General Events and Observations of July 11

472: Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
937: King Rudolph II of Burgundy
969: Olga of Kiev
1174: King Amalric I of Jerusalem (b. 1136)
1183: Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria
1302: Robert II of Artois, French soldier (b. 1250)
1535: Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (b. 1484)
1581: Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval hero
1679: William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619)
1688: King Narai of Siam (b. 1629)
1766: Elizabeth Farnese, wife of Philip V of Spain (b. 1692)
1774: Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-born New York pioneer
1775: Simon Boerum, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1797: Ienachita Vacarescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740)
1806: James Smith, American signer of the Declaration of Independence
1825: Thomas P. Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War soldier (b. 1744)
1844: Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
1909: Simon Newcomb, American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
1920: Empress Eugénie de Montijo of France (b. 1826)
1929: Billy Mosforth, English footballer (b. 1857)
1936: James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
1937: George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898)
1959: Charlie Parker, English cricketer (b. 1882)
1966: Delmore Schwartz, American poet (b. 1913)
1967: Guy Favreau, French Canadian lawyer, politician and judge (b. 1917)
1971: John W. Campbell, American writer and editor (b. 1910)
1971: Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1940)
1974: Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
1979: Claude Wagner, French Canadian judge and politician (b. 1925)
1983: Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b. 1915)
1987: Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
1989: Sir Laurence Olivier, acclaimed English stage and screen actor (b. 1907)
1991: Hitoshi Igarashi, English-Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses (b. 1947)
1994: Gary Kildall, American computer programmer (b. 1942)
1994: Savannah, American porn star (b. 1970)
1999: Helen Forrest, American singer (b. 1917)
2000: Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b. 1913)
2000: Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
2001: Herman Brood, Dutch singer and artist (b. 1946)
2004: Laurance Rockefeller, American conservationist and philanthropist (b. 1910)
2005: Frances Langford, American actress and singer (b. 1914)
2005: Gretchen Franklin, English actress (b. 1911)
2005: Jesús Iglesias, Argentine professional racing driver (b. 1922)
2006: Barnard Hughes, American actor (b. 1915)
2006: John Spencer, English snooker player (b. 1935)
2007: Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (b. 1913)
2007: Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1914)
2007: Glenda Adams, Australian author (b. 1939)
2007: Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)

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