On This Day — August 11
3854 noted people were born and 1862 died on August 11 in our archive, including Aaron Klug, Christiaan Eijkman and Enrico D'Ovidio.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on August 11
Aaron Klug
1926 – 2018
Christiaan Eijkman
1858 – 1930
Enrico D'Ovidio
1843 – 1933
Norman Macleod Ferrers
1829 – 1903
Artem Metelev
b. 1993
Beniamino Andreatta
1928 – 2007
Cato Maximilian Guldberg
1836 – 1902
David Delpy
b. 1948
David Rubenstein
b. 1949
David Warren
b. 1952
Ernst Jaakson
1905 – 1998
Felix von Luschan
1854 – 1924
Frederick W. Smith
1944 – 2025
George C. Homans
1910 – 1989
George F. R. Ellis
b. 1939
Gifford Pinchot
1865 – 1946
Gyula Moór
1888 – 1950
Henry Howard
1843 – 1921
Julia Carabias
b. 1954
Laila Dåvøy
b. 1948
Leonid Mikhelson
b. 1955
Markus Hilgert
b. 1969
Pervez Musharraf
1943 – 2023
Peter Barrett
b. 1940
Peter Wittig
b. 1954
Pierre-Louis Lions
b. 1956
Steve Wozniak
b. 1950
Torgny T:son Segerstedt
1908 – 1999
Willem Hendrik de Vriese
1806 – 1862
Alain Carpentier
b. 1933
Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz
1850 – 1921
Aleksandr Zharov
b. 1964
Alessandro Sette
b. 1960
Alexa McDonough
1944 – 2022
Andreas Anagnostakis
1826 – 1897
Andreas Bovenschulte
b. 1965
Anika Wells
b. 1985
Anthony Hughes
b. 1948
Antonio Fortich
1913 – 2003
Antti Lindtman
b. 1982
Asma al-Assad
b. 1975
Augusto Del Noce
1910 – 1989
Brigitte Zarfl
b. 1962
Bryce Harlow
1916 – 1987
Carl Rowan
1925 – 2000
Carlo Ignazio Giulio
1803 – 1859
Cesar Acuña
b. 1952
Charles Bossut
1730 – 1814
Charles Cecil
b. 1962
Charles Drummond Ellis
1895 – 1980
Charles M. Blow
b. 1970
Chris Boyle
b. 1972
Claire Byrne
b. 1975
David Henderson
1862 – 1921
David Henry Hwang
b. 1957
David T. Kearns
1930 – 2011
Delia Albert
b. 1942
Deyan Enev
b. 1960
Dominique Bourg
b. 1953
Dominique Perben
b. 1945
Doug Bowser
b. 1961
Douglas Bassett
1927 – 2009
Dov Ben-Meir
1927 – 2020
Duarte Leite
1864 – 1950
Dubravka Šimonović
b. 1958
Duvvuri Subbarao
b. 1949
Edgar de Wahl
1867 – 1948
Egon Pearson
1895 – 1980
Emily Chang
b. 1980
Fernando Arrabal
b. 1932
Francina Armengol
b. 1971
François Richier
b. 1963
Frederick W. Sturckow
b. 1961
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
1778 – 1853
Gari Melchers
1860 – 1932
Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
1916 – 1989
Greysia Polii
b. 1987
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson
1852 – 1928
Hans-Jürgen Thies
b. 1955
Harald Rønneberg
b. 1973
Harry Barron
1847 – 1921
Hasri Ainun Habibie
1937 – 2010
Henry Graff
1921 – 2020
Henryk Józef Nowacki
b. 1946
Hilary Beckles
b. 1955
Hubert Joly
b. 1959
Hulk Hogan
1953 – 2025
Ian McDiarmid
b. 1944
Inès de La Fressange
b. 1957
Ivan Hlukh
