November 11th
The November 11 is the 315th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 316th in leap years ), thus remain 50 days to the year.
In German and Swiss carnival, Mardi Gras and Mardi Gras strongholds, November 11th is celebrated as the eleventh in the eleventh at 11:11 a.m. as the start of the carnival session or carnival campaign . Mainz is an exception here, on 11.11. celebrated the number of fools 11 and read out the foolish constitution on this day.
In Great Britain and the Commonwealth of Nations, this day is known as Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day or Armistice Day). It is a day of remembrance for those who fell in the First World War . The Jour de l'Armistice is also a public holiday in France and Belgium.
On November 11, 1918, the war ended with the signing of the armistice. The First World War came to an end with the signing of the Paris Suburb Contracts .
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On November 11th, Saint Martin is celebrated with regionally different Martins customs ( Martin Day ). All over Germany and Austria, the children celebrate with St. Martin's parades, during which they sing through the streets with lanterns.
In Asia and more and more regions of the world, 11.11. celebrated as Singles' Day . This is so popular in China that November 11th is now the biggest online shopping day in the world.
Events
Politics and world events
- 43 BC Chr . : In Rome the triumvirate between Octavian , Marcus Antonius and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus is closed for a period of five years .
- 887 : Arnulf of Carinthia becomes the new king in Eastern Franconia after a power struggle with Charlemagne .
- 1208 : After the death of Philip of Swabia on June 21, Otto IV of Braunschweig is generally accepted as Roman-German king after the German throne dispute in an election in Frankfurt am Main .
- 1480 : Mongolian rule over Russia ends with the end of standing at the Ugra .
- 1485 : The Leipzig division is signed. In it, the Wettin property between the dukes and brothers Ernst and Albrecht III. divided up.
- 1493 : Christopher Columbus discovers the Antilles island of St. Martin on his second voyage .
- 1500 : In the Treaty of Granada , France's King Louis XII. and Spain's King Ferdinand the Catholic on conquering the Kingdom of Naples and dividing it among themselves.
- 1606 : The Peace of Zsitvatorok ends the Long Turkish War of the Habsburgs under Rudolf II with the Ottoman Empire , which began with the Battle of Sissek in 1593.
- 1630 : On the Journée des Dupes , the religious party in France under Queen Mother Maria de 'Medici and Jean-Baptiste Gaston de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans of King Louis XIII. disempowered. Cardinal Richelieu , who with this success is at the height of his power, subsequently takes merciless action against his opponents in the state and thus prepares the heyday of absolutism .
- 1839 : Voortrekker found the Boer state Natalia in the east of South Africa because they want to be independent from England .
- 1864 : Major General William T. Sherman burns the city of Atlanta , Georgia, during the American Civil War .
- 1871 : Kaiser Wilhelm I enacts the law on the creation of a Reich war treasure from the French contributions that the Peace of Frankfurt demands from the loser of the Franco-German War .
- 1887 : In Chicago, the anarchists August Spies , Albert Parsons , George Engel and Adolph Fischer , who helped organize the multi-day strike last year , during which a bomb was thrown at the police on May 4th, are hanged despite international protests. A connection to the bomb attack could not previously be proven to the defendants.
- 1889 : Washington , the former founded in 1853 Washington Territory is, as the 42nd state in the United States added
- 1914 : During World War I , the Battle of Łódź begins with an offensive by German troops against Russian units.
- 1916 : The statutes of the Czechoslovak National Committee , which was to prepare the independence of Czechoslovakia two years later , are adopted.

- 1918 : The Compiègne armistice - signed on the German side on behalf of the new government of Erzberger - ends the fighting in the First World War .
- 1918 : Emperor Karl I declares that he will renounce any share in state affairs in the Austrian part of the Danube Monarchy .
- 1918 : The German troops in Warsaw are disarmed by Poland . The Regency Council and the Lublin government put all state power in the hands of Józef Piłsudski . This ended the era of the reign of Poland . Poland becomes an independent republic.
- 1918 : Alsace and Lorraine declare their independence as the Republic of Alsace-Lorraine , which, however, will only last a few days because of the invasion of French troops.
- 1933 : In Austria , the Austro-Fascist regime reintroduces the death penalty, abolished in 1920, for murder, arson and public violence through malicious damage to someone else's property .
- 1940 : Second World War : On the night of November 12, British torpedo bombers sink a significant part of the Italian Regia Marina in the port of Taranto .
- 1940 : The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis under Captain Bernhard Rogge sinks the British cargo ship Automedon and loots secret documents and code tables that are important for the war effort. The information obtained in this way probably also played a decisive role when Japan entered the war .
- 1942 : In response to the Allied landing in Algeria in World War II, German troops also occupy Vichy France .
- 1945 : The Soviet War Memorial is inaugurated in Berlin-Tiergarten with an Allied parade . It is the first of three such memorials in the city.
- 1960 : A military coup against the South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm fails.
- 1965 : A white minority under Ian Smith declares Southern Rhodesia , later Zimbabwe , unilaterally independent from Great Britain, but excludes the black majority from the government.
- 1973 : The six-point plan between Israel and Egypt for negotiations on the consequences of the Yom Kippur War is agreed.
