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November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 50 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 308 – At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to restore order to the Roman Empire.
• 1100 – Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland and a direct descendant of the Saxon king Edmund Ironside.
• 1215 – The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.
• 1500 – Treaty of Granada: Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
• 1620 – The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
• 1634 – Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.
• 1673 – Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.
• 1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
• 1724 – Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.
• 1750 – Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
• 1750 – The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
• 1778 – Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
• 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein: Eight thousand French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
• 1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm: British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.
• 1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
• 1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
• 1865 – Treaty of Sinchula is signed by which Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
• 1869 – The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
• 1880 – Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
• 1887 – August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.
• 1887 – Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins at Eastham.
• 1889 – The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.
• 1911 – Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
• 1918 – World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 a.m., (the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) and this is commemorated annually with a two-minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919.
• 1918 – Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
• 1918 – Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
• 1919 – The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World.
• 1919 – Lāčplēša day: Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
• 1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
• 1926 – The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
• 1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
• 1934 – The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
• 1940 – World War II: Battle of Taranto: The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier-launched airstrike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
• 1940 – The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
• 1940 – Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the U.S. Midwest.
• 1942 – World War II: The former zone libre is added to German military administration in occupied France during World War II.
• 1960 – A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed.
• 1961 – Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in the course of the Kindu atrocity.
• 1962 – Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
• 1965 – In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.
• 1966 – NASA launches Gemini 12.
• 1967 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
• 1968 – A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
• 1975 – Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.
• 1975 – Independence of Angola.
• 1981 – Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
• 1992 – The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
• 1993 – A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
• 1999 – The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
• 2000 – Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
• 2001 – Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
• 2004 – New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
• 2004 – The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
• 2006 – Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
• 2008 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sets sail on her final voyage to Dubai.
• 2012 – A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people.
• 2014 – Fifty-eight people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District in southern Pakistan's Sindh province.

Births

• 1050 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106)
• 1154 – Sancho I of Portugal (d. 1212)
• 1155 – Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214)
• 1220 – Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (d. 1271)
