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Deaths on April 11

1902 : ... Potgieter, South African Boer general, dies in battle
1992 : Adele Dixon, singer/actress (Uneasy Virtue), dies of pneumonia at 83
1918 : Arthur Ochse, cricketer (WW I played for S Afr in 1889 aged 19), dies
1921 : Augusta Victoria, Queen of Prussia/wife of Emperor Wilhelm II, dies
1990 : Barbara Ann Miller, dies
1970 : Cathy O'Donnell, dies at 66
1980 : Charlotte Henry, dies
1974 : Curt Conway, dies
1996 : Daniel Wolf, journalist, dies at 80
1988 : David Prater, US singer (Sam & Dave-Soul Man), dies in car crash at 50
1983 : Dolores Del Rio, actress (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 78
1975 : Dorothy Patten, dies at 70
1996 : Edwin Clarke, historian/neurologist, dies at 76
1985 : Enver Hoxha, party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76
1987 : Erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83
1992 : Eve Merriam, poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of cancer at 75
1980 : Florence Lake, dies
1961 : Francis de Bourguignon, composer, dies at 70
1512 : Gaston de Foix, French pretender to Navarra throne, dies in battle
1903 : Gemma Galgani, Italian saint, dies at 25
1906 : Georgi Apollonovitch Gapon, Rus-orthodox clergyman/tsarist agent, dies
1812 : Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Opfer Noachs), dies at 35
1875 : Heinrich Schwabe, discoverer (11-year sunspot cycle), dies
1989 : Henk van Galen Last, Dutch journalist, dies at 68
1901 : Ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer, dies at 74
1977 : Jacques Pr‚vert, French poet (La puil et le beau), dies at 77
1810 : Jakob Zupan, composer, dies at 75
1906 : James A Bailey, circus showman (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 58
1992 : James Brown, actor (Rip-Adv of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 72
1988 : Jeff Donnell, actor (Hoedown, 9 Girls), dies at 66 of a heart attack
1996 : Jessica Dubroff, hoped to be youngest to fly across US, crashed at 7
1994 : Johan Block, Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia), dies at 64
1842 : John England, bishop of Charleston Carolina, dies
1839 : John Galt, Scottish writer (Last of the Lairds), dies at 59
1970 : John H O'Hara, US journalist (Pal Joey, Rage to Live), dies at 65
1945 : Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish resistance fighter (in Dachau), dies at 29
1854 : Karl Adolph von Basedow, German DR (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55
1987 : Kent Taylor, actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders), dies at 79
1881 : Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (Torn Trondal), dies at 40
1976 : Liam Dunn, dies a 59
1240 : Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies
1853 : Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer, dies
1996 : Louis Osman, artist/goldsmith/craftsman, dies at 82
1969 : Ludvig Irgens Jensen, composer, dies at 74
1729 : Manuel de Egues, composer, dies at 71
1996 : Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, advertising magnate, dies at 89
1981 : Marie Ney, dies at 85
1648 : Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer, dies at 53
1997 : Michael Dorris, writer, commits suicide at 52
1500 : Michael T Marullus, Greeks poet, drowns
1936 : Mitya Stillman, composer, dies at 44
1993 : Mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered
1783 : Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64
1838 : Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull), murdered at 40
1987 : Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67
1887 : Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer, dies at 54
1993 : Rachmon Nabiyev, President of Tadzjikistan (1973..92), dies at 63
1916 : Richard Harding Davis, journalist, dies at 52
1034 : Romanus III Argyrus, Byzantine emperor (1028-34), assasinated by wife
1939 : SS Van Dine, [William Huntingdon Wright], detective writer, dies at 50
1973 : Ted Decorsia, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon), dies at 69
1991 : Tom Rosqui, dies at 62
1952 : Wadi' Sabra, composer, dies at 76

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