July 11
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July 11 is the 192nd day of the year (193rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 173 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- ca. 155 – Pope Pius I
- 472 – Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Empire (legal murder)
- 937 – Rudolph II of Burgundy (b. 880)
- 969 – Olga of Kiev (b. 890)
- 1174 - Amalric I of Jerusalem (b. 1136)
- 1183 - Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1117)
- 1302 - Robert II, Count of Artois (b. 1250)
- 1535 - Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1484)
- 1553 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521)
- 1688 – King Narai of Siam (b. 1629)
- 1804 – Alexander Hamilton, United States Secretary of the Treasury (duel) (b. 1757)
- 1825 - Thomas P. Grosvenor, American soldier and politician (b. 1744)
- 1844 - Yevgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
- 1879 - William Allen, 31st Governor of Ohio (b. 1803)
1901 – 2000
- 1908 - Friedrich Traun, German tennis player (b. 1876)
- 1909 - Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
- 1916 – Jon Olafsson, Icelandic editor, journalist and poet (b. 1850)
- 1920 - Eugénie de Montijo, Spanish wife of Napoleon III of France (b. 1826)
- 1937 – George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898)
- 1941 - Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (b. 1851)
- 1957 - Aga Khan III (b. 1877)
- 1959 – Charlie Parker, cricketer (b. 1882)
- 1962 - Owen D. Young, American lawyer, diplomat, industrialist and businessman (b. 1874)
- 1966 - Delmore Schwartz, American poet and author (b. 1913)
- 1967 - Guy Favreau, Canadian lawyer, judge and politician (b. 1917)
- 1971 – John W. Campbell, science fiction writer and editor (b. 1910)
- 1974 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
- 1987 - Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
- 1989 – Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor (b. 1907)
- 1991 – Hitoshi Igarashi, English-Japanese translator, of The Satanic Verses (b. 1947)
- 1991 - Mokhtar Dahari, Malaysian footballer (b. 1953)
- 1994 – Gary Kildall, computer programmer (b. 1942)
- 1995 - Don Starr, American actor (b. 1917)
- 1999 – Helen Forrest, American jazz singer (b. 1917)
- 2000 – Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
From 2001
- 2001 – Herman Brood, singer and artist (suicide) (b. 1946)
- 2003 – Zahra Kazemi, Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer (b. 1949)
- 2004 – Laurance Rockefeller, American conservationist and philanthropist (b. 1910)
- 2005 – Gretchen Franklin, English actress (b. 1911)
- 2007 – Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
- 2007 – Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, 32nd President of Colombia (b. 1913)
- 2008 – Michael DeBakey, American surgeon and inventor (b. 1908)
- 2009 – Arturo Gatti, Canadian boxer (b. 1972)
- 2010 – Bob Sheppard, American announcer (b. 1910)
- 2011 - Tom Gehrels, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1925)
- 2013 - Zeb Alley, American politician (b. 1928)
- 2013 - Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician (b. 1936)
- 2014 - Charlie Haden, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
- 2014 - Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American musician (b. 1952)
- 2014 - Howard Cooke, Governor-General of Jamaica (b. 1915)
- 2014 - John Seigenthaler, American journalist and writer (b. 1927)
- 2014 - Carin Mannheimer, Swedish writer (b. 1934)
- 2014 - Ray Lonnen, British actor (b. 1940)
- 2014 - Randall Stout, American architect (b. 1958)
- 2015 - Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (b. 1928)
- 2015 - Satoru Iwata, Japanese President and CEO of Nintendo (b. 1959)
- 2015 - James U. Cross, American military pilot and author (b. 1920)
- 2015 - Hussein Fatal, American rapper (b. 1977)
- 2016 - John Brademas, American politician and educator (b. 1927)
- 2016 - Emma Cohen, Spanish actress (b. 1946)
- 2016 - Elaine Fantham, English classicist (b. 1933)
- 2016 - Corrado Farina, Italian movie director, screenwriter and novelist (b. 1939)
- 2016 - Jim Metzen, American politician (b. 1943)
- 2017 - Fikret Hakan, Turkish actor (b. 1934)
- 2017 - Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Italian musicologist and composer (b. 1929)
- 2017 - Denis Mack Smith, British historian (b. 1920)
- 2017 - Buddy Wolfe, American professional wrestler (b. 1941)
- 2018 - Richard John Garcia, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1947)
- 2018 - Liu Zhenhua, Chinese general and politician (b. 1921)
- 2018 - Pat Swindall, American politician (b. 1950)
- 2018 - Abdelkhader Houamel, Algerian painter (b. 1936)
- 2018 - Mai Tai Sing, American actress and businesswoman (b. 1923)
- 2019 - Brendan Grace, Irish actor, comedian and singer (b. 1951)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1902 - Samuel Goudsmit, Dutch-American physicist (d. 1978)
- 1906 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)
- 1912 - Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (d. 1996)