• 1493 – Paracelsus, Swiss-German physician, botanist, astrologer, and occultist (d. 1541)
• 1493 – Bernardo Tasso, Italian courtier and poet (d. 1569)
• 1569 – Martin Ruland the Younger, German physician and chemist (d. 1611)
• 1579 – Frans Snyders, Flemish painter (d. 1657)
• 1599 – Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (d. 1655)
• 1599 – Ottavio Piccolomini, Austrian-Italian field marshal (d. 1656)
• 1633 – George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1695)
• 1668 – Johann Albert Fabricius, German author and scholar (d. 1736)
• 1696 – Andrea Zani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1757)
• 1743 – Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist, entomologist, and psychologist (d. 1828)
• 1748 – Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
• 1791 – Josef Munzinger, Swiss lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1855)
• 1792 – Mary Anne Disraeli, Welsh wife of Benjamin Disraeli, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1872)
• 1821 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian philosopher and author (d. 1881)
• 1836 – Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and author (d. 1907)
• 1852 – Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)
• 1855 – Stevan Sremac, Serbian author and activist (d. 1906)
• 1857 – Janet Erskine Stuart, English nun and educator (d. 1914)
• 1863 – Paul Signac, French painter and educator (d. 1935)
• 1864 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1921)
• 1868 – Édouard Vuillard, French painter and academic (d. 1940)
• 1869 – Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (d. 1947)
• 1872 – David I. Walsh, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1947)
• 1882 – Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
• 1883 – Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor and academic (d. 1969)
• 1885 – George S. Patton, American general (d. 1945)
• 1887 – Roland Young, English-American actor and singer (d. 1953)
• 1888 – Abul Kalam Azad, Indian activist, scholar, and politician, Indian Minister of Education (d. 1958)
• 1888 – J. B. Kripalani, Indian lawyer and politician (d.1982)
• 1891 – Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player and manager (d. 1954)
• 1894 – Beverly Bayne, American actress (d. 1982)
• 1896 – Shirley Graham Du Bois, American author, playwright, composer, and activist (d. 1977)
• 1898 – René Clair, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1981)
• 1899 – Pat O'Brien, American actor and singer (d. 1983)
• 1901 – Magda Goebbels, German wife of Joseph Goebbels (d. 1945)
• 1901 – Sam Spiegel, Austrian-American film producer (d. 1985)
• 1901 – F. Van Wyck Mason, American historian and author (d. 1978)
• 1904 – Andrzej Bogucki, Polish singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1978)
• 1904 – Alger Hiss, American lawyer and spy (d. 1996)
• 1904 – J. H. C. Whitehead, Indian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1960)
• 1906 – Brother Theodore, German-American monologuist and comedian (d. 2001)
• 1907 – Orestis Laskos, Greek director, screenwriter, and poet (d. 1992)
• 1909 – Robert Ryan, American actor (d. 1973)
• 1909 – Piero Scotti, Italian race car driver (d. 1976)
• 1911 – Roberto Matta, Chilean-Italian painter and sculptor (d. 2002)
• 1912 – Thomas C. Mann, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to El Salvador (d. 1999)
• 1914 – James Gilbert Baker, American astronomer, optician, and academic (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Taslim Olawale Elias, Nigerian academic and jurist, 2nd Chief Justice of Nigeria (d. 1991)
• 1914 – Howard Fast, American author and screenwriter (d. 2003)
• 1914 – Henry Wade, American soldier and lawyer (d. 2001)
• 1915 – William Proxmire, American soldier, journalist, and politician (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Anna Schwartz, American economist and author (d. 2012)
• 1916 – Robert Carr, English engineer and politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 2012)
• 1918 – Stubby Kaye, American actor and singer (d. 1997)
• 1919 – Kalle Päätalo, Finnish soldier and author (d. 2000)
• 1920 – Roy Jenkins, Welsh-English captain, academic, and politician, President of the European Commission (d. 2003)
• 1920 – Walter Krupinski, Russian-German captain and pilot (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Terrel Bell, American sergeant, academic, and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Education (d. 1996)
• 1922 – Kurt Vonnegut, American soldier, author, and academic (d. 2007)
• 1925 – John Guillermin, English-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1925 – June Whitfield, English actress and singer
