Famous People Born on December 11
Famous people born on December 11 include Naguib Mahfouz (1911), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918) and Hector Berlioz (1803).
BORN ON THIS DAY
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Soviet-Russian author and dissident (1918–2008)
Hector Berlioz
French Romantic composer and conductor (1803–1869)
Robert Koch
German physician and bacteriologist (1843–1910)
Max Born
German–British physicist (1882–1970)
John Kerry
American politician and diplomat (born 1943)
Viswanathan Anand
Indian chess grandmaster (born 1969)
Alfred de Musset
French writer (1810–1857)
Pranab Mukherjee
President of India from 2012 to 2017
Pope Leo X
Head of the Catholic Church from 1513 to 1521
Emmanuelle Charpentier
French microbiologist, biochemist and Nobel laureate (born 1968)
Jean Marais
French actor, writer, director and sculptor (1913–1998)
Georgi Plekhanov
Russian Marxist theorist and philosopher (1856–1918)
Hailee Steinfeld
American actress and singer (born 1996)
Macky Sall
President of Senegal from 2012 to 2024
Annie Jump Cannon
American astronomer (1863–1941)
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Averroes
Andalusian Muslim polymath (1126–1198)
Ravi Shankar
Indian musician and sitar player (1920–2012)
Pope Damasus I
Head of the Catholic Church from 366 to 384
Ögedei Khan
Khan of the Mongol Empire from 1229 to 1241
Anne Rice
American author (1941–2021)
Michael VIII Palaiologos
Byzantine emperor from 1261 to 1282
Sam Cooke
American singer and songwriter (1931–1964)
Christian Lous Lange
Norwegian diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize recipient (1869–1938)
Vincent du Vigneaud
American biochemist and Nobel laureate (1901–1978)
Nikephoros II Phokas
Byzantine emperor from 963 to 969
Sources
- December 11 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Naguib Mahfouz — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths