Friday, 11th July 2025 in London

11th July in the Stars – Star Sign Cancer

Today, the zodiac sign Cancer celebrates its birthday.

Personality Profile

Personality People born on July 11th combine deep emotional intelligence with transformative power. The Moon grants them strong intuition and empathic ability, while Pluto's influence adds psychological depth and insight. They naturally seek meaning beyond surface appearances.

Strengths & Weaknesses Their greatest strength lies in emotional depth and the capacity to heal others. They're loyal and protective toward loved ones. However, they can become overly introspective and feel overwhelmed by intensity, leading to withdrawal.

Love In relationships, they're devoted seekers of emotional authenticity over superficiality. They need partners who respect and reciprocate their intense inner worlds. Building trust takes time, yet their loyalty remains unshakeable.

Caree & Finance These individuals thrive in professions requiring empathy: therapy, social work, creative fields. Their instinct for hidden patterns makes them strong strategic thinkers. Financially, they're cautious and prioritize emotional security.

Health Emotional wellbeing forms the foundation of their physical health. They should actively set boundaries to avoid emotional exhaustion. Water activities, meditation, and nature time optimally support their inner balance.

That night, the moon was in its waning crescent phase.

Chinese year of the Snake (Wood).

Fun Facts About 11th July

Name Days in Your Language: Alivia, Helga, Livia, Olga, Olive, Oliver, Olivia, Ollie, Quentin, Quincy, Quinn, Quintina, Quinton

Someone born on this day would be just 327 days old today — roughly 7,849 hours, 470,978 minutes, or 28,258,716 seconds spent on Earth so far.

It's the 192. day of the year. In 2025, 11th July falls on a Friday.

There are 173 days still to come.

We’re currently in Week 28 — the year marches on.

Famous Birthdays on 11th July

On this day, 230 notable people were born on 11th July — spanning from 154 to 2002. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

11/07/2002

Amad, Ivorian footballer

Amad Diallo, sometimes known mononymously as Amad, is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for Premier League club Manchester United and the Ivory Coast national team.

11/07/1997

Ryan Rolison, American baseball player

Ryan Perry Rolison is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Colorado Rockies. He played college baseball for the Ole Miss Rebels and was selected by the Rockies in the first round of the 2018 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut in 2025.

11/07/1996

Alessia Cara, Canadian singer-songwriter

Alessia Caracciolo, known professionally as Alessia Cara, is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She began posting covers of songs on YouTube at age 13. After uploading acoustic covers of songs such as "Love Yourself" and "Sweater Weather" online, she signed with EP Entertainment and Def Jam Recordings in 2014 and released her debut single, "Here", the following year. It peaked at number 19 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart and was a sleeper hit in the US, peaking at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

11/07/1995

Joey Bosa, American football player

Joseph Anthony Bosa is an American professional football defensive end. He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes and was selected third overall by the then San Diego Chargers in the 2016 NFL draft, where he was named NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year. He is the son of former NFL player John Bosa and the older brother of current NFL player Nick Bosa.

Tyler Medeiros, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer

Tyler Medeiros is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and dancer.

11/07/1994

Bartłomiej Kalinkowski, Polish footballer

Bartłomiej Kalinkowski is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for IV liga Masovia club Hutnik Warsaw. He started his senior career with Legia Warsaw.

Anthony Milford, Australian rugby league player

Anthony Milford is a Samoan international rugby league footballer who plays as a five-eighth for the Souths Logan Magpies in the Intrust Super Cup.

Nina Nesbitt, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist

Nina Lindberg Nesbitt is a Scottish singer and musician. She is best known for her UK and Scottish top 40 hit singles "Stay Out" and "Selfies". She also earned further recognition with her rendition of Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop" which was featured in an advert for the department store John Lewis.

Lucas Ocampos, Argentinian footballer

Lucas Ariel Ocampos is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Liga MX club Monterrey.

11/07/1993

Rebecca Bross, American gymnast

Rebecca Marie Bross is an American former artistic gymnast and six-time World Championship medalist.

Heini Salonen, Finnish tennis player

Heini Salonen is a Finnish tennis player.

11/07/1992

Mohamed Elneny, Egyptian footballer

Mohamed Naser Elsayed Elneny is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for UAE Pro League club Al Jazira and the Egypt national team. He is regarded as one of the best Egyptian players in history.

11/07/1990

Mona Barthel, German tennis player

Mona Barthel is a German tennis player. On 18 March 2013, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 23. On 14 September 2015, she peaked at No. 63 in the doubles rankings.

Connor Paolo, American actor

Connor Paolo is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Eric van der Woodsen on the CW's teen drama series Gossip Girl and Declan Porter on the ABC drama series Revenge. He has also appeared in two Oliver Stone films, Alexander (2004) and World Trade Center (2006).

Adam Jezierski, Polish-Spanish actor and singer

Adam Jezierski Ros is a Polish-born actor based in Spain. He is known for playing lead role in the series Física o Química as Gorka Martínez Mora.

Patrick Peterson, American football player

Patrick De'mon Peterson Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback for 13 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the LSU Tigers, where he won the Chuck Bednarik Award as the best defensive player in the country, and the Jim Thorpe Award as the best defensive back. He is regarded as one of the greatest cornerbacks of his era.

Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player

Caroline Wozniacki is a former Danish professional tennis player. She has been ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the WTA, holding the position for a total of 71 weeks. Wozniacki has won 30 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including a major at the 2018 Australian Open as well as the 2017 WTA Finals.

11/07/1989

Tobias Sana, Swedish footballer

Tobias Tigjani Sana is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Superettan club Örgryte IS.

Travis Waddell, Australian rugby league player

Travis Waddell is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who most recently played for the Souths Logan Magpies in the Intrust Super Cup. He plays as a hooker. He previously played for the Canberra Raiders, Newcastle Knights and most recently the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League.

Shimanoumi Koyo, Japanese sumo wrestler

Shimanoumi Kōyō is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Shima, Mie. He debuted in sumo wrestling in July 2012 and made his makuuchi debut in May 2019. His highest rank has been maegashira 3. He wrestles for Kise stable.

11/07/1988

Étienne Capoue, French footballer

Étienne René Capoue is a French former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

Natalie La Rose, Dutch singer, songwriter and dancer

Natalie Delia Louise La Rose is a Dutch singer. In 2013, she signed a recording contract with American rapper Flo Rida's International Music Group imprint and Republic Records. She is best known for her 2015 song "Somebody".

11/07/1987

Shigeaki Kato, Japanese singer

Shigeaki Kato is a Japanese musician, writer, actor and a member of the J-pop group NEWS, from ELOV-Label formerly known as Johnny's Entertainment.

11/07/1986

Raúl García, Spanish footballer

Raúl García Escudero is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or second striker.

Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer

Yoann Miguel Gourcuff is a French former professional footballer who played mainly as an attacking midfielder. He could also be utilized as a withdrawn striker; he was described as a "playmaker of real quality", "an accomplished passer of the ball". He was widely characterized as one of the most promising French youth talents of his generation. His talent, playing style, tenacity on the pitch, technical skills, as well as precocious ability drew comparisons to Zinedine Zidane.

Ryan Jarvis, English footballer

Ryan Robert Jarvis is an English footballer who plays for Southern League Premier Division Central side Leiston, where he plays as a midfielder.

11/07/1985

Robert Adamson, American actor, director, and producer

Robert Gillespie Adamson IV is an American actor and director. He is best known for playing the roles of Charles Antoni on the Freeform series Lincoln Heights , Phil Sanders on the TeenNick series Hollywood Heights (2012), and Noah Newman on the CBS Daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless.

Orestis Karnezis, Greek footballer

Orestis-Spyridon Karnezis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

11/07/1984

Yorman Bazardo, Venezuelan baseball player

Yorman Michael Bazardo Osorio is a Venezuelan former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Florida Marlins, Detroit Tigers and Houston Astros.

Tanith Belbin, Canadian-American ice dancer

Tanith Jessica Louise Belbin White is a Canadian American ice dancer and Olympic program host for NBC Sports. Though born in Canada, she holds dual citizenship and has competed for the United States since she began skating with Benjamin Agosto in 1998. With Agosto, Belbin is the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, four-time World medalist, three-time Four Continents champion (2004–2006), and five-time U.S. champion (2004–2008).

Jacoby Jones, American football player (died 2024)

Jacoby Rashi'd Jones was an American professional football player who was a wide receiver and return specialist in the National Football League (NFL). Selected in the third round of the 2007 NFL draft by the Houston Texans, Jones also played with the Baltimore Ravens, San Diego Chargers, and Pittsburgh Steelers before playing with the Monterrey Steel of the National Arena League in 2017.

Joe Pavelski, American ice hockey player

Joseph James Pavelski is an American former professional ice hockey player who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the San Jose Sharks and Dallas Stars.

Morné Steyn, South African rugby player

Morné Steyn, is a South African former professional rugby union player who played as a fly-half.

11/07/1983

Engin Baytar, German-Turkish footballer

Engin Baytar is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a winger.

Peter Cincotti, American singer-songwriter and pianist

Peter Cincotti is an American singer-songwriter. He began playing piano at the age of three. While in high school, he regularly performed in clubs throughout Manhattan. In 2003, Cincotti's debut album, produced by Phil Ramone, reached No. 1 on the Billboard jazz chart, making Cincotti the youngest musician to do so. This led to performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, L'Olympia, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and the Montreux Jazz Festival where he won an award in the piano competition. Cincotti's style blends pop, rock, blues, and jazz.

Marie Serneholt, Swedish singer and dancer

Marie Eleonor Serneholt is a Swedish singer and model. She is a member of the Swedish pop band A*Teens which reunited in 2024, and briefly pursued a solo recording career after the band disbanded in 2004.

11/07/1982

Chris Cooley, American football player

Christopher Ken Cooley is an American former professional football player who was a tight end for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Utah State Aggies and was selected by the Redskins in the third round of the 2004 NFL draft.

11/07/1981

Andre Johnson, American football player

Andre Lamont Johnson is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for 14 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Houston Texans. He played college football for the Miami Hurricanes, and was selected by the Texans third overall in the 2003 NFL draft. He is 11th all-time in NFL career receptions, and in NFL receiving yards. Playing his first 12 years with Houston, Johnson holds nearly every Texans receiving record. He was also a member of the Indianapolis Colts and Tennessee Titans, playing one season with each team.

Susana Barreiros, Venezuelan judge

Susana Virginia Barreiros Rodríguez is a Venezuelan judge, most notable for leading the case and sentencing against the opposition leader Leopoldo López. She was provisionally designated as Public Defender of Venezuela in 2015, until her resignation, which saw the role being given to Carmen Marisela Castro on 8 January 2019.

11/07/1980

Tyson Kidd, Canadian wrestler

Theodore James "TJ" Wilson, better known by the ring name Tyson Kidd, is a Canadian retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he works as a producer.

Kevin Powers, American soldier and author

Kevin Powers is an American fiction writer, poet, and Iraq War veteran.

11/07/1979

Raio Piiroja, Estonian footballer

Raio Piiroja is an Estonian former professional footballer. He played as a centre-back for Pärnu/Kalev, Lelle, Flora, Vålerenga, Fredrikstad, Vitesse and Chengdu Blades.

11/07/1978

Kathleen Edwards, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Kathleen Margaret Edwards is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. Her 2002 debut album, Failer, contained the singles "Six O'Clock News" and "Hockey Skates". Her next two albums – Back to Me and Asking for Flowers – both made the Billboard 200 list and reached the top 10 of Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart. In 2012, Edwards' fourth studio album, Voyageur, became Edwards' first album to crack the top 100 and top 40 in the U.S., peaking at No. 39 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and No. 2 in Canada. In 2012, Edwards' song "A Soft Place To Land" won the SOCAN Songwriting Prize, an annual competition that honours the best song written and released by 'emerging' songwriters over the past year, as voted by the public. Her musical sound has been compared to Suzanne Vega meets Neil Young.

Massimiliano Rosolino, Italian swimmer

Massimiliano Edgar "Massi" Rosolino is an Italian retired competitive swimmer.

11/07/1977

Brandon Short, American football player and sportscaster

Brandon Darrell Short is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions, earning consensus All-American honors in 1999. He played professionally for the New York Giants and Carolina Panthers of the NFL, and was a member the Giants' team that played in Super Bowl XXXV. He is currently Director of Mergers and Acquisitions at Round Hill Capital in London and a member of the Pennsylvania State University's board of trustees.

11/07/1976

Eduardo Nájera, Mexican-American basketball player and coach

Eduardo Alonso Nájera Pérez is a Mexican former professional basketball player who is currently a scout for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is also a pregame and postgame analyst on Mavericks Live on Fox Sports Southwest. Before being promoted to a scout with the Mavs, he was head coach of the Texas Legends of the NBA D-League. He is regarded as the greatest Mexican basketball player ever.

11/07/1975

Willie Anderson, American football player

Willie Aaron Anderson is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle for the Cincinnati Bengals and Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Auburn Tigers and was selected by the Bengals 10th overall of the 1996 NFL draft. A four-time Pro Bowler and three-time first-team All-Pro selection, Anderson played his first 12 seasons with the Bengals.

Rubén Baraja, Spanish footballer and manager

Rubén Baraja Vegas is a Spanish retired footballer, currently a manager.

11/07/1974

Alanas Chošnau, Lithuanian singer-songwriter

Alanas Chošnau is a Lithuanian singer and songwriter. From 1992–2001 and 2014–2018, he was the frontman of the band Naktinės Personos. From 2001 and 2009 and since 2019, Chošnau successfully developed a solo career. He won the 'Best Performer of the Year', 'Best Song', 'Best Video', 'Golden Disc' in the Lithuanian National Radio Awards. Chošnau is continuously named as one of the most played and most performing artists of Lithuania.

Hermann Hreiðarsson, Icelandic footballer and manager

Hermann Hreiðarsson is an Icelandic former professional football player and coach. He played as a defender and spent 15 seasons in England, gaining a total of 332 appearances in the Premier League.

André Ooijer, Dutch footballer and coach

André Antonius Maria Ooijer is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a defender for PSV, Blackburn Rovers, and Ajax.

Lil' Kim, American rapper and producer

Kimberly Denise Jones, better known by her stage name Lil' Kim, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and model. Referred to as the "Queen of Rap", Lil' Kim is known for her sexually charged lyrics and presence, which influenced women in contemporary hip-hop. She is the second best-selling female rapper of all time with 45 million records sold, and is also a fashion icon for her risk-taking and luxurious approach to fashion.

11/07/1973

Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek runner

Konstantinos "Kostas" Kenteris, also spelled as Konstadinos "Costas" Kederis is a Greek former athlete. He won gold medals in the 200 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics, the 2001 World Championships in Athletics and the 2002 European Championships in Athletics, making him the only European sprinter to win the gold medal in all three major competitions and the only European World Champion in the 200 metres races. Additionally, he has won two gold, three silver and two bronze medals in the European Cup, as well as three gold medals in the 200 metres at the Athens Grand Prix Tsiklitiria. He is also a 14-time golden medalist at the Greek Athletics Championships and a five-time golden medalist at the Greek Indoor Athletics Championships. He withdrew from the 2004 Summer Olympics, held in his home country, after a doping violation.

11/07/1972

Cormac Battle, English-Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Cormac Battle is an Irish musician and radio presenter/producer. He is the vocalist and lead guitarist for the bands Kerbdog and Wilt,. . He Started a new show on RTE Gold from 18th of May, 2026.

Michael Rosenbaum, American actor

Michael Owen Rosenbaum is an American actor and podcaster. He is known for portraying Lex Luthor on the television series Smallville, a role that TV Guide included in their 2013 list of "The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time".

11/07/1971

Leisha Hailey, American singer-songwriter and actress

Leisha Hailey is an American actress and musician known for playing Alice Pieszecki in the Showtime Networks series The L Word and The L Word: Generation Q. Hailey first came to the public's attention as a musician in the pop duo The Murmurs and has continued her music career as part of the band Uh Huh Her. Currently, Hailey hosts podcast PANTS with fellow L Word star and close friend, Kate Moennig.

Scott Muller, Australian cricketer

Scott Andrew Muller is a former Australian and Queensland cricketer of German ancestry.

