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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 11th of January 0630 | EVENT | Muhammad leads an army of 10,000 to conquer Mecca. |
| 11th of January 1055 | EVENT | Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire. |
| 11th of January 1158 | EVENT | Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia. |
| 11th of January 1569 | EVENT | First recorded lottery in England. |
| 11th of January 1570 | EVENT | James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such. |
| 11th of January 1571 | EVENT | Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion. |
| 11th of January 1693 | EVENT | Mt. Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy. A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta. |
| 11th of January 1759 | EVENT | In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated. |
| 11th of January 1779 | EVENT | Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur. |
| 11th of January 1787 | EVENT | William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus. |
| 11th of January 1794 | EVENT | Robert Forsythe, a U.S. Marshal is killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US marshal to die while carrying out his duties. |
| 11th of January 1805 | EVENT | The Michigan Territory is created. |
| 11th of January 1861 | EVENT | Alabama secedes from the United States. |
| 11th of January 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post : General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union. |
| 11th of January 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: CSS Alabama encountered and sank the USS Hatteras (1861) off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas. |
| 11th of January 1879 | EVENT | The Anglo-Zulu War begins. |
| 11th of January 1908 | EVENT | Grand Canyon National Monument is created. |
| 11th of January 1917 | EVENT | The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage. |
| 11th of January 1919 | EVENT | Romania annexes Transylvania. |
| 11th of January 1922 | EVENT | First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient. |
| 11th of January 1923 | EVENT | Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments. |
| 11th of January 1927 | EVENT | Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announced the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at a banquet in Los Angeles, California. |
| 11th of January 1935 | EVENT | Amelia Earhart is the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California. |
| 11th of January 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies. |
| 11th of January 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur. |
| 11th of January 1943 | EVENT | World War II: The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China. |
| 11th of January 1943 | EVENT | Italian-American Anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York |
| 11th of January 1946 | EVENT | Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as president. |
| 11th of January 1949 | EVENT | First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California. |
| 11th of January 1957 | EVENT | The African Convention is founded in Dakar. |
| 11th of January 1960 | EVENT | Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America's most prolific serial killer, commits his first known murder. |
| 11th of January 1962 | EVENT | An avalanche on Huascaran in Peru causes 4,000 deaths. |
| 11th of January 1964 | EVENT | United States Surgeon General Dr. Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., publishes a landmark report saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking nation- and worldwide anti-smoking efforts. |
| 11th of January 1972 | EVENT | East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh. |
| 11th of January 1986 | EVENT | The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia is officially opened. |
| 11th of January 1994 | EVENT | The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Fein. |
| 11th of January 1996 | EVENT | Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour. |
| 11th of January 1998 | EVENT | Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria, over 100 people are killed. |
| 11th of January 2007 | EVENT | China conducts the first successful anti-satellite missile test of any nation since 1985. |
| 11th of January 0347 | BIRTHDAY | Roman Emperor Theodosius I "the Great" (d. 395) |
| 11th of January 0889 | BIRTHDAY | Abd-ar-Rahman III, Emir and Caliph of Cordoba (d. 961) |
| 11th of January 1322 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Komyo of Japan (d. 1380) |
| 11th of January 1359 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (d. 1393) |
| 11th of January 1395 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle of Valois, Duchess of Burgundy (d. 1422) |
| 11th of January 1503 | BIRTHDAY | Parmigianino, Italian artist (d. 1540) |
| 11th of January 1591 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (d. 1646) |
| 11th of January 1630 | BIRTHDAY | John Rogers, American educator (d. 1684) |
| 11th of January 1638 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Steno, Danish scientist (d. 1686) |
| 11th of January 1671 | BIRTHDAY | Francois-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (d. 1745) |
| 11th of January 1755 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Hamilton, Nevis born American Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher; 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1804) |
| 11th of January 1757 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Bentham, English mechanical engineer (d. 1831) |
| 11th of January 1786 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Jackson Lister, English opticist and physicist (d. 1869) |
| 11th of January 1788 | BIRTHDAY | William Thomas Brande, English chemist (d. 1866) |
| 11th of January 1800 | BIRTHDAY | Anyos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (d. 1895) |
| 11th of January 1807 | BIRTHDAY | Ezra Cornell, American businessman and university founder (d. 1874) |
| 11th of January 1814 | BIRTHDAY | James Paget, British surgeon and pathologist (d. 1899) |
| 11th of January 1815 | BIRTHDAY | John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891) |
| 11th of January 1825 | BIRTHDAY | Bayard Taylor, American poet (d. 1878) |
| 11th of January 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (d. 1903) |
| 11th of January 1842 | BIRTHDAY | William James, American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1910) |
