January 11

Events
 Up to 1900 
 314 – Pope Miltiades ends his reign as the Catholic Pope.
 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople.
 1158 – Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.
 1569 – First recorded lottery in England.
 1571 – Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion.
 1693 – Mount Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy.
 1759 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
 1779 – Ching-Tang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur in present–day northeastern India.
 1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
 1805 – Michigan Territory is created.
 1861 – Alabama secedes from the United States.
 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post – General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
 1866 – British passenger ship London sinks in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, killing 220 out of the 239 people on board.
 1867 – Benito Juárez becomes Mexican president again.
 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War begins.
 1880 – Total solar eclipse blackens the sky of San Francisco one day after the funeral of Emperor Norton.

 1901–1950 
 1902 – Popular Mechanics magazine was published for the first time.
 1908 – The Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
 1917 – The Kingsland Munitions Factory explosion occurs in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.
 1919 – Romania annexes Transylvania.
 1922 – First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
 1923 – Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments.
 1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
 1935 – Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
 1938 – Frances Moulton is the first woman to become president of a US national bank.
 1942 – Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.
 1942 – The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
 1943 – The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
 1946 – Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as dictator.
 1946 – Porfirio Barba-Jacob's ashes go back to Colombia.
 1949 – First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.

 From 1951 
 1954 – A series of avalanches in the state of Vorarlberg in Austria kills 135 people.
 1957 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
 1960 – Chad declares its independence.
 1962 – An avalanche occurs in the Huascaran region in Peru; 4,000 deaths.
 1962 – Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
 1963 – The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the US, is opened.
 1964 – United States Surgeon General Luther Leonidas Terry reports smoking may be hazardous to health. First such statement from US government.
 1972 – East Pakistan becomes Bangladesh.
 1973 – Beginning of the Watergate burglars trial.
 1974 – The world's first surviving set of sextuplets are born to Susan Rosenkowitz in Cape Town, South Africa.
 1976 – In Ecuador, Guillermo Rodriguez Lara is removed from power by the military.
 1980 – Nigel Short, 14, is the youngest chess player to be given the degree of International Master.
 1981 – In Spain, Cantabria becomes an autonomous community.
 1982 – A cold snap sends temperatures to record lows in dozens of cities throughout the Midwestern United States.
 1986 – The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia was officially opened.
 1990 – 300,000 march in favor of Lithuanian independence.
 1992 – Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.
 1994 – Irish Government announces the end of a 15–year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin
 1996 – Haiti becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
 1996 – Ryutaro Hashimoto becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
 1998 – Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria; over 100 people killed.
 2001 – The Federal Trade Commission approved the merger of AOL and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.
 2002 – The first prisoners arrive at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay, on the island of Cuba.
 2003 – Illinois governor George H. Ryan announces decision to grant clemency to all inmates of death row.
 2005 – Black Tuesday bushfires swept across the southern Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.
 2013 – President of France François Hollande authorizes military intervention in the conflict in Mali.
 2015 – Over a million people march in Paris for freedom of speech after the attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine a few days earlier.
 2015 – Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic is elected to become the first female President of Croatia.
 2018 – US President Donald Trump is involved in a racism controversy over words he is said to have used to describe Haiti, El Salvador and African countries.
 2024 – The Iranian Navy seizes control of the Marshall Islands–flagged, United States–controlled & Greek–operated civilian oil tanker St Nikolas.

Births
 Up to 1900 
 347 – Theodosius I, Roman Emperor (d. 395)
 1209 – Möngke Khan, Mongol Emperor (d. 1259)
 1322 – Emperor Komyo of Japan (d. 1380)
 1359 – Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (d. 1393)
 1395 – Michelle of Valois, Duchess of Burgundy (d. 1422)
 1503 – Parmigianino, Italian artist (d. 1540)
 1591 – Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (d. 1646)
 1638 – Nicolaus Steno, Danish physician, scientist and bishop (d. 1686)
 1642 – Johann Friedrich Alberti, German composer and organist (d. 1710)
 1671 – François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (d. 1745)
 1695 – Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish nobleman (d. 1751)
 1755 or 1757 – Alexander Hamilton, American politician (d. 1804)
 1757 – Samuel Bentham, English mechanical engineer (d. 1831)
 1760 – Oliver Wolcott, Jr., American politician (d. 1833)
 1786 – Joseph Jackson Lister, English optician and physicist (d. 1869)
 1788 – William Thomas Brande, English chemist (d. 1866)
 1793 – Cave Johnson, American politician (d. 1866)
 1805 – Johann Nepomuk Geiger, Austrian painter (d. 1880)
 1807 – Ezra Cornell, American businessman and university founder (d. 1874)
 1814 – James Paget, English surgeon and pathologist (d. 1899)
 1814 – William Bigler, 12th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 1880)
 1815 – John A. Macdonald, Scottish–born first Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
 1838 – Giovanni Cagliero, Italian diplomat (d. 1926)
 1839 – Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (d. 1903)
 1842 – William James, American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1910)
 1852 – Constantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1926)
 1853 – Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (d. 1926)
 1858 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American retailer (d. 1947)
 1859 – George Nathaniel Curzon, British Viceroy of India (d. 1925)
 1862 – Joseph Nelson Rose, American botanist (d. 1928)
 1865 – Johannes Franz Hartmann, German astronomer (d. 1936)
 1868 – Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher, academic and politician (d. 1940)
 1870 – Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (d. 1945)
 1872 – Herbert Baddeley, British tennis player (d. 1931)
 1872 – Wilfred Baddeley, British tennis player (d. 1929)
 1872 – George Joseph Smith, British serial killer (d. 1915)
 1878 – Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general (d. 1952)
 1885 – Alice Paul, American suffragette and women's rights activist (d. 1977)
 1890 – Harold Bride, British wireless officer on the RMS Titanic (d. 1956)
 1895 – Laurens Hammond, American inventor (d. 1973)
 1897 – August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (d. 1979)
 1899 – Eva Le Gallienne, English–American actress (d. 1991)

 1901–1950 
 1901 – Kwak Ki-ok, Korean pilot (d. 1988)
 1902 – Maurice Durufle, French composer (d. 1986)
 1903 – Alan Paton, South African writer and activist (d. 1988)
 1906 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (d. 2008)
 1907 – Pierre Mendès France, Prime Minister of France (d. 1982)
 1908 – Lionel Stander, American actor (d. 1994)
 1910 – Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (d. 1975)
 1911 – Nora Heysen, Australian artist (d. 2003)
 1911 – Brunhilde Pomsel, German broadcaster (d. 2017)
 1911 – Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004)
 1917 – John Robarts, 17th Premier of Ontario (d. 1982)
 1918 – Gunnar Sonsteby, Norwegian Resistance activist (d. 2012)
 1923 – Carroll Shelby, American racing driver, automobile designer and businessman (d. 2012)
 1923 – Jerome Bixby, American writer and scriptwriter (d. 1998)
 1923 – Ernst Nolte, German historian and philosopher (d. 2016)
 1924 – Don Cherry, American singer and golfer (d. 2018)
 1924 – Roger Guillemin, French Nobel Prize laureate
 1924 – Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970)
 1926 – Lev Dyomin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1998)
 1926 – Grant Tinker, American television executive (d. 2016)
 1928 – Mitchell Ryan, American actor
 1929 – Rafael Eitan, Israeli general and politician (d. 2004)
 1930 – Ron Mulock, Australian politician (d. 2014)
 1930 – Rod Taylor, Australian actor (d. 2015)
 1932 – Alfonso Arau, Mexican movie director
 1934 – Charles Antony Richard Hoare, British computer scientist
 1934 – Jean Chrétien, 20th Prime Minister of Canada
 1936 – Eva Hesse, German sculptor (d. 1970)
 1938 – Arthur Scargill, British politician and activist
 1938 – Frankie Randall, American singer-songwriter, actor and dancer (d. 2014)
 1938 – Gavin Millar, Scottish movie director
 1940 – Andres Tarand, Estonian geographer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Estonia
 1941 – Gerson, Brazilian footballer
 1942 – Clarence Clemons, American musician (d. 2011)
 1942 – Bud Acton, American basketball player
 1943 – Eduardo Mendoza, Spanish writer
 1944 – Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (d. 1989)
 1944 – Shibu Soren, Indian politician
 1945 – Christine Kaufmann, Austrian–German actress (d. 2017)
 1946 – Naomi Judd, American singer
 1946 – Tony Kaye, British pianist and organist
 1946 – John Piper, American theologian
 1948 – Wajima Hiroshi, Japanese sumo wrestler
 1948 – Terry Williams, Welsh rock drummer (Dire Straits)
 1949 – Daryl Braithwaite, Australian rock music singer
 1949 – Bogdan Borusewicz, Polish historian and politician
 1949 – Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Mexican writer
 1949 – Chris Ford, American basketball player
 1949 – David Rotem, Israeli politician (d. 2015)
 1949 – Mohammad Reza Rahimi, 2nd Vice President of Iran

