October 11
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October 11 is the 285th day of the year (286th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 80 days remaining after October 11 until the end of the year.
[change] Births
- 1661 – Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (d. 1742)
- 1671 – King Frederick IV of Denmark (d. 1730)
- 1738 – Arthur Phillip, British admiral, Governor of New South Wales (d. 1814)
- 1788 – Simon Sechter, Austrian music teacher (d. 1867)
- 1815 – Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte (d.1881)
- 1821 – George Williams, English founder of the YMCA (d. 1905)
- 1844 – Henry Heinz, American food manufacturer (d. 1916)
- 1863 – Louis Cyr, famous Canadian strongman (d. 1912)
- 1872 – Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1946)
- 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)
- 1885 – François Mauriac, French writer (d. 1970)
- 1895 – Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (d. 1982)
- 1918 – Jerome Robbins, choreographer (d. 1998)
- 1919 – Art Blakey, jazz drummer (d. 1990)
- 1919 – Jean Vander Pyl, voice of Wilma Flintstone in The Flintstones cartoon (d. 1999).
- 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, tennis star
- 1942 – Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor, singer, producer, UNICEF Ambassador.
- 1946 – Oba Chandler, American convicted murderer
- 1949 – Daryl Hall, musician
- 1951 – Jean-Jacques Goldman, French pop singer, songwriter
- 1956 – Nicanor Duarte Frutos, President of Paraguay
- 1957 – Dawn French, British comedienne
- 1961 – Steve Young, American football star
- 1966 – Luke Perry, American actor
- 1969 – Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
- 1977 – Ty Wigginton, American baseball player
- 1981 – Beau Brady, Australian actor
- 1982 – Jermaine V. Mitchell, Rap musician
- 1985 – Michelle Trachtenberg, actress
- 1989 – Michelle Wie, American golfer
[change] Deaths
- 1303 – Pope Boniface VIII
- 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)
- 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, 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)
- 2004 – Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b. 1919)
- 2007 – Werner von Trapp, one of the von Trapp family singers (b. 1915)
- 2008 – Joerg Haider, Austrian far-right politician (car crash) (b. 1950)
[change] Events
- 1727 – King George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach are crowned king and queen.
- 1975 – Saturday Night Live is first broadcast.
- 1982 – The Tudor warship Mary Rose, which sank in 1545, is salvaged near Portsmouth, England.
- 1987 – German politician Uwe Barschel is found dead.
- 2000 – The 100th Space Shuttle mission launches, with the Space Shuttle Discovery.
