December 11
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)