b. 1950
Ivan Ivanov
1862 – 1939
J. S. Ewart
1849 – 1933
Jack Cuzick
b. 1948
James B. Herrick
1861 – 1954
Jan Palach
1948 – 1969
Jan Šrámek
1870 – 1956
Javad Jahanghirzadeh
b. 1966
Jean H. Toal
b. 1943
Jean-Luc Domenach
1945 – 2026
Jerzy Grotowski
1933 – 1999
Jianjun Shi
b. 1963
Johan August Gripenstedt
1813 – 1874
John Cradock, 1st Baron Howden
1759 – 1839
John D. W. Corley
b. 1951
John Harty
1867 – 1946
Justin B. Ries
b. 1976
Karolina Lanckorońska
1898 – 2002
Kido Takayoshi
1833 – 1877
Kimon Georgiev
1882 – 1969
Kristin Skogen Lund
b. 1966
Krzysztof Meyer
b. 1943
Lee Yong-seop
b. 1951
Leighton Andrews
b. 1957
Leon Benois
1856 – 1928
Lidija Dimkovska
b. 1971
Ludwig Heck
1860 – 1951
Luis Lacalle Pou
b. 1973
Luule Komissarov
b. 1942
Madabusi Santanam Raghunathan
1941 – 2003
Marcelo Kohen
b. 1957
Marian-Jean Marinescu
b. 1952
Marie-Germaine Bousser
b. 1943
Martin H. Kennelly
1887 – 1961
Martin Morris, 2nd Baron Killanin
1867 – 1927
Masayoshi Son
b. 1957
Mateusz Szczurek
b. 1975
Małgorzata Tarasiewicz
b. 1960
Melissa Parke
b. 1966
Mihnea Popa
b. 1973
Milan Gutović
1946 – 2021
Monique F. Leroux
b. 1954
N. Randy Smith
b. 1949
Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky
1809 – 1881
Nurse Maude
1862 – 1935
Oskar Kuchera
b. 1974
Oto Luthar
b. 1959
Pavel Zavalny
b. 1961
Percy Erskine Nobbs
1875 – 1964
Peter Eisenman
b. 1932
Poul Løvenørn
1751 – 1826
Quentin L. Kopp
b. 1928
Rana Mitter
b. 1969
Rez Gardi
b. 1991
Richard Mead
1673 – 1754
Rodolfo Graziani
1882 – 1955
Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill
1772 – 1842
Sadi Carnot
1837 – 1894
Sam Rohrer
b. 1955
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
b. 1974
Serge Patrice Thibodeau
b. 1959
Sergey Dronov
b. 1962
Shigenosuke Ushio
1881 – 1955
Sir Charles Welby, 5th Baronet
1865 – 1938
Sol Zanetti
b. 1982
Sri Prakash Lohia
b. 1952
Stuart Gordon
1947 – 2020
Sylvia Hermon
b. 1955
Tadeusz Paweł Zakrzewski
1883 – 1961
Tamara van Ark
b. 1974
Tamás Vásáry
1933 – 2026
Tetsuo Kondo
1929 – 2010
Thanom Kittikachorn
1911 – 2004
Thomas Robbins
1777 – 1856
Tim Hutchinson
b. 1949
Tom Blomfield
b. 1985
Uku Masing
1909 – 1985
Val Plumwood
1939 – 2008
Valerio Lucarini
b. 1976
Vasil Biľak
1917 – 2014
Vladimir Fekete
b. 1955
Vladimir Vasiliev
b. 1949
Vladimir Veličković
1935 – 2019
Václav Dobruský
1858 – 1916
Väino Aren
1933 – 2023
Wu Han
1909 – 1969
Władysław Anders
1892 – 1970
Zalmon Richards
1811 – 1899
Óscar Berger
b. 1946
A. Loudon Snowden
1835 – 1912
Aaslaug Aasland
1890 – 1962
Abd El-Razzak El-Sanhuri
1895 – 1971
Adolph M. Christianson
1877 – 1954
Agustina Wilujeng Pramestuti
b. 1971
Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed
b. 1971
Alan Halsall
b. 1982
Albert Cambriels
