Deaths on 11 January
2000s
Richard Codey
2026
American politician (1946–2026)
Carole Cook
2023
American actress (1924–2023)
Michael Atiyah
2019
British-Lebanese mathematician (1929–2019)
Edgar Ray Killen
2018
Ku Klux Klan organizer convicted of manslaughter (1925–2018)
Adenan Satem
2017
Malaysian politician (1944–2017)
Monte Irvin
2016
American baseball player (1919–2016)
David Margulies
2016
American actor (1937–2016)
Jenő Buzánszky
2015
Hungarian football player and manager (1925–2015)
Anita Ekberg
2015
Swedish actress (1931–2015)
Chashi Nazrul Islam
2015
Bangladeshi film director
Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
2015
American physician
Keiko Awaji
2014
Japanese actress (1933–2014)
Muhammad Habibur Rahman
2014
Bangladeshi statesman (1928–2014)
Chai Trong-rong
2014
Taiwanese politician (1935–2014)
Ariel Sharon
2014
Prime Minister of Israel from 2001 to 2006
Guido Forti
2013
Founder and team manager of Formula One team Forti
Nguyễn Khánh
2013
South Vietnamese military supreme ruler (1927–2013)
Mariangela Melato
2013
Italian actress (1941–2013)
Tom Parry Jones
2013
Welsh scientist, inventor and entrepreneur (1935–2013)
Alemayehu Shumye
2013
Ethiopian long-distance runner
Aaron Swartz
2013
American computer programmer and activist (1986–2013)
Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan
2012
Iranian nuclear scientist (1979–2012)
Gilles Jacquier
2012
French photojournalist and reporter
Edgar Kaiser Jr.
2012
American-Canadian financier (1942-2012)
Wally Osterkorn
2012
American basketball player
Steven Rawlings
2012
British astrophysicist
David Whitaker (composer)
2012
English composer and arranger (1931-2012)
David Nelson (actor)
2011
American actor (1936–2011)
Miep Gies
2010
Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank (1909–2010)
Éric Rohmer
2010
French film director (1920–2010)
Edmund Hillary
2008
New Zealand mountaineer (1919–2008)
Carl Karcher
2008
American businessman, founded Carl's Jr.
Solveig Dommartin
2007
French-German actress
Robert Anton Wilson
2007
American writer and futurist (1932–2007)
Spalding Gray
2004
American actor and writer (1941–2004)
Jože Pučnik
2003
Slovenian politician (1932–2003)
Henri Verneuil
2002
French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker (1920–2002)
Denys Lasdun
2001
English architect (1914–2001)
Ivan Combe
2000
Bob Lemon
2000
American baseball player and manager (1920–2000)
Betty Archdale
2000
English-Australian educator and cricketer (1907–2000)
1900s
Fabrizio De André
1999
Italian singer-songwriter (1940–1999)
Naomi Mitchison
1999
Scottish novelist and poet (1897–1999)
Brian Moore (novelist)
1999
Novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland
Roger Crozier
1996
Canadian ice hockey player (1942–1996)
Josef Gingold
1995
American violinist (1909–1995)
Onat Kutlar
1995
Turkish writer and poet, founder (1936–1995)
Lewis Nixon III
1995
United States Army officer (1918–1995)
Theodor Wisch
1995
Waffen-SS commander (1907–1995)
Helmut Poppendick
1994
WW2 SS Doctor & war criminal
Carl David Anderson
1991
American experimental physicist (1905–1991)
Carolyn Haywood
1990
American writer
Ray Moore (broadcaster)
1989
British broadcaster (1942–1989)
Pappy Boyington
1988
United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient (1912–1988)
Isidor Rabi
1988
American nuclear physicist (1898–1988)
Albert Ferber
1987
Swiss musician
Sid Chaplin
1986
English writer
Andrzej Czok
1986
Polish mountaineer (1948–1986)
Edward Buzzell
1985
American actor and director (1895–1985)
William McKell
1985
Australian politician (1891–1985)
Beulah Bondi
1981
American actress (1888–1981)
Barbara Pym
1980
English novelist (1913–1980)
Max Lorenz (tenor)
1975
German tenor
Padraic Colum
1972
Irish writer
Richmal Crompton
1969
English short-story writer and novelist (1890–1969)
Moshe Zvi Segal
1968
Alberto Giacometti
1966
Swiss sculptor and painter (1901–1966)
Lal Bahadur Shastri
1966
Prime Minister of India from 1964 to 1966
Wally Pipp
1965
American baseball player (1893–1965)
