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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 11th of May 0330 | EVENT | Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but it is more popularly referred to as Constantinople. |
| 11th of May 0912 | EVENT | Alexander becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire. |
| 11th of May 1310 | EVENT | In France, fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake as heretics. |
| 11th of May 1502 | EVENT | Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies. |
| 11th of May 1647 | EVENT | Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City. |
| 11th of May 1745 | EVENT | War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy : French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army. |
| 11th of May 1792 | EVENT | Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River. |
| 11th of May 1812 | EVENT | Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London. |
| 11th of May 1813 | EVENT | In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth lead an expedition westwards from Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century. |
| 11th of May 1820 | EVENT | Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage. |
| 11th of May 1846 | EVENT | President James K. Polk asked for and received a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War |
| 11th of May 1857 | EVENT | Indian Mutiny: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British. |
| 11th of May 1858 | EVENT | Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State. |
| 11th of May 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: The ironclad CSS Virginia is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia. |
| 11th of May 1867 | EVENT | Luxembourg gains its independence. |
| 11th of May 1880 | EVENT | Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California |
| 11th of May 1891 | EVENT | The Otsu incident: Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Imperial Russia (later Nicholas II) suffers a critical head injury during a sword attack by Japanese policeman Tsuda Sanzo. He is rescued by Prince George of Greece and Denmark. |
| 11th of May 1894 | EVENT | Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois. |
| 11th of May 1907 | EVENT | 32 Shriners are killed when their chartered train derails at a switch near Surf Depot in Lompoc, California. |
| 11th of May 1910 | EVENT | An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana. |
| 11th of May 1918 | EVENT | The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established. |
| 11th of May 1924 | EVENT | Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies. |
| 11th of May 1927 | EVENT | The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded. |
| 11th of May 1942 | EVENT | William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published. |
| 11th of May 1943 | EVENT | World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces. |
| 11th of May 1944 | EVENT | World War II: The Allies begin a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line. |
| 11th of May 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill, is hit by two kamikazes, killing 346 of her crew. Although badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power. |
| 11th of May 1946 | EVENT | UMNO is created. |
| 11th of May 1949 | EVENT | Israel joins the United Nations. |
| 11th of May 1949 | EVENT | Siam officially changes its name to Thailand for the second time. The name had been in use since 1939 but was reverted in 1945. |
| 11th of May 1953 | EVENT | The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114. |
| 11th of May 1960 | EVENT | In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement. |
| 11th of May 1967 | EVENT | Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and socialist politician, is imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta. |
| 11th of May 1968 | EVENT | The Toronto Transit Commission opens the largest expansion of its Bloor : Danforth line, going to Scarborough in the East, and Etobicoke in the West. |
| 11th of May 1970 | EVENT | The Lubbock Tornado, a F5 tornado, hits Lubbock, Texas, killing 26 and causing $250 million in damage. |
| 11th of May 1973 | EVENT | Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed. |
| 11th of May 1985 | EVENT | Bradford City stadium fire: Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in a flash fire at Valley Parade football ground during a match against Lincoln City in Bradford, England. |
| 11th of May 1987 | EVENT | Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II. |
| 11th of May 1987 | EVENT | In Baltimore, Maryland, the first heart-lung transplant takes place. The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine. |
| 11th of May 1995 | EVENT | In New York City more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions. |
| 11th of May 1996 | EVENT | After the aircraft's departure from Miami, Florida, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board. |
| 11th of May 1996 | EVENT | The 1996 Mount Everest disaster: on a single day eight people die during summit attempts on Mount Everest . |
| 11th of May 1997 | EVENT | Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format. |
| 11th of May 1998 | EVENT | India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device. |
| 11th of May 2000 | EVENT | Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia. |
| 11th of May 1571 | BIRTHDAY | Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637) |
| 11th of May 1720 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Munchhausen, German adventurer (d. 1797) |
| 11th of May 1722 | BIRTHDAY | Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (d. 1789) |
| 11th of May 1733 | BIRTHDAY | Victoire of France, daughter of king Louis XV of France (d. 1799) |
| 11th of May 1752 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840) |
| 11th of May 1763 | BIRTHDAY | Janos Batsanyi, Hungarian poet (d. 1845) |
| 11th of May 1771 | BIRTHDAY | Laskarina Bouboulina, Greek naval commander in the Greek War of Independence (d. 1825) |
| 11th of May 1799 | BIRTHDAY | John Lowell, American philanthropist (d. 1836) |
| 11th of May 1801 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875) |
| 11th of May 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Chang and Eng Bunker, Thai/American conjoined twins (d. 1874) |
| 11th of May 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1893) |
| 11th of May 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1909) |
| 11th of May 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Leon Gerome, French painter and sculptor (d. 1904) |
| 11th of May 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875) |
| 11th of May 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Karlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (d. 1905) |
