August 11
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August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 142 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1379 – Yolande of Aragon (d. 1442)
- 1467 – Mary of York, English princess (d. 1482)
- 1667 – Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Italian princess (d. 1743)
- 1673 – Richard Mead, English physician (d. 1754)
- 1706 – Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis (d. 1756)
- 1718 – Sir Frederick Haldimand, professional soldier (d. 1891)
- 1778 – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, German teacher (d. 1852)
- 1794 – James Barton Longacre, engraver and designer of United States Indian Head cent (d. 1869)
- 1801 – Eduard Devrient, German baritone (d. 1877)
- 1807 – David Rice Atchison, American politician (d. 1886)
- 1833 – Robert G. Ingersoll, American political leader and orator, atheist, American Civil War Colonel (d. 1899)
- 1833 – Kido Takayoshi, Japanese politician, leading figure of the Meiji restoration (d. 1877)
- 1837 – Marie Francois Sadi Carnot, French statesman (d. 1894)
- 1858 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch doctor, won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering vitamins (d. 1930)
- 1865 – Gifford Pinchot, American politician and environmentalist (d. 1946)
- 1870 – Tom Richardson, English cricketer (d. 1912).
- 1872 – Kijuro Shidehara, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1951)
- 1879 – Frieda von Richthofen, German writer (d. 1956)
- 1891 – Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian architect and lecturer (d. 1962)
- 1892 – Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (d. 1962)
- 1892 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (d. 1978)
- 1897 – Enid Blyton, British writer (d. 1968)
- 1897 – Louise Bogan, American poet (d. 1970)
- 1900 – Alexander Mosolov, Russian composer (d. 1973)
- 1902 – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)
- 1902 – Lloyd Nolan, actor (d. 1982)
- 1905 – Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (d. 2002)
- 1905 – Kurt Gerstein, German SS officer (d. 1945)
- 1911 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Thai general and politician (d. 2004)
- 1912 – Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, astronomer (d. 1954)
- 1913 – Angus Wilson, British novelist (d. 1991)
- 1913 – Paul Dupuis, French Canadian actor (d. 1976)
- 1914 – Hugh Martin, American songwriter (d. 2011)
- 1919 – Ginette Neveu, French violinist (d. 1949)
- 1921 – Alex Haley, American historian and novelist (d. 1992)
- 1925 – Mike Douglas, American entertainer (d. 2006)
- 1925 – Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
- 1926 – Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-born British chemist
- 1926 – Klaus von Buelow, Danish-born socialite
- 1927 – Raymond Leppard, English conductor
- 1927 – Stuart Rosenberg, American director (d. 2007)
- 1928 – Arlene Dahl, American actress
- 1932 – Fernando Arrabal, Spanish playwright and novelist
- 1933 – Jerry Falwell, American Christian preacher and politician (d. 2007)
- 1937 – Anna Massey, British actress (d. 2011)
- 1942 – Mike Hugg, British musician
- 1943 – Abigail Folger, American Coffee heiress (d. 1969)
- 1943 – Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general and leader
- 1944 – Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor
- 1946 – Marilyn vos Savant, American newspaper columnist
- 1947 – Theo de Jong, Dutch footballer and manager
- 1949 – Ian Charleson, British actor (d. 1990)
- 1949 – Eric Carmen, American singer and guitarist
- 1950 – Erik Brann, American guitarist
- 1950 – Gennidy Nikonov, designer of the AN-94 assault rifle
- 1950 – Steve Wozniak, American personal computer pioneer
- 1952 – Reid Blackburn, American photographer (d. 1980)
- 1953 – Hulk Hogan (Terry Gene Bollea), American professional wrestler
- 1954 – Joe Jackson, British singer
- 1955 – Sylvia Hermon, British politician
- 1957 – Richie Ramone, American musician, drummer with The Ramones
- 1961 – Sunil Shetty, Indian actor
- 1961 – Frederick W. Sturckow, American astronaut
- 1965 – Shinji Mikami, Japanese video game designer
- 1965 – Viola Davis, American actress
- 1965 – Marc Bergevin, Canadian ice hockey player and general manager
- 1966 – Juan Maria Solare, Argentine music composer and pianist
- 1967 – Joe Rogan, comedian and television host
- 1968 – Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian terrorist (d. 2009)
- 1969 – Ashley Jensen, British actress
- 1969 – Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima, Brazilian marathon runner
- 1970 – Gianluca Pessotto, Italian footballer
- 1972 – Agnes Samaria, Namibian athlete
- 1972 – Jonathon Prandi, American male model
- 1974 – Audrey Mestre, French freediver (d. 2002)
- 1976 – Ivan Cordoba, Colombian footballer
- 1976 – Erick Lindgren, American poker player
- 1978 – Jermain Taylor, American boxer
- 1979 – Nemanja Vucicevic, Serbian footballer
- 1980 – Jose Antonio Castro, Mexican footballer
- 1980 – Sebastien Squillaci, French footballer
- 1980 – Lee Suggs, American football player
- 1981 – Sandi Thom, Scottish singer
- 1984 – Melky Cabrera, Dominican baseball player
- 1984 – Lucas di Grassi, Brazilian racing driver
- 1986 – Kaori Fukihara, Japanese voice actress
- 1986 – Richard Keogh, Irish footballer
- 1986 – Pablo Sandoval, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1993 – Alyson Stoner, American actress
- 1994 – Rand Al-Mashhadani, Iraqi shooter
Deaths [change]
- 480 BC – Leonidas, King of Sparta
- 353 – Magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303)