• 1925 – Jonathan Winters, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
• 1926 – Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian race car driver (d. 2016)
• 1927 – Mose Allison, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1927 – Jamelle Folsom, American wife of Jim Folsom (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Martin Špegelj, Croatian general and politician, 2nd Croatian Minister of Defence (d. 2014)
• 1928 – Ernestine Anderson, American singer (d. 2016)
• 1928 – Len Fulford, English photographer and director (d. 2011)
• 1928 – Carlos Fuentes, Panamanian-Mexican author and academic (d. 2012)
• 1928 – Gracita Morales, Spanish actress and singer (d. 1995)
• 1929 – LaVern Baker, American singer and actress (d. 1997)
• 1929 – Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German author and poet
• 1929 – Martin Jacomb, English lawyer, businessman, and academic
• 1930 – Hugh Everett III, American physicist and mathematician (d. 1982)
• 1930 – Hank Garland, American guitarist (d. 2004)
• 1930 – Vernon Handley, English conductor (d. 2008)
• 1931 – Veronica Hurst, Maltese-English actress
• 1932 – Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Jim Boyd, American actor (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Martino Finotto, Italian race car driver (d. 2014)
• 1933 – Peter B. Lewis, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
• 1935 – Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress
• 1936 – Jack Keller, American songwriter and producer (d. 2005)
• 1936 – Susan Kohner, American actress
• 1937 – Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat, 14th Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
• 1937 – Alicia Ostriker, American poet and scholar
• 1938 – Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater (d. 2015)
• 1938 – Haruhiro Yamashita, Japanese gymnast and coach
• 1939 – Denise Alexander, American actress and producer
• 1939 – Abdelmajid Lakhal, Tunisian actor and director (d. 2014)
• 1940 – Barbara Boxer, American journalist and politician
• 1940 – Shunsuke Ikeda, Japanese actor and model (d. 2010)
• 1942 – Jonathan Fenby, English journalist and businessman
• 1942 – Roy Fredericks, Guyanese-American cricketer and politician (d. 2000)
• 1942 – Diane Wolkstein, American author and radio host (d. 2013)
• 1943 – Jorien van den Herik, Dutch businessman
• 1944 – Jennifer Bate, English organist
• 1944 – Chris Smither, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1944 – Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1945 – Chris Dreja, English guitarist and songwriter (The Yardbirds and Box of Frogs)
• 1945 – Vince Martell, American singer and guitarist (Vanilla Fudge)
• 1945 – Daniel Ortega, Nicaraguan politician, President of Nicaragua
• 1946 – Al Holbert, American race car driver (d. 1988)
• 1948 – Andrzej Czok, Polish mountaineer (d. 1986)
• 1948 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1950 – Mircea Dinescu, Romanian journalist and poet
• 1950 – Jim Peterik, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Survivor, Pride of Lions, and The Ides of March)
• 1951 – Bill Moseley, American actor, singer, and producer (Cornbugs)
• 1951 – Kim Peek, American megasavant (d. 2009)
• 1951 – Marc Summers, American television host and producer
• 1953 – Marshall Crenshaw, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1953 – Andy Partridge, Maltese-English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (XTC and The Dukes of Stratosphear)
• 1954 – Mary Gaitskill, American author
• 1954 – Roger Slifer, American author, illustrator, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2015)
• 1955 – Dave Alvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Blasters, The Knitters, The Flesh Eaters, and X)
• 1956 – Ian Craig Marsh, English guitarist (The Human League, Heaven 17, and British Electric Foundation)
• 1958 – Luz Casal, Spanish singer-songwriter and actress
• 1958 – Kazimieras Černis, Lithuanian astronomer and astrophysicist
• 1958 – Carlos Lacámara, Cuban-American actor and playwright
• 1958 – Kathy Lette, Australian-English author
• 1959 – Lee Haney, American bodybuilder
• 1959 – Richard Rowe, English jockey and trainer
• 1959 – Christian Schwarzenegger, Swiss criminologist and academic
• 1959 – Misako Tanaka, Japanese actress
• 1959 – Carl Williams, American boxer (d. 2013)
• 1960 – Lawrence Bayne, Canadian actor and singer
• 1960 – Colin Harvey, English author and critic (d. 2011)
• 1960 – Chuck Hernandez, American baseball player and coach
• 1960 – Paquito Ochoa, Jr., Filipino lawyer and politician, 37th Executive Secretary of the Philippines
• 1960 – Cristina Odone, Kenyan-Italian journalist and author
• 1960 – Peter Parros, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Stanley Tucci, American actor and director
