What happened on November 11 ?

397 - Martin of Tours, French saint

405 - Arsacius, intruding archbishop of Constantinople

537 - Pope Silverius, saint

1028 - Constantine VIII of the Byzantine Empire (b. 960)

1623 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (b. 1549)

1686 - Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (b. 1621)

1686 - Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor, and politician (b. 1602)

1812 - Platon Levshin, Metropoitan of Moscow (b. 1737)

1831 - Nat Turner, American slave rebel (b. 1800)

1855 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)

1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (hanged)

1880 - Lucretia Mott, American feminist and abolitionist (b. 1793)

1884 - Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827)

1887 - Haymarket martyrs:

1887 - George Engel (b. 1836)

1887 - Adolph Fischer (b. 1858)

1887 - Albert Parsons (b. 1848)

1887 - August Spies (b. 1855)

1917 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of Hawaii (b. 1838)

1918 - George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last person to be killed in W.W.I.

1931 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)

1939 - Jan Opletal, czech student, victim of nazi violence in Prague

1945 - Jerome David Kern, American composer (b. 1885)

1972 - Berry Oakley, Bass Player and founder, Allman Brothers Band (b. 1948)

1973 - David "Stringbean" Akeman, American banjo player (b. 1915)

1973 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)

1974 - Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (b. 1894)

1976 - Alexander Calder, American artist (b. 1898)

1977 - Greta Keller, Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (b. 1903)

1979 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (b. 1894)

1988 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh Conductor & Organist (b. 1900)

1997 - Rodney Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950)

1999 - Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)

1999 - Jacobo Timmerman, Argentine writer and journalist (b. 1923)

2004 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929)

2005 - Lord Lichfield, British photographer

2005 - Peter Drucker, American management theorist (b. 1909)

2005 - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer and director. (b. 1930)