| 11th of May 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Goodman, British painter, illustrator and author (d. 1912) |
| 11th of May 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Charles W. Fairbanks, 26th United States Vice President (d. 1918) |
| 11th of May 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (d. 1932) |
| 11th of May 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Russell Burnham, American inspiration and "father" of the international scouting movement (d. 1947) |
| 11th of May 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Otto von Friesen, Swedish runologist and linguist (d. 1942) |
| 11th of May 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer (d. 1943) |
| 11th of May 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Stjepan Radic, Croatian politician (d. 1928) |
| 11th of May 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Al Cabrera, Spanish-born Cuban baseball player (d. 1964) |
| 11th of May 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore von Karman, Hungarian physicist (d. 1963) |
| 11th of May 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1944) |
| 11th of May 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Irving Berlin, American composer (d. 1989) |
| 11th of May 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Willis A. Lee, World War II U.S. naval admiral (d. 1945) |
| 11th of May 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Woodall Rodgers, mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1961) |
| 11th of May 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Rutherford, English actress (d. 1972) |
| 11th of May 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991) |
| 11th of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | William Grant Still, American composer (d. 1978) |
| 11th of May 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Josip Stolcer-Slavenski Croatian composer (d. 1955) |
| 11th of May 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Gerron, German director (d. 1944) |
| 11th of May 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Robert E. Gross, American businessman (d. 1961) |
| 11th of May 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (d. 1963) |
| 11th of May 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (d. 1993) |
| 11th of May 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Salvador Dali, Spanish painter (d. 1989) |
| 11th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Rose Auslander, German poet (d. 1988) |
| 11th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Rip Sewell, American baseball player (d. 1989) |
| 11th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Ellis R. Dungan, American born Indian film director (d. 2001) |
| 11th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Murrill, English composer (d. 1952) |
| 11th of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (d. 2004) |
| 11th of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (d. 1985) |
| 11th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (d. 2001) |
| 11th of May 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Jungk, Austrian publicist (d. 1994) |
| 11th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist (d. 1998) |
| 11th of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2002) |
| 11th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988) |
| 11th of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Hildegard Hamm-Brucher, German politician |
| 11th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera, Filipino Supreme Court jurist |
| 11th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Nestor Chylak, American baseball umpire (d. 1992) |
| 11th of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene Dynkin, Russian mathematician |
| 11th of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Antony Hewish, English radio astronomer, Nobel laureate |
| 11th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2006) |
| 11th of May 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Fox, English actor |
| 11th of May 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Mort Sahl, Canadian comedian and political commentator |
| 11th of May 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Savoy, American author, explorer, scholar and cleric (d. 2007) |
| 11th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Yaacov Agam, Israeli sculptor |
| 11th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Brother Andrew, Dutch missionary |
| 11th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Ferreri, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1997) |
| 11th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Bud Ekins, American stuntman (d. 2007) |
| 11th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002) |
| 11th of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Valentino Garavani (Valentino), Italian designer |
| 11th of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Farrakhan, American Nation of Islam leader |
| 11th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Jeffords, former American politician |
| 11th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Doug McClure, American actor (d. 1995) |
| 11th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Umbral, Spanish novelist (d. 2007) |
| 11th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Carla Bley, American musician and composer |
| 11th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Lyra, Brazilian musician |
| 11th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Dante Tinga, Filipino Supreme Court jurist |
| 11th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Downey, Chilean video artist (d. 1993) |
| 11th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Burdon, British singer (The Animals) |
| 11th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Miles, English snooker player |
| 11th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Billington, British author |
| 11th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Greene, Canadian alpine skier |
| 11th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Juliet Harmer, English actress |
| 11th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Jarvik, American physician and inventor |
| 11th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Plume Latraverse, Quebec singer and musician |
| 11th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Butch Trucks, American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band) |
| 11th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese folk musician |
| 11th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Nirj Deva, Sri Lankan-British politician |
| 11th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Dane Iorg, American baseball player |
| 11th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Paxman, British journalist and author |
| 11th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Stelmach, Premier of Alberta, Canada |
| 11th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian actress |
| 11th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Frances Fisher, English-born actress |
| 11th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Lupica, American sports journalist |
| 11th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Littlefield, American television executive |
| 11th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Renaud, French composer |
| 11th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Celine Lomez, Quebec singer and actress |
| 11th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | David Gest, American television producer |
| 11th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | John Gregory, English football manager |
| 11th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Lubomir Stoykov, Bulgarian journalist and broadcaster |
| 11th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | John DeStefano, Jr., American politician |
| 11th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Lester, British broadcaster |
| 11th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Theresa Burke, Canadian journalist |
| 11th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Peter North, Canadian pornographic actor |
| 11th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Brando, American actor; son of Marlon Brando (d. 2008) |
| 11th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Walt Terrell, American baseball player |
| 11th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Smyth, Australian basketball player |
| 11th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Ireland, American film director |
| 11th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Martha Quinn, American television personality |
| 11th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Felipe, Cuban gangster |
| 11th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Gunilla Carlsson, Swedish politician |
| 11th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Masatoshi Hamada, Japanese comedian |
| 11th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Roark Critchlow, Canadian actor |
| 11th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Natasha Richardson, English/American actress (d. 2009) |
| 11th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | John Parrott, English snooker player |
| 11th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Katie Wagner, American television reporter |
| 11th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Floyd Youmans, American baseball player |
| 11th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Blake Nelson, American actor |
| 11th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Stefano Domenicali, Italian Formula One team principal (Ferrari) |
| 11th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Dulli, American musician |
| 11th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Monsour del Rosario, Filipino martial artist and actor |
| 11th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Christoph Schneider, German drummer (Rammstein) |
| 11th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Donovan, American actor |
| 11th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Nicky Katt, American actor |
| 11th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Hugill, British television presenter and producer |
| 11th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Ford Jr., Political commentator and former U.S. Congressman |
| 11th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Ornellas, Zimbabwean musician |
| 11th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Anita Hegh, Australian actress |
| 11th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Brown, English-born Canadian ice hockey player |
| 11th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley Gene, Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer |
| 11th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Ward, Welsh footballer |
| 11th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Benoit Magimel, French actor |
| 11th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Kidman, American professional wrestler |
| 11th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Coby Bell, American actor |
| 11th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Cordero, Dominican baseball player |
| 11th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper |
| 11th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Gonzalo Colsa, Spanish footballer |
| 11th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Matfield, South African rugby union footballer |
| 11th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Pablo Garcia, Uruguayan footballer |
| 11th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Laetitia Casta, French supermodel and actress |
| 11th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Perttu Kivilaakso, Finnish cellist (Apocalyptica) |
| 11th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Erin Lang, Canadian musician |
| 11th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player |
| 11th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Ortmeier, American baseball player |
| 11th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Austin O'Brien, American actor |
| 11th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Jackson, American actor |
| 11th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Cory Monteith, Canadian actor |
| 11th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Walter, American football player |
| 11th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Guji Lorenzana, Filipino singer and actor |
| 11th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Leinart, American football player |
| 11th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Hanna Verboom, Dutch actress |
| 11th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Frederic Xhonneux, Belgian decathlete |
| 11th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Holly Valance, Australian-born actress and singer |
| 11th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | John Bowie, American football player |
| 11th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Clayton, Dutch/American jazz pianist |
| 11th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Andres Iniesta, Spanish football player |
| 11th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Giraud, American singer |
| 11th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | sifow, Japanese singer and businesswoman |
