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| October 11th, 2007 (October 11 2007) | Death | Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (born in 1915) | |
| October 11th, 2007 (October 11 2007) | Death | David Lee "Tex" Hill, World War Two fighter pilot, flying ace, 1st American Volunteer Group (born in 1915) | |
| October 11th, 2006 (October 11 2006) | Death | Cory Lidle, American baseball pitcher (born in 1972) | Eric Idle Quotes |
| October 11th, 2006 (October 11 2006) | Death | Howard Kerzner, Chief Executive Officer of Kerzner International (born in 1964) | |
| October 11th, 2006 (October 11 2006) | Death | Benito Martinez, Cuban who claimed to be the oldest person, died mildly ironically. Family didn t mournmostly dead also. (b. ?1880) | |
| October 11th, 2005 (October 11 2005) | Death | Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile (born in 1915) | |
| October 11th, 2005 (October 11 2005) | Death | Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Linguist, and writer of Pakistan (born in 1917) | |
| October 11th, 2004 (October 11 2004) | Death | Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (born in 1919) | |
| October 11th, 2002 (October 11 2002) | Event | A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven. | |
| October 11th, 2002 (October 11 2002) | Death | Dina Pathak, Indian Actress (born in 1922) | |
| October 11th, 2001 (October 11 2001) | Event | The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection. | |
| October 11th, 2000 (October 11 2000) | Event | The 100th Space Shuttle mission (STS-92) is flown. | |
| October 11th, 2000 (October 11 2000) | Death | Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland (born in 1937) | |
| October 11th, 1998 (October 11 1998) | Event | A Congo Airlines Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 40 people. | |
| October 11th, 1998 (October 11 1998) | Death | Richard Denning, American actor (born in 1914) | |
| October 11th, 1996 (October 11 1996) | Death | Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (born in 1907) | |
| October 11th, 1996 (October 11 1996) | Death | Joe Morris, C.C., LL.D., Canadian trade unionist (born in 1913) | |
| October 11th, 1996 (October 11 1996) | Death | Renato Russo, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter (born in 1960) | |
| October 11th, 1995 (October 11 1995) | Birth | Princess Luisa Maria of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este | |
| October 11th, 1993 (October 11 1993) | Death | Jess Thomas, American tenor (born in 1927) | |
| October 11th, 1991 (October 11 1991) | Birth | Chauncey Matthews, American Juniors singer | |
| October 11th, 1991 (October 11 1991) | Death | Steven Jesse Bernstein, American underground poet (suicide) (born in 1950) | |
| October 11th, 1991 (October 11 1991) | Death | Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (born in 1922) | |
| October 11th, 1989 (October 11 1989) | Birth | Henry Lau, member of Korean Boy Band Super Junior M | |
| October 11th, 1989 (October 11 1989) | Birth | Michelle Wie, American golfer | |
| October 11th, 1989 (October 11 1989) | Death | M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (born in 1904) | |
| October 11th, 1988 (October 11 1988) | Death | Bonita Granville, American actress (born in 1923) | |
| October 11th, 1987 (October 11 1987) | Birth | Mike Conley, Jr., American basketball player | |
| October 11th, 1986 (October 11 1986) | Event | Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavik, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe. G | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| October 11th, 1985 (October 11 1985) | Birth | Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress | |
| October 11th, 1984 (October 11 1984) | Event | Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk. | |
| October 11th, 1984 (October 11 1984) | Birth | Sergio Hellings, Dutch footballer | |
| October 11th, 1984 (October 11 1984) | Birth | Martha MacIsaac, Canadian actress | |
| October 11th, 1983 (October 11 1983) | Birth | William Sledd, American internet personality | |
| October 11th, 1983 (October 11 1983) | Birth | Ruslan Ponomariov, Ukrainian chess player | |
| October 11th, 1982 (October 11 1982) | Event | The Mary Rose, a Tudor gunship which sunk on July 18 1545, is raised from the sea bed in the Solent Channel, near Portsmouth. | |
| October 11th, 1981 (October 11 1981) | Birth | Beau Brady, Australian Actor | |
| October 11th, 1980 (October 11 1980) | Birth | Nyron Nosworthy, English footballer | |
| October 11th, 1979 (October 11 1979) | Birth | Bae Doona, South Korean model and actress | |
| October 11th, 1979 (October 11 1979) | Birth | Andy Douglas, American professional wrestler | |
