March March 11 is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). There are 295 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 1544 - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet, (d. 1595)
- 1876 - Carl Ruggles, composer, (d. 1971)
- 1890 - Vannevar Bush, author of As We May Think, (d. 1974)
- 1892 - Raoul Walsh, film director, (d. 1980)
- 1898 - Dorothy Gish, actress, (d. 1968)
- 1899 - King Frederick IX of Denmark, (d. 1972)
- 1903 - Lawrence Welk, Champagne musicmaker, (d. 1992)
- 1907 - Helmut von Moltke, jurist, (d. 1945)
- 1910 - Robert Havemann, chemist, (d. 1982)
- 1915 - Hans Peter Keller, writer, (d. 1988)
- 1915 - Karl Krolow, lyricist and essayist, (d. 1999)
- 1916 - Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, (d. 1995)
- 1919 - Mercer Ellington, musician, composer, (d. 1996)
- 1921 - Astor Piazzolla, tango composer, (d. 1992)
- 1927 - Joachim Fuchsberger, actor
- 1931 - Rupert Murdoch, publisher, entrepreneur
- 1934 - Sam Donaldson, reporter
- 1936 - Reverend Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader, (d. 1990)
- 1936 - Antonin Scalia, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
- 1948 - Dominique Sanda, actress
- 1950 - Bobby McFerrin, singer
- 1950 - Jerry Zucker, producer, director, writer
- 1952 - Douglas Adams, science fiction/comedy novelist, (d. 2001)
- 1955 - Nina Hagen, singer
- 1959 - Nina Hartley, pornographic film actress
- 1964 - Shane Richie, British actor
- 1965 - Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen, British television presenter
- 1968 - Lisa Loeb, singer
- 1971 - Johnny Knoxville, ("Jackass"), television personality
- 1974 - Bobby Abreu, Major League Baseball All-Star
- 1979 - Benji and Joel Madden, ("Good Charlotte"), band
- 1981 - David Anders, actor
- 1982 - Thora Birch, actress
Deaths
- 222 - Roman emperor Heliogabalus (b. c. 203) and his mother Julia Soaemias (b. 180), killed by the Praetorian Guard
- 1847 - Johnny Appleseed, pioneer, agronomist, (b. 1774)
- 1908 - Revd Benjamin Waugh, social reformer, founder of NSPCC, (b. 1839)
- 1920 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
- 1931 - F.W. Murnau, director, (b. 1888)
- 1955 - Alexander Fleming, biologist (b. 1881)
- 1957 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd, explorer, (b. 1888)
- 1969 - John Wyndham, author, (b. 1903)
- 1970 - Erle Stanley Gardner, novelist, (b. 1889)
- 1971 - Philo T. Farnsworth, television pioneer, (b. 1906)
- 1972 - Frederick Brown, author (b. 1906)
- 2002 - James Tobin, economist, (b. 1918)
Holidays and observances
March 10 - March 12 - February 11 - April 11 -- listing of all days
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bg:11 март
ca:11 de març
cy:11 Mawrth
da:11. marts
de:11. März
eo:11-a de marto
es:11 de marzo
fi:11. maaliskuuta
fr:11 mars
fy:11 maart
hr:11. ožujka
io:11 di marto
it:11 marzo
ja:3月11日
lb:11. März
hu:március 11
nl:11 maart
no:11. mars
oc:11 de març
pl:11 marca
pt:11 de Março
ro:11 martie
sa:११ मार्च
sl:11. marec
sv:11 mars
zh:3月11日
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