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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 11th of March 0222 | EVENT | Emperor Elagabalus is assassinated, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, by the Praetorian Guard during a revolt. Their mutilated bodies are dragged through the streets of Rome before being thrown into the Tiber. |
| 11th of March 1387 | EVENT | Battle of Castagnaro: English condottiero Sir John Hawkwood leads Padova to victory in a factional clash with Verona. |
| 11th of March 1649 | EVENT | The Frondeurs and the French sign the Peace of Rueil. |
| 11th of March 1702 | EVENT | The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper is published for the first time. |
| 11th of March 1708 | EVENT | Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation. |
| 11th of March 1784 | EVENT | The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end. |
| 11th of March 1811 | EVENT | During Andre Massena's retreat from the Lines of Torres Vedras, a division led by French Marshal Michel Ney fights off a combined Anglo-Portuguese force to give Massena time to escape. |
| 11th of March 1824 | EVENT | The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs. |
| 11th of March 1845 | EVENT | The Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Maori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand. |
| 11th of March 1848 | EVENT | Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government. |
| 11th of March 1851 | EVENT | The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice. |
| 11th of March 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted. |
| 11th of March 1864 | EVENT | The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield. |
| 11th of March 1867 | EVENT | The first performance of Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Paris. |
| 11th of March 1872 | EVENT | The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture. |
| 11th of March 1872 | EVENT | Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain. |
| 11th of March 1888 | EVENT | The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400. |
| 11th of March 1917 | EVENT | World War I: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude. |
| 11th of March 1927 | EVENT | In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre. |
| 11th of March 1931 | EVENT | Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union. |
| 11th of March 1941 | EVENT | World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan. |
| 11th of March 1942 | EVENT | World War II: General Douglas MacArthur leaves Corregidor. |
| 11th of March 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2. |
| 11th of March 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state, is established with Bao ?ai as its ruler. |
| 11th of March 1977 | EVENT | The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations. |
| 11th of March 1978 | EVENT | Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Al Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani. |
| 11th of March 1983 | EVENT | Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon. |
| 11th of March 1985 | EVENT | Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| 11th of March 1990 | EVENT | Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union. |
| 11th of March 1990 | EVENT | Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970. |
| 11th of March 1993 | EVENT | Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States. |
| 11th of March 1999 | EVENT | Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange. |
| 11th of March 2004 | EVENT | Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people. |
| 11th of March 2006 | EVENT | Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile. |
| 11th of March 2007 | EVENT | Russian helicopters reportedly attack the Kodori Valley in Abkhazia, an accusation that Russia categorically denies later. |
| 11th of March 2009 | EVENT | Winnenden school shooting : 17 people are killed at a school in Germany. |
| 11th of March 2010 | EVENT | Economist and businessman Sebastian Pinera is sworn in as President of Chile, while three earthquakes, the strongest measuring magnitude 6.9 and all centered next to Pichilemu, capital of Cardenal Caro Province, hit central Chile during the ceremony. |
| 11th of March 2011 | EVENT | An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. |
| 11th of March 1544 | BIRTHDAY | Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1595) |
| 11th of March 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807) |
| 11th of March 1738 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (d. 1792) |
| 11th of March 1745 | BIRTHDAY | Bodawpaya, King of Burma (d. 1819) |
| 11th of March 1785 | BIRTHDAY | John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1861) |
| 11th of March 1787 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (d. 1852) |
| 11th of March 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician (d. 1877) |
| 11th of March 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Marius Petipa, French ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1910) |
| 11th of March 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand, French mathematician (d. 1900) |
| 11th of March 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Stoddart, English cricketer (d. 1915) |
| 11th of March 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (d. 1946) |
| 11th of March 1873 | BIRTHDAY | David Horsley, English-born film executive (d. 1933) |
| 11th of March 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Ruggles, American composer (d. 1971) |
| 11th of March 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Umegatani Totaro II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 20th Yokozuna (d. 1927) |
| 11th of March 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenecist (d. 1943) |
| 11th of March 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Lewi Pethrus, Swedish politician (d. 1974) |
| 11th of March 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Campbell, English race car driver (d. 1948) |
| 11th of March 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Raoul Walsh, American film director (d. 1980) |
| 11th of March 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (d. 1974) |
| 11th of March 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Cowell, American composer and impresario (d. 1965) |
| 11th of March 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Gish, American actress (d. 1968) |
| 11th of March 1899 | BIRTHDAY | King Frederick IX of Denmark (d. 1972) |