| 11th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ronny Heberson Furtado de Araujo, Brazilian footballer |
| 11th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Abou Diaby, French footballer |
| 11th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Veloso, Portuguese footballer |
| 11th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Schenkhuizen, Dutch gamer |
| 11th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Justin King, American football player |
| 11th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Murphy, American football player |
| 11th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Monica Rosu, Romanian gymnast |
| 11th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Ace Hood, American rapper |
| 11th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Maclin, American football player |
| 11th of May 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Giovani dos Santos, Mexican footballer |
| 11th of May 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Cam Newton, American football player |
| 11th of May 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Gianluigi Bianco, Italian footballer |
| 11th of May 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Jason Torres, American politician |
| 11th of May 0912 | DEATH | Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (Born 866) |
| 11th of May 1304 | DEATH | Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (Born 1271) |
| 11th of May 1610 | DEATH | Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (Born 1552) |
| 11th of May 1672 | DEATH | Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, Scottish royalist (Born 1615) |
| 11th of May 1708 | DEATH | Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (Born 1646) |
| 11th of May 1723 | DEATH | Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (Born 1656) |
| 11th of May 1760 | DEATH | Alaungpaya, Founder of Konbaung Dynasty of Burma (Born 1714) |
| 11th of May 1777 | DEATH | George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (Born 1719) |
| 11th of May 1778 | DEATH | William Pitt, the Elder, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1708) |
| 11th of May 1779 | DEATH | John Hart, delegate from New Jersey to the Continental Congress and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (Born 1711) |
| 11th of May 1812 | DEATH | Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1762) |
| 11th of May 1848 | DEATH | Tom Cribb, English boxer (Born 1781) |
| 11th of May 1849 | DEATH | Jeanne Francoise Julie Adelaide Recamier, French socialite (Born 1777) |
| 11th of May 1871 | DEATH | John Herschel, British mathematician and astronomer (Born 1792) |
| 11th of May 1887 | DEATH | Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (Born 1802) |
| 11th of May 1891 | DEATH | A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (Born 1820) |
| 11th of May 1916 | DEATH | Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (Born 1873) |
| 11th of May 1916 | DEATH | Max Reger, German composer (Born 1873) |
| 11th of May 1920 | DEATH | William Dean Howells, American writer (Born 1837) |
| 11th of May 1927 | DEATH | Juan Gris, Spanish cubist artist (Born 1887) |
| 11th of May 1929 | DEATH | Jozef Murgas, Slovak inventor (Born 1864) |
| 11th of May 1934 | DEATH | Blaise Diagne, Sengalese politician (Born 1872) |
| 11th of May 1934 | DEATH | Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (Born 1852) |
| 11th of May 1939 | DEATH | Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (Born 1867) |
| 11th of May 1940 | DEATH | Chujiro Hayashi, Japanese Reiki Master (Born 1880) |
| 11th of May 1955 | DEATH | Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (Born 1874) |
| 11th of May 1960 | DEATH | John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American philanthropist (Born 1874) |
| 11th of May 1963 | DEATH | Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (Born 1888) |
| 11th of May 1966 | DEATH | Alfred Wintle, British WW1 & WW2 soldier; author of "The Last Englishman" (Born 1897) |
| 11th of May 1970 | DEATH | Johnny Hodges, American musician (Born 1906) |
| 11th of May 1973 | DEATH | Lex Barker, American actor (Born 1919) |
| 11th of May 1976 | DEATH | Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (Born 1898) |
| 11th of May 1979 | DEATH | Lester Flatt, American bluegrass musician (Born 1914) |
| 11th of May 1981 | DEATH | Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (Born 1945) |
| 11th of May 1981 | DEATH | Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1897) |
| 11th of May 1985 | DEATH | Chester Gould, American cartoonist (Born 1900) |
| 11th of May 1986 | DEATH | Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (Born 1910) |
| 11th of May 1986 | DEATH | Fritz Pollard, American football player (Born 1894) |
| 11th of May 1988 | DEATH | Kim Philby, British spy (Born 1912) |
| 11th of May 1990 | DEATH | Stratos Dionysiou, Greek singer (Born 1935) |
| 11th of May 1994 | DEATH | Timothy Carey, American actor (Born 1928) |
| 11th of May 1996 | DEATH | Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (Born 1922) |
| 11th of May 1996 | DEATH | Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria (Born 1904) |
| 11th of May 1998 | DEATH | Oreste Kirkop, Maltese tenor and actor (Born 1923) |
| 11th of May 1999 | DEATH | Giorgos Kappis, Greek actor (Born 1929) |
| 11th of May 2000 | DEATH | Rene Munoz, Cuban actor, screenwriter of telenovelas (Born 1938) |
| 11th of May 2000 | DEATH | Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (Born 1907) |
| 11th of May 2001 | DEATH | Douglas Adams, English author (Born 1952) |
| 11th of May 2002 | DEATH | Renaude Lapointe, French Canadian journalist and senator (Born 1912) |
| 11th of May 2003 | DEATH | Noel Redding, English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (Born 1945) |
| 11th of May 2004 | DEATH | Mick Doyle, Irish rugby union footballer and coach (Born 1941) |
| 11th of May 2004 | DEATH | John Whitehead, American singer (McFadden & Whitehead) (Born 1949) |
| 11th of May 2005 | DEATH | Michalis Genitsaris, Greek rebetiko singer and composer (Born 1917) |
| 11th of May 2006 | DEATH | Frankie Thomas, American actor (Born 1921) |
| 11th of May 2006 | DEATH | Yossi Banai, Israeli singer (Born 1932) |
| 11th of May 2006 | DEATH | Floyd Patterson, American boxer (Born 1935) |
| 11th of May 2007 | DEATH | Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan Head of State (O le Ao o le Malo) (Born 1913) |
| 11th of May 2007 | DEATH | Bernard Gordon, blacklisted American screenwriter and producer (Born 1918) |
| 11th of May 2008 | DEATH | John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (Rush) (Born 1953) |
| 11th of May 2008 | DEATH | Dottie Rambo, American gospel singer (Born 1934) |
| 11th of May 2008 | DEATH | Bruno Neves, Portuguese cyclist (Born 1981) |