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Deaths on August 11

1171 : Louis I, Earl of Wage/Rieneck, dies
1180 : Guillaume de/Willem van Sens, Fren master builder (Canterbury), dies
1183 : Christian I, archbishop of Mainz, dies
1259 : M”ngke, Mongols great-khan/grandson of Ghengis Khan, dies
1394 : Jan III, mister of Polanen, dies
1456 : J nos Hunyadi, Hungarian general strategist, dies at about 49
1464 : Nicholas van Cusa, philosopher/bishop of Brixen, dies
1490 : French van Brederode, leader of Hoeksen, dies at about 25
1494 : Hans Memling, [John Memlinc], Flemish painter (Passietaferelen), dies
1519 : Johann Tetzel, Dominican monk, dies at about 79
1522 : Martin Siebenbrger, mayor of Vienna, beheaded
1578 : Pedro Nunes, [Nonius], Port mathematician/astronomer (nonius), dies
1589 : Maarten Schenck van Nideggen, lt col (80 year war), dies at about 49
1729 : Nicola Francesco Haym, composer, dies at 51
1757 : Jose Pradas Gallen, composer, dies at 67
1794 : Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer, dies at 72
1820 : Janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56
1844 : Jernej Kopitar, filmologist/censor (Slavic Grammatica), dies at 63
1852 : Nicolaas Plomp, Dutch architect (Strugle), dies at 70
1860 : James Wilson, politician
1868 : Halfdan Kierulf, composer, dies at 52
1868 : Thaddeus Stevens, architect of Radical Reconstruction, dies at 76
1872 : Lowell Mason, US organist/composer (Zebulo), dies at 80
1890 : John Henry Newman, English cardinal, dies at 89
1901 : Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier, dies at about 82
1919 : Andrew Carnegie, US steel industrialist/philanthropist, dies at 83
1935 : William Watson, British poet (Purple East), dies
1937 : Bakr Sidqi, general/dictator of Iraq, dies
1937 : Edith N Wharton[-Jones], US author (House of Mirth), dies at 75
1942 : Richard Heinrich Stein, composer, dies at 60
1949 : Karl Weigl, composer, dies at 68
1951 : Ebbe Hamerik, composer, dies at 52
1952 : Riccardo Martin, composer, dies at 77
1953 : Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Heimliche Gegenwart), dies
1956 : Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton)
1965 : Bill Woodfull, cricketer (35 Tests for Australia), dies
1968 : Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian biblical scholar, dies
1972 : Max Theiler, S Afr/US microbiologist (vaccin-Nobel 1951), dies at 73
1973 : Peggy Castle, actress (Lily Merrill-Lawman), dies of cirrhosis at 46
1974 : Jack Hill, cricketer (3 Tests for Australia 1953-55, 8 wickets), dies
1974 : Vicente Emilio Sojo, composer, dies at 86
1975 : Anthony C McAuliffe, US gen/commandant 101st div (Nuts!), dies at 77
1975 : Howard Wendell, actor (Black Dakotas), dies at 81
1982 : Tom Drake, actor (Green Years, Warkill), dies of lung cancer at 63
1984 : Alfred A Knopf, US publisher, dies at 91
1984 : Percy Mayfield, US singer (Hit the Road Jack), dies at 63
1987 : Clara Peller, commercial spokesperson (Wendy's), dies at 86
1988 : Anne Ramsey, actress (Throw Mama From Train), dies of cancer at 59
1988 : Jean-Pierre Ponnele, opera director (Carmina Burana), dies at 56
1988 : Pauline Lafont, daughter of Bernadette, dies in hiking accident at 25
1989 : John Meillon, actor (Wild Duck, Crocodile Dundee), dies
1991 : Jef Contryn, Flemish pioneer puppet theatre, dies at 89
1994 : Dorothy Lousie Grenfell Williams, broadcaster, dies at 60
1994 : Gordon Cullen, architect, dies at 80
1994 : Mark "Red" Mitchell, actor (JFK, 8 Seconds, Want to Live), dies at 33
1994 : Peter Cushing, actor (Star Wars, Dr Who), dies of cancer at 81
1995 : Douglas John Gorman, businessman, dies at 58
1995 : Herbert Whitton John Sumsion, organist/composer, dies at 96
1995 : Kenneth Lo, cookery writer/restaurateur, dies at 81
1995 : Phil Harris, Linton In, actor/comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 89
1995 : Wilbur Stark, tV/film producer, dies at 83
1996 : Mel Taylor, drummer, dies at 63
1996 : Rafael Jeronym Kubelik, conductor, dies at 82
1996 : Sigmund Koch, psychologist/philosopher, dies at 79

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