In context
- When
- Friday, October 11 201313 years ago
- Category
- DeathA notable person who died on this day.
- Era
- 21st century · 2010s
- Recorded from
- Wikipedia “On this day” feed
- Person
- María de Villota
Who they were
María de Villota, Spanish race car driver (born 1980)
Why this date
María de Villota appears on our October 11 calendar for 2013 as a death entry.
October 11 through the years
Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.
- 1987Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
- 1987NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt
- 1987Sri Lankan civil war
- 1991Anita Hill
- 1999Air Botswana
- 2000STS-92
- 2001Polaroid Corporation
- 2002Myyrmanni bombing
- 20132013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck
- 2013María de Villota
- 2018Soyuz MS-10
Also in 2013
- May 112013 Reyhanlı car bombingsTwo car bombs by unknown perpetrators exploded in Reyhanlı, Turkey, resulting in 52 killed and 140 injured.
- September 12NASANASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.
- September 13TalibanTaliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead…
- September 15Ivan KuleshThe Belarusian serial killer Ivan Kulesh murdered two saleswomen in Lida.
- September 16Washington Navy Yard shootingA lone gunman fatally shot twelve people and injured three others at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C.
- September 17Grand Theft Auto VGrand Theft Auto V earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release.
- September 18Via RailA VIA Rail train crashes into a double-decker bus at a train station in Ottawa, Canada, killing six people and injuring 35 others.
- November 17Tornado outbreak of November 17, 2013An outbreak of 77 confirmed tornadoes occurred in seven U.S. states; it became the largest November tornado outbreak in Illinois and Indi…
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“María de Villota”, What's On This Date, https://whatsonthisdate.com/app/event/mar-a-de-villota-2013-october-11, accessed October 27, 2026.
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Questions about this entry
When did María de Villota happen?
October 11 2013 — 13 years ago, on a Friday.
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