11/07/1970

Justin Chambers, American actor

Justin Willman Chambers is an American actor and former model best known for his role as Dr. Alex Karev in Grey's Anatomy (2005–2020). Born in Ohio, he went to Southeastern High School, South Charleston, and later studied acting at New York's HB Studio. Chambers began modeling after being approached by a modeling scout in Paris. He went on to represent fashion brands including Calvin Klein, Armani, and Dolce & Gabbana. Chambers began his acting career with a recurring role in the soap opera Another World and made his feature film debut with a supporting role in the comedy drama Liberty Heights (1999).

Sajjad Karim, English lawyer and politician

Sajjad Haider Karim is a British politician. He served as a Member of the European Parliament for the North West England between 2004 and 2019. Karim was one of 10 members of the executive of European Movement UK and Chair of Conservative European Forum Trade.

Eric Owens, American opera singer

Eric Owens is an American operatic bass-baritone. He has performed both in new works and reinterpreted classic repertoire. In 1996 he won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

11/07/1969

Ned Boulting, British sports journalist and television presenter

Norris Edward Boulting is a British sports journalist, television presenter and podcaster best known for his coverage of football, cycling and darts.

11/07/1968

Michael Geist, Canadian journalist and academic

Michael Allen Geist is a Canadian academic, and the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. He is the editor of four books on copyright law and privacy law, and he edits two newsletters on Canadian information technology and privacy law.

Daniel MacMaster, Canadian singer-songwriter (died 2008)

Daniel Stewart MacMaster was a Canadian singer, who was lead vocalist for the Canadian/British hard rock band Bonham.

Esera Tuaolo, American football player

Esera Tavai Tuaolo, nicknamed "Mr. Aloha", is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle for nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon State Beavers.

11/07/1967

Andy Ashby, American baseball player and sportscaster

Andrew Jason Ashby is an American former professional baseball starting pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies, Colorado Rockies, San Diego Padres, Atlanta Braves, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Listed at 6' 1", 180 lb., Ashby batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and is the uncle to Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Aaron Ashby.

Jhumpa Lahiri, Indian American novelist and short story writer

Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri is a British-American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in Italian.

11/07/1966

Nadeem Aslam, Pakistani-English author

Nadeem Aslam FRSL is a British Pakistani novelist. His debut novel, Season of the Rainbirds, won the Betty Trask and the Author's Club First Novel Award. His critically acclaimed second novel Maps for Lost Lovers won Encore Award and Kiriyama Prize; it was shortlisted for International Dublin Literary Award, among others. Colm Tóibín described him as "one of the most exciting and serious British novelists writing now".

Kentaro Miura, Japanese author and illustrator (died 2021)

Kentaro Miura was a Japanese manga artist. He was best known for his dark fantasy series Berserk, which began serialization in 1989. By 2023, Berserk had over 60 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. In 2002, Miura received the Award for Excellence at the sixth Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Rod Strickland, American basketball player and coach

Rodney Strickland is an American basketball coach and former professional player. He is currently the head coach at Long Island University. Prior to LIU, he served as the program manager for the NBA G League's professional path. Strickland played college basketball for the DePaul Blue Demons, earning All-American honors. He had a long career in the National Basketball Association (NBA), playing from 1988 to 2005. Strickland was an assistant coach for the South Florida Bulls, under Orlando Antigua from 2014 to 2017. He formerly served in an administrative role for the University of Kentucky basketball team under head coach John Calipari and was the director of basketball operations at the University of Memphis under Calipari. He is the godfather of current NBA player Kyrie Irving. Strickland was inducted into the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame with the Class of 2008.

Ricky Warwick, Northern Irish musician

Ricky Warwick is a Northern Irish musician and the lead singer of the rock bands Black Star Riders and Thin Lizzy. He is also the frontman for the Scottish hard rock band The Almighty, with whom he achieved chart success in the UK throughout the 1990s. Warwick has released several solo albums and performed with a variety of other bands and artists, and also fronts his own band, The Fighting Hearts, to showcase his solo material.

11/07/1965

Tony Cottee, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster

Antony Richard Cottee is an English former professional footballer and manager who now works as a television football commentator.

Ernesto Hoost, Dutch kick-boxer and sportscaster

Ernesto Frits Hoost is a Dutch retired professional kickboxer. A four-time K-1 World Champion, Hoost is considered to be one of the greatest kickboxers of all time. Debuting in 1993 at the K-1 World Grand Prix 1993, where he came just one win short of the world title, Hoost announced his retirement thirteen years later on 2 December 2006 after the K-1 World GP Final tournament in Tokyo Dome, Japan. Hoost holds notable victories over Peter Aerts (4x), Branko Cikatić, Mirko Cro Cop (3x), Jérôme Le Banner (3x), Andy Hug (3x), Ray Sefo (3x), Musashi (2x), Mike Bernardo, Francisco Filho (2x), Sam Greco, Stefan Leko (3x), Mark Hunt, Cyril Abidi, and Glaube Feitosa.

Scott Shriner, American singer-songwriter and bass player

Scott Gardner Shriner is an American musician best known as a member of the rock band Weezer, with whom he has recorded twelve studio albums. Joining the band in 2001, Shriner is the band's longest serving bass guitarist.

11/07/1964

Craig Charles, English actor and TV presenter

Craig Joseph Charles is an English actor, comedian, presenter and DJ. He is best known for his roles as Dave Lister in the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf and Lloyd Mullaney in the soap opera Coronation Street (2005–2015). He presented the gladiator-style game show Robot Wars from 1998 to 2004, and narrated the comedy endurance show Takeshi's Castle. As a DJ, he appears on BBC Radio 6 Music.

11/07/1963

Al MacInnis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Allan MacInnis is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who was a defenceman for 23 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Calgary Flames (1981–1994) and St. Louis Blues (1994–2004). A first round selection of the Flames in the 1981 NHL entry draft, he went on to become a twelve-time All-Star. He was named the Conn Smythe Trophy winner as the most valuable player of the playoffs in 1989 after leading the Flames to the Stanley Cup championship. He was voted the winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 1999 as the top defenceman in the league while a member of the Blues. In 2017, MacInnis was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.

Dean Richards, English rugby player and coach

Dean Richards is a rugby union coach and former player for Leicester Tigers, England and British & Irish Lions. He was most recently the Director of Rugby at Newcastle Falcons, a position he held for ten years between 2012 and 2022.

Lisa Rinna, American actress and talk show host

Lisa Rinna is an American actress, television personality, author, and model. She portrayed Billie Reed on the NBC daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives and Taylor McBride on Fox's television drama Melrose Place. Between 2014 and 2022, Rinna starred on Bravo's reality television series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Other television credits include being a contestant on NBC's The Celebrity Apprentice, ABC's Dancing with the Stars, and Peacock's The Traitors, as well as guest-starring roles on Entourage, Hannah Montana, Veronica Mars, Community, The Middle, and American Horror Stories. Rinna made her Broadway debut in Chicago as Roxie Hart in June 2007.

11/07/1962

Gaétan Duchesne, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2007)

Gaétan Joseph Pierre Duchesne was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played with the Washington Capitals, Minnesota North Stars, San Jose Sharks and Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League (NHL). He retired in 1995, then returned in 1996 and became a player-coach with the Quebec Rafales of the International Hockey League and later after retiring again in 1998, an assistant coach with the Quebec Remparts of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.

Pauline McLynn, Irish actress and author

Pauline McLynn is an Irish character actress and author. She is best known for her roles as Mrs. Doyle in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted, Libby Croker in the Channel 4 comedy drama Shameless, Tip Haddem in the BBC One comedy Jam & Jerusalem, Yvonne Cotton in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, and Maggie Driscoll in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street.

Fumiya Fujii, Japanese music artist

Fumiya Fujii is a Japanese musician, actor and former lead singer of The Checkers born in Kurume. His younger brother is Naoyuki Fujii, a musician and former sax player for The Checkers. His eldest son is Fuji TV announcer Kōki Fujii. He formerly belonged to Yamaha Music Foundation and Three Star Pro, and now he is part of a private agency, FFM Co.

11/07/1961

Antony Jenkins, English banker and businessman

Antony Peter Jenkins is a British business executive. Since 2016 he has been the chief executive officer of 10x Future Technologies, which he founded. He was the group chief executive of Barclays from August 2012 until July 2015. Jenkins is the current Chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University.

11/07/1960

David Baerwald, American singer-songwriter, composer, and musician

David Francis Baerwald is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and musician.

Caroline Quentin, English actress

Caroline Quentin is an English actress, broadcaster and television presenter. Quentin became known for her television appearances, portraying Dorothy in Men Behaving Badly (1992–1998), Maddie Magellan in Jonathan Creek (1997–2000), Kate Salinger in Kiss Me Kate (1998-2000) and DCI Janine Lewis in Blue Murder (2003–2009).

11/07/1959

Richie Sambora, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Richard Stephen Sambora is an American musician, songwriter and singer. He was a member of the rock band Bon Jovi from 1983 to 2013. Sambora was the band's lead guitarist; he also provided backing vocals and played a major role in the band's songwriting. In 2018, Sambora was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Bon Jovi. He reunited with his former bandmates for a performance at the induction ceremony.

Suzanne Vega, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Suzanne Nadine Vega is an American singer-songwriter of folk-inspired music. Vega's music career spans 40 years. In the mid-1980s and 1990s, she released four singles that entered the Top 40 on the UK singles chart, "Marlene on the Wall", "Left of Center", "Luka" and "No Cheap Thrill".

11/07/1958

Stephanie Dabney, American ballerina (died 2022)

Stephanie Renee Dabney was an American dancer who performed as a prima ballerina with Dance Theatre of Harlem from 1979 through 1994. Dabney is best known for her performances in John Taras' The Firebird, which she performed all over the world, as well as at the opening ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Mark Lester, English actor

Mark Lester is an English former child actor who starred in a number of British and European films in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1968 he played the title role in the film Oliver!, a musical version of the stage production by Lionel Bart based on Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist. He also made several appearances in many British television series. In 1977, after appearing in The Prince and the Pauper, an all-star international action adventure film, he retired from acting. In the 1980s, he trained as an osteopath specialising in sports injuries.

Hugo Sánchez, Mexican footballer, coach, and manager

Hugo Sánchez Márquez is a Mexican former professional footballer and manager, who played as a forward. A prolific goalscorer known for his spectacular strikes and volleys, he is widely regarded as the greatest Mexican footballer of all time, one of the best players of his generation, and one of the greatest strikers of all time. In 1999, the International Federation of Football History and Statistics voted Sánchez the 26th best footballer of the 20th century, and the best footballer from the CONCACAF region. In 2004, Sánchez was named in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players.

11/07/1957

Johann Lamont, Scottish educator and politician

Johann MacDougall Lamont is a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2011 to 2014. She was previously a junior Scottish Executive minister from 2004 to 2007 and Deputy Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2008 until her election to the leadership in 2011. In addition to her ministerial and leadership roles, she has been a campaigner on equality issues and violence against women throughout her political career.

Peter Murphy, English singer-songwriter

Peter John Joseph Murphy is an English singer and songwriter. He is the vocalist for the post-punk band Bauhaus, which he co-founded with Daniel Ash in 1978. After Bauhaus disbanded, Murphy formed Dalis Car with Japan's bassist Mick Karn and released one album, The Waking Hour (1984). He went on to release a number of solo albums, including Should the World Fail to Fall Apart (1986) and Love Hysteria (1988).

Patsy O'Hara, Irish Republican hunger striker (died 1981)

Patsy O'Hara was an Irish republican hunger striker and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). O'Hara was one of 10 Irish republicans who died in the 1981 hunger strike.

Michael Rose, Jamaican singer-songwriter

Michael Rose is a Jamaican reggae singer. He is most widely known for a successful tenure as the lead singer for Black Uhuru from 1977 to 1984, followed by a lengthy solo career. He has been praised as "one of Jamaica's most distinguished singers" and for launching a distinctive form of reggae singing that originated in his home neighborhood of Waterhouse in Kingston.

11/07/1956

Amitav Ghosh, Indian-American author and academic

Amitav Ghosh is an American writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia. He has written historical fiction and non-fiction works discussing topics such as colonialism and climate change.

Robin Renucci, French actor and director

Robin Renucci is a French film and television actor and film director.

Sela Ward, American actress

Sela Ann Ward is an American actress. Her breakthrough TV role was as Teddy Reed in the NBC drama series Sisters (1991–96), for which she received her first Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1994. She received her second Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for the leading role of Lily Manning in the ABC drama series Once and Again (1999–2002). Ward later had the recurring role of Stacy Warner in the Fox medical drama House, also starred as Jo Danville in the CBS police procedural CSI: NY (2010–13) and starred as Dana Mosier in the CBS police procedural series FBI (2018–19).

11/07/1955

Balaji Sadasivan, Singaporean neurosurgeon and politician, Singaporean Minister of Health (died 2010)

Balaji Sadasivan was a Singaporean politician and neurosurgeon. He attended Raffles Institution, Siglap Secondary School and National Junior College, and studied medicine at the University of Singapore. After graduating in 1979, he continued his education at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in 1984. He also trained at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, from 1985 to 1989, and became a Fellow of Harvard University in 1990. He worked as a neurosurgeon until 2001, publishing over 50 book chapters and journal articles.

11/07/1954

Julia King, English engineer and academic

Julia Elizabeth King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge is a British engineer and a crossbench member of the House of Lords, where she chairs the Select Committee on Science and Technology. She is the incumbent chair of the Carbon Trust and the Henry Royce Institute, and was the vice-chancellor of Aston University from 2006 to 2016.

11/07/1953

Piyasvasti Amranand, Thai businessman and politician, Thai Minister of Energy

Piyasvasti Amranand, born 11 July 1953) is a former Thailand's Energy Minister between 9 October 2006 and 6 February 2008. He is former Secretary-General of the Thai National Energy Policy Office, Chairman of Kasikorn Asset Management, and Chairman of the Panel of Advisors to the CEO of Kasikornbank. He was President of Thai Airways International between October 2009 and June 2012 and Chairman of PTT Public Company Limited between July 2014 and 2018. He is currently Chairman of PTT Global Chemical plc., board member of Kasikorn Bank, board member of Pruksa Holding plc., and Chairman of Thai Airways Rehabilitation Plan Administrator. Piyasvasti plays active roles in three non-profit organizations as a founding and core member of the Energy Reform for Sustainability Group (ERS); Chairman of the Energy for Environment Foundation, a non-profit organization undertaking renewable energy and energy efficiency projects; and as president of the Ski and Snowboard Association of Thailand.

Angélica Aragón, Mexican film, television, and stage actress and singer

Angélica Espinoza Stransky, known professionally as Angélica Aragón, is a Mexican film, television, and stage actress and singer. She is the daughter of Mexican composer José Ángel Espinoza ("Ferrusquilla"). Aragón is recognized for her performances in various Mexican films such as Cilantro y perejil (1997), Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (1999), and El crimen del Padre Amaro (2002), as well as in American productions like A Walk in the Clouds (1995) and Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2002). She is also well known for starring in two notable Mexican telenovelas: Vivir un poco (1985) and Mirada de mujer (1997).

Peter Brown, American singer-songwriter and producer

Peter Brown is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Brown was a popular performer in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His biggest success was the release of the LP in 1977 called A Fantasy Love Affair which produced the disco hits "Do Ya Wanna Get Funky with Me" and "Dance With Me". He wrote, with Robert Rans, Madonna's hit "Material Girl".

Suresh Prabhu, Indian accountant and politician, Indian Minister of Railways

Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu is an Indian politician. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1996 to 2009, representing Rajapur in the Lok Sabha. He was also a member of the Rajya Sabha, representing Andhra Pradesh and Haryana from 2014 to 2022. Prabhu was PM Narendra Modi's Sherpa for the Group of 20 annual summit 2014-2015.

Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Mexican actress, director, and producer

Patricia Verónica Núñez Reyes Spíndola is a Mexican actress, director, and producer. She has received four Ariel Awards, two for Best Actress, and two for Supporting Actress.