| 11th of March 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Welk, American musician (d. 1992) |
| 11th of March 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian (d. 1989) |
| 11th of March 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Jessie Matthews, English actress (d. 1981) |
| 11th of March 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Havemann, German chemist (d. 1982) |
| 11th of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer (d. 2004) |
| 11th of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | J. C. R. Licklider, American computer scientist and Internet pioneer (d. 1990) |
| 11th of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Peter Keller, German writer (d. 1988) |
| 11th of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995) |
| 11th of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Ezra Jack Keats, children's literature author (d. 1983) |
| 11th of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 11th of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005) |
| 11th of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Astor Piazzolla, Argentine composer (d. 1992) |
| 11th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek philosopher and economist (d. 1997) |
| 11th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1976) |
| 11th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez, Spanish actor (d. 2009) |
| 11th of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Reverend Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights leader (d. 1990) |
| 11th of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Ilhan Mimaroglu, Turkish musician and composer |
| 11th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Mosbacher, 28th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 2010) |
| 11th of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Salmi, American actor (d. 1990) |
| 11th of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy Carey, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 11th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Jutra, Quebec film actor and director (d. 1986) |
| 11th of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born entrepreneur |
| 11th of March 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (d. 2007) |
| 11th of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Donaldson, American reporter |
| 11th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Sandra Milo, Italian actress |
| 11th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Antonin Scalia, American Supreme Court Justice |
| 11th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Hollis Frampton, American filmmaker and theorist. |
| 11th of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Larranaga, Spanish actor |
| 11th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Lorraine Hunt, former Lieutenant Governor of Nevada |
| 11th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Flaco Jimenez, American musician |
| 11th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Alberto Cortez, Argentinian singer |
| 11th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Steiger, American Producer / Writer |
| 11th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Dock Ellis, American baseball player (d. 2008) |
| 11th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Harvey Mandel, American musician |
| 11th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Mari Chan, Chinese-Filipino singer and songwriter |
| 11th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Patty Waters, American jazz singer |
| 11th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tristan Murail, French composer |
| 11th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Dominique Sanda, French actress |
| 11th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Barnes, 80th Governor of Georgia |
| 11th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Cesar Geronimo, Dominican baseball player |
| 11th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby McFerrin, American singer |
| 11th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Zucker, American director |
| 11th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Adams, English writer (d. 2001) |
| 11th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Daly, Irish-born American race car driver |
| 11th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Laszlo Boloni, Romanian football player and manager |
| 11th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Bernie LaBarge, Canadian musician |
| 11th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Gale Norton, 48th United States Secretary of the Interior |
| 11th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Nina Hagen, German singer |
| 11th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Curtis Brown, NASA astronaut |
| 11th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Buttafuoco, American statutory rapist |
| 11th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | D. J. MacHale, American author and television writer |
| 11th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Paulsen, American voice actor |
| 11th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Rollason, British sports journalist and television presenter (d. 1999) |
| 11th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Lady Chablis, American entertainer |
| 11th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Cheryl Lynn, American singer |
| 11th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Pinkerton, American pundit |
| 11th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Anissa Jones, American actress (d. 1976) |
| 11th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, interim President of Iraq |
| 11th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Flemming Rose, Danish journalist |
| 11th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Nina Hartley, American porn star, author and feminist |
| 11th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian-American poet |
| 11th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Christophe Gans, French film director |
| 11th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Elias Koteas, Canadian actor |
| 11th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Nordling, American actor |
| 11th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Kingston, English actress |
| 11th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Davis Guggenheim, American director and producer |
