October 11

October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 81 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).

Events

• 1138 – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo.
• 1142 – A peace treaty between the Jin dynasty and Southern Song dynasty is formally ratified when a Jin envoy visits the Song court during the Jin–Song wars.
• 1311 – The Ordinances of 1311 are published, imposing a series of regulations upon King Edward II of England by the peerage and clergy.
• 1531 – Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland.
• 1582 – Due to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1614 – Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony.
• 1634 – The Burchardi flood: "The second Grote Mandrenke" killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
• 1649 – Sack of Wexford: After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops (under Oliver Cromwell) stormed the town of Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.
• 1727 – George II and Caroline of Ansbach are crowned King and Queen of Great Britain.
• 1767 – Surveying for the Mason–Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Valcour Island: On Lake Champlain a fleet of American boats is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.
• 1797 – Battle of Camperdown: Naval battle between Royal Navy and Royal Netherlands Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. The outcome of the battle was a decisive British victory.
• 1809 – Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
• 1811 – Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
• 1852 – The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
• 1862 – American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north.
• 1865 – Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
• 1890 – In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
• 1899 – Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
• 1899 – The Western League is renamed the American League.
• 1906 – San Francisco public school board sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
• 1910 – Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert–St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
• 1912 – First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani.
• 1918 – The 7.1 M_w Puerto Rico earthquake shakes the island with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 76–116 people. A destructive tsunami contributed to the damage and loss of life.
• 1941 – Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
• 1942 – World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance: On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
• 1944 – Tuvan People's Republic, formerly Tannu Tuva, is annexed by the U.S.S.R.
• 1950 – Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
• 1954 – First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
• 1957 – Space Race: Operation Moonwatch scientists calculate Sputnik 1's booster rocket's orbit.
• 1958 – Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
• 1962 – Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
• 1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
• 1972 – A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam during Operation Linebacker.
• 1975 – The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts.
• 1976 – George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
• 1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
• 1984 – An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178.
• 1986 – Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
• 1987 – First public display of AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
• 1987 – Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed thousands of ethnic Tamil civilians and hundreds of Tamil Tigers and Indian Army soldiers.
• 1994 – Korn releases their self-titled debut album, which has been considered to start the whole nu metal genre.
• 2000 – NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery.
• 2001 – The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
• 2002 – A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.
• 2013 – A migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily with at least 34 people dead.

Births

• 1492 – Charles Orlando, Dauphin of France, French noble (d. 1495)
• 1552 – Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1553)
• 1616 – Andreas Gryphius, German poet and playwright (d. 1664)
• 1661 – Melchior de Polignac, French cardinal and poet (d. 1742)
• 1671 – Frederick IV of Denmark (d. 1730)
• 1672 – Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian-Romanian diplomat (d. 1742)
• 1675 – Samuel Clarke, English minister and philosopher (d. 1729)
