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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 11th of October 1138 | EVENT | A massive earthquake struck Aleppo, Syria. |
| 11th of October 1531 | EVENT | Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland. |
| 11th of October 1582 | EVENT | Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. |
| 11th of October 1614 | EVENT | Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony. |
| 11th of October 1634 | EVENT | The Burchardi flood -- "the second Grote Mandrenke" killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany. |
| 11th of October 1649 | EVENT | Sack of Wexford: After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops (under Oliver Cromwell) stormed the town of Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians. |
| 11th of October 1727 | EVENT | George II and Caroline of Ansbach are crowned King and Queen of Great Britain. |
| 11th of October 1776 | EVENT | American Revolution: Battle of Valcour Island : On Lake Champlain 15 American gunboats are defeated but give Patriot forces enough time to prepare defenses of New York City. |
| 11th of October 1797 | EVENT | Battle of Camperdown: Naval battle between Royal Navy and Royal Netherlands Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. The outcome of the battle was a decisive British victory. |
| 11th of October 1809 | EVENT | Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand. |
| 11th of October 1811 | EVENT | Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey). |
| 11th of October 1833 | EVENT | A big demonstration at the gates of the legislature of Buenos Aires forces the ousting of governor Juan Ramon Balcarce and his replacement with Juan Jose Viamonte. |
| 11th of October 1852 | EVENT | The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney. |
| 11th of October 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north. |
| 11th of October 1864 | EVENT | Campina Grande, Brazil is established as a city. |
| 11th of October 1865 | EVENT | Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion. |
| 11th of October 1890 | EVENT | In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded. |
| 11th of October 1899 | EVENT | Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts. |
| 11th of October 1899 | EVENT | The Western League is renamed the American League. |
| 11th of October 1906 | EVENT | San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools. |
| 11th of October 1910 | EVENT | Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri. |
| 11th of October 1929 | EVENT | JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states. |
| 11th of October 1941 | EVENT | Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia. |
| 11th of October 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance : On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island. |
| 11th of October 1944 | EVENT | Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva is annexed by the U.S.S.R |
| 11th of October 1950 | EVENT | Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. |
| 11th of October 1954 | EVENT | First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam. |
| 11th of October 1957 | EVENT | Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik I's booster rocket's orbit. |
| 11th of October 1958 | EVENT | Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up). |
| 11th of October 1962 | EVENT | Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years. |
| 11th of October 1968 | EVENT | Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard. |
| 11th of October 1972 | EVENT | A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam during Operation Linebacker. |
| 11th of October 1975 | EVENT | The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests. |
| 11th of October 1976 | EVENT | George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford. |
| 11th of October 1982 | EVENT | The Mary Rose, a Tudor carrack which sank on July 19 1545, is salvaged from the sea bed of the Solent, off Portsmouth. |
| 11th of October 1984 | EVENT | Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk. |
| 11th of October 1986 | EVENT | Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavik, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe. |
| 11th of October 1987 | EVENT | Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed few thousand ethnic Tamil civilians, several hundred Tamil Tigers and few hundred Indian Army soldiers. |
| 11th of October 1996 | EVENT | Pala accident: a wood lorry and school bus collide in Jogeva county, Estonia, killing eight children. |
| 11th of October 2000 | EVENT | NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery. |
| 11th of October 2001 | EVENT | The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection. |
| 11th of October 2002 | EVENT | A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven. |
| 11th of October 1335 | BIRTHDAY | Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1408) |
| 11th of October 1616 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Gryphius, German writer (d. 1664) |
| 11th of October 1661 | BIRTHDAY | Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (d. 1742) |
| 11th of October 1671 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick IV of Denmark (d. 1730) |
| 11th of October 1672 | BIRTHDAY | Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (d. 1742) |
| 11th of October 1675 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (d. 1729) |
| 11th of October 1738 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Phillip, Governor of New South Wales (d. 1814) |
| 11th of October 1758 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Wilhelm Matthaus Olbers, German astronomer (d. 1840) |
| 11th of October 1786 | BIRTHDAY | Stevenson Archer, American Congressman (d. 1848) |
| 11th of October 1788 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Sechter, Austrian music teacher (d. 1867) |
| 11th of October 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Orson Squire Fowler, American phrenologist (d. 1887) |
