On this day: 11 March
Events, births and deaths on 11 March. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Clive Revill
- Deaths · Junior Bridgeman
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Iolanda Balaș
- Deaths · Doreen Massey
100 years ago1926
- Births · Ralph Abernathy
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 21
- 1387(Julian date)Battle of Castagnaro — 1387 battle
- 1641Battle of Mbororé — 1641 battle
- 1702The Daily Courant — First British daily newspaper
- 1795Battle of Kharda — 1795 battle between Nizam and Maratha Confederacy in Western India
- 1845Flagstaff War — 1845–46 conflict between the British Empire and Māori warriors in Northland, New Zealand
- 1845Battle of Kororareka — 1845 battle
- 1861Zongli Yamen — late-Qing dynasty foreign policy office
- 1892Saint-Germain bombing — 1892 anarchist bombing
- 1945Empire of Vietnam — short-lived puppet state (March–August 1945) of Japan governing the former French protectorates of Annam and Tonkin
- 1945Operation Tan No. 2 — 1945 Japanese military operation in World War II
- 1978Coastal Road massacre — 1978 attack involving the hijacking of a bus on Israel's Coastal Highway
- 1982Widerøe Flight 933 — 1982 aviation accident
- 1990Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania — act declaring the independence of Lithuania from the USSR
- 20042004 Madrid train bombings — terrorist attack on Madrid's suburban trains
- 2009Winnenden school shooting — school shooting in Germany
- 20102010 Pichilemu earthquakes — 6.9 and 7.0 MW intraplate earthquakes 2010 in Chile
- 20112011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami — megathrust earthquake off the east coast of Japan
- 2011Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster — 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan
- 2012Kandahar massacre — 2012 murder of 16 civilians in Afghanistan by a US Army sergeant
- 20182018 Iran Bombardier Challenger crash — aviation accident in Iran
- 2023Pinlaung massacre — 2023 mass killing in Shan State, Myanmar
Births · 60
- 1544(Julian date)Torquato Tasso — Italian poet (1544–1595)
- 1811Urbain Le Verrier — French astronomer (1811-1877)
- 1818Marius Petipa — French-Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (1818–1910)
- 1822Joseph Bertrand — French mathematician (1822-1900)
- 1838Ōkuma Shigenobu — Japanese politician (1838-1922)
- 1887Raoul Walsh — American film director and actor (1887–1980)
- 1890Vannevar Bush — American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890–1974)
- 1897Henry Cowell — American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario (1897-1965)
- 1898Dorothy Gish — American actress (1898–1968)
- 1899Frederik IX of Denmark — King of Denmark from 1947 to 1972
- 1915J. C. R. Licklider — American psychologist and computer scientist (1915–1990)
- 1916Harold Wilson — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964-1970 and 1974-1976 (1916–1995)
- 1920Nicolaas Bloembergen — Dutch-born American physicist
- 1921Astor Piazzolla — Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player and arranger
- 1922Abdul Razak Hussein — former 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (1922-1976)
- 1922Cornelius Castoriadis — Greek-French philosopher (1922–1997)
- 1923Louise Brough — American tennis player (1923–2014)
- 1926Ralph Abernathy — American civil rights activist and minister (1926–1990)
- 1931Rupert Murdoch — American businessman
- 1932Nigel Lawson — British peer and politician (1932–2023)
- 1936Antonin Scalia — Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2016
- 1950Bobby McFerrin — American jazz vocalist and composer (born 1950)
- 1950Jerry Zucker — American director and producer
- 1951Dominique Sanda — French actress
- 1952Douglas Adams — British science fiction writer and humorist (1952–2001)
Deaths · 60
- 222(Julian date)Elagabalus — Roman Emperor (218-222)
- 222(Julian date)Julia Soaemias — mother of Roman emperor Elagabalus (180-222)
- 638(Julian date)Sophronius of Jerusalem — Patriarch of Jerusalem from 634 to 638
- 1198(Julian date)Marie of France, Countess of Champagne — countess of Champagne (1145-1198)
- 1486(Julian date)Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg — Elector of Brandenburg
- 1575(Julian date)Matthias Flacius — Croatian theologian (1520–1575)
- 1576Juan de Salcedo — Spanish conquistador
- 1602Emilio de' Cavalieri — Italian composer, producer, organist, diplomat, choreographer and dancer
- 1607Giovanni Maria Nanino — Italian composer
- 1646Stanisław Koniecpolski — Polish nobleman (1591–1646)
- 1689Sambhaji — Second Maratha king of the Maratha Empire, also a writer, philosopher and successor of Shivaji (1657-1689)
- 1722John Toland — Irish philosopher (1670-1722)
- 1820Benjamin West — 18th- and 19th-century English painter (1738–1820)
- 1851Marie-Louise Coidavid — Queen of Haiti (1778-1851)
- 1863Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet — British general (1803–1863)
- 1869Vladimir Odoevsky — Russian writer and philosopher (1803–1869)
- 1870Moshoeshoe I — King of Lesotho from 1822 to 1870
- 1874Charles Sumner — American abolitionist and statesman (1811–1874)
- 1898William Rosecrans — American diplomat, politician and army officer (1819–1898)
- 1907Jean Casimir-Perier — 6th President of the French Republic (1847–1907)
- 1908Edmondo de Amicis — Italian writer (1846-1908)
- 1924Helge von Koch — Swedish mathematician (1870-1924)
- 1931F. W. Murnau — German film director (1888–1931)
- 1936David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty — Royal Navy officer (1871-1936)
- 1936Yumeno Kyūsaku — Japanese writer (1889–1936)
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