• 1738 – Arthur Phillip, English admiral and politician, 1st Governor of New South Wales (d. 1814)
• 1739 – Grigory Potemkin, Russian general and politician (d. 1791)
• 1758 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German physician and astronomer (d. 1840)
• 1786 – Stevenson Archer, American judge and politician (d. 1848)
• 1788 – Simon Sechter, Austrian organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1867)
• 1803 – Gregor von Helmersen, Estonian-Russian general and geologist (d. 1885)
• 1814 – Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French-American archbishop (d. 1888)
• 1815 – Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte, Italian-French politician (d. 1881)
• 1821 – George Williams, English philanthropist, founded the YMCA (d. 1905)
• 1835 – Theodore Thomas, American conductor, founded the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (d. 1905)
• 1844 – Henry J. Heinz, American businessman, founded the H. J. Heinz Company (d. 1916)
• 1865 – Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian philologist and author (d. 1926)
• 1871 – Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian evangelist, founded the Brunstad Christian Church (d. 1943)
• 1872 – Emily Davison, English educator and activist (d. 1913)
• 1872 – Harlan F. Stone, American lawyer and jurist, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1946)
• 1879 – Ernst Mally, Austrian philosopher and academic (d. 1944)
• 1881 – Hans Kelsen, Czech-American jurist and philosopher (d. 1973)
• 1884 – Friedrich Bergius, German-Argentinian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
• 1884 – Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian and politician, 39th First Lady of the United States (d. 1962)
• 1884 – Sig Ruman, German-American actor (d. 1967)
• 1885 – François Mauriac, French novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
• 1890 – A. V. Kulasingham, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1978)
• 1894 – Julius Kuperjanov, Estonian educator and lieutenant (d. 1919)
• 1896 – Roman Jakobson, Russian–American linguist and theorist (d. 1982)
• 1897 – Nathan Farragut Twining, American general (d. 1982)
• 1899 – Eddie Dyer, American baseball player and manager (d. 1964)
• 1901 – Masanobu Tsuji, Japanese colonel and politician (d. 1961)
• 1902 – Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian activist and politician (d. 1979)
• 1905 – Fred Trump, American real estate entrepreneur (d. 1999)
• 1910 – Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician and academic (d. 1997)
• 1911 – Nello Pagani, Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver (d. 2003)
• 1913 – Joe Simon, American author and illustrator (d. 2011)
• 1913 – Dorothy Woolfolk, American author (d. 2000)
• 1915 – T. Llew Jones, Welsh author and poet (d. 2009)
• 1916 – Nanaji Deshmukh, Indian educator and activist (d. 2010)
• 1918 – Fred Bodsworth, Canadian journalist and author (d. 2012)
• 1918 – Jerome Robbins, American director, producer, and choreographer (d. 1998)
• 1919 – Art Blakey, American drummer and bandleader (d. 1990)
• 1919 – Douglas Albert Munro, United States Coast Guard signalman, posthumously awarded Medal of Honor, (d. 1942)
• 1922 – G. C. Edmondson, American soldier and author (d. 1995)
• 1924 – André Emmerich, German-American art dealer (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Sammy McCrory, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2011)
• 1925 – Elmore Leonard, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Jean Alexander, English actress (d. 2016)
• 1926 – Yvon Dupuis, Canadian politician (d. 2017)
• 1926 – Thích Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese monk, author, and poet
• 1926 – Earle Hyman, American actor
• 1926 – Neville Wran, Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Premier of New South Wales (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Jim Prior, Baron Prior, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (d. 2016)
• 1928 – Alfonso de Portago, Spanish race car driver and bobsledder (d. 1957)
• 1928 – Roscoe Robinson, Jr., American general (d. 1993)
• 1928 – Geoffrey Tordoff, Baron Tordoff, English businessman and politician
• 1929 – Curtis Amy, American saxophonist and clarinetist player (d. 2002)
• 1930 – Michael Edwardes, South African-English businessman
• 1930 – LaVell Edwards, American football player and coach
• 1930 – Sam Johnson, American colonel and politician
• 1932 – Saul Friedländer, Israeli historian and author
• 1932 – Barry Jones, Australian lawyer and politician
• 1932 – Dottie West, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1991)