• 1962 – Gerard Horan, English actor
• 1962 – Mic Michaeli, Swedish keyboard player (Europe, Brazen Abbot, and Last Autumn's Dream)
• 1962 – Georgios Mitsibonas, Greek footballer (d. 1997)
• 1962 – Demi Moore, American actress, director, and producer
• 1962 – James Morrison, Australian trumpet player and composer
• 1962 – Kendra Slawinski, English netball player and coach
• 1963 – Billy Gunn, American wrestler and actor
• 1964 – Anabel Alonso, Spanish actress
• 1964 – Margarete Bagshaw, American painter and potter (d. 2015)
• 1964 – Alison Doody, Irish model and actress
• 1964 – Calista Flockhart, American actress
• 1964 – Philip McKeon, American actor and producer
• 1965 – Max Mutchnick, American screenwriter and producer
• 1965 – Kim Stockwood, Canadian singer-songwriter (Shaye)
• 1967 – Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver
• 1967 – David Doak, Northern Irish video game designer
• 1967 – Frank John Hughes, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 – David L. Cook, American singer-songwriter and comedian
• 1968 – Lavell Crawford, American comedian and actor
• 1968 – Muangchai Kittikasem, Thai boxer
• 1968 – Peaches, Canadian-German singer-songwriter, DJ, producer and actress
• 1969 – Carson Kressley, American fashion designer, television host, and author
• 1970 – Elina Konstantopoulou, Greek singer
• 1971 – Jennifer Celotta, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Paul Chaloner, English sportscaster
• 1971 – David DeLuise, American actor and director
• 1971 – Tomas Pačėsas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
• 1972 – Adam Beach, Canadian actor and producer
• 1972 – Tyler Christopher, American actor
• 1972 – Danny Rios, Spanish baseball player
• 1973 – Shinji Maggy, Japanese comedian and magician
• 1973 – Melissa Stark, American journalist and sportscaster
• 1973 – Jason White, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Green Day, Pinhead Gunpowder, The Big Cats, The Influents, The Network, and Foxboro Hot Tubs)
• 1974 – Jon B., American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1974 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor and producer
• 1974 – Static Major, American singer-songwriter and producer (Playa) (d. 2008)
• 1974 – Wajahatullah Wasti, Pakistani cricketer
• 1975 – Daisuke Ohata, Japanese rugby player
• 1975 – Angélica Vale Mexican actress and singer
• 1976 – Lisa Gleave, Australian-American model and actress
• 1976 – Jason Grilli, American baseball player
• 1976 – Jesse F. Keeler, Canadian bass player (Death from Above 1979 and MSTRKRFT)
• 1977 – Maniche, Portuguese footballer and manager
• 1977 – Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (d. 2002)
• 1977 – Marsha Mehran, Iranian-American author (d. 2014)
• 1978 – Lou Vincent, New Zealand cricketer
• 1980 – Jaeson Ma, American rapper, actor, and minister
• 1980 – Pinkan Mambo, Indonesian singer and actress (Ratu)
• 1980 – Willie Parker, American football player and coach
• 1980 – Edmoore Takaendesa, Zimbabwean-German rugby player
• 1981 – Natalie Glebova, Russian-Canadian model, Miss Universe 2005
• 1981 – Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
• 1982 – Gonzalo Canale, Argentinian-Italian rugby player
• 1982 – Aki Higashihara, Japanese model
• 1982 – Jeremy Williams, English model, actor, and poet
• 1983 – Brittny Gastineau, American model
• 1983 – Arouna Koné, Ivorian footballer
• 1983 – Philipp Lahm, German footballer
• 1983 – Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Japanese voice actor and singer
• 1984 – Stephen Hunt, English footballer
• 1984 – Birkir Már Sævarsson, Icelandic footballer
• 1985 – Osvaldo Alonso, Cuban footballer
• 1985 – Austin Collie, American football player
• 1985 – Tiidrek Nurme, Estonian runner
• 1985 – Kalan Porter, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Jessica Sierra, American singer
• 1985 – Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer
• 1986 – Jon Batiste, American singer and pianist (Stay Human)
• 1986 – Victor Cruz, American football player
• 1986 – Risa Misaki, Japanese model
• 1986 – Mark Sanchez, American football player
• 1986 – François Trinh-Duc, French rugby player
• 1987 – Vinny Guadagnino, American actor
• 1987 – Chanelle Hayes, English model and singer
• 1987 – Yuya Tegoshi, Japanese singer and actor (News and Tegomass)
• 1988 – David Depetris, Argentinian-Slovak footballer
• 1988 – Kyle Naughton, English footballer
• 1988 – Mikako Komatsu, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1989 – Adam Rippon, American figure skater
• 1989 – Reina Tanaka, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume, Elegies, High-King, and Morning Musume Otomegumi)
• 1989 – Lewis Williamson, Scottish race car driver
