* Henry Hitchings ( 1974 -), author and critic

* 2008 – The Secret Life of Words by Henry Hitchings wins the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

Her family hailed from Arkansas, where her great-grandparents and her maternal grandfather, Henry Eliot, were born into slavery.

Among their children, four lived to maturity: Henry, born in 952 ; Bruno, born 953 ; Matilda, the first Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg, born about 954 ; and Otto II, later Holy Roman Emperor, born 955.

Montgomery was born in Kennington, London, in 1887, the fourth child of nine, to an Anglo-Irish Anglican priest, the Reverend Henry Montgomery, and his wife, Maud ( née Farrar ).

From the 12th to the 15th century, Bordeaux regained importance following the marriage of Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine with the French-speaking Count Henri Plantagenet, born in Le Mans, who became, within months of their wedding, King Henry II of England.

Lemon Henry Jefferson was born blind near Coutchman, Texas in Freestone County, near present-day Wortham, Texas.

Charles Henry Alston was born on November 28, 1907 in Charlotte, North Carolina to Reverend Primus Priss Alston and Anna Elizabeth Miller Alston, and was the youngest of five children.

In contrast, Henry VII was the descendant of Gaunt's third marriage to Katherine Swynford, whose children were born out of wedlock and only legitimised after the death of Constance and the marriage of John to Katherine.

A son, Henry, Duke of Cornwall, was born on New Year's Day 1511.

Angell was born in West Barrington, Rhode Island to Henry Angell and Mae ( née Cooney ).

Donald Henry Rumsfeld ( born July 9, 1932 ) is an American politician and businessman.

* Sir Henry Worth Thornton, Major General, British Army ( American born )

The daughter of Henry VIII, she was born a princess, but her mother, Anne Boleyn, was executed two and a half years after her birth, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate.

She was the second child of Henry VIII of England born in wedlock to survive infancy.

He received his middle name in honor of Henry Ford, as he was born at the Henry Ford Hospital.

Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (; born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia ; December 11, 1882September 20, 1947 ) was Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945 as a Republican.

The first Australian-( and Victorian -) born Governor of Victoria was Sir Henry Winneke ( appointed 1974 ).

The reform-minded Pope Gregory VII was determined to oppose such practices, leading to the Investiture Controversy with King Henry IV ( r. 1056 – 1106 ), who repudiated the Pope's interference and persuaded his bishops to excommunicate the Pope, whom he famously addressed by his born name " Hildebrand ", rather than his divine name " Pope Gregory VII ".

* Henri, comte de Paris, duc de France born 1933, Orléanist pretender to the French throne as Henry VII

Heinz Alfred " Henry " Kissinger (; born May 27, 1923 ) is a German-born American writer, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman.

Henry Rollins ( born 13 February 1961 ) is an American spoken word artist, writer, journalist, publisher, actor, radio DJ, activist and former singer-songwriter.

Heinz was one of eight children born to John Henry Heinz and Anna Margaretha Heinz ( surviving siblings were Elizabeth Heinz Mueller, Henrietta D. Heinz, John Heinz, Mary A. Heinz and P. J. Heinz ).

When the Emperor Henry I died on 11 July 1216, Andrew was planning to acquire the imperial throne, but the barons of the Latin Empire proclaimed his father-in-law, Peter of Courtenay their emperor.

* Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( March 23, 1535 – February 12, 1587 ) married Henry XI of Legnica on November 11, 1560.

Henry John Heinz ( October 11, 1844 – May 14, 1919 ) was an American businessman of German descent who founded the H. J. Heinz Company.

On 11 November 1100 Henry married Edith, daughter of King Malcolm III of Scotland.

In 1826 there were plans for father and son to reunite, but Henry died, aged 11, before he could make the journey to Rome.

* 1843 – In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B ' nai B ' rith ( the oldest Jewish service organization in the world ).

Stephen Henry Schneider ( February 11, 1945 – July 19, 2010 ) was Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University, a Co-Director at the Center for Environment Science and Policy of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

The new King Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon on 11 June 1509 ; they were crowned at Westminster Abbey on 24 June the same year.

American serial killer Henry Lee Lucas murdered his mother in Tecumseh on January 11, 1960.

* April 11 – Marguerite de Navarre, queen of Henry II of Navarre ( d. 1549 )

* May 11 – Mobster Henry Hill is arrested for drug possession.

* 1171: On November 11, Henry II of England lands in Ireland to assert his claim as Lord of Ireland.

* March 11 – Henry Drummond, Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer ( b. 1851 )

* March 11 – Henry Drummond, Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer

* April 11 – Paul Henry, Irish artist ( d. 1958 )

* October 11 – The Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII of England that sank in 1545, is raised.

* May 11 – Henry Plumer McIlhenny, American art collector, socialite, philanthropist and the chairman of the Philadelphia Art Museum ( b. 1910 )

* September 11 – O. Henry, American writer ( d. 1910 )

* February 11 – Henry VIII of England is recognised as supreme head of the Church of England.

* August 11 – Henry James Pye, English poet ( b. 1745 )

* February 11 – Elizabeth of York, queen of Henry VII of England ( b. 1466 )

* May 11 – Henry Baker Tristram, English clergyman, and ornithologist.

* March 11 – Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the British throne ( d. 1807 )

* November 11 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1106 )