* August 11 – King Guttorm of Norway

Guttorm Sigurdsson ( Old Norse: Guthormr Sigurðarson ) ( 1199 – 11 August 1204 ) was King of Norway during 1204.

Guttorm Sigurdsson was the son of Sigurd Lavard and grandson of King Sverre.

The day after Guttorm became king, Haakon the Crazy ( Old Norse: Hákon galinn, Modern Norwegian: Håkon galen ), a nephew of King Sverre, was made earl and leader of the Birkebeiner army.

In 1204, King Haakon III died unexpectedly, and the Birkebeiner elected an infant King Guttorm, with real power in the hands of earl Haakon the Crazy.

Philip's Birkebeiner rival King Inge II ( successor of Guttorm, chosen in 1204 ) had severe difficulties because he was only a maternal grandson of King Sigurd II.

# Margaret ( 28 February 1261 – 9 April 1283 ), who married King Eirik II of Norway

* 1314 – King Håkon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo.

In the Netherlands, Denmark and in Belgium, for example, the Monarch formally appoints a representative to preside over the creation of a coalition government following a parliamentary election, while in Norway the King chairs special meetings of the cabinet.

It was initially established by a public consisting largely of recent immigrants from Norway who had fled the unification of that country under King Harald Fairhair.

* 1263 – King Haakon IV of Norway ( b. 1204 )

1016 ), perhaps married firstly with Eric the Victorious, King of Sweden, and later wife of Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark, by whom she is said to have been mother of Canute the Great, King of Denmark, Norway and England.

King Sverre of Norway was brought up in the Faroe, being stepson of a Faroese man, and relative to Roe, bishop of the islands.

The poem is about the fall of King Haakon I of Norway ; although he is Christian, he is taken by two valkyries to Valhalla, and is there received as one of the Einherjar.

* 1937 – King Harald V of Norway

* Haakon VII of Norway ( 1872 – 1957 ), King of Norway ( 1905 – 1957 )

Shortly afterwards Edgar and the King of Norway, Magnus Bare Legs concluded a treaty recognizing Norwegian authority over the Western Isles.

The saga narrates the contests of the kings, the establishment of the kingdom of Norway, Viking expeditions to various European countries, straying as far afield as Palestine in the saga of King Sigurd the Crusader.

* 1945 – King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.

* 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway.

* 1534 – Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.

* 1991 – Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.

* 1184 – King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the Battle of Fimreite.

* 1523 – Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway.

* 1520 – King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Åsunden.

At the age of ten, she married King Haakon VI of Norway and Sweden, who was the son of King Magnus IV of Sweden and Norway.

Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.

* 1946 – Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist ( King Crimson and Bad Company ) ( d. 2006 )

* 1516 – Tabinshwehti, King of Burma ( d. 1550 )

* 1772 – Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d ' état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.

* 1772 – King Gustav III completes his coup d ' état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.

In 1893, King Alexander, aged sixteen, in a first coup d ' état proclaimed himself of full age, dismissed the regents and their government, and took the royal authority into his own hands.

Alfonso XII ( born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo ) ( Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885 ) was King of Spain, reigning from 1874 to 1885, after a coup d ' état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.

* 742 – Charlemagne, King of the Franks ( d. 814 )

* 1965 – Rodney King, American victim of police brutality ( d. 2012 )

* 1734 – Taksin, King of Thailand ( d. 1782 )

In 1973, Mohammed Daoud Khan was brought to power in a coup d ' état against the Afghan King and the Republic of Afghanistan was established.

The success of his opera Tarare was such that it was soon translated into Italian at Joseph II behest by Lorenzo Da Ponte as Axur, Re d ' Ormus ( Axur, King of Hormuz ) and staged at the royal wedding of Franz II in 1788.

* 1923 – Albert King, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( d. 1992 )

Others who were either killed or captured at the actual Battle were as follows: King Jean II ; Prince Philip ( youngest son and progenitor of the House of Valois-Burgundy ), Geoffroi de Charny, carrier of the Oriflamme, Peter I, Duke of Bourbon, Walter VI, Count of Brienne and Constable of France, Jean de Clermont, Marshal of France, Arnoul d ' Audrehem, the Count of Eu, the Count of Marche and Ponthieu Jacques de Bourbon taken prisoner at the Battle and died 1361, the Count of Étampes, the Count of Tancarville, the Count of Dammartin, the Count of Joinville, Guillaume de Melun, Archbishop of Sens.

* 1790 – King Leopold I of Belgium ( d. 1865 )

* 1888 – King Alexander I of Yugoslavia ( d. 1934 )

* 1285 – King Ferdinand IV of Castile ( d. 1312 )

* 1421 – King Henry VI of England ( d. 1471 )

* 1792 – King William II of the Netherlands ( d. 1849 )

* 1166 – King John of England ( d. 1216 )

* 1845 – King George I of Greece ( d. 1913 )

* 1927 – Alan King, American comedian ( d. 2004 )

* 1095 – Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily ( d. 1154 )

* 1690 – Meidingnu Pamheiba, King of Manipur ( d. 1751 )

* 1537 – King John III of Sweden ( d. 1592 )