Saturday 11th of November 1493

Physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer and occultist Paracelsus is born as Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim in Einsiedeln, Egg, Schwyz, Switzerland.

Saturday 11th of November 1724

Highwayman Joseph Blake aka Blueskin is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Tyburn Tree, London, Tyburn, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Sunday 11th of November 1821

Writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky is born in Ul. Dostoevskogo 2, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

Sunday 11th of November 1855

Philosopher, theologian and social critic Søren Aabye Kierkegaard dies of Pott disease at the age of 42 in Frederiks Hospital, Bredgade, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark.

Thursday 11th of November 1880

Bushranger, outlaw and gang leader Ned Edward Kelly is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Melbourne Gaol, Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Kelly's last words were "Ah, well, I suppose it has come to this".

Wednesday 11th of November 1885

War leader George Smith Patton aka Old Blood and Guts is born in San Gabriel, California, United States.

Monday 11th of November 1901

Wife of Joseph Goebbels Magda Johanna Maria Magdalena Ritschel aka Engelchen is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Friday 11th of November 1904

Government official and presumed Soviet spy Alger Hiss is born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

Saturday 11th of November 1922

Writer Kurt Vonnegut is born in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.

Monday 11th of November 1929

Writer and poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger known for his essay ‘Versuch über den Radikalen Verlierer’ is born in Kaufbeuren, Bayern, Germany.

Friday 11th of November 1938

Asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever Mary Mallon aka Typhoid Mary dies of pneumonia at the age of 69 in Riverside Hospital, New York, North Brother Island, New York, United States.

Mallon spent her life in quarantine at the Riverside Hospital since 27 March 1915. Six years before her death she was paralyzed by a stroke. An autopsy found evidence of live typhoid bacteria in her gallbladder.

Thursday 11th of November 1971

Murderer Ron Scott Shamburger is born in Longview, Texas, United States.

Sunday 11th of November 1973

25-year-old Serial killer Edmund Emil Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer is sentenced to 8 life-sentences to be served in in California Medical Facility, Vaccaville, California, United States.

Tuesday 11th of November 1975

Postal worker and would-be assassin Richard Paul Pavlick dies of natural causes at the age of 88 in Veterans Administration Hospital, 718 Smyth Road, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States.

Thursday 11th of November 1976

Sculptor Alexander 'Sandy' Calder dies of a heart attack at the age of 78 in New York City, New York, United States.

Thursday 11th of November 1976

Double murderer Ryan Heath Dickson is born in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States.

Friday 11th of November 1977

23-year-old Mary Muldoon is beaten, shot and drowned by serial killer Gerald Stano aka Blind Fury in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States.

Thursday 11th of November 1982

33-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion and Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt is arrested in Dietzenbacher Straße, Heusenstamm, Hessen, Germany.

Mohnhaupt was caught along with Adelheid Schulz entering a Rote Armee Fraktion arms cache which had been staked out by GSG 9 policemen for three weeks.

Tuesday 11th of November 1986

180 die in Oklele ferry sinking in Gonâve Island, Haiti.

Saturday 11th of November 1989

22-year-old Frances 'Franny' Brown is raped, beaten and strangled by serial killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer in Seth Green Drive, Rochester, New York, United States.

Saturday 11th of November 2000

155 die in funicular railway fire in Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2, Kaprun, Salzburg, Austria.

The Austrian Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek incorporated the disaster in her 2003 play 'In den Alpen'.

Thursday 11th of November 2004

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat dies of a massive hemorrhagic cerebrovascular accident at the age of 75 in Hôpital d'instruction des Armées Percy, Clamart, Île-de-France, France.

Numerous theories have appeared regarding Arafat's death, with the most prominent being poisoning by polonium and AIDS-related illnesses, as well as liver disease or a platelet disorder.

Saturday 11th of November 2006

Some dirt from the Hole for an exhibition in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Wednesday 11th of November 2020

61-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'The Chance Encounter of Donny Dostoyevsky and Kelly Ned on the Hospital Bed of Mary Mallon' with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Salon Blanc, Romestraat 30, Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

A one hour performance/installation that was only to be seen as a live stream online on YouTube.

Monday 11th of November 2024

62-year-old Mass murderer Fan Weiqiu known for the Zhuhai car attack drives his Beijing BJ40 SUV into people on the exercise track at the sports center, killing 38 and injuring 48 more in Zhuhai Sports Center, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China.

Police said that Fan entered a coma after he cut himself in the neck and chest with a knife.