November 11

### Up to 1900

- 1100 – Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland.
- 1417 – Pope Martin V is elected.
- 1500 – Treaty of Granada: Louis XII of France and Ferdinand III of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples.
- 1620 – In what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, the Mayflower Compact is signed on the _Mayflower_, establishing the basic laws for the Plymouth Colony.
- 1648 – France and the Netherlands agree to divide the island of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin.
- 1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the y=x function.
- 1675 – Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs.
- 1750 – Riots break out Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
- 1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
- 1855 – An earthquake near Edo, now Tokyo, kills 6,000 people.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
- 1865 – The Treaty of Sinchula is signed: Bhutan gives areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
- 1880 – Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly is hung in Melbourne.
- 1887 – Haymarket trials: August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
- 1887 – Building work begins on the Manchester Ship Canal.
- 1889 – Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.

### 1901 – 2000

- 1918 – World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France.
- 1918 – Józef Piłsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland.
- 1918 – Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates.
- 1919 – Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
- 1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1926 – The US' numbered Highway system is introduced.
- 1930 – Patent number US1781541 is given to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
- 1934 – The Shrine of Remembrance is opened in Melbourne, Australia.
- 1940 – World War II: The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
- 1940 – The Armistice Day Blizzard kills 144 people in the Midwestern United States.
- 1942 – World War II: Germany completes its occupation of France.
- 1954 – The Two Towers, part of the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, is released in the UK.
- 1960 – In South Vietnam, a coup against Ngo Dinh Diem is crushed.
- 1965 – Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) was declared independent by the white minority regime of Ian Smith.
- 1966 – NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.
- 1967 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the NLF and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal was to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
- 1968 – A second republic is declared in Maldives.
- 1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
- 1975 – Angola becomes independent from Portugal, with Agostinho Neto as president.
- 1975 – Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as Prime Minister.
- 1978 – Maumoon Gayoom succeeds Ibrahim Nasir as the President of the Republic of the Maldives.
- 1978 – A renovated Hollywood sign is unveiled, replacing the older version that was built in 1923.
- 1981 – Antigua and Barbuda joins the UN.
- 1986 – Sperry Rand and Burroughs merge to form Unisys. They become the second largest computer company.
- 1992 – The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
- 1997 – Mary McAleese was inaugurated as the eighth President of Ireland.
- 2000 – In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.

### From 2001

- 2004 – New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington
- 2004 – Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization minutes after the death of Yasser Arafat.
- 2004 – Official Guided by Voices Day in San Diego, California.
- 2004 – Mary McAleese was inaugurated for a second term as President of Ireland.
- 2006 – Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London.
- 2008 – The ship RMS _Queen Elizabeth 2_ sets sail for its last voyage.
- 2008 – Mohamed Nasheed succeeds Maumoon Gayoom as President of the Maldives.
- 2011 – Michael D. Higgins is inaugurated as President of Ireland.
- 2014 – 58 people are killed in a bus crash in Sukkur District in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh.
- 2018 – Ceremonies take place worldwide to mark 100 years since the end of World War I; several political leaders gather in France, while Frank-Walter Steinmeier becomes the first German Head of state to take part in the official Remembrance Day commemorations in London.
- 2022 – Kherson (city) was liberated after a Ukrainian counteroffensive and the bridge connecting over the Dniper River was destroyed.

### Up to 1800

- 995 – Gisela of Swabia (d. 1041)
- 1050 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106)
- 1154 – King Sancho I of Portugal (d. 1212)
- 1155 – King Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214)
- 1220 – Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (d. 1271)
- 1441 – Charlotte of Savoy, Queen of France (d. 1483)
- 1491 – Martin Bucer, Alsatian theologian and religious reformer (d. 1551)
- 1493 – Paracelsus, Swiss physician, alchemist and mystic (d. 1541)
- 1493 – Bernardo Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1569)
- 1569 – Martin Ruland the Younger, German physician and alchemist (d. 1611)
- 1579 – Frans Snyders, Flemish painter (d. 1657)
- 1599 – Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, Queen of Sweden (d. 1655)
- 1668 – Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (d. 1736)
- 1696 – Andrea Zani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1757)
- 1733 – Philip John Schuyler, American politician and soldier (d. 1804)
- 1743 – Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (d. 1828)
- 1744 – Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (d. 1818)
- 1748 – King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
- 1758 – Caleb P. Bennett, Governor of Delaware (d. 1836)
- 1781 – Caroline Bardua, German painter (d. 1864)
- 1791 – Josef Munzinger, Swiss politician (d. 1855)
- 1792 – Mary Anne Disraeli, Welsh wife of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (d. 1872)
- 1799 – Charles Bent, Territorial Governor of New Mexico (d. 1847)

### 1801 – 1900

- 1821 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
- 1831 – Willard Fiske, American librarian and scholar (d. 1904)
- 1835 – Matthias Jochumsson, Icelandic poet (d. 1920)
- 1848 – Zinovy Rozhdestvensky, Russian admiral (d. 1909)
- 1854 – William Yates Atkinson, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 1899)
- 1858 – Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (d. 1884)
- 1863 – Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935)
- 1864 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian pacifist (d. 1921)
- 1869 – Gaetano Bresci, Italian anarchist (d. 1901)
- 1869 – Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (d. 1946)
- 1872 – Maude Adams, American actress (d. 1953)
- 1872 – David I. Walsh, 46th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1947)
- 1882 – Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
- 1883 – Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (d. 1969)
- 1885 – George S. Patton, American general (d. 1945)
- 1887 – Roland Young, English actor (d. 1953)
- 1888 – Abul Kalam Azad, Indian independence activist (d. 1958)
- 1891 – Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (d. 1954)
- 1893 – Paul van Zeeland, Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1973)
- 1894 – Beverly Bayne, American silent movie actress (d. 1982)
- 1896 – Lucky Luciano, Italian–born American gangster (d. 1962)
- 1898 – René Clair, French movie director (d. 1981)
- 1899 – Pat O'Brien, American movie actor (d. 1983)

### 1901 – 1950

- 1901 – Magda Goebbels, wife of Joseph Goebbels (d. 1945)
- 1901 – Sam Spiegel, Austrian–American movie director (d. 1985)
- 1904 – Alger Hiss, American government official and spy (d. 1996)
- 1904 – J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)
- 1904 – Andrzej Bogucki, Polish actor, operetta singer and songwriter (d. 1978)
- 1909 – Robert Ryan, American actor (d. 1973)
- 1910 – Carl A. Wirtanen, American astronomer (d. 1990)
- 1911 – Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (d. 2002)
- 1912 – Nina Andrycz, Polish actress (d. 2014)
- 1914 – Howard Fast, American writer (d. 2003)
- 1915 – Anna Schwartz, American economist and writer (d. 2012)
- 1917 – Manuel Alexandre, Spanish actor (d. 2010)
- 1918 – Stubby Kaye, American actor (d. 1997)
- 1920 – Roy Jenkins, British politician (d. 2003)
- 1921 – Terrel Bell, American politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Education (d. 1996)
- 1922 – Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (d. 2007)
- 1925 – John Guillermin, English director, writer and producer (d. 2015)
- 1925 – June Whitfield, English actress (d. 2018)
- 1925 – Jonathan Winters, American comedy actor (d. 2013)
- 1926 – Torfi Bryngeirsson, Icelandic long jumper (d. 1995)
- 1926 – Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
- 1926 – Noah Gordon, American novelist
- 1926 – Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing driver (d. 2016)
- 1927 – Mose Allison, American jazz musician (d. 2016)
- 1928 – Joseph Mercieca, former Archbishop of Malta (d. 2016)
- 1928 – Ernestine Anderson, American singer (d. 2016)
- 1928 – Gracita Morales, Spanish actress and singer (d. 1995)
- 1928 – Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer (d. 2012)
- 1929 – Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German writer
- 1929 – LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997)
- 1930 – Hugh Everett, American physicist (d. 1982)
- 1930 – Vernon Handley, English conductor (d. 2008)
- 1930 – Mildred Dresselhaus, American physicist (d. 2017)
- 1932 – Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist
- 1936 – Mala Sinha, Bollywood movie actress
- 1936 – Susan Kohner, American actress
- 1937 – André Brugiroux, French traveler and writer
- 1937 – Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat
- 1938 – Haruhiro Yamashita, Japanese gymnast
- 1938 – Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater (d. 2015)
- 1940 – Barbara Boxer, American politician and United States Senator for California
- 1944 – Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor
- 1945 – Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua
- 1945 – Vince Martell, American musician
- 1945 – Chris Dreja, English guitarist
- 1948 – René Harris, President of Nauru (d. 2008)
- 1950 – Jim Peterik, American musician

### 1951 – 1975

- 1951 – Kim Peek, American megasavant (d. 2009)
- 1951 – Fuzzy Zoeller, American golfer
- 1953 – Marshall Crenshaw, American rock music singer
- 1953 – Andy Partridge, British musician and singer–songwriter
- 1953 – Evelyn Matthei, Chilean politician
- 1955 – Friedrich Merz, German politician
- 1955 – Jigme Singye Wangchuck, former King of Bhutan
- 1956 – José Luis Brown, Argentine footballer (d. 2019)
- 1956 – Ian Craig Marsh, English guitarist
- 1958 – Luz Casal, Spanish singer
- 1958 – Kathy Lette, Australian author
- 1960 – Marcel Koller, Swiss footballer and coach
- 1960 – Stanley Tucci, American actor and director
- 1960 – Cristina Odone, Italian journalist, writer and editor
- 1960 – Chuck Hernandez, American baseball player and coach
- 1961 – Luca Zingaretti, Italian actor
- 1962 – James Morrison, Australian musician
- 1962 – Demi Moore, American actress
- 1964 – Calista Flockhart, American actress
- 1966 – Benedicta Boccoli, Italian actress
- 1966 – Alison Doody, Irish actress and model
- 1966 – Paul Monaghan, Scottish politician
- 1968 – Peaches, Canadian–German singer-songwriter, DJ, producer and actress
- 1968 – Alfredo Reinado, East Timorese rebel leader (d. 2008)
- 1969 – Carson Kressley, American television host and fashion designer
- 1970 – Lee Battersby, Australian writer
- 1971 – Jennifer Celotta, American director, producer and screenwriter
- 1972 – Tyler Christopher, American actor
- 1973 – Jason White, American musician (Green Day)
- 1974 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor

### From 1976

- 1977 – Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (d. 2002)
- 1977 – Maniche, Portuguese footballer
- 1978 – Ludmilla Radchenko, Russian actress
- 1978 – Erik Edman, Swedish footballer
- 1981 – Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- 1981 – Raphael Gualazzi, Italian pianist and singer
- 1981 – Natalie Glebova, Russian–Canadian beauty queen, Miss Universe 2005
- 1982 – Gonzalo Canale, Argentine–born Italian rugby player
- 1983 – Philipp Lahm, German footballer
- 1983 – Arouna Koné, Ivorian footballer
- 1986 – Greta Salóme Stefánsdóttir, Icelandic singer, songwriter and violinist
- 1986 – François Trinh-Duc, French rugby player
- 1987 – Yuya Tegoshi, Japanese singer and actor
- 1989 – Reina Tanaka, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
- 1989 – Adam Rippon, American figure skater
- 1990 – Georginio Wijnaldum, Dutch footballer
- 1990 – Tom Dumoulin, Dutch cyclist
- 1991 – Christa B. Allen, American actress
- 1993 – Jamaal Lascelles, English footballer
- 1994 – Ellie Simmonds, British Paralympic swimmer

### Up to 1900

- 855 – Petronas, Byzantine Empire general
- 1028 – Constantine VIII, Byzantine Emperor
- 1130 – Theresa, Countess of Portugal (b. 1080)
- 1189 – William II of Sicily (b. 1153)
- 1623 – Philippe de Mornay, French theorist (b. 1549)
- 1686 – Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor and politician (b. 1602)
- 1724 – Joseph Blake, English outlaw and highwayman (b. 1700)
- 1751 – Julien Offray de La Mettrie, French physician and philosopher (b. 1709)
- 1831 – Nat Turner, American slave rebel (b. 1800)
- 1855 – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
- 1861 – King Pedro V of Portugal (b. 1837)
- 1862 – James Madison Porter, American lawyer and politician (b. 1793)
- 1880 – Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (b. 1855)
- 1880 – Lucretia Mott, American feminist and abolitionist (b. 1793)
- 1887 – Haymarket affair executions:
    - George Engel, German–American businessman and activist (b. 1836)
    - Adolph Fischer, German–American printer and activist (b. 1858)
    - Albert Parsons, American journalist and activist (b. 1848)
    - August Spies, American journalist and activist (b. 1855)

### 1901 – 2000

- 1917 – Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii (b. 1838)
- 1918 – George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier (b. 1892)
- 1918 – Victor Adler, Austrian politician (b. 1852)
- 1919 – Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter (b. 1832)
- 1919 – Felix von Hartmann, German cardinal (b. 1861)
- 1938 – Typhoid Mary, Irish–American carrier of typhoid fever (b. 1869)
- 1939 – Jan Opletal, Czech student (b. 1915)
- 1945 – Jerome Kern, American composer (b. 1885)
- 1948 – Fred Niblo, American movie actor, director and producer (b. 1874)
- 1950 – Alexandros Diomidis, Greek banker and statesman (b. 1875)
- 1953 – Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1866)
- 1968 – Jeanne Demessieux, French composer (b. 1921)
- 1972 – Berry Oakley, American musician (b. 1948)
- 1973 – Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist (b. 1895)
- 1976 – Alexander Calder, American artist (b. 1898)
- 1977 – Greta Keller, Austrian–American actress and singer (b. 1903)
- 1979 – Dmitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian–American composer and conductor (b. 1894)
- 1984 – Martin Luther King, Sr., American civil rights figure (b. 1899)
- 1985 – Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1959)
- 1990 – Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet (b. 1909)
- 1993 – Erskine Hawkins, American trumpeter and big band leader (b. 1914)
- 1994 – Pedro Zamora, Cuban–American AIDS activist (b. 1972)
- 1994 – John A. Volpe, 61st Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1908)
- 1997 – Rod Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950)
- 1999 – Vivian Fuchs, British geologist and polar explorer (b. 1908)
- 2000 – Sandra Schmidt, German skier (b. 1981)

### From 2001

- 2004 – Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian Authority (b. 1929)
- 2004 – Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (b. 1948)
- 2005 – Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, British photographer (b. 1939)
- 2010 – Marie Osborne, American actress (b. 1911)
- 2012 – Rex Hunt, former British Governor of the Falkland Islands (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal (b. 1917)
- 2013 – Stein Grieg Halvorsen, Norwegian theatre actor (b. 1909)
- 2014 – John Doar, American lawyer (b. 1921)
- 2014 – Carol Ann Susi, American actress (b. 1952)
- 2014 – Harry Lonsdale, American scientist, entrepreneur and politician (b. 1932)
- 2015 – Nathaniel Marston, American actor (b. 1975)
- 2015 – Phil Taylor, English musician (Motörhead) (b. 1954)
- 2016 – Robert Vaughn, American actor (b. 1932)
- 2016 – Aki Schmidt, German footballer (b. 1935)
- 2016 – Ilse Aichinger, Austrian writer (b. 1921)
- 2017 – Kirti Nidhi Bista, Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1927)
- 2017 – Valery Rozov, Russian BASE jumper (b. 1964)
- 2017 – Ian Wachtmeister, Swedish business executive and politician (b. 1932)
- 2017 – Henry Emeleus, British geologist (b. 1930)
- 2018 – D. J. Finney, British statistician (b. 1917)
- 2018 – Olga Harmony, Mexican playwright (b. 1928)
- 2018 – Wayne Maunder, Canadian–American actor (b. 1937)
- 2018 – Douglas Rain, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
- 2018 – Frankie Schneider, American NASCAR driver (b. 1926)
- 2019 – Zeke Bratkowski, American football player (b. 1931)
- 2019 – Frank Dobson, British politician (b. 1940)
- 2019 – Winston Lackin, Surinamese politician (b. 1954)
- 2019 – James Le Mesurier, British army officer and aid worker (b. 1971)
- 2019 – Ralph T. O'Neal, Premier of the British Virgin Islands (b. 1933)
- 2019 – Mümtaz Soysal, Turkish politician and lawyer (b. 1929)
- 2019 – Edward Zacca, Acting Governor–General of Jamaica (b. 1931)

## Observances

- Christian feast day of Martin of Tours (St. Martin)
- Remembrance Day (some English–speaking countries)
- Veterans Day (United States)
- Armistice Day (France, Belgium)
- Independence Day (Poland, Angola)
- Lacplesis Day (Latvia)
- Republic Day (Maldives)
- Singles Day (China)
- Women's Day (Belgium)