11 August Deaths

August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 142 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).

Deaths

480 BC – Leonidas I, Agiad King of Sparta
223 – Jia Xu, Chinese politician (b. 147)
353 – Magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303)
449 – Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople
979 – Gero, Count of Alsleben
991 – Byrhtnoth, English soldier (b. 956)
1204 – Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199)
1253 – Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (b. 1194)
1259 – Möngke Khan, Mongolian emperor (b. 1208)
1332 – Domhnall II, Earl of Mar
1332 – Robert II Keith, Marischal of Scotland
1332 – Thomas Randolph, 2nd Earl of Moray
1332 – Murdoch III, Earl of Menteith
1332 – Robert Bruce, Lord of Liddesdale
1456 – John Hunyadi, Hungarian general and politician (b. 1387)
1464 – Nicholas of Cusa, German cardinal and mystic (b. 1401)
1465 – Kettil Karlsson, regent of Sweden and Bishop of Linköping (b. 1433)
1486 – William Waynflete, English Lord Chancellor and bishop of Winchester (b. c. 1398)
1494 – Hans Memling, German-Belgian painter (b. 1430)
1519 – Johann Tetzel, German preacher (b. 1465)
1556 – John Bell, English bishop
1563 – Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer and educator (b. 1500)
1578 – Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician and academic (b. 1502)
1596 – Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)
1614 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)
1656 – Ottavio Piccolomini, Austrian-Italian field marshal (b. 1599)
1725 – Prince Vittorio Amedeo Theodore of Savoy (b. 1723)
1774 – Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche, French physician and author (b. 1722)
1813 – Henry James Pye, English poet and politician (b. 1745)
1851 – Lorenz Oken, German botanist, biologist, and ornithologist (b. 1779)
1854 – Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1798)
1868 – Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1815)
1886 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet and playwright (b. 1843)
1890 – John Henry Newman, English cardinal and theologian (b. 1801)
1892 – Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1813)
1903 – Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican-American sociologist, philosopher, and lawyer (b. 1839)
1919 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Carnegie Steel Company and Carnegie Hall (b. 1835)
1921 – Mary Sumner, English philanthropist, founded the Mothers' Union (b. 1828)
1936 – Blas Infante, Spanish historian and politician (b. 1885)
1937 – Edith Wharton, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1862)
1939 – Jean Bugatti, German-Italian engineer (b. 1909)
1939 – Siegfried Flesch, Austrian fencer (b. 1872)
1945 – Stefan Jaracz, Polish actor and theater producer (b. 1883)
1953 – Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1892)
1956 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (b. 1912)
1961 – Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian-American author, playwright, actor, and director (b. 1910)
1963 – Otto Wahle, Austrian-American swimmer and coach (b. 1879)
1965 – Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer and educator (b. 1897)
1969 – Miriam Licette, English soprano and educator (b. 1885)
1972 – Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1974 – Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan conductor and composer (b. 1887)
1977 – Frederic Calland Williams, British co-inventor of the Williams-Kilborn tube, used for memory in early computer systems (b. 1911)
1979 – J. G. Farrell, English author (b. 1935)
1980 – Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)
1982 – Tom Drake, American actor and singer (b. 1918)
1984 – Alfred A. Knopf Sr., American publisher, founded Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (b. 1892)
1984 – Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–American chemist and chess player (b. 1916)
1986 – János Drapál, Hungarian motorcycle racer (b. 1948)
1988 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)
1989 – John Meillon, Australian actor (b. 1934)
1991 – J. D. McDuffie, American race car driver (b. 1938)
1994 – Peter Cushing, English actor (b. 1913)
1995 – Phil Harris, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1904)
1996 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1914)
1996 – Ambrosio Padilla, Filipino basketball player and politician (b. 1910)
2000 – Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer and academic (b. 1916)
2001 – Percy Stallard, English cyclist and coach (b. 1909)
2002 – Galen Rowell, American photographer and mountaineer (b. 1940)
2003 – Armand Borel, Swiss-American mathematician and academic (b. 1923)
2003 – Herb Brooks, American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1937)
2004 – K. Arulanandan, Ceylon-American engineer and academic (b. 1925)
2006 – Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1920)
2008 – George Furth, American actor and playwright (b. 1932)
2008 – Dursun Karataş, founding leader of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front (DHKP-C) in Turkey (b. 1952)
2009 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, founded the Special Olympics (b. 1921)
2011 – Jani Lane, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1964)
2012 – Red Bastien, American wrestler, trainer, and promoter (b. 1931)
2012 – Michael Dokes, American boxer (b. 1958)
2012 – Lucy Gallardo, Argentinian-Mexican actress and screenwriter (b. 1929)
2012 – Bill Rafferty, American comedian and television host (b. 1944)
2013 – Raymond Delisle, French cyclist (b. 1943)
2013 – Zafar Futehally, Indian ornithologist and author (b. 1919)
2013 – David Howard, English ballet dancer and educator (b. 1937)
2014 – Vladimir Beara, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1928)
2014 – Raymond Gravel, Canadian priest and politician (b. 1952)
2014 – Kika Szaszkiewiczowa, Polish author and blogger (b. 1917)
2014 – Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (b. 1951)
2015 – Serge Collot, French viola player and educator (b. 1923)
2015 – Harald Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (b. 1941)
2015 – Richard Oriani, Salvadoran-American metallurgist and engineer (b. 1920)

Source: wikipedia