December 11

2024 Calendar

December 11 is the 345th day of the year (346th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 20 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

384 - Pope Damasus I
969 - Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine Emperor (b. 912)
1198 – Averroes, Spanish-Arab philosopher (b. 1126)
1241 – Emperor Ogedei of Japan
1282 – Prince Llywelyn the Last of Wales
1282 - Michael VIII Palaiologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1225)
1474 - Henry IV of Castile
1532 - Pietro Accotti, Italian cardinal (b. 1455)
1582 - Pedro Alvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, Spanish general and politician (b. 1508)
1694 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)
1797 - Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
1826 - Maria Leopoldina of Austria (b. 1797)
1840 – Emperor Kokaku of Japan (b. 1771)
1872 – Kamehameha V, King of Hawai'i (b. 1830)

1901 – 2000

1906 - Charles Townsend, American fencer (b. 1872)
1909 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (b. 1855)
1918 - Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer, poet and playwright (b. 1876)
1937 - Jaan Anvelt, Soviet-Estonian Communist, revolutionary and writer (b. 1884)
1938 – Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist (b. 1869)
1941 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American pilot and poet (b. 1922)
1941 - Emile Picard, French mathematician (b. 1856)
1945 - Charles Fabry, French actress and dancer (b. 1867)
1950 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1893)
1957 - Musidora, French actress and movie director (b. 1889)
1959 - Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (b. 1900)
1964 - Sam Kilbride, American actor (b. 1888)
1964 - Alma Mahler, wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel (b. 1879)
1964 - Percy Kilbride, American actor (b. 1888)
1968 - Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (b. 1891)
1971 - Maurice McDonald, American businessman (b. 1902)
1978 – Vincent de Vigneaud, American chemist (b. 1901)
1989 - Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
1992 - Michael Robbins, English actor (b. 1930)
1993 - Raymond D. Gary, American politician, 15th Governor of Oklahoma (b. 1908)
1993 – Paul Mebus, German footballer (b. 1920)
1996 - Willie Rushton, British cartoonist, writer and publisher (b. 1937)
1997 – Eddie Chapman, British World War II spy (b. 1914)
1998 – Max Streibl, German politician (b. 1932)

From 2001

2001 - Mainza Chona, 1st Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
2004 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand runner and coach (b. 1917)
2006 – Elizabeth Bolden, American supercentenarian (b. 1890)
2008 – Bettie Page, American model (b. 1923)
2008 - Ali Alatas, Indonesian politician (b. 1932)
2011 - John Patrick Foley, American cardinal (b. 1935)
2012 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian operatic soprano (b. 1926)
2012 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitarist (b. 1920)
2013 - Nadir Afonso, Portuguese painter (b. 1920)
2013 - Barbara Branden, American writer (b. 1929)
2014 - Tom Adams, English actor (b. 1938)
2014 - Giorgio Ardisson, Italian actor (b. 1931)
2015 - H. Arnold Steinberg, Canadian business and education administrator (b. 1933)
2017 - Keith Chegwin, English television presenter and actor (b. 1957)
2017 - Aline Griffith, Dowager Countess of Romanones, American-Spanish aristocrat, socialite and writer (b. 1923)
2017 - Charles Robert Jenkins, American soldier (b. 1940)
2017 - Vera Katz, German-born American politician, former Mayor of Portland, Oregon (b. 1933)
2017 - Suzanna Leigh, British actress (b. 1945)
2017 - Walter Mafli, Swiss painter (b. 1915)
2018 - Winifred Griffin, New Zealand swimmer (b. 1932)
2018 - Hiwi Tauroa, New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1927)
2019 - David Bellamy, English naturalist and writer (b. 1933)
2019 - James McCarthy, American oceanographer (b. 1944)

Births

1901 – 1925

1901 - Dave Halliday, Scottish footballer (d. 1970)
1905 - Erskine Hamilton Childers, 4th President of Ireland (d. 1974)
1905 - Gilbert Roland, American actor (d. 1984)
1906 - Pietro Serantoni, Italian footballer (d. 1964)
1908 - Elliott Carter, American composer (d. 2012)
1908 – Hakun Djurhuus, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1987)
1908 – Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese director (d. 2015)
1908 - Carlos Arias Navarro, Spanish politician (d. 1989)
1908 - Amon Goeth, German SS officer and war criminal (d. 1946)
1910 - Noel Rosa, Brazilian singer, songwriter and guitarist (d. 1937)
1911 – Qian Xuesen, Chinese scientist (d. 2009)
1911 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer (d. 2006)
1912 – Carlo Ponti, Italian movie producer (d. 2007)
1913 – Jean Marais, French actor (d. 1998)
1916 - Perez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer, pianist, composer and bandleader (d. 1989)
1918 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (d. 2008)
1919 – Marie Windsor, American actress (d. 2000)
1919 - Cliff Michelmore, British television presenter (d. 2016)
1921 – Liz Smith, British actress (d. 2016)
1921 – Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress (d. 2008)
1921 - Pierre Bec, French Occitan language linguist, philologist and poet (d. 2014)
1923 - Betsy Blair, American actress (d. 2009)
1925 – Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist (d. 2019)
1925 - Patrick Reyntiens, English stained glass artist

