What happened on March 11 ?

222 - Elagabalus, Roman Emperor

222 - Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus (b. 180)

1198 - Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145)

1486 - Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (b. 1414)

1514 - Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)

1575 - Matthias Flacius, Croatian protestant reformer (b. 1520)

1602 - Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer

1607 - Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer

1722 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (b. 1670)

1759 - John Forbes, British general (b. 1710)

1786 - Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1714)

1847 - Johnny Appleseed, American pioneer agronomist (b. 1774)

1854 - Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)

1869 - Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1803)

1870 - King Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho

1907 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (b. 1847)

1908 - Revd Benjamin Waugh, American activist (b. 1839)

1920 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)

1931 - F.W. Murnau, German director (b. 1888)

1955 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1881)

1957 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (b. 1888)

1967 - Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b. 1882)

1969 - John Wyndham, British author (b. 1903)

1970 - Erle Stanley Gardner, American novelist (b. 1889)

1971 - Philo T. Farnsworth, American television pioneer (b. 1906)

1971 - Whitney Young, American civil rights leader (b. 1921)

1977 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1893)

1978 - Claude François, French singer (b. 1939)

1982 - Edmund Cooper, Author and Poet (b. 1926)

2002 - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)

2003 - Brian Cleeve, Irish author and broadcaster (b. 1921)

2006 - Slobodan Milo?evi?, President of Serbia (b. 1941)

2006 - Bernie Geoffrion, Canadian hockey player (b. 1931)