March 11th, 1779

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Born on March 11th, 1779 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on March 11th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on March 11th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (March 1779)

Born on March 11th, 1779

Weekday

Thursday

March 11th, 1779 was a Thursday.

Age

245

People born on March 11th, 1779 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 245 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♓

Pisces (The Fish)

February 20th, 1779 - March 20th, 1779

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 89,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 468 days, exactly on August 8th, 2025, people who were born on March 11th, 1779 will be 90,000 days old!

89,532 Days

12,790 Weeks

2,941 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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Hours

What happened on March 11th?

March 11th, 2012

U.S. Army soldier Robert Bales murdered sixteen civilians and wounded six others in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.

March 11th, 2011

A massive earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan and triggered a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

March 11th, 2010

During the inauguration of Chilean president Sebastián Piñera, earthquakes registering 6.9 and 7.0 .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw struck the O'Higgins Region near the city of Pichilemu, causing widespread damage.

March 11th, 2009

A teenage gunman engaged in a shooting spree at a secondary school in Winnenden, Germany, killing 16, including himself.

March 11th, 2007

Georgian authorities accused Russia of orchestrating a helicopter attack in the Kodori Valley of the breakaway territory of Abkhazia.

March 11th, 1999

Infosys became the first Indian-registered company to have its shares listed on Nasdaq.

March 11th, 1993

The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Janet Reno as the country's first female attorney general.

March 11th, 1984

The anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki was released.

March 11th, 1978

After hijacking a bus north of Tel Aviv, Israel, members of the Palestine Liberation Organization faction Fatah engaged in a shootout with police, resulting in the deaths of 38 civilians and most of the perpetrators.

March 11th, 1888

The Great Blizzard of 1888 struck the northeastern United States, producing snowdrifts in excess of 50 ft (15 m) and confining some people to their houses for up to a week.

March 11th, 1864

The Great Sheffield Flood killed at least 240 people and damaged more than 600 homes, after a crack in the Dale Dike Reservoir (pictured) caused it to fail.

March 11th, 1851

Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto premiered at La Fenice in Venice.

March 11th, 1845

Māori forces, led by chiefs Te Ruki Kawiti and Hōne Heke, attacked the British settlement of Kororāreka, New Zealand, beginning the Flagstaff War.

March 11th, 1843

During a period of activity known as the Great Eruption, Eta Carinae (pictured) briefly became the second-brightest star in the night sky.

March 11th, 1708

Queen Anne withheld royal assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, in the most recent veto by a British monarch of a bill that had been passed by Parliament.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 11th

Born on March 11th, 1779

Philip, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

Austrian general and Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

*March 11th, 1779, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe †December 15th, 1846, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe

Jean-Pierre Granger

French painter (1779-1840)

*March 11th, 1779, Paris †December 1st, 1840, Paris

François Berge

French officer

*March 11th, 1779, Collioure †May 11th, 1832, Paris

Same Day
Who's birthday is on March 11th?

Virgil Soeroredjo

Badminton player

*March 11th, 1985, Paramaribo

Li Yinhui

Chinese badminton player

*March 11th, 1997, Wuhan

Sasha Alex Sloan

American singer-songwriter

*March 11th, 1995, Boston

Didier Drogba

Ivorian and French association football player

*March 11th, 1978, Abidjan

Douglas Adams

English author and humourist (1952–2001)

*March 11th, 1952, Cambridge †May 11th, 2001, Santa Barbara

Elme de Villiers

Badminton player

*March 11th, 1993, Kroonstad

Otto Grotewohl

German politician (1894–1964)

*March 11th, 1894, Brunswick †September 21st, 1964, East Berlin

Rupert Murdoch

Australian-born American media mogul (born 1931)

*March 11th, 1931, Melbourne

Shen Ye

Chinese badminton player

*March 11th, 1987, Changzhou

Paul Müller

Swiss actor (1923-2016)

*March 11th, 1923, Neuchâtel †September 2nd, 2016, Tivoli

Ksenia Polikarpova

Russian-Israeli badminton player

*March 11th, 1990, Saint Petersburg

Wendy Clarkson

Badminton player

*March 11th, 1956, Glasgow

Paula Pereira

Badminton player

*March 11th, 1988, Rio de Janeiro

Bernd Fischerauer

Austrian director, screenwriter and author

*March 11th, 1943, Graz †May 14th, 2017, Munich

Urbain Le Verrier

French astronomer (1811-1877)

*March 11th, 1811, Saint-Lô †September 23rd, 1877, Paris

Einar Uvsløkk

*March 11th, 1985, Trondheim

Julius Blüthner

German piano maker

*March 11th, 1824, Falkenhain †April 13th, 1910, Leipzig

Bobby McFerrin

American jazz vocalista and composer

*March 11th, 1950, Manhattan

Wilhelmine von Hillern

German actress and writer

*March 11th, 1836, Munich †December 15th, 1916, Aschau im Chiemgau

Alex Kingston

British actress

*March 11th, 1963, Epsom

Same year
Born in 1779

Thomas Moore

Irish poet, singer and songwriter (1779–1852)

*May 28th, 1779, Dublin †February 25th, 1852, Bromham

Mustafa IV

Ottoman Sultan (1779-1808)

