What happened on October 11 ?

1188 - Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France

1303 - Pope Boniface VIII

1347 - Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1282)

1424 - Jan Zizka, leader of the Hussites (b. 1370)

1531 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (b. 1484)

1611 - John Cowell, English jurist (b. 1554)

1705 - Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (b. 1663)

1708 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (b. 1651)

1721 - Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1636)

1725 - Hans Herr, Swiss-born Mennonite bishop (b. 1639)

1779 - Kazimierz Pu?aski, Polish fighter for American independence (b. 1745)

1809 - Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (b. 1774)

1811 - Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (b. 1724)

1821 - John Ross Key, American judge and lawyer (b. 1754)

1852 - Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (b. 1823)

1889 - James Prescott Joule, English physicist (b. 1818)

1896 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)

1896 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)

1935 - Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868)

1940 - Lluís Companys, President of Generalitat of Catalonia (shot) (b. 1882)

1940 - Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)

1961 - Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)

1963 - Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)

1963 - ÿdith Piaf, French singer and actress (b. 1915)

1965 - Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)

1976 - Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (b. 1897)

1977 - MacKinlay Kantor, American author (b. 1904)

1989 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (b. 1904)

1991 - Steven Jesse Bernstein, American underground poet (suicide) (b. 1950)

1991 - Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (b. 1922)

1993 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (b. 1927)

1996 - Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (b. 1907)

2000 - Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland (b. 1937)

2004 - Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b. 1919)

2005 - Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile (b. 1915)

Roman Empire - Meditrinalia is held in honor of Meditrina

RC Saints - memorial of the blessed Pope John XXIII; Saints Andronicus, Probus, and Tarachus

United States - National Coming Out Day (not a federal holiday)

United States - in Indiana:General Pulaski Memorial Day

French Republican Calendar - Pressoir (Wine-Press) Day, twentieth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

BBC: On This Day