The 284th day of the year, the 285th in a leap year
Born on 11 October
Every 11 October birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Libra, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LibraAir, cardinal, ruled by Venus.
- Birthstone
- Opal, TourmalineThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Marigold, CosmosUsually taken today to mean warmth and order.
- Most common weekdays
- Tuesday and Sunday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 11 October in any year.
Which weekday 11 October falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 11 October falls on every day of the week: Tuesday 16, Sunday 16, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Friday 15.
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How common a birthday 11 October is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,848 babies were born on 11 October in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 89th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 11 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Eleanor Roosevelt | 1884–1962 | American diplomat and activist, First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 |
| Amitabh Bachchan | 1942– | Indian film actor |
| François Mauriac | 1885–1970 | French writer |
| Cardi B | 1992– | American rapper |
| Bobby Charlton | 1937–2023 | English association football player and manager |
| Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers | 1758–1840 | German physician and astronomer |
| Friedrich Bergius | 1884–1949 | German chemist |
| Thích Nhất Hạnh | 1926–2022 | Vietnamese Buddhist monk and activist |
| Lucas Papademos | 1947– | Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece from 2011 to 2012 |
| Michelle Trachtenberg | 1985–2025 | American actress |
| Grigory Potemkin | 1739–1791 | Russian military leader and politician |
| Joan Cusack | 1962– | American actress |
| Luke Perry | 1966–2019 | American actor |
| Emily Deschanel | 1976– | American actress, television producer, and film producer |
| Hans Kelsen | 1881–1973 | Austrian lawyer |
| Peter Thiel | 1967– | German-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist |
| Frederick IV of Denmark | 1671–1730 | king of Denmark and Norway (1699–1730) |
| Matt Bomer | 1977– | American actor |
Died on 11 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| James Prescott Joule | 1818–1889 | English physicist and brewer |
| Jean Cocteau | 1889–1963 | French writer and film director |
| Huldrych Zwingli | 1484–1531 | Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder |
| Diane Keaton | 1946–2025 | American actress and film director |
| Anton Bruckner | 1824–1896 | Austrian composer |
| Pope Boniface VIII | died 1303 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1294 to 1303 |
| Alexei Leonov | 1934–2019 | Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human to conduct a spacewalk |
| Angela Lansbury | 1925–2022 | British-American-Irish actress and singer |
| Jörg Haider | 1950–2008 | Austrian politician |
| Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor | 1282–1347 | Duke of Bavaria and Holy Roman Emperor |
| Dorothea Lange | 1895–1965 | American photojournalist |
| Jan Žižka | 1360–1424 | Czech Hussite military leader |
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