| October 11th, 1979 (October 11 1979) | Birth | Gabe Saporta, Uruguayan-born American musician (Cobra Starship, Midtown) | |
| October 11th, 1978 (October 11 1978) | Birth | Kali, Angolan footballer | |
| October 11th, 1977 (October 11 1977) | Birth | Matthew Bomer, American actor | |
| October 11th, 1977 (October 11 1977) | Birth | Desmond Mason, American basketball player | |
| October 11th, 1977 (October 11 1977) | Birth | Claudia Palacios, Colombian television journalist | |
| October 11th, 1977 (October 11 1977) | Birth | Ty Wigginton, American baseball player | |
| October 11th, 1977 (October 11 1977) | Death | MacKinlay Kantor, American author (born in 1904) | |
| October 11th, 1976 (October 11 1976) | Event | George Washington s appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 was approved by President Gerald R. Ford. | Gerald Ford Quotes |
| October 11th, 1976 (October 11 1976) | Birth | Emily Deschanel, American actress | |
| October 11th, 1976 (October 11 1976) | Birth | Brent Bennett, American mercenary | |
| October 11th, 1976 (October 11 1976) | Death | Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (born in 1897) | |
| October 11th, 1975 (October 11 1975) | Event | The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Janis Ian and Billy Preston as musical guests. | George Carlin Quotes |
| October 11th, 1974 (October 11 1974) | Birth | Jason Arnott, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| October 11th, 1974 (October 11 1974) | Birth | Terje Haakonsen, Norwegian snowboarder | |
| October 11th, 1973 (October 11 1973) | Birth | Takeshi Kaneshiro, actor/model | |
| October 11th, 1973 (October 11 1973) | Birth | Steven Pressley, Scottish footballer | |
| October 11th, 1973 (October 11 1973) | Birth | Mike Smith, American guitarist (Snot, Limp Bizkit) | |
| October 11th, 1973 (October 11 1973) | Birth | Dmitri Young, American baseball player | |
| October 11th, 1973 (October 11 1973) | Birth | Niki Xanthou, Greek long jumper | |
| October 11th, 1972 (October 11 1972) | Birth | Claudia Black, Australian actress | |
| October 11th, 1971 (October 11 1971) | Birth | MC Lyte, American rapper | |
| October 11th, 1971 (October 11 1971) | Birth | Petra Haden, American musician (The Rentals) | |
| October 11th, 1971 (October 11 1971) | Birth | Jason Ellis, Australian professional skateboarder | |
| October 11th, 1971 (October 11 1971) | Death | Chesty Puller, the most decorated Marine in history (born in 1898) | |
| October 11th, 1970 (October 11 1970) | Birth | Chidi Ahanotu, American football player | |
| October 11th, 1970 (October 11 1970) | Birth | Andy Marriott, English footballer | |
| October 11th, 1970 (October 11 1970) | Birth | MC Lyte, American rapper | |
| October 11th, 1970 (October 11 1970) | Birth | U-God, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan) | |
| October 11th, 1970 (October 11 1970) | Birth | Constance Zimmer, American actress | |
| October 11th, 1969 (October 11 1969) | Birth | Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands | |
| October 11th, 1968 (October 11 1968) | Event | Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard. | |
| October 11th, 1968 (October 11 1968) | Birth | Claude Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| October 11th, 1968 (October 11 1968) | Birth | Jane Krakowski, American actress | |
| October 11th, 1967 (October 11 1967) | Event | Afghan Prime Minister Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal resigns for health reasons | |
| October 11th, 1967 (October 11 1967) | Birth | Tony Chimel, American professional wrestling announcer | |
| October 11th, 1967 (October 11 1967) | Birth | Artie Lange, American actor and comedian | |
| October 11th, 1967 (October 11 1967) | Birth | David Starr, American race car driver | |
| October 11th, 1967 (October 11 1967) | Birth | Tazz, American professional wrestler and commentator | |
| October 11th, 1966 (October 11 1966) | Birth | Solofa Fatu, aka Rikishi, American professional wrestler | |
| October 11th, 1966 (October 11 1966) | Birth | Luke Perry, American actor | |
| October 11th, 1965 (October 11 1965) | Birth | Alexander Hacke, German musician (Einsturzende Neubauten) | |
| October 11th, 1965 (October 11 1965) | Birth | Sean Patrick Flanery, American actor | |
| October 11th, 1965 (October 11 1965) | Death | Dorothea Lange, American photographer (born in 1895) | |
| October 11th, 1965 (October 11 1965) | Death | Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (born in 1884) | |
| October 11th, 1964 (October 11 1964) | Birth | Michael J. Nelson, American actor | |
| October 11th, 1963 (October 11 1963) | Birth | Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein of Jordan | Hussein of Jordan Quotes |
