List of Famous people who died in 1911

Elmer McCurdy

Elmer J. McCurdy
First Name Elmer
Last Name McCurdy
Born on January 1, 1880
Died on October 7, 1911 (aged 31)

Elmer J. McCurdy was an American bank and train robber who was killed in a shoot-out with police after robbing a Katy Train in Oklahoma in October 1911. Dubbed "The Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up", his mummified body was first put on display at an Oklahoma funeral home and then became a fixture on the traveling carnival and sideshow circuit during the 1920s through the 1960s. After changing ownership several times, McCurdy's remains eventually wound up at The Pike amusement zone in Long Beach, California where they were discovered by a film crew and positively identified in December 1976.

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Williamina Fleming

Williamina Paton Stevens
First Name Williamina
Born on May 15, 1857
Died on May 21, 1911 (aged 54)

Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming was a Scottish astronomer active in the United States. During her career, she helped develop a common designation system for stars and cataloged thousands of stars and other astronomical phenomena. Among several career achievements that advanced astronomy, Fleming is noted for her discovery of the Horsehead Nebula in 1888.

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Francis Galton

First Name Francis
Last Name Galton
Died on January 17, 1911

Sir Francis Galton, FRS, was an English Victorian era polymath: a statistician, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician. He was knighted in 1909.

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Sister Nivedita

First Name Sister
Born on October 28, 1867
Died on October 13, 1911 (aged 43)

Sister Nivedita was an Irish teacher, author, social activist, school founder and disciple of Swami Vivekananda. She spent her childhood and early youth in Ireland. She was engaged to marry a Welsh youth, but he died soon after their engagement.

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Howard Pyle

First Name Howard
Last Name Pyle
Died on November 9, 1911

Howard Pyle was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.

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Charlie Utter

First Name Charlie
Last Name Utter
Born on January 1, 1838
Died on November 30, 1911 (aged 73)

Charles H. "Colorado Charlie" Utter was a figure of the American Wild West, best known as a great friend and companion of Wild Bill Hickok. He was also friends with Calamity Jane.

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Carrie Nation

Caroline Amelia Moore
First Name Carrie
Born on November 25, 1846
Died on June 9, 1911 (aged 64)

Carrie Amelia Nation was an American activist who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition. Nation is noted for attacking alcohol-serving establishments with a hatchet.

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Eugene Burton Ely

First Name Eugene
Born on October 21, 1886
Died on October 19, 1911 (aged 24)

Eugene Burton Ely was an aviation pioneer, credited with the first shipboard aircraft take off and landing.

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Alfred Binet

Alfredo Binetti
First Name Alfred
Born on July 8, 1857
Died on October 18, 1911 (aged 54)

Alfred Binet, born Alfredo Binetti, was a French psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test, the Binet–Simon test. In 1904, the French Ministry of Education asked psychologist Alfred Binet to devise a method that would determine which students did not learn effectively from regular classroom instruction so they could be given remedial work. Along with his collaborator Théodore Simon, Binet published revisions of his test in 1908 and 1911, the last of which appeared just before his death.

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Emma Ihrer

Rother
First Name Emma
Born on January 3, 1857
Died on January 8, 1911 (aged 54)

Emma Ihrer was a German feminist and trade unionist who was active in founding societies to defend the rights of women workers.

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