Deaths on 11 February
2000s
James Van Der Beek
2026
American actor (1977–2026)
Betsy Arakawa
2025
American musician and businesswoman (1959–2025)
Moses Lim
2025
Singaporean actor (1949–2025)
Allen J. Bard
2024
American electrochemist (1933–2024)
Donald Spoto
2023
American biographer and theologian (1941–2023)
Vic Damone
2018
American singer and actor (1928–2018)
Asma Jahangir
2018
Pakistani human rights activist and lawyer
Jan Maxwell
2018
American actress (1956 – 2018)
Qazi Wajid
2018
Pakistani actor (1944–2018)
Fab Melo
2017
Brazilian basketball player (1990–2017)
Jaap Rijks
2017
Dutch equestrian
Trish Doan
2017
Korean Canadian musician (1985–2017)
Kevin Randleman
2016
American mixed martial artist (1971–2016)
Zeng Xuelin
2016
Chinese footballer (1929–2016)
Roger Hanin
2015
French actor (1925–2015)
Bob Simon
2015
American journalist (1941–2015)
Jerry Tarkanian
2015
American basketball coach (1930–2015)
Alice Babs
2014
Swedish jazz and schlager singer (1924–2014)
Tito Canepa
2014
Dominican painter
Fernando González Pacheco
2014
Colombian television presenter
The Dave Clark Five
2013
English rock band
Siri Bjerke
2012
Norwegian politician (1958–2012)
Aharon Davidi
2012
Israeli general and founder of Sar-El volunteer organization
Whitney Houston
2012
American singer and actress (1963–2012)
Chuck Tanner
2011
American baseball player and manager (1928–2011)
Heward Grafftey
2010
Canadian politician
Alexander McQueen
2010
British fashion designer (1969–2010)
Estelle Bennett
2009
American singer (1941–2009)
Willem Johan Kolff
2009
Dutch medical researcher (1911–2009)
Tom Lantos
2008
American politician (1928–2008)
Frank Piasecki
2008
American aerospace engineer (1919–2008)
Peter Benchley
2006
American author (1940–2006)
Ken Fletcher
2006
Australian tennis player (1940–2006)
Jackie Pallo
2006
English professional wrestler
Matilda (chicken)
2006
World's oldest chicken (1990–2006)
Jack L. Chalker
2005
American science fiction and fantasy author (1944–2005)
Tony Pope
2004
American voice actor (1947–2004)
Shirley Strickland
2004
Australian athlete (1925–2004)
Frankie Crosetti
2002
American baseball player (1910-2002)
Barry Foster (actor)
2002
English actor (1927–2002)
Lord Kitchener (calypsonian)
2000
Trinbagonian calypsonian (1922–2000)
Roger Vadim
2000
French filmmaker (1928–2000)
1900s
Amelia Rosselli
1996
Italian poet
Neil Bonnett
1994
American racing driver (1946–1994)
Sorrell Booke
1994
American actor (1930–1994)
William Conrad
1994
American actor and director (1920–1994)
Paul Feyerabend
1994
Austrian philosopher of science (1924–1994)
Robert W. Holley
1993
American biochemist (1922–1993)
Dude Martin
1991
Musical artist
George O'Hanlon
1989
American actor and writer (1912–1989)
Frank Herbert
1986
American science-fiction author (1920–1986)
Evelio Javier
1986
Filipino lawyer and politician (1942–1986)
Henry Hathaway
1985
American film director and producer (1898-1985)
Eleanor Powell
1982
American tap dancer and actress (1912–1982)
James B. Conant
1978
American chemist (1893–1978)
Harry Martinson
1978
Swedish writer
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
1977
President of India from 1974 to 1977
Louis Beel
1977
Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1946–1948; 1958–1959)
Lee J. Cobb
1976
American actor (1911–1976)
Alexander Lippisch
1976
German aeronautical engineer, a pioneer of aerodynamics
Richard Ratsimandrava
1975
Malagasy politician, brief head of state of Madagascar in 1975
J. Hans D. Jensen
1973
German theoretical physicist (1907–1973)
Howard Lindsay
1968
American dramatist (1889–1968)
A. J. Muste
1967
American clergyman and activist (1885–1967)
John Olof Dahlgren
1963
United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
Sylvia Plath
1963
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
Ernest Jones
1958
Welsh neurologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1879–1958)
Axel Munthe
1949
Swedish doctor and psychiatrist
Sergei Eisenstein
1948
Soviet-Russian filmmaker and theorist (1898–1948)
Martin Klein (wrestler)
1947
Estonian wrestler (1884–1947)
Jamnalal Bajaj
1942
Indian businessman and politician (1889–1942)
John Buchan
1940
Scottish author and statesman (1875–1940)
Ellen Day Hale
1940
American painter
Kalle Korhonen
1938
Finnish politician (1878–1938)
Charles Algernon Parsons
1931
Anglo-Irish mechanical engineer and inventor (1854–1931)
Alexey Kaledin
1918
Russian general (1861–1918)
Oswaldo Cruz
1917
Brazilian physician and bacteriologist (1872–1917)
Mary Pitman Ailau
1905
Hawaiian noblewoman
Milan I of Serbia
1901
Monarch of Serbia from 1868 to 1889
1800s
Félix María Zuloaga
1898
President of Mexico from 1858 from 1859, from 1860 to 1862
Léon Foucault
1868
French physicist (1819–1868)
Elizabeth Siddal
1862
Pre-Raphaelite model, artist, and poet (1829–1862)
Magdalene Osenbroch
1854
Norwegian actress (1830–1854)
Alexander Griboyedov
1829
Russian diplomat, playwright, poet and composer (1795-1829)
Juan Sánchez Ramírez
1811
Dominican military commander; 72nd governor of Santo Domingo (1808–1811)
Before 1800
Carl Michael Bellman
1795
Swedish poet, songwriter and composer (1740–1795)
George Dance the Elder
1768
English architect (1695–1768)
William Shenstone
1763
18th-century English poet and gardener
Francesco Scipione Maffei
1755
Italian writer and art critic (1675 – 1755)
René Descartes
1650
French philosopher and mathematician (1596–1650)
Pietro Cataldi
1626
Italian mathematician (1548–1626)
Elizabeth of York
1503
Queen of England from 1486 to 1503
Hugh of Saint Victor
1141
German-French canon regular and theologian
Pope Paschal I
824
Head of the Catholic Church from 817 to 824
Pope Gregory II
731
Head of the Catholic Church from 715 to 731
Heraclius
641
Byzantine emperor from 610 to 641
Gordian III
244
Roman emperor from 238 to 244
AD 55
55
Calendar year