In deaths:
| March 11th 1950 | | Florence Arliss, actress (Disraeli), dies at 78
| | March 11th 1951 | | Philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at 66
| | March 11th 1955 | | Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73
| | March 11th 1956 | | Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83
| | March 11th 1957 | | Richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68
| | March 11th 1959 | | Haydn Wood, composer, dies at 76
| | March 11th 1960 | | Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76
| | March 11th 1962 | | Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79
| | March 11th 1963 | | Mahomed Nissar, cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wkts), dies
| | March 11th 1965 | | James Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered
| | March 11th 1967 | | Geraldine Farrar, soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85
| | March 11th 1969 | | John Wyndham, [Parkes Lucas B Harris], author (Chrysalids), dies at 65
| | March 11th 1970 | | Erle Stanley Gardner, US writer (Perry Mason), dies at 80
| | March 11th 1971 | | Philo T Farnsworth, US TV pioneer, dies at 64
| | March 11th 1971 | | Roy Glenn, dies in Los Angeles at 56
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