*September 8th, 1779, Constantinople †November 17th, 1808, Constantinople

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

British politician (1779–1848)

*March 15th, 1779, London †November 24th, 1848, Hertfordshire

Washington Allston

American artist (1779-1843)

*November 5th, 1779, Charleston †July 9th, 1843, Cambridge

Jöns Jacob Berzelius

Swedish chemist (1779-1848)

*August 20th, 1779, Väfversunda †August 7th, 1848, Adolf Fredriks parish

Christoph Johann Jakob Arnold

German architect (1779-1844)

*June 1st, 1779, Karlsruhe †July 17th, 1844, Heidelberg

Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre

French general and statesman (1779-1865)

*November 27th, 1779, Paris †January 8th, 1865, Glisolles

Alexis de Garaudé

French composer and university teacher (1779-1852)

*March 21st, 1779, Nancy †March 23rd, 1852, Paris

Miguel de Pombo

Colombian politician (1779-1816)

*November 16th, 1779, Popayán †July 6th, 1816, Colombia

Józef Dwernicki

Polish general (1779-1857)

*March 19th, 1779, Warsaw †September 23rd, 1857, Lopatyn

Joel Roberts Poinsett

Politician and diplomat (1779-1851)

*March 2nd, 1779, Charleston †December 12th, 1851, Stateburg

Stephen Decatur

United States Navy officer

*January 5th, 1779, Berlin †March 22nd, 1820, Bladensburg

Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily

Italian princess (1779-1849)

*January 17th, 1779, Caserta †March 11th, 1849, Savona

John Galt

Scottish writer (1779-1839)

*May 2nd, 1779, Irvine †April 11th, 1839, Greenock

Antonia Nava de Catalán

Mexican military personnel

*November 18th, 1779, Tixtla de Guerrero †March 19th, 1843, Chilpancingo

Karl Agricola

Austrian artist (1779-1852)

*October 18th, 1779, Bad Säckingen †May 15th, 1852, Vienna

William Hedley

British inventor and industrial engineer (1779-1843)

*July 13th, 1779, Newburn †January 9th, 1843, Lanchester

Burkhard Wilhelm Seiler

German physician

*April 11th, 1779, Erlangen †September 27th, 1843, Dresden

William Badger

American politician

*January 13th, 1779, Gilmanton †September 21st, 1852, Gilmanton

Carl Ritter

German geographer (1779-1859)

*August 7th, 1779, Quedlinburg †September 28th, 1859, Berlin

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on March 11th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on March 11th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XI.III.MDCCLXXIX

11.3.1779

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

IX = 9

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1779 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
March 1779

March 1779

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March 11th, 1779

Born on March 11th, 1779

Weekday

Thursday

Age

Zodiac

♓

Pisces (The Fish)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 89,000 days old!

89,532 Days

12,790 Weeks

2,941 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on March 11th?

U.S. Army soldier Robert Bales murdered sixteen civilians and wounded six others in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.

A massive earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan and triggered a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

During the inauguration of Chilean president Sebastián Piñera, earthquakes registering 6.9 and 7.0 .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw struck the O'Higgins Region near the city of Pichilemu, causing widespread damage.

A teenage gunman engaged in a shooting spree at a secondary school in Winnenden, Germany, killing 16, including himself.

Georgian authorities accused Russia of orchestrating a helicopter attack in the Kodori Valley of the breakaway territory of Abkhazia.

Infosys became the first Indian-registered company to have its shares listed on Nasdaq.

The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Janet Reno as the country's first female attorney general.

The anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki was released.

After hijacking a bus north of Tel Aviv, Israel, members of the Palestine Liberation Organization faction Fatah engaged in a shootout with police, resulting in the deaths of 38 civilians and most of the perpetrators.

The Great Blizzard of 1888 struck the northeastern United States, producing snowdrifts in excess of 50 ft (15 m) and confining some people to their houses for up to a week.

The Great Sheffield Flood killed at least 240 people and damaged more than 600 homes, after a crack in the Dale Dike Reservoir (pictured) caused it to fail.

Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto premiered at La Fenice in Venice.

Māori forces, led by chiefs Te Ruki Kawiti and Hōne Heke, attacked the British settlement of Kororāreka, New Zealand, beginning the Flagstaff War.

During a period of activity known as the Great Eruption, Eta Carinae (pictured) briefly became the second-brightest star in the night sky.

Queen Anne withheld royal assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, in the most recent veto by a British monarch of a bill that had been passed by Parliament.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 11th

Born on March 11th, 1779

Austrian general and Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

French painter (1779-1840)

French officer

Same Day Who's birthday is on March 11th?

Same year Born in 1779

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on March 11th

Alberta of Agen

Constantine

Óengus of Tallaght

Sophronius of Jerusalem

Vindicianus

Day of Restoration of Independence from the Soviet Union in 1990 (Lithuania)

Moshoeshoe Day (Lesotho)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

11.3.1779

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Leap year

Calendar March 1779

March 1779

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 89,000 days old!

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 11th

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Same year
Born in 1779

Calendar
March 1779

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
9	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
10	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
11	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
12	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
13	29	30	31