• 1935 – Dan Evins, American businessman, founded Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (d. 2012)
• 1936 – C. Gordon Fullerton, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Billy Higgins, American drummer and educator (d. 2001)
• 1936 – James M. McPherson, American historian and author
• 1937 – Bobby Charlton, English footballer and manager
• 1937 – R. H. W. Dillard, American poet, author, and critic
• 1937 – Ron Leibman, American actor and screenwriter
• 1938 – Michael Stear, English air marshal
• 1939 – Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player
• 1939 – Austin Currie, Northern Irish lawyer and SDLP politician
• 1940 – Lucy Morgan, American newspaper reporter
• 1941 – Lester Bowie, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1999)
• 1942 – Richard Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton, Welsh academic and politician
• 1942 – Amitabh Bachchan, Indian Actor
• 1943 – Keith Boyce, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1996)
• 1943 – Michael Harloe, English sociologist and academic
• 1943 – Ilmar Reepalu, Swedish lawyer and politician
• 1944 – Mike Fiore, American baseball player
• 1944 – Rodney Marsh, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster
• 1945 – Andrew Logan, English sculptor and painter
• 1946 – Elinor Goodman, English journalist
• 1946 – Daryl Hall, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1947 – Thomas Boswell, American journalist and author
• 1947 – Lucas Papademos, Greek economist and politician, 183rd Prime Minister of Greece
• 1947 – Alan Pascoe, English hurdler
• 1948 – David Rendall, English tenor and actor
• 1948 – Peter Turkson, Ghanaian cardinal
• 1949 – Henry Luke Orombi, Ugandan archbishop
• 1950 – William R. Forstchen, American historian and author
• 1950 – Amos Gitai, Israeli director, producer, and author
• 1950 – Patty Murray, American educator and politician
• 1951 – Bruce Bartlett, American economist, historian, and author
• 1951 – Jean-Jacques Goldman, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1951 – Charles Shyer, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1952 – Paulette Carlson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1953 – David Morse, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1954 – David Michaels, American epidemiologist and politician
• 1954 – Vojislav Šešelj, Serbian lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia
• 1955 – Norm Nixon, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1956 – Nicanor Duarte, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, President of Paraguay
• 1956 – Derek Ringer, Scottish race car driver
• 1957 – Francky Dury, Belgian footballer and manager
• 1957 – Dawn French, Welsh-English actress, comedian and screenwriter
• 1959 – Wayne Gardner, Australian motorcycle racer
• 1959 – Allan Little, Scottish journalist and author
• 1960 – Randy Breuer, American basketball player
• 1960 – Curt Ford, American baseball player and manager
• 1960 – Gábor Pölöskei, Hungarian footballer and manager
• 1961 – Neil Buchanan, English guitarist
• 1961 – Steve Young, American football player and sportscaster
• 1962 – Joan Cusack, American actress
• 1963 – Ronny Rosenthal, Israeli-English footballer
• 1963 – Brian Rice, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1964 – Michael J. Nelson, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1965 – Sean Patrick Flanery, American actor and producer
• 1965 – Alexander Hacke, German singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1965 – Orlando Hernández, Cuban baseball player
• 1965 – Volodymyr Horilyi, Ukrainian footballer and coach
• 1966 – Luke Perry, American actor and producer
• 1966 – Stephen Williams, Welsh lawyer and politician
• 1967 – Jay Grdina, American businessman and pornographic actor
• 1967 – Artie Lange, American actor and comedian
• 1967 – David Starr, American race car driver
• 1968 – Jane Krakowski, American actress and singer
• 1968 – Claude Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1968 – Brett Salisbury, American football player and author
• 1969 – Merieme Chadid, Moroccan astronomer and explorers
• 1969 – Stephen Moyer, English actor
• 1970 – Chidi Ahanotu, American football player
• 1970 – Vanessa Harding, American wrestler
• 1970 – Andy Marriott, English-Welsh footballer and manager
• 1970 – Shin Tae-yong, South Korean footballer and coach
• 1971 – Oleksandr Pomazun, Ukrainian footballer and manager
• 1972 – Marcus Bai, Papua New Guinean rugby player
• 1973 – Greg Chalmers, Australian golfer
• 1973 – Steven Pressley, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1973 – Niki Xanthou, Greek long jumper