- 1975 : As a result of the Carnation Revolution , Angola gains independence from Portugal , MPLA leader Agostinho Neto becomes the first state president .
- 1977 : In Spain, the government raises nearly two years after the death of Franco , the film censorship on.
- 1978 : Several officers of the Spanish armed forces and the Guardia Civil , among them Antonio Tejero , meet in the Cafetería Galaxia to discuss how to stop the democratization process in Spain . The planned coup attempt never takes place, however, and the conspirators are sentenced to imprisonment.
- 1982 : The wanted Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Adelheid Schulz are arrested at an RAF ground depot in a wooded area near the Heusenstamm in southern Hesse, under surveillance by the police .
- 1988 : The German Bundestag President Philipp Jenninger resigns after his heavily criticized speech on November 10, 1988 in the German Bundestag .
- 1993 : After heavy fighting, the Tamil rebel group Tamil Tigers captured the important military base of Pooneryn in Sri Lanka and held it for a few days.
economy
- 1842 : For the first time in the history of beer, beer according to the Pilsner brewing style is served in three inns in Pilsen , based on the brew invented by Josef Groll .
- 1896 : Ernest Monnington Bowden applies for patent protection in Great Britain for the cable he invented . The patent was granted to him on September 25, 1897.
- 1921 : A contract for the establishment of the German-Soviet Russian airline Deruluft is signed in Berlin .
- 1930 : Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd received patent number 1,781,541 in the USA for a refrigerator they had invented .
- 1960 : In Schwedt / Oder , the foundation stone is laid for the Schwedt refinery , which in 1970 became the parent company of the VEB Petrolchemical Combine .
- 1987 : The hitherto highest price for a work of art at auction in New York City at 53.9 million dollars for the Irises by Vincent van Gogh achieved.
- 2008 : The passenger ship Queen Elizabeth 2 begins its last voyage to Dubai , where it will anchor as a future floating hotel.
science and technology
- 1572 : Tycho Brahe discovers a "new star" in the constellation Cassiopeia , which later turned out to be the supernova ( SN1572 ).
- 1675 : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz formulates one of his fundamental theorems for the first time in an essay on inverse tangents using the modern integral symbol .
- 1952 : Several weather services are merged to form the German Weather Service (DWD).
- 1966 : Gemini 12 marks the last space flight under NASA's Gemini program . On board are Buzz Aldrin and James A. Lovell .
- 1974 : The research groups led by Burton Richter and Samuel Chao Chung Ting jointly present their independently successful proof of the J / ψ elementary particle .
- 1993 : Version 1.0 of the NCSA Mosaic web browser for Microsoft Windows is published.
- 2008 : The German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System (GITEWS) starts testing.
Culture
- 1752 : The opera I portentosi effetti della madre Natura by Giuseppe Scarlatti is premiered at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice .
- 1843 : Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Ugly Duckling is published in Denmark .
- 1848 : The first performance of the comic opera Le Val d'Andorre by Jacques Fromental Halévy takes place at the Opéra-Comique in Paris .
- 1875 : The public Parque Tres de Febrero is inaugurated in Buenos Aires . The site belonged to the former dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas and was expropriated from him .
- 1954 : The Two Towers, the second part of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, appears in Great Britain .
- 1994 : The Codex Leicester (also known as Codex Hammer ), a bound collection of sheets of scientific writings, notes, sketches, and drawings by Leonardo da Vinci , is auctioned by Christie’s auction house to entrepreneur Bill Gates for $ 30.8 million . This makes the code the most expensive manuscript ever sold in the world.
- 2017 : After a ten-year planning and construction phase, the Louvre Abu Dhabi , a museum ensemble designed by French architect Jean Nouvel with a particularly striking steel dome, is opened on Saadiyat Island in cooperation between the United Arab Emirates and France .
society
- 1880 : The convicted Australian mugger Ned Kelly dies on the gallows in the Old Melbourne Gaol prison .
- 1934 : The Shrine of Remembrance war memorial is inaugurated in Melbourne sixteen years after the end of World War I (and seven years after the foundation stone was laid) .
religion
- 397 : Bishop Martin von Tours , who died on November 8th, is buried.
- 1215 : The fourth Lateran Council begins in the Roman Lateran .
- 1417 : Martin V becomes after the deposition of all three previous popes, Gregory XII. in Rome, Benedict XIII. in Avignon and John XXIII. in Pisa , elected Pope by the Council of Constance . The occidental schism finally ends .
- 1675 : After the execution of Tegh Bahadur in Delhi, Gobind Singh becomes the tenth and last human guru of the Sikhs .
- 1961 : In the encyclical Aeterna Dei sapientia , Pope John XXIII praises . the Doctor of the Church Leo I as a wise shepherd. Rome is also the spiritual center for Christian unity. Every bishop of Rome visibly embodies unity.
- 1992 : The General Synod of the Church of England approves the admission of women to the priesthood .
- Since the Middle Ages, Advent begins almost at the 40 days before Christmas to the next day,
Disasters
- 1855 : The Ansei-Edo earthquake in Japan near Edo (today: Tokyo ) kills more than 6000 people.
