Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 11

Births

 * 1755 - Alexander Hamilton, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1804) (pictured)
 * 1807 - Ezra Cornell, American businessman and university founder (d. 1874)
 * 1815 - John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
 * 1885 - Alice Paul, American women's rights activist (d. 1977)
 * 1946 - Naomi Judd, American singer (d. 2022)
 * 1971 - Mary J. Blige, American singer
 * 1978 - Emile Heskey, British footballer

Deaths

 * 1843 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, writer of the national anthem (b. 1779)
 * 1928 - Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)
 * 1988 - Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, American WW II Marine aviator (b. 1912)
 * 2001 - Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (b. 1914)