October 11
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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.
[change] Births
- 1335 – Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1408)
- 1661 – Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (d. 1742)
- 1671 – King Frederick IV of Denmark (d. 1730)
- 1675 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (d. 1729)
- 1738 – Arthur Phillip, British admiral, Governor of New South Wales (d. 1814)
- 1739 – Grigory Potemkin, Russian military leader and statesman (d. 1791)
- 1758 – Hermann Wilhelm Olbers, German physician and astronomer (d. 1840)
- 1788 – Simon Sechter, Austrian music teacher (d. 1867)
- 1806 – Alexander Karadordevic, Prince of Serbia (d. 1886)
- 1814 – Jean Baptiste Lamy, first Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1888)
- 1815 – Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Italian-born adventurer (d.1881)
- 1821 – George Williams, English founder of the YMCA (d. 1905)
- 1844 – Henry Heinz, American food manufacturer (d. 1916)
- 1846 – Carlos Pellegrini, President of Argentina (d. 1906)
- 1863 – Louis Cyr, famous Canadian strongman (d. 1912)
- 1871 – Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader (d. 1943)
- 1872 – Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1946)
- 1872 – Emily Davison, British Women's Rights activist (d. 1913)
- 1876 – Paul Masson, French cyclist (d. 1944)
- 1879 – Ernst Mally, Austrian philosopher (d. 1944)
- 1881 – Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal theorist
- 1884 – Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
- 1884 – Eleanor Roosevelt, American human rights activist, First Lady (d. 1962)
- 1884 – Sig Ruman, American actor (d. 1967)
- 1885 – François Mauriac, French writer (d. 1970)
- 1887 – Willie Hoppe, American billiards champion (d. 1959)
- 1891 – Kim Seong-Su, Korean journalist and politician (d. 1955)
- 1895 – Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (d. 1982)
- 1899 – Eddie Dyer, American baseball player (d. 1964)
- 1902 – Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1979)
- 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 – Jean Vander Pyl, voice of Wilma Flintstone in The Flintstones cartoon (d. 1999).
- 1926 – Neville Wran, former Premier of New South Wales
- 1927 – Princess Josephine-Charlotte of Belgium (d. 2005)
- 1928 – Marquis Alfonso de Portago, Grand Prix driver (d. 1957)
- 1932 – Dottie West, country music singer (d. 1991)
- 1937 – Bobby Charlton, English footballer
- 1939 – Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player
- 1942 – Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor, singer, producer, UNICEF Ambassador.
- 1943 – John Nettles, British actor
- 1946 – Oba Chandler, American convicted murderer (d. 2011)
- 1947 – Lucas Papademos, Greek economist and former Prime Minister of Greece
- 1949 – Daryl Hall, musician
- 1951 – Jean-Jacques Goldman, French pop singer, songwriter
- 1955 – Hans-Peter Briegel, German footballer
- 1956 – Nicanor Duarte Frutos, former President of Paraguay
- 1957 – Dawn French, British comedienne
- 1961 – Steve Young, American football player
- 1962 – Joan Cusack, American actress
- 1965 – Juan Ignacio Cirac, Spanish physicist
- 1966 – Luke Perry, American actor
- 1968 – Claude Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 – Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
- 1972 – Cherokee Parks, American basketball player
- 1973 – Steven Pressley, Scottish footballer
- 1976 – Emily Deschanel, American actress
- 1977 – Ty Wigginton, American baseball player
- 1979 – Bae Doona, South Korean model and actress
- 1979 – Andy Douglas, American professional wrestler
- 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
- 1987 – Mike Conley, Jr., American basketball player
- 1989 – Michelle Wie, American golfer
[change] Deaths
- 1303 – Pope Boniface VIII
- 1347 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1282)
- 1531 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (b. 1484)
- 1779 – Casimir Pulaski, Polish fighter for American independence (b. 1745)
- 1809 – Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (suicide) (b. 1774)
- 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)
- 1940 – Lluís Companys, Spanish President of Generalitat of Catalonia, (shot) (b. 1882)
- 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)
- 1976 – Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (b. 1897)
- 1977 – MacKinlay Kantor, American author (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)
- 2000 – Donald Dewar, main author of the Scotland Act and initial First Minister of the Scottish Parliament (b. 1937)
- 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)
- 2008 – Joerg Haider, Austrian far-right politician (car crash) (b. 1950)
- 2012 – Helmut Haller, German footballer (b. 1939)
[change] Events
- 1138 – 1138 Aleppo earthquake: A massive earthquake destroys much of Aleppo, Syria.
- 1531 – Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland.
- 1634 – A flood disaster kills 15,000 people in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
- 1727 – King George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach are crowned king and queen.
- 1737 – Calcutta is struck by an earthquake, killing around 300,000 people.
- 1767 – Surveying for the Mason-Dixon Line, separating Maryland and Pennsylvania, is completed.
- 1809 – Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies in mysterious circumstances.
- 1852 – The University of Sydney, Australia is inaugurated.
- 1864 – Campina Grande, Brazil becomes a city.
- 1899 – The Boer War erupts between the United Kingdom and the Boers of Transvaal and the Orange Free State in present-day South Africa.
- 1906 – The San Francisco school board orders Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools (different schools from White American students), sparking a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan.
- 1912 – First Balkan War: The Greek army liberates the city of Kozani.
- 1941 – Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
- 1958 – NASA launches the Pioneer 1 lunar probe, which falls back to Earth and burns up.
- 1963 – West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, aged 87, submits his resignation.
- 1968 – NASA launches the Apollo 7 mission; Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham on board.
- 1975 – Saturday Night Live is first broadcast.
- 1982 – The Tudor warship Mary Rose, which sank in 1545, is salvaged near Portsmouth, England.
- 1984 – On board the Space Shuttle Challenger, Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a spacewalk.
- 1986 – Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan meet for talks in Reykjavik, Iceland.
- 1987 – German politician Uwe Barschel is found dead in his hotel room in Geneva, Switzerland.
- 1996 – A wood lorry and a school bus collide in Jogeva County, Estonia, killing 8 children.
- 2000 – The 100th Space Shuttle mission launches, with the Space Shuttle Discovery.
- 2002 – 7 people are killed in a bomb attack on a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland.
- 2006 – A small aircraft piloted by baseball player Cory Lidle crashes into a residential building (a building where people live) in New York City, killing both Lidle and his flight instructor, with 21 people being injured.
- 2008 – Austrian far-right politician Joerg Haider is killed in a car crash.
- 2012 – The UN designates this the first International Day of the Girl Child.
