About the day » Sunday March 11, 1928Calender converter

• Adalbjorg Valgerdur Goodman († 1934)
• Edward Lawrence Bleeker, Castlewood (Hamlin County) (South Dakota) († 2009)
• Arnold John Pasma, Hawarden, Sioux, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2017)
• Anita Cecilie Melz, Eindhoven († 2005)
• Eileen Louwe WISBEY, Edmonton, London, Middlesex († 2003)
• Cornelia van Gasteren, Culemborg († 2002)
• Cornelis Geugjes, Zaandam († 2005)
• Albertus Hendrik Westbroek, Krimpen aan de Lek († 1984)
• Anne Thijs Jonkman, Amsterdam († 1990)
• * Anita Cecilie Melz, Eindhoven († 2005)

• Antje Abes Kooistra (77), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Nicus (87), Sevenum, Nederland
• Alida Josina Rietman (71), Haarlem, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje VOS (65), Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arjaantje Tanis (41), Goedereede, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Verkooijen (77), Chaam
• Antje Meinderts Slager (84)
• Anna Pieternella Faas (77), Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Zijlmans (78), Raamsdonkveer
• Alphonsus Maria COESEL (40), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1926 » Ralph Abernathy, American minister and activist († 1990)
• 1927 » Col Geelan, Australian rugby league player and coach († 1996)
• 1927 » Freda Meissner-Blau, Austrian activist and politician († 2015)
• 1927 » Joachim Fuchsberger, German actor and television host († 2014)
• 1927 » Josep Maria Subirachs, Spanish sculptor and painter († 2014)
• 1927 » Robert Mosbacher, American sailor, businessman, and politician, 25th United States Secretary of Commerce († 2010)
• 1928 » Albert Salmi, American actor († 1990)
• 1929 » Jackie McGlew, South African cricketer († 1998)
• 1929 » Timothy Carey, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1994)
• 1930 » David Gentleman, English illustrator and engraver

• 1907 » Jean Casimir-Perier, French lawyer and politician, 6th President of France (b. 1847)
• 1908 » Benjamin Waugh, American minister and activist (b. 1839)
• 1908 » Edmondo De Amicis, Italian journalist and author (b. 1846)
• 1915 » Thomas Alexander Browne, English-Australian author (b. 1826)
• 1920 » Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer, mathematician, and engineer (b. 1865)
• 1927 » Xenophon Stratigos, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister of Transport (b. 1869)
• 1931 » F. W. Murnau, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1888)
• 1937 » Joseph S. Cullinan, American businessman, co-founded Texaco (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Edgar Zilsel, Austrian historian and philosopher of science, linked to the Vienna Circle (b. 1891)
• 1944 » Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-American journalist and historian (b. 1882)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
• March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
• June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
• July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
• September 17 » The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
• October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
• November 22 » The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.

The temperature on March 11, 1928 was between -4.9 °C and -2.6 °C and averaged -3.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.