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You share your birthday with 28 famous people in our archive.
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b. 2005Roksana Węgiel
Polish singer who won Junior Eurovision with Anyone I Want to Be
Did you know? She was Poland's first ever Junior Eurovision winner.
b. 2000Chaeyeon
South Korean singer and dancer from Iz*One who launched a solo career with the EP Hush Rush
Did you know? Her younger sister Chaeryeong is a member of Itzy.
b. 1996Leroy Sané
German winger who has played for Manchester City and Bayern Munich
Did you know? He comes from a sporting family; his father was a professional footballer and his mother won an Olympic bronze medal in gymnastics.
b. 1992Dani Carvajal
Spanish footballer who has won multiple Champions League titles
Did you know? As a youth player, he helped lay the foundation stone of Real Madrid’s training complex alongside club legend Alfredo Di Stéfano.
b. 1987Jamie Vardy
Prolific striker who won the Premier League with Leicester City
Did you know? He played non-league football for several years while working in a factory before making it as a professional athlete.
b. 1982Son Ye-jin
South Korean actress who rose to fame in romantic films like The Classic and starred in the global hit Crash Landing on You
Did you know? A Moment to Remember was a major hit in Japan as well as Korea.
b. 1979Siti Nurhaliza
Malaysian singer known as the Voice of Asia
Did you know? She has won more than three hundred local and international awards during her prolific career in the music industry.
b. 1978Emile Heskey
Former England striker known for his time at Leicester and Liverpool
Did you know? He became the most expensive signing in the history of Liverpool Football Club when he joined them from Leicester City in 2000.
b. 1975Matteo Renzi
Former Prime Minister of Italy who served from 2014 to 2016
Did you know? Before entering national politics, he served as the Mayor of Florence and was nicknamed "The Demolisher" for his desire to renovate the political system.
b. 1972Amanda Peet
American actress known for roles in The Whole Nine Yards and Togetherness
Did you know? While working as a waitress in New York early in her career, she once served a meal to future President Bill Clinton.
b. 1968Benjamin List
Nobel Prize-winning chemist who co-developed asymmetric organocatalysis
Did you know? His Nobel-winning research allows for the creation of new molecules in a way that is significantly more environmentally friendly.
b. 1954Kailash Satyarthi
Indian social reformer and joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Did you know? He founded the GoodWeave International label to certify that rugs were made without the use of child labour.
Masashi Watanabe
Japanese footballer and manager who won an Olympic bronze medal
Did you know? He played a key role in the Japanese squad that secured third place at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
b. 1934Jean Chrétien
Prime Minister of Canada who led three consecutive majority governments
Did you know? Known for his tough political style, he once famously used a physical manoeuvre to move a protester aside, an incident dubbed the Shawinigan Handshake.
1934–2026Tony Hoare
Computer scientist who developed the Quicksort sorting algorithm
Did you know? He famously apologised for inventing the "null reference", calling it his "billion-dollar mistake" because of the software errors it has caused.
1924–2024100 ClubRoger Guillemin
Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist who discovered brain hormones
Did you know? In his later years, he became a dedicated digital artist and was one of the first scientists to use computers to create abstract works.
1911–2004Zenkō Suzuki
Prime Minister of Japan from 1980 to 1982
Did you know? He was an expert in the fishing industry and spent much of his early career advocating for the rights of fishermen.
1906–2008100 ClubAlbert Hofmann
Swiss chemist who discovered the psychedelic properties of LSD
Did you know? He accidentally discovered the drug's effects when a small amount was absorbed through his fingertips during a laboratory experiment.
1903–1988Alan Paton
South African author of the novel Cry, the Beloved Country
Did you know? Before becoming a famous writer, he served as the principal of a reformatory for young black offenders near Johannesburg.
1885–1977Alice Paul
American suffragist and strategist for the Nineteenth Amendment
Did you know? She spent several years in England, where she joined the militant wing of the British suffrage movement and was arrested multiple times.
1859–1925George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
British Conservative statesman who served as Viceroy of India
Did you know? He suffered from a lifelong back injury that required him to wear a restrictive metal corset beneath his clothes.
1852–1926Constantin Fehrenbach
German statesman who served as Chancellor during the Weimar Republic era
Did you know? He led a minority government and was a key figure in the Catholic Centre Party during a period of intense economic struggle.
1842–1910William James
American philosopher and psychologist who wrote The Principles of Psychology and helped found the school of pragmatism
Did you know? He originally trained as a physician and was the elder brother of the celebrated novelist Henry James.
1815–1891John A. Macdonald
First Prime Minister of Canada and a primary architect of Confederation
Did you know? Although he is a Canadian national icon, he was actually born in Scotland and did not move to North America until childhood.
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Edmund HillaryNew Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropistView profile Photo (modified): Photographer unidentified. Retouched by TimofKingsland . · Public domain2008Died
🇮🇱Ariel SharonIsraeli general and politician who served as the prime minister of Israel from March 2001 until April 2006View profile Photo (modified): Avi Ohayon · CC BY-SA 3.02014Died
🇬🇧Thomas HardyEnglish novelist, poet and architectView profile Photo (modified): Bain News Service, publisher · Public domain1928Died
🇺🇸Carl David AndersonAmerican experimental physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Victor Hess for his discovery of the…View profile Photo (modified): Smithsonian Institution · No restrictions1991Died
🇩🇪Emanuel LaskerGerman chess player, mathematician, and philosopherView profile Photo (modified): Unknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0 de1941Died
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January 11: birthdays, history and star sign
28 famous people were born on January 11, including William James, Alexander Hamilton and Matteo Renzi. Anyone born on January 11 is a Capricorn, an earth sign ruled by Saturn. Notable events on January 11 include Taiping Rebellion (1851) and Anglo-Zulu War (1879).
