deaths
March 11, 1959
Lester Dent, American author (born 1904)

Lester Dent
Lester Dent was an American pulp-fiction writer, best known as the creator and main writer of the series of novels about the scientist and adventurer Doc Savage. The 159 Doc Savage novels that Dent wrote over 16 years were credited to the house name Kenneth Robeson.
March 11
March 11 is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 295 days remain until the end of the year.