| October 11th, 1963 (October 11 1963) | Birth | Ronny Rosenthal, Israeli footballer | |
| October 11th, 1963 (October 11 1963) | Death | Jean Cocteau, French writer (born in 1889) | Jean Cocteau Quotes |
| October 11th, 1963 (October 11 1963) | Death | Edith Piaf, French singer and actress (born in 1915) | |
| October 11th, 1962 (October 11 1962) | Event | Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years. | |
| October 11th, 1962 (October 11 1962) | Birth | Nicola Bryant, English actress | |
| October 11th, 1962 (October 11 1962) | Birth | Joan Cusack, American actress | |
| October 11th, 1961 (October 11 1961) | Birth | Neil Buchanan, English television presenter | |
| October 11th, 1961 (October 11 1961) | Birth | Amr Diab, Egyptian singer | |
| October 11th, 1961 (October 11 1961) | Birth | Steve Young, American football player | |
| October 11th, 1961 (October 11 1961) | Death | Chico Marx, American comedian (born in 1887) | |
| October 11th, 1960 (October 11 1960) | Birth | Curt Ford, American baseball player | |
| October 11th, 1959 (October 11 1959) | Birth | Wayne Gardner, Australian racing driver | |
| October 11th, 1958 (October 11 1958) | Event | Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up). | |
| October 11th, 1957 (October 11 1957) | Birth | Paul Bown, English actor | |
| October 11th, 1957 (October 11 1957) | Birth | Dawn French, Welsh comedian | |
| October 11th, 1957 (October 11 1957) | Birth | Paul Sereno, American paleontologist | |
| October 11th, 1956 (October 11 1956) | Birth | Nicanor Duarte Frutos, President of Paraguay | |
| October 11th, 1954 (October 11 1954) | Event | First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam. | |
| October 11th, 1953 (October 11 1953) | Birth | David Morse, American actor | |
| October 11th, 1951 (October 11 1951) | Birth | Jean-Jacques Goldman, French singer/songwriter | |
| October 11th, 1950 (October 11 1950) | Event | The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS | |
| October 11th, 1950 (October 11 1950) | Birth | Patty Murray, American politician, senior senator from Washington | |
| October 11th, 1948 (October 11 1948) | Birth | Cecilia, Spanish singer-songwriter | |
| October 11th, 1947 (October 11 1947) | Birth | Al Atkins, English musician | |
| October 11th, 1947 (October 11 1947) | Birth | Lucas Papademos, Greek economist | |
| October 11th, 1947 (October 11 1947) | Birth | Thomas Boswell, American sports columnist | |
| October 11th, 1946 (October 11 1946) | Birth | Sawao Kato, Japanese gymnast | |
| October 11th, 1946 (October 11 1946) | Birth | Oba Chandler, American convicted murderer | |
| October 11th, 1946 (October 11 1946) | Birth | Daryl Hall, American musician | |
| October 11th, 1946 (October 11 1946) | Birth | Gary Mallaber, American musician (The Steve Miller Band) | |
| October 11th, 1944 (October 11 1944) | Event | Tuvinian People s Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva was annexed by the U.S.S.R | |
| October 11th, 1944 (October 11 1944) | Birth | Mike Fiore, American baseball player | |
| October 11th, 1944 (October 11 1944) | Birth | Rodney Marsh, English Footballer | |
| October 11th, 1943 (October 11 1943) | Birth | John Nettles, English actor | |
| October 11th, 1942 (October 11 1942) | Event | World War II: Battle of Cape EsperanceOn the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island. | |
| October 11th, 1942 (October 11 1942) | Birth | Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor | |
| October 11th, 1941 (October 11 1941) | Event | Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia. | |
| October 11th, 1941 (October 11 1941) | Birth | Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpeter (died in 1999) | |
| October 11th, 1941 (October 11 1941) | Birth | Charles Shyer, American film director | |
| October 11th, 1940 (October 11 1940) | Death | Lluis Companys, President of Generalitat of Catalonia (shot) (born in 1882) | |
| October 11th, 1940 (October 11 1940) | Death | Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (born in 1860) | |
| October 11th, 1939 (October 11 1939) | Birth | Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player | |
| October 11th, 1939 (October 11 1939) | Birth | Austin Currie, Northern Irish politician | |
| October 11th, 1937 (October 11 1937) | Birth | Sir Bobby Charlton, English footballer | |
| October 11th, 1937 (October 11 1937) | Birth | R. H. W. Dillard, American poet | |
| October 11th, 1936 (October 11 1936) | Birth | Billy Higgins, American jazz drummer (died in 2001) | |
| October 11th, 1935 (October 11 1935) | Death | Steele Rudd, Australian author (born in 1868) | |
