May 11 is the 131nd day of the year (132rd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 234 days left until the end of the year.

Events

330 – Constantinople (Istanbul) becomes the official capital of the Roman Empire. This city, which was previously called Byzantion, was given the name "New Rome" with a ceremony, but the name Constantinople will be used more.
868 – The Diamond Sutra, the earliest known hardcopy book, was printed in China.
1811 - The brothers Chang Bunker and Eng Bunker, known as the "Siamese twins", are born. The twins, which are conjoined from their bellies, became the father of this birth, which is seen once in a hundred thousand. They died at the age of 63 and had 18 children.
1812 - UK Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is shot dead in the House of Commons by businessman John Bellingham, who is insane.
1858 - Minnesota joins the United States.
1867 - Luxembourg gained its independence from France.
1920 – Mustafa Kemal Pasha was sentenced to death by the Court of War in Istanbul.
1924 - Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz companies merged to form Mercedes-Benz.
1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is established, distributing the Academy Awards.
1938 – Atatürk donated his farms and real estate to the nation.
1939 – II. During World War II, the Battle of Khalkhin Gol began on the Mongolia-Manchuria border.
1946 – The titles of “National Chief” and “Unchangeable Chairman” in the CHP charter of President İsmet İnönü were abolished.
1949 - Siam officially changes its name to Thailand.
1949 - Israel joins the United Nations organization.
1960 – Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann is kidnapped by a Mossad team in Buenos Aires.
1960 - The first birth control pill is introduced to the market.
1961 – The case of violation of the Constitution started in Yassıada.
1963 – Prime Minister İsmet İnönü said that the 'Kurdish problem' did not pose a danger.
1967 – Greek economist and socialist politician Andreas Papandreou is imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta.
1981 – Right-wing militant Cengiz Baktemur, who killed Hasan Doğan, Head of Youth Branch of Malatya Doğanşehir Republican People's Party on February 20, 1980, was sentenced to death.
1985 – A fire broke out during the football match between Birmingham City FC and Leeds United in Birmingham: 40 people were killed and 150 injured.
1987 – Former German Schutzstaffel Klaus Barbie, also known as the "Butcher of Lyon", was a military officer and Gestapo member. He was put on trial in Lyon, France, for crimes he committed during World War II.
1987 – First heart-lung transplant performed in Baltimore Maryland.
1988 – Kim Philby, who defected to this country when it was revealed that he was spying for the Soviet Union while he was a member of the British Secret Intelligence Service, dies in Moscow at the age of 76.
1997 - IBM's supercomputer Deep Blue defeated Gary Kasparov, widely regarded as the greatest chess master of all time.
2008 – Felipe Massa won the 4th Turkish Grand Prix for the third time in a row.
2013 – There were two explosions in a row in Hatay's Reyhanlı district. While 52 people lost their lives in the explosion, more than 150 people were injured.

Births

1680 – Ignaz Kögler, German Jesuit and missionary (d. 1746)
1720 – Baron Münchhausen, German writer (d. 1797)
1752 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist (d. 1840)
1810 – Grigori Gagarin, Russian painter, Major General, and administrator (d. 1893)
1824 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (d. 1904)
1835 – Karlis Baumanis, Latvian lyricist (d. 1905)
1852 – Charles Warren Fairbanks, twenty-sixth vice president of the United States (d. 1918)
1881 – Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian physicist (d. 1963)
1888 – Irving Berlin, American composer and songwriter (d. 1989)
1889 – Burhan Felek, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 1982)
1889 – Paul Nash, English landscape painter, surrealist, and war artist (d. 1946)
1890 – Helge Løvland, Norwegian decathlete (d. 1984)
1894 – Martha Graham, American modern dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)
1895 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher, speaker, and author (d. 1986)
1904 – Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter (d. 1989)
1916 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer (d. 2002)
1918 – Richard Feynman, American physicist (d. 1988)
1918 – Mrinalini Sarabhai, Indian dancer (d. 2016)
1920 – İzzet Özilhan, Turkish industrialist and businessman (d. 2014)
1920 – Nezihe Araz, Turkish writer and journalist (d. 2009)
1924 - Antony Hewish, English physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics
1925 – Max Morlock, German football player (d. 1994)
1928 – Yaacov Agam, Israeli sculptor (who gives op art and kinetic artworks)
1930 – Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer engineer (d. 2002)
1933 - Louis Farrakhan, an American Muslim preacher and political activist
1941 – Eric Burdon, English vocalist
1943 Nancy Greene Raine, Canadian skier
1945 – Şirin Cemgil, Turkish lawyer and one of the pioneers of the youth movement of the 1968 generation (d. 2009)
1946 – Jürgen Rieger, German lawyer and Neo-Nazi politician (d. 2009)
1949 – Evin Esen, Turkish TV series and theater actress (d. 2012)
1950 – Gary Alan Fine, American sociologist
1950 – Jeremy Paxman, English journalist, author and TV presenter
1954 – John Gregory, English football coach, former football player
1954 – Hasan Mezarcı, Turkish politician and clergyman
1955 – Nihat Hatipoğlu, Turkish academic and theologian
1963 – Natasha Richardson, British actress (d. 2009)
1966 – Christoph Schneider, German drummer
1966 – Ümit Kocasakal, Turkish lawyer
1967 – Alberto García Aspe, Mexican football player
1968 – Ana Jara Velásquez, Peruvian lawyer and politician
1970 – Ferhat Göçer, Turkish singer and medical doctor
1973 - Charlotte Jonsson, Swedish actress
1976 – Kardinal Offishall, Canadian hip hop singer and producer
1976 – İzzet Ulvi Yoter, Turkish politician
1977 – Pablo Gabriel García, Uruguayan international football player and manager
1977 Bobby Roode, Canadian professional wrestler
1978 – Laetitia Casta, French model and actress
1978 – Ece Erken, Turkish presenter and actress
1978 – Perttu Kivilaakso, Finnish cellist
1981 - Lauren Jackson, Australian professional basketball player
1981 – Nadiya Savchenko, Ukrainian politician
1982 – Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and singer (d. 2013)
1982 – Gilles Guillain, Colombian-French actor
1983 – Steven Sotloff, Israeli-American journalist (d. 2014)
1983 – Holly Valance, Australian model and actress
1984 – Andres Iniesta, Spanish football player
1984 – İlker Kaleli, Turkish TV series and movie actor
1986 – Abou Diaby, French former football player
1986 – Miguel Veloso, Portuguese football player
1988 - Blac Chyna, American model and entrepreneur
1989 – Giovani dos Santos, Mexican football player
1992 – Thibaut Courtois, Belgian national goalkeeper
1992 - Pablo Sarabia, Spanish football player
1993 – Tara Imad, Egyptian model
1993 – Maurice Jose Harkless, American professional basketball player
1994 – Courtney Williams, American professional basketball player
1995 – Shira Haas, Israeli actress
1995 – Nilüfer Yanya, English singer
1997 - Lana Condor, American actress and YouTuber
1998 – Görkem Doğan, Turkish basketball player
1999 – Sabrina Carpenter, American singer, songwriter, and actress
2000 - Yuki Tsunoda, Japanese racing driver

