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April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). There are 264 days remaining.
Events
up to 19th century
20th century
21st century
Births
up to 19th century
- 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 - Croat 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)
20th century
- 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
- 1938 - Kurt Moll, German bass
- 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
- 1955 - Kevin Brady, American politician
- 1960 - Jeremy Clarkson, Motor Journalist and TV Presenter of Top Gear
- 1961 - Doug Hopkins, lyricist and musician
- 1966 - Lisa Stansfield, singer
- 1968 - Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian science fiction author
- 1969 - Cerys Matthews, singer
- 1971 - Oliver Riedel, bassist for Rammstein
- 1972 - Jason Varitek, baseball player
- 1974 - Trot Nixon, baseball player
- 1987 - Joss Stone, singer
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
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