Famous Deaths on October 11

Polish actor (1930–2001)

Colombian engineer, first woman to receive a degree in civil engineering from the National University of Colombia

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (1996)

South African far-right politician (1890–1959)

Austrian geneticist (1871-1962)

German diarist, writer and friend of Queen Victoria (1839-1929)

Finnish painter, illustrator and writer (1890–1946)

Mexican teacher, poet and feminist (1846-1908)

Irish politician and philanthropist (1841-1929)

German writer (1930-1976)

Estonian-Scottish sculptor (1891-1984)

New Zealand artist (1842-1910)

American writer

Spanish painter and court painter (1746-1817)

(1724-1811)

Belgian painter (1787–1869)

Paraguayan journalist, poet and soldier during the War of the Triple Alliance

Polish Jewish writer, translator, and publisher (1831–1896)

Italian mathematician (1709-1791)

French scientific instrument inventor and physicist (1663-1705)

Poet

Second Abbasid Caliph (714-775)

Fourth Roman emperor (41–54)