palestinian engineer and politician, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1929)

Yasser Arafat, also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004, President of Palestine from 1989 to 2004…

2004

Richard Dembo

French director and screenwriter (born 1948)

Richard Dembo was a French director and screenwriter.

2004

Moustapha Akkad

Syrian-American director and producer (born 1930)

Moustapha al Akkad was a Syrian-American film producer and director, best known for producing the original series of Halloween films and directing The Message and Lion of the Desert. He was killed along with his…

2005

Patrick Anson

5th Earl of Lichfield, English photographer (born 1939)

Thomas Patrick John Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, was an English photographer from the Anson family. He inherited the Earldom of Lichfield in 1960 from his paternal grandfather. In his professional practice he was known…

2005

Peter Drucker

Austrian-American author, theorist, and educator (born 1909)

Peter Ferdinand Drucker was an Austrian American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of modern management theory. He was also a leader…

2005

Belinda Emmett

Australian actress (born 1974)

Belinda Jane Emmett was an Australian actress and singer. She was best known for her roles in the TV drama series Home and Away and All Saints as well as the sitcom Hey Dad..!. She was married to Australian television…

2006

Delbert Mann

American director and producer (born 1920)

Delbert Martin Mann Jr. was an American television and film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film Marty (1955), adapted from a 1953 teleplay which he had also directed. From 1967 to 1971, he…

2007

Herb Score

American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1933)

Herbert Jude Score was an American professional baseball pitcher and announcer in Major League Baseball (MLB). He pitched for the Cleveland Indians from 1955 through 1959 and the Chicago White Sox from 1960 through…

2008

Mustafa Şekip Birgöl

Turkish colonel (born 1903)

Mustafa Şekip Birgöl was a Turkish colonel and the last-surviving combat veteran of the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1923).

2008

Marie Osborne Yeats

American actress and costume designer (born 1911)

Marie Osborne Yeats, credited as Baby Marie between 1914 and 1919, was an American actress who was the first major child star of American silent films. She was one of the three major American child stars of the…

2010

Francisco Blake Mora

Mexican lawyer and politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior (born 1966)

José Francisco Blake Mora was a Mexican lawyer and politician who served as the Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of Felipe Calderón from 2010 to 2011. He was Mexico's top cabinet secretary and key figure in the…

2011

Lam Adesina

Nigerian educator and politician, Governor of Oyo State (born 1939)

Lamidi Ona-Olapo Adesina ; 20 January 1939 – 11 November 2012) was a Nigerian educator and politician who served as the governor of Oyo State from 1999 to 2003, as a member of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) party.

2012

Joe Egan

English rugby player and coach (born 1919)

Joseph Egan was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, and coached in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He played at representative level for Great Britain and England and…

2012

Rex Hunt

English lieutenant, pilot, and diplomat, Governor of the Falkland Islands (born 1926)

Sir Rex Masterman Hunt, was a British Government diplomat and colonial administrator. He was Governor, Commander-in-Chief, and Vice Admiral of the Falkland Islands between 1980 and September 1985. During the 1982…

2012

Victor Mees

Belgian footballer (born 1927)

Victor Mees, nicknamed Vic or Vicky, was a Belgian footballer who played all of his career at Royal Antwerp.

2012

Harry Wayland Randall

American photographer (born 1915)

Harry W. Randall Jr. served in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and was the Chief Photographer of the Photographic Unit of the XV International Brigade.

2012

John Barnhill

American basketball player and coach (born 1938)

John Anthony "Rabbit" Barnhill was an American professional basketball player.

2013

Domenico Bartolucci

Italian cardinal and composer (born 1917)

Domenico Bartolucci was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was the former director of the Sistine Chapel Choir and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and was recognised in the field of music both as a…

2013

Bob Beckham

American singer-songwriter (born 1927)

Robert Joseph Beckham was an American country music publisher based in Nashville, who mentored generations of songwriters as head of Combine Music Publishing from 1964 to 1989. He played a pivotal role in the career of…

2013

John S. Dunne

American priest and theologian (born 1929)

John Scribner Dunne, C.S.C. was an American priest and theologian of the Congregation of Holy Cross. He held the John A. O'Brien Professorship of Theology at the University of Notre Dame.

2013

Atilla Karaosmanoğlu

Turkish economist and politician, 33rd Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1931)

Atilla Karaosmanoğlu was a Turkish economist and politician.

2013

John Doar

American lawyer and activist (born 1921)

John Michael Doar was an American lawyer and senior counsel with the law firm Doar Rieck Kaley & Mack in New York City.

2014

Big Bank Hank

American rapper (born 1956)

Henry Lee Jackson, known by his stage name Big Bank Hank, was an American hip hop recording artist and manager. Also known as Imp the Dimp, he was a member of the trio the Sugarhill Gang, the first hip hop act to have a…

2014

Philip G. Hodge

American engineer and academic (born 1920)

Philip Gibson Hodge Jr. was an American engineer who specialized in mechanics of elastic and plastic behavior of materials. His work resulted in significant advancements in plasticity theory including developments in…

2014

Harry Lonsdale

American chemist, businessman, and politician (born 1932)

Harold K. Lonsdale was an American scientist, businessman, and politician. A Democrat, he ran for United States Senate in the U.S. state of Oregon three times, losing twice in the primaries and once as the Democratic…

2014

Carol Ann Susi

American actress (born 1952)

Carol Ann Susi was an American actress whose career spanned 40 years. She debuted as the recurring character of semi-competent but likable intern Monique Marmelstein on Kolchak: The Night Stalker. More than three…

2014

Rita Gross

American theologian and author (born 1943)

Rita M. Gross was an American Buddhist feminist scholar of religions and author. Before retiring, she was Professor of Comparative Studies in Religion at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire.

2015

Nathaniel Marston

American actor and producer (born 1975)

Nathaniel Marston was an American actor and producer, known for his daytime roles on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns and ABC's One Life to Live.

2015

Victor Bailey

American singer and bass player (born 1960)

Victor Bailey was an American bass guitar player. He was the bassist for Weather Report during their final years from 1982 to 1986, and launched a solo career in 1988. As a musician, Bailey was known for his signature…

2016

Robert Vaughn

American actor (born 1932)

Robert Francis Vaughn was an American actor and political activist, whose career in film, television and theater spanned nearly six decades and who was best known for his role as the secret agent Napoleon Solo on The…

2016

Chiquito de la Calzada

Spanish singer, actor and comedian (born 1932)

Gregorio Esteban Sánchez Fernández, known as Chiquito de la Calzada, was a Spanish flamenco singer and actor, although he rose to fame as a stand-up comedian.

2017

F. W. de Klerk

South African lawyer and politician, former State President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)

Frederik Willem de Klerk was a South African politician who served as the final state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president alongside Thabo Mbeki under President Nelson Mandela from 1994 to…

2021

Frank Auerbach

German-British painter (born 1931)

Frank Helmut Auerbach was a German-born British painter. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, he became a naturalised British subject in 1947. He is considered one of the leading names in the School of London, with fellow…

2024

John Robinson

American football player and coach (born 1935)

John Alexander Robinson was an American football coach best known for his two stints as head coach of the USC Trojans and for his tenure as the head coach for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL)…

2024

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Death year1993

Known forWhile mostly known for scripting, Stanley also drew many of his stories, including the earliest issues of Little Lulu and its Tubby spinoff series

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