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Deaths on March 11

1486 : Albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg, dies at 71
1715 : Jan-Erasmus Quellinus, Flemish painter, dies at 80
1772 : George Reuter, composer, dies at 63
1786 : Jacobus Bellamy, [Zelandus], Dutch/Swiss poet, dies at 28
1787 : Maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45
1807 : Anton Eberl, composer, dies at 41
1820 : Benjamin West, British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81
1826 : Gervais-Fran‡ois Couperin, composer, dies at 66
1833 : Fridolin Weber, composer, dies at 71
1845 : John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed], dies in Allen County Indiana
1857 : Manuel Jos‚ Quintana, Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies at 84
1874 : Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63
1894 : John Selby, cricketer (6 Tests for England 1877-82), dies
1897 : Berthold Tours, composer, dies at 58
1897 : Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist, dies at 45
1900 : Edmund Peate, cricketer (9 Tests for England 1881-86), dies
1907 : Nikola Petkow, premier (Bulgaria), murdered
1908 : Peter Milne, composer, dies at 83
1919 : Harald Fryklof, composer, dies at 36
1921 : Sherburne W Burnham, US astronomer (binary stars), dies at 83
1925 : Andreas Hallen, composer, dies at 78
1926 : John Henry Anderson, cricketer (score 32 & 11 in Test for S Afr), dies
1937 : Paul Scheinpflug, composer, dies at 61
1941 : Walford Davies, British organist/composer, dies at 71
1944 : Hendrik W van Loon, Neth/US radio commentator/writer, dies at 62
1947 : Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at 45
1949 : Henri-Honor‚ Giraud, French genl/MP, dies at 70
1949 : Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at 76
1950 : Florence Arliss, actress (Disraeli), dies at 78
1951 : Philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at 66
1955 : Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73
1956 : Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83
1957 : Richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68
1959 : Haydn Wood, composer, dies at 76
1960 : Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76
1962 : Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79
1963 : Mahomed Nissar, cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wkts), dies
1965 : James Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered
1967 : Geraldine Farrar, soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85
1969 : John Wyndham, [Parkes Lucas B Harris], author (Chrysalids), dies at 65
1970 : Erle Stanley Gardner, US writer (Perry Mason), dies at 80
1971 : Philo T Farnsworth, US TV pioneer, dies at 64
1971 : Roy Glenn, dies in Los Angeles at 56
1971 : Whitney M Young Jr, leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at 49
1972 : Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies at 65
1973 : Manuel Rojas Sep£lveda, writer
1975 : Philip Bezanson, composer, dies at 59
1975 : Sammy Spear, orch leader (Dom Deluise Show), dies at 65
1975 : Walter Kinsella, actor (Happy-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 74
1979 : Victor Kilian, actor (Gentleman's Agreement), dies at 88
1982 : Edmund Cooper, British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came), dies at 55
1984 : Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76
1987 : [Wayne] Woody Hayes, football coach (Ohio State), dies at 74
1988 : Pham Hung, premier of Vietnam, dies at about 74
1989 : Johan Fleerackers, Flemish linguist, dies at 57
1992 : David Carroll, actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism at 41
1992 : Heinz Khn, PM (Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany), dies at 80
1992 : Manuel De Dios Unanue, US anti-drug journalist, murdered at 48
1992 : Richard Brooks, director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo), dies at 79
1993 : Dino Bravo, wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44
1993 : Edgar Nelson Barclift, dancer, dies after lengthy illness at 76
1993 : Manuel da Fonseca, Portuguese writer (Cerro Maior), dies at 81
1994 : Jacques Doucet, French painter (Mostar Sarajevo), dies at 69
1995 : Carel Birnie, found Utrecht Opera/Dutch Dance Theater, dies at 69
1995 : Ernest Kabushemeye, Burundese minister of Mijnbouw, murdered
1995 : Frank Fidler, artist, dies at 84
1996 : Barry Appleby, cartoonist, dies at 86
1996 : Charles William Oatley, electrical engineer, dies at 92
1996 : Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson, public servant, dies at 70
1996 : John Henry Pyle Pafford, librarian, dies at 96
1996 : Vince Edwards, actor (Ben Casey), dies of cancer at 67

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