- 2000 : 155 people die in a fire disaster in the tunnel of the glacier railway Kaprun 2 to the Kitzsteinhorn in Kaprun in the province of Salzburg, including many children and young people.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 2000 : Lennox Lewis wins his boxing match for the world heavyweight title against David Tua in Mandalay Bay , Las Vegas.
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 16th century
- 1050 : Heinrich IV. , German King and Holy Roman Emperor
- 1154 : Sancho I , King of Portugal
- 1155 : Alfonso VIII , King of Castile
- 1220 : Alfonso of Poitiers , Count of Poitou, Count of Toulouse and Margrave of Provence
- 1232 : Håkon Håkonsson unge , King of Norway
- 1289 : Nicholas Audley, 2nd Baron Audley of Heleigh , English magnate
- 1328 : Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March , English military leader
- 1372 : John Hastings, 3rd Earl of Pembroke , English nobleman
- 1430 : Jost II von Rosenberg , Bohemian bishop and prior
- 1441 : Charlotte of Savoy , Queen of France
- 1449 : Catherine of Podebrady , Queen of Hungary
- 1473 : Martin von Baumgartner , Tyrolean mine owner and driver of Palestine
- 1481 : Christoph von Scheurl , German lawyer, diplomat and humanist
- 1491 : Martin Bucer , German reformer
- 1493 : Bernardo Tasso , Italian poet
16th and 17th centuries
- 1507 : Petrus Medmann , German theologian and diplomat
- 1513 : Stanisław Orzechowski , Polish theologian
- 1536 : Marcantonio Memmo , 91st Doge of Venice
- 1545 : Kaspar von Fürstenberg , Elector of Cologne Drost and Elector of Mainz, Landdrost
- 1551 : Giovanni I. Cornaro , 96th Doge of Venice
- 1579 : Frans Snyders , Flemish painter
- 1588 : Martin Trost , German orientalist
- 1599 : Octavio Piccolomini , Italian nobleman and general
- 1611 : Christian Lehmann , German chronicler and pastor
- 1612 : August Philipp , Duke of Oldenburg and Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- 1633 : George Savile Halifax , British politician and writer
- 1642 : André-Charles Boulle , French cabinet maker
- 1647 : Johann Wilhelm Baier , German Protestant theologian
- 1653 : Anton Günther , Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst and Prussian Lieutenant General
- 1653 : Carlo Ruzzini , 113th Doge of Venice
- 1657 : Guido von Starhemberg , Austrian officer, imperial field marshal
- 1659 : Johann Gottfried von Berger , German medic
- 1664 : Heinrich Leonhard Schurzfleisch German lawyer, historian and librarian
- 1668 : Johann Albert Fabricius , German classical philologist
- 1678 : Benedikt von Ahlefeldt , lord of the Holstein estates of Jersbek and Stegen
- 1699 : Natalja Fjodorovna Lopuchina , Baltic governor's daughter at the Russian court
18th century
- 1706 : Friedrich Wilhelm II , Prince of Nassau-Siegen
- 1709 : Johann Peter Benkert , court sculptor in Bamberg and innkeeper in Potsdam
- 1722 : Christlob Mylius , German writer
- 1723 : Johann Jacob Stahel , German bookseller and printer
- 1729 : Louis Antoine de Bougainville , French navigator and writer
- 1734 : František Martin Pelcl , Czech writer, historian and philologist
- 1741 : Martin Anton Seltenhorn , German church painter
- 1744 : Abigail Adams , American first lady
- 1748 : Charles IV , King of Spain
- 1749 : Caspar Josef Carl von Mylius , German soldier
- 1753 : Félix María Calleja del Rey , Spanish general and viceroy of New Spain
- 1756 : Josef Martin Hurka , Czech composer and cellist
- 1758 : Caleb P. Bennett , American politician
- 1760 : Landolin Ohmacht , German sculptor
- 1761 : Filippo Buonarroti , Italian-French politician and publicist
- 1764 : Ernst Ludwig Wilhelm von Dacheröden , German civil servant
- 1766 : Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Anthing , German officer
- 1767 : Bernhard Romberg , German cellist and composer
- 1768 : Asaf Jah III. , Indian prince
- 1772 : Carl Friedrich Hagemann , Austrian sculptor
- 1775 : Jean-Guillaume Audinet-Serville , French entomologist
- 1781 : Ludwig Gustav von Thile , German general and head of the military cabinet
- 1785 : Diponegoro , Javanese freedom fighter
- 1787 : Michail Wielhorski , Russian composer, cellist and patron
- 1789 : Pietro Tenerani , Italian sculptor
- 1791 : Josef Munzinger , Swiss politician
- 1795 : John Neergaard , Norwegian politician
- 1795 : Moritz Heinrich Romberg , German neurologist
- 1799 : Charles Bent , American politician
19th century
1801-1850
- 1809 : Francesco Anzani , Italian officer and freedom fighter
- 1816 : August Wilhelm Ambros , Austrian music critic and composer
- 1821 : Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Russian writer
- 1823 : Jakob Amsler-Laffon , Swiss mathematician, physicist, engineer and manufacturer