1926 – 1950

1926 – Big Mama Thornton, American blues singer (d. 1984)
1927 – John Buscema, American comic artist (d. 2002)
1927 - Stein Eriksen, Norwegian skier (d. 2015)
1929 - Kenneth MacMillan, Scottish dancer and choreographer (d. 1992)
1930 – Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor
1930 - Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress (d. 2016)
1931 - Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican singer and actress
1931 - Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and scholar (d. 2013)
1931 - Pierre Pilote, Canadian ice hockey player
1931 - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian philosopher and spiritual leader (d. 1990)
1932 - Enrique Bermudez, Nicaraguan army officer, founder of the Contras (d. 1991)
1932 - Anne Heywood, English actress
1933 – Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., politician from the Philippines
1935 – Pranab Mukherjee, former President of India
1935 - Ron Carey, American actor (d. 2002)
1936 - Hans van den Broek, French-Dutch politician
1938 – Enrico Macias, Algerian-French singer
1938 - McCoy Tyner, American jazz pianist
1939 - Tom Hayden, American politician and activist (d. 2016)
1940 - Donna Mills, American actress
1941 - Max Baucus, United States Senator from Montana
1941 - Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (d. 1988)
1941 - J. P. Parisé, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
1942 - Anna Carteret, British actress
1942 - Derek Parfit, British philosopher (d. 2017)
1943 – John Kerry, 68th United States Secretary of State
1944 - Teri Garr, American actress and dancer
1944 - Lynda Day George, American television and movie actress
1944 - Brenda Lee, American singer
1944 - Juan E. Mendez, American human rights activist
1946 - Rhoma Irama, Indonesian singer-songwriter
1947 - David E. Stone, American sound editor
1950 - Christina Onassis, American-Greek heiress and shopping magnate (d. 1988)

1951 – 1975

1951 - Spike Edney, British musician
1951 - Ria Stalman, Dutch athlete
1952 - Andrea de Carlo, Italian writer
1952 - Susan Seidelman, American movie director
1953 - Bess Armstrong, American actress
1954 – Jermaine Jackson, American singer
1954 - Brad Bryant, American golfer
1954 - Santiago Creel, Mexican politician
1956 – Andrew Lansley, British politician
1957 - Antonio Napolioni, Italian bishop
1958 – Nikki Sixx, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
1958 - Chris Hughton, English-Irish footballer and manager
1958 - Isabella Hofmann, American actress
1960 - Rachel Ritman, English composer
1961 - Macky Sall, President of Senegal
1961 - Ingo Appelt, Austrian bobsledder and politician
1961 - Marco Pierre White, English chef and TV personality
1962 - Denise Biellmann, Swiss figure skater
1963 – Mario Been, Dutch footballer
1963 - John Lammers, Dutch footballer
1963 - Jon Brion, American singer-songwriter, composer and producer
1963 - Nigel Winterburn, English footballer
1964 – Michel Courtemanche, French Canadian comedian
1964 – Franco Ballerini, Italian road racing cyclist (d. 2010)
1966 – Göran Kropp, Swedish mountaineer (d. 2002)
1966 - Gary Dourdan, American actor
1967 - Mo'Nique, American comedienne and actress
1967 - Michaela Tabb, English snooker referee
1968 – Fabrizio Ravanelli, Italian footballer
1969 – Viswanathan Anand, Indian chess player and world champion
1969 - Max Martini, American actor
1969 - Alessandro Melli, Italian footballer
1970 - Victoria Fuller, American model, artist and actress
1972 - Andriy Husin, Ukrainian footballer (d. 2014)
1972 – Sami Al-Jaber, Saudi footballer
1972 - Daniel Alfredsson, Swedish ice hockey player
1973 - Mos Def, American musician and actor
1974 – Rey Mysterio, Mexican-American professional wrestler
1974 - Ben Shephard, English journalist and TV host

From 1976

1976 - Shareef Abdur-Rahim, American basketball player
1979 - Rider Strong, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1981 – Javier Saviola, Argentine footballer
1981 – Mohamed Zidan, Egyptian footballer
1981 – Zacky Vengeance, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
1984 – Leighton Baines, English footballer
1985 - Mario Gjurovski, Macedonian footballer
1985 - Aiko Kayo, Japanese singer and voice actress
1985 - Anja Prislan, Slovenian tennis player
1986 - Roy Hibbert, American basketball player
1987 - Natalia Gordienko, Moldovan dancer and singer
1988 - Ashley Hinshaw, American actress and model
1991 - Anna Bergendahl, Swedish singer
1992 - Tiffany Alvord, American singer
1992 - Gen Shoji, Japanese footballer
1993 - Yalitza Aparicio, Mexican actress
1996 – Hailee Steinfeld, American actress and singer

Deaths

Observances

Republic Day (Burkina Faso)
Indiana Day
International Mountain Day
Human Rights and Peace Day (Kiribati)
National Tango Day (Argentina)