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Formed in 2006, initially to record an audio accompaniment to Sixx's autobiography The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star, his side band Sixx:A.
Famous Birthdays on December 11
1958 — Nikki Sixx
American bass player, songwriter, and producer
December 11 has 217 recorded notable births across history, from 1445 to 2000. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on December 11
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- 2006 Felipe Calderón, the president of Mexico, launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacán. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican drug war. Source
- 2020 The Food and Drug Administration issues an Emergency Use Authorization on the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by the agency. Source
- 1905 A workers' uprising occurs in Kyiv, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic. Source
- 1994 First Chechen War: Russian president Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya. Source
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Rita Moreno has been honored with Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004, the National Medal of Arts in 2009, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2013, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2015, and a Peabody Award in 2019.
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Donna Mills began her television career in 1966 with a recurring role on The Secret Storm, and in the same year appeared on Broadway in Woody Allen's comedy Don't Drink the Water.
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Billboard Hot 100 in 2023, making Lee the oldest artist ever to top the chart and breaking several chart records.
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Fiorello Henry La Guardia was an American attorney and politician who served as the 100th mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1946.
More major people born on December 11
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1931
Rita Moreno
Puerto Rican actress, singer, and dancer
Rita Moreno is a Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer. With a career spanning eight decades she is known for her roles on stage and screen, and is one of the last remaining stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
1940
Donna Mills
American actress and producer
Donna Mills is an American actress. She began her television career in 1966 with a recurring role on The Secret Storm, and in the same year appeared on Broadway in Woody Allen's comedy Don't Drink the Water.
1944
Brenda Lee
American singer-songwriter
Brenda Mae Tarpley, known professionally as Brenda Lee, is an American singer. Known for her musical versatility, she had commercial success with recordings in the genres of pop, country, rock and roll and gospel.
1882
Fiorello H. La Guardia
American lawyer and politician, 99th Mayor of New York City (died 1947)
Fiorello Henry La Guardia was an American attorney and politician who served as the 100th mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1946. He previously represented New York in the U.S.
1979
Rider Strong
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Rider King Strong is an American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter.
1921
Liz Smith
English actress (died 2016)
Betty Gleadle, known by the stage name Liz Smith, was an English actress.
1913
Jean Marais
French actor and director (died 1998)
Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais, known professionally as Jean Marais, was a French actor, theatre director, painter, sculptor, visual artist, writer and photographer.
1988
Tim Southee
New Zealand cricketer
Timothy Grant Southee is a former New Zealand international cricketer who has captained New Zealand cricket team in all formats of the game. He is a right-arm medium-fast bowler and a hard-hitting lower order batsman.
1933
Aquilino Pimentel
Jr., Filipino civil servant and politician, 23rd President of the Senate of the Philippines (died 2019)
Aquilino Quilinging Pimentel Jr., commonly known as Nene Pimentel, was a Filipino politician and human rights lawyer who was one of the leading political opposition leaders during the regime of Ferdinand Marcos from the…
1916
Elena Garro
Mexican author and playwright (died 1998)
Elena Delfina Garro Navarro was a Mexican author, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, short story writer, and novelist.
1890
Mark Tobey
American-Swiss painter and educator (died 1976)
Mark George Tobey was an American painter. His densely structured compositions, inspired by Asian calligraphy, resemble Abstract expressionism, although the motives for his compositions differ philosophically from most…
1939
Thomas McGuane
American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter
Thomas Francis McGuane III is an American writer. His work includes ten novels, short fiction and screenplays, as well as three collections of essays devoted to his life in the outdoors.
1957
Peter Bagge
American author and illustrator
Peter Bagge is an American cartoonist whose best-known work includes the comics Neat Stuff and Hate.
1935
Pranab Mukherjee
Indian journalist and politician, 13th President of India (died 2020)
Pranab Kumar Mukherjee was an Indian politician who served as the president of India from 2012 until 2017. He was the first person from West Bengal to hold the post of President of India.
1954
Santiago Creel
Mexican lawyer and politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior
Santiago Creel Miranda is a Mexican lawyer and politician, and a member of the National Action Party (PAN).
1955
Stu Jackson
American basketball player, coach, and manager
Stuart Wayne Jackson is an American basketball executive and former basketball coach.
1971
Willie McGinest
American football player and sportscaster
William Lee McGinest Jr. is an American former professional football linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons, primarily with the New England Patriots.
1725
George Mason
American lawyer and politician (died 1792)
George Mason was an American planter, politician, Founding Father, and delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, one of three delegates who refused to sign the Constitution.
1908
Elliott Carter
American composer and academic (died 2012)
Elliott Cook Carter Jr. was an American modernist composer who was one of the most respected composers of the second half of the 20th century.