Deaths on 11 April
2000s
Mike Berry (singer)
2025
British singer (1942–2025)
Park Bo-ram
2024
South Korean singer (1994–2024)
John Horton Conway
2020
English mathematician (1937–2020)
J. Geils
2017
American guitarist (1946–2017)
Mark Wainberg
2017
Canadian AIDS researcher
Jimmy Gunn
2015
American football player (1948–2015)
Muhammad Kamaruzzaman
2015
Bangladeshi politician and journalist (1952–2015)
François Maspero
2015
French author and journalist
Hanut Singh (soldier)
2015
Indian Army officer (1933–2015)
Tekena Tamuno
2015
Nigerian academic (1932–2015)
Rolf Brem
2014
Edna Doré
2014
British actress
Bill Henry (baseball, born 1927)
2014
American baseball player (1927–2014)
Lou Hudson
2014
American basketball player (1944–2014)
Myer S. Kripke
2014
American rabbi, scholar, and philanthropist
Sergey Nepobedimy
2014
Russian engineer (1921–2014)
Jesse Winchester
2014
American-Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (1944–2014)
Don Blackman
2013
Musical artist
Sue Draheim
2013
American fiddler (1949–2013)
Grady Hatton
2013
American baseball player and manager (1922–2013)
Thomas Hemsley
2013
English baritone
Hilary Koprowski
2013
Polish virologist and immuologist (1916–2013)
Gilles Marchal
2013
French singer and songwriter (1944–2013)
Maria Tallchief
2013
Native American ballerina (1925–2013)
Clorindo Testa
2013
Italian-Argentine architect
Jonathan Winters
2013
American comedian, actor and artist (1925–2013)
Ahmed Ben Bella
2012
President of Algeria from 1963 to 1965
Roger Caron
2012
Canadian robber and writer (1938–2012)
Tippy Dye
2012
American athlete and coach (1915–2012)
Hal McKusick
2012
American jazz musician
Agustin Roman
2012
Cuban-American prelate (1928–2012)
Larry Sweeney
2011
American professional wrestler and professional wrestling manager (1981 – 2011)
Julia Tsenova
2010
Bulgarian composer (1948–2010)
Gerda Gilboe
2009
Danish actress (1914–2009)
Vishnu Prabhakar
2009
Indian writer
Corín Tellado
2009
Spanish writer (1927-2009)
Merlin German
2008
United States Marine
Roscoe Lee Browne
2007
American actor and director (1922–2007)
Loïc Leferme
2007
French freediving record breaker
Janet McDonald
2007
American novelist (1953–2007)
Ronald Speirs
2007
US Army officer (1920-2007)
Kurt Vonnegut
2007
American author (1922–2007)
June Pointer
2006
American singer (1953–2006)
Proof (rapper)
2006
American rapper (1973–2006)
André François (cartoonist)
2005
French cartoonist (1915–2005)
Lucien Laurent
2005
French footballer (1907–2005)
Cecil Howard Green
2003
British-born American geophysicist, engineer and electronics executive
Harry Secombe
2001
Welsh entertainer (1921–2001)
Diana Darvey
2000
British actor, singer and dancer (1945–2000)
1900s
William H. Armstrong (author)
1999
American children's writer (1911–1999)
Muriel McQueen Fergusson
1997
Canadian politician (1899–1997)
Wang Xiaobo
1997
Chinese novelist and essayist (1952–1997)
Jessica Dubroff
1996
American pilot trainee (1988–1996)
James Brown (actor)
1992
American film and television actor (1920–1992)
Eve Merriam
1992
American poet (1916-1992)
Alejandro Obregón
1992
Colombian artist (1920–1992)
Walker Cooper
1991
American baseball player and manager (1915–1991)
Bruno Hoffmann
1991
German musician (1913–1991)
Harold Ballard
1990
Canadian businessman and sportsman (1903–1990)
Erskine Caldwell
1987
Southern-American novelist (1903–1987)
Primo Levi
1987
Italian Holocaust survivor and writer (1919–1987)
Bunny Ahearne
1985
British ice hockey administrator and businessman (1900–1985)
John Gilroy (artist)
1985
English artist and illustrator (1898–1985)
Enver Hoxha
1985
Leader of Albania from 1944 to 1985
Edgar V. Saks
1984