• 1990 – Georginio Wijnaldum, Dutch footballer
• 1991 – Christa B. Allen, American actress
• 1991 – Emma Blackery, British singer-songwriter and YouTuber
• 1991 – Jana Kask, Estonian singer
• 1992 – Kairi Himanen, Estonian footballer
• 1992 – Sofía Luini, Argentine tennis player
• 1993 – Jamaal Lascelles, English footballer
• 1994 – Connor Price, Canadian actor
• 1994 – Ellie Simmonds, English swimmer

Deaths

• 405 – Arsacius of Tarsus, Tarsian archbishop (b. 324)
• 865 – Petronas, Byzantine general
• 865 – Antony the Younger, Byzantine monk and saint (b. 785)
• 1028 – Constantine VIII, Byzantine emperor (b. 960)
• 1623 – Philippe de Mornay, French theorist and author (b. 1549)
• 1638 – Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1562)
• 1724 – Joseph Blake, English criminal (b. 1700)
• 1812 – Platon Levshin, Russian metropolitan (b. 1737)
• 1831 – Nat Turner, American slave and rebel leader (b. 1800)
• 1855 – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1813)
• 1861 – Pedro V of Portugal (b. 1837)
• 1862 – James Madison Porter, American lawyer and politician, 18th United States Secretary of War (b. 1793)
• 1880 – Ned Kelly, Australian criminal (b. 1855)
• 1880 – Lucretia Mott, American activist (b. 1793)
• 1884 – Alfred Brehm German zoologist, author, and illustrator (b. 1827)
• 1887 – Haymarket affair defendants:
  • George Engel, German-American businessman and activist (b. 1836)
  • Adolph Fischer, German-American printer and activist (b. 1858)
  • Albert Parsons, American journalist and activist (b. 1848)
  • August Spies, American journalist and activist (b. 1855)
• 1917 – Liliuokalani of Hawaii (b. 1838)
• 1918 – George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier (b. 1892)
• 1919 – Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter and educator (b. 1832)
• 1921 – Léon Moreaux, French target shooter (b. 1852)
• 1931 – Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese businessman (b. 1840)
• 1938 – Typhoid Mary, Irish-American carrier of typhoid fever (b. 1869)
• 1939 – Bob Marshall, American author and activist (b. 1901)
• 1939 – Jan Opletal, Czech student and activist (b. 1915)
• 1940 – Muhittin Akyüz, Turkish general and diplomat (b. 1870)
• 1944 – Munir Ertegun, Turkish diplomat (b. 1883)
• 1945 – Jerome Kern, American composer (b. 1885)
• 1948 – Fred Niblo, American actor, director, producer (b. 1874)
• 1949 – Loukas Kanakaris-Roufos, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Foreign Minister (b. 1878)
• 1950 – Alexandros Diomidis, Greek banker and politician, 145th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1875)
• 1953 – Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1866)
• 1961 – Behiç Erkin, Turkish colonel and politician, Turkish Minister of Environment and Urban Planning (b. 1876)
• 1962 – Joseph Ruddy, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1878)
• 1972 – Berry Oakley, American bass player (The Allman Brothers Band) (b. 1948)
• 1973 – Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1973 – Richard von Frankenberg, German race car driver and journalist (b. 1922)
• 1974 – Alfonso Leng, Chilean dentist, composer, and academic (b. 1894)
• 1976 – Alexander Calder, American sculptor (b. 1898)
• 1977 – Greta Keller, Austrian-American actress and singer (b. 1903)
• 1977 – Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist and activist (b. 1950)
• 1979 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor (b. 1894)
• 1984 – Martin Luther King, Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist (b. 1899)
• 1985 – Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1959)
• 1985 – Arthur Rothstein, American photographer and educator (b. 1915)
• 1986 – Roger C. Carmel, American actor (b. 1932)
• 1988 – Charles Groves Wright Anderson, South African-Australian colonel and politician (b. 1897)
• 1988 – William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (b. 1900)
• 1990 – Attilio Demaría, Argentinian footballer (b. 1909)
• 1990 – Sadi Irmak, Turkish physician and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1904)
• 1990 – Alexis Minotis, Greek actor and director (b. 1898)
• 1990 – Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Erskine Hawkins, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1914)
• 1993 – John Stanley, American author and illustrator (b. 1914)
• 1994 – John A. Volpe, American soldier and politician, 61st Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Pedro Zamora, Cuban-American activist, cast member on The Real World: San Francisco (b. 1972)
• 1994 – Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist, historian, and publicist (b. 1922)
• 1997 – Rod Milburn, American hurdler and coach (b. 1950)
• 1997 – William Alland, American film producer and writer (b. 1916)