- 1826 : Johann Nepomuk Martin von Appel , Austrian Privy Councilor, Teresian Knight, General of the Cavalry, Commanding General in the Banat, Country Chief of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Colonel of the Infantry Regiment
- 1835 : Matthías Jochumsson , Icelandic poet
- 1837 : Oskar Appelius , German architect
- 1837 : Arthur Grottger , Polish painter and draftsman
- 1846 : Theodor Haarbeck , German theologian
- 1846 : Anna Katharine Rohlfs , American writer
- 1847 : Marie Andree-Eysn , Austrian folklorist, botanist and collector
- 1848 : Hans Delbrück , German historian and politician, MdR
- 1848 : Gustav Karpeles , German publicist and literary historian
- 1848 : Zinovy Roschestvensky , Russian admiral
1851-1900
- 1852 : Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf , Austrian field marshal
- 1852 : Otto Elster , German journalist and historian, writer and politician
- 1852 : Yamamoto Gonnohyōe , Japanese admiral and prime minister
- 1854 : William Yates Atkinson , American politician
- 1857 : Nathan Stein , German judge
- 1861 : Leopold Adametz , Austrian animal breeding and genetic researcher
- 1863 : Paul Signac , French painter
- 1864 : Carl Blankenstein , German theater actor and radio play speaker
- 1864 : Alfred Hermann Fried , Austrian pacifist and publicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1864 : Maurice Leblanc , French crime writer
- 1866 : Antoine Meillet , French linguist
- 1867 : Walter Goetz , German historian and politician, MdR
- 1869 : Victor Emanuel III. , Italian King and Emperor of Ethiopia
- 1871 : Leopold Kunschak , Austrian politician
- 1872 : Maude Ewing Adams Kiskadden , American stage actress
- 1874 : Henriette Arendt , first German female police officer
- 1875 : Dorothy Vernon , American actress
- 1878 : Dankwart Ackermann , German physiologist and chemist
- 1879 : Reinhard Machold , Austrian politician, provisional governor of Styria
- 1879 : Ludolf Malten , German classical philologist and religious scholar
- 1880 : Alexander Behm , German physicist, inventor of the echo sounder for watercraft and aircraft
- 1882 : Gustav VI. Adolf , Swedish King
- 1882 : Viggo Kihl , Canadian pianist and music teacher
- 1882 : Theodor Roeingh , German farmer and politician
- 1883 : Ernest Ansermet , Swiss conductor and composer
- 1885 : George S. Patton , American general
- 1888 : Johannes Itten , Swiss painter
- 1889 : Johnny Aubert , Swiss pianist
- 1889 : Kubota Mantarō , Japanese writer
- 1892 : Duarte Monteverde Abecasis , Portuguese engineer
- 1893 : Paul von Guilleaume , German automobile racing driver and motorsport official
- 1893 : Paul van Zeeland , Belgian politician
- 1895 : Suzy Prim , French actress
- 1897 : Gordon Allport , American psychologist
- 1898 : René Clair , French film director
- 1898 : Hugo Makibi Enomiya-Lassalle , German Jesuit and Zen master
- 1899 : Pat O'Brien , American actor
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Magda Goebbels , wife of Joseph Goebbels
- 1901 : Richard Lindner , American painter
- 1901 : Sam Spiegel , American film producer
- 1904 : Erna Raupach-Petersen , German popular actress
- 1906 : Georg Aumann , German mathematician
- 1908 : Serafín Aedo , Spanish football player
- 1908 : Karl Bosl , German historian
- 1908 : Martin Held , German actor
- 1909 : Walter Faller , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, MEP
- 1909 : Robert Ryan , American actor
- 1909 : Piero Scotti , Italian racing car driver
- 1910 : Carl Alvar Wirtanen , American astronomer
- 1911 : Hans Bothmann , German SS officer and head of the Chelmno extermination camp, war criminal
- 1911 : Alfred Fane , British racing car driver and aviator
- 1911 : Roberto Matta , Chilean painter and sculptor
- 1911 : Paul Rolland , American music teacher and violist
- 1912 : Nina Andrycz , Polish actress and writer
- 1913 : Käthe Braun , German actress
- 1914 : Howard Fast , American writer
- 1915 : Sidney Charles Bartholemew Gascoigne , Australian astronomer
- 1915 : Bernhard Heiliger , German sculptor
- 1915 : Eino Olkinuora , Finnish cross-country skier
- 1916 : Wilhelm Stuellen , German judge and revisionist
- 1917 : Sepp Arnemann , German cartoonist
- 1917 : Ilse Steppat , German actress
- 1917 : Julien-François Zbinden , Swiss composer and jazz pianist
- 1918 : Jürg Baur , German composer
- 1919 : Wolfgang Döring , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1920 : Roy Harris Jenkins , British politician
- 1920 : Walter Krupinski , German fighter pilot, general in the Bundeswehr
- 1921 : Bruno Banducci , American football player
- 1921 : Terrel Bell , American politician
- 1922 : Luitpold Schuhwerk , German poet, painter and Bavarian local history researcher
