On this day: 11 October
Events, births and deaths on 11 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Diane Keaton
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Thích Nhất Hạnh
- Births · Earle Hyman
- Births · Neville Wran
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 965 · Deaths · Bruno the Great
Events · 18
- 1138(Julian date)1138 Aleppo earthquake — earthquake in 12th century Syria
- 1634Burchardi flood — storm tide, North Sea, 1634
- 1746Battle of Rocoux — battle during the War of the Austrian Succession, result was French victory
- 1776Battle of Valcour Island — 1776 first naval battles of the American Revolutionary War
- 1797Battle of Camperdown — 1797 major naval action of the French Revolutionary Wars
- 1865Morant Bay rebellion — war
- 1890Daughters of the American Revolution — nonprofit organization
- 1899(Julian date)Second Boer War — war between two Boer Republics (South African Republic and Orange Free State) and the United Kingdom
- 19181918 San Fermín earthquake — earthquake that struck Puerto Rico
- 1941World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia — conflict that took place during World War II
- 1942Battle of Cape Esperance — 1942 battle in the Pacific theatre of World War II
- 1962Second Vatican Council — Roman Catholic council, met 1962 to 1965
- 1984Aeroflot Flight 3352 — Tupolev Tu-154 crash in Omsk, Russia
- 1986Reykjavík Summit — 1986 Soviet-American diplomatic summit
- 1987Operation Pawan — Indian operation during Sri Lankan Civil War
- 1987Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights — American political rally and demonstration
- 19991999 Air Botswana incident — 1999 aviation incident
- 2002Myyrmanni bombing — October 2002 suicide bombing in Vantaa, Finland
Births · 60
- 1335(Julian date)Taejo of Joseon — the first king of Joseon Dynasty in Korean history
- 1616Andreas Gryphius — German poet and dramatist (1616–1664)
- 1671(Julian date)Frederik IV of Denmark — king of Denmark and Norway (1699–1730)
- 1738Arthur Phillip — British naval officer and first Governor of New South Wales (1738-1814)
- 1758Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers — German physician and astronomer (1758-1840)
- 1844Henry J. Heinz — American businessman (1844-1919)
- 1881Hans Kelsen — Austrian lawyer (1881–1973)
- 1884Eleanor Roosevelt — American diplomat and activist, First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1884–1962)
- 1884Friedrich Bergius — German chemist (1884–1949)
- 1885François Mauriac — French writer (1885-1970)
- 1902Jayaprakash Narayan — Indian independence activist and political leader
- 1905Fred Trump — American real estate developer; father of Donald Trump (1905–1999)
- 1918Jerome Robbins — American choreographer and director (1918–1998)
- 1919Art Blakey — American jazz drummer and bandleader (1919–1990)
- 1924Mal Whitfield — American middle-distance runner and sprinter
- 1925Elmore Leonard — American novelist and screenwriter (1925–2013)
- 1926Thích Nhất Hạnh — Vietnamese Buddhist monk and activist (1926–2022)
- 1927Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium — Grand Duchess Consort of Luxembourg (1964-2000)
- 1937Bobby Charlton — English association football player and manager (1937–2023)
- 1939Maria Bueno — Brazilian tennis player (1939-2018)
- 1942Amitabh Bachchan — Indian film actor (born 1942)
- 1946Sawao Katō — Japanese artistic gymnast (born 1946)
- 1947Loukas Papademos — Greek economist and Prime Minister
- 1948Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson — Ghanaian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (1948-)
- 1950Patty Murray — United States Senator from Washington since 2013
Deaths · 60
- 965(Julian date)Bruno the Great — Archbishop of Cologne
- 1159William I, Count of Boulogne — English noble
- 1188(Julian date)Robert I, Count of Dreux — Count of Dreux (1137–1184)
- 1303(Julian date)Boniface VIII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1294 to 1303
- 1347(Julian date)Louis IV of Bavaria — Duke of Bavaria and Holy Roman Emperor
- 1424(Julian date)Jan Žižka — Czech Hussite military leader (circa 1360 - 1424)
- 1531(Julian date)Huldrych Zwingli — Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder (1484-1531)
- 1542(Julian date)Thomas Wyatt — English poet and diplomat (1503-1542)
- 1579(Julian date)Sokollu Mehmed Paşa — Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1505–1579)
- 1648George I Rákóczi — Hungarian prince of Transylvania
- 1667Mattias de' Medici — Italian noble (1613-1667)
- 1698William Molyneux — Irish natural philosopher and writer on politics
- 1705Guillaume Amontons — French scientific instrument inventor and physicist (1663-1705)
- 1708Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus — German mathematician and philosopher (*1651 – †1708)
- 1721Edward Colston — English merchant, slave trader and philanthropist (1636–1721)
- 1724Gyeongjong of Joseon — 20th King of Joseon Dynasty in Korean history
- 1779Casimir Pulaski — Polish nobleman, general in the American Revolutionary War
- 1809Meriwether Lewis — American explorer (1774-1809)
- 1830José de La Mar — President of Peru
- 1837Samuel Wesley — English organist and composer (1766–1837)
- 1852Gotthold Eisenstein — German mathematician (1823–1852)
- 1889James Prescott Joule — English physicist and brewer (1818–1889)
- 1896Anton Bruckner — Austrian composer (1824-1896)
- 1896Edward Benson — Archbishop of Canterbury (1829-1896)
- 1897Léon Boëllmann — French organist and composer
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