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1811 1811 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). Events Ongoing events Births - January 9 - Gilbert Abbott a Beckett, writer (d. 1856)
- January 17 - Joshua Abraham Norton, later Emperor Norton I of the United States (or February 14, 1819).
- February 3 - Horace Greeley, journalist, editor, publisher (d. 1872).
- February 6 - Henry George Liddell, Dean of the Christ Church, Oxford.
- March 20 - Napoleon II of France (d. 1832)
- March 30 - Robert Bunsen, chemist, inventor: Bunsen burner (d. 1899)
- July - William Makepeace Thackeray, British novelist
- August 31 - Theophile Gautier, poet, novelist
- Rosh Hashanah -- Nathan of Nemirov organizes the first pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine by Breslov Hasidim.
- October 22 - Franz Liszt, composer
- October 27 - Stevens Thomson Mason, first governor of Michigan
- November 24 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1890)
- Zeng Guofan - eminent Han Chinese official and military leader of the late Qing Dynasty. (d. 1872)
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