Arthur Nock
1963
English classicist and theologian (1902–1963)
Elena Gerhardt
1961
German opera singer
Robert Garran
1957
First Solicitor-General of Australia
Oscar Straus (composer)
1954
Viennese composer (1870-1954)
Noe Zhordania
1953
Georgian journalist, intellectual, revolutionary and politician
Roberta Fulbright
1953
American businesswoman (1874–1953)
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
1952
French general (1889–1952)
Aureliano Pertile
1952
Italian tenor
Eva Tanguay
1947
Canadian vaudeville singer and film actor (1878–1947)
Galeazzo Ciano
1944
Italian diplomat and politician (1903–1944)
Emanuel Lasker
1941
German chess player (1868–1941)
Nuri Conker
1937
Turkish politician
James Milton Carroll
1931
American historian, writer and pastor (1852–1931)
Elfrida Andrée
1929
Swedish organist, composer and conductor (1841–1929)
Thomas Hardy
1928
English novelist and poet (1840–1928)
Constantine I of Greece
1923
King of Greece (r. 1913–17; 1920–22)
Steinar Schjøtt
1920
Norwegian educator, philologist and lexicographer
Carl Jacobsen
1914
Danish brewer, art collector and philanthropist
William Sawyer (politician)
1904
Canadian politician
Johnny Briggs (cricketer)
1902
English cricketer (1862–1902)
1800s
Georges-Eugène Haussmann
1891
French official who renovated Paris (1809–1891)
Theodor Schwann
1882
German physiologist (1810–1882)
Stuart Donaldson
1867
New South Wales politician and Premier (1812-1867)
Gustavus Vaughan Brooke
1866
Irish stage actor
John Woolley (educator)
1866
Francis Scott Key
1843
American lawyer and poet (1779–1843)
John Molson
1836
18th and 19th-century Canadian businessman
Thomas Mullins, 1st Baron Ventry
1824
Anglo-Irish politician and peer (1736-1824)
Domenico Cimarosa
1801
Italian composer (1749–1801)
Before 1800
Heraclius II of Georgia
1798
King of Kakheti (1744–1798) and Kartli (1762–98)
William Williams Pantycelyn
1791
Welsh hymnist, poet and prose writer (1717–1791)
François Joseph Paul de Grasse
1788
French naval officer (1722–1788)
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens
1771
French philosopher and writer (1704–1771)
Caspar Abel
1763
German theologian, historian and poet
Louis-François Roubiliac
1762
French sculptor (1702–1762)
Louis Bertrand Castel
1757
Mathematician, philosopher (1688–1757)
Hans Sloane
1753
Anglo-Irish physician, naturalist and collector (1660–1753)
Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje
1735
Metropolitan of Cetinje from 1697–1735
Pierre Jurieu
1713
French Protestant leader (1637–1713)
Johann Georg Graevius
1703
German academic (1632–1703)
Charles Albanel
1696
French missionary explorer and Jesuit priest (1616–1696)
Juan de Jáuregui
1641
Spanish painter (1583–1641)
Min Bin
1554
King of Arakan from 1531 to 1554
Gaudenzio Ferrari
1546
Italian painter and sculptor (c. 1471–1546)
Pedro González de Mendoza
1495
Spanish cardinal and statesman (1428-1495)
Domenico Ghirlandaio
1494
Italian Renaissance painter from Florence (1448–1494)
Skirgaila
1397
Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1386 to 1392
Isidore Glabas
1396
Eleanor of Lancaster
1372
English noblewoman (1318–1372)
Thomas Charlton (bishop)
1344
14th-century Bishop of Hereford and Chancellor of England
Świętopełk II, Duke of Pomerania
1266
Ruling Duke of Gdansk from 1215 until his death
Otto of Nordheim
1083
11th-century Bavarian nobleman
Egbert I, Margrave of Meissen
1068
Margrave of Meissen from 1067 to 1068
Constantine IX Monomachos
1055
Byzantine emperor from 1042 to 1055
Empress Cao (Li Siyuan's wife)
937
Li Chongmei
937
Chinese general and prince
Li Congke
937
Emperor of Later Tang from 934 to 937
Empress Liu (Li Congke's wife)
937
Boso of Provence
887
King of Provence
Michael I Rangabe
844
Byzantine emperor from 811 to 813
Staurakios
812
Byzantine emperor in 811 (790s–812)
Emperor Kōnin
782
Emperor of Japan from 770 to 781
Pope John VI
705
Head of the Catholic Church from 701 to 705
AD 140
140
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