• 1998 – Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player and soldier (b. 1913)
• 1999 – Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress and singer (b. 1961)
• 1999 – Jacobo Timerman, Argentinian journalist and author (b. 1923)
• 2000 – Sandra Schmitt, German skier (b. 1981)
• 2001 – Erna Viitol, Estonian sculptor (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Miquel Martí i Pol, Catalan poet (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Dayton Allen, American comedian and voice actor (b. 1919)
• 2004 – Yasser Arafat, Palestinian engineer and politician, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (b. 1948)
• 2005 – Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American director and producer (b. 1930)
• 2005 – Keith Andes, American actor and singer (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, English photographer (b. 1939)
• 2005 – Peter Drucker, Austrian-American author, theorist, and educator (b. 1909)
• 2006 – Belinda Emmett, Australian actress and singer (b. 1974)
• 2006 – Harry Lehotsky, American-Canadian pastor and activist (b. 1957)
• 2007 – Delbert Mann, American director and producer (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Herb Score, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1933)
• 2008 – Mustafa Şekip Birgöl, Turkish colonel (b. 1903)
• 2010 – Marie Osborne Yeats, American actress and costume designer (b. 1911)
• 2011 – Francisco Blake Mora, Mexican lawyer and politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior (b. 1966)
• 2012 – Lam Adesina, Nigerian educator and politician, Governor of Oyo State (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Joe Egan, English rugby player and coach (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Rex Hunt, English lieutenant, pilot, and diplomat, Governor of the Falkland Islands (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Victor Mees, Belgian footballer (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Ilya Oleynikov, Russian actor (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Harry Wayland Randall, American photographer (b. 1915)
• 2013 – John Barnhill, American basketball player and coach (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal and composer (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Bob Beckham, American singer-songwriter (b. 1927)
• 2013 – John S. Dunne, American priest and theologian (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Atilla Karaosmanoğlu, Turkish economist and politician, 33rd Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Shirley Mitchell, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2013 – George Reinholt, American actor (b. 1940)
• 2014 – John Doar, American lawyer and activist (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Big Bank Hank, American rapper (The Sugarhill Gang) (b. 1956)
• 2014 – Philip G. Hodge, American engineer and academic (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Harry Lonsdale, American chemist, businessman, and politician (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Jim Rogers, American academic and politician (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Carol Ann Susi, American actress (b. 1952)
• 2015 – Rita Gross, American theologian and author (b. 1943)
• 2015 – Nathaniel Marston, American actor and producer (b. 1975)
• 2015 – Phil Taylor, English drummer (Motörhead and Waysted) (b. 1954)

Holidays and observances

• Birthday of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck (Bhutan)
• Children's Day (Croatia)
• Christian feast day:
  • Bartholomew of Grottaferrata (Roman Catholic Church)
  • Martin of Tours (Roman Catholic Church)
    • St. Martin's Day
  • Menas
  • Søren Kierkegaard (Lutheran Church)
  • Theodore the Studite
  • November 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• End of World War I-related observances:
  • Armistice Day (New Zealand, France, Belgium and Serbia)
  • National Independence Day (Poland), commemorates the anniversary of Poland's assumption of independent statehood in 1918
  • Remembrance Day (United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, including Australia and Canada)
  • Veterans Day, called Armistice Day until 1954, when it was rededicated to honor American military, naval, and Air Force veterans. (United States)
• Independence of Cartagena (Colombia)
• Lāčplēsis Day, celebrates the victory over the Bermontians at the Battle of Riga in 1919. (Latvia)
• Opening of carnival ("Karneval"/"Fasching"), on 11-11, at 11:11. (Germany, the Netherlands, and other countries)
• National Education Day (India)
• Pepero Day (South Korea)
• Republic Day (Maldives)
• Singles Day (China)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada