11 April
April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). There are 264 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 146 - Septimius Severus, Roman emperor (d. 211)
- 1357 - King John I of Portugal (d. 1433)
- 1492 - Margaret of Navarre, Queen of Navarre and writer (d. 1549)
- 1568 - Marin Getaldić - Croatian physicist and astronomer (d. 1626)
- 1723 - Franz Anton Bustelli, porcelain moulder (d. 1763)
- 1810 - Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, soldier and orientalist (d. 1895)
- 1819 - Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor (d. 1895)
- 1825 - Ferdinand Lassalle, politician (d. 1864)
- 1869 - Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
- 1883 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author (d. 1951)
- 1889 - Nick LaRocca, jazz musician (d. 1961)
- 1893 - Dean Acheson, former United States Secretary of State (d. 1971)
- 1896 - Wieland Herzfelde, publisher and author (d. 1989)
- 1906 - Dale Messick, cartoonist
- 1908 - Leo Rosten, humorist, author (d. 1997)
- 1911 - Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-American sprinter (d. 1980)
- 1913 - Oleg Cassini, fashion designer
- 1920 - Marlen Haushofer, author (d. 1990)
- 1928 - Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert F. Kennedy
- 1930 - Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan (d. 1997)
- 1932 - Joel Grey, singer, actor
- 1944 - John Milius, director, writer
- 1949 - Bernd Eichinger, film producer
- 1951 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, Houston, Texas socialite (d. 1997)
- 1953 - Andrew Wiles, Mathematician
- 1953 - Guy Verhofstadt, prime minister of Belgium
- 1966 - Lisa Stansfield, singer
- 1972 - Jason Varitek, baseball player
- 1974 - Trot Nixon, baseball player
Deaths
- 1240 - Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd
- 1856 - Juan Santamaría, national hero of the Republic of Costa Rica
- 1873 - Edward Canby, US Army General (b. 1817), assassinated at a peace conference during the Modoc War.
- 1906 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)
- 1906 - James Anthony Bailey, co-founder with Phineas Taylor Barnum of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus (b. 1847)
- 1916 - Richard Harding Davis, author (b. 1864)
- 1926 - Luther Burbank, botanist (b. 1849)
- 1970 - John O'Hara, author (b. 1905)
- 1985 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian statesman (b. 1908)
- 1987 - Erskine Caldwell, author (b. 1903)
- 1987 - Primo Levi, chemist, composer, librettist, author (b. 1919)
- 2001 - Harry Secombe, actor, comedian, member of The Goon Show (b. 1921)
Holidays and observances
April 10 - April 12 - March 11 - May 11 -- listing of all days
