On this day: 11 November
Events, births and deaths on 11 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Sally Kirkland
- Deaths · Yury Sisikin
- Deaths · Tiong Hiew King
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Robert Vaughn
- Deaths · Victor Bailey
100 years ago1926
- Births · Maria Teresa de Filippis
- Events · United States Numbered Highway System
- Births · Marian Diamond
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1050 · Births · Henry IV
- 1089 · Deaths · Peter Igneus
Events · 29
- 1215(Julian date)Fourth Council of the Lateran — synod
- 1500Treaty of Granada (1500) — secret military agreement between France and the Crown of Aragon
- 1620(Julian date)Mayflower Compact — first governing document of Plymouth Colony
- 1673Battle of Khotyn — 1673 battle where Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under John Sobieski defeated Ottoman Empire forces under Hussain Pasha
- 1778Cherry Valley massacre — 1778 British and Iroquois attack during the American Revolutionary War
- 1805Battle of Dürenstein — 1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
- 1813Battle of Crysler's Farm — war of 1812 battle
- 1818Ying Wa College — secondary school in Hong Kong
- 18551855 Ansei Edo earthquake — Earthquake in Japan
- 1889Washington — state of the United States of America
- 1918World War I — 1914–1918 global conflict
- 1918Armistice of Compiègne — armistice during First World War between Allies and Germany
- 1919Centralia Massacre — November 11th, 1919 attack by American Legionnaires on the Centralia IWW hall, and the violence that followed
- 1926United States Numbered Highway System — highway system of the United States of America
- 1940Battle of Taranto — 1940 battle
- 19601960 South Vietnamese coup attempt — failed coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm
- 1965Rhodesia — unrecognised state in Southern Africa (1965–1979)
- 1965Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence — Declaration of independence from the United Kingdom
- 1965United Airlines Flight 227 — 1965 aviation accident
- 1968Maldives — sovereign state in South Asia, situated on an archipelago in the Arabian Sea
- 1968Operation Commando Hunt — part of the Vietnam War (1968–1972)
- 1975Angola — country on the west coast of Southern Africa
- 1977Iri Station Explosion — train wreck (1977)
- 1999Xindian Station — Taipei Metro Xindian line station
- 2000Kaprun disaster — railway disaster in Austria (2000)
- 2003The Beijing News — Chinese daily newspaper
- 20122012 Shwebo earthquake — earthquake in Myanmar
- 2019
- 20242024 Zhuhai car attack — car attack in China, November 2024
Births · 60
- 1050(Julian date)Henry IV — Holy Roman Emperor from 1084 to 1105
- 1154(Julian date)Sancho I of Portugal — King of Portugal (1185–1211)
- 1155(Julian date)Alfonso VIII of Castile — King of Castile (1155-1214)
- 1441(Julian date)Charlotte of Savoy — French queen (1441-1483)
- 1491(Julian date)Martin Bucer — Protestant reformer
- 1579Frans Snyders — Flemish painter (1579–1657)
- 1599Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg — Swedish queen (1599-1655)
- 1743Carl Peter Thunberg — Swedish naturalist (1743-1828)
- 1748Charles IV of Spain — King of Spain from 1788 to 1808
- 1821Fyodor Dostoyevsky — Russian novelist (1821–1881)
- 1852Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf — Field Marshal of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1852–1925)
- 1863Paul Signac — French painter (1863–1935)
- 1864Alfred Hermann Fried — Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1864–1921)
- 1868Édouard Vuillard — French painter (1868-1940)
- 1869Victor Emmanuel III of Italy — King of Italy from 1900 to 1946
- 1875
- 1882Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden — King of Sweden (1950–1973); anthropologist, art historian, collector and archaeologist
- 1885George S. Patton — United States Army general (1885–1945)
- 1888Abul Kalam Azad — Indian politician and writer (1888–1958)
- 1898René Clair — French filmmaker and writer (1898–1981)
- 1901Magda Goebbels — German politician (1901–1945)
- 1909Robert Ryan — American actor (1909-1973)
- 1914Howard Fast — American novelist (1914–2003)
- 1920Roy Jenkins — British politician (1920–2003)
- 1922Kurt Vonnegut — American author (1922–2007)
Deaths · 60
- 405(Julian date)Arsacius of Tarsus — Patriarch of Constantinople
- 683(Julian date)Yazid I — second caliph of the Umayyad caliphate (646-683)
- 875(Julian date)Teutberga — Peerage person ID=713063
- 1130(Julian date)Theresa of León — Countess-Queen of Portugal
- 1285(Julian date)Peter III of Aragon — King of Aragon and Valencia (1276–85); King of Sicily (1282–85)
- 1331Stefan Uroš III — King of Serbia from 1322 to 1331
- 1561(Julian date)Hans Tausen — Danish religious reformer
- 1623Philippe de Mornay — French theologian (1549-1623)
- 1638Cornelis van Haarlem — Dutch painter (1562-1638)
- 1831Nat Turner — African-American slave rebellion leader (1800-1831)
- 1855Søren Kierkegaard — Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855)
- 1861Pedro V of Portugal — King of Portugal from 1853 to 1861
- 1880Ned Kelly — Australian bushranger (1854–1880)
- 1880Lucretia Mott — American quaker missionary
- 1884Alfred Brehm — German naturalist (1829-1884)
- 1887August Vincent Theodore Spies — American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper editor (1855-1887)
- 1887Albert Parsons — American socialist and anarchist newspaper editor (1848–1887)
- 1917Liliʻuokalani — monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom (1838–1917)
- 1918Henry Gunther — Last soldier killed in WWI
- 1918George Lawrence Price — Canadian soldier (1892-1918)
- 1919Pavel Chistyakov — Russian painter and art educator (1832-1919)
- 1921Léon Moreaux — French sport shooter (1852–1921)
- 1931Shibusawa Eiichi — Japanese industrialist known as the "father of Japanese capitalism" (1840-1931)
- 1945Jerome Kern — American composer of musical theater and popular music (1885-1945)
- 1950Alexandros Diomidis — Greek politician (1875-1950)
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