November 11
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Art and culture
- 1887 - Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
- 1918 - World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month).
Births
- 1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (d. 1881)
- 1883 - Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (Parade) (d. 1969)
- 1920 - Roy Jenkins, British politician (d. 2003)
- 1922 - Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (d. 2007)
- 1928 - Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer
- 1929 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German writer
- 1954 - Mary Gaitskill, American novelist
- 1958 - Luz Casal, Spanish singer
- 1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
Deaths
- 1638 - Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem, Dutch painter (b. 1562)
- 1855 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
- 1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (hanged
- 1976 - Alexander Calder, American artist (b. 1898)
- 1977 - Greta Keller, Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (b. 1903)
Notes
- 1821 - André Bazin (April 18, Angers 1918 – November 11, 1958, Nogent-sur-Marne) was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist.
- 1821 - William Dugdale 1800, d. in House of Correction, November 11, 1868) was one of England's most prolific publishers of radical pamphlets and bawdy books.
- 1821 - Roberto Matta1911-2002), usually known as Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters. Born in Santiago on 11 November 1911, he
- 1821 - Bibi Andersson (born 11 November 1935 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actress.
- 1821 - Sam Haskins (November 11, 1926) is a photographer best known for his contribution to nude photography
- 1821 - Charles Carrington (November 11, 1867 - October 15, 1921) was a publisher of erotic books. Charles Carrington was actually a pseudonym,
- 1821 - Giorgio Manganelli (born November 11 1922 in Milan, Italy, died May 28 1990 in Rome) was an Italian avant-garde novelist and critic
- 1821 - Fernando Ribeiro de Mello
- 1821 - Anne-Marie Miéville
- 1821 - Julien Offray de La Mettrie (December 25, 1709 - November 11, 1751) was a French physician and philosopher, the earliest of the materialist writers of the ...
- 1821 - Charles Manson (1934 - )
- 1821 - René Clair (November 11, 1898 - March 15, 1981) was a French filmmaker. His most notable film is probably À Nous la Liberté because of the controversy ...
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