Famous people born on January 11
- 1996Leroy Sané · German professional footballer who plays as a winger for Süper Lig club Galatasaray and the Germany national team
- 1992Dani Carvajal · Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right-back
- 1987Jamie Vardy · English professional footballer who plays as a striker for EFL Championship club Burnley
- 1979Siti Nurhaliza · Malaysian singer, composer, lyricist, songwriter, and actress
- 1978Emile Heskey · English professional football coach and former player who is the head of football development of Women's Super League 2…
- 1975Matteo Renzi · Italian politician who served as prime minister of Italy from 2014 to 2016
- 1972Amanda Peet · American actress
- 1968Benjamin List · German chemist who is one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and professor of organic…
- 1954Kailash Satyarthi · Indian social reformer who campaigned against child labor in India and advocated for the universal right to education…
- 1936Masashi Watanabe · Japanese football player and manager
- 1934Jean Chrétien · Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the 20th prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003
- 1924Roger Guillemin · French-American neuroscientist
- 1906Albert Hofmann · Swiss chemist known for being the first to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid…
- 1903Alan Paton · South African writer, anti-apartheid activist, and educator
- 1859George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston · British statesman, Conservative politician, explorer and writer who served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905 and…
- 1842William James · American philosopher and psychologist
- 1815John A. Macdonald · First prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 until his death in 1891
- 1755Alexander Hamilton · American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from…
- 1638Nicolas Steno · Danish scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology who became a Catholic bishop in his later years
- AD 347Theodosius I · Roman emperor from 379 to 395
On January 11 in history
- 1851Taiping Rebellion · The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War, Revolution, or Movement, was a civil war in late imperial China between the Qing dynasty and the…
- 1879Anglo-Zulu War · The Anglo-Zulu War, or simply the Zulu War, was fought in present-day South Africa from January to early July 1879 between forces of the British Empire and the…
- 1992Algerian Civil War · The Algerian Civil War, known in Algeria as the Black Decade, was a civil war fought between the Algerian government and various Islamist rebel groups…
- 1991January Events · The January Events were a series of violent confrontations between the civilian population of Lithuania, supporting independence, and the Soviet Armed Forces.…
- 1923Occupation of the Ruhr · The occupation of the Ruhr was the period from 11 January 1923 to 25 August 1925 when French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr region of Germany
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Capricorn · Earth · ruled by Saturn · Ambitious, Disciplined, Patient, Reserved
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1898–1948Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet director of Battleship Potemkin, whose Odessa Steps sequence pioneered montage editing, and of Alexander Nevsky
Did you know? His famous film Battleship Potemkin was so influential that it was once banned in the UK for fear it might incite riots.
1876–1916Jack London
American adventure writer of The Call of the Wild and White Fang, inspired by his time in the Klondike Gold Rush
Did you know? He was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a fortune through his fiction.
1863–1902Swami Vivekananda
Indian Hindu monk whose speech at the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago introduced yoga and Vedanta to the West
Did you know? He received a standing ovation after his opening speech at the first Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago in 1893.
b. 1949Haruki Murakami
Japanese novelist of Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore, known for dreamlike, surreal fiction
Did you know? He is a dedicated long-distance runner who has completed many marathons and written a book about the sport.
1729–1797Edmund Burke
Irish-born statesman and writer whose Reflections on the Revolution in France made him the founding thinker of modern conservatism
Did you know? He was a vocal supporter of the American Revolution but became a fierce critic of the French Revolution.
b. 1964Jeff Bezos
American entrepreneur who founded Amazon in his garage in 1994, later founded Blue Origin and bought The Washington Post
Did you know? He originally considered naming his company Cadabra, but changed it after a lawyer mistook the word for "cadaver" on the phone.
1893–1946Hermann Göring
Nazi leader who founded the Gestapo, commanded the Luftwaffe and was sentenced to death at Nuremberg
Did you know? During the First World War, he was a highly decorated fighter pilot and succeeded Manfred von Richthofen as commander of his squadron.
1628–1703Charles Perrault
French author whose 1697 Tales of Mother Goose gave the world Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood
Did you know? He wrote the versions of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood that remain the most famous in Western culture today.
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- Who was born on January 11?
- Famous people born on January 11 include William James (1842), Alexander Hamilton (1755), Matteo Renzi (1975), Theodosius I (AD 347) and Kailash Satyarthi (1954). In total, 28 famous people in our archive were born on January 11.
- Which celebrities share a January 11 birthday?
- Famous people alive today with a January 11 birthday include Matteo Renzi, Kailash Satyarthi, Siti Nurhaliza and Amanda Peet.
- What star sign is someone born on January 11?
- People born on January 11 are Capricorn, an earth sign ruled by Saturn. Capricorn runs from December 22 to January 19.
- What happened on January 11 in history?
- Notable events on January 11 include Taiping Rebellion (1851), Anglo-Zulu War (1879) and Algerian Civil War (1992).
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- January 11 in historyYour birthday has a story. See every famous birth, historic event and notable death recorded on January 11, the day the world welcomed you.Date page
- Your most famous birthday match: William JamesOf the 28 famous people who share your birthday, William James is the best known. Read their story and see what you have in common.Person
- Capricorn zodiac signAs a Capricorn you're known for being ambitious, disciplined and patient, just like William James. Meet others who share your star sign.Zodiac
- Famous birthdays in JanuarySee the best-known people born on every day of January, from the 1st to the last day of the month.Month
- The 100 ClubWill you make it to 100? Meet the famous people who celebrated their 100th birthday, and the stars who are next in line.Centenarians
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