Leon Spinks, American boxer (died 2021)

Leon Spinks was an American professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 1995. In only his eighth professional fight, he won the undisputed heavyweight championship in 1978 after defeating Muhammad Ali in a split decision, in what is considered one of the biggest upsets in heavyweight boxing history. Spinks was later stripped of the WBC title for facing Ali in an unapproved rematch seven months later, which he lost by a unanimous decision.

Mindy Sterling, American actress

Mindy Lee Sterling is an American actress. She is primarily known as a character actress who has amassed multiple live action and voice-over credits across film and television. Her accolades include nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards.

Ivan Toms, South African physician and activist (died 2008)

Ivan Peter Toms was a South African physician, who battled the Apartheid era government as a prominent anti-Apartheid and anti-conscription activist. He opposed conscription by the South African Defence Force, and was a co-founder of the End Conscription Campaign. He ran a clinic in the Crossroads shanty town where he was the only physician for 60,000 people. He went on a hunger strike in 1985 after the government decided to bulldoze the settlement. Toms was also involved with gay rights activism in South Africa and was a founding member of the Lesbians and Gays Against Oppression. At the time of his death in 2008, Toms was serving as the Director of Health for the city of Cape Town, South Africa.

Bramwell Tovey, English-Canadian conductor and composer (died 2022)

Bramwell Tovey was a British conductor and composer.

Paul Weiland, English director, producer, and screenwriter

Paul Weiland OBE is an English film and television director, writer, and producer. Weiland is a director and producer of television commercials in the UK, having made over 500 commercials, including a popular and long-running series for Walkers crisps. He has also directed several British television series, including Alas Smith and Jones (1989–1992) and Mr. Bean (1991–1992). His feature film credits include Made of Honor (2008), Sixty Six (2006), Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999), Roseanna's Grave (1997), City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994) and Leonard Part 6 (1987).

11/07/1952

Bill Barber, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

William Charles Barber is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played twelve seasons for the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League (NHL). As part of the famed LCB line, Barber helped lead the Flyers to the franchise's two Stanley Cups in 1974 and 1975. His 53 goals in the Stanley Cup playoffs for the Flyers remains a franchise record that he shares with Rick MacLeish. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1990. He is currently a scouting consultant with the Flyers.

Stephen Lang, American actor and playwright

Stephen Lang is an American stage and screen actor. He gained fame for his role as Colonel Miles Quaritch in James Cameron's Avatar (2009), for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. Lang reprised the role in the sequels.

11/07/1951

Ed Ott, American baseball player and coach (died 2024)

Nathan Edward Ott, nicknamed "Otter", was an American professional baseball player, coach, and manager. He played as a catcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1974 to 1981 for the Pittsburgh Pirates and the California Angels. Ott was a member of the 1979 World Series champions with the Pirates. After his playing career, Ott was a coach for the Houston Astros and Detroit Tigers.

11/07/1950

Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistani physicist and academic

Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy is a Pakistani nuclear physicist and author. He has been considered by many as one of the most vocal, progressive and liberal member of the Pakistani intelligentsia. Hoodbhoy is known for his opposition to nuclear weapons and vocal defence of secularism, freedom of speech, scientific temper and education in Pakistan.

J. R. Morgan, Welsh author and academic

John Robert Morgan FLSW is a British academic working at Swansea University in Wales. He is primarily known for writing books on Classics, and for contributing to a number of journals, often with colourful views.

Bonnie Pointer, American singer (died 2020)

Patricia Eva "Bonnie" Pointer was an American singer and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the vocal group the Pointer Sisters. Pointer scored several moderate solo hits after leaving the Pointer Sisters in 1977, including a disco cover of the Elgins' "Heaven Must Have Sent You" which peaked at number 11 on September 1, 1979.

11/07/1947

Jeff Hanna, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer

Jeffrey R. Hanna is an American singer-songwriter and performance musician, best known for his association with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. His professional music career has spanned six decades.

Norman Lebrecht, English author and critic

Norman Lebrecht is a British music journalist best known as the owner of the classical music blog Slipped Disc. His writings have been accused of sensationalism and criticized for their inaccuracies and tendency to gossip, while others have praised them as entertaining. Unlike other writers on music, Lebrecht rarely reviews concerts or recordings, preferring to report on the people and organizations who engage in classical music. He was described by Gilbert Kaplan as "surely the most controversial and arguably the most influential journalist covering classical music".

Bo Lundgren, Swedish politician

Bo Axel Magnus Lundgren is a Swedish politician who served as the leader of the Moderate Party from 1999 to 2003. Lundgren also served as Minister for Sports from 1991 to 1994 and Director-General of the Swedish National Debt Office from 2004 to 2013.

11/07/1946

Martin Wong, American painter (died 1999)

Martin Wong was a Chinese-American painter of the late 20th century. His work has been described as a meticulous blend of social realism and visionary art styles. Wong's paintings often explored multiple ethnic and racial identities, exhibited cross-cultural elements, demonstrated multilingualism, and celebrated his queer sexuality. He exhibited for two decades at notable New York galleries including EXIT ART, Semaphore, and P.P.O.W., among others, before his death in San Francisco from an AIDS-related illness. P.P.O.W. continues to represent his estate.

11/07/1944

Lou Hudson, American basketball player and coach (died 2014)

Louis Clyde Hudson was an American National Basketball Association (NBA) player, who was an All-American at the University of Minnesota and a six-time NBA All-Star, scoring 17,940 total points in 13 NBA seasons.

Michael Levy, Baron Levy, English philanthropist

Michael Abraham Levy, Baron Levy, is a British life peer and former chartered accountant who was chairman and CEO of a large independent group of music companies. A long-standing friend of former prime minister Tony Blair, Levy was the chief fundraiser for the Labour Party under Blair and spent nine years as Blair's special envoy to the Middle East.

Patricia Polacco, American author and illustrator

Patricia Barber Polacco is an American author and illustrator. Throughout her school years, Polacco struggled to learn to read but found relief by expressing herself through art. Polacco endured teasing and hid her disability until a school teacher recognized she could not read and began to help her. Her book Thank You, Mr. Falker is Polacco's retelling of this encounter and its outcome. She also wrote such books as Mr. Lincoln's Way and The Lemonade Club.

11/07/1943

Richard Carleton, Australian journalist (died 2006)

Richard George Carleton was a multiple Logie Award–winning Australian television journalist.

Howard Gardner, American psychologist and academic

Howard Earl Gardner is an American developmental psychologist and the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard University. He was a founding member of Harvard Project Zero in 1967 and held leadership roles at that research center from 1972 to 2023. Since 1995, he has been the co-director of The Good Project.

Tom Holland, American actor, director, and screenwriter

Thomas Lee Holland is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and former actor. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, penning the screenplay for Psycho II (1983), the sequel to the classic Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho; writing and directing the cult vampire film Fright Night (1985); and directing and co-writing Child's Play (1988), the first entry in the long-running Child's Play franchise. He also wrote and directed the Stephen King adaptations The Langoliers (1995) and Thinner (1996), and directed an episode of Masters of Horror (2007). Holland is a Saturn Award recipient for Best Writing for Fright Night, which also won the Avoriaz Dario Argento Award and the Fantasporto Critics' Award.

Peter Jensen, Australian metropolitan

Peter Frederick Jensen is a retired Australian Anglican bishop, theologian and academic. From 1985 to 2001, he was principal of Moore Theological College. From 2001 to 2013, he was the Archbishop of Sydney and Metropolitan of the Province of New South Wales in the Anglican Church of Australia. He retired on his 70th birthday, 11 July 2013. In late 2007, Jensen was one of the founding members of the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), which he served as General Secretary. He stepped down in early 2019 and was succeeded by Benjamin Kwashi, former archbishop of Jos in Nigeria.

Robert Malval, Haitian businessman and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Haiti

Robert Malval is the former prime minister of Haiti. He served from 30 August 1993 to 8 November 1994. He was preceded by Marc Bazin and was succeeded by Smarck Michel.

Rolf Stommelen, German racing driver (died 1983)

Rolf Johann Stommelen was a German racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1969 to 1978. In endurance racing, Stommelen was a four-time winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona with Porsche.

11/07/1942

Darrell Eastlake, Australian sportscaster (died 2018)

Darrell Eastlake was an Australian radio and television presenter, commentator and sports journalist, best known for his long association with the Nine Network. Prior to his media career, Eastlake worked as a Qantas baggage handler, before making surfboards and running a surf shop. His career in broadcasting began in the 1960s when he gave surf reports on Sydney radio station 2UW.

11/07/1941

Bill Boggs, American journalist and producer

William Boggs III is an American television host and journalist.

Henry Lowther, English trumpet player

Thomas Henry Lowther is an English jazz trumpeter who also plays violin.

11/07/1937

Pai Hsien-yung, Chinese-Taiwanese author

Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai is a Taiwanese writer who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer". He was born in Guilin, Guangxi at the cusp of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Pai's father was the Kuomintang (KMT) general Bai Chongxi, whom he later described as a "stern, Confucian father" with "some soft spots in his heart." Pai was diagnosed with tuberculosis at the age of seven, during which time he would have to live in a separate house from his siblings. He lived with his family in Chongqing, Shanghai, and Nanjing before moving to the British-controlled Hong Kong in 1948 as CCP forces turned the tide of the Chinese Civil War. In 1952, Pai and his family resettled in Taiwan, where the KMT had relocated the Republic of China after defeat by the Communists in 1949.

11/07/1935

Frederick Hemke, American saxophonist and educator (died 2019)

Frederick L. Hemke (né Fred LeRoy Hemke Jr.; July 11, 1935 – April 17, 2019) was an American virtuoso classical saxophonist and influential professor of saxophone at Northwestern University. Hemke helped increase the popularity of classical saxophone, particularly among leading American composers, and raised recognition of the classical saxophone in solo, chamber, and major orchestral repertoire throughout the world. Throughout his career, Hemke built American saxophone repertoire through many composers including Muczynski, Creston, Stein, Heiden, and Karlins.

Oliver Napier, Northern Irish lawyer and politician (died 2011)

Sir Oliver Napier was the first leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. In 1974 he served as the first and only Legal Minister and head of the Office of Legal Reform in the Northern Ireland power-sharing executive set up by the Sunningdale Agreement.

11/07/1934

Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer, founded the Armani Company (died 2025)

Giorgio Armani was an Italian fashion designer and founder of the Armani luxury fashion house. Widely regarded as among the most influential designers in contemporary fashion, Armani initially gained recognition for his work with fashion house Cerruti 1881, before founding his own label in 1975. He became known for minimalist, deconstructed silhouettes—especially his jackets and suits—which are said to have redefined masculine and feminine elegance in a contemporary form. Armani also played a pivotal role in shaping celebrity style, particularly red-carpet fashion. By the early 2000s, he was recognized as the most successful Italian designer, with his brand expanding into music, sport, and luxury hotels.

Clark R. Rasmussen, American politician (died 2024)

Clark Ray Rasmussen was an American politician who represented Polk County in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1965 to 1967 as a member of the Democratic Party.

11/07/1933

Jim Carlen, American football player and coach (died 2012)

James Anthony Carlen III was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at West Virginia University (1966–1969) and Texas Tech University (1970–1974). He served as both the head football coach and athletic director of the University of South Carolina (1975–1981). Carlen compiled an overall career college football record of 107–69–6.

Frank Kelso, American admiral and politician, United States Secretary of the Navy (died 2013)

Frank Benton Kelso II was an admiral of the United States Navy, who served as Chief of Naval Operations from 1990 to 1994.

11/07/1932

Alex Hassilev, French-born American folk singer and musician (died 2024)

Alex Hassilev was an American folk musician who was one of the founding members of the group The Limeliters. Educated at Harvard and the University of Chicago, he was also an actor with a number of film and television appearances to his credit. As a musician he played the guitar and the banjo and was fluent in several languages. After retiring from the Limeliters, Hassilev remained active in the field of record production.

Jean-Guy Talbot, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2024)

Jean-Guy Talbot was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and coach who played 17 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL).

11/07/1931

Dick Gray, American baseball player (died 2013)

Richard Benjamin Gray was an American professional baseball player. He was an infielder in Major League Baseball, playing mainly as a third baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals from 1958 through 1960. Listed at 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and 165 pounds (75 kg), he batted and threw right handed.

Thurston Harris, American doo-wop singer (died 1990)

Thurston Harris was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his 1957 hit "Little Bitty Pretty One".

Tab Hunter, American actor and singer (died 2018)

Tab Hunter was an American actor, singer, film producer, and author. Known for his blond hair and clean-cut good looks, Hunter starred in more than forty films. During the 1950s and 1960s, Hunter was a Hollywood heartthrob, acting in numerous roles and appearing on the covers of hundreds of magazines. His notable screen credits include Battle Cry (1955), The Girl He Left Behind (1956), Gunman's Walk (1958), Damn Yankees (1958), Polyester (1981), and Lust in the Dust (1985). Hunter also had a music career in the late 1950s; in 1957, he released the no. 1 hit single "Young Love". Hunter's 2005 autobiography, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, was a New York Times bestseller.

Tullio Regge, Italian physicist and academic (died 2014)

Tullio Eugenio Regge was an Italian theoretical physicist.

11/07/1930

Jack Alabaster, New Zealand cricketer (died 2024)

John Chaloner Alabaster was a New Zealand cricketer who played 21 Test matches for the country's national team between 1955 and 1972. A leg-spin bowler, he was the only New Zealander to play in each of the country's first four Test victories. In domestic cricket, he was often partnered at the crease for his provincial side Otago by his younger brother Gren, who bowled off-spin. A schoolteacher, he later served as Rector of Southland Boys' High School in Invercargill.

Harold Bloom, American literary critic (died 2019)

Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world". After publishing his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than 50 books, including over 40 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm. Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1995.

Mike Foster, American politician, 53rd Governor of Louisiana (died 2020)

Murphy James "Mike" Foster Jr. was an American businessman and politician who served as the 53rd governor of Louisiana from 1996 to 2004.

Trevor Storer, English businessman, founded Pukka Pies (died 2013)

Trevor Storer was a British businessman and founder of the Pukka Pies company in 1963, which was originally called Trevor Storer's Home Made Pies. He was the author of Bread Salesmanship, which became the training manual for Allied Bakeries in the 1960s. Originally making his pies in his own home, he built the company up until retiring at the age of 65, but remained chairman until his death. As of his time of his death, the company turned over £40 million a year.

Ezra Vogel, American sociologist (died 2020)

Ezra Feivel Vogel was an American sociologist who wrote on modern Japan, China, and Korea. He was Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.

11/07/1929

Danny Flores, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (died 2006)

Daniel Flores, also known by his stage name Chuck Rio, was an American rock and roll saxophonist. He is best remembered for his self-penned song "Tequila", which he recorded with The Champs, the band of which he was a member at the time, and which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

David Kelly, Irish actor (died 2012)

David Kelly was an Irish actor who had regular roles in several film and television works from the 1950s onwards. One of the most recognisable voices and faces of Irish stage and screen, he was known for his roles as Rashers Tierney in Strumpet City, Cousin Enda in Me Mammy, the builder Mr. O'Reilly in Fawlty Towers, Albert Riddle in Robin's Nest, and Grandpa Joe in the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). Another notable role was as Michael O'Sullivan in Waking Ned.

11/07/1928

Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone, Welsh-English lawyer and politician (died 2015)

Greville Ewan Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone, was a British politician, barrister and writer. He became a Labour Party Member of Parliament for Leicester in the 1970 general election as a last-minute candidate, succeeding his father. He was an MP until 1997, and then elevated to the House of Lords. Never a frontbencher, Janner was particularly known for his work on Select Committees; he chaired the Select Committee on Employment for a time. He was associated with a number of Jewish organisations including the Board of Deputies of British Jews, of which he was chairman from 1978 to 1984, and was later prominent in the field of education about the Holocaust.

Bobo Olson, American boxer (died 2002)

Carl "Bobo" Olson was an American boxer. He was the World Middleweight champion between October 1953 and December 1955, the longest reign of any champion in that division during the 1950s. His nickname was based on his younger sister's mispronunciation of "brother".