 1951–1975 
 1951 – Philip Tartaglia, Scottish Roman Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow
 1952 – Bille Brown, Australian actor and playwright (d. 2013)
 1952 – Ben Crenshaw, American golfer
 1952 – Lee Ritenour, American guitarist, composer and producer
 1952 – Diana Gabaldon, American writer
 1953 – John Sessions, Scottish actor
 1954 – Vicky Peña, Spanish actress
 1954 – Kailash Satyarthi, Indian children's rights activist, joint–winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
 1954 – Barbara Prammer, Austrian politician (d. 2014)
 1956 – Israel Yinon, Israeli conductor (d. 2015)
 1957 – Claude Criquielion, Belgian cyclist (d. 2015)
 1957 – Darryl Dawkins, American basketball player (d. 2015)
 1957 – Bryan Robson, English footballer
 1958 – Vicki Peterson, American musician
 1961 – Jasper Fforde, British writer
 1961 – Karl Habsburg-Lothringen, Austro–Hungarian nobleman, son of Otto von Habsburg
 1961 – Eva O, American musician and singer-songwriter
 1962 – Kim Coles, American actress
 1962 – Chris Bryant, British politician
 1963 – Jason Connery, British actor
 1964 – Yolanda Hadid, Dutch–American television personality and model
 1965 – Edyta Bartosiewicz, Polish singer, songwriter and composer
 1968 – Tom Dumont, American musician
 1969 – Manny Acta, Dominican baseball player
 1970 – Manfredi Beninati, Italian painter and sculptor
 1970 – Chris Jent, American basketball player and coach
 1970 – Malcolm D. Lee, American actor, director and screenwriter
 1970 – Mustafa Sandal, Turkish pop singer, producer, dancer and actor
 1971 – Tom Ward, British actor
 1971 – Mary J. Blige, American singer
 1972 – Amanda Peet, American actress
 1972 – Konstantin Khabensky, Russian entertainer and actor
 1973 – Rockmond Dunbar, American actor
 1973 – Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer
 1974 – Jens Nowotny, German footballer
 1975 – Matteo Renzi, Italian politician, former Mayor of Florence and Prime Minister of Italy from 2014 to 2016
 1975 – Timbuktu, Swedish rapper

 From 1976 
 1977 – Jerome Kerviel, French bank employee
 1978 – Emile Heskey, English footballer
 1980 – Geovanni, Brazilian footballer
 1980 – Gökdeniz Karadeniz, Turkish footballer
 1981 – Jamelia, English singer
 1981 – Tom Meighan, English singer (Kasabian)
 1981 – Jaime Valdés, Chilean footballer
 1982 – Ashley Taylor Dawson, English actor
 1983 – Adrian Sutil, German racing driver
 1984 – Vagner Love, Brazilian footballer
 1985 – Kazuki Nakajima, Japanese racing driver
 1986 – Rachel Riley, English television host
 1987 – Jamie Vardy, English footballer
 1988 – LunchMoney Lewis, American hip hop singer
 1988 – Junjun, Chinese singer
 1991 – Hyolyn, South Korean actress
 1992 – Lee Seung-hoon, South Korean rapper, choreographer and songwriter
 1996 – Leroy Sané, German footballer
 1997 – Cody Simpson, Australian singer
 1998 – Louisa Johnson, English singer

Deaths
 Up to 1900 
 705 – Pope John VI
 782 – Emperor Konin of Japan (b. 709)
 812 – Staurakios, Byzantine Emperor
 844 – Michael I Rhangabes, Byzantine Emperor
 1055 – Constantine IX Monomachos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1000)
 1083 – Otto Nordheim, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1020)
 1494 – Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b. 1449)
 1495 – Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1428)
 1547 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal, scholar and theorist (b. 1470)
 1696 – Charles Albanel, French priest, missionary and scholar (b. 1616)
 1713 – Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader (b. 1637)
 1753 – Hans Sloane, Ulster–Scottish physician and collector (b. 1660)
 1762 – Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor (b. 1695)
 1763 – Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian and poet (b. 1676)
 1798 – Erekle II, King of Kartli and Kakheti in present–day Georgia (b. 1720)
 1801 – Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (b. 1749)
 1812 – Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish nobleman (b. 1746)
 1843 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (b. 1779)
 1867 – Stuart Donaldson, colonial governor of New South Wales (b. 1812)
 1882 – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (b. 1810)

