January 11
January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 354 days remaining until the end of the year (355 in leap years).
Events
Up to 1900
- 705 – Pope John VI
- 782 – Emperor Konin of Japan (b. 709)
- 812 – Staurakios, Byzantine Emperor
- 844 – Michael I Rhangabes, Byzantine Emperor
- 1055 – Constantine IX Monomachos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1000)
- 1083 – Otto Nordheim, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1020)
- 1494 – Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b. 1449)
- 1495 – Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1428)
- 1547 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal, scholar and theorist (b. 1470)
- 1696 – Charles Albanel, French priest, missionary and scholar (b. 1616)
- 1713 – Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader (b. 1637)
- 1753 – Hans Sloane, Ulster-Scottish physician and collector (b. 1660)
- 1762 – Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor (b. 1695)
- 1763 – Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian and poet (b. 1676)
- 1798 – Erekle II, King of Kartli and Kakheti in present-day Georgia (b. 1720)
- 1801 – Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (b. 1749)
- 1812 – Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish nobleman (b. 1746)
- 1843 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (b. 1779)
- 1867 – Stuart Donaldson, colonial governor of New South Wales (b. 1812)
- 1882 – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (b. 1810)
1901–1950
- 1901 – Kwak Ki-ok, Korean pilot (d. 1988)
- 1902 – Maurice Durufle, French composer (d. 1986)
- 1903 – Alan Paton, South African writer and activist (d. 1988)
- 1906 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (d. 2008)
- 1907 – Pierre Mendès France, Prime Minister of France (d. 1982)
- 1908 – Lionel Stander, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1910 – Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (d. 1975)
- 1911 – Nora Heysen, Australian artist (d. 2003)
- 1911 – Brunhilde Pomsel, German broadcaster (d. 2017)
- 1911 – Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004)
- 1917 – John Robarts, 17th Premier of Ontario (d. 1982)
- 1918 – Gunnar Sonsteby, Norwegian Resistance activist (d. 2012)
- 1923 – Carroll Shelby, American racing driver, automobile designer and businessman (d. 2012)
- 1923 – Jerome Bixby, American writer and scriptwriter (d. 1998)
- 1923 – Ernst Nolte, German historian and philosopher (d. 2016)
- 1924 – Don Cherry, American singer and golfer (d. 2018)
- 1924 – Roger Guillemin, French Nobel Prize laureate
- 1924 – Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970)
- 1926 – Lev Dyomin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1998)
- 1926 – Grant Tinker, American television executive (d. 2016)
- 1928 – Mitchell Ryan, American actor
- 1929 – Rafael Eitan, Israeli general and politician (d. 2004)
- 1930 – Ron Mulock, Australian politician (d. 2014)
- 1930 – Rod Taylor, Australian actor (d. 2015)
- 1932 – Alfonso Arau, Mexican movie director
- 1934 – Charles Antony Richard Hoare, British computer scientist
- 1934 – Jean Chrétien, 20th Prime Minister of Canada
- 1936 – Eva Hesse, German sculptor (d. 1970)
- 1938 – Arthur Scargill, British politician and activist
- 1938 – Frankie Randall, American singer-songwriter, actor and dancer (d. 2014)
- 1938 – Gavin Millar, Scottish movie director
- 1940 – Andres Tarand, Estonian geographer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Estonia
- 1941 – Gerson, Brazilian footballer
- 1942 – Clarence Clemons, American musician (d. 2011)
- 1942 – Bud Acton, American basketball player
- 1943 – Eduardo Mendoza, Spanish writer
- 1944 – Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (d. 1989)
- 1944 – Shibu Soren, Indian politician
- 1945 – Christine Kaufmann, Austrian-German actress (d. 2017)
- 1946 – Naomi Judd, American singer
- 1946 – Tony Kaye, British pianist and organist
- 1946 – John Piper, American theologian
- 1948 – Wajima Hiroshi, Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1948 – Terry Williams, Welsh rock drummer (Dire Straits)
- 1949 – Daryl Braithwaite, Australian rock music singer
- 1949 – Bogdan Borusewicz, Polish historian and politician
- 1949 – Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Mexican writer
- 1949 – Chris Ford, American basketball player
- 1949 – David Rotem, Israeli politician (d. 2015)
- 1949 – Mohammad Reza Rahimi, 2nd Vice President of Iran
From 1951
- 1954 – A series of avalanches in the state of Vorarlberg in Austria kills 135 people.
- 1957 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
- 1960 – Chad declares its independence.
- 1962 – An avalanche occurs in the Huascaran region in Peru; 4,000 deaths.
- 1962 – Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
- 1963 – The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the US, is opened.
- 1964 – United States Surgeon General Luther Leonidas Terry reports smoking may be hazardous to health. First such statement from US government.