- 1922 : Kurt Vonnegut , American writer
- 1923 : Jorge Arias Gómez , Salvadoran author
- 1924 : Andrzej Łapicki , Polish actor and director
- 1925 : Oscar Asboth , Hungarian painter
- 1925 : John Guillermin , British director
- 1925 : Jan Simons , Canadian singer and vocal teacher
- 1925 : Jonathan Winters , American actor
1926-1950
- 1926 : Harry Arlt , German football player
- 1926 : Noah Gordon , American writer
- 1926 : Hannelore Greve , German entrepreneur and patron
- 1927 : Luigi Malerba , Italian writer
- 1928 : Ernestine Irene Anderson , American jazz and blues singer
- 1928 : Arthur Cunningham , American composer
- 1928 : Carlos Fuentes , Mexican writer
- 1929 : Ida Applebroog , American sculptor and painter
- 1929 : Hans Magnus Enzensberger , German poet, writer and editor
- 1929 : LaVern Baker , American singer
- 1931 : Bill Looby , American football player
- 1932 : Fanizani Akuda , Zimbabwean sculptor
- 1933 : Edgar Bessen , German actor
- 1933 : Martino Finotto , Italian racing car driver
- 1933 : Jerzy Grotowski , Polish director and theater theorist
- 1934 : Margarethe Bacher , German top chef
- 1934 : Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen , German politician
- 1935 : Bibi Andersson , Swedish actress
- 1935 : Ikue Asazaki , Japanese singer
- 1935 : Manfred Schiek , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver
- 1935 : Raymund Schwager , Swiss theologian and Jesuit
- 1936 : Susan Kohner , American actress
- 1937 : André Brugiroux , French globetrotter and writer
- 1938 : Ants Antson , Soviet speed skater and Estonian sports official
- 1938 : Narvel Felts , American country and rockabilly musician
- 1938 : Mary Mallon , Irish-born American, known as Typhoid Mary (Typhus Mary)
- 1938 : Lloyd Miller , American musician and ethnomusicologist, pioneer of ethno-jazz
- 1940 : Barbara Boxer , American politician
- 1940 : Mario Pavone , American jazz bassist
- 1940 : Jacob Stickelberger , Swiss songwriter and lawyer
- 1941 : William Arthur Adcocks , British marathon runner
- 1941 : Helga Masthoff , German tennis player
- 1941 : Gérard Vial , Swiss racing driver
- 1942 : Rolf Schübel , German director
- 1943 : Peter Bernhard , Swiss racing car driver
- 1943 : Uwe Kröger , German television journalist
- 1944 : Kemal Sunal , Turkish actor
- 1945 : Helmut Kangulohi Angula , Namibian politician and author
- 1945 : Andrzej Bieżan , Polish composer and pianist
- 1945 : Daniel Ortega , Nicaraguan President
- 1946 : Al Holbert , American racing car driver
- 1946 : Andreas Reimann , German writer and graphic artist
- 1946 : Klaus-Peter Stein , German soccer player
- 1947 : Xuan Ai , Chinese painter
- 1947 : Trevor Ferguson , Canadian writer and playwright
- 1947 : René Harris , Nauruan politician
- 1947 : Paul Pribbernow , German cartoonist
- 1948 : Wolfgang Schmid , German bass guitarist, composer and producer
- 1948 : Bertrand Stern , German freelance philosopher
- 1949 : Robert Dietz , German ice dancer
- 1950 : Pierre Pagani , French racing car driver
- 1950 : Jim Peterik , American rock musician ( survivor )
1951-1975
- 1951 : Peter Bömmels , German painter and draftsman, representative of the Neue Wilden of the 1980s
- 1951 : Kim Peek , an American island born autistic, inspired the film Rain Man
- 1952 : Lothar Angermund , German football player
- 1952 : Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell , Austrian bank director, deputy governor of the ÖNB
- 1953 : Jean-Pierre Le Roy , Swiss actor
- 1953 : Andy Partridge , British musician, singer and songwriter
- 1955 : Buck Adams , American porn actor and director
- 1955 : Dave Alvin , American country and folk musician
- 1955 : Petra Ernstberger , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- 1955 : Martin Fischer , Austrian composer
- 1955 : Friedrich Merz , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, MEP
- 1955 : Jigme Singye Wangchuk , King of Bhutan
- 1955 : Roland Tichy , German journalist and publicist
- 1956 : José Luis Brown , Argentinian soccer player
- 1956 : Vedran Smailović , Bosnian cellist
- 1957 : Anne-Marie Martin , Canadian actress and screenwriter
- 1958 : Bernd Pfarr , German painter and cartoonist
- 1958 : Scott Plank , American actor
- 1959 : Katja Flint , German actress
- 1959 : Michael Pfeuti , Swiss double bass player
- 1959 : Alfred Roscher , Austrian football player
- 1960 : Lawrence Bayne , Canadian actor
- 1960 : Marcel Koller , Swiss football coach
- 1961 : Unda Hörner , German writer
- 1961 : Anne May , German librarian
- 1961 : Pilo , German musician, music producer and playwright
- 1962 : Tino Eisbrenner , German songwriter, theater actor, composer, music producer and moderator
- 1962 : Christine Haderthauer , German politician
