Saturday 11th of May 1720

Baron Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Münchhausen is born in Bodenwerder, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Saturday 11th of May 1811

Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker is born in Meklong, Samut Songkhram, Thailand.

Monday 11th of May 1857

Criminal and criminalist Eugène François Vidocq known for founding the first known private detective agency dies of cholera at the age of 82 in 2 Rue Saint-Pierre Popincourt, Paris, XIe, Île-de-France, France.

Tuesday 11th of May 1858

Minnesota is admitted as 32nd state in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.

Friday 11th of May 1888

Composer Irving Berlin is born as Israel Isidore Beilin in Tyumen, Tyumen Oblast, Russia.

Friday 11th of May 1894

Leider van het Nederlandse Volk Anton Adriaan (Ad) Mussert is born in Werkendam, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.

Wednesday 11th of May 1904

Surrealist artist and first Marqués de Dalí de Pubol Salvador Dalí is born as Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.

Thursday 11th of May 1916

Pianist and composer Max Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger dies of a heart attack at the age of 43 in Hotel Hentschel, Roßstraße 1-3, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany.

Sunday 11th of May 1947

42-year-old Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess escapes in Arizona State Hospital, 2500 E. Van Buren, Phoenix, Arizona, United States.

It was Judd's third escape, but she was recaptured 12 hours later.

Sunday 11th of May 1958

Only child of actor Marlon Brando and Anna Kashfi Christian Devi Brando is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Monday 11th of May 1959

55-year-old Actor Peter Lorre suffers a heart attack while directing a film in Granada, Andalucía, Spain.

Wednesday 11th of May 1960

54-year-old SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Otto Eichmann known for organising the Holocaust is captured by the Israeli Mossad living under the assumed name of Ricardo Klement in Buenos Aires, Gran Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Tuesday 11th of May 1965

33-year-old Singer-songwriter Johnny R. Cash aka The Man in Black is arrested for public drunkenness in Starkville, Mississippi, United States.

Cash described it as being picked up for picking flowers. He was held overnight at the city jail.

Wednesday 11th of May 1966

36-year-old Genowefa Bijak is strangled by serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire in Niepiekła, Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland.

Saturday 11th of May 1968

3-year-old John G. is attacked by 12-year-old Child killer Mary Flora Bell aka Child of Hell and her friend Norma Joyce Bell in Delaval Arms, Scotswood Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom.

"We went through the grass and through the fence and found John staggering around behind the sheds. He had bleeding from his head and he had been sick all over his coat."

Sunday 11th of May 1969

31-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 30.a Aktion in the house of Heinz Cibulka in Königsbrunn am Wagram, Niederösterreich, Austria.

Nitsch' 30.a Aktion lasted three hours.

Monday 11th of May 1970

Anti-war protester George Winne commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 23 in Revelle Plaza, San Diego, California, United States.

The day before Winne ignited gasoline-soaked rags in his lap next to a sign that said "In God's name, end this war." His act was inspired by the self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức.

Thursday 11th of May 1972

Triple bomb attack by die Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe 'Kommando Petra Schelm' in IG Farben Building, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.

Lt. Col. Paul Bloomquist was killed by the last bomb and dozens of Americans and Germans were injured.

Sunday 11th of May 1975

9/11 terrorist Ziad Samir Jarrah is born in Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.

Thursday 11th of May 1978

29-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion and Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt is arrested in Zagreb, Zagrebačka županija, Croatia.

Along with Mohnhaupt also Sieglinde Hofmann, Rolf Clemens Wagner and Peter-Jürgen Boock were arrested.

Sunday 11th of May 1980

27-year-old Pamela Weisenfeld is found drugged and beaten with several bite marks on her body by serial killer Richard Cottingham aka The Torso Killer in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States.

Weisenfeld survived.

Monday 11th of May 1981

Musician Bob Robert Nesta Marley dies of lung cancer and a brain tumour at the age of 36 in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Miami, Florida, United States.

Wednesday 11th of May 1983

16-year-old Dominique Crété is stabbed to death by serial killer Philippe Pacque aka L'Épervier d'Amiens in Amiens, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

Crété's body was found on 28 May in Fouencamps.

Thursday 11th of May 1989

8-year-old Aleksandr 'Sasha' Dyakonov is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Rostov, Rostov Oblast, Russia.

Dyakonov's body was found on 14 July in a thicket of bushes.

Monday 11th of May 1992

Hair stylist and experimental filmmaker Ross Cannon dies of AIDS at the age of 35 in Scamander, Tasmania, Australia.

Saturday 11th of May 1996

110 die in ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 Flight 592 crash in Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area, The Everglades, Florida, United States.

Monday 11th of May 1998

Serial killer Hans van Zon dies of alcohol poisoning at the age of 57 in Delfzijl, Groningen, Netherlands.

Thursday 11th of May 2000

Double murderer Michael Lee McBride is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

As the lethal drugs began taking effect McBride said: "Pretty cool, I feel it in the back of my throat. Bye."

Friday 11th of May 2007

A basement air vent in Kattenberg 79, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Tuesday 11th of May 2021

Post-minimalist sculptor Richard Henry Nonas dies of arteriosclerosis at the age of 85 in New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.

Wednesday 11th of May 2022

Rapist and murderer Clarence Wayne Dixon is executed by lethal injection at the age of 67 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Fox News media wit­ness Troy Hayden report­ed that the exe­cu­tion team had trou­ble insert­ing the IV line and that Dixon appeared to be in pain and gri­maced dur­ing the inser­tion process. He said that after about 25 min­utes, the exe­cu­tion team cut into Dixon’s groin to place the IV line there. Associated Press reporter Paul Davenport, who also wit­nessed the exe­cu­tion and saw the inci­sion being made, said at the post-exe­cu­tion news con­fer­ence that exe­cu­tion team mem­bers had ​“to wipe up a fair amount of blood“ from Dixon’s groin.

Thursday 11th of May 2023

Film director Kenneth Anger dies of natural causes at the age of 96 in Yucca Valley, California, United States.

Anger's death was only announced on 24 May 2023 by his artist liaison Spencer Glesby.