11December Deaths

December 11 is the 345th day of the year (346th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 20 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).

384 – Pope Damasus I (b. 305)
861 – Al-Mutawakkil, Abbasid caliph (b. 822)
861 – Al-Fath ibn Khaqan, chief confidant and councillor to al-Mutawakkil
969 – Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine emperor (b. 912)
1121 – Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Egyptian political adviser (b. 1066)
1241 – Ögedei Khan, Mongolian emperor (b. 1186)
1282 – Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Welsh prince (b. 1223)
1282 – Michael VIII Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1225)
1532 – Pietro Accolti, Italian cardinal (b. 1455)
1582 – Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, Spanish general and politician, 12th Constable of Portugal (b. 1508)
1686 – Louis, Grand Condé, French general (b. 1621)
1694 – Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)
1737 – John Strype, English priest, historian, and author (b. 1643)
1747 – Edmund Curll, English bookseller and publisher (b. 1675)
1797 – Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
1826 – Maria Leopoldina of Austria (b. 1797)
1840 – Emperor Kōkaku of Japan (b. 1771)
1872 – Kamehameha V of Hawaii (b. 1830)
1880 – Oliver Winchester, American businessman, founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Company (b. 1810)
1892 – William Milligan, Scottish theologian and scholar (b. 1821)
1906 – Charles Townsend, American fencer, engineer, and academic (b. 1872)
1918 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1876)
1920 – Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist (b. 1855)
1936 – Myron Grimshaw, American baseball player (b. 1875)
1937 – Jaan Anvelt, Estonian theorist and politician (b. 1884)
1938 – Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian historian and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
1941 – John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American pilot and poet (b. 1922)
1941 – Émile Picard, French mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
1945 – Charles Fabry, French physicist and academic (b. 1867)
1950 – Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and author (b. 1893)
1951 – Mustafa Muğlalı, Turkish general (b. 1882)
1953 – Sedat Simavi, Turkish journalist and director (b. 1896)
1957 – Musidora, French actress, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
1959 – Jim Bottomley, American baseball player and manager (b. 1900)
1964 – Sam Cooke, American singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
1964 – Percy Kilbride, American actor (b. 1888)
1968 – Richard Sagrits, Estonian painter and author (b. 1910)
1968 – Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (b. 1891)
1971 – Maurice McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (b. 1902)
1975 – Lee Wiley, American singer (b. 1908)
1975 – Nihal Atsız, Turkish philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1905)
1978 – Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
1978 – Paul O'Dea, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
1979 – James J. Gibson, American psychologist and author (b. 1904)
1983 – Neil Ritchie, Guyanese-English general (b. 1897)
1984 – Oskar Seidlin, German-American author, poet, and scholar (b. 1911)
1984 – George Waggner, American director, producer and actor (b. 1894)
1987 – G. A. Kulkarni, Indian author and academic (b. 1923)
1989 – Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
1991 – Robert Q. Lewis, American actor, comedian, game show host/panelist, and television personality (b. 1921)
1991 – Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author and critic (b. 1906)
1994 – Philip Phillips, American archaeologist and scholar (b. 1900)
1995 – Greg Bahnsen, American minister and philosopher (b. 1948)
1995 – Arthur Mullard, English actor and singer (b. 1910)
1996 – Willie Rushton, English cartoonist, author, and publisher, co-founded Private Eye (b. 1937)
1997 – Eddie Chapman, English spy (b. 1914)
1997 – Simon Jeffes, English guitarist and composer (b. 1949)
1998 – André Lichnerowicz, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1915)
1998 – Lynn Strait, American singer-songwriter (b. 1968)
2000 – Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician and diplomat (b. 1915)
2000 – David Lewis, American actor (b. 1916)
2001 – Mainza Chona, Zambian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
2003 – Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian author and playwright (b. 1927)
2004 – José Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1962)
2004 – Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand runner and coach (b. 1917)
2008 – Bettie Page, American model (b. 1923)
2010 – Dick Hoerner, American football player (b. 1922)
2011 – John Patrick Foley, American cardinal (b. 1935)
2012 – Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano and actress (b. 1926)
2012 – Mendel Weinbach, Polish-Israeli rabbi and scholar (b. 1933)
2013 – Nadir Afonso, Portuguese painter and architect (b. 1920)
2013 – Barbara Branden, Canadian-American author and academic (b. 1929)
2013 – Javier Jauregui, Mexican boxer (b. 1973)
2013 – Sheikh Mussa Shariefi, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1942)
2014 – Hans Wallat, German conductor and director (b. 1929)
2015 – Abish Kekilbayev, Kazakh academic and politician (b. 1939)
2015 – H. Arnold Steinberg, Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and academic (b. 1933)
2015 – Hema Upadhyay, Indian painter and sculptor (b. 1972)
2015 – John "Hot Rod" Williams, American basketball player (b. 1962)
2015 – Ken Woolley, Australian architect (b. 1933)

Source: Wikipedia