- 449 – Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople
- 897 – Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona
- 1204 – King Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199)
- 1253 – Saint Clare of Assisi, patron saint of television (b. 1193)
- 1259 – Mongke Khan, Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (b. 1208)
- 1456 – Janos Hunyadi, Hungarian regent (b. 1387)
- 1578 – Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (b. 1502)
- 1801 – Felix Maria Samaniego, Spanish poet (b. 1745)
- 1813 – Henry James Pye, English poet (b. 1745)
- 1851 – Lorenz Oken, German industrialist (b. 1779)
- 1872 – Andrew Smith, Scottish physician, surgeon and zoologist (b. 1797)
- 1886 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b. 1843)
- 1890 – John Henry Newman, English cardinal (b. 1801)
- 1892 – Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)
- 1903 – Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (b. 1839)
- 1919 – Andrew Carnegie, industrialist, philanthropist (b. 1835)
- 1937 – Edith Wharton, American author (b. 1862)
- 1939 – Jean Bugatti, Automobile designer (b. 1909)
- 1953 – Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racecar driver (b. 1892)
- 1956 – Jackson Pollock, American artist (b. 1912)
- 1956 – Frieda von Richthofen, German writer (b. 1879)
- 1972 – Max Theiler, South African virologist (b. 1899)
- 1974 – Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan musicologist and composer (b. 1887)
- 1975 – Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Israeli politician (b. 1885)
- 1982 – Tom Drake, American actor (b. 1918)
- 1984 – Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonia-born German chess player (b. 1916)
- 1984 – Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (b. 1892)
- 1988 – Alfred Kelbassa, German footballer (b. 1925)
- 1994 – Peter Cushing, British actor (b. 1913)
- 1996 – Rafael Kubelik, conductor and composer (b. 1914)
- 2003 – Diana Mitford, widow of British Fascist leader Oswald Mosley (b. 1910)
- 2003 – Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach (b. 1937)
- 2003 – Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Mike Douglas, American entertainer (b. 1925)
- 2008 – Fred Sinowatz, former Chancellor of Austria (b. 1929)
- 2009 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, and sister of John F. Kennedy (b. 1921)
- 2011 – Jani Lane, American musician (b. 1964)
Events [change]
- 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilisations, notably the Mayans, begins, ending either on December 21 or 23, 2012.
- 106 – The Southwestern part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province, Roman Dacia.
- 117 – Hadrian becomes Roman Emperor, following Trajan's death.
- 355 – Claudius Silvanus proclaims himself Roman Emperor.
- 1332 – The Battle of Dupplin Moor takes place during the Scottish Wars of Independence.
- 1677 – A large part of the city of Rostock is destroyed by fire.
- 1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes a British colony at Penang, Malaysia.
- 1804 – Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor takes the title of Emperor of Austria.
- 1858 – The Eiger in the Swiss Alps is first climbed by Charles Barrington, accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohlen.
- 1901 – The first German Antarctic expedition, led by Erich von Drygalski, leaves Kiel.
- 1904 – Battle of Waterberg in present-day Namibia: In a battle with German colonial troops, 30,000 Herero and Nama people are killed.
- 1918 – World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.
- 1919 – The Constitution of Germany's Weimar Republic is adopted.
- 1920 – End of the Latvian War of Independence
- 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs, at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
- 1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal Prison at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay.
- 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a frequency hopping, spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
- 1952 – Hussein of Jordan is proclaimed king.
- 1960 – Chad declares independence from France.
- 1961 – The former Portuguese territories of India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged into the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, as part of the Republic of India.
- 1965 – Race riots begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
- 1968 – The last steam train runs on British railways.
- 1972 – Vietnam War: The last US ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
- 1979 – A dam break in Morvi, Gujarat, India, following heavy rain, kills between 2,000 and 5,000 people.
- 1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, between Tokyo and Honolulu, killing one person, and injuring 15.
- 1984 – 'We begin Bombing in Five Minutes': Ronald Reagan jokes while preparing for a weekly radio address while running for re-election as US President.
- 1999 – A total Solar eclipse is seen over much of Europe and Asia. It is the last solar eclipse of the 2nd Millennium.
- 2003 – A heatwave in Paris, France kills an estimated 144 people, with temperatures reaching 44 degrees Celsius.
- 2003 – President of Liberia Charles Taylor flees into exile in Nigeria.
- 2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Ridyan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
- 2006 – Filipino oil tanker Solar 1 sinks at the island of Guimaras, leading to an oil spill.
- 2012 – Two earthquakes of a magnitude over 6, followed by several aftershocks, strike the area around Tabriz, in northwestern Iran.
Observances [change]
- Independence Day in Chad
