History Deaths on May 11

Kim Philby, British-Soviet double agent (b. 1912)

#Kim_Philby

Floyd Patterson, American boxer and actor (b. 1935)

#Floyd_Patterson

Timothy Carey, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1928)

#Timothy_Carey

John Cadbury, English businessman and philanthropist, founded the Cadbury Company (b. 1801)

#John_Cadbury

James E. Brewton, American painter (b. 1930)

#James_E._Brewton

Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bob Marley and the Wailers) (b. 1945)

#Bob_Marley

Douglas Adams, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1952)

#Douglas_Adams

Charles Kingston, Australian politician, 20th Premier of South Australia (b. 1850)

#Charles_Kingston

Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)

#Gilbert_Jessop

Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)

#Odd_Hassel

John Hart, American lawyer and politician (b. 1711)

#John_Hart_(New_Jersey_politician)

Noel Redding, English bass player (b. 1945)

#Noel_Redding

Jozef Murgaš, Slovak-American priest, architect, botanist, and painter (b. 1864)

#Jozef_Murgaš

Spencer Perceval, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)

#Spencer_Perceval

Fritz Pollard, American football player and coach (b. 1894)

#Fritz_Pollard

Frederick Innes, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1816)

#Frederick_Innes

Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888):169

#Herbert_Spencer_Gasser

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708)

#William_Pitt,_1st_Earl_of_Chatham

George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (b. 1858)

#George_Lyon_(golfer)

Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda, Indian admiral (b. 1915)

#Sardarilal_Mathradas_Nanda

Claudio Huepe, Chilean economist and politician, Chilean Minister Secretary-General of Government (b. 1939)

#Claudio_Huepe

Juliette Récamier, French businesswoman (b. 1777)

#Juliette_Récamier

George Elmslie, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Victoria (b. 1861)

#George_Elmslie_(Australian_politician)

Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and mathematician (b. 1552)

#Matteo_Ricci

Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (b. 1602)

#Otto_von_Guericke

John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1874)

#John_D._Rockefeller_Jr.

Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873):xix

#Karl_Schwarzschild

William Dean Howells, American novelist, literary critic, and playwright (b. 1837)

#William_Dean_Howells

Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)

#Tom_Cribb

Doris Eaton Travis, American dancer and vaudevillian (b. 1904)

#Doris_Eaton_Travis

Robert Traylor, American basketball player (b. 1977)

Abel Goumba, Central African physician and politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1926)

John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (b. 1953)

Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan ruler (b. 1913)

Léo Cadieux, Canadian politician, 17th Canadian Minister of National Defence (b. 1908)

Bill Peet, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1915)

Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1912)

Chester Gould, American cartoonist, created Dick Tracy (b. 1900)

Zenna Henderson, American writer (b. 1917)

Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)

Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1887)

James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1878)