| 11th of October 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Baptiste Lamy, first Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1888) |
| 11th of October 1815 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Italian-born adventurer (d. 1881) |
| 11th of October 1821 | BIRTHDAY | George Williams, English founder of the YMCA (d. 1905) |
| 11th of October 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Heinz, American food manufacturer (d. 1916) |
| 11th of October 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian author and philologist (d. 1926) |
| 11th of October 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian religious leader (d. 1943) |
| 11th of October 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Davison, Militant womans suffrage activist (d. 1913) |
| 11th of October 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Harlan Fiske Stone, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1946) |
| 11th of October 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Mally, Austrian philosopher (d. 1944) |
| 11th of October 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal theorist (d. 1973) |
| 11th of October 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States and humanitarian (d. 1962) |
| 11th of October 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1949) |
| 11th of October 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Sig Ruman, German-American actor (d. 1967) |
| 11th of October 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Mauriac, French author, Nobel laureate (d. 1970) |
| 11th of October 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (d. 1982) |
| 11th of October 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Twining, USAF general (d. 1982) |
| 11th of October 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Dyer, American baseball player (d. 1964) |
| 11th of October 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter and political leader (d. 1979) |
| 11th of October 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Trump, American real estate developer, father of Donald Trump (d. 1999) |
| 11th of October 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Noyes, singer who dubbed Debbie Reynolds' singing voice in Singin' in the Rain (d. 1987) |
| 11th of October 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Woolfolk, American comic book editor (d. 2000) |
| 11th of October 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Simon, American comic book artist and writer |
| 11th of October 1915 | BIRTHDAY | T. Llew Jones, Welsh author (d. 2009) |
| 11th of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Robbins, American choreographer (d. 1998) |
| 11th of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (d. 1990) |
| 11th of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress (d. 1999) |
| 11th of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Mal Whitfield, American athlete |
| 11th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Elmore Leonard, American novelist |
| 11th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Neville Wran, former Premier of New South Wales |
| 11th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk |
| 11th of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Josephine-Charlotte of Belgium (d. 2005) |
| 11th of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Alfonso de Portago, Spanish race car driver (d. 1957) |
| 11th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Liselotte Pulver, Swiss actress |
| 11th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Johnson, American politician |
| 11th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | LaVell Edwards, American football coach |
| 11th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Dottie West, American singer (d. 1991) |
| 11th of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Higgins, American jazz drummer (d. 2001) |
| 11th of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Bobby Charlton, English footballer |
| 11th of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | R. H. W. Dillard, American poet |
| 11th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Austin Currie, Northern Irish politician |
| 11th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player |
| 11th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1999) |
| 11th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Shyer, American film director |
| 11th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor |
| 11th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | John Nettles, English actor |
| 11th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Rodney Marsh, English Footballer |
| 11th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Fiore, American baseball player |
| 11th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Sawao Kato, Japanese gymnast |
| 11th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Daryl Hall, American rock singer (Hall & Oates) |
| 11th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Oba Chandler, American convicted murderer |
| 11th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Mallaber, American musician (The Steve Miller Band) |
| 11th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Al Atkins, English musician |
| 11th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Lucas Papademos, Greek economist |
| 11th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Boswell, American sports columnist |
| 11th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Cecilia, Spanish singer-songwriter (d. 1976) |
| 11th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Luke Orombi, Archbishop of Uganda |
| 11th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Patty Murray, American politician, senior senator of Washington |
| 11th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Jacques Goldman, French singer/songwriter |
| 11th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | David Morse, American actor |
| 11th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Vojislav Seselj, Serbian politician |