Estonian historian and author
Dolores del Río
1983
Mexican actress (1904–1983)
Caroline Gordon
1981
American novelist (1895–1981)
Ümit Kaftancıoğlu
1980
Turkish writer and radio producer
Jacques Prévert
1977
French poet and screenwriter (1900–1977)
Phanishwar Nath Renu
1977
Indian writer and activist (1921–1977)
Ernst Ziegler
1974
German actor (1894–1974)
Cathy O'Donnell
1970
American actress (1923–1970)
John O'Hara
1970
American novelist and short story writer (1905–1970)
Thomas Farrell (United States Army officer)
1967
American general (1891–1967)
Donald Sangster
1967
Jamaican politician (1911-1967)
Ukichiro Nakaya
1962
Japanese physicist and science essayist (1900–1962)
George Poage
1962
American hurdler and sprinter
Axel Revold
1962
Norwegian painter (1887–1962)
Rosa Grünberg
1960
Swedish opera singer
Konstantin Yuon
1958
Russian painter (1875–1958)
Paul Specht
1954
American dance bandleader (1895–1954)
Kid Nichols
1953
American baseball player (1869–1953)
Kurtdereli Mehmet
1939
Turkish wrestler
Luther Burbank
1926
American botanist and horticulturist (1849–1926)
Otto Wagner
1918
Austrian architect (1841–1918)
Richard Harding Davis
1916
American journalist, war correspondent, and fiction writer (1864–1916)
Henry Bird (chess player)
1908
English chess player and author (1829–1908)
James Anthony Bailey
1906
American circus proprietor (1847–1906)
Francis Pharcellus Church
1906
American publisher and editor (1839–1906)
Gemma Galgani
1903
Italian mystic and Catholic saint (1878–1903)
Wade Hampton III
1902
American soldier and politician (1818–1902)
1800s
Lothar Meyer
1895
German physician and chemist (1830–1895)
Constantin Lipsius
1894
German architect and architectural theorist
David de Jahacob Lopez Cardozo
1890
Dutch rabbi (1808 – 1890)
Joseph Merrick
1890
Man with severe deformities (1862–1890)
Edward Canby
1873
U.S. Army general & military governor (1817–1873)
Justo José de Urquiza
1870
General and first constitutional president of Argentina
Francisco González Bocanegra
1861
Mexican poet (1824–1861)
Juan Santamaría
1856
Costa Rican national hero; drummer in the Second Battle of Rivas (1856)
Before 1800
Karl Wilhelm Ramler
1798
German poet (1725–1798)
Nikita Panin
1783
Russian statesman (1718–1783)
John Robinson (bishop of London)
1723
English diplomat (1650–1723)
Richard Simon (priest)
1712
French priest (1638-1712)
Marino Ghetaldi
1626
Ragusan scientist, mathematician and physicist (1568–1626)
Emanuel van Meteren
1612
Flemish historian, consul for Low Countries traders in London (1535–1612)
Edward Wightman
1612
Last person to be burned at the stake for heresy in England
John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley
1609
English aristocrat and art collector (c. 1533–1609)
Thomas Bromley
1587
16th-century English lawyer and politician
Thomas Wyatt the Younger
1554
English rebel leader during the reign of Queen Mary I (1521–1554)
Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours
1512
French nobleman and famed military commander (1489–1512)
Henry Beaufort
1447
English bishop (1375–1447)
Ramadan ibn Alauddin
1349
Yuan darughachi (governor) of Luchuan Prefecture in Rongzhou, Guangxi Province
Llywelyn ab Iorwerth
1240
Prince of Gwynedd from 1199 to 1240
Stephen IV of Hungary
1165
King of Hungary and Croatia (1133–1165)
Stanislaus of Szczepanów
1079
11th-century Polish Catholic bishop
Anawrahta
1077
Emperor of the Bagan Dynasty, Myanmar
Romanos III Argyros
1034
Byzantine emperor from 1028 to 1034
Herman I (archbishop of Cologne)
924
Archbishop of Cologne
Pope Donus
678
Head of the Catholic Church from 676 to 678
Emperor Yang of Sui
618
Emperor of China from 604 to 618