Andrea Veneracion, Filipina choirmaster (died 2014)

Andrea Ofilada Veneracion was a Filipino choral conductor and a recipient of the 1999 National Artist for Music award. She founded the Philippine Madrigal Singers in 1963. She was also an adjudicator in numerous international choral competitions and was an active force in choral music before her massive stroke in 2005.

11/07/1927

Theodore Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer (died 2007)

Theodore Harold Maiman was an American engineer and physicist who is widely credited with the invention of the laser. Maiman's laser led to the subsequent development of many other types of lasers. The laser was successfully fired on May 16, 1960. In a July 7, 1960, press conference in Manhattan, Maiman and his employer, Hughes Aircraft Company, announced the laser to the world. Maiman was granted a patent for his invention, and he received many awards and honors for his work. His experiences in developing the first laser and subsequent related events are recounted in his book, The Laser Odyssey, later being republished in 2018 under a new title, The Laser Inventor: Memoirs of Theodore H. Maiman.

Chris Leonard, English footballer (died 1987)

Christopher Leonard was an English footballer who made 26 appearances in the Football League playing as a centre half for Darlington in the 1950s. He also played non-league football for South Shields. He died in Wearhead, County Durham in 1987.

Herbert Blomstedt, Swedish conductor

Herbert Thorson Blomstedt is an American-born Swedish conductor of classical music. At the age of 98, he continues to conduct concerts in Europe, the United States and Japan.

11/07/1926

Frederick Buechner, American minister, theologian, and author (died 2022)

Carl Frederick Buechner was an American author, Presbyterian minister, preacher, and theologian. The author of thirty-nine published books, his career spanned more than six decades and encompassed many different genres. He wrote novels, including Godric , A Long Day's Dying and The Book of Bebb, his memoirs, including The Sacred Journey, and theological works, such as Secrets in the Dark, The Magnificent Defeat, and Telling the Truth.

11/07/1925

Charles Chaynes, French composer (died 2016)

Charles Augustin Chaynes was a French composer.

Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (died 2017)

Harry Gustaf Nikolai Gädda, better known as Nicolai Gedda, was a Swedish operatic tenor. Debuting in 1951, Gedda had a long and successful career in opera until the age of 77 in June 2003, when he made his final operatic recording. Skilled at languages, he performed operas in French, Russian, German, Italian, English, Czech and Swedish, as well as one in Latin. In January 1958, he created the role of Anatol in the world premiere of Samuel Barber's Vanessa at the Metropolitan Opera. Having made some two hundred recordings, Gedda is one of the most widely recorded opera singers in history. His singing is best known for its beauty of tone, vocal control, and musical perception.

Peter Kyros, American lawyer and politician (died 2012)

Peter Nicholas Kyros was an American attorney, politician, and lobbyist who served as a Democratic U.S. representative from Maine from 1967 to 1975.

Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2004)

Sidney James Smith was a National Hockey League left winger who played with the Toronto Maple Leafs for 12 seasons. He was the Leafs team captain from 1955 to 1956.

11/07/1924

César Lattes, Brazilian physicist and academic (died 2005)

Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes, also known as César Lattes, was a Brazilian experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a subatomic particle composed of a quark and an antiquark.

Brett Somers, Canadian-American actress and singer (died 2007)

Brett Somers was a Canadian-American game-show personality, actress, and singer. Somers was best known as a panelist on the 1970s game show Match Game and for her recurring role as Blanche Madison opposite her real-life husband, actor Jack Klugman, on ABC's The Odd Couple.

Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer and manager (died 1971)

Charles Patrick Tully was a Northern Irish football player and manager who played for Celtic.

Oscar Wyatt, American businessman (died 2025)

Oscar Sherman Wyatt Jr. was an American businessman and self made millionaire. He was the founder of Coastal Corporation and a decorated bomber pilot in World War II. In 2007 the U.S. federal court in Manhattan tried him for illegally sending payments to Iraq under the Oil-for-Food Program.

11/07/1923

Richard Pipes, Polish-American historian and academic (died 2018)

Richard Edgar Pipes was an American historian who specialized in Russian and Soviet history. Pipes was a frequent interviewee in the press on the matters of Soviet history and foreign affairs. His writings also appear in Commentary, The New York Times, and The Times Literary Supplement.

Tun Tun, Indian actress and comedian (died 2003)

Uma Devi Khatri, popularly known by her screen name Tun Tun, was an Indian playback singer and actress-comedian. She is often referred to as "Hindi cinema's first-ever comedienne".

11/07/1922

Gene Evans, American actor (died 1998)

Eugene Barton Evans was an American actor who appeared in numerous television series, television films, and feature films between 1947 and 1989.

Fritz Riess, German-Swiss racing driver (died 1991)

Friedrich "Fritz" Riess or Rieß was a racing driver from Germany. He participated in one "Formula One" World Championship Grand Prix, the 1952 German Grand Prix on 3 August 1952, then run to Formula Two rules. He finished seventh, scoring no championship points as only the first five finishers scored points at that time.

11/07/1920

Yul Brynner, Russian-American actor and dancer (died 1985)

Yuliy Borisovich Briner, known professionally as Yul Brynner, was a Russian and American actor. He was known for his portrayal of King Mongkut in the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical The King and I (1951), for which he won two Tony Awards, and later an Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1956 film adaptation. He played the role 4,625 times on stage, and became known for his shaved head, which he maintained as a personal trademark long after adopting it for The King and I.

Zecharia Sitchin, Russian-American author (died 2010)

Zecharia Sitchin was an author of a number of books proposing an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts. Sitchin attributed the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Anunnaki, which he claimed was a race of extraterrestrials from a planet beyond Neptune called Nibiru. He claimed that Sumerian mythology suggests that this hypothetical planet of Nibiru is in an elongated, 3,600-year-long elliptical orbit around the Sun. Sitchin's books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than 25 languages.

11/07/1918

Venetia Burney, English educator, who named Pluto (died 2009)

Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney was an English accountant and teacher. She is remembered as the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the dwarf planet discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. At the time, she was 11 years old.

Roy Krenkel, American illustrator (died 1983)

Roy Gerald Krenkel, who often signed his work RGK, was an American illustrator who specialized in fantasy and historical drawings and paintings for books, magazines and comic books.

11/07/1916

Mortimer Caplin, American tax attorney, educator, and IRS Commissioner (died 2019)

Mortimer Maxwell Caplin was an American lawyer and educator, and the founding member of Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered. He served under President John F. Kennedy on the Task Force on Taxation and later as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. In 1963, he appeared on the cover of Time magazine, which credited him as a leading tax expert working closely with Treasury Secretary Henry H. Fowler. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy and took part in the invasion of Normandy. Later he served as an adjunct professor at The George Washington University Law School and the University of Miami School of Law. His contributions were recognized with numerous honors, including the Légion d'honneur awarded by the President of the French Republic.

Hans Maier, Dutch water polo player (died 2018)

Hans Maier was a Dutch water polo player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. Born in Madioen, Dutch East Indies, he was part of the Dutch team which finished fifth in the 1936 tournament, playing in all seven matches. He died in November 2018 at the age of 102.

Alexander Prokhorov, Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2002)

Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov was an Australian-born Soviet physicist and researcher whose work focused on quantum electronics. His most famous and well-known works were on optics and electromagnetic research. He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov for his fundamental work that led to the development of the laser and the maser.

Reg Varney, English actor and screenwriter (died 2008)

Reginald Alfred Varney was an English actor, entertainer and comedian. He is best remembered for having played the lead role of bus driver Stan Butler in the LWT sitcom On the Buses (1969–1973) and its three spin-off feature films. Having performed as a music hall entertainer, Varney first came to national recognition as factory foreman Reg Turner in the BBC sitcom The Rag Trade (1961–1963). He appeared in further sitcoms including Beggar My Neighbour (1966–1968) and On the Buses stardom facilitated overseas cabaret tours.

Gough Whitlam, Australian lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia (died 2014)

Edward Gough Whitlam was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from December 1972 to November 1975. To date the longest-serving federal leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was notable for being the head of a reformist and socially progressive government that ended with his controversial dismissal by the then governor-general of Australia, Sir John Kerr, at the climax of the 1975 constitutional crisis. Whitlam remains the only Australian prime minister to have been removed from office by a governor-general.

11/07/1915

Leonard Goodwin, British protozoologist (died 2008)

Leonard George Goodwin CMG FRS was a British protozoologist noted for his work on testing the effectiveness of chemical compounds in treating tropical diseases. He was born in London to a shoe shop manager, and became interested in nature thanks to holidays spent with his grandfather, a gamekeeper, and his uncle, a pharmacist. He was educated at William Ellis School before being accepted into University College London to study botany and zoology. After graduating he went to the College of the Pharmaceutical Society and studied pharmacy, graduating in 1935. He became a demonstrator at the college under J H Burn and at his urging took further degrees in medicine and physiology.

11/07/1913

Paul Gibb, English cricketer (died 1977)

Paul Antony Gibb was an English cricketer, who played in eight Tests for England from 1938 to 1946. He played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, Yorkshire and Essex, as a right-handed opening or middle order batsman and also kept wicket in many matches.

Cordwainer Smith, American sinologist, author, and academic (died 1966)

Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, known by his pen-name Cordwainer Smith, was an American author of science fiction. He was an officer in the US Army, a noted scholar of East Asia, and an expert in psychological warfare. He was one of science fiction's more influential authors despite his relatively limited output and his early death at the age of 53.

11/07/1912

Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (died 1996)

Sergiu Celibidache was a Romanian conductor, composer, musical theorist, and teacher. Educated in his native Romania, and later in Paris and Berlin, Celibidache's career in music spanned over five decades, including tenures as principal conductor of the Munich Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Radio France, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and many other European orchestras such as the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra or the London Symphony Orchestra.

Peta Taylor, English cricketer (died 1989)

Mary Isabella "Peta" Taylor, married name Mary Jager, was an English cricketer who played as a right-arm medium bowler. She appeared in seven Test matches for England between 1934 and 1937, including the first ever women's Test match. She played domestic cricket for various composite XIs, as well as South Women.

William F. Walsh, American captain and politician, 48th Mayor of Syracuse (died 2011)

William Francis Walsh was a Republican-Conservative member of the United States House of Representatives from New York State.

11/07/1911

Erna Flegel, German nurse who was still present in the Führerbunker when it was captured by Soviet troops (died 2006)

Erna Flegel was a German nurse during World War II. In late April 1945 she worked at the emergency casualty station at the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, and was one of the final occupants of the Führerbunker before she was captured by the Red Army on 2 May 1945.

11/07/1910

Sally Blane, American actress (died 1997)

Sally Blane was an American actress who appeared in more than 100 movies.

11/07/1909

Irene Hervey, American actress (died 1998)

Irene Hervey was an American film, stage, and television actress who appeared in over fifty films and numerous television series spanning her five-decade career.

Jacques Clemens, Dutch catholic priest (died 2018)

Jacques Clemens was a Dutch Catholic priest. He was the parish priest of The Bultia from 1958. Between 2016 and his death on 7 March 2018, at the age of 108 he was thought to be the oldest living priest.

11/07/1906

Harry von Zell, American actor and announcer (died 1981)

Harry Rudolph Von Zell was an American announcer of radio programs, and an actor in films and television shows. He is best remembered for his work on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show.

Herbert Wehner, German politician, Minister of Intra-German Relations (died 1990)

Richard Herbert Wehner was a German politician. A former member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) after World War II. He served as Federal Minister of Intra-German Relations from 1966 to 1969 and thereafter as chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag until 1983.

11/07/1905

Betty Allan, Australian statistician and biometrician (died 1952)

Frances Elizabeth Allan was an Australian statistician. She was known as the first statistician at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), as "the effective founder of the CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics", and for her advocacy of biometrics.

11/07/1904

Niño Ricardo, Spanish guitarist and composer (died 1972)

Manuel Serrapí Sánchez, better known as Niño Ricardo, was a Flamenco composer, considered by some sources as the most accomplished flamenco player of his day. He played a significant part in the evolution of the flamenco guitar. He lived in the city center of Sevilla. A child guitar prodigy, his early audiences referred to him as the son of Ricardo, leading to his stage-name Niño [de] Ricardo.

11/07/1903

Rudolf Abel, English-Russian colonel and Soviet spy (died 1971)

William August Fisher, better known by the alias Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, was a Soviet intelligence officer. He adopted his alias to alert his Soviet KGB handlers when he was arrested in the USA on charges of espionage by the FBI in 1957.

Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (died 1976)

Sidney Franklin was the first American to become a successful matador, the most senior level of bullfighter.

11/07/1901

Gwendolyn Lizarraga, Belizean businesswoman, activist, and politician (died 1975)

Gwendolyn Margaret Lizarraga, MBE commonly known as Madam Liz, was a Belizean businesswoman, women's rights activist and politician. She was the first woman elected to the British Honduras Legislative Assembly and the first woman to serve as a government minister in British Honduras, now Belize.

11/07/1899

Wilfrid Israel, German businessman and philanthropist (died 1943)

Wilfrid Berthold Jacob Israel was an Anglo-German businessman and philanthropist, born into a wealthy Anglo-German Jewish family, who was active in the rescue of Jews from Nazi Germany, and who played a significant role in the Kindertransport.

E. B. White, American essayist and journalist (died 1985)

Elwyn Brooks White was an American writer, essayist, and a contributing editor for The New Yorker magazine. He was also the author of highly popular books for children: Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970).

11/07/1897

Bull Connor, American police officer (died 1973)

Theophilus Eugene "Bull" Connor was an American politician who was Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, for more than two decades. A lifelong member of the Democratic Party, he strongly opposed the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Under the city commission government, Connor had responsibility for administrative oversight of the Birmingham Fire Department and the Birmingham Police Department, which also had their own chiefs.

11/07/1895

Dorothy Wilde, English author and poet (died 1941)

Dorothy Ierne Wilde, known as Dolly Wilde, was an English socialite, made famous by her family connections and her reputation as a witty conversationalist. Her charm and humour made her a popular guest at salons in Paris between the wars, standing out even in a social circle known for its flamboyant talkers.

11/07/1894

Erna Mohr, German zoologist (died 1968)

Erna W. Mohr was a German zoologist who made contributions to ichthyology and mammalogy. Mohr was long associated with the Zoological Museum Hamburg, where she was successively head of the Fish Biology Department, Department of Higher Vertebrates, and Curator of the Vertebrate Department. She was a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and held an honorary doctorate from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

11/07/1892

Thomas Mitchell, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (died 1962)

Thomas John Mitchell was an American character actor, writer, and theatre director. He is considered one of the both greatest supporting and character actors of Golden Age of Hollywood and a leading man on Broadway.

11/07/1888

Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and jurist (died 1985)

Carl Schmitt was a German jurist and political theorist. An authoritarian conservative theorist, he was noted as a critic of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and cosmopolitanism.

11/07/1886

Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter and illustrator (died 1939)

Boris Grigoriev was a painter, graphic artist, and writer.

11/07/1882

James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (died 1946)

James Larkin White was a cowboy, guano miner, cave explorer, and park ranger for the National Park Service. He is best remembered as the discoverer, early promoter and explorer of what is known today as Carlsbad Caverns in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico.

11/07/1881

Isabel Martin Lewis, American astronomer and author (died 1966)

Isabel Martin Lewis was an American astronomer who was the first woman hired by the United States Naval Observatory as assistant astronomer. In 1918, Lewis was elected a member of the American Astronomical Society. She was also a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

11/07/1880

Friedrich Lahrs, German architect and academic (died 1964)

Johann Ludwig Friedrich Lahrs was a German architect and professor.

11/07/1875

H. M. Brock, British painter and illustrator (died 1960)

Henry Matthew Brock was a British illustrator and landscape painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He was one of four artist brothers, all of them illustrators, who worked together in their family studio in Cambridge.

11/07/1866

Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (died 1953)

Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine, later Princess Henry of Prussia, was the third child and third daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine. Her maternal grandparents were Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Her paternal grandparents were Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Elisabeth of Prussia. She was the wife of Prince Henry of Prussia, a younger brother of Wilhelm II, German Emperor and her first cousin. The SS Prinzessin Irene, a liner of the North German Lloyd was named after her.

