On this day: 11 February
Events, births and deaths on 11 February. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Kevin Randleman
- Events · 2016 Ad Dair shooting
100 years ago1926
- Births · Leslie Nielsen
- Births · Paul Bocuse
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 19
- 1584Nombre de Jesús — human settlement in Argentina
- 1659Assault on Copenhagen — 1659 part of the Second Northern War
- 1823Carnival tragedy of 1823 — human crush in Malta which caused the deaths of about 110 boys aged 10-16 years deemed the result of a succession of errors
- 1858Lourdes apparitions — marian apparitions recognized by the Catholic church
- 1873First Spanish Republic — political regime that existed in Spain between 11 February 1873 and 29 December 1874
- 19281928 Winter Olympics — 2nd edition of Winter Olympics, in Sankt Moritz, Switzerland
- 1929Vatican City — Holy See's independent state, an enclave within Rome, Italy
- 1929Lateran Treaty — treaty between the Holy See and Kingdom of Italy
- 1967February Countercurrent — the joint efforts by a group of conservative Communist Party veterans to oppose the ultra-leftist radicalism at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution
- 1971Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil thereof — multilateral agreement banning the emplacement of nuclear weapons on the ocean floor beyond a 22 km coastal zone
- 1978Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314 — aviation accident on 11 February 1978
- 1990Mike Tyson vs. Buster Douglas — Boxing match
- 1997Day of Honor — annual neo-Nazi rally in Budapest
- 20082008 East Timorese assassination attempts — assassination attempt
- 20132013 Lahad Datu standoff — Military conflict with in Sabah, Malaysia, with Sulu nationalists
- 20142014 Algerian Air Force C-130 crash — aircraft crash on Djebel Fertas mountain
- 20162016 Ad Dair shooting — 2016 mass shooting in Jizan Province, Saudi Arabia
- 2018Saratov Airlines Flight 703 — Plane crash killing 71 people
- 20242024 Finnish presidential election — presidential election in Finland
Births · 60
- 1380(Julian date)Poggio Bracciolini — Italian scholar, writer and humanist (1380–1459)
- 1466(Julian date)Elizabeth of York — Queen of England
- 1535(Julian date)Gregory XIV — Pope from 1590 to 1591 (1535–1591)
- 1568(Julian date)Honoré d'Urfé — French writer (1568-1625)
- 1657Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle — French writer and philosopher of the enlightenment (1657–1757)
- 1776Ioannis Kapodistrias — Greek statesman and diplomat (1776–1831)
- 1800William Henry Fox Talbot — British inventor and photographer (1800–1877)
- 1802Lydia Maria Child — American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist (1802-1880)
- 1821Auguste Mariette — French archaeologist and egyptologist (1821–1881)
- 1839Josiah Willard Gibbs — American scientist (1839–1903)
- 1847Thomas Edison — American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
- 1869Else Lasker-Schüler — Jewish German poet (1869–1945)
- 1879(Julian date)Kazimir Malevich — Russian avant-garde artist of Polish ancestry. Founder of the Suprematist movement (1879–1935)
- 1881Carlo Carrà — Italian painter (1881-1966)
- 1898Leó Szilárd — Hungarian-American Jewish physicist and inventor (1898–1964)
- 1900Hans-Georg Gadamer — German philosopher (1900–2002)
- 1902Arne Jacobsen — Danish architect and designer (1902–1971)
- 1904Lucile Randon — French Catholic sister and supercentenarian (1904–2023)
- 1909Joseph L. Mankiewicz — American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1909-1993)
- 1915Richard Hamming — American mathematician and information theorist (1915–1998)
- 1917Sidney Sheldon — American writer (1917–2007)
- 1919Eva Gabor — Hungarian-American actress and socialite (1919–1995)
- 1920Farouk I of Egypt — King of Egypt 1936 to 1952
- 1925Kim Stanley — American actress (1925–2001)
- 1926Leslie Nielsen — Canadian-American actor and comedian (1926–2010)
Deaths · 60
- 55(Julian date)Britannicus — son of Roman emperor Claudius and his third wife Valeria Messalina
- 244(Julian date)Gordian III — Roman emperor (225-244)
- 641Heraclius — Byzantine emperor from 610 to 641
- 731(Julian date)Gregory II — 89th Pope of the Catholic Church (from 715 to 731)
- 824(Julian date)Paschal I — pope
- 1141(Julian date)Hugh of Saint Victor — German-French canon regular and theologian
- 1503(Julian date)Elizabeth of York — Queen of England
- 1626Pietro Cataldi — Italian mathematician (1552–1626)
- 1650René Descartes — French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
- 1755Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei — Italian historian, diplomatics, paleographer, playwriter and scholar (1675-1755)
- 1795Carl Michael Bellman — Swedish poet, songwriter and composer (1740–1795)
- 1828DeWitt Clinton — American politician (1769–1828)
- 1829Alexander Griboyedov — Russian diplomat, playwriter, poet, and composer (1795–1829)
- 1848Thomas Cole — 19th-century American painter (1801-1848)
- 1862Elizabeth Siddal — Pre-Raphaelite model, artist, and poet (1829-1862)
- 1868Léon Foucault — French physicist (1819–1868)
- 1898Félix María Zuloaga — president of Mexico (1813-1898)
- 1900Émile Blanchard — French zoologist and entomologist (1819–1900)
- 1918Alexey Kaledin — Russian general (1861-1918)
- 1931Charles Algernon Parsons — inventor of the steam turbine (1854-1931)
- 1940John Buchan — Scottish author and politician (1875–1940)
- 1942Jamnalal Bajaj — Indian activist (1884-1942)
- 1947Martin Klein — Estonian wrestler (1884–1947)
- 1948Sergei Eisenstein — Soviet filmmaker (1898–1948)
- 1949Axel Munthe — Swedish physician (1857-1949)
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