On this day: 11 September
Events, births and deaths on 11 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Yu Menglong
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Alexis Arquette
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Matsunosuke Onoe
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1063 · Deaths · Béla I of Hungary
Events · 37
- 1297Battle of Stirling Bridge — 1297 battle of the First War of Scottish Independence
- 1697Battle of Zenta — battle on 11 September 1697, in the Great Turkish War
- 1709Battle of Malplaquet — 1709 battle
- 1758Battle of Saint Cast — 1758 military operation
- 1776Staten Island Peace Conference — diplomatic conference
- 1777Battle of Brandywine — 1777 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1786Annapolis Convention — 1786 political convention among US states on inter-state trade
- 1789United States Secretary of the Treasury — head of the United States Department of the Treasury
- 1803Battle of Delhi — 1803 battle of the Second Anglo-Maratha War
- 1829Battle of Tampico — 1829 attempted invasion of Mexico by the Spanish Empire
- 1836Riograndense Republic — de facto state declared in 1836 in present-day Rio Grande do Sul
- 1852Revolution of 11 September 1852 — coup d'etat by the ruling class of Buenos Aires against the rest of the Argentine Confederation. It resulted in the Province of Buenos Aires declaring independence as the State of Buenos Aires, which lasted for ten years
- 1881Rockslide of Elm — 1881 mining disaster in Elm, Canton of Glarus, Switzerland
- 1905Ninth Avenue derailment — 1905 New York City elevated train derailment
- 1914Battle of Bita Paka — 1914 Australian invasion of German New Guinea
- 1941The Pentagon — headquarters of the United States Department of Defense; named after the shape of the building, a polygon with five (greek: penta) sides
- 1941Medvedev Forest massacre — 1941 NKVD mass execution of Oryol prisoners
- 1965Battle of Burki — battle of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
- 1967Nathu La and Cho La clashes — second war between India and China
- 1968Air France Flight 1611 — 1968 airliner crash in the Mediterranean off Nice
- 19731973 Chilean coup d'état — military overthrow of the Popular Unity coalition government in 1973 in Chile
- 1973death of Salvador Allende — controversy surrounding Chilean president's death
- 1973JAT Airways Flight 769 — Aviation accident
- 1974Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 — aviation accident
- 1985Moimenta-Alcafache train crash — train wreck
- 19901990 Faucett Perú 727 disappearance — airliner disappearance
- 1991Continental Express Flight 2574 — 1991 plane crash of an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia in Colorado County, Texas, USA
- 1997Scottish devolution referendum of 1997 — measure creating a devolved Scottish Parliament
- 1997Kurkse tragedy — 1997 military tragedy in Estonia
- 2001September 11 attacks — 2001 attacks in the United States
- 20052005 Japanese general election — general election in Japan held in 2005
- 2011National September 11 Memorial & Museum — memorial & museum in New York City commemorating the September 11, 2001 attacks
- 20122012 Benghazi attack — attack against two United States government facilities in Benghazi, Libya.
- 20122012 Pakistan garment factory fires — 2012 industrial disasters in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan
- 2013Via Catalana — 400 km long Human chain organized by the Assemblea Nacional Catalana for the independence of Catalonia
- 2015Mecca crane collapse — disaster which occurred on 11 September 2015
- 20232023 Derna floods — dam failure and flooding of 2023 in the Derna region of Libya
Births · 60
- 1476(Julian date)Louise of Savoy — Mother of King Francis I of France (1476-1531)
- 1522(Julian date)Ulisse Aldrovandi — Italian naturalist (1522-1605)
- 1524(Julian date)Pierre de Ronsard — French poet (1524-1585)
- 1556(Julian date)Joseph Calasanz — Spanish writer and saint
- 1611Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne — French nobleman, general, Marshal of France
- 1656Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark — queen consort of Sweden (1656–1693)
- 1700(Julian date)James Thomson — Scottish writer (1700–1748)
- 1771Mungo Park — Scottish naturalist and explorer of the African continent
- 1798Franz Ernst Neumann — German physicist and mineralogist (1798-1895)
- 1816Carl Zeiss — German optical physicist (1816–1888)
- 1825Eduard Hanslick — Austrian musician and musicologist (1825–1904)
- 1861Juhani Aho — Finnish author and journalist (1861–1921)
- 1862O. Henry — American short story writer (1862–1910)
- 1877James Hopwood Jeans — British mathematician and astronomer (1877 – 1946)
- 1881Asta Nielsen — Danish actress (1881-1972)
- 1885D. H. Lawrence — English writer and poet (1885–1930)
- 1895Vinoba Bhave — Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights (1895-1982)
- 1899Philipp Bouhler — German general, head of Nazi Action T4 euthanasia program for children and the handicapped (1899–1945)
- 1903Theodor W. Adorno — German philosopher, sociologist and theorist (1903–1969)
- 1914Patriarch Pavle of Serbia — Patriarch of Serbia
- 1917Ferdinand Marcos — President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986
- 1917Herbert Lom — Czech actor (1917–2012)
- 1924Rudolf Vrba — Slovak-Jewish Auschwitz escapee, Canadian biochemist (1924–2006)
- 1928Earl Holliman — American actor (1928–2024)
- 1933Nicola Pietrangeli — Italian tennis player
Deaths · 60
- 1063(Julian date)Béla I of Hungary — King of Hungary (1016-1063)
- 1161(Julian date)Melisende — Queen of Jerusalem (1105-1161)
- 1349Bonne de Luxembourg — wife of King John II of France
- 1599Beatrice Cenci — Italian noblewoman and murderer
- 1677James Harrington — English political theorist of classical republicanism
- 1680Emperor Go-Mizunoo — emperor of Japan from 1611 to 1629
- 1721Rudolf Jakob Camerarius — German botanist and physician (1665–1721)
- 1733François Couperin — French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist (1668–1733)
- 1823David Ricardo — British banker, classical economist and politician (1772-1823)
- 1851Sylvester Graham — American Presbyterian minister and dietary reformer
- 1888Domingo Faustino Sarmiento — Argentinian politician and writer (1811-1888)
- 1896Francis James Child — American folklorist (1825–1896)
- 1917Georges Guynemer — French flying ace (1894–1917)
- 1939Konstantin Korovin — Russian artist (1861–1939)
- 1941Maria Spiridonova — Russian terrorist and politician (1884-1941)
- 1941Christian Rakovsky — Soviet diplomat (1873-1941)
- 1948Mohammad Ali Jinnah — politician and the founder of Pakistan (1876–1948)
- 1949Henri Rabaud — French composer (1873-1949)
- 1950Jan Christiaan Smuts — South African statesman and military leader (1870–1950)
- 1956Billy Bishop — Canadian aviator and author (1894–1956)
- 1957Mary Proctor — British astronomer (1862–1957)
- 1971Nikita Khrushchev — leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
- 1973Salvador Allende — 28th president of Chile (1908–1973
- 1978Georgi Markov — Bulgarian dissident writer (1929-1978)
- 1978Ronnie Peterson — Swedish racing driver (1944-1978)
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