Deaths on 11 March
2000s
Junior Bridgeman
2025
American basketball player and businessman (1953–2025)
Clive Revill
2025
New Zealand actor (1930–2025)
Paul Alexander (polio survivor)
2024
American polio survivor, attorney and writer (1946–2024)
Rupiah Banda
2022
Zambian politician (1937–2022)
Ray Campi
2021
American rock musician (1934–2021)
Takis Mousafiris
2021
Greek composer, lyricist and songwriter (1936–2021)
Ken Dodd
2018
English stand-up comedian and singer (1927–2018)
Siegfried Rauch
2018
German film and television actor
Karl Lehmann
2018
Catholic clergyman
Mary Rosenblum
2018
American author (1952–2018)
Iolanda Balaș
2016
Romanian high jumper
Doreen Massey (geographer)
2016
British social scientist and geographer (b.1944)
Walter Burkert
2015
German classical philologist and religious scholar (1931–2015)
Jimmy Greenspoon
2015
American musician (1948–2015)
Dean Bailey
2014
Australian rules footballer and coach
Joel Brinkley
2014
American journalist
Martin Adolf Bormann
2013
German theologian and laicized Catholic priest
Simón Alberto Consalvi
2013
Venezuelan politician, journalist and diplomat
James B. Morehead
2012
American fighter pilot (1916-2012)
Hans van Mierlo
2010
Dutch politician (1931–2010)
Bernie Geoffrion
2006
Canadian ice hockey player
Slobodan Milošević
2006
Yugoslav and Serbian politician (1941–2006)
James Tobin
2002
American economist and Nobel Laureate (1918–2002)
1900s
Herbert Jasper
1999
Canadian psychologist and physiologist
Camille Laurin
1999
Canadian politician
Vince Edwards
1996
American actor (1928–1996)
Myfanwy Talog
1995
Welsh actress (1944–1995)
Richard Brooks
1992
American filmmaker and writer (1912–1992)
James Kee
1989
American politician (1917–1989)
John J. McCloy
1989
American lawyer and banker (1895–1989)
Sonny Terry
1986
American blues harmonica player and vocalist (1911–1986)
Edmund Cooper
1982
English poet and writer
Horace Gregory
1982
American poet
Claude François
1978
French singer, songwriter and dancer (1939–1978)
Philo Farnsworth
1971
American inventor (1906–1971)
Whitney Young
1971
American civil rights leader (1921–1971)
Erle Stanley Gardner
1970
American writer and lawyer (1889–1970)
John Wyndham
1969
English science fiction writer (1903–1969)
Geraldine Farrar
1967
American opera singer and actress (1882–1967)
Roy Chapman Andrews
1960
American explorer, naturalist, and writer (1884–1960)
Lester Dent
1959
American writer
Richard E. Byrd
1957
American naval officer, explorer (1888–1957)
Aleksanteri Aava
1956
Finnish poet
Alexander Fleming
1955
Scottish physician and microbiologist (1881–1955)
Oscar F. Mayer
1955
German-American entrepreneur
Pierre Renoir
1952
French actor (1885–1952)
Henri Giraud
1949
French military officer (1879–1949)
Hendrik Willem van Loon
1944
Dutch-American historian, journalist and author
Edgar Zilsel
1944
Austrian historian and philosopher
Joseph S. Cullinan
1937
American oil executive (1860–1937)
F. W. Murnau
1931
German film director (1888–1931)
Thomas Alexander Browne
1915
Australian author (1826–1915)
Edmondo De Amicis
1908
Italian novelist, journalist and poet (1846 – 1908)
Benjamin Waugh
1908
English social reformer (1839–1908)
Jean Casimir-Perier
1907
President of France from 1894 to 1895
1800s
William Rosecrans
1898
American diplomat, politician and army officer (1819–1898)
Charles Sumner
1874
American abolitionist and statesman (1811–1874)
Moshoeshoe I
1870
First King of Lesotho
Vladimir Odoyevsky
1869
Russian philosopher, writer, critic, philanthropist and pedagogue
Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet
1863
British army officer (1803–1863)
Marie-Louise Coidavid
1851
Queen consort of Haiti from 1811 to 1820
George McDuffie
1851
American politician (1790–1851)
Benjamin West
1820
American-born painter (1738–1820)
Before 1800
John Forbes (British Army officer)
1759
British Army officer
John Toland
1722
Irish Enlightenment Philosopher (1670-1722)
Sambhaji
1689
Chhatrapati of the Marathas from 1681 to 1689
Clemente Tabone
1665
17th-century Maltese landowner and soldier
Giovanni Maria Nanino
1607
Italian composer
Emilio de' Cavalieri
1602
Italian composer (c.1550–1602)
Juan de Salcedo
1576
Spanish conquistador (1549–1576)
Matthias Flacius
1575
Venetian theologian and Lutheran reformer (1520–1575)
Albrecht III Achilles
1486
Elector of Brandenburg from 1471 to 1486
Marie of France, Countess of Champagne
1198
Countess consort of Champagne
Sophronius of Jerusalem
638
Patriarch of Jerusalem from 634 to 638
Elagabalus
222
Roman emperor from 218 to 222