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Deaths on January 11

xxxx : VI, Catholic Pope (701-05), dies
1055 : Constantine IX Monomachos, emperor of Byzantium, dies
1552 : Johannes Cochlaeus, [Dobeneck], German humanist/theologist, dies
1641 : Franciscus Gomarus, [Fran‡ois Gomaer], French theologist, dies
1650 : Paul Hallman, composer, dies at 49
1674 : Jan Zoet, actor/playwright/poet (Brutal-Roffel), dies at 58
1753 : Hans Sloane, English physician (British Museum), dies at 92
1771 : Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d'Argens, French author, dies at 66
1775 : Yemelyan Pugachov, Don Cossack rebel, executed by tsarist Russia
1784 : Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 59
1797 : Francis Lightfoot Lee, US farmer (singer Decl of Independ), dies at 62
1801 : Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Matrimonio segreto), dies at 51
1837 : Fran‡ois G‚rard, French baron/painter, dies at 66
1837 : John Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54
1843 : Francis Scott Key, composer (Star Spangled Banner), dies at 63
1847 : Caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld], German author, dies at 83
1856 : Nikolai I Nadezjdin, Russian archaeologist, dies [NS=Jan 23]
1870 : Adolf Ganz, composer, dies at 73
1877 : Pietro Romani, composer, dies at 85
1891 : Georges-EugŠne Haussmann, French senator/baron, dies at 81
1893 : Benjamin F Butler, US gen/pres candidate (anti-monopoly), dies at 74
1898 : Gaetano Capocci, composer, dies at 86
1901 : Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov, composer, dies at 34
1902 : Johnny Briggs, cricketer (118 wkts for England), dies in an asylum
1914 : Ambrose Bierce, writer, dies at 71
1923 : Constantine I, king of Greece (1913-17, 20-22), dies at 54
1928 : Thomas Hardy, novelist (Maddening Crowd), dies near Dorchester at 87
1929 : Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban revolutionary, murdered at about 28
1931 : Oscar Fetras, composer, dies at 76
1943 : Carlo Tresca, NY's Italian newspaper editor/anti-fascist, murdered
1944 : Galeazzo count of Cortellazzo Ciano, Italian politician, dies
1945 : Ada Negri, Italian poet/author (Fatalit…), dies at 74
1950 : Karin Michaelis, writer, dies at 77
1952 : Jean JM de Lattre de Tassigny, gen (N-Africa/Indo-China), dies at 61
1953 : Ernst H Ridder Rappard, Dutch Nazi founder (NSNAP), dies at 53
1953 : Marcel Canneel, Flemish painter, dies at 58
1953 : Noach Zjordanija, Georgian Premier (1918-21), dies at 84
1954 : Edgar Tytgat, Flemish painter/etcher/drawer, dies at 77
1954 : Emmy Arbous, Dutch actress/cabaret performer (Boefje), dies at 56
1954 : Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (Brave Soldier), dies at 83
1955 : Rodolfo Graziani, Italian East-Africa Minister of Defense, dies at 72
1958 : Alec Rowley, composer, dies at 65
1959 : Mohammed Zakaria Ghonein, discoverer of 6,000 yr old pyramid, dies
1960 : Johan E Elias, Dutch historian (Elias Family), dies at 84
1963 : Arthur D Nock, English/Americans historian (St Paul), dies at 60
1966 : Albert Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor, dies at 64
1966 : Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian premier (1964-66), dies at 61
1973 : Isabel Randolph, actress (Missing Corpse), dies at 83
1973 : Rudolf Kubin, composer, dies a day after 64th birthday
1976 : Mervyn Grell, cricketer (Test WI v England 1930, 21 & 13, 0-17), dies
1978 : Michael Bates, actor (Clockwork Orange, Salt & Pepper), dies at 57
1979 : Jack Soo, actor (Nick Yemana-Barney Miller, Green Berets), dies at 63
1981 : Beulah Bondi, actress (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 88
1983 : Nikolaj V Podgorny, president USSR, dies at 79
1984 : Fritz Geissler, composer, dies at 62
1984 : Jack La Rue, TV narrator (Lights Out), dies at 81
1988 : Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, ace WW II pilot, dies at 75 of cancer
1988 : Isidor Isaac Rabi, nuclear physicist (Nobel Prize-1944), dies at 89
1990 : Mary Jane Carr, actress (Forbidden Trail, Second Wife), dies
1991 : Jason Christmas, dies of gunshot wound during robbery in NY at 49
1993 : Lacey Fosburgh, author (Closing Time), dies of breast cancer at 50
1994 : John Bradley, raised US flag at Iwo Jima, dies at 70
1994 : Roger "Ram" Ramirez, jazz piano player/composer, dies at 80
1995 : Adrian J "Ad" Kaland, Dutch MP (CDA 1977-93), dies at 72
1995 : John AG Gere, English art historian (Raphael & his Circle), dies at 73
1995 : Onat Kutlar, Turkish screenplay/producer (Hazal), murdered at 59
1995 : Willem N "Pim" Koot, pianist (Concert Building), dies at 76
1996 : Eric Hebborn, artist/faker, dies at 61
1996 : Harold Walter Bailey, philologist, dies at 96>>
1996 : Hubert Nicholson, poet/novelist, dies at 87
1996 : Ike Isaacs, guitarist, dies at 76
1997 : Cavan O'Connor, singer, dies at 97
1997 : Duncan Wood, television director/producer, dies at 71
1997 : Helen Foster Snow, writer, dies at 89
1997 : Joshua William Steward, polymath, dies at 83
1997 : Sheldon Leonard, producer/director (Dick Van Dyke), dies at 89
1998 : Klaus Tennstedt, conductor, dies at 71

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