Deaths

912 – VI. Leon, Byzantine emperor (b. 866)
1610 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary and scientist. He is one of the pioneers of interfaith dialogue (b. 1552)
1655 – İbşir Mustafa Pasha, Ottoman statesman (b. 1607)
1812 – Spencer Perceval, English lawyer and statesman (b. 1762)
1837 – Pierre Darcourt, Belgian first long-lived person before 1955 (b. 1729)
1849 – Otto Nicolai, German opera composer and conductor (b. 1810)
1871 – John Herschel, English mathematician, astronomer, and chemist (b. 1792)
1916 – Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist (b. 1873)
1916 – Max Reger, German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and teacher (b. 1873)
1927 – Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
1947 – Frederic Goudy, American graphic designer and educator (b. 1865)
1948 – Hamâmizâde İhsan Bey, Turkish poet and anecdote writer (b. 1885)
1954 – Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Turkish short story writer (b. 1906)
1960 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman (b. 1874)
1962 – Hans Luther, German politician (b. 1879)
1963 – Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist (b. 1888)
1973 – Grigori Kozintsev, Soviet film director (b. 1905)
1973 – Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
1976 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (b. 1898)
1981 – Bob Marley, Jamaican guitarist and singer (b. 1945)
1981 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1985 – Chester Gould, an American cartoonist (b. 1900)
1988 – Kim Philby, British spy (b. 1912)
1991 – Jusuf Hatunić, Bosnia and Herzegovina football player (b. 1950)
1996 – Ademir, Brazilian football player (b. 1922)
2000 – Faruk Kenç, Turkish film director (b. 1910)
2001 – Douglas Adams, English science fiction writer (b. 1952)
2001 – Klaus Schlesinger, German writer and journalist (b. 1937)
2015 – Sami Hoştan, Turkish Susurluk case convict and Ergenekon case defendant (b. 1947)
2015 – Isobel Varley, British woman who is the world tattoo record holder in the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1937)
2017 – Alexander Bodunov, Soviet-Russian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1952)
2017 – Mark Colvin, British-born Australian journalist and radio broadcaster (b. 1952)
2017 – Clelio Darida, Italian Christian democratic politician (b. 1927)
2017 – İbrahim Erkal, Turkish singer, songwriter, composer and actor (b. 1966)
2017 – Elisabet Hermodsson, Swedish writer, poet, composer and artist (b. 1927)
2018 – Gérard Genette, French literary theorist (b. 1930)
2018 – Mehmed Niyazi Özdemir, Turkish historian and writer (b. 1942)
2018 – Ulla Sallert, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1923)
2019 – Hector Busby, New Zealand entrepreneur, engineer, and traveler (b. 1932)
2019 – Gianni De Michelis, Italian politician (b. 1940)
2019 – Peggy Lipton, American actress (b. 1946)
2019 – Pua Magasiva, Samoa-born New Zealand actress and radio broadcaster (b. 1980)
2019 – Silver King, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1968)
2020 – Francisco Javier Aguilar, Spanish professional football player (b. 1949)
2020 – Alberto Carpani, Italian singer, DJ and record producer (b. 1956)
2020 – Ann Katharine Mitchell, English cryptologist and psychologist (b. 1922)
2020 – Roland Povinelli, French politician (b. 1941)
2020 – Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor (b. 1927)
2021 – Norman Lloyd, American actor, dubbing artist, film producer and director (b. 1914)
2021 – Buddy Van Horn, American stuntman and film director (b. 1928)
2021 – Vladislav Yegin, Russian professional ice hockey player (b. 1989)
2022 – Shirin Abu Akile, Palestinian journalist (b. 1971)
2022 – Sam Basil, Papua New Guinean politician and administrator (b. 1969)