What happened on December 11 ?

1465 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)

1475 - Pope Leo X (d. 1521)

1566 - Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (d. 1650)

1680 - Emanuele d'Astorga, Italian composer

1712 - Francesco Algarotti. Italian philosopher (d. 1764)

1725 - George Mason, American statesman (d. 1792)

1761 - Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (d. 1835)

1781 - Sir David Brewster, British physicist (d. 1868)

1801 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (d. 1836)

1803 - Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)

1810 - Alfred de Musset, French poet (d. 1857)

1843 - Robert Koch, German bacteriologist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)

1858 - Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian-born Soviet theatre director (d. 1943)

1863 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (d. 1941)

1873 - Josip Plemelj, Austro-Hungarian-born Yugoslav mathematician (d. 1967)

1880 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)

1882 - Subramanya Bharathy, Indian poet (d. 1921)

1882 - Max Born, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)

1882 - Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City (d. 1947)

1883 - Victor McLaglen, British-born American actor (d. 1959)

1889 - Walter Knott, farmer and creator of Knott's Berry Farm (d. 1981).

1890 - Mark Tobey, American painter (d. 1976)

1905 - Gilbert Roland, American actor (d. 1994)

1908 - Elliott Carter, American composer

1911 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer and Nobel Prize laureate

1911 - Val Guest, British film director (d. 2006)

1912 - Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer

1913 - Jean Marais, French actor (d. 1998)

1916 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban-born bandleader and composer (d. 1989)

1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Soviet-born Russian writer and Nobel Prize laureate

1919 - Marie Windsor, American actress (d. 2000)

1920 - Big Mama Thornton (Willie Mae Thornton), American blues singer (d. 1984)

1922 - Grace Paley, American writer

1925 - Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate

1930 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor

1931 - Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican singer, dancer, and actress

1933 - Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., Filipino politician

1935 - Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician

1936 - Taku Yamasaki, Japanese politician

1938 - McCoy Tyner, American jazz pianist

1939 - Tom Hayden, American politician

1940 - David Gates, American musician from the band Bread

1942 - Donna Mills, American actress

1943 - John Kerry, American politician and Presidential candidate

1944 - Teri Garr, American film actress

1944 - Brenda Lee, American singer

1950 - Christina Onassis, American heiress (d. 1988)

1954 - Jermaine Jackson, American singer and bassist

1954 - Guðlaugur Kristinn ÿttarsson, Icelandic guitar player, polytechnic engineer and inventor

1958 - Nikki Sixx, American bassist (Mötley Crüe)

1959 - Lisa Gastineau, American reality show star

1962 - Ben Browder, American actor

1964 - Cosy Sheridan, American singer and songwriter

1964 - David Schools, American singer and bassist (Widespread Panic)

1966 - Gary Dourdan, American actor

1966 - Leon Lai, Beijing-born Canadian actor and Cantopop singer

1967 - DJ Yella, American music producer and film director

1969 - Vishwanathan Anand, Indian chess grandmaster

1972 - Daniel Alfredsson, right winger for the Ottawa Senators (NHL)

1972 - Dana Macsim, Romanian television news reporter

1973 - Mos Def, American MC

1974 - Ben Shephard, TV personality

1975 - Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist

1979 - Rider Strong, American actor

1981 - Zachary Jonathan "Zacky Vengeance" Baker, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)

1981 - Javier Saviola, Argentine international footballer and Olympic gold medalist

1988 - Murugan Thiruchelvam, chess prodigy