| October 11th, 1932 (October 11 1932) | Birth | Dottie West, American singer (died in 1991) | |
| October 11th, 1931 (October 11 1931) | Birth | Dorothy Woolfolk, American comic book editor (died in 2000) | |
| October 11th, 1930 (October 11 1930) | Event | Collingwood Football Club in Melbourne, Australia, won the VFL premiership for the fourth consecutive year. | |
| October 11th, 1930 (October 11 1930) | Birth | Sam Johnson, American politician | |
| October 11th, 1930 (October 11 1930) | Birth | LaVell Edwards, American football coach | |
| October 11th, 1929 (October 11 1929) | Event | JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states. | |
| October 11th, 1929 (October 11 1929) | Birth | Liselotte Pulver, Swiss actress | |
| October 11th, 1928 (October 11 1928) | Birth | Alfonso de Portago, Spanish race car driver (died in 1957) | |
| October 11th, 1927 (October 11 1927) | Birth | Princess Josephine-Charlotte of Belgium (died in 2005) | |
| October 11th, 1926 (October 11 1926) | Birth | Neville Wran, Premier of New South Wales | |
| October 11th, 1926 (October 11 1926) | Birth | Nh?t H?nh, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk | |
| October 11th, 1925 (October 11 1925) | Birth | Elmore Leonard, American novelist | Elmore Leonard Quotes |
| October 11th, 1924 (October 11 1924) | Birth | Mal Whitfield, American athlete | |
| October 11th, 1919 (October 11 1919) | Birth | Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (died in 1990) | Art Blakey Quotes |
| October 11th, 1919 (October 11 1919) | Birth | Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress (died in 1999) | |
| October 11th, 1918 (October 11 1918) | Event | Major Tsumani shakes Caribbean | |
| October 11th, 1918 (October 11 1918) | Birth | Jerome Robbins, American choreographer (died in 1998) | |
| October 11th, 1910 (October 11 1910) | Event | Ex-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. | Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| October 11th, 1906 (October 11 1906) | Event | San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools. | |
| October 11th, 1905 (October 11 1905) | Birth | Fred Trump, American real estate developer, father of Donald Trump (died in 1999) | Donald Trump Quotes |
| October 11th, 1902 (October 11 1902) | Birth | Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter and political leader (died in 1979) | |
| October 11th, 1899 (October 11 1899) | Event | Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts. The Western League was renamed the American League. | |
| October 11th, 1899 (October 11 1899) | Birth | Eddie Dyer, American baseball player (died in 1964) | |
| October 11th, 1897 (October 11 1897) | Birth | Nathan Twining, USAF general (died in 1982) | |
| October 11th, 1896 (October 11 1896) | Death | Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (born in 1824) | |
| October 11th, 1896 (October 11 1896) | Death | Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (born in 1829) | |
| October 11th, 1895 (October 11 1895) | Birth | Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (died in 1982) | |
| October 11th, 1890 (October 11 1890) | Event | In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded. | |
| October 11th, 1889 (October 11 1889) | Death | James Prescott Joule, English physicist (born in 1818) | |
| October 11th, 1885 (October 11 1885) | Birth | Francois Mauriac, French author, Nobel laureate (died in 1970) | Francois Mauriac Quotes |
| October 11th, 1884 (October 11 1884) | Birth | Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel laureate (died in 1949) | |
| October 11th, 1884 (October 11 1884) | Birth | Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (died in 1962) | Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes |
| October 11th, 1884 (October 11 1884) | Birth | Sig Ruman, German-American actor (died in 1967) | |
| October 11th, 1881 (October 11 1881) | Birth | Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal theorist (died in 1973) | |
| October 11th, 1872 (October 11 1872) | Birth | Harlan Fiske Stone, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (died in 1946) | |
| October 11th, 1871 (October 11 1871) | Birth | Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian religious leader (died in 1943) | |
| October 11th, 1865 (October 11 1865) | Event | Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion. | |
| October 11th, 1865 (October 11 1865) | Birth | Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian author and philologist (died in 1926) | Philo Quotes |
| October 11th, 1864 (October 11 1864) | Event | Campina Grande, Brazil was established as a city. | |
