October 11

2023 Calendar

October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 81 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

1188 – Robert I, Count of Dreux (b. 1123)
1303 – Pope Boniface VIII
1347 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1282)
1424 – Jan Zizka, Czech general (b. 1360)
1531 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (b. 1484)
1705 – Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (b. 1663)
1708 – Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician, physicist and physician and philosopher (d. 1651)
1779 – Casimir Pulaski, Polish fighter for American independence (b. 1745)
1809 – Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (suicide) (b. 1774)
1811 – Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (b. 1724)
1813 – Robert Kerr, Scottish physician, writer and zoologist (b. 1757)
1830 – José de La Mar, President of Peru (b. 1778)
1852 – Ferdinand Eisenstein, mathematician (b. 1823)
1889 – James Prescott Joule, English physicist (b. 1818)
1896 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
1896 – Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)

1901 – 2000

1915 – Jean-Henri Fabre, French writer, poet and naturalist (b. 1823)
1916 – King Otto of Bavaria (b. 1848)
1940 – Lluís Companys, Spanish President of Generalitat of Catalonia, (shot) (b. 1882)
1940 – Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
1961 – Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
1963 – Édith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
1963 – Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)
1965 – Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)
1965 – Walther Stampfli, Swiss politician (b. 1884)
1971 – Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1944)
1976 – Alfredo Bracchi, Italian writer (b. 1897)
1977 – MacKinlay Kantor, American writer (b. 1904)
1987 – Uwe Barschel, German politician (b. 1944)
1989 – M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (b. 1904)
1991 – Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (b. 1902)
1993 – Jess Thomas, American tenor (b. 1927)
1996 – Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (b. 1907)
1996 – Renato Russo, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
1998 – Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
2000 – Donald Dewar, main writer of the Scotland Act and initial First Minister of the Scottish Parliament (b. 1937)

From 2001

2003 – Edward Breathitt, Governor of Kentucky (b. 1924)
2004 – Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b. 1919)
2005 – Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister-in-exile (b. 1915)
2006 – Cory Lidle, American baseball player (b. 1972)
2007 – Werner von Trapp, one of the von Trapp family singers (b. 1915)
2007 – Sri Chinmoy, Indian spiritual teacher (b. 1931)
2008 – Jörg Haider, Austrian far-right politician (car crash) (b. 1950)
2012 – Helmut Haller, German footballer (b. 1939)
2012 – Edgar Negret, Colombian sculptor (b. 1920)
2013 – María de Villota, Spanish racing driver (b. 1980)
2013 – Erich Priebke, German Nazi war criminal (b. 1913)
2014 – Carmelo Simeone, Argentine footballer (b. 1933)
2014 – Tanhum Cohen-Mintz, Israeli basketball player (b. 1939)
2015 – Steve Mackay, American saxophonist (b. 1949)
2016 – Patricia Barry, American actress (b. 1922)
2017 – James R. Ford, American politician (b. 1925)
2017 – Clifford Husbands, Governor-General of Barbados (b. 1926)
2018 – Doug Ellis, English businessman (b. 1924)
2018 – Labinot Harbuzi, Swedish footballer (b. 1986)
2018 – Dieter Kemper, German cyclist (b. 1937)
2018 – Pran Nevile, Indian art historian (b. 1922)
2018 – Yoshito Sengoku, Japanese politician (b. 1946)
2018 – Hege Skjeie, Norwegian political scientist and columnist (b. 1955)
2018 – Greg Stafford, American game designer (b. 1948)
2018 – Hebe Uhart, Argentine novelist and columnist (b. 1936)
2019 – Sam Bobrick, American television writer (b. 1932)
2019 – Robert Forster, American actor (b. 1941)
2019 – John Giorno, American poet and performance artist (b. 1936)
2019 – Kadri Gopalnath, Indian saxophonist and composer (b. 1949)
2019 – Alexei Leonov, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (b. 1934)
2020 – Hugo Arana, Argentine actor and comedian (b. 1943)
2020 – Harold Betters, American jazz trombonist (b. 1928)
2020 – Gary F. Jones, American racehorse trainer (b. 1944)
2020 – Terry McBrayer, American politician (b. 1937)
2020 – Ilya Moiseev, Russian chemist (b. 1929)
2020 – Joe Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1943)
2020 – John A. Ruthven, American wildlife artist (b. 1924)