| 11th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Berg, American film actor, director and producer |
| 11th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Libba Bray, American author |
| 11th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Vinnie Paul, American drummer (Pantera) |
| 11th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Chambers, British actress |
| 11th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Richie, British actor |
| 11th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Adkins, English football manager |
| 11th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Jackson, Jr., American politician |
| 11th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Wallace Langham, American actor |
| 11th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, British television presenter |
| 11th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Hachem, Lebanese-born Australian poker player |
| 11th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Ilias Zouros, Greek basketball coach |
| 11th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | John Barrowman, Scottish-American actor |
| 11th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Carson, American politician |
| 11th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Loeb, American singer-songwriter |
| 11th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Terrence Howard, American actor |
| 11th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Soraya, Colombian-American singer (d. 2006) |
| 11th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Delia Gallagher, American journalist |
| 11th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Knoxville, American television personality |
| 11th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Rucinsky, Czech ice hockey player |
| 11th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Paolo Ponzo, Italian footballer |
| 11th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Hiden, Austrian footballer |
| 11th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Abreu, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 11th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Dalton, American reality show personality |
| 11th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Brian, American author |
| 11th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Springs, American football player |
| 11th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Eric the Midget, American radio personality |
| 11th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Gravesen, Danish footballer |
| 11th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Nickatina, American rapper |
| 11th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Becky Hammon, American basketball player |
| 11th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer |
| 11th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Luque, Spanish footballer |
| 11th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Rice, American author |
| 11th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Paulo Musse, Brazilian footballer |
| 11th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Elton Brand, American basketball player |
| 11th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Jones, American basketball player |
| 11th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Benji Madden, American guitarist (Good Charlotte) |
| 11th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Madden, American singer (Good Charlotte) |
| 11th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Scharner, Austrian footballer |
| 11th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Uggla, American baseball player |
| 11th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | David Anders, American actor |
| 11th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Heidi Cortez, American entrepreneur |
| 11th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Evans, American football player |
| 11th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | LeToya Luckett, American singer (ex-Destiny's Child) |
| 11th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Russell Lissack, English musician (Bloc Party) |
| 11th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Wall, American rapper |
| 11th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Lindsey McKeon, American actress |
| 11th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Anderson, Major League Baseball player |
| 11th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Thora Birch, American actress |
| 11th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Krause, German rugby player |
| 11th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Marietta Chrousala, Greek fashion model |
| 11th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Adil Mezgour, Moroccan footballer |
| 11th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Bianca Gonzalez, Filipina TV host and model |
| 11th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa Rycroft, American reality show personality |
| 11th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Marc-Andre Grondin, Canadian actor |
| 11th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Tsuchiya, Japanese model, actress and singer |
| 11th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Tom James, British rower |
| 11th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Bissonnette, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 11th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Ajantha Mendis, Sri Lankan Cricketer |
| 11th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Hakuho Sho, Mongolian sumo wrestler, the 69th Yokozuna |
| 11th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Stelios Malezas, Greek footballer |
| 11th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Schouman, American football player |
| 11th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Australian footballer |
| 11th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Mariko Shinoda, Japanese actress (AKB48) |
| 11th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Marc-Andre Gragnani, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 11th of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Fabio Coentrao, Portuguese football player |
| 11th of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Yelchin, Russian/American actor |
| 11th of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Reiley McClendon, American actor |
| 11th of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Janna Dominguez, Filipina actress |