11/07/1850

Annie Armstrong, American missionary (died 1938)

Annie Walker Armstrong was a lay Southern Baptist denominational leader instrumental in the founding of the Woman's Missionary Union.

11/07/1849

N. E. Brown, English plant taxonomist and authority on succulents (died 1934)

Nicholas Edward Brown was an English plant taxonomist and authority on succulents. He was also an authority on several families of plants, including Asclepiadaceae, Aizoaceae, Labiatae and Cape plants.

11/07/1846

Léon Bloy, French author and poet (died 1917)

Léon Bloy was a French Catholic novelist, essayist, pamphleteer, and satirist, known additionally for his eventual defense of Catholicism and for his influence within French Catholic circles.

11/07/1836

Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (died 1896)

Antônio Carlos Gomes was a Brazilian composer, chiefly remembered for opera. A leading figure of Brazilian Romantic music, he was the first Brazilian composer to achieve major success in the European operatic world and the first to have a work performed at La Scala in Milan. His best-known opera, Il Guarany or O Guarani, premiered at La Scala in 1870 and brought a Brazilian literary subject into the Italian operatic repertory.

11/07/1834

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American-English painter and illustrator (died 1903)

James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".

11/07/1832

Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek lawyer and politician, 55th Prime Minister of Greece (died 1896)

Charilaos Trikoupis was a Greek politician who served as a Prime Minister of Greece seven times from 1875 until 1895.

11/07/1826

Alexander Afanasyev, Russian ethnographer and author (died 1871)

Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev was a Russian Slavist and ethnographer best known for publishing nearly 600 East Slavic and Russian fairy and folk tales, one of the largest collections of folklore in the world. This collection was not restricted to Great Russia, but included folk tales from what are now Ukraine and Belarus as well. The first edition of his collection was published in eight volumes from 1855 to 1867, earning him the reputation of being the Russian counterpart to the Brothers Grimm.

11/07/1767

John Quincy Adams, American lawyer and politician, 6th President of the United States (died 1848)

John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States, serving from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States secretary of state from 1817 to 1825; minister to Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia; and senator for Massachusetts. After his presidency, Adams uniquely returned to Congress as a member of the lower house, where he died in 1848. He was the eldest son of John Adams, the second president, and First Lady Abigail Adams. Among his children were Charles Francis Adams Sr. Initially a Federalist like his father, Adams spent his presidency as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, and later, in the mid-1830s, became affiliated with the Whig Party.

11/07/1760

Peggy Shippen, American wife of Benedict Arnold and American Revolutionary War spy (died 1804)

Margaret Shippen was the second wife of General Benedict Arnold. She has been described as "the highest-paid spy in the American Revolution".

11/07/1754

Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (died 1825)

Thomas Bowdler was an English physician known for publishing The Family Shakespeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's plays edited by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler, and for publishing other editions edited by himself. The two sought a version they considered more appropriate than the original for 19th-century women and children. Bowdler also published works representing an interested knowledge of continental Europe. His last work was an expurgation of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published posthumously in 1826 with the supervision of his nephew and biographer, Thomas Bowdler the Younger. From his name derives the eponym verb bowdlerise or bowdlerize, meaning to expurgate or to censor something through the omission of elements deemed unsuited to children in literature, movies, and television.

11/07/1723

Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and author (died 1799)

Jean-François Marmontel was a French historian, writer and a member of the Encyclopédistes movement.

11/07/1709

Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (died 1785)

Johan Gottschalk Wallerius was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist.

11/07/1662

Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (died 1726)

Maximilian II, also known as Max Emanuel or Maximilian Emanuel, was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire. He was also the last governor of the Spanish Netherlands and Duke of Luxembourg. An able soldier, his ambition led to conflicts that limited his ultimate dynastic achievements.

11/07/1657

Frederick I of Prussia (died 1713)

Frederick I, of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was Elector of Brandenburg (1688–1713) and Duke of Prussia in personal union (Brandenburg–Prussia). The latter function he upgraded to royalty, becoming the first King in Prussia (1701–1713). From 1707 he was also Prince of Neuchâtel.

11/07/1653

Sarah Good, American woman accused of witchcraft (died 1692)

Sarah Good was one of the first three women to be accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials, which occurred in 1692 in colonial Massachusetts.

11/07/1628

Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese daimyō (died 1701)

Tokugawa Mitsukuni , also known as Mito Kōmon , was a Japanese daimyo who was known for his influence in the politics of the early Edo period. He was the third son of Tokugawa Yorifusa and succeeded him, becoming the second daimyo of the Mito Domain.

11/07/1603

Kenelm Digby, English astrologer, courtier, and diplomat (died 1665)

Sir Kenelm Digby was an English courtier and diplomat. He was also a highly reputed natural philosopher, astrologer and known as a leading Roman Catholic intellectual and Blackloist. For his versatility, he is described in John Pointer's Oxoniensis Academia (1749) as the "Magazine of all Arts and Sciences, or the Ornament of this Nation".

11/07/1561

Luis de Góngora, Spanish cleric and poet (died 1627)

Luis de Góngora y Argote was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet and a Catholic priest at Córdoba Cathedral. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered the most prominent Spanish poets of all time. His style is characterized by what was called culteranismo, also known as Gongorismo. This style apparently existed in stark contrast to Quevedo's conceptismo, though Quevedo was highly influenced by his older rival from whom he may have isolated "conceptismo" elements.

11/07/1558

Robert Greene, English author and playwright (died 1592)

Robert Greene (1558–1592) was a popular Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer. He is said to have been born in Norwich. He attended Cambridge where he received a BA in 1580, and an M.A. in 1583 before moving to London, where he arguably became the first professional author in England. He was prolific and published in many genres including romances, plays and autobiography.

11/07/1459

Kaspar, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, German nobleman (died 1527)

Kaspar, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and Veldenz was Duke of Zweibrücken from 1489 to 1490.

11/07/1406

William, Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg (died 1482)

Margrave William of Hachberg-Sausenberg was the ruling Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg, member of the branch of the House of Zähringen.

11/07/1274

Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (died 1329)

Robert I, popularly known as Robert the Bruce, was King of Scots from 1306 until his death in 1329. Robert led Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence against England. He fought successfully during his reign to restore Scotland to an independent kingdom and is regarded in Scotland as a national hero. Robert was a fourth-great-grandson of King David I of Scotland, and his grandfather, Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, was one of the claimants to the Scottish throne during the "Great Cause".

11/07/0154

Bardaisan, Syrian astrologer, scholar, and philosopher (died 222)

Bardaisan, known in Arabic as ibn Dayṣān and in Latin as Bardesanes, was a Syriac-speaking Christian writer and teacher with a Gnostic background, and founder of the Bardaisanites.

Lives Remembered on 11th July

On 11th July, 89 remarkable people passed away — from 472 to 2025. Remember the lives and legacies of those we lost on this day.

11/07/2025

Martin Cruz Smith, American author and screenwriter (born 1942)

Martin William Smith, known professionally as Martin Cruz Smith, was an American writer of mystery and suspense fiction, mostly in an international or historical setting. He was best known for his 11-book series featuring Russian investigator Arkady Renko, who was introduced in 1981 with Gorky Park and last appeared in Hotel Ukraine (2025).

11/07/2024

Shelley Duvall, American actress (born 1949)

Shelley Alexis Duvall was an American actress and producer. Known for her distinctive screen presence, portrayals of eccentric characters, and later productions in children's programming, her accolades include a Cannes Award and a Peabody Award, in addition to nominations for a British Academy Film Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Four of Duvall's films have been preserved in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" as of 2025.

Monte Kiffin, American football coach (born 1940)

Monte George Kiffin was an American football coach. He is widely considered to have been one of the preeminent defensive coordinators in modern football, as well as one of the greatest defensive coordinators in NFL history. Father of the widely imitated "Tampa 2" defense, Kiffin's concepts are among the most influential in modern college and pro football.

Stanley Tshabalala, South African soccer player and coach (born 1949)

Stanley "Screamer" Tshabalala was a South African soccer player, coach and administrator.

11/07/2023

Milan Kundera, Czech-French writer (born 1929)

Milan Kundera was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.

11/07/2021

Charlie Robinson, American actor (born 1945)

Charlie Robinson was an American stage, film and television actor. He is best known for his role on the NBC sitcom Night Court as Macintosh "Mac" Robinson, the clerk of the court and a Vietnam War veteran.

Renée Simonot, French actress (born 1911)

Jeanne Renée Deneuve, known professionally as Renée-Jeanne Simonot, was a French actress and voice artist. Partially italian, she was married to actor Maurice Dorléac, the mother of actresses Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac and the grandmother of actor Christian Vadim and actress Chiara Mastroianni.

11/07/2020

Marc Angelucci, American attorney and men's rights activist, Vice-president of the National Coalition for Men (born 1968)

Marc Etienne Angelucci was an American attorney, men's rights activist, and the vice-president of the National Coalition for Men (NCFM). As a lawyer, he represented several cases related to men's rights issues, and the most prominently, National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System, in which the federal judge declared the male-only selective-service system unconstitutional. He was found murdered at his home on July 11, 2020.

Frank Bolling, American baseball second baseman (born 1931)

Francis Elmore Bolling was an American baseball second baseman who played twelve seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Detroit Tigers and Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves from 1954 until 1966. He batted and threw right-handed, and was the younger brother of shortstop Milt Bolling.

11/07/2017

Jim Wong-Chu, Canadian poet (born 1949)

Jim Wong-Chu was a Canadian activist, community organizer, poet, author, editor, and historian. Wong-Chu is one of Canada's most celebrated literary pioneers. He was a community organizer known for his work in establishing organizations that contributed to highlighting Asian arts and culture in Canada. He also co-edited several anthologies featuring Asian Canadian writers.

11/07/2015

Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (born 1928)

Giacomo Biffi was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna, having served as archbishop there from 1984 to 2003. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1985.

Satoru Iwata, Japanese game programmer and businessman (born 1959)

Satoru Iwata was a Japanese businessman, video game programmer and producer. Beginning in 2002, he was the fourth president of Nintendo, as well as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Nintendo of America from 2013 until his death in 2015. Iwata was a major contributor in broadening the appeal of video games by focusing on novel and entertaining games rather than top-of-the-line hardware.

André Leysen, Belgian businessman (born 1927)

André Leysen was a Belgian businessman. In 1951, he married Anne Ahlers, daughter of a shipping family from Bremen, Germany. Together they have four children: Bettina, Christian, Thomas, and Sabina.

11/07/2014

Charlie Haden, American bassist and composer (born 1937)

Charles Edward Haden was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator whose career spanned more than fifty years. Haden helped to revolutionize the harmonic concept of bass playing in jazz, evolving a style that sometimes complemented the soloist, and other times moved independently, liberating bassists from a strictly accompanying role.

Carin Mannheimer, Swedish author and screenwriter (born 1934)

Carin Mannheimer was a Swedish dramatist, screenwriter, author and film director, born in Osby, Sweden. She garnered acclaim with Rapport om kvinnor, which was published in 1969. The book is a collection of interviews with Swedish women from the working class. This was during a time period of awakening feminism in Sweden when women were assumed to want to work outside the home. The interviews, however, revealed that many women did not want to work outside the home, would have preferred to care for their children but had no economic choice. For this reason, Mannheimer was criticized by the women's movement in Sweden, and the book established her reputation as a social critic.

Bill McGill, American basketball player (born 1939)

Bill "the Hill" McGill was an American basketball player best known for inventing the jump hook. McGill was the No. 1 overall pick of the 1962 NBA draft out of the University of Utah, with whom he led the NCAA in scoring with 38.8 points per game in the 1961–1962 season.

Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American drummer and producer (born 1949)

Thomas Erdelyi, known professionally as Tommy Ramone, was a Hungarian-American musician. He was the drummer for the influential punk rock band the Ramones from its debut in 1974 to 1978, later serving as its producer, and was the longest-surviving original member of the Ramones.

John Seigenthaler, American journalist and academic (born 1927)

John Lawrence Seigenthaler was an American journalist, writer, and political figure. He was known as a prominent defender of First Amendment rights.

Randall Stout, American architect, designed the Taubman Museum of Art (born 1958)

Randall Paul Stout was an American architect based in Los Angeles.

11/07/2013

Emik Avakian, Iranian-American inventor (born 1923)

Emik Avakian was an Armenian American inventor and owner of numerous patents including breath-operated computer, a mechanism that facilitates putting wheelchairs on automobiles, and a self operating robotic wheel that converts manual wheel chairs into automatic. Many of his inventions were geared towards the improvement of disabled people's lives, and he won many awards recognizing these efforts.

Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician and academic (born 1936)

Egbert Valentin Brieskorn was a German mathematician who introduced Brieskorn spheres and the Brieskorn–Grothendieck resolution.

Eugene P. Wilkinson, American admiral (born 1918)

Eugene Parks "Dennis" Wilkinson was a United States Navy officer. He was selected for three historic command assignments. The first, in 1954, was as the first commanding officer of USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine. The second was as the first commanding officer of USS Long Beach, America's first nuclear surface ship. The third was in 1980 when he was chosen as the first President and CEO of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) from which he retired in 1984.

11/07/2009

Reg Fleming, Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1936)

Reginald Stephen "Reggie, the Ruffian" Fleming was a professional hockey player in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers and Buffalo Sabres. He also played for the Chicago Cougars of the World Hockey Association, as well as with a number of minor league teams in other professional leagues. His professional career spanned over 20 years. He was known as an aggressive and combative player who could play both forward and defence, as well as kill penalties.

Arturo Gatti, Italian-Canadian boxer (born 1972)

Arturo Gatti was a Canadian professional boxer who competed from 1991 to 2007. He was a world champion in two weight classes, having held the International Boxing Federation (IBF) junior lightweight title from 1995 to 1998, and the World Boxing Council (WBC) super lightweight title from 2004 to 2005. He also participated in The Ring magazine's Fight of the Year a total of four times. He announced his retirement on July 14, 2007. After his death in 2009, Gatti was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame on December 10, 2012, in his first year of eligibility, becoming the tenth Canadian boxer to be so inducted.

Ji Xianlin, Chinese linguist and paleographer (born 1911)

Ji Xianlin was a Chinese Indologist, linguist, paleographer, historian and writer who has been honored by the governments of both India and China. Ji was proficient in many languages including Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, English, German, French, Russian, Pali and Tocharian, and translated many works. He published a memoir, The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, about his persecution during the Cultural Revolution.

11/07/2008

Michael E. DeBakey, American surgeon and educator (born 1908)

Michael Ellis DeBakey was an American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. His career spanned nearly eight decades.

11/07/2007

Glenda Adams, Australian author and academic (born 1939)

Glenda Emilie Adams was an Australian novelist and short story writer, probably best known as the winner of the 1987 Miles Franklin Award for Dancing on Coral. She was a teacher of creative writing, and helped develop writing programs.

Lady Bird Johnson, American beautification activist; 43rd First Lady of the United States (born 1912)

Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson was the first lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969 as the wife of Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. She had previously been the second lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, when her husband was vice president under President John F. Kennedy.

Alfonso López Michelsen, Colombian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Colombia (born 1913)

Alfonso López Michelsen was a Colombian politician and lawyer who served as the 25th President of Colombia from 1974 to 1978. He was nicknamed "El Pollo", a popular Colombian idiom for people with precocious careers.

Ed Mirvish, American-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded Honest Ed's (born 1914)

Yehuda Edwin "Honest Ed" Mirvish, was an American-Canadian businessman, philanthropist and theatrical impresario who lived in Toronto, Ontario. He is known for his flagship business, Honest Ed's, a landmark discount store in downtown Toronto, and as a patron of the arts, instrumental in promoting live theatre in Toronto.

11/07/2006

Barnard Hughes, American actor (born 1915)

Bernard Aloysius Kiernan "Barnard" Hughes was an American actor. His most successful roles came after middle age, and he was often cast as a dithering authority figure or grandfatherly elder. He won the 1978 Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play.

Bronwyn Oliver, Australian sculptor (born 1959)

Bronwyn Joy Oliver was an Australian sculptor whose work primarily consisted of metalwork. Her sculptures are admired for their tactile nature, aesthetics, and technical skills demonstrated in their production.