- 1962 : Vlado Kasalo , Croatian football player
- 1962 : Lloyd Langlois , Canadian freestyle skier
- 1962 : Lázaro Martínez , Cuban sprinter
- 1962 : Demi Moore , American film actress and producer
- 1962 : James Morrison , Australian multi-instrumentalist
- 1963 : Holger Winselmann , German handball player
- 1964 : Calista Flockhart , American actress ( Ally McBeal )
- 1965 : Stefan Schwarzmann , German musician
- 1966 : Alison Doody , Irish actress
- 1967 : Jim Boeven , German actor
- 1968 : Gorki Luis Águila Carrasco , Cuban punk rock musician and dissident
- 1968 : Diego Fuser , Italian football player
- 1968 : Raymond Hecht , German athlete
- 1968 : Robert Palfrader , Austrian comedian, actor and author
- 1968 : Alfredo Alves Reinado , freedom fighter of the East Timorese resistance against the Indonesian occupation
- 1969 : Konstantin Neven DuMont , German publisher
- 1969 : Gary Powell , American drummer
- 1970 : Marcus Ulbricht , German director and actor
- 1971 : David DeLuise , American actor
- 1972 : Siegfried Baumegger , Austrian chess player and trainer
- 1973 : Booxy Aebi , Swiss musician
- 1973 : Şevval Sam , Turkish singer and actress
- 1974 : Leonardo DiCaprio , American film actor
- 1974 : Matthias Knop , German comedian and presenter
- 1975 : Josep Maria Serrano Contrer , Andorran football player
- 1975 : Angélica Vale , Mexican actress and singer
- 1975 : Martín Ariel Vitali , Argentine football player
- 1975 : Patrick Wolff , German actor
1976-2000
- 1976 : Alice Anderson , British artist and filmmaker
- 1976 : Leander Lichti , German actor
- 1976 : Mena Schemm-Gregory , German paleontologist
- 1977 : Arianna Follis , Italian cross-country skier
- 1977 : Lo Ka Chun , Hong Kong racing car driver
- 1977 : Maniche , Portuguese soccer player
- 1978 : Erik Edman , Swedish professional footballer
- 1978 : Jevgēņijs Saproņenko , Latvian artistic gymnast
- 1979 : Baptiste Amar , French ice hockey player
- 1980 : Papa Malick Ba , Senegalese soccer player
- 1980 : Marian Meder , German actor
- 1981 : Raphael Gualazzi , Italian singer and pianist
- 1982 : Viktoria Gabrysch , German actress
- 1983 : Sola Aoi , Japanese porn actress
- 1983 : Leon Benko , Slovak football player
- 1983 : Arouna Koné , Ivorian football player

- 1983 : Philipp Lahm , German soccer player
- 1983 : Hironobu Yasuda , Japanese racing car driver
- 1984 : Hilton Armstrong , American basketball player
- 1984 : Julian Theobald , German racing driver
- 1985 : Bennard Yao Kumordzi , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1985 : Kanybek Sagynbajew , Kyrgyz billiards player
- 1986 : Lydia Neumann , German soccer player
- 1988 : David Depetris , Slovak-Argentine soccer player
- 1988 : Maximilian Schulze Niehues , German soccer goalkeeper
- 1989 : Martin Brandt , German handball player
- 1989 : Oedo Kuipers , Dutch musical performer ( Mozart )
- 1989 : Paul Papp , Romanian football player
- 1989 : Lewis Williamson , British racing driver
- 1990 : Julian Koch , German soccer player
- 1990 : Georginio Wijnaldum , Dutch football player
- 1991 : Ace Sanders , American football player
- 1993 : Milana Kozomara , Bosnian-Herzegovinian badminton player
- 1993 : Jamaal Lascelles , English football player
- 1993 : Vicky Piria , Italian racing car driver
- 1996 : Gianluca Gaudino , German football player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 683 : Yazid I , second Umayyad caliph
- 826 : Theodor Studites , abbot of the Studion monastery in Constantinople
- 958 : Fulko II , Count of Anjou
- 1014 : Werner von Walbeck , Count von Walbeck and Margrave of the Nordmark
- 1028 : Constantine VIII , Byzantine emperor
- 1048 : Adalbert , Duke of Lorraine
- 1078 : Udo von Nellenburg , Archbishop of Trier
- 1096 : Werner I , third son of the Habsburg Radbot
- 1130 : Theresa of León , Portuguese countess, regent and queen
- 1157 : Hongzhi Zhengjue , Chinese Chan master of the Caodong school
- 1184 : Albert I. von Harthausen , Bishop of Freising
- 1242 : Heinrich I. von Heisterbach , abbot of the Heisterbach monastery
- 1285 : Peter III. of Aragón , King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona and King of Sicily
- 1290 : Qalawun , Sultan of the Mamelukes in Egypt
- 1307 : Henry III. von Anhalt , Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben and Archbishop of Magdeburg
- 1319 : Beatrix of Luxembourg , Queen of Hungary
- 1322 : Widekind von Grafschaft , German nobleman
- 1324 : Heinrich VII. , Count of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg
- 1331 : Stefan Uroš III. Dečanski , Serbian King of Raszien
- 1352 : Agnes von Wittelsbach , Clarissin
- 1375 : Edward le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despenser , English nobleman and military man
