October 11 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on October 11, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♎︎ Libra
Sep 23 – Oct 22
Birth stone
Opal
Birth flower
Marigold
How common
#110 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous October 11 birthdays
Eleanor Roosevelt · American diplomat and activist1884
Friedrich Bergius · German chemist1884
François Mauriac · French writer1885
Fred Trump · American real estate developer1905
Jerome Robbins · American choreographer and director1918
Elmore Leonard · American novelist and screenwriter1925
Thích Nhất Hạnh · Vietnamese Buddhist monk and activist1926
Bobby Charlton · English association football player and manager1937
Amitabh Bachchan · Indian film actor1942
David Morse · American actor1953
Joan Cusack · American actress1962
Luke Perry · American actor1966
Peter Thiel · German-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist1967
Artie Lange · American comedian1967
Jane Krakowski · American actress and singer, comedian1968
Emily Deschanel · American actress, television producer, and film producer1976
Sal Khan · American educator1976
Matt Bomer · American actor1977
Michelle Trachtenberg · American actress1985
Cardi B · American rapper1992
On this day in history
1950CBS's field-sequential color system for television was the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
1968Apollo 7, the first manned mission of NASA's Apollo program, and the first three-man American space mission, launched from Complex 34 in Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1984Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first American woman to perform a space walk.
1987An estimated 750,000 people attended the "Great March" in Washington, D.C., to demand greater civil rights for the LGBT community.
1890In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution was founded.
1958NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit.
1976George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of General of the Armies.
2000NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.
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