| 11th of January 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Yelverton O'Connor, Irish-Australian engineer (d. 1902) |
| 11th of January 1845 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Victor Backlund, Swedish physicist (d. 1912) |
| 11th of January 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Charles Arthur, American botanist (d. 1942) |
| 11th of January 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1926) |
| 11th of January 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (d. 1926) |
| 11th of January 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer (d. 1932) |
| 11th of January 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Archer, English jockey (d. 1886) |
| 11th of January 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Gordon Selfridge, American retailer (d. 1947) |
| 11th of January 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman, Viceroy of India (d. 1925) |
| 11th of January 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Dixon, American playwright and legislator (d. 1946) |
| 11th of January 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Edward B. Titchener, British psychologist. (d. 1927) |
| 11th of January 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (d. 1940) |
| 11th of January 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (d. 1945) |
| 11th of January 1872 | BIRTHDAY | George Washington Pierce, American physicist (d. 1956) |
| 11th of January 1873 | BIRTHDAY | John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (d. 1949) |
| 11th of January 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Reinhold Gliere, Russian composer (d. 1956) |
| 11th of January 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Elmer Flick, American baseball player (d. 1971) |
| 11th of January 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general (d. 1952) |
| 11th of January 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer (d. 1965) |
| 11th of January 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Paul, American women's rights activist (d. 1977) |
| 11th of January 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Aldo Leopold, American ecologist (d. 1948) |
| 11th of January 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Chester Conklin, American comedian and actor (d. 1971) |
| 11th of January 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph B. Keenan, American political figure (d. 1954) |
| 11th of January 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Calvin Bridges, American geneticist (d. 1938) |
| 11th of January 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian author (d. 1954) |
| 11th of January 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Max Carey, American baseball player (d. 1976) |
| 11th of January 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Laurens Hammond, American inventor (d. 1973) |
| 11th of January 1897 | BIRTHDAY | August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (d. 1979) |
| 11th of January 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Le Gallienne, English-American actress (d. 1991) |
| 11th of January 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot (d. 1988) |
| 11th of January 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Durufle, French composer (d. 1986) |
| 11th of January 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Paton, South African writer (d. 1988) |
| 11th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Clyde Kluckhohn, American anthropologist (d. 1960) |
| 11th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Manfred B Lee, American author (d. 1971) |
| 11th of January 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (d. 2008) |
| 11th of January 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham Joshua Heschel, Warsaw-born American rabbi, theologian, and philosopher (d. 1972) |
| 11th of January 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Mendes-France, French politician (d. 1982) |
| 11th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Lionel Stander, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 11th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (d. 1975) |
| 11th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Shane Paltridge, Australian politician (d. 1966) |
| 11th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Izler Solomon, American conductor (d. 1987) |
| 11th of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004) |
| 11th of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Nora Heysen, Australian artist (d. 2003) |
| 11th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Blair Mayne, British soldier (d. 1955) |
| 11th of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Blier, French actor (d. 1989) |
| 11th of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | John Robarts, Canadian politician (d. 1982) |
| 11th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (d. 1990) |
| 11th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Juanita M. Kreps, American economist, educator, & civil servant; 24th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 2010) |
| 11th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Ernle Bradford, English historian and writer (d. 1986) |
| 11th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Bixby, American writer (d. 1998) |
| 11th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Nolte, German historian |
| 11th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Carroll Shelby, American race car driver, automobile designer and businessman |
| 11th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994) |
| 11th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970) |
| 11th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Guillemin, French neuroendocrinologist, Nobel laureate |
| 11th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Don Cherry, American singer and golfer |
| 11th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Grant Tinker, American television executive |
| 11th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Lev Demin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1998) |
| 11th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | David L. Wolper, American television producer (d.2010) |
| 11th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Mitchell Ryan, American actor |
| 11th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Mulock, Australian politician |