- 1405 : Milica Hrebeljanović , regent of Serbia
- 1462 : Anne de Lusignan , Duchess of Savoy
- 1464 : Friedrich III. von Beichlingen , Archbishop of Magdeburg
- 1467 : Jahan Shah , leader of the Turkmen tribal federation of the Qara Qoyunlu in Āzarbāydschān and Arrān
- 1467 : Henry IX. , Duke of Crossen, Freystadt and (half) Glogau
16th to 18th century
- 1502 : Hans Bär the Elder , Basel merchant and changer
- 1510 : Bohuslaus Lobkowicz von Hassenstein , German humanist, scholar and poet
- 1512 : Wolfgang von Polheim , Austrian nobleman
- 1515 : Dietrich Coelde , Dutch writer
- 1556 : Francesco Alunno , Italian calligrapher, lexicographer and grammarian
- 1561 : Hans Tausen , Danish reformer, bishop in Ribe
- 1569 : Daniel Rantzau , royal Danish field captain
- 1615 : Abraham Suarinus , German Lutheran theologian
- 1623 : Philippe Duplessis-Mornay , Reformed theologian and statesman
- 1638 : Cornelis van Haarlem , Dutch painter
- 1661 : David Ryckaert , Flemish painter
- 1673 : Joachim Carstens , German lawyer and syndic of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
- 1677 : Johann Weikhard von Auersperg , Austrian Minister, Prince of Auersperg, Prince of Tengen and Duke of Münsterberg
- 1681 : Johannes Meisner , German theologian
- 1703 : Ivan Antun Zrinski , Croatian nobleman
- 1704 : Johann Georg Knoll , German architect and builder
- 1715 : Thomas Lennard, 1st Earl of Sussex , English nobleman and politician
- 1722 : Henri Duquesne , French captain and Huguenot
- 1727 : Johann Andreas Eisenbarth ("Doktor Eisenbarth"), German craft surgeon, surgeon and star engraver
- 1733 : Gabriel Cano de Aponte , Spanish officer, governor of Chile
- 1750 : Gyurme Namgyel , Tibetan ruler
- 1750 : Apostolo Zeno , Venetian scholar, poet and librettist
- 1751 : Julien Offray de La Mettrie , French doctor and philosopher
- 1760 : Frederik Winter , German medic
- 1783 : Bartolomeo Altomonte , Austrian painter
- 1792 : Samuel Friedrich Nathanael More , German philologist and Lutheran theologian
- 1795 : Johann Adam von Auersperg , Prince, Chamberlain and Hereditary Marshal of Tyrol
19th century
- 1807 : Jean-Édouard Adam , French chemist and physicist
- 1810 : Johann Zoffany , British painter of German origin
- 1831 : Ignácz Gyulay , Austrian general, field marshal and president of the court war council
- 1831 : Nat Turner , American slave and rebel leader
- 1835 : Johan Herman Mankel , Swedish organist, composer and music teacher
- 1837 : George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont , British peer and patron
- 1852 : David Henshaw , American politician
- 1855 : Søren Kierkegaard , Danish philosopher, theologian and writer
- 1861 : Peter V , King of Portugal
- 1869 : Robert J. Walker , American politician, Senator for Mississippi, Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of Kansas
- 1873 : Carl Arnold , Norwegian composer
- 1879 : Louis Désiré Besozzi , French composer, organist and pianist
- 1880 : Ned Kelly , Australian mugger
- 1880 : Lucretia Mott , American Quaker, abolitionist and suffragette
- 1882 : Victor Chéri , French composer and conductor
- 1884 : Rudolph Anton , German lawyer and politician
- 1884 : Alfred Brehm , German zoologist and writer
- 1886 : Gustav Adolf Fischer , German Africa explorer
- 1887 : George Engel , German anarchist
- 1887 : Albert Parsons , American labor leader, justice victim
- 1887 : August Spies , German-American editor and publisher
- 1889 : Max Amberger , German instrument maker
- 1898 : William Wyatt Gill , Australian missionary and ethnologist
20th century
1901-1950
- 1906 : Theodor Vogt , German-Austrian pedagogue
- 1912 : Józef Wieniawski , Polish pianist and composer
- 1917 : Liliʻuokalani , Hawaiian queen
- 1918 : Victor Adler , Austrian politician
- 1918 : Hermann Gladenbeck , German sculptor
- 1919 : Felix von Hartmann , German theologian, cardinal and archbishop
- 1929 : Ernst Maass , German classical philologist
- 1929 : Mieczysław Sołtys , Polish composer
- 1932 : Frederick Dewhurst Yates , British chess player
- 1933 : Heino Adolf Achenbach , Prussian civil servant and district administrator
- 1937 : Marguerite Audoux , French novelist
- 1937 : Jerzy Gablenz , Polish composer
- 1938 : Santos Iriarte , Uruguayan football player
- 1939 : Emil Rieck , German landscape, genre and theater painter
- 1942 : Billy DeBeck , American comic book artist
- 1942 : Leopold Rückert , German politician, MdL, State Minister
- 1943 : Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Arning , German medic, colonial politician and politician
- 1943 : Herbert A. Fricker , Canadian choir director, organist, music teacher and composer
