October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in Leap years). There are 81 days remaining.
- 1582 - Johannes Fleischer[?], botanist
- 1815 - Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte
- 1844 - Henry Heinz[?], food manufacturer (+ 1916)
- 1872 - Harlan F. Stone[?], Chief Justice of the United States (+ 1946)
- 1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, American human rights activist, First Lady (+ 1962)
- 1885 - François Mauriac, writer (+ 1970)
- 1918 - Jerome Robbins[?], choreographer (+ 1998)
- 1919 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer (+ 1990)
- 1925 - Elmore Leonard[?], novelist
- 1928 - Marquis Alfonso de Portago[?], Grand Prix driver (+ 1957)
- 1932 - Dottie West[?], country music singer (+ 1991)
- 1939 - Maria Bueno[?], tennis star
- 1949 - Daryl Hall[?], musician
- 1961 - Steve Young[?], American football star
- 1966 - Luke Perry, actor
- 1969 - Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
- 1969 - Ty Murray[?], rodeo star
- 1985 - Michelle Trachtenberg, actress
- 1531 - Huldreich Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader
- 1779 - Casimir Pulaski, Polish fighter for American independence
- 1809 - Meriwether Lewis, explorer
- 1896 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer
- 1896 - Edward White Benson, British archbishop
- 1940 - Lluís Companys, Spanish President of Generalitat of Catalonia, shot at Montjuïc Castle, Barcelona.
- 1961 - Chico Marx, American comedian
- 1963 - Edith Piaf, French singer
- 1963 - Jean Cocteau, writer
- 1977 - MacKinlay Kantor[?], author
- 1985 - Orson Welles, American movie director
- 1991 - Redd Foxx, comedian, actor
- 1996 - Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician
- 2000 - Donald Dewar, main author of the Scotland Act[?] and initial First Minister of the Scottish Parliament
See Also: January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December
October 10 - October 12 - September 11 - November 11 - more historical anniversaries