- 1972 – East Pakistan becomes Bangladesh.
- 1973 – Beginning of the Watergate burglars trial.
- 1974 – The world's first surviving set of sextuplets are born to Susan Rosenkowitz in Cape Town, South Africa.
- 1976 – In Ecuador, Guillermo Rodriguez Lara is removed from power by the military.
- 1980 – Nigel Short, 14, is the youngest chess player to be given the degree of International Master.
- 1981 – In Spain, Cantabria becomes an autonomous community.
- 1982 – A cold snap sends temperatures to record lows in dozens of cities throughout the Midwestern United States.
- 1986 – The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia was officially opened.
- 1990 – 300,000 march in favor of Lithuanian independence.
- 1992 – Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.
- 1994 – Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin
- 1996 – Haiti becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1996 – Ryutaro Hashimoto becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
- 1998 – Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria; over 100 people killed.
- 2001 – The Federal Trade Commission approved the merger of AOL and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.
- 2002 – The first prisoners arrive at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay, on the island of Cuba.
- 2003 – Illinois governor George H. Ryan announces decision to grant clemency to all inmates of death row.
- 2005 – Black Tuesday bushfires swept across the southern Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.
- 2013 – President of France François Hollande authorizes military intervention in the conflict in Mali.
- 2015 – Over a million people march in Paris for freedom of speech after the attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine a few days earlier.
- 2015 – Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic is elected to become the first female President of Croatia.
- 2018 – US President Donald Trump is involved in a racism controversy over words he is said to have used to describe Haiti, El Salvador and African countries.
- 2024 – The Iranian Navy seizes control of the Marshall Islands-flagged, United States-controlled & Greek-operated civilian oil tanker St Nikolas.[1]
Births
1951–1975
- 1951 – Philip Tartaglia, Scottish Roman Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow
- 1952 – Bille Brown, Australian actor and playwright (d. 2013)
- 1952 – Ben Crenshaw, American golfer
- 1952 – Lee Ritenour, American guitarist, composer and producer
- 1952 – Diana Gabaldon, American writer
- 1953 – John Sessions, Scottish actor
- 1954 – Vicky Peña, Spanish actress
- 1954 – Kailash Satyarthi, Indian children's rights activist, joint-winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
- 1954 – Barbara Prammer, Austrian politician (d. 2014)
- 1956 – Israel Yinon, Israeli conductor (d. 2015)
- 1957 – Claude Criquielion, Belgian cyclist (d. 2015)
- 1957 – Darryl Dawkins, American basketball player (d. 2015)
- 1957 – Bryan Robson, English footballer
- 1958 – Vicki Peterson, American musician
- 1961 – Jasper Fforde, British writer
- 1961 – Karl Habsburg-Lothringen, Austro-Hungarian nobleman, son of Otto von Habsburg
- 1961 – Eva O, American musician and singer-songwriter
- 1962 – Kim Coles, American actress
- 1962 – Chris Bryant, British politician
- 1963 – Jason Connery, British actor
- 1964 – Yolanda Hadid, Dutch-American television personality and model
- 1965 – Edyta Bartosiewicz, Polish singer, songwriter and composer
- 1968 – Tom Dumont, American musician
- 1969 – Manny Acta, Dominican baseball player
- 1970 – Manfredi Beninati, Italian painter and sculptor
- 1970 – Chris Jent, American basketball player and coach
- 1970 – Malcolm D. Lee, American actor, director and screenwriter
- 1970 – Mustafa Sandal, Turkish pop singer, producer, dancer and actor
- 1971 – Tom Ward, British actor
- 1971 – Mary J. Blige, American singer
- 1972 – Amanda Peet, American actress
- 1972 – Konstantin Khabensky, Russian entertainer and actor
- 1973 – Rockmond Dunbar, American actor
- 1973 – Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer
- 1974 – Jens Nowotny, German footballer
- 1975 – Matteo Renzi, Italian politician, former Mayor of Florence and Prime Minister of Italy from 2014 to 2016
- 1975 – Timbuktu, Swedish rapper
From 1976
- 1977 – Jerome Kerviel, French bank employee
- 1978 – Emile Heskey, English footballer
- 1980 – Geovanni, Brazilian footballer
- 1980 – Gökdeniz Karadeniz, Turkish footballer
- 1981 – Jamelia, English singer
- 1981 – Tom Meighan, English singer (Kasabian)
- 1981 – Jaime Valdés, Chilean footballer
- 1982 – Ashley Taylor Dawson, English actor
- 1983 – Adrian Sutil, German racing driver
- 1984 – Vagner Love, Brazilian footballer
- 1985 – Kazuki Nakajima, Japanese racing driver
- 1986 – Rachel Riley, English television host