| 11th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Norm Nixon, American basketball player |
| 11th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Nicanor Duarte Frutos, former President of Paraguay, Senator for life |
| 11th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Bown, English actor |
| 11th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Dawn French, Welsh comedian,actress and screenwriter |
| 11th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Sereno, American paleontologist |
| 11th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Gregory Dudek, Canadian roboticist and computer scientist |
| 11th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Gardner, Australian racing driver |
| 11th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Curt Ford, American baseball player |
| 11th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Breuer, American basketball player |
| 11th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Buchanan, English television presenter |
| 11th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Amr Diab, Egyptian singer |
| 11th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Young, American football player |
| 11th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Nicola Bryant, English actress |
| 11th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Cusack, American actress and comedian |
| 11th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Ronny Rosenthal, Israeli footballer |
| 11th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein of Jordan |
| 11th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Michael J. Nelson, American actor |
| 11th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Hacke, German musician (Einsturzende Neubauten) |
| 11th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Orlando Hernandez, Cuban baseball player |
| 11th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Patrick Flanery, American actor |
| 11th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Perry, American actor |
| 11th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Solofa Fatu, aka Rikishi, American professional wrestler |
| 11th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Razon, Vice Presiding Minister, Church of God International |
| 11th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Chimel, American professional wrestling announcer |
| 11th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | David Starr, American race car driver |
| 11th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Artie Lange, American actor and comedian |
| 11th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Tazz, American professional wrestler and commentator |
| 11th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 11th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Krakowski, American actress |
| 11th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands |
| 11th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Moyer, British actor |
| 11th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Marriott, English footballer |
| 11th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Chidi Ahanotu, American football player |
| 11th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Constance Zimmer, American actress |
| 11th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Ellis, Australian professional skateboarder |
| 11th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | MC Lyte, American rapper |
| 11th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Petra Haden, American musician (The Rentals) |
| 11th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Claudia Black, Australian actress |
| 11th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Cherokee Parks, American basketball player |
| 11th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Takeshi Kaneshiro, actor/model |
| 11th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Pressley, Scottish footballer |
| 11th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Smith, American guitarist (Snot, Limp Bizkit) |
| 11th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Dmitri Young, American baseball player |
| 11th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Niki Xanthou, Greek long jumper |
| 11th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Terje Haakonsen, Norwegian snowboarder |
| 11th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Thomas, American skateboarder |
| 11th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Arnott, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 11th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Dominic Aitchison, Scottish musician (Mogwai) |
| 11th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Brent Bennett, American mercenary |
| 11th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Deschanel, American actress |
| 11th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Bomer, American actor |
| 11th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Desmond Mason, American basketball player |
| 11th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Claudia Palacios, Colombian television journalist |
| 11th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ty Wigginton, American baseball player |
| 11th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kali, Angolan footballer |
| 11th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Bae Doona, South Korean model and actress |
| 11th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Gabe Saporta, Uruguayan-born American musician (Cobra Starship, Midtown) |
| 11th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Douglas, American professional wrestler |
| 11th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Nyron Nosworthy, English footballer |
| 11th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Beau Brady, Australian Actor |
| 11th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Liz Cantor, Australian journalist |
| 11th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Larish, American Baseball Player |
| 11th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Terrell Suggs, American Football Player |