| 11th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Rod Taylor, Australian-born American actor |
| 11th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Churcher, Australian museum director and curator |
| 11th of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Alfonso Arau, Mexican film director |
| 11th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Chretien, Canadian statesman, 20th Prime Minister of Canada |
| 11th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Sir C. A. R. Hoare, British computer scientist |
| 11th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Melvyn Hayes, British actor |
| 11th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Ghita N?rby, Danish actress |
| 11th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | John August Swanson, American artist |
| 11th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Fischer Black, American economist (d. 1995) |
| 11th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Krpan, Croatian pianist |
| 11th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Scargill, British politician |
| 11th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Heggtveit, Canadian alpine skier |
| 11th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Gerson, Brazilian footballer |
| 11th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Clarence Clemons, American musician (E Street Band) |
| 11th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Cullum, American cartoonist (d. 2010) |
| 11th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Hightower, American radio host, author, and activist |
| 11th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (d. 1989) |
| 11th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Shibu Soren, Indian politician |
| 11th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Christine Kaufmann, German-Austrian actress |
| 11th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Naomi Judd, American singer |
| 11th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | John Piper, American theologian |
| 11th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Kaye, British piano and organ player (Yes) |
| 11th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Wajima Hiroshi, Japanese sumo wrestler (the 54th Yokozuna) and professional wrestler |
| 11th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Bohla, German football player and manager |
| 11th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Ford, American basketball player and coach |
| 11th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Daryl Braithwaite, Australian rock singer |
| 11th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Maddren, English former footballer (d. 2000) |
| 11th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Bille Brown, Australian actor and playwright |
| 11th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Crenshaw, American golfer |
| 11th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Forshaw, Australian politician |
| 11th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Diana Gabaldon, American author |
| 11th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Ritenour, American musician and composer |
| 11th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Kostas Skandalidis, Greek politician |
| 11th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | John Sessions, Scottish actor |
| 11th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Earl Keen, American singer |
| 11th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Darryl Dawkins, American basketball player |
| 11th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Robson, English footballer and manager |
| 11th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Vicki Peterson, American musician (The Bangles) |
| 11th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Diego Leon Montoya Sanchez, Colombian organized crime figure |
| 11th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Ramage, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 11th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jasper Fforde, British author |
| 11th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Habsburg-Lothringen, Prince of Austria and Prince Royal of Hungary |
| 11th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Lindauer, American peace activist and accused spy |
| 11th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Coles, American actress |
| 11th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Tracy Caulkins, American swimmer |
| 11th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Reynolds, English snooker player |
| 11th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Roland Scholten, Dutch darts Player |
| 11th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Kelley Law, Canadian curler |
| 11th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Acito, American novelist and humorist |
| 11th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Riddell, Scottish actor |
| 11th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Anders Borg, Swedish politician |
| 11th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Dumont, American musician |
| 11th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Richards, American actress |
| 11th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Manny Acta, Dominican baseball player |
| 11th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm D. Lee, American actor, film director, and screenwriter |
| 11th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Manfredi Beninati, Italian visual artist. |
| 11th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Jent, American basketball player and coach |
| 11th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Joy Nilo, Filipino Composer |
| 11th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Willsher, English singer-songwriter and musician |
| 11th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mary J. Blige, American singer |
| 11th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Blucas, American actor |
| 11th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Jacobs, American singer (The Aquabats) |
| 11th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Peet, American actress |
| 11th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Joanna Brodzik, Polish actress |
| 11th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Rockmond Dunbar, American actor |
| 11th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer |
| 11th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Roman Gortz, German footballer |
| 11th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Cody McKay, Canadian baseball player |
| 11th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jens Nowotny, German footballer |
| 11th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Rory Fitzpatrick, American ice hockey player |
| 11th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Luger, English rugby player |
| 11th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Efthimios Rentzias, Greek basketball player |
| 11th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Shomari Buchanan, American football player |
| 11th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Anni Friesinger-Postma, German speed skater |
| 11th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Nadia Turner, American singer |
| 11th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Holly Brisley, Australian actress |
| 11th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Emile Heskey, English footballer |
| 11th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Duff, Northern Irish footballer |
| 11th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Lynn Bousman, American film director |
| 11th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Siti Nurhaliza, Malaysian singer |
| 11th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Shefflin, Irish hurler |
| 11th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Lovieanne Jung, American softball player |
| 11th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Deanna Wright, American actress |
| 11th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Williams, American football player |
| 11th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jamelia, English singer |
| 11th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Meighan, British singer (Kasabian) |
| 11th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Taylor Dawson, British actor and singer |
| 11th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Son Ye-jin, South Korean actress |
| 11th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Allen, American basketball player |
| 11th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Palleschi, Canadian soccer player |
| 11th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Richards, Australian rules footballer |
| 11th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Sutil, German racing driver |
| 11th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Boss, American football player |
| 11th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Newton Faulkner, British singer |
| 11th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Rie fu, Japanese singer |
| 11th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Kazuki Nakajima, Japanese racing driver |
| 11th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Porter, British politician |
| 11th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Riley, British television presenter |
| 11th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Scotty Cranmer, American BMX rider |
| 11th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Semenzato, Italian footballer |
| 11th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Dzufer, Australian rules footballer |
| 11th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Fuska, Brazilian footballer |
| 11th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Sammy Carlson, American freeskier |
| 11th of January 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Flora Cross, French actress |
| 11th of January 1997 | BIRTHDAY | Cody Simpson, Australian singer |
| 11th of January 0314 | DEATH | St. Miltiades |
| 11th of January 0705 | DEATH | Pope John VI |
| 11th of January 0802 | DEATH | St. Paulinus II of Aquileia |
| 11th of January 0812 | DEATH | Staurakios, Byzantine Emperor |
| 11th of January 0844 | DEATH | Michael I Rhangabes, Byzantine Emperor |
| 11th of January 1055 | DEATH | Constantine IX Monomachos, Byzantine Emperor (Born 1000) |
| 11th of January 1083 | DEATH | Otto of Nordheim, Duke of Bavaria (Born c. 1020) |
| 11th of January 1494 | DEATH | Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (Born 1449) |
| 11th of January 1495 | DEATH | Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (Born 1428) |
| 11th of January 1547 | DEATH | Pietro Bembo, Italian author, literary theorist, and Catholic cardinal (Born 1470) |
| 11th of January 1641 | DEATH | Juan Martinez de Jauregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (Born 1583) |
| 11th of January 1696 | DEATH | Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (Born 1616) |
| 11th of January 1703 | DEATH | Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (Born 1632) |
| 11th of January 1713 | DEATH | Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader (Born 1637) |
| 11th of January 1735 | DEATH | Danilo I , Vladika of Montenegro (Born c.1670) |
| 11th of January 1753 | DEATH | Sir Hans Sloane, Ulster-Scot physician and collector (Born 1660) |
| 11th of January 1762 | DEATH | Louis-Francois Roubiliac, French sculptor (Born 1695) |
| 11th of January 1763 | DEATH | Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (Born 1676) |
| 11th of January 1771 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (Born 1704) |
| 11th of January 1791 | DEATH | William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (Born 1717) |
| 11th of January 1801 | DEATH | Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Born 1749) |
| 11th of January 1836 | DEATH | John Molson, Canadian brewer (Born 1763) |
| 11th of January 1843 | DEATH | Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and writer of the American national anthem (Born 1779) |
| 11th of January 1867 | DEATH | Sir Stuart Donaldson, first Premier of the Colony of New South Wales (Born 1812) |
| 11th of January 1882 | DEATH | Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (Born 1810) |
| 11th of January 1891 | DEATH | Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann, French civic planner (Born 1809) |
| 11th of January 1901 | DEATH | Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (Born 1866) |
| 11th of January 1902 | DEATH | Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (Born 1862) |
| 11th of January 1904 | DEATH | William Sawyer, Canadian politician (Born 1815) |
| 11th of January 1905 | DEATH | Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Hasidic rabbi (Born 1847) |
| 11th of January 1914 | DEATH | Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery is named (Born 1842) |