- 1987 – Jamie Vardy, English footballer
- 1988 – LunchMoney Lewis, American hip hop singer
- 1988 – Junjun, Chinese singer
- 1991 – Hyolyn, South Korean actress
- 1992 – Lee Seung-hoon, South Korean rapper, choreographer and songwriter
- 1996 – Leroy Sané, German footballer
- 1997 – Cody Simpson, Australian singer
- 1998 – Louisa Johnson, English singer
Deaths
1901–2000
- 1901 – Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (b. 1866)
- 1914 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer (b. 1842)
- 1923 – King Constantine I of Greece (b. 1868)
- 1928 – Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)
- 1941 – Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (b. 1868)
- 1944 – Galeazzo Ciano, Italian politician (b. 1903)
- 1947 – Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born singer and entertainer (b. 1879)
- 1953 – Noe Zhordania, Georgian politician (b. 1868)
- 1958 – Edna Purviance, Canadian-born singer and entertainer (b. 1895)
- 1965 – Wally Pipp, American baseball player (b. 1893)
- 1966 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b. 1901)
- 1966 – Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889)
- 1966 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India (b. 1904)
- 1968 – Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and scholar (b. 1876)
- 1972 – Padraic Colum, Irish poet, novelist, dramatist and biographer (b. 1881)
- 1975 – Max Lorenz, German tenor (b. 1901)
- 1980 – Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)
- 1985 – William McKell, Premier of New South Wales and Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
- 1985 – Edward Buzzell, American actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1895)
- 1988 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist (b. 1898)
- 1991 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist (b. 1905)
- 1994 – Helmut Poppendick, German physician (b. 1902)
- 1996 – Roger Crozier, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach and manager (b. 1942)
- 1998 – Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)
From 2001
- 2003 – Mickey Finn, English drummer (T.Rex) (b. 1947)
- 2008 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (b. 1919)
- 2009 – Pio Laghi, Italian cardinal (b. 1922)
- 2010 – Eric Rohmer, French movie director (b. 1920)
- 2010 – Miep Gies, Dutch humanitarian, helper of Anne Frank (b. 1909)
- 2013 – Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (b. 1941)
- 2013 – Aaron Swartz, American computer programmer, writer and internet activist (b. 1986)
- 2013 – Nguyen Khanh, South Vietnamese politician (b. 1927)
- 2014 – Vugar Gashimov, Azerbaijani chess player (b. 1986)
- 2014 – Ariel Sharon, Israeli general and politician, former Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1928)
- 2014 – Keiko Awaji, Japanese actress (b. 1933)
- 2014 – Arnoldo Foà, Italian actor (b. 1916)
- 2014 – Muhammad Habibur Rahman, Bangladeshi jurist and politician (b. 1929)
- 2015 – Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress (b. 1931)
- 2015 – Chic Littlewood, New Zealand television personality (b. 1930)
- 2015 – Brian Clemens, British screenwriter (b. 1931)
- 2015 – Jeno Buzansky, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925)
- 2016 – Berge Furre, Norwegian historian, theologian and politician (b. 1937)
- 2016 – Brian Johnson, Australian rugby league player (b. 1956)
- 2016 – Gunnel Vallquist, Swedish writer and translator (b. 1918)
- 2016 – Monte Irvin, American baseball player (b. 1919)
- 2016 – David Margulies, American actor (b. 1937)
- 2016 – William Del Monte, American centenarian (b. 1906)
- 2017 – Tommy Allsup, American musician (b. 1931)
- 2017 – Tony Booth, English artist (b. 1933)
- 2017 – Adenan Satem, Malaysian politician, 5th Chief Minister of Sarawak (b. 1944)
- 2017 – Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani politician, Governor of Sindh (b. 1938)
- 2017 – François Van der Elst, Belgian footballer (b. 1954)
- 2017 – Brian Fletcher, English jockey (b. 1947)
- 2017 – Nikolay Neprimerov, Russian physicist (b. 1921)
- 2017 – Newman Hoar, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1920)
- 2018 – Doug Barnard, Jr., American politician (b. 1922)
- 2018 – Stephane Gauger, Vietnamese-American film director (b. 1969)
- 2018 – Edgar Ray Killen, American convicted murderer (b. 1925)
- 2018 – Takis Loukanidis, Greek footballer (b. 1937)
- 2019 – Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician (b. 1929)
- 2019 – Steffan Lewis, Welsh politician (b. 1984)
- 2019 – Dimitris Sioufas, Greek politician (b. 1944)
Observances
References
- ↑ Choukeir, Jana; Elimam, Ahmed (11 January 2024). "Iran seizes oil tanker involved in US-Iran dispute in Gulf of Oman – state media" (News article). Reuters. Archived from the original on 11 January 2024. Retrieved 11 January 2024.