John Spencer, English snooker player and sportscaster (born 1935)

John Spencer was an English professional snooker player. One of the most dominant players of the 1970s, he won the World Snooker Championship three times, in 1969, 1971 and 1977. He worked as a snooker commentator for the BBC from 1978 to 1998 and served for 25 years on the board of the sport's governing body, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), including a stint as chairman from 1990 until his retirement from the board in 1996.

11/07/2005

Gretchen Franklin, English actress and dancer (born 1911)

Gretchen Gordon Franklin was an English actress and dancer with a career in show business spanning over 70 years. She played Ethel Skinner in the long-running BBC1 soap opera EastEnders on a regular basis from 1985 until 1988. Following this, she made intermittent returns to the show, her appearances becoming increasingly infrequent and brief. Her final appearance was in 2000, marking the demise of her character.

Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese professional wrestler (born 1965)

Shinya Hashimoto was a Japanese professional wrestler, promoter and actor. Along with Masahiro Chono and Keiji Mutoh, Hashimoto was dubbed one of the "Three Musketeers" that began competing in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) in the mid-1980s and dominated the promotion in the 1990s.

Jesús Iglesias, Argentinian racing driver (born 1922)

Jesús Ricardo Iglesias, was a racing driver from Argentina. He initially competed with some success in long distance races in Argentina with a Chevrolet Special, before being invited to drive one of the works Gordini Type 16s in the 1955 Argentine Grand Prix. He qualified 17th out of 22 competitors, but had to retire on lap 38 due to transmission failure, although he also seemed to be on the brink of exhaustion because of the boiling heat.

Frances Langford, American actress and singer (born 1913)

Frances Langford was an American singer and actress who was popular during the Golden Age of Radio and made film and television appearances for over two decades.

11/07/2004

Laurance Rockefeller, American financier and philanthropist (born 1910)

Laurance Spelman Rockefeller was an American businessman, financier, philanthropist, and conservationist. Rockefeller was the third son and fourth child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. As a trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, he provided venture capital for Intel, Apple Computer, Piasecki Helicopter, and many other successful start-ups. Rockefeller was known for his involvement in wilderness preservation, ecology and the protection of wildlife. His work helped the establishing of a new conservation ethic, and received the Lady Bird Johnson Conservation Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1997.

Renée Saint-Cyr, French actress and producer (born 1904)

Renée Saint-Cyr was a French actress. Born Marie-Louise Catherine Eugénie Renée Vittore, she appeared in more than 60 films between 1933 and 1994. She was the mother of Georges Lautner, who also achieved fame in the film business, albeit as a director.

11/07/2003

Zahra Kazemi, Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer (born 1948)

Zahra "Ziba" Kazemi-Ahmadabadi was an Iranian-Canadian freelance photojournalist. She gained notoriety for her arrest in Iran and the circumstances in which she was held by Iranian authorities, in whose custody she was killed. Kazemi's autopsy report revealed that she had been raped and tortured by Iranian officials while she was at Evin Prison, located within the capital city of Tehran.

11/07/2001

Herman Brood, Dutch musician and painter (born 1946)

Hermanus "Herman" Brood was a Dutch musician, painter, actor and poet. As a musician he achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, and was called "the greatest and only Dutch rock 'n' roll star". Later in life he started a successful career as a painter.

11/07/2000

Pedro Mir, Dominican lawyer, author, and poet (born 1913)

Pedro Julio Mir Valentín was a Dominican poet and writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984, and a member of the generation of "Independent poets of the 1940s" in Dominican poetry.

Robert Runcie, English archbishop (born 1921)

Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron Runcie, was an English Anglican bishop. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991, having previously been Bishop of St Albans. He travelled the world widely to spread ecumenicism and worked to foster relations with both Protestant and Catholic churches across Europe. He was a leader of the Liberal Anglo-Catholicism movement. He came under attack for expressing compassion towards bereaved Argentines after the Falklands War of 1982, and generated controversy by supporting women's ordination.

11/07/1999

Helen Forrest, American singer (born 1917)

Helen Forrest was an American singer of traditional pop and swing music. She served as the "girl singer" for three of the most popular big bands of the Swing Era, thereby earning a reputation as "the voice of the name bands."

Jan Sloot, Dutch computer scientist and electronics technician (born 1945)

The Sloot Digital Coding System (SDCS) is an alleged technique for data encoding claimed to have been invented in 1995 by Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot (1944–1999), an electronics engineer in the Netherlands. Sloot claimed his system could represent an entire feature film with only one kilobyte of data, a level of compression which is mathematically impossible according to Shannon's source coding theorem.

11/07/1998

Panagiotis Kondylis, Greek philosopher and author (born 1943)

Panagiotis Kondylis was a Greek philosopher, intellectual historian, translator and publications manager who principally wrote in German, in addition to translating most of his work into Greek. He can be placed in a tradition of thought best exemplified by Thucydides, Niccolò Machiavelli and Max Weber.

11/07/1994

Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research (born 1942)

Gary Arlen Kildall was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur. During the 1970s, Kildall created the operating system CP/M among other operating systems and programming tools, and subsequently founded Digital Research, Inc. to market and sell his software products. He is considered a pioneer of the personal computer revolution.

11/07/1991

Mokhtar Dahari, Malaysian footballer and coach (born 1953)

Dato' Mohd Mokhtar bin Dahari (Jawi: محمد مختار بن داهاري, IPA: ; was a Malaysian professional footballer who played for Selangor. He is considered a legendary footballer in Malaysian history. FIFA acknowledged his 89 goals in international matches and took his team to an World Football Elo Ratings of 61 in 1977. A prolific forward, he was nicknamed Supermokh due to his playing skills and strength. Mokhtar is the all-time top scorer for the Malaysian national team.

11/07/1989

Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer (born 1907)

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, was an English actor and director. He and his contemporaries Sir John Gielgud, Sir Michael Redgrave and Sir Ralph Richardson made up a quartet of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles. Late in his career he had considerable success in television roles.

11/07/1987

Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (born 1963)

Avi Ran was a goalkeeper at the Israeli football club Maccabi Haifa. Widely considered one of the greatest football players in Israel, he had a promising future which was cut short by a fatal accident.

Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, American rabbi and scholar (born 1901)

Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman was a Russian-born American Talmudic scholar and rabbi who founded and served as rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel in Baltimore.

11/07/1983

Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian author (born 1915)

Kenneth Millar, known mainly by the pseudonym Ross Macdonald, was an American-Canadian writer of crime fiction. He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in Southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer. Since the 1970s, Macdonald's works have received attention in academic circles for their psychological depth, sense of place, use of language, sophisticated imagery and integration of philosophy into genre fiction. Brought up in the province of Ontario, Canada, Macdonald eventually settled in the state of California, where he died in 1983.

11/07/1979

Claude Wagner, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1925)

Claude Wagner was a Canadian judge and politician in the province of Quebec, Canada. Throughout his career, he was a Crown prosecutor, professor of criminal law and judge.

11/07/1976

León de Greiff, Colombian poet and educator (born 1895)

Francisco de Asís León Bogislao de Greiff Haeusler, was a Colombian poet known for his stylistic innovations and deliberately eclectic use of obscure lexicon. Best known simply as León de Greiff, he often used different pen names. The most popular were Leo le Gris and Gaspar Von Der Nacht. De Greiff was one of the founders of Los Panidas, a literary and artistic group established in 1915 in the city of Medellín.

11/07/1974

Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish novelist, playwright, and poet Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891)

Pär Fabian Lagerkvist was a Swedish author who received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature.

11/07/1971

John W. Campbell, American journalist and author (born 1910)

John Wood Campbell Jr. was an American science fiction writer and editor. He was editor of Astounding Science Fiction from late 1937 until his death and was part of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Campbell wrote "super-science" space opera under his own name and other stories under his primary pseudonym, Don A. Stuart. Campbell also used the pen names Karl Van Kampen and Arthur McCann. His novella Who Goes There? (1938) was adapted as the films The Thing from Another World (1951) and The Thing (1982); as well as a prequel The Thing (2011).

Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (born 1940)

Pedro Rodríguez de la Vega was a Mexican racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1963 to 1971. Rodríguez won two Formula One Grands Prix across nine seasons. In endurance racing, Rodríguez won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1968 with Ford, and was a two-time winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona with Porsche.

11/07/1967

Guy Favreau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 28th Canadian Minister of Justice (born 1917)

Guy Favreau was a Canadian lawyer, politician and judge.

11/07/1966

Delmore Schwartz, American poet and short story writer (born 1913)

Delmore Schwartz was an American poet and short story writer.

11/07/1959

Charlie Parker, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (born 1882)

Charles Warrington Leonard Parker was an English cricketer, who stands as the third highest wicket taker in the history of first-class cricket, behind Wilfred Rhodes and Tich Freeman.

11/07/1937

George Gershwin, American pianist, songwriter, and composer (born 1898)

George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned jazz, popular and classical music. Among his best-known works are the songs "Swanee" (1919) and "Fascinating Rhythm" (1924), the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), the jazz standards "Embraceable You" (1928) and "I Got Rhythm" (1930) and the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), which included the hit "Summertime". His Of Thee I Sing (1931) was the first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

11/07/1929

Billy Mosforth, English footballer and engraver (born 1857)

William Mosforth was an English footballer who played either as an inside or outside left. Born in Sheffield he played for several Sheffield clubs but the majority of his career was spent at The Wednesday. He later joined Sheffield United, playing in their first season in existence before retiring in 1890. He won nine caps for England between 1877 and 1882, which was a record at the time, scoring three goals for his country.

11/07/1909

Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (born 1835)

Simon Newcomb was a Canadian–American astronomer, applied mathematician, and autodidactic polymath. He served as Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy and at Johns Hopkins University. Born in Nova Scotia, at the age of 19 Newcomb left an apprenticeship to join his father in Massachusetts, where the latter was teaching.

11/07/1908

Friedrich Traun, German sprinter and tennis player (born 1876)

Friedrich Adolf "Fritz" Traun was a German athlete and tennis player. Born into a wealthy family, he participated in the 1896 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in men's doubles. He committed suicide after being accused of fathering a child out of wedlock.

11/07/1905

Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian jurist and scholar (born 1849)

Muḥammad ʿAbduh was an Egyptian Islamic scholar, judge, and Grand Mufti of Egypt. He was a central figure of the Arab Nahḍa and Islamic Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

11/07/1897

Patrick Jennings, Irish-Australian politician, 11th Premier of New South Wales (born 1831)

Sir Patrick Alfred Jennings, was an Irish-Australian politician and Premier of New South Wales.

11/07/1844

Yevgeny Baratynsky, Russian philosopher and poet (born 1800)

Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky was a Russian poet. He was lauded by Alexander Pushkin as the finest Russian elegiac poet. After a long period when his reputation was on the wane, Baratynsky was rediscovered by Russian Symbolism poets as a supreme poet of thought.

11/07/1825

Thomas P. Grosvenor, American soldier and politician (born 1744)

Thomas Peabody Grosvenor was a United States representative from New York.

11/07/1806

James Smith, Irish-American lawyer and politician (born 1719)

James Smith was an Irish-born American lawyer and surveyor. As a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence during his term as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, he is remembered as a Founding Father of the United States.

11/07/1797

Ienăchiță Văcărescu, Romanian historian and philologist (born 1740)

Ienăchiță Văcărescu was a Wallachian Romanian poet, historian, philologist, and boyar belonging to the Văcărescu family. A polyglot, he was able to speak Ancient and Modern Greek, Old Church Slavonic, Arabic, Persian, French, German, Italian, and Ottoman Turkish.

11/07/1775

Simon Boerum, American farmer and politician (born 1724)

Simon Boerum was a farmer, miller, and political leader from Brooklyn, New York. He represented New York in the Continental Congress in 1774 and 1775. He signed the Continental Association.

11/07/1774

Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-English general (born 1715)

Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Ireland. As a young man, Johnson moved to the Province of New York to manage an estate purchased by his uncle, Royal Navy officer Peter Warren, which was located in territory of the Mohawk, one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois League, or Haudenosaunee.

11/07/1688

Narai, Thai king (born 1629)

King Narai the Great, or Ramathibodi III, was the 27th monarch of Ayutthaya Kingdom, the 4th and last monarch of the Prasat Thong dynasty. He was the king of Ayutthaya Kingdom from 1656 to 1688 and arguably the most famous king of the Prasat Thong dynasty.

11/07/1599

Chōsokabe Motochika, Japanese daimyō (born 1539)

Chōsokabe Motochika was a daimyō in Japanese Sengoku-period. He was the 21st chief of the Chōsokabe clan of Tosa Province, the ruler of Shikoku region.

11/07/1593

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter (born 1527)

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, also spelled Arcimboldi, was an Italian Mannerist painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books.

11/07/1581

Peder Skram, Danish admiral and politician (born 1503)

Peder Skram was a Danish naval officer.

11/07/1535

Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (born 1484)

Joachim I Nestor was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1499–1535), the fifth member of the House of Hohenzollern. His nickname was taken from King Nestor of Greek mythology.

11/07/1484

Mino da Fiesole, Italian sculptor (born c. 1429)

Mino da Fiesole, also known as Mino di Giovanni, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Poppi, Tuscany. He is noted for his portrait busts.

11/07/1451

Barbara of Cilli, Slovenian noblewoman

Barbara of Cilli or Barbara of Celje, was the Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia by marriage to Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund. She was actively involved in politics and economy of her times, independently administering large feudal fiefdoms and taxes, and was instrumental in creating the famous royal Order of the Dragon. She served as the regent of Hungarian kingdom in the absence of her husband four times: in 1412, 1414, 1416, and 1418.

11/07/1382

Nicole Oresme, French philosopher (born 1325)

Nicole Oresme, also known as Nicolas Oresme, Nicholas Oresme, or Nicolas d'Oresme, was a French philosopher of the later Middle Ages. He wrote influential works on economics, mathematics, physics, astrology, astronomy, philosophy, and theology. He was Bishop of Lisieux, a translator, a counselor of King Charles V of France, and one of the most original thinkers of 14th-century Europe.

11/07/1362

Anna von Schweidnitz, empress of Charles IV (born 1339)

Anna of Schweidnitz (Świdnica) was Queen of Bohemia, German Queen, and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire. She was the third wife of Emperor Charles IV.

11/07/1344

Ulrich III, Count of Württemberg (born c. 1286)

Ulrich III was Count of Württemberg from 1325 until his death in 1344.

11/07/1302

Robert II, Count of Artois (born 1250)

Robert II was the Count of Artois, the posthumous son and heir of Robert I and Matilda of Brabant. He was a nephew of two kings; Louis IX of France and Charles I of Sicily.

Pierre Flotte, French politician and lawyer

Pierre Flotte or Pierre Flote was a French legalist, Chancellor of France and Keeper of the Seals of Philip IV the Fair. He was taught Roman law at the University of Montpellier, and was considered one of the best lawyers and legalists of his time. He led negotiations with the Roman Curia, England and Germany.

11/07/1183

Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (born 1117)

Otto I, called the Redhead, was Duke of Bavaria from 1180 until his death. He was the first Bavarian ruler from the House of Wittelsbach, a dynasty which reigned until the abdication of King Ludwig III of Bavaria in the German Revolution of 1918.

11/07/1174

Amalric I of Jerusalem (born 1136)

Amalric, formerly known in historiography as Amalric I, was the king of Jerusalem from 1163 until his death. His Muslim adversaries described him as the bravest and cleverest of the crusader kings.

11/07/0969

Olga of Kiev (born 890)

Olga was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 957. Following her baptism, Olga took the name Elenа. She is known for her subjugation of the Drevlians, a tribe that had killed her husband Igor. Even though it was her grandson Vladimir who adopted Christianity and made it the state religion, she was the first ruler to be baptized.

11/07/0937

Rudolph II of Burgundy (born 880)

Rudolph II was King of Upper Burgundy from 912 until 933, and then King of the united Kingdom of Burgundy from 933 until his death in 937. He was also King of Italy from 922 to 926. He initially succeeded his father, king Rudolph I, in Upper Burgundy. In 933, Rudolph II acquired the Kingdom of Lower Burgundy (Provence) from King Hugh of Italy in exchange for the waiver of his claims to the Italian crown, thereby establishing the united Kingdom of Burgundy.

