October 11
(Redirected from 11 October)
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)