What happened on January 11 ?

314 - St. Miltiades

705 - John VI

812 - Stauracius, Byzantine Emperor

844 - Michael I Rhangabes, Byzantine Emperor

1055 - Constantine IX Monomachos, Byzantine Emperor

1494 - Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b. 1449)

1495 - Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1428)

1641 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (b. 1583)

1696 - Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (b. 1616)

1703 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (b. 1632)

1713 - Pierre Jurieu, French protestant leader (b. 1637)

1762 - Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor (b. 1695)

1763 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (b. 1676)

1771 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (b. 1704)

1791 - William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717)

1801 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (b. 1749)

1843 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer (b. 1779)

1882 - Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (b. 1810)

1901 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (b. 1866)

1902 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862)

1905 - Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Hasidic rabbi (b. 1847)

1923 - King Constantine I of Greece (b. 1868)

1928 - Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)

1931 - James Milton Carroll, was a Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852)

1941 - Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (b. 1868)

1958 - Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)

1966 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b. 1901)

1966 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889)

1968 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)

1970 - Richmal Crompton, British author (b. 1890)

1980 - Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)

1981 - Beulah Bondi, American actress (b. 1888)

1983 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894)

1988 - Pappy Boyington, American aviator (b. 1912)

1991 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

1998 - Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)

1999 - Fabrizio de André, Italian singer (b. 1940)

1999 - Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (b. 1921)

2000 - Ivan Combe, American inventor (b. 1911)

2000 - Bob Lemon, baseball player (b. 1920)

2001 - Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (b. 1914)

2003 - Mickey Finn, English drummer (T. Rex) (b. 1947)

2003 - Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (b. 1925)

2003 - Richard Simmons, American actor (b. 1913)

2005 - Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1938)

2005 - James Griffin, American musician (Bread) (b. 1943)

2005 - Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (b. 1913)

2006 - Nixzmary Brown, child murder victim (b. 1998)