| 11th of January 1920 | DEATH | Steinar Schj?tt, Norwegian educator, philologist and lexicographer (Born 1844) |
| 11th of January 1923 | DEATH | King Constantine I of Greece (Born 1868) |
| 11th of January 1928 | DEATH | Thomas Hardy, English writer (Born 1840) |
| 11th of January 1931 | DEATH | James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (Born 1852) |
| 11th of January 1941 | DEATH | Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (Born 1868) |
| 11th of January 1944 | DEATH | Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law (Born 1903) |
| 11th of January 1947 | DEATH | Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born singer and entertainer (Born 1879) |
| 11th of January 1952 | DEATH | Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (Born 1885) |
| 11th of January 1952 | DEATH | Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France (Born 1889) |
| 11th of January 1954 | DEATH | Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (Born 1870) |
| 11th of January 1957 | DEATH | Sir Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and early leading expert in Australian constitutional law (Born 1867) |
| 11th of January 1958 | DEATH | Alec Rowley, English composer (Born 1892) |
| 11th of January 1958 | DEATH | Edna Purviance, American actress (Born 1895) |
| 11th of January 1961 | DEATH | Elena Gerhardt, German mezzo-soprano singer (Born 1883) |
| 11th of January 1965 | DEATH | Wally Pipp, American Major League Baseball player (Born 1893) |
| 11th of January 1966 | DEATH | Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (Born 1889) |
| 11th of January 1966 | DEATH | Lal Bahadur Shastri, third Prime Minister of independent India (Born 1904) |
| 11th of January 1966 | DEATH | Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (Born 1901) |
| 11th of January 1968 | DEATH | Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and Talmudic scholar, and Israel Prize recipient (Born 1876) |
| 11th of January 1969 | DEATH | Richmal Crompton, British author (Born 1890) |
| 11th of January 1972 | DEATH | Padraic Colum, Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore (Born 1881) |
| 11th of January 1975 | DEATH | Max Lorenz, German heldentenor famous for Wagner roles (Born 1901) |
| 11th of January 1978 | DEATH | Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet (Born 1927) |
| 11th of January 1979 | DEATH | Jack Soo, American actor (Born 1917) |
| 11th of January 1980 | DEATH | Barbara Pym, English novelist (Born 1913) |
| 11th of January 1981 | DEATH | Beulah Bondi, American actress (Born 1888) |
| 11th of January 1983 | DEATH | Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (Born 1894) |
| 11th of January 1985 | DEATH | Sir William McKell, Premier of New South Wales, Governor-General of Australia (Born 1891) |
| 11th of January 1986 | DEATH | Sid Chaplin, UK novelist (Born 1916) |
| 11th of January 1987 | DEATH | Albert Ferber, Swiss-English pianist (Born 1911) |
| 11th of January 1988 | DEATH | Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, American World War II Marine aviator (Born 1912) |
| 11th of January 1988 | DEATH | Florence Knapp, American, one-time oldest person in the world (Born 1873) |
| 11th of January 1988 | DEATH | Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1898) |
| 11th of January 1991 | DEATH | Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1905) |
| 11th of January 1994 | DEATH | Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician (Born 1902) |
| 11th of January 1995 | DEATH | Josef Gingold, Russian-American violinist (Born 1909) |
| 11th of January 1995 | DEATH | Theodor Wisch, German general (SS) (Born 1907) |
| 11th of January 1995 | DEATH | Lewis Nixon, U.S. Army officer (Born 1918) |
| 11th of January 1998 | DEATH | Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (Born 1926) |
| 11th of January 1999 | DEATH | Fabrizio De Andre, Italian singer-songwriter (Born 1940) |
| 11th of January 1999 | DEATH | Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (Born 1897) |
| 11th of January 1999 | DEATH | Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (Born 1921) |
| 11th of January 2000 | DEATH | Betty Archdale, Anglo-Australian educationalist and cricketer (Born 1907) |
| 11th of January 2000 | DEATH | Bob Lemon, American baseball player (Born 1920) |
| 11th of January 2000 | DEATH | Ivan Combe, American inventor (Born 1911) |
| 11th of January 2001 | DEATH | Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (Born 1914) |
| 11th of January 2001 | DEATH | Michael Williams, English actor (Born 1935) |
| 11th of January 2002 | DEATH | Henri Verneuil, French playwright and film director (Born 1920) |
| 11th of January 2002 | DEATH | Struan Sutherland, Australian medical researcher (Born 1936) |
| 11th of January 2003 | DEATH | Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (Born 1925) |
| 11th of January 2003 | DEATH | Mickey Finn, English drummer (T.Rex) (Born 1947) |
| 11th of January 2003 | DEATH | Richard Simmons, American actor (Born 1913) |
| 11th of January 2005 | DEATH | Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (Born 1913) |
| 11th of January 2005 | DEATH | Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (Born 1938) |
| 11th of January 2005 | DEATH | James Griffin, American musician (Bread) (Born 1943) |
| 11th of January 2005 | DEATH | Fabrizio Meoni, Italian motorcyclist (Born 1957) |
| 11th of January 2006 | DEATH | Nixzmary Brown, American child abuse victim (Born 1998) |
| 11th of January 2006 | DEATH | Markus Loffel (Mark Spoon), German DJ (Born 1966) |
| 11th of January 2007 | DEATH | Puchi Balseiro, Puerto Rican singer & songwriter (Born 1926) |
| 11th of January 2007 | DEATH | Robert Anton Wilson, American author (Born 1932) |
| 11th of January 2007 | DEATH | Solveig Dommartin, French-German actress (Born 1961) |
| 11th of January 2008 | DEATH | Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (Born 1917) |
| 11th of January 2008 | DEATH | Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, the 1st person to climb Mount Everest in 1953 (Born 1919) |
| 11th of January 2009 | DEATH | David Vine, British sports broadcaster (Born 1936) |
| 11th of January 2010 | DEATH | Miep Gies, Dutch Humanitarian, discoverer of Anne Frank's diary (Born 1909) |
| 11th of January 2010 | DEATH | Mick Green, British guitarist (Born 1944) |
| 11th of January 2010 | DEATH | Joe Rollino, American strongman, weightlifter, and boxer (Born 1905) |