Born on March 11
March 11 birthdays & history
If you were born on March 11, you share a birthday with Douglas Adams, Torquato Tasso and Harold Wilson. March 11 babies are Pisces, with aquamarine as their birthstone and the daffodil as their birth flower. March 11 is the 71st day of the year in leap years (70th in other years).
Famous people born on March 11
- 1952Douglas Adams, English author and playwright
- 1544Torquato Tasso, Italian poet and educator
- 1916Harold Wilson, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1931Rupert Murdoch, Australian-American businessman and media magnate
- 1957Qasem Soleimani, Former Iranian commander of the Quds Force
- 1978Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer
- 1920Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1811Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician and astronomer
- 1988Fábio Coentrão, Portuguese footballer
- 1955Nina Hagen, German singer-songwriter
What happened on March 11
- 1848Louis-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.
- 1851The first performance of Verdi's Rigoletto took place at La Fenice in Venice.
- 1872Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; it is located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
- 1927In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
- 1983Bob Hawke is appointed Prime Minister of Australia.
- 1984The anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki was released.
- 1985Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, making Gorbachev the USSR's de facto, and last, head of state.
- 1990Lithuania declares independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1990Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
- 1993The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Janet Reno as the first female United States attorney general.
- 2006Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as the first female president of Chile.
- 2008Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-123, carrying the first component of the Japanese Kibō module to the International Space Station.
Also observed on March 11
- Day of Restoration of Independence from the Soviet Union in 1990 (Lithuania)
- Moshoeshoe Day (Lesotho)
- Saudi Flag Day
Questions, answered
What star sign is March 11?
People born on March 11 are Pisces. Their birthstone is aquamarine and their birth flower is the daffodil.
Which famous people were born on March 11?
Douglas Adams (1952), Torquato Tasso (1544), Harold Wilson (1916), Rupert Murdoch (1931), Qasem Soleimani (1957), Didier Drogba (1978) were all born on March 11.
What happened on March 11 in history?
Among other things: in 1993, The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Janet Reno as the first female United States attorney general; in 2006, Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as the first female president of Chile; in 2008, Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-123, carrying the first component of the Japanese Kibō module to the International Space Station.
Can I get a newspaper front page from March 11?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any March 11 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “March 11”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.