Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/October 11

Births

 * 1821 - George Williams, English founder of the YMCA (d. 1905)
 * 1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (d. 1962) (pictured)
 * 1925 - Elmore Leonard, American novelist (d. 2013)
 * 1957 - Dawn French, Welsh comedienne
 * 1962 - Joan Cusack, American actress
 * 1989 - Michelle Wie West, American golfer

Deaths

 * 1809 - Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (b. 1774)
 * 1896 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
 * 1961 - Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
 * 1963 - Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (b. 1915)
 * 1965 - Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)
 * 1991 - Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (b. 1922)