May 11

Events

 * 1998 - Lucent Digital Radio created



Births

 * 1835 – Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (d. 1905)
 * 1881 – Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1944)
 * 1888 – Irving Berlin, American composer (d. 1989)
 * 1896 – Josip Štolcer-Slavenski Croatian composer (d. 1955)
 * 1909 – Herbert Murrill, English composer (d. 1952)
 * 1936 – Carla Bley, American musician and composer
 * 1939 – Carlos Lyra, Brazilian musician
 * 1941 – Eric Burdon, British singer (The Animals)
 * 1947 – Butch Trucks, American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band)
 * 1948 – Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese folk musician
 * 1952 – Renaud Séchan, French composer
 * 1965 – Greg Dulli, American musician
 * 1966 – Christoph Schneider, German drummer (Rammstein)
 * 1972 – Daniel Ornellas, Zimbabwean musician
 * 1978 – Perttu Kivilaakso, Finnish Cellist (Apocalyptica)
 * 1979 – Erin Lang, Canadian musician
 * 1984 – Gerald Clayton, Dutch-American jazz pianist
 * 1985 – Matt Giraud, American singer
 * 1989 – Ace Hood, American rapper