11/07/0472

Anthemius, Roman emperor (born 420)

Procopius Anthemius was the Western Roman emperor from 467 to 472. Born in the Eastern Roman Empire, Anthemius quickly worked his way up the ranks. He married into the Theodosian dynasty through Marcia Euphemia, daughter of Eastern emperor Marcian. He soon received a significant number of promotions to various posts, and was presumed to be Marcian's planned successor. However, Marcian's sudden death in 457, together with that of Western emperor Avitus, left the imperial succession in the hands of Aspar. He instead appointed Leo, a low-ranking officer, to the Eastern throne, probably out of fear that Anthemius would be too independent. Eventually, this same Leo designated Anthemius as Western emperor in 467, following a two-year interregnum that started in November 465.

Celebrations & Special Days Worldwide on 11th July

Christian Feast Day: Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia, often known as Saint Benedict, was an Italian monk and the founder of the Order of Saint Benedict. He is famed in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Lutheran Churches, the Anglican Communion, and Old Catholic Churches. In 1964, Pope Paul VI declared Benedict a patron saint of Europe.

Christian Feast Day: Olga of Kiev

Olga was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 957. Following her baptism, Olga took the name Elenа. She is known for her subjugation of the Drevlians, a tribe that had killed her husband Igor. Even though it was her grandson Vladimir who adopted Christianity and made it the state religion, she was the first ruler to be baptized.

Christian Feast Day: Pope Pius I

Pius I was the bishop of Rome from c. 140 to his death c. 154, according to the Annuario Pontificio. His dates are listed as 142 or 146 to 157 or 161, respectively. He is considered to have opposed both the Valentinians and Gnostics during his papacy. He is considered a saint by the Catholic Church with a feast day on 11 July, but it is unclear if he died as a martyr.

Christian Feast Day: Thomas Sprott

Thomas Sprott, also spelled Thomas Spratt, was an English martyr, as was his colleague, Thomas Hunt, who is also known as Thomas Benstead.

Christian Feast Day: July 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 10 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 12

China National Maritime Day (China)

China National Maritime Day, officially referred to as Maritime Day of China, also known as China Maritime Day, Maritime Day in China, Chinese: 中国航海日; pinyin: hanghairi, is celebrated July 11, 2005, commemorating marked Zheng He's first voyage. It is celebrated primarily in China and Taiwan, who has been officially celebrating the day since 1955. The date marks the 600th anniversary of the ocean voyages of Zheng He, the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) navigator, who went on seven voyages to show China's might to the rest of the world, under the command of Yongle Emperor. These voyages sought to prove to the Chinese people that the usurper Yongle was worthy of the throne and the gods accepted him with the Mandate of Heaven. The celebration's creation honors China's commitment to the International Maritime Organization, of which it is a member.

Day of the Bandoneón (Argentina)

Bandoneón Day is celebrated on 11 July each year in Argentina. This date was chosen to mark the birth of the man who is considered the "Supreme Bandoneón of Buenos Aires", the musician Aníbal Troilo.

Day of the Flemish Community (Flemish Community of Belgium)

The Flemish Community Day is an annual holiday held in the Flemish Community of Belgium on 11 July. It is also variously translated as the Day of the Flemish Community, Flemish Community Holiday, Feast Day of the Flemish Community, Festival of the Flemish Community, or other variants.

Eleventh Night (Northern Ireland)

In Northern Ireland, the Eleventh Night or 11th Night, also known as "bonfire night", is the night before the Twelfth of July, an Ulster Protestant celebration. On this night, towering bonfires are lit in Protestant loyalist neighbourhoods, and are often accompanied by street parties and loyalist marching bands. The bonfires are mostly made of wooden pallets and locally collected wood. They originally celebrated the Williamite conquest of the 1690s, which began the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland and has been maintained by the Protestant community. Eleventh Night events are often held in the spirit of sectarianism or ethnic hatred against Irish Catholics, Irish nationalists, and Irish people broadly, such as the burning of Irish tricolours, and for damage and pollution caused. Some are controlled by loyalist paramilitaries, and authorities may be wary of taking action against controversial bonfires. In 2021, there were about 250 Eleventh Night bonfires.

National Day of Remembrance of the victims of the Genocide of the Citizens of the Polish Republic committed by Ukrainian Nationalists (Poland, established by the 22 July 2016 resolution of Sejm in reference to the July 11, 1943 Volhynian Bloody Sunday)

The National Day of Remembrance of the victims of the Genocide of Citizens of the Polish Republic committed by Ukrainian Nationalists is an official commemorative date in Poland, marked on 11 July. The date was chosen because it was the peak in 1943 of the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia when armed units of Ukrainian nationalists simultaneously attacked 99 settlements inhabited by ethnic Poles.

Gospel Day (Kiribati)

The following are public holidays in Kiribati. Dates refer to 2002.

National Day of Commemoration, held on the nearest Sunday to this date (Ireland)

In Ireland, the National Day of Commemoration commemorates all Irish people who died in past wars or United Nations peacekeeping missions. It occurs on the Sunday nearest 11 July, the anniversary of the date in 1921 that a truce was signed ending the Irish War of Independence. The principal ceremony is held at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland.

The first day of Naadam (July 11–15) (Mongolia)

Naadam is a traditional festival celebrated in Mongolia, Inner Mongolia and Tuva, involving Mongolian wrestling, horse racing and archery. The festival is also locally termed "eriin gurvan naadam", and is held during midsummer.

World Population Day (International)

World Population Day is an annual event, observed on July 11 every year, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. It was inspired by the public interest in Five Billion Day on July 11, 1987, the approximate date on which the world's population reached five billion people. World Population Day aims to increase people's awareness on various population issues such as the importance of family planning, gender equality, poverty, maternal health and human rights.

International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica, established by the U.N. in May 2024.

The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, was the July 1995 genocidal killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War. It was mainly perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska under Ratko Mladić, though the Serb paramilitary unit Scorpions also participated. In addition, 25,000 to 30,000 Bosniaks, mainly women and children, were abused and forcibly moved out of Srebrenica. The massacre constitutes the first legally recognised genocide in Europe since the end of World War II.

What Happened on 11th July?

67 significant events took place on Tuesday, 11th July — stretching from 813 to 2021. Explore the moments that shaped history on this day.

11/07/2021

Virgin Galactic launches its founder, Richard Branson, into space, the first company ever to do so.

Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. is a British-American spaceflight company founded by Richard Branson and the Virgin Group conglomerate, which retains an 11.9% stake through Virgin Investments Limited.

11/07/2015

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from the maximum security Altiplano prison in Mexico, his second escape.

Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, commonly known as "El Chapo", is a Mexican former drug lord and the former top leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. Guzmán is believed to be responsible for the deaths of over 34,000 people, and was considered to be the most powerful drug trafficker in the world until he was extradited to the United States and sentenced to life in prison.

11/07/2011

Ninety-eight containers of explosives self-detonate killing 13 people in Zygi, Cyprus.

On 11 July 2011, at Evangelos Florakis Naval Base, situated at Mari, Larnaca District in Cyprus, a large amount of ammunition and military explosives self-detonated, killing 13 people, including the Commander of the Cyprus Navy, Andreas Ioannides, the base commander, Lambros Lambrou, and six firefighters. A further 62 people were injured. So intense was the explosion that debris was blown as far as 3km from the base. The explosion was the worst peacetime military accident ever recorded in Cyprus, with a yield of approximately 481 tons TNT equivalent, as determined by the official investigation into the accident. It was the largest artificial non-nuclear explosion of the 21st century until the 2020 Beirut explosions.

11/07/2010

The Islamist militia group Al-Shabaab carries out multiple suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda, killing 74 people and injuring 85 others.

Islamism is a range of religious and political ideological movements that believe that Islam should influence political systems. Its proponents believe Islam is innately political, and that Islam as a political system is superior to communism, liberal democracy, capitalism, and other alternatives in achieving a just, successful society. The advocates of Islamism, also known as al-Islamiyyun, are usually affiliated with Islamic institutions or social mobilization movements, emphasizing the implementation of sharia, pan-Islamic political unity, and the creation of Islamic states.

In Johannesburg, Spain defeat the Netherlands 1–0 after extra time to win their first FIFA World Cup title.

The Spain national football team has represented Spain in men's international football competition since 1920. It is governed by the Royal Spanish Football Federation, the governing body for football in Spain.

11/07/2006

Mumbai train bombings: 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.

The 2006 Mumbai train bombings were a series of seven bomb blasts on 11 July 2006. They took place over a period of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai, the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the nation's financial capital, The bombs were set off in pressure cookers on trains plying on the Western Line Suburban Section of the Mumbai Division of Western Railway. The blasts killed 209 people and injured over 700 more.

11/07/1995

Yugoslav Wars: Srebrenica massacre begins, lasting until 22 July.

The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies that took place from 1991 to 2001 in what had been the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The conflicts both led up to and resulted from the breakup of Yugoslavia, which began in mid-1991, into six independent countries matching the six republics that had previously constituted Yugoslavia: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and Macedonia, which was later renamed to North Macedonia. The breakup of Yugoslavia and the accompanying Yugoslav Wars are commonly attributed to increasing nationalism and unresolved ethnic tensions in Yugoslavia. While most of the conflicts ended through peace accords that involved full international recognition of the new states, they resulted in the deaths of many as well as severe economic damage to the region.

11/07/1991

Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 crashes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 261 passengers and crew on board.

Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 was a chartered passenger flight from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to Sokoto, Nigeria, on 11 July 1991, which caught fire shortly after takeoff from King Abdulaziz International Airport and crashed while attempting to return for an emergency landing, killing all 247 passengers and 14 crew members on board. The investigation traced the fire to underinflated tires which overheated and burst during takeoff, and subsequently discovered that a project manager had prevented those tires from being replaced because the aircraft was behind schedule. The aircraft was a Douglas DC-8 operated by Nationair Canada for Nigeria Airways. Flight 2120 is the deadliest accident involving a DC-8 and the deadliest aviation disaster involving a Canadian airline.

11/07/1990

Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec begins.

The Oka Crisis, also known as the Mohawk Crisis or Kanehsatà꞉ke Resistance, was a land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada, over plans to build a golf course on land known as "The Pines" which included an Indigenous burial ground. The crisis began on July 11, 1990, and lasted 78 days until September 26, with two fatalities. The dispute was the first well-publicized violent conflict between First Nations and provincial governments in the late 20th century.

11/07/1983

A TAME airline Boeing 737-200 crashes near Cuenca, Ecuador, killing all 119 passengers and crew on board.

TAME or TAME EP Linea Aerea del Ecuador was an airline founded in Ecuador in 1962. TAME was the flag carrier and the largest airline of Ecuador. TAME headquarters were in Quito, Pichincha Province and the main hub was Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito. The airline was formed by the Air Force of Ecuador. In 2011, it became a commercial entity and provided domestic, international and charter flights. On May 20, 2020, the Ecuadorean government decided to cease all operations and liquidate the airline.

11/07/1982

Italy defeats West Germany 3–1 to win the FIFA World Cup.

The Italy national football team has represented Italy in men's international football since its first match in 1910. The national team is controlled by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), the governing body for football in Italy, which is a co-founder and member of UEFA. Italy's home matches are played at various stadiums throughout Italy, and its primary training ground and technical headquarters, Centro Tecnico Federale di Coverciano, is located in Florence.

11/07/1979

America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.

Skylab was the United States' first space station, launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974. It was operated by three trios of astronaut crews: Skylab 2, Skylab 3, and Skylab 4.

11/07/1978

Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.

The Los Alfaques disaster was caused by the explosion of a road tanker near a holiday campsite on 11 July 1978 in Alcanar, Spain. The exploding tanker, which was carrying 23 tons of highly flammable liquefied propylene, killed 215 people and severely burned 200 more, 178 of those killed were French. Several individuals from the company that owned the vehicle were prosecuted for criminal negligence. The disaster resulted in new legislation in Spain, restricting the transit of vehicles carrying dangerous cargo through populated areas to night time only.

11/07/1977

Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in 1968, is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.

11/07/1973

Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on board. In response, the FAA bans smoking in airplane lavatories.

Varig Flight 820 was a scheduled flight of the Brazilian airline Varig that departed from Galeão International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 11 July 1973, for Orly Airport, in Paris, France. The Boeing 707, registration PP-VJZ, made an emergency landing in onion fields about 5 km (2.7 nmi) from Orly Airport, due to smoke in the cabin from a lavatory fire. The fire caused 123 deaths; there were only 11 survivors . Relief Captain Antonio Fuzimoto was the pilot who handled the controls and landed the plane in the field.

11/07/1972

The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.

The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. The match took place in the Laugardalshöll in Reykjavík, Iceland, and has been dubbed the Match of the Century. Fischer became the first US-born player to win the world title. Fischer's win also ended, for a short time, 24 years of Soviet domination of the World Championship.

11/07/1971

The nationalization of all large copper mines in Chile is completed.

The nationalization of the Chilean copper industry, commonly described as the Chilenization of copper was the process by which the Chilean government acquired control of the major foreign-owned section of the Chilean copper mining industry. It involved the three large world-class mines known as 'La Gran Mineria' and three smaller operations. The Chilean-owned smaller copper mines were not affected. The process started under the government of President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (1952–1958), and culminated during the government of President Salvador Allende (1970–1973), who completed the nationalization. This "act of sovereignty" was the espoused basis for a later international economic boycott, which further isolated Chile from the world economy, worsening the state of political polarization that led to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.

11/07/1962

First transatlantic satellite television transmission.

Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. The signals are received via an outdoor parabolic antenna commonly referred to as a satellite dish and a low-noise block downconverter.

Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.

The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo was conceived in 1960 in the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidency during Project Mercury and executed after Project Gemini. Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal, "before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in his address to the U.S. Congress on May 25, 1961.

11/07/1960

France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso) and Niger.

The Republic of Dahomey, simply known as Dahomey, was established on 4 December 1958, as a self-governing colony within the French Community. Prior to attaining autonomy, it had been French Dahomey, part of the French Union. On 1 August 1960, it attained full independence from France.

Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Congo Crisis was a period of political upheaval and conflict between 1960 and 1965 in the Republic of the Congo. The crisis began almost immediately after the Congo became independent from Belgium and ended, unofficially, with the entire country under the rule of Joseph-Désiré Mobutu. Constituting a series of civil wars, the Congo Crisis was also a proxy conflict in the Cold War, in which the Soviet Union and the United States supported opposing factions. Around 100,000 people are believed to have been killed during the crisis.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1960 Southern Gothic novel by American author Harper Lee. It became instantly successful after its release; in the United States, it is widely read in high schools and middle schools. To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize a year after its release, and it has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family, her neighbors and an event that occurred near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1936, when she was ten.

11/07/1957

Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismai'li worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.

Shah Karim al-Hussaini, known simply as Aga Khan IV, was the 49th Imam of Nizari Isma'ili Shia Islam from 1957 until his death in 2025. He inherited the Nizari imamate and the title of Aga Khan at the age of 20 upon the death of his grandfather, Sultan Muhammad Shah. During his Imamate, he was also known by the religious title Mawlānā Hazar Imam by his Isma'ili followers.

11/07/1950

Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and financial centre. Pakistan is the 33rd-largest country by area. Bounded by the Arabian Sea on the south, the Gulf of Oman on the southwest, and the Sir Creek on the southeast, it shares land borders with India to the east; Afghanistan to the west; Iran to the southwest; and China to the northeast. It shares a maritime border with Oman in the Gulf of Oman, and is separated from Tajikistan in the northwest by Afghanistan's narrow Wakhan Corridor.

11/07/1947

The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.

Exodus 1947 was a packet steamship that was built in the United States in 1928 as President Warfield for the Baltimore Steam Packet Company. From her completion in 1928 until 1942 she carried passengers and freight across Chesapeake Bay between Norfolk, Virginia and Baltimore, Maryland.

11/07/1943

Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.

The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia were carried out in German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), with the support of parts of the local Ukrainian population, against the Polish minority in Volhynia, Eastern Galicia, parts of Polesia, and the Lublin region from 1943 to 1945. The UPA's actions resulted in up to 100,000 Polish deaths.