 1901–2000 
 1901 – Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (b. 1866)
 1914 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer (b. 1842)
 1923 – King Constantine I of Greece (b. 1868)
 1928 – Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)
 1941 – Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (b. 1868)
 1944 – Galeazzo Ciano, Italian politician (b. 1903)
 1947 – Eva Tanguay, Canadian–born singer and entertainer (b. 1879)
 1953 – Noe Zhordania, Georgian politician (b. 1868)
 1958 – Edna Purviance, Canadian–born singer and entertainer (b. 1895)
 1965 – Wally Pipp, American baseball player (b. 1893)
 1966 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b. 1901)
 1966 – Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889)
 1966 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India (b. 1904)
 1968 – Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and scholar (b. 1876)
 1972 – Padraic Colum, Irish poet, novelist, dramatist and biographer (b. 1881)
 1975 – Max Lorenz, German tenor (b. 1901)
 1980 – Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)
 1985 – William McKell, Premier of New South Wales and Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
 1985 – Edward Buzzell, American actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1895)
 1988 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist (b. 1898)
 1991 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist (b. 1905)
 1994 – Helmut Poppendick, German physician (b. 1902)
 1996 – Roger Crozier, Canadian–American ice hockey player, coach and manager (b. 1942)
 1998 – Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)

 From 2001 
 2003 – Mickey Finn, English drummer (T.Rex) (b. 1947)
 2008 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (b. 1919)
 2009 – Pio Laghi, Italian cardinal (b. 1922)
 2010 – Eric Rohmer, French movie director (b. 1920)
 2010 – Miep Gies, Dutch humanitarian, helper of Anne Frank (b. 1909)
 2013 – Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (b. 1941)
 2013 – Aaron Swartz, American computer programmer, writer and internet activist (b. 1986)
 2013 – Nguyen Khanh, South Vietnamese politician (b. 1927)
 2014 – Vugar Gashimov, Azerbaijani chess player (b. 1986)
 2014 – Ariel Sharon, Israeli general and politician, former Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1928)
 2014 – Keiko Awaji, Japanese actress (b. 1933)
 2014 – Arnoldo Foà, Italian actor (b. 1916) 
 2014 – Muhammad Habibur Rahman, Bangladeshi jurist and politician (b. 1929)
 2015 – Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress (b. 1931)
 2015 – Chic Littlewood, New Zealand television personality (b. 1930)
 2015 – Brian Clemens, British screenwriter (b. 1931)
 2015 – Jeno Buzansky, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925) 
 2016 – Berge Furre, Norwegian historian, theologian and politician (b. 1937)
 2016 – Brian Johnson, Australian rugby league player (b. 1956)
 2016 – Gunnel Vallquist, Swedish writer and translator (b. 1918)
 2016 – Monte Irvin, American baseball player (b. 1919)
 2016 – David Margulies, American actor (b. 1937)
 2016 – William Del Monte, American centenarian (b. 1906)
 2017 – Tommy Allsup, American musician (b. 1931)
 2017 – Tony Booth, English artist (b. 1933)
 2017 – Adenan Satem, Malaysian politician, 5th Chief Minister of Sarawak (b. 1944)
 2017 – Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani politician, Governor of Sindh (b. 1938)
 2017 – François Van der Elst, Belgian footballer (b. 1954)
 2017 – Brian Fletcher, English jockey (b. 1947)
 2017 – Nikolay Neprimerov, Russian physicist (b. 1921)
 2017 – Newman Hoar, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1920)
 2018 – Doug Barnard, Jr., American politician (b. 1922)
 2018 – Stephane Gauger, Vietnamese–American film director (b. 1969)
 2018 – Edgar Ray Killen, American convicted murderer (b. 1925)
 2018 – Takis Loukanidis, Greek footballer (b. 1937)
 2019 – Michael Atiyah, British–Lebanese mathematician (b. 1929)
 2019 – Steffan Lewis, Welsh politician (b. 1984)
 2019 – Dimitris Sioufas, Greek politician (b. 1944)
 2020: Jesús Alfonso Escoboza Huerta    "La Parka" Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1966).

 Observances 
 Kagami Biraki (Japan)
 Republic Day (Albania)
 Day of National Unity (Nepal)
 Burning the Clavie (Old Scottish New Year tradition)

References

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