What happened on April 11 ?

1034 - Romanus III, Byzantine emperor (b. 1028)

1240 - Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd

1554 - Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (executed) (b. 1521)

1612 - Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (b. 1535)

1612 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (burned at the stake) (b. 1566)

1626 - Marin Getaldi?, Croatian mathematician (b. 1568)

1712 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (b. 1638)

1723 - John Robinson, English diplomat (b. 1650)

1798 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)

1856 - Juan Santamaría, national hero of Costa Rica (b. 1831)

1861 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (b. 1824)

1873 - Edward Canby, U.S. general (assassinated) (b. 1817)

1906 - James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (b. 1847)

1906 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)

1916 - Richard Harding Davis, American author (b. 1864)

1926 - Luther Burbank, American botanist (b. 1849)

1958 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (b. 1875)

1970 - Cathy O'Donnell, American actress (b. 1923)

1970 - John O'Hara, American author (b. 1905)

1977 - Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)

1983 - Dolores del Rio, Mexican actress (b. 1905)

1985 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian Communist dictator (b. 1908)

1987 - Erskine Caldwell, American author (b. 1903)

1987 - Primo Levi, Italian chemist, composer, librettist, and author (b. 1919)

1996 - Jessica Dubroff, American pilot (b. 1988)

1999 - Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress (b. 1919)

2001 - Harry Secombe, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1921)

2003 - Cecil Howard Green, British-born geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900)

2005 - André François, French cartoonist (b. 1915)

2005 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)

2006 - DeShaun Holton, also known as Proof, American rapper of the group D12 (b. 1973)