- 1943 : André Pirro , French musicologist
- 1944 : Gerrit Grijns , Dutch researcher
- 1945 : Jerome David Kern , American composer
- 1946 : Nikolai Nilowitsch Burdenko , Russian surgeon
- 1948 : Fred Niblo , American film director
- 1949 : Alphonse Boog , French composer, educator and historian
- 1950 : Valentin Appel , German actor and director
- 1950 : Pierre-Jules Boulanger , French manager ( Citroën )
1951-2000
- 1951 : Mack Hellings , American racing car driver
- 1951 : Walter Hyde , British opera singer and vocal teacher
- 1955 : Jerry Ross , American composer and songwriter
- 1957 : Hans Adler , Austrian writer, poet and librettist
- 1957 : Ugo Amaldi , Italian mathematician
- 1958 : André Bazin , French film critic
- 1958 : Friedrich Franz Brockmüller , German sculptor
- 1959 : Charles Chauvel , Australian screenwriter, film director and producer
- 1960 : Hermann Apelt , German lawyer, politician and senator
- 1965 : Emmerich Arleth , Austrian actor and singer
- 1965 : Ellen Daub , German actress
- 1968 : Jeanne Marie-Madeleine Demessieux , French composer and pianist, organist and music teacher
- 1972 : Wera Inber , Russian writer
- 1973 : Hasan al-Hudaibi , Egyptian judge
- 1973 : Artturi Ilmari Virtanen , Finnish biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1975 : Clinton Presba Anderson , American politician
- 1975 : Mina Witkojc , Sorbian poet and publicist
- 1976 : Alexander Calder , American sculptor and graphic artist
- 1977 : Reinhold F. Bender , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1979 : Dimitri Tiomkin , American composer
- 1980 : Louis Charavel , French racing car driver
- 1981 : Alf Brustellin , Austrian author and film director
- 1982 : Peter Keler , German graphic artist, designer and architect
- 1983 : Arno Babadschanjan , Armenian composer
- 1986 : Carl Hermann , Austrian sculptor and co-founder of the long-distance hiking movement
- 1990 : Attilio Demaría , Argentine-Italian football player and coach
- 1990 : Jörg Kandutsch , Austrian politician
- 1990 : Giannis Ritsos , Greek writer
- 1991 : Heinz Becker , German-American baseball player
- 1991 : Franziska Bilek , German draftsman and caricaturist
- 1991 : Morton Stevens , American composer
- 1992 : Giulio Carlo Argan , Italian art historian and politician
- 1993 : Carl Andrießen , German screenwriter, satirist and critic
- 1993 : Lisa De Leeuw , American porn actress
- 1993 : Olavi Pesonen , Finnish composer
- 1998 : Kenny Kirkland , American jazz pianist
- 1999 : Mary Kay Bergman , American voice actress
- 1999 : Vivian Fuchs , British geologist and polar explorer
- 1999 : Jacobo ben Nathan Timmerman , Argentine publisher, journalist and author
- 2000 : Richard Faust , German zoologist
21st century
- 2003 : Brigitte Sauzay , French interpreter
- 2004 : Yasser Arafat , President of the Palestinian Territories, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- 2004 : Uwe Arkuszewski , German moderator
- 2004 : Richard Dembo , French film director
- 2004 : Hans Marquardt , German publisher
- 2005 : Moustapha Akkad , Syrian director and film producer
- 2005 : John Charles Andes , American actor
- 2005 : Thomas Patrick John Anson , British photographer
- 2005 : Hinrich Bischoff , German entrepreneur and owner of the charter airline Germania
- 2005 : Peter F. Drucker , American economist
- 2005 : Patrick Lichfield , British court photographer
- 2005 : Cornelis Soeteman , Dutch Germanist
- 2006 : Herbert Rösler , German artist and founder of the Christian working and living community Group 91 (G91)
- 2008 : Charly Neumann , German restaurateur, team manager of the football club FC Schalke 04
- 2008 : Dieter Schubert , German writer
- 2012 : Hartwig Kelm , German chemist and director
- 2012 : Vic Mees , Belgian football player
- 2013 : Domenico Bartolucci , Italian church musician and cardinal
- 2014 : Carol Ann Susi , American film and theater actress
- 2015 : Phil Taylor , English drummer Motörhead
- 2016 : Ilse Aichinger , Austrian writer
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Martin of Tours , Roman officer and bishop (Anglican, Evangelical, Catholic, Orthodox)
- Martin's Day
- Søren Kierkegaard , Danish poet and theologian (Protestant: ELCA )
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- Belgium , Commonwealth , France , Great Britain , USA : Veterans Day
- Angola : Independence from Portugal (1975)
- Colombia : independence from Cartagena
- Poland : Independence Day (1918)
- regional customs
- Germany , Liechtenstein , Luxembourg , Austria , Switzerland : start of Carnival, Mardi Gras and Mardi Gras
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Krawietz: Mainzer Sitten on November 11th. November 10, 2018, accessed July 25, 2019 .