Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 11

Births

 * 1830 – Kamehameha V, ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii (d. 1872)
 * 1843 – Robert Koch, German physician and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)
 * 1908 – Hákun Djurhuus, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1987)
 * 1911 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian author and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
 * 1923 – Lillian Cahn, co-founder of Coach, Inc. (d. 2013)
 * 1932 – Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan army officer and founder of the Contras (d. 1991)

Deaths

 * 861 – Al-Mutawakkil, Arabian caliph (b. 822)
 * 1241 – Ögedei Khan, Mongolian Great Khan (b. 1186)
 * 1840 – Emperor Kōkaku, 119th Emperor of Japan (b. 1771)
 * 1918 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1876)
 * 1920 – Olive Schreiner, South African author (b. 1855)
 * 1971 – Maurice McDonald, co-founder of McDonald's (b. 1902)