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Deaths on December 11

xxxx : Juitianus II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at about 42
1282 : Llywelyn ab Gruffydd, monarch of North Wales (1246-77), dies
1282 : Michael VIII, Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1259-82), dies
1524 : Henry Van Zutphen, Dutch protestant martyr, burned at stake
1573 : Alardus/Eilard de Waterlant, duke of Alva, hanged
1582 : Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, marquis of Soria, dies at about 75
1595 : Philip III van Croij, prince of Chimay/general, dies at 69
1610 : Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, buried at 32
1610 : Forges Dimitri 2, czar of Russia, murdered
1686 : Louis II Cond‚, duke of Bourbon, dies at 65
1718 : Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), shot dead
1748 : Ewald G von Kleist, German lawyer/inventor of condensator, dies at 55
1756 : Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king, dies
1817 : Max von Schenkendorf, German poet, dies at 34
1831 : John George Schetky, composer, dies at 55
1847 : Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet, dies at 25
1857 : Fran‡ois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze, composer, dies at 73
1891 : Johan C J van Schagen, Dutch poet/writer (Narrenwijsheid), dies
1899 : Andrew "Andy" Wauchope, British general-major, dies in battle
1899 : Lord Winchester, British marquis/major, dies in battle
1902 : Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica), dies at 68
1903 : Patrick McShane, cricket player/ump (1884-85 Ashes series), dies
1911 : Thomas Ball, US sculptor/painter/singer, dies at 92
1918 : Ivan Cankar, Slavic author (Hlapec Jernej), dies at 42
1930 : Friedrich von Bernhardi, German war theorist/historian, dies at 81
1933 : Emile C Wauters, Belgian painter (Van der Goes Klooster), dies at 87
1955 : Franz Adolf Syberg, composer, dies at 51
1955 : Johan C Altorf, sculptor (October 3 Monument), dies at 79
1964 : Percy Kilbride, actor (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies at 76
1964 : Sam Cooke, rock vocalist, shot to death at 29
1967 : Howard Freeman, actor (Double Dynamite), dies after illness in NYC
1967 : Richard Stohr, composer, dies at 93
1967 : Victor De Sabata, composer, dies at 75
1968 : Nadine Riga, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 59
1972 : John Mills, cricketer (7 Tests for NZ in early 1930's, 241 runs), dies
1972 : Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Zolushka), dies at 66
1974 : Reed Hadley, actor (Racket Squad, Public Defender), dies at 63
1979 : Claire Carleton, NYC, actress (Alice-Cimarron City), dies at 66
1983 : Szymon Laks, composer, dies at 82
1984 : George Waggner, director/writer, dies at 90
1986 : Paul Keenan, actor (Summer Fantasy), dies at 30
1990 : Fernand J Collin, Belgian economist/banker, dies at 92
1991 : Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Prof (Swedish Academy), dies
1991 : Daniel Simon Scott, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 71
1991 : Headman Tshabala, musician (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), slain at 44
1991 : Robert Q Lewis, US comic/TV panel member (RQL Show), dies at 70
1992 : Michael Robbins, actor (Lunch Hour, On the Buses), dies at 62
1992 : Vilma Banky, silent film actress (Eagle, Rebel), dies at about 90
1993 : Ales Gartner, Slavic ski trainer of Norway, dies at 45
1993 : Eliva "Elvire" Popesco, Romanian/French actress (Le roi), dies at 99
1994 : Stanislaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major (WW II), dies at 102
1994 : Yao Yilin, Vice PM of China (1979), dies
1995 : Arthur Mullard, comedian, dies at 82
1995 : John Heawood, actor singer/choreographer (Pleasure Garden), dies at 75
1995 : Robert Shelton (Shapiro), journalist, dies at 69
1996 : Herbert Sally Frankel, economist, dies at 93
1996 : Robert Bromston Thesiger Daniell, soldier, dies at 95
1996 : W G G Duncan-Smith, fighter pilot, dies at 82
1996 : William George Rushton, actor (TW3)/author/cartoonist, dies at 59
1997 : Kenneth WIlliam Gatland, aerospace scientist, dies at 73

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