21 notable people died on December 11, including Christian Lange, Vincent du Vigneaud, Ravi Shankar.
21st Century
3 deaths
Ravi Shankar
composerfilm director
Indian sitar player (1920–2012)
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Ila Ghose
engineer
West Bengal's first woman engineer (1930–2019)
Hillel Markman
ballet dancergeneral director
Founder of the Israel Ballet
20th Century
7 deaths
Christian Lange
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Peace (1921)
Vincent du Vigneaud
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1955)
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Charles Sherrard
engineerrugby union player
English rugby union player
Emilio Rodríguez Mendoza
journalistwriter
Chilean journalist
Aleksander Stavre Drenova
diplomatjournalist
Albanian poet (1872–1947)
Mario Tobino
psychiatristwriter
Italian writer, poet and psychiatrist (1910-1991)
Alfons Walde
architectpainter
Austrian painter and architect (1891-1958)
19th Century
4 deaths
Maria Leopoldina of Austria
monarch
Queen consort of Portugal and Empress consort of Brazil (1797–1826)
Axel Gabriel Sjöström
poettranslator
Finnish poet (1794-1846)
Jean-Baptiste Masui
engineer
Belgian engineer
Célestin Lavigueur
composerpianist
Canadian composer
18th Century
3 deaths
Carl XII of Sweden
military leadermonarch
The fifth and last emperor of Sweden (1697–1718)
Anders Johan Lexell
astronomermathematician
Russian mathematician (1740-1784)
Joseph Green
poetwriter
American poet
17th Century
1 death
Isidoro Bianchi
draftspersonengineer
Italian painter (1581-1662)
16th Century
2 deaths
Luke of Prague
theologianwriter
Czech religion writer and theologist
Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy
collectorcomposer
Austrian archduchess and regent of the Netherlands (1480-1530)
12th Century
1 death
Lothair III
aristocratemperor
Holy Roman Emperor from 1133 to 1137
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