• 1973 – Dmitri Young, American baseball player and radio host
• 1974 – Jason Arnott, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 – Rachel Barton Pine, American violinist and educator
• 1975 – Orlando Maturana, Colombian footballer
• 1976 – Dominic Aitchison, Scottish bass player and songwriter
• 1976 – Emily Deschanel, American actress and producer
• 1977 – Matt Bomer, American actor and producer
• 1977 – Igor Figueiredo, Brazilian snooker player
• 1977 – Jérémie Janot, French footballer and manager
• 1977 – Desmond Mason, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1977 – Ty Wigginton, American baseball player
• 1978 – Carl Bussey, American soccer player
• 1978 – Takuya Kawaguchi, Japanese footballer
• 1979 – Jamar Beasley, American football player
• 1979 – Andy Douglas, American wrestler
• 1979 – Kim Yong-dae, South Korean footballer
• 1982 – Cameron Knowles, New Zealand footballer
• 1982 – Jeff Larish, American baseball player
• 1982 – Terrell Suggs, American football player
• 1982 – Mauricio Victorino, Uruguayan footballer
• 1984 – Sergio Hellings, Dutch footballer
• 1984 – Martha MacIsaac, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1985 – Nesta Carter, Jamaican sprinter
• 1985 – Yang Cheng, Chinese footballer
• 1985 – Álvaro Fernández, Uruguayan footballer
• 1985 – Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
• 1986 – Ikioi Shōta, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1987 – Tony Beltran, American soccer player
• 1987 – Mike Conley, Jr., American basketball player
• 1987 – Nathan Coulter-Nile, Australian cricketer
• 1988 – Omar Gonzalez, American soccer player
• 1989 – Michelle Wie, American golfer
• 1990 – Sebastian Rode, German footballer
• 1991 – Patrick Leyland, American baseball player
• 1992 – Riffi Mandanda, Congolese footballer
• 1992 – Ligi Sao, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1992 – Christian Davis, English cricketer
• 1994 – Clésio Baúque, Mozambican footballer
• 1997 – Jeando Fuchs, French footballer

Deaths

• 965 – Bruno the Great, Archbishop of Cologne (b. 925)
• 1086 – Sima Guang, Chinese historian and statesman (b. 1019)
• 1159 – William of Blois, Count of Boulogne and Earl of Surrey (b. c. 1137)
• 1188 – Robert I, Count of Dreux (b. 1123)
• 1303 – Pope Boniface VIII (b. 1235)
• 1347 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1282)
• 1424 – Jan Žižka, Czech general and Hussite leader
• 1531 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss pastor and theologian (b. 1484)
• 1542 – Thomas Wyatt, English poet and diplomat (born 1503)
• 1579 – Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman politician, 43rd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1506)
• 1667 – Mattias de' Medici, Italian noble (d. 1667)
• 1684 – James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven (b. c. 1617)
• 1698 – William Molyneux, Irish philosopher and writer (b. 1656)
• 1705 – Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (b. 1663)
• 1708 – Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher (b. 1651)
• 1721 – Edward Colston, English merchant and politician (b. 1636)
• 1725 – Hans Herr, Swiss-American bishop (b. 1639)
• 1779 – Casimir Pulaski, Polish-American general (b. 1745)
• 1809 – Meriwether Lewis, American captain, explorer, and politician, 2nd Governor of Louisiana Territory (b. 1774)
• 1821 – John Ross Key, American lieutenant, lawyer, and judge (b. 1754)
• 1837 – Samuel Wesley, English organist and composer (b. 1766)
• 1852 – Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician and academic (b. 1823)
• 1889 – James Prescott Joule, English physicist and brewer (b. 1818)
• 1896 – Edward Benson, English archbishop (b. 1829)
• 1896 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian organist, composer, and educator (b. 1824)
• 1897 – Léon Boëllmann, French organist and composer (b. 1862)
• 1904 – Mary Tenney Gray, American editorial writer, club-woman, philanthropist, and suffragette (b. 1833)
• 1908 – Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, Mexican poet, educator, and activist (b. 1846)
• 1932 – William Alden Smith, American lawyer and politician (b. 1859)
• 1935 – Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868)
• 1940 – Lluís Companys, Spanish lawyer and politician, 123rd President of Catalonia (b. 1882)
• 1940 – Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
• 1941 – Heinrich Gutkin, Estonian businessman and politician (b. 1879)
• 1941 – Mihkel Pung, Estonian politician, 11th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1876)
• 1958 – Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter (b. 1876)
• 1961 – Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
