Died on February 11th

Name

Occupation

Birth

Death

Known for

Peter Benchley

Novelist

8-May-1940

11-Feb-2006

Jaws

Zina Bethune

Actor

17-Feb-1945

11-Feb-2012

Gail Lucas on The Nurses

Sorrell Booke

Actor

4-Jan-1930

11-Feb-1994

Boss Hogg on Dukes of Hazzard

John Buchan

Author

26-Aug-1875

11-Feb-1940

The Thirty-Nine Steps

Jack L. Chalker

Author

17-Dec-1944

11-Feb-2005

SF author, wrote Well World series

De Witt Clinton

Politician

2-Mar-1769

11-Feb-1828

Twice Governor of New York

Lee J. Cobb

Actor

8-Dec-1911

11-Feb-1976

The Left Hand of God

Thomas Cole

Painter

1-Feb-1801

11-Feb-1848

American landscape painter

James B. Conant

Educator

26-Mar-1893

11-Feb-1978

President of Harvard, 1933-53

William Conrad

Actor

27-Sep-1920

11-Feb-1994

Jake and the Fatman

Kiki Cuyler

Baseball

30-Aug-1898

11-Feb-1950

MLB Hall of Famer

Ray Danton

Actor

19-Sep-1931

11-Feb-1992

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

Honoré Daumier

Artist

20-Feb-1808

11-Feb-1879

Caricaturist and satirist

René Descartes

Philosopher

31-Mar-1596

11-Feb-1650

Discours de la Méthode

Al Dubin

Songwriter

10-Jun-1891

11-Feb-1945

Lullaby of Broadway

Sergei Eisenstein

Film Director

23-Jan-1898

11-Feb-1948

Alexander Nevsky

Paul K. Feyerabend

Philosopher

13-Jan-1924

11-Feb-1994

Against Method

Léon Foucault

Physicist

19-Sep-1819

11-Feb-1868

Measured the speed of light

Pope Gregory II

Religion

669 AD

11-Feb-731 AD

Roman Catholic Pope, 715-731

Henry Hathaway

Film Director

13-Mar-1898

11-Feb-1985

The Sons of Katie Elder

Frank Herbert

Author

8-Oct-1920

11-Feb-1986

Dune

Kenneth C. Hogate

Publisher

27-Jul-1897

11-Feb-1947

President of Dow Jones, 1931-45

Robert W. Holley

Scientist

28-Jan-1922

11-Feb-1993

RNA's role in protein synthesis

Whitney Houston

Singer

9-Aug-1963

11-Feb-2012

Diva and cautionary tale

J. Hans D. Jensen

Physicist

25-Jun-1907

11-Feb-1973

Shell nuclear model

Willem Johan Kolff

Scientist

14-Feb-1911

11-Feb-2009

Artificial kidney, artificial heart

Tom Lantos

Politician

1-Feb-1928

11-Feb-2008

Congressman from California, 1981-2008

Jozef Lenart

Head of State

3-Apr-1923

11-Feb-2004

Czech Prime Minister, 1963-68

Howard Lindsay

Playwright

29-Mar-1889

11-Feb-1968

The Sound of Music

Jacques Loeb

Doctor

7-Apr-1859

11-Feb-1924

Investigator of artificial parthenogenesis

Harry Martinson

Poet

6-May-1904

11-Feb-1978

Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space

Ona Munson

Actor

16-Jun-1903

11-Feb-1955

Belle Watling in Gone with the Wind

Pope Paschal I

Religion

?

11-Feb-824 AD

Roman Catholic Pope, 817-24

Sylvia Plath

Poet

27-Oct-1932

11-Feb-1963

Daddy

Don Porter

Actor

24-Sep-1912

11-Feb-1997

Prof. Lawrence on Gidget

Eleanor Powell

Dancer

21-Nov-1912

11-Feb-1982

Lady Be Good

William Shenstone

Poet

18-Nov-1714

11-Feb-1763

The Schoolmistress

Takashi Shimura

Actor

12-Mar-1905

11-Feb-1982

The Seven Samurai

George Stephen

Business

c. 1921

11-Feb-1993

Weber kettle grill

Robert Surtees

Historian

1779

11-Feb-1834

History of Durham

Roger Vadim

Film Director

26-Jan-1928

11-Feb-2000

Barbarella

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