March 11th, 1944

Born on March 11th, 1944

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 29,000 days old!

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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, 1944

77

Aram Bakshian

American speechwriter

*March 11th, 1944, Washington, D.C. †November 30th, 2021

80

Wolfgang Reiniger

German politician

*March 11th, 1944, Winterberg

80

Lutz Mackensy

German actor and voice actor

*March 11th, 1944, Hamelin

80

Jean-Jacques Lasserre

French politician

*March 11th, 1944, Bidache

77

Richard McGeagh

American swimmer

*March 11th, 1944, Los Angeles †September 9th, 2021, Nashville

80

Bobby Lyle

American musician

*March 11th, 1944, Memphis

80

Chen Wu-hsiung

Taiwanese politician

*March 11th, 1944, Taihoku Prefecture

80

Gail Sontgerath

American gymnast

*March 11th, 1944, New Jersey

80

Geoff Turton

British musician

*March 11th, 1944, Birmingham

80

Kim In-Kun

South Korean basketball player (1944-)

*March 11th, 1944, Seoul

80

Graham Lyle

Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer

*March 11th, 1944, Bellshill

80

Manuel Hilario de Céspedes y García Menocal

Roman Catholic bishop

*March 11th, 1944, Havana

80

Brian Usher

English footballer (born 1944)

*March 11th, 1944, Durham

80

Øyvind Grøn

Norwegian physicist

*March 11th, 1944, Oslo

77

Maurice Clermont

Canadian politician

*March 11th, 1944, Laval †February 10th, 2022, Sainte-Adèle

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74

Bernd Fischerauer

Austrian director, screenwriter and author

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

49

Douglas Adams

English author and humourist (1952–2001)

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

39

Virgil Soeroredjo

Badminton player

*March 11th, 1985, Paramaribo

46

Didier Drogba

Ivorian and French association football player

*March 11th, 1978, Abidjan

27

Li Yinhui

Chinese badminton player

*March 11th, 1997, Wuhan

29

Sasha Alex Sloan

American singer-songwriter

*March 11th, 1995, Boston

74

Bobby McFerrin

American jazz vocalista and composer

*March 11th, 1950, Manhattan

81

Heinz-Ulrich Walther

German pair skater, judge and technical controller

*March 11th, 1943, Stendal

68

Wendy Clarkson

Badminton player

*March 11th, 1956, Glasgow

93

Rupert Murdoch

Australian-born American media mogul (born 1931)

*March 11th, 1931, Melbourne

31

Elme de Villiers

Badminton player

*March 11th, 1993, Kroonstad

75

Griselda Pollock

British art historian

*March 11th, 1949, Bloemfontein

93

Paul Müller

Swiss actor (1923-2016)

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

70

Otto Grotewohl

German politician (1894–1964)

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

37

Shen Ye

Chinese badminton player

*March 11th, 1987, Changzhou

34

Ksenia Polikarpova

Russian-Israeli badminton player

*March 11th, 1990, Saint Petersburg

36

Paula Pereira

Badminton player

*March 11th, 1988, Rio de Janeiro

61

Alex Kingston

British actress

*March 11th, 1963, Epsom

60

Peter Berg

American actor, film director, producer and writer

*March 11th, 1964, New York City

79

Tricia O'Neil

American actress (b. 1945)

*March 11th, 1945, Shreveport

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79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

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Leap year

Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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