• 1963 – Jean Cocteau, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1889)
• 1965 – Dorothea Lange, American photographer and journalist (b. 1895)
• 1965 – Walther Stampfli, Swiss lawyer and politician, 50th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1884)
• 1968 – Selim Sarper, Turkish educator and politician, 13th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1899)
• 1971 – Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (b. 1944)
• 1971 – Chesty Puller, American general (b. 1898)
• 1976 – Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author, screenwriter, and songwriter (b. 1897)
• 1977 – MacKinlay Kantor, American journalist, author, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1983 – R. Fraser Armstrong, Canadian administrator and engineer (b. 1889)
• 1984 – Benno Schotz, Scottish sculptor and engineer (b. 1891)
• 1986 – Norm Cash, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1934)
• 1988 – Bonita Granville, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1989 – M. King Hubbert, American geologist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1991 – Redd Foxx, American actor and comedian (b. 1922)
• 1996 – Eleanor Cameron, Canadian-American author and critic (b. 1912)
• 1996 – Renato Russo, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1960)
• 1996 – Joe Morris, English-Canadian lieutenant and trade union leader (b. 1913)
• 1998 – Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1999 – Leo Lionni, Dutch-American author and illustrator (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Luc-Marie Bayle, French historian, photographer, and painter (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Donald Dewar, Scottish lawyer and politician, 1st First Minister of Scotland (b. 1937)
• 2001 – Beni Montresor, Italian director, set designer, and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 2004 – Keith Miller, Australian cricketer and pilot (b. 1919)
• 2005 – Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Pakistani-Canadian linguist, journalist, and poet (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Attilâ İlhan, Turkish poet, author, and journalist (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Cory Lidle, American baseball player (b. 1972)
• 2007 – David Lee "Tex" Hill, South Korean-American general and pilot (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Werner von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (b. 1915)
• 2008 – Jörg Haider, Austrian lawyer and politician, Governor of Carinthia (b. 1950)
• 2008 – Ernst-Paul Hasselbach, Surinamese-Dutch television host and producer (b. 1966)
• 2008 – Neal Hefti, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Angelo DiGeorge, American physician and endocrinologist (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Halit Refiğ, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Helmut Haller, German footballer and coach (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Edward Kossoy, Polish lawyer, publicist, and activist (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Édgar Negret, Colombian sculptor (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Champ Summers, American baseball player and coach (b. 1946)
• 2013 – María de Villota, Spanish race car driver (b. 1980)
• 2013 – Johnny Kovatch, American football player and coach (b. 1912)
• 2013 – Erich Priebke, German captain (b. 1913)
• 2013 – William H. Sullivan, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Anita Cerquetti, Italian soprano (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Carmelo Simeone, Argentinian footballer (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Bob Such, Australian educator and politician (b. 1944)
• 2015 – Dean Chance, American baseball player and manager (b. 1941)
• 2015 – Jack Drake, American lawyer and politician (b. 1934)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast days:
  • Alexander Sauli
  • Andronicus, Probus, and Tarachus (Roman Catholic Church)
  • Æthelburh of Barking
  • Cainnech of Aghaboe
  • Gummarus
  • James the Deacon (Church of England, Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church)
  • Lommán of Trim
  • Nectarius of Constantinople
  • Philip the Evangelist
  • Pope John XXIII (Roman Catholic Church)
  • October 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• General Pulaski Memorial Day (United States)
• International Day of the Girl Child
• International Newspaper Carrier Day
• National Coming Out Day (Multiple countries)
• Old Michaelmas Day (Celtic)
• Revolution Day (Republic of Macedonia)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to October 11.

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