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| May 11th, 2007 (May 11 2007) | Event | Pope Benedict XVI canonizes the first Brazilian-born saint, Frei Galvao. | |
| May 11th, 2007 (May 11 2007) | Death | Malietoa Tanumafili II, Sovereign Ruler of Samoa (born in 1913) | |
| May 11th, 2007 (May 11 2007) | Death | Bernard Gordon, blacklisted American author (born in 1918) | |
| May 11th, 1997 (May 11 1997) | Event | IBM Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format. | Garry Kasparov Quotes |
| May 11th, 1987 (May 11 1987) | Event | Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II. | Klaus Barbie Quotes |
| May 11th, 1987 (May 11 1987) | Event | In Baltimore, Maryland, The first heart-lung transplant takes place. The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz, of Stanford University School of Medicine. | |
| May 11th, 1987 (May 11 1987) | Birth | Justin King, American football player | |
| May 11th, 1987 (May 11 1987) | Birth | Louis Murphy, American college football player | |
| May 11th, 1987 (May 11 1987) | Birth | Monica Rosu, Romanian gymnast | |
| May 11th, 1977 (May 11 1977) | Birth | Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper | |
| May 11th, 1977 (May 11 1977) | Birth | Gonzalo Colsa, Spanish footballer | |
| May 11th, 1977 (May 11 1977) | Birth | Pablo Garcia, Uruguayan footballer | |
| May 11th, 1977 (May 11 1977) | Birth | Victor Matfield, South African rugby union footballer | |
| May 11th, 1977 (May 11 1977) | Birth | Matthew Newton, Australian actor | |
| May 11th, 1967 (May 11 1967) | Event | Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and socialist politician, is imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta. | |
| May 11th, 1957 (May 11 1957) | Birth | Peter North, Canadian porn star | |
| May 11th, 1947 (May 11 1947) | Birth | Butch Trucks, American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band) | |
| May 11th, 1927 (May 11 1927) | Event | The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded. | |
| May 11th, 1927 (May 11 1927) | Birth | Mort Sahl, Canadian comedian and political commentator | |
| May 11th, 1927 (May 11 1927) | Birth | Gene Savoy, American author, explorer, scholar and cleric (died in 2007) | |
| May 11th, 1907 (May 11 1907) | Event | A derailment outside Lompoc, California kills 32 Shriners when their chartered train jumps off the tracks at a switch near Surf Depot. | |
| May 11th, 1907 (May 11 1907) | Birth | Rose Auslander, German poet (died in 1988) | |
| May 11th, 1907 (May 11 1907) | Birth | Rip Sewell, American baseball player (died in 1989) | |
| May 11th, 1897 (May 11 1897) | Birth | Kurt Gerron, German director (died in 1944) | |
| May 11th, 1897 (May 11 1897) | Birth | Robert E. Gross, American businessman (died in 1961) | |
| May 11th, 1887 (May 11 1887) | Birth | Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (died in 1961) | |
| May 11th, 1887 (May 11 1887) | Death | Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (born in 1802) | |
| May 11th, 1867 (May 11 1867) | Event | Luxembourg gains its independence. | |
| May 11th, 1857 (May 11 1857) | Event | Indian Mutiny: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British. | |
| May 11th, 1827 (May 11 1827) | Birth | Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (died in 1875) | |
| May 11th, 1817 (May 11 1817) | Birth | Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballet dancer (died in 1909) | |
| May 11th, 1777 (May 11 1777) | Death | George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (born in 1719) | |
