March 11

2024 Calendar

March 11 is the 70th day of the year (71st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 295 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

1425 BC – Thutmose III, Egyptian Pharaoh
222 – Elagabalus, Roman Emperor
222 – Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus (b. 180)
638 - Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem (b. 560)
859 - Eulogius of Cordoba, Spanish martyr
928 - Tomislav of Croatia
1198 - Marie of France, Queen of France (b. 1145)
1486 - Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (b. 1414)
1514 – Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)
1759 - John Forbes, English general (b. 1710)
1801 – Tsar Paul I of Russia (b. 1754)
1820 - Benjamin West, English-American painter (b. 1738)
1847 – Johnny Appleseed, American pioneer agronomist (b. 1774)
1851 - George McDuffie, 55th Governor of South Carolina (b. 1790)
1869 - Vladimir Oboevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1803)
1870 – Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho
1874 – Charles Sumner, American politician (b. 1811)
1892 - Archibald Scott Couper, Scottish chemist (b. 1831)
1898 - Dikran Tchouhadjian, Armenian composer and conductor (b. 1837)

1901 – 2000

1907 - Jean Casimir-Perier, 6th President of France (b. 1847)
1908 – Benjamin Waugh, American activist (b. 1811)
1920 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer, mathematician and engineer (b. 1865)
1929 - Joseph Toole, American politician, 1st Governor of Montana (b. 1851)
1931 – Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German movie director (b. 1888)
1933 – Matti Kekki, Finnish politician (b. 1868)
1937 - Joseph S. Cullinan, American businessman (b. 1860)
1949 - Anastasios Charalambis, Greek politician (b. 1862)
1949 - Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
1950 - Heinrich Mann, German writer (b. 1871)
1952 – Pierre Renoir, French actor and director (b. 1885)
1955 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
1955 - Oscar F. Mayer, German-American businessman (b. 1859)
1957 – Richard E. Byrd, American naval officer and explorer (b. 1888)
1958 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor (Lego) (b. 1891)
1958 - John J. Dempsey, 13th Governor of New Mexico (b. 1879)
1969 – John Wyndham, English writer (b. 1903)
1971 – Philo T. Farnsworth, American inventor (b. 1906)
1978 - Claude François, French singer (b. 1939)
1978 - Sofia Vembo, Greek singer and actress (b. 1910)
1980 - Chandra Bhanu Gupta, Indian politician, 4th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (b. 1902)
1982 - Horace Gregory, American poet (b. 1898)
1985 - Tom Adams, Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1931)
1989 - John J. McCloy, American lawyer and banker (b. 1895)
1992 - Richard Brooks, American movie director (b. 1912)
1995 - Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (b. 1945)

From 2001

2002 – Rudolf Hell, German inventor (b. 1901)
2002 - Marion Dönhoff, German publicist (b. 1909)
2002 – James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
2003 - Ivar Hansen, Danish politician (b. 1938)
2006 – Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (b. 1941)
2007 – Betty Hutton, American actress (b. 1921)
2011 – Hugh Martin, American songwriter (b. 1914)
2013 - Tony Gubba, British journalist (b. 1943)
2014 - Bob Crow, British trade union leader (b. 1961)
2014 - Marga Spiegel, German writer (b. 1912)
2015 - Jimmy Greenspoon, American musician (b. 1948)
2015 - Martin H:son Holmdahl, Swedish academic (b. 1923)
2015 - Walter Burkert, German philologist (b. 1931)
2016 - Doreen Massey, British geographer (b. 1944)
2016 - Louis Meyers, American festival organiser (b. 1955)
2016 - Lawrence Van Gelder, American news columnist (b. 1933)
2017 - Kitty Courbois, Dutch actress (b. 1937)
2017 - Mohamed Mijarul Quayes, Bangladeshi diplomat (b. 1960)
2017 - Paul Mitchell, American football player (b. 1920)
2018 - Ken Dodd, English comedian and singer-songwriter (b. 1927)
2018 - Siegfried Rauch, German actor (b. 1932)
2018 - Karl Lehmann, German cardinal (b. 1936)
2018 - Mary Rosenblum, American writer and pilot (b. 1952)
2019 - Hal Blaine, American drummer (b. 1929)
2019 - Coutinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1943)