| October 11th, 1862 (October 11 1862) | Event | 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. | |
| October 11th, 1852 (October 11 1852) | Event | The University of Sydney, Australia s oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney. | |
| October 11th, 1852 (October 11 1852) | Death | Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (born in 1823) | Ferdinand Eisenstein Quotes |
| October 11th, 1844 (October 11 1844) | Birth | Henry Heinz, American food manufacturer (died in 1916) | |
| October 11th, 1821 (October 11 1821) | Birth | George Williams, English founder of the YMCA (died in 1905) | |
| October 11th, 1821 (October 11 1821) | Death | John Ross Key, American judge and lawyer (born in 1754) | |
| October 11th, 1815 (October 11 1815) | Birth | Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Italian-born adventurer (died in 1881) | Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| October 11th, 1814 (October 11 1814) | Birth | Jean Baptiste Lamy, first Archbishop of Santa Fe (died in 1888) | |
| October 11th, 1811 (October 11 1811) | Event | Inventor John Stevens boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey). | Julian Quotes |
| October 11th, 1811 (October 11 1811) | Death | Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (born in 1724) | |
| October 11th, 1809 (October 11 1809) | Event | Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder s Stand. | |
| October 11th, 1809 (October 11 1809) | Birth | Orson Squire Fowler, American phrenologist (died in 1887) | |
| October 11th, 1809 (October 11 1809) | Death | Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (born in 1774) | |
| October 11th, 1788 (October 11 1788) | Birth | Simon Sechter, Austrian music teacher (died in 1867) | |
| October 11th, 1786 (October 11 1786) | Birth | Stevenson Archer, American Congressman (died in 1848) | |
| October 11th, 1779 (October 11 1779) | Death | Kazimierz Pulaski, Polish fighter for American independence (born in 1745) | |
| October 11th, 1776 (October 11 1776) | Event | American Revolution: Battle of Valcour IslandOn Lake Champlain 15 American gunboats are defeated but give Patriot forces enough time to prepare defenses of New York City. | |
| October 11th, 1758 (October 11 1758) | Birth | Heinrich Wilhelm Matthaus Olbers, German astronomer (died in 1840) | |
| October 11th, 1738 (October 11 1738) | Birth | Arthur Phillip, Governor of New South Wales (died in 1814) | |
| October 11th, 1725 (October 11 1725) | Death | Hans Herr, Swiss-born Mennonite bishop (born in 1639) | |
| October 11th, 1721 (October 11 1721) | Death | Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (born in 1636) | |
| October 11th, 1708 (October 11 1708) | Death | Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (born in 1651) | |
| October 11th, 1705 (October 11 1705) | Death | Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (born in 1663) | |
| October 11th, 1675 (October 11 1675) | Birth | Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (died in 1729) | Philo Quotes |
| October 11th, 1672 (October 11 1672) | Birth | Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (died in 1742) | |
| October 11th, 1671 (October 11 1671) | Birth | Frederick IV of Denmark (died in 1730) | |
| October 11th, 1671 (October 11 1671) | Birth | Richard Moungler (died in 1730) | |
| October 11th, 1661 (October 11 1661) | Birth | Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (died in 1742) | |
| October 11th, 1634 (October 11 1634) | Event | the Burchardi flood - "the second Grote Mandrenke" killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany. | |
| October 11th, 1616 (October 11 1616) | Birth | Andreas Gryphius, German writer (died in 1664) | |
| October 11th, 1614 (October 11 1614) | Event | Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony. | |
| October 11th, 1582 (October 11 1582) | Event | Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain, often causing widespread panic to the natives. | |
| October 11th, 1531 (October 11 1531) | Event | Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland. | |
| October 11th, 1531 (October 11 1531) | Death | Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (born in 1484) | |
| October 11th, 1424 (October 11 1424) | Death | Jan Zizka, leader of the Hussites (born in 1360) | |
| October 11th, 1347 (October 11 1347) | Death | Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (born in 1282) | |
| October 11th, 1335 (October 11 1335) | Birth | Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (died in 1408) | |
| October 11th, 1303 (October 11 1303) | Death | Pope Boniface VIII | |
| October 11th, 1188 (October 11 1188) | Death | Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France | |