| 11th of March 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Rodwell, English footballer |
| 11th of March 0222 | DEATH | Elagabalus, Roman Emperor |
| 11th of March 0222 | DEATH | Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus (Born 180) |
| 11th of March 0859 | DEATH | Eulogius of Cordoba, Spanish Bishop and Christian Martyr |
| 11th of March 1198 | DEATH | Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (Born 1145) |
| 11th of March 1486 | DEATH | Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (Born 1414) |
| 11th of March 1514 | DEATH | Donato Bramante, Italian architect (Born 1444) |
| 11th of March 1575 | DEATH | Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (Born 1520) |
| 11th of March 1602 | DEATH | Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer |
| 11th of March 1607 | DEATH | Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer |
| 11th of March 1722 | DEATH | John Toland, Irish philosopher (Born 1670) |
| 11th of March 1759 | DEATH | John Forbes, British general (Born 1710) |
| 11th of March 1786 | DEATH | Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (Born 1714) |
| 11th of March 1801 | DEATH | Paul I of Russia, Russian tsar (Born 1754) |
| 11th of March 1820 | DEATH | Benjamin West, English-American painter (Born 1738) |
| 11th of March 1851 | DEATH | George McDuffie, Governor of South Carolina (Born 1790) |
| 11th of March 1854 | DEATH | Willard Richards, American religious leader (Born 1804) |
| 11th of March 1856 | DEATH | James Beatty, Irish railway engineer (Born 1820) |
| 11th of March 1863 | DEATH | Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, English general (Born 1803) |
| 11th of March 1866 | DEATH | Ulysses F. Doubleday, American congressman (Born 1792) |
| 11th of March 1869 | DEATH | Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher (Born 1803) |
| 11th of March 1870 | DEATH | King Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho |
| 11th of March 1874 | DEATH | Charles Sumner, American politician (Born 1811) |
| 11th of March 1898 | DEATH | William Rosecrans, American Civil War Union general (Born 1819) |
| 11th of March 1898 | DEATH | Dikran Tchouhadjian, Armenian composer, conductor and public activist (Born 1837) |
| 11th of March 1907 | DEATH | Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (Born 1847) |
| 11th of March 1908 | DEATH | Benjamin Waugh, American activist (Born 1839) |
| 11th of March 1915 | DEATH | Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (Born 1826) |
| 11th of March 1920 | DEATH | Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (Born 1865) |
| 11th of March 1926 | DEATH | Usui Mikao, Japanese founder of Reiki (Born 1865) |
| 11th of March 1931 | DEATH | F.W. Murnau, German film director (Born 1888) |
| 11th of March 1937 | DEATH | Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (Born 1860) |
| 11th of March 1944 | DEATH | Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-born American historian (Born 1882) |
| 11th of March 1949 | DEATH | Anastasios Charalambis, Greek general and interim Prime Minister of Greece (Born 1862) |
| 11th of March 1952 | DEATH | Pierre Renoir, French stage and film actor and director (Born 1885) |
| 11th of March 1955 | DEATH | Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (Born 1881) |
| 11th of March 1955 | DEATH | Oscar Mayer, Bavarian-born American meat packer (Born 1859) |
| 11th of March 1957 | DEATH | Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (Born 1888) |
| 11th of March 1958 | DEATH | Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor of Legos (Born 1891) |
| 11th of March 1960 | DEATH | Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer and adventurer (Born 1884) |
| 11th of March 1967 | DEATH | Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (Born 1882) |
| 11th of March 1969 | DEATH | John Wyndham, English author (Born 1903) |
| 11th of March 1970 | DEATH | Erle Stanley Gardner, American novelist (Born 1889) |
| 11th of March 1971 | DEATH | Philo T. Farnsworth, American television pioneer (Born 1906) |
| 11th of March 1971 | DEATH | Whitney Young, American civil rights leader (Born 1921) |
| 11th of March 1977 | DEATH | Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist (Born 1893) |
| 11th of March 1977 | DEATH | Alberto Rodriguez Larreta, Argentine racing driver (Born 1934) |
| 11th of March 1978 | DEATH | Claude Francois, French singer (Born 1939) |
| 11th of March 1978 | DEATH | Sofia Vembo, Greek Female Singer, dubbed the "Singstress of Victory" (Born 1910) |
| 11th of March 1982 | DEATH | Edmund Cooper, English author (Born 1926) |
| 11th of March 1982 | DEATH | Horace Gregory, American poet (Born 1898) |
| 11th of March 1984 | DEATH | Kostas Roukounas, Greek rembetiko singer and song writer (Born 1903) |
| 11th of March 1986 | DEATH | Sonny Terry, American blues musician (Born 1911) |
| 11th of March 1987 | DEATH | Joe Gladwin, English actor (Born 1906) |
| 11th of March 1989 | DEATH | John J. McCloy, United States Secretary of War (Born 1895) |
| 11th of March 1989 | DEATH | James Kee, American politician (Born 1917) |
| 11th of March 1990 | DEATH | Dean Horrix, English footballer (Born 1961) |
| 11th of March 1992 | DEATH | Richard Brooks, American film director (Born 1912) |
| 11th of March 1993 | DEATH | Dino Bravo, Italian-born professional wrestler (Born 1949), |
| 11th of March 1995 | DEATH | Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (Born 1945) |
| 11th of March 1996 | DEATH | Vince Edwards, American film actor and director (Born 1928) |
| 11th of March 1999 | DEATH | Camille Laurin, Quebec psychiatrist and politician (Born 1922) |
| 11th of March 2002 | DEATH | James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (Born 1918) |
| 11th of March 2003 | DEATH | Brian Cleeve, Irish author (Born 1921) |
| 11th of March 2003 | DEATH | Ivar Hansen, speaker of the Danish Folketing (Born 1938) |
| 11th of March 2006 | DEATH | Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1931) |
| 11th of March 2006 | DEATH | Slobodan Milosevic, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (Born 1941) |
| 11th of March 2007 | DEATH | Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (Born 1921) |
| 11th of March 2009 | DEATH | Charles Lewis, Jr., American businessman, promoter and entertainer (Born 1963) |
| 11th of March 2010 | DEATH | Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister (Born 1931) |
| 11th of March 2010 | DEATH | Leena Peltonen-Palotie, Finnish human geneticist (Born 1952) |
| 11th of March 2010 | DEATH | Merlin Olsen, American football player / Actor (Born 1940) |