- 1916 - Mortimer Caplin, American lawyer and educator (d. 2019)
- 1916 – Gough Whitlam, 21st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2014)
- 1916 – Alexander Prokhorov, Russian physicist (d. 2002)
- 1916 – Reg Varney, English actor (d. 2008)
- 1918 - Venetia Burney, English girl who named the dwarf planet Pluto (d. 2009)
- 1920 – Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
- 1920 - Zecharia Sitchin, Russian-American author (d. 2010)
- 1921 – Ilse Werner, Dutch-born actress (d. 2005)
- 1922 – Gene Evans, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1923 – Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa, Brazilian footballer (d. 2010)
- 1923 - Richard Pipes, Polish-American historian and academic (d. 2018)
- 1923 - Tun Tun, Indian playback singer, actress and comedienne (d. 2003)
- 1924 - Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1971)
- 1924 - Brett Somers, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2007)
- 1925 - Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
- 1927 - Theodore Maiman, American physicist (d. 2007)
- 1928 - Greville Janner, British politician (d. 2015)
- 1929 - David Kelly, Irish actor (d. 2012)
- 1930 - Harold Bloom, American author and critic
- 1930 - Murphy J. Foster Jr., American politician, former Governor of Louisiana (d. 2020)
- 1931 - John N. Dalton, American politician, Governor of Virginia (d. 1986)
- 1931 - Dick Gray, American baseball player (d. 2013)
- 1931 - Tab Hunter, American actor (d. 2018)
- 1931 - Tullio Regge, Italian physicist (d. 2014)
- 1932 - Jean-Guy Talbot, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1933 - Frank Kelso, American admiral (d. 2013)
- 1933 - A. J. Langguth, American historian and journalist (d. 2014)
- 1934 – Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
- 1935 - Oliver Napier, Irish politician (d. 2011)
- 1939 - Seth Gaaikema, Dutch comedian and writer (d. 2014)
- 1943 – Rolf Stommelen, German racing driver (d. 1983)
- 1943 - Howard Gardner, American psychologist
- 1943 - Tom Holland, American actor, director and screenwriter
- 1943 - Robert Malval, 5th Prime Minister of Haiti
- 1944 - Lou Hudson, American basketball player (d. 2014)
- 1947 - John Holt, Jamaican singer (d. 2014)
- 1950 - Bonnie Pointer, American singer (The Pointer Sisters)
1951 – 1975
- 1951 - Vyacheslav Anisin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1952 - Stephen Lang, American actor
- 1952 - Bill Barber, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1953 – Leon Spinks, American boxer
- 1956 - Robin Renucci, French actor and director
- 1957 - Johann Lamont, Scottish politician, leader of the Scottish Labour Party
- 1957 - Peter Oborne, English journalist
- 1958 - Hugo Sánchez, Mexican footballer
- 1959 – Richie Sambora, American singer (Bon Jovi)
- 1959 – Suzanne Vega, American singer
- 1961 - Antony Jenkins, English businessman
- 1962 - Pauline McLynn, Irish actress
- 1963 - Lisa Rinna, American actress
- 1964 - Kyril, Prince of Preslav
- 1966 - Greg Grunberg, American actor
- 1966 - Rod Strickland, American basketball player
- 1966 - Mick Molloy, Australian actor, screenwriter and producer
- 1970 - Justin Chambers, American actor
- 1970 - Sajjad Karim, English politician
- 1971 - Leisha Hailey, Japanese-American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1972 – Jussi 69, Finnish musician
- 1972 - Michael Rosenbaum, American actor, director and producer
- 1973 - Andrew Bird, American singer-songwriter and violinist
- 1973 - Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete
- 1974 – Hermann Hreidarsson, Icelandic footballer
- 1974 – André Ooijer, Dutch footballer
- 1975 – Samer El Nahal, Finnish musician (Lordi)
- 1975 – Lil' Kim, American rapper, singer and actress
- 1975 - Choi Ji-woo, South Korean actress
- 1975 – Nadya Suleman, American, famous mother of octuplets
From 1976
- 1979 – Eric Abidal, French footballer
- 1979 - Im Soo-jung, South Korean actress
- 1980 - Tyson Kidd, Canadian wrestler
- 1983 - Marie Serneholt, Swedish singer
- 1984 - Rachael Taylor, Australian actress
- 1984 - Morné Steyn, South African rugby player
- 1985 - Robert Adamson, American actor
- 1985 - Aki Maeda, Japanese actress and singer
- 1986 - Ian Cathro, Scottish football manager
- 1986 – Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer
- 1986 - Jonathan Sexton, Irish rugby player
- 1989 - David Henrie, American actor
- 1990 – Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player
- 1990 - Mona Barthel, German tennis player
- 1990 - Kelsey Sanders, American actress and singer
- 1994 - Lucas Ocampos, Argentine footballer
- 1994 - Nina Nesbitt, Scottish singer
- 1996 - Alessia Cara, Canadian singer
- 1996 - Tyler Medeiros, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer
Deaths
Observances
- Feast Day of Saint Benedict of Nursia
- Day of the Flemish Community in Belgium
- First Day of Naadam (Mongolia)
- National Day of Commemoration (Republic of Ireland)
- Eleventh Night (Northern Ireland)
- World Population Day