Births

1901 – 1950

1902 – Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1979)
1905 – Jean-Marie Villot, French cardinal (d. 1979)
1905 – Fred Trump, American businessman, father of Donald Trump (d. 1999)
1911 – Juan Carlos Zabala, Argentine long-distance runner (d. 1983)
1913 – Joe Simon, American comic book artist and writer (d. 2011)
1918 – Jerome Robbins, choreographer (d. 1998)
1919 – Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (d. 1990)
1919 – Kader Firoud, Algerian footballer (d. 2005)
1919 – Jean Vander Pyl, voice of Wilma Flintstone in The Flintstones cartoon (d. 1999).
1920 – James Aloysius Hickey, American cardinal (d. 2004)
1920 – Edgar Negret, Colombian sculptor (d. 2012)
1924 – Mal Whitfield, American runner (d. 2015)
1925 – Elmore Leonard, American novelist (d. 2013)
1926 – Jean Alexander, English actress (d. 2016)
1926 – Thich Nhat Wanh, Vietnamese author, monk and poet
1926 – Neville Wran, former Premier of New South Wales (d. 2014)
1927 – Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (d. 2005)
1927 – William Perry, former United States Secretary of Defense
1927 – Jim Prior, English politician (d. 2016)
1928 – Marquis Alfonso de Portago, Grand Prix driver (d. 1957)
1929 – Curtis Amy, American saxophonist (d. 2002)
1929 – Raymond Moriyama, Canadian architect
1929 – Liselotte Pulver, Swiss actress
1930 – Ronnie Simpson, Scottish footballer (d. 2004)
1932 – Dottie West, country music singer (d. 1991)
1936 – C. Gordon Fullerton, American astronaut (d. 2013)
1937 – Bobby Charlton, English footballer
1937 – Jaan Kundla, Estonian politician
1939 – Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player (d. 2018)
1940 – Pouri Banayi, Iranian actress
1942 – Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor, singer, producer, UNICEF Ambassador.
1942 – Richard Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton, British academic and politician
1943 – John Nettles, British actor
1943 – Ilmar Reepalu, Swedish politician
1946 – Sawao Kato, Japanese gymnast
1946 – Oba Chandler, American convicted murderer (d. 2011)
1947 – Lucas Papademos, Greek economist and former Prime Minister of Greece
1947 – Al Atkins, English singer-songwriter (Judas Priest)
1948 – Cecilia, Spanish singer (d. 1976)
1948 – Peter Turkson, Ghanaian cardinal
1949 – Daryl Hall, musician
1950 – Robert Pugh, Welsh actor

1951 – 1975

1951 – Jean-Jacques Goldman, French pop singer, songwriter
1951 – Kim Ja-ok, South Korean actress (d. 2014)
1951 – Charles Shyer, American director, producer and writer
1953 – David Morse, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1955 – Hans-Peter Briegel, German footballer
1956 – Nicanor Duarte Frutos, former President of Paraguay
1957 – Dawn French, British comedienne
1958 – Gregory Dudek, Canadian computer scientist and academic
1959 – Allan Little, Scottish BBC correspondent
1961 – Steve Young, American football player
1962 – Joan Cusack, American actress
1962 – Andy McCoy, Finnish-Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1963 – Jordi Villacampa, Spanish basketball player
1963 – Prince Faisal bin Al-Hussein of Jordan
1963 – Ronny Rosenthal, Israeli footballer
1965 – Sean Patrick Flanery, American actor
1965 – Juan Ignacio Cirac, Spanish physicist
1966 – Luke Perry, American actor (d. 2019)
1966 – Todd Snider, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1967 – Daniel Razon, Filipino TV host, singer and minister
1968 – Claude Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 – Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
1969 – Merieme Chadid, Moroccan astronomer
1972 – Cherokee Parks, American basketball player
1973 – Steven Pressley, Scottish footballer
1975 – Orlando Maturana, Colombian footballer

From 1976

1976 – Emily Deschanel, American actress
1976 – Dominic Aitchison, Scottish bass player and songwriter
1976 – Raivo Kotov, Estonian architect
1976 – Claudia Black, Australian actress
1977 – Ty Wigginton, American baseball player
1979 – Bae Doona, South Korean model and actress
1979 – Andy Douglas, American professional wrestler
1980 – Juan José Ribera, Chilean footballer
1981 – Beau Brady, Australian actor
1982 – Jermaine V. Mitchell, Rap musician
1983 – Bradley James, British actor
1983 – Ruslan Ponomariov, Ukrainian chess player
1985 – Michelle Trachtenberg, actress
1985 – Alvaro Fernandez, Uruguayan footballer
1985 – Margaret Berger, Norwegian singer
1987 – Mike Conley, Jr., American basketball player
1988 – Cinthia Fernandez, Argentine acrobat-dancer, actress and model
1988 – Omar Gonzalez, American soccer player
1988 – Seamus Coleman, Irish footballer
1989 – Michelle Wie, American golfer
1991 – Jack Garratt, English singer and songwriter
1992 – Cardi B, American rapper
1992 – Emilia Bottas, Finnish swimmer
1993 – Sean Murray, Irish footballer
2001 – Daniel Maldini, Italian footballer

Deaths

Observances

International Day of the Girl Child
Revolution Day (Republic of Macedonia)
Old Michaelmas (Christianity)