| 11th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kristy Wu, American Actress |
| 11th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ruslan Ponomariov, Ukrainian chess player |
| 11th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | William Sledd, American internet personality |
| 11th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Bradley James, British actor |
| 11th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Martha MacIsaac, Canadian actress |
| 11th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Hellings, Dutch footballer |
| 11th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress |
| 11th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Conley, Jr., American basketball player |
| 11th of October 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Wie, American golfer |
| 11th of October 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Lau, Korean Singer (Super Junior M) |
| 11th of October 1188 | DEATH | Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France |
| 11th of October 1303 | DEATH | Pope Boniface VIII |
| 11th of October 1347 | DEATH | Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1282) |
| 11th of October 1424 | DEATH | Jan Zizka, leader of the Hussites (Born 1360) |
| 11th of October 1531 | DEATH | Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (Born 1484) |
| 11th of October 1572 | DEATH | Sulaiman Khan Karrani, Sultan of Bengal |
| 11th of October 1636 | DEATH | Johann Albrecht Adelgrief, German man who claimed to be a prophet and was executed for witchcraft. |
| 11th of October 1705 | DEATH | Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (Born 1663) |
| 11th of October 1708 | DEATH | Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (Born 1651) |
| 11th of October 1721 | DEATH | Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (Born 1636) |
| 11th of October 1725 | DEATH | Hans Herr, Swiss-born Mennonite bishop (Born 1639) |
| 11th of October 1779 | DEATH | Kazimierz Pu?aski, Polish fighter for American independence (Born 1745) |
| 11th of October 1809 | DEATH | Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (Born 1774) |
| 11th of October 1811 | DEATH | Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (Born 1724) |
| 11th of October 1821 | DEATH | John Ross Key, American judge and lawyer (Born 1754) |
| 11th of October 1852 | DEATH | Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician (Born 1823) |
| 11th of October 1889 | DEATH | James Prescott Joule, English physicist (Born 1818) |
| 11th of October 1896 | DEATH | Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (Born 1824) |
| 11th of October 1896 | DEATH | Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 1829) |
| 11th of October 1897 | DEATH | Leon Boellmann, French composer (Born 1862) |
| 11th of October 1935 | DEATH | Steele Rudd, Australian author (Born 1868) |
| 11th of October 1940 | DEATH | Lluis Companys, President of Generalitat of Catalonia (shot) (Born 1882) |
| 11th of October 1940 | DEATH | Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (Born 1860) |
| 11th of October 1961 | DEATH | Chico Marx, American comedian (Born 1887) |
| 11th of October 1963 | DEATH | Edith Piaf, French singer (Born 1915) |
| 11th of October 1963 | DEATH | Jean Cocteau, French writer (Born 1889) |
| 11th of October 1965 | DEATH | Dorothea Lange, American photographer (Born 1895) |
| 11th of October 1965 | DEATH | Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (Born 1884) |
| 11th of October 1971 | DEATH | Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (Born 1944) |
| 11th of October 1971 | DEATH | Chesty Puller, the most decorated American Marine in history (Born 1898) |
| 11th of October 1976 | DEATH | Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (Born 1897) |
| 11th of October 1977 | DEATH | MacKinlay Kantor, American author (Born 1904) |
| 11th of October 1986 | DEATH | Norm Cash, American baseball player (Born 1934) |
| 11th of October 1988 | DEATH | Bonita Granville, American actress (Born 1923) |
| 11th of October 1989 | DEATH | M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (Born 1904) |
| 11th of October 1991 | DEATH | Steven Jesse Bernstein, American underground poet (suicide) (Born 1950) |
| 11th of October 1991 | DEATH | Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (Born 1922) |
| 11th of October 1993 | DEATH | Jess Thomas, American tenor (Born 1927) |
| 11th of October 1996 | DEATH | Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (Born 1907) |
| 11th of October 1996 | DEATH | Renato Russo, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter (Born 1960) |
| 11th of October 1996 | DEATH | Joe Morris, C.C., LL.D., Canadian trade unionist (Born 1913) |
| 11th of October 1998 | DEATH | Richard Denning, American actor (Born 1914) |
| 11th of October 2000 | DEATH | Donald Dewar, first First Minister of Scotland (Born 1937) |
| 11th of October 2002 | DEATH | Dina Pathak, Indian Actress (Born 1922) |
| 11th of October 2004 | DEATH | Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (Born 1919) |
| 11th of October 2005 | DEATH | Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile (Born 1915) |
| 11th of October 2005 | DEATH | Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Linguist, and writer of Pakistan (Born 1917) |
| 11th of October 2006 | DEATH | Cory Lidle, American baseball pitcher (Born 1972) |
| 11th of October 2007 | DEATH | Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (Born 1915) |
| 11th of October 2007 | DEATH | David Lee "Tex" Hill, World War II fighter pilot, flying ace, 1st American Volunteer Group (Born 1915) |
| 11th of October 2007 | DEATH | Sri Chinmoy Chinmoy Kumar Ghose founder of the Sri Chinmoy meditation centres (Born 1931) |
| 11th of October 2008 | DEATH | Jorg Haider, Austrian politician (Born 1950) |
| 11th of October 2008 | DEATH | Neil Hefti, American jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger (Born 1922) |
| 11th of October 2009 | DEATH | Veronika Neugebauer, German actress and voice actress (Born 1969) |