Births

1901 – 1950

1903 – Ronald Syme, New Zealand historian (d. 1989)
1903 - James Franklin Hyde, American chemist and inventor (d. 1991)
1903 – Lawrence Welk, American musician (d. 1992)
1904 - Harold F. Cherniss, American historian of ancient philosophy (d. 1987)
1908 - Matti Sippala, Finnish javelin thrower (d. 1997)
1910 - Robert Havemann, German chemist (d. 1982)
1910 – Jacinta Marto, Portuguese religious figure (d. 1920)
1911 - Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet, Scottish soldier, writer and politician (d. 1996)
1912 – Paul Janes, German footballer (d. 1987)
1913 - Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke, German pilot (d. 1944)
1914 - William Lloyd Webber, English composer (d. 1982)
1915 – Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer (d. 2004)
1915 - Hans Peter Keller, German writer (d. 1988)
1916 – Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
1920 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist (d. 2017)
1920 – Kenneth Dover, British classicist (d. 2010)
1922 – Abdul Razak Hussein, Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1976)
1922 - Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek-French political philosopher (d. 1997)
1923 – Agatha Barbara, President of Malta (d. 2002)
1923 - Louise Brough, American tennis player (d. 2014)
1924 - Franco Basaglia, Italian psychiatrist (d. 1980)
1925 - Rodney Wilkes, Trinidadian weightlifter (d. 2014)
1926 – Ralph Abernathy, American Civil rights campaigner (d. 1990)
1927 - Robert Mosbacher, American politician (d. 2010)
1927 – Joachim Fuchsberger, German actor and entertainer (d. 2014)
1927 - Josep Maria Subirachs, Catalan sculptor and painter (d. 2014)
1927 - Freda Meissner-Blau, German-Austrian politician (d. 2015)
1928 - Albert Salmi, American actor (d. 1990)
1929 - Timothy Carey, American actor (d. 1994)
1931 – Janosch, Silesian writer and illustrator
1931 - Marisa Del Frate, Italian actress (d. 2015)
1931 – Rupert Murdoch, Australian-American media tycoon
1932 – Nigel Lawson, British politician
1932 – Leroy Jenkins, American composer (d. 2007)
1933 – Jesus Gil y Gil, Spanish politician and businessman (d. 2004)
1933 - Sandra Milo, Italian actress
1934 - Sam Donaldson, American journalist
1935 - Nancy Kovack, American actress
1935 - Peter Walsh, Australian politician (d. 2015)
1936 - Harald zur Hausen, German physician and Nobel Prize winner
1936 – Antonin Scalia, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 2016)
1940 - Alberto Cortez, Argentine singer and songwriter (d. 2019)
1942 - Joel Steiger, American writer and producer
1942 - Marcus Borg, American scholar, theologian and writer (d. 2015)
1943 - Arturo Merzario, Italian racing driver
1945 - Harvey Mandel, American musician
1945 - Tricia O'Neil, American actress
1945 - Pirri, Spanish footballer
1946 - Mark Metcalf, American actor
1947 - Alan Yentob, English television presenter
1948 - Roy Barnes, American politician, 80th Governor of Georgia
1950 - Bobby McFerrin, American singer-songwriter, producer and conductor
1950 – Jerry Zucker, American director and screenwriter

1951 – 1975

1951 - Dominique Sanda, French actress and model
1952 – Douglas Adams, English writer (d. 2001)
1952 - Ricardo Martinelli, former President of Panama
1954 - Gale Norton, American politician, 48th United States Secretary of the Interior
1955 – Nina Hagen, German singer
1956 - Helen Rollason, English sports journalist and television presenter (d. 1999)
1956 - Curtis Brown, American astronaut
1956 - Rob Paulsen, American actor
1958 - Eddie Lawson, American motorcycle racer
1958 - Tetsuro Oda, Japanese singer, songwriter and record producer
1958 – Anissa Jones, American actress (d. 1976)
1959 - Manuel Negrete Arias, Mexican footballer
1959 - Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian-American writer
1959 - Martin Loeb, French actor
1960 - Robert Glenister, English actor
1962 - Matt Mead, 32nd Governor of Wyoming
1963 - Alex Kingston, British actress
1963 – David LaChapelle, American photographer and director
1964 - Emma Chambers, British actress (d. 2018)
1964 – Leena Lehtolainen, Finnish writer
1964 - Peter Berg, American director, actor and producer
1964 – Vinnie Paul, American guitarist (d. 2018)
1965 – Nigel Adkins, English football manager
1965 – Jesse Jackson, Jr., American politician
1965 - Wallace Langham, American actor
1965 - Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, English interior designer
1965 - Jenny Packham, English fashion designer
1965 - Michelle Thomson, Scottish politician
1967 – John Barrowman, Scottish-American actor, singer and dancer
1968 – Lisa Loeb, American singer-songwriter
1969 - Soraya, Colombian-American musician (d. 2006)
1969 - Terrence Howard, American actor
1971 - Johnny Knoxville, American comedian
1971 - Martin Rucinsky, Czech ice hockey player
1973 – Martin Hiden, Austrian footballer
1974 - Bobby Abreu, Venezuelan baseball player
1975 - Eric Lynch, American actor and radio personality (d. 2014)

From 1976

1976 – Thomas Gravesen, Danish footballer
1977 - Becky Hammon, American basketball player
1978 – Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer
1978 – Albert Luque, Spanish footballer
1979 – Benji Madden, American singer (Good Charlotte)
1979 – Joel Madden, American guitarist (Good Charlotte)
1979 - Elton Brand, American basketball player
1980 – Paul Scharner, Austrian footballer
1981 - Matthias Schweighöfer, German actor
1981 - Luke Johnson, British musician
1981 - Russell Lissack, British musician (Bloc Party)
1981 – LeToya Luckett, American singer
1982 – Thora Birch, American actress
1984 – Anna Tsuchiya, Japanese model, actress and singer
1984 - Tom James, Welsh rower
1985 - Sonia Radeva, Bulgarian figure skater
1986 - Dario Cologna, Swiss skier
1986 - Mariko Shinoda, Japanese singer and actress (AKB48)
1988 - Fabio Coentrao, Portuguese footballer
1989 - Zaven Andriasian, Armenian chess player
1989 - Shin Soohyun, South Korean singer (U-KISS)
1989 - Anton Yelchin, Russian-American actor (d. 2016)
1991 – Lin Lin, Chinese-born Japanese singer
1991 - Poonam Pandey, Indian actress and model
1991 – Jack Rodwell, English footballer
1992 - Sacha Parkinson, English actress
1993 - Jodie Comer, English actress
1993 - Anthony Davis, American basketball player
1994 - Andrew Robertson, Scottish footballer

Deaths

Observances

Re-establishment of Independence (Lithuania)
Moshoeshoe Day (Lesotho)
Johnny Appleseed Day (United States)