World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily: German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.

The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which Allied forces invaded the Italian island of Sicily in July 1943 and took it from the Axis forces. The island was defended by the Italian 6th Army and the German XIV Panzer Corps. The invasion paved the way for the Allied invasion of mainland Italy and initiated the Italian campaign that removed Italy from the war.

11/07/1941

The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party holds its first congress in Nkana.

The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party was a political party in Northern Rhodesia. It was founded by Roy Welensky of the Rhodesian Railway Workers' Union originally to support white Rhodesian working class interests but also to support the creation of a federal state with Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. It was dissolved in 1944 after losing the elections that year.

11/07/1940

World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of the French State.

World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, the latter enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the only nuclear weapons used in war. World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 60 to 75 million people. Millions died as a result of massacres, starvation, disease, and genocides, including the Holocaust. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.

11/07/1936

The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.

The Robert F. Kennedy Bridge is a complex of bridges and elevated expressway viaducts in New York City. The bridges link the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx. The viaducts cross Randalls and Wards Islands, previously two islands and now joined by landfill.

11/07/1934

Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.

Engelbert Zaschka was a German chief engineer, chief designer and inventor. Zaschka is one of the first German helicopter pioneers and he is a pioneer of flying with muscle power and the folding car. Zaschka devoted himself primarily to aviation and automotive topics, but his work was not limited to them.

11/07/1924

Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on a Sunday.

Eric Henry Liddell was a Scottish sprinter, rugby player and a Christian missionary. Born in Tianjin, China to Scottish missionary parents, he attended a boarding school near London, spending time when possible with his family in Edinburgh, and afterwards attended the University of Edinburgh.

11/07/1922

The Hollywood Bowl opens.

The Hollywood Bowl is an amphitheatre and public park in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California. It was named one of the ten best live music venues in the United States by Rolling Stone magazine in 2018 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

11/07/1921

A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.

The Irish War of Independence, also known as the Anglo-Irish War, was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and its paramilitary forces the Auxiliaries and Ulster Special Constabulary (USC). It was part of the Irish revolutionary period.

The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic.

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often referred by its shortened name as the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars to oppose the military forces of the new nation's adversaries during the Russian Civil War, especially the various groups collectively known as the White Army. In February 1946, the Red Army was renamed the "Soviet Army". Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it was split between the post-Soviet states, with its bulk becoming the Russian Ground Forces, commonly considered to be the successor of the Soviet Army.

Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.

11/07/1920

In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany.

The East Prussian plebiscite, also known as the Allenstein and Marienwerder plebiscite or Warmia, Masuria and Powiśle plebiscite, was a plebiscite for the self-determination of the regions of southern Warmia (Ermland), Masuria and Powiśle, which had been in parts of the East Prussian Government Region of Allenstein and of the West Prussian Government Region of Marienwerder in accordance with Articles 94 to 97 of the Treaty of Versailles.

11/07/1919

The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.

The eight-hour day movement was a social movement that appeared in various countries to regulate the length of a working day. The goal was preventing excesses and abuses of working time.

11/07/1914

Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.

George Herman "Babe" Ruth was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat", he began his MLB career as a star left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees. Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture and is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time. In 1936, Ruth was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its "first five" members.

The US Navy launches the USS Nevada (BB-36) as its first standard-type battleship.

USS Nevada (BB-36), the third United States Navy ship to be named after the 36th state, was the lead ship of the two Nevada-class battleships. Launched in 1914, Nevada was a leap forward in dreadnought technology; four of her new features would be included on almost every subsequent US battleship: triple gun turrets, oil in place of coal for fuel, geared steam turbines for greater range, and the "all or nothing" armor principle. These features made Nevada, alongside her sister ship Oklahoma, the first US Navy "standard-type" battleships.

11/07/1906

Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.

Grace Mae Brown was an American woman who was murdered by her boyfriend, Chester Gillette, on Big Moose Lake, New York, after telling him she was pregnant. The murder, and the subsequent trial of the suspect, attracted national newspaper attention.

11/07/1899

Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.

Fiat Automobiles S.p.A., commonly known as Fiat, is an Italian automobile manufacturer.

11/07/1897

Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon.

Salomon August Andrée, during his lifetime most often known as S. A. Andrée, was a Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer who died while leading an attempt to reach the Geographic North Pole by hydrogen balloon. The balloon expedition was unsuccessful in reaching the Pole and resulted in the deaths of all three of its participants.

11/07/1893

The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.

A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is composed of calcium carbonate in minute crystalline form, which is deposited in concentric layers. More commercially valuable pearls are perfectly round and smooth, but many other shapes, known as baroque pearls, can occur. The finest quality of natural pearls have been highly valued as gemstones and objects of beauty for many centuries. Because of this, pearls have become a metaphor for something rare, fine, admirable, and valuable.

A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.

In political science, a revolution is a rapid, fundamental transformation of a society's class, state, ethnic, or religious structures. According to the sociologist Jack Goldstone, all revolutions contain "a common set of elements at their core: (a) efforts to change the political regime that draw on a competing vision of a just order, (b) a notable degree of informal or formal mass mobilization, and (c) efforts to force change through noninstitutionalized actions such as mass demonstrations, protests, strikes, or violence."

11/07/1889

Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.

Tijuana is the most populous city of the Mexican state of Baja California, located on the northwestern Pacific Coast of Mexico. It is the municipal seat of the Tijuana Municipality, the hub of the Tijuana metropolitan area and the most populous city in northern Mexico. Tijuana is just south of California and is adjacent to the Mexico–United States border which is part of the San Diego–Tijuana metro area.

11/07/1882

The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War.

The British Mediterranean Fleet, also known as the Mediterranean Station, was a formation of the Royal Navy. The Fleet was one of the most prestigious commands in the navy for the majority of its history, defending the vital sea link between the United Kingdom and India. General at Sea Robert Blake was appointed as the first commander in September 1654. The Fleet was in existence until 1967.

11/07/1864

American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.

The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve slavery in the United States, which they saw as threatened because of the election of Abraham Lincoln and the growing abolitionist movement in the North. The war ended with Union victory, the dissolution of the Confederacy and the abolition of slavery, freeing four million African Americans.

11/07/1848

Waterloo railway station in London opens.

Waterloo station, also known as London Waterloo, is a major central London railway terminus on the National Rail network in the United Kingdom, in the Waterloo area of the London Borough of Lambeth. It is connected to a London Underground station of the same name and is adjacent to Waterloo East station on the South Eastern Main Line. The station is the terminus of the South West Main Line to Weymouth via Southampton, the West of England main line to Exeter via Salisbury, the Portsmouth Direct line to Portsmouth Harbour which connects with ferry services to the Isle of Wight, and several commuter services around west and south-west London, Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire.

11/07/1836

The Fly-fisher's Entomology is published by Alfred Ronalds. The book transformed the sport and went to many editions.

The Fly-Fisher's Entomology, Illustrated by Coloured Representations of the Natural and Artificial Insect and Accompanied by a Few Observations and Instructions Relative to Trout-and-Grayling Fishing, first published in 1836 by Alfred Ronalds (1802–1860), was the first comprehensive work related to the entomology associated with fly fishing. Although the work was Ronalds' only book, it was published in 11 editions between 1836 and 1913 and has been extensively reprinted in the last 100 years.

11/07/1833

Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed.

The Noongar are Aboriginal Australian people who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast. There are 14 different groups in the Noongar cultural bloc: Amangu, Ballardong, Yued, Kaneang, Koreng, Mineng, Njakinjaki, Njunga, Pibelmen, Pindjarup, Wadandi, Whadjuk, Wiilman and Wudjari. The Noongar people refer to their land as Noongar boodja.

11/07/1804

A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.

The Burr–Hamilton duel took place in Weehawken, New Jersey, between Aaron Burr, the U.S. vice president at the time, and Alexander Hamilton, the first and former Secretary of the Treasury, at dawn on July 11, 1804. The duel was the culmination of a bitter rivalry that had developed over years between both men, who were high-profile politicians in the newly-established United States, founded following the victorious American Revolution and its associated Revolutionary War. It is one of the most famous duels in American history.

11/07/1801

French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.

Jean-Louis Pons was a French astronomer. Despite humble beginnings and being self-taught, he went on to become the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827 Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.

11/07/1798

The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines or simply the Marines, is the naval infantry service branch of the United States Armed Forces. The service is responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious warfare through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces. The U.S. Marine Corps is a part of the United States Department of Defense and is one of the six armed forces of the United States and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

11/07/1796

The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated on the bank of the Detroit River across from the Canadian city of Windsor, Ontario. It is the 26th-most populous city in the United States and the largest U.S. city on the Canada–United States border, with a population of 639,111 at the 2020 census, and an estimated 2025 population of 649,095. The Metro Detroit area, at over 4.4 million people, is the 14th-largest metropolitan area in the nation and second-largest in the Midwest. The county seat of Wayne County, Detroit is a significant cultural center known for its contributions to music, art, architecture, and design, in addition to its historical automotive and industrial background.

11/07/1789

Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.

Jacques Necker was a Genevan banker, financier and statesman who served as finance minister of France for Louis XVI. He was a reformer, but his innovations sometimes caused great discontent. Necker was a constitutional monarchist, a political economist, and a moralist, who wrote a severe critique of the new principle of equality before the law.

11/07/1735

Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.

A dwarf planet is a small planetary-mass object that is in direct orbit around the Sun, massive enough to be gravitationally rounded, but insufficient to achieve orbital dominance like the eight classical planets of the Solar System. The prototypical dwarf planet is Pluto, which for decades was regarded as a planet before the "dwarf" concept was adopted in 2006. Many planetary geologists consider dwarf planets and planetary-mass moons to be planets, but since 2006 the IAU and many astronomers have excluded them from the roster of planets.

11/07/1616

Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.

Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer, navigator, cartographer, soldier, geographer, diplomat, and chronicler who founded Quebec City and established New France as a permanent French colony in North America.

11/07/1576

While exploring the North Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage, Martin Frobisher sights Greenland, mistaking it for the hypothesized (but non-existent) island of "Frisland".

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about 85,133,000 square kilometers (32,870,000 sq mi). It covers approximately 17% of Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the Age of Discovery, it was known for separating the New World of the Americas from the Old World of Afro-Eurasia.

11/07/1476

Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.

Pope Julius II was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 1503 to his death, in February 1513.

11/07/1410

Ottoman Interregnum: Süleyman Çelebi defeats his brother Musa Çelebi outside the Ottoman capital, Edirne.

The Ottoman Interregnum, or Ottoman Civil War, was a civil war in the Ottoman realm between the sons of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I following their father's defeat and capture by Timur in the Battle of Ankara on 28 July 1402. Although Timur confirmed Mehmed Çelebi as sultan, Mehmed's brothers refused to recognize his authority, each claiming the throne for himself, which resulted in civil war. The Interregnum would last a little under 11 years and culminate in the Battle of Çamurlu on 5 July 1413, when Mehmed Çelebi emerged as victor, crowned himself Sultan Mehmed I, and restored the empire.

11/07/1405

Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.

The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming was the last imperial dynasty of China ruled by the Han people, the majority ethnic group in China. Although the primary capital of Beijing fell in 1644 to a rebellion led by Li Zicheng, numerous rump regimes ruled by remnants of the Ming imperial family, collectively called the Southern Ming, survived until 1662.

11/07/1346

Charles IV, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia, is elected King of the Romans.

Charles IV was Holy Roman Emperor from 1355 until his death in 1378. He was elected King of Germany in 1346 and became King of Bohemia that same year. He was a member of the House of Luxembourg from his father's side and the Bohemian House of Přemyslid from his mother's side; he emphasized the latter due to his lifelong affinity for the Bohemian side of his inheritance, and also because his direct ancestors in the Přemyslid line included two saints.

11/07/1302

Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch): A coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France's royal army.

The Battle of the Golden Spurs or 1302 Battle of Courtrai was a military confrontation between the royal army of France and rebellious forces of the County of Flanders on 11 July 1302 during the 1297–1305 Franco-Flemish War. It took place near the town of Kortrijk in modern-day Belgium and resulted in an unexpected victory for the Flemish.

11/07/1174

Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor.

Baldwin IV (1161–1185), known as the Leper King, was the king of Jerusalem from 1174 until his death in 1185. Baldwin ascended to the throne when he was thirteen despite having leprosy. He launched several attempts to curb the increasing power of the Muslim ruler Saladin, though much of his life was marked by infighting amongst the kingdom's nobles. Throughout his reign, and especially at the end of his life, he was troubled by his succession, working to select a suitable heir and prevent a succession crisis. Choosing competent advisers, Baldwin ruled a thriving crusader state, protecting it from Saladin.

11/07/0911

Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.

911 (CMXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

11/07/0813

Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, abdicates in favor of his general Leo the Armenian, and becomes a monk (under the name Athanasius).

Michael I Rangabe was Byzantine emperor from 811 to 813. A courtier of Emperor Nikephoros I, he survived the disastrous campaign against the Bulgars and was preferred as imperial successor over Staurakios, who was severely injured. He was proclaimed emperor by Patriarch Nicephorus I of Constantinople on 2 October 811.

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Amad, Ivorian footballer

Ryan Rolison, American baseball player

Alessia Cara, Canadian singer-songwriter

Joey Bosa, American football player

Tyler Medeiros, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer

Bartłomiej Kalinkowski, Polish footballer

Anthony Milford, Australian rugby league player

Nina Nesbitt, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist

Lucas Ocampos, Argentinian footballer

Rebecca Bross, American gymnast

Heini Salonen, Finnish tennis player

Mohamed Elneny, Egyptian footballer

Mona Barthel, German tennis player

Connor Paolo, American actor

Adam Jezierski, Polish-Spanish actor and singer

Patrick Peterson, American football player

Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player

Tobias Sana, Swedish footballer

Travis Waddell, Australian rugby league player

Shimanoumi Koyo, Japanese sumo wrestler

Étienne Capoue, French footballer

Natalie La Rose, Dutch singer, songwriter and dancer

Shigeaki Kato, Japanese singer

Raúl García, Spanish footballer

Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer

Ryan Jarvis, English footballer

Robert Adamson, American actor, director, and producer

Orestis Karnezis, Greek footballer

Yorman Bazardo, Venezuelan baseball player

Tanith Belbin, Canadian-American ice dancer

Jacoby Jones, American football player (died 2024)

Joe Pavelski, American ice hockey player

Morné Steyn, South African rugby player

Engin Baytar, German-Turkish footballer

Peter Cincotti, American singer-songwriter and pianist

Marie Serneholt, Swedish singer and dancer

Chris Cooley, American football player

Andre Johnson, American football player

Susana Barreiros, Venezuelan judge

Tyson Kidd, Canadian wrestler

Kevin Powers, American soldier and author

Raio Piiroja, Estonian footballer

Kathleen Edwards, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Massimiliano Rosolino, Italian swimmer

Brandon Short, American football player and sportscaster

Eduardo Nájera, Mexican-American basketball player and coach

Willie Anderson, American football player

Rubén Baraja, Spanish footballer and manager

Alanas Chošnau, Lithuanian singer-songwriter

Hermann Hreiðarsson, Icelandic footballer and manager

André Ooijer, Dutch footballer and coach

Lil' Kim, American rapper and producer

Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek runner

Cormac Battle, English-Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Michael Rosenbaum, American actor

Leisha Hailey, American singer-songwriter and actress

Scott Muller, Australian cricketer

Justin Chambers, American actor

Sajjad Karim, English lawyer and politician

Eric Owens, American opera singer

Ned Boulting, British sports journalist and television presenter

Michael Geist, Canadian journalist and academic

Daniel MacMaster, Canadian singer-songwriter (died 2008)

Esera Tuaolo, American football player

Andy Ashby, American baseball player and sportscaster

Jhumpa Lahiri, Indian American novelist and short story writer

Nadeem Aslam, Pakistani-English author

Kentaro Miura, Japanese author and illustrator (died 2021)

Rod Strickland, American basketball player and coach

Ricky Warwick, Northern Irish musician

Tony Cottee, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster

Ernesto Hoost, Dutch kick-boxer and sportscaster

Scott Shriner, American singer-songwriter and bass player