1816 – 1891
Albert Edward Kemp
1858 – 1929
Aleksander Waszkiewicz
1901 – 1945
Alex Haley
1921 – 1992
Alexander Mackonochie
1825 – 1887
Alexander Tormasov
1752 – 1819
Alexandra Brushtein
1884 – 1968
Alexei L. Efros
b. 1938
Amane Ibañez
b. 1989
Amin Tarokh
1953 – 2022
Andre Dubus
1936 – 1999
Andrea Bocskor
b. 1978
Andreas Xanthos
b. 1960
Andrei Soluyanov
1959 – 2022
Andrzej Biernat
b. 1960
… and 3,654 more
Died on August 11
John Benjamin Murphy
1857 – 1916
Max Theiler
1899 – 1972
Stephen G. Miller
1942 – 2021
Aslambek Aslakhanov
1942 – 2024
Bikash Sinha
1945 – 2023
Christian Forestier
1944 – 2025
Enrico Betti
1823 – 1892
Heinrich Brunner
1840 – 1915
Henry Carter Adams
1851 – 1921
Henry Waters Taft
1859 – 1945
John Burton Cleland
1878 – 1971
Maurice Françon
1913 – 1996
Rafael Kubelík
1914 – 1996
Robert W. Wood
1868 – 1955
Rudolf Weigl
1883 – 1957
Usha Mehta
1920 – 2000
Yevgeny Dyakonov
1935 – 2006
Ainsworth Rand Spofford
1825 – 1908
Alaksandar Milinkievič
1947 – 2026
Allen Pearson
1925 – 2016
Andrew Carnegie
1835 – 1919
Armand Borel
1923 – 2003
Charles Jasper Selwyn
1813 – 1869
Charles Louis Huguet, marquis de Sémonville
1759 – 1839
Constantin Zureiq
1909 – 2000
Eduard Prokosch
1876 – 1938
Edward Thomas Hall
1924 – 2001
Emil Knoevenagel
1865 – 1921
Francesco Crispi
1818 – 1901
Francis McClean
1876 – 1955
Franz Betz
1835 – 1900
Fred Sinowatz
1929 – 2008
George Andreasen
1934 – 1989
George E. Stratemeyer
1890 – 1969
George H. Kirby
1875 – 1935
Gilbert Hamilton
1869 – 1947
Guo Lanying
1929 – 2026
Günther Enderlein
1872 – 1968
Harry Wexler
1911 – 1962
Horacio Guzmán
1913 – 1992
Jan Tschichold
1902 – 1974
Jerzy Dziewulski
1943 – 2025
Johannes Christiaan de Marez Oyens
1845 – 1911
Johannes Heurnius
1543 – 1601
John Adamson
1809 – 1870
John Cook Wilson
1849 – 1915
John Henry Newman
1801 – 1890
John Rickman
1771 – 1840
Ján Horecký
1920 – 2006
Kazimierz Karabasz
1930 – 2018
Kenneth White
1936 – 2023
Kusumah Atmaja
1898 – 1952
Lorenz Oken
1779 – 1851
M. P. Parameswaran
1935 – 2026
Macedonio Melloni
1798 – 1854
Mamie Phipps Clark
1917 – 1983
Margarita Kozhina
1925 – 2012
Metaksia Simonyan
1926 – 1987
Michael von Reutern
1820 – 1890
Mike Ahern
1942 – 2023
Mykola Yunakiv
1871 – 1931
Olof Åhlström
1756 – 1835
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
1809 – 1885
Robert W. Levering
1914 – 1989
Sabina Spielrein
1885 – 1942
Sam Hall
1937 – 2014
Samuel Auchmuty
1758 – 1822
Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn, 6th Baronet
1751 – 1804
Stephen Early
1889 – 1951
Terry A. Davis
1969 – 2018
Theophilus Thompson
1807 – 1860
Tomasz Szarota
1940 – 2026
Una Lucy Fielding
1888 – 1969
V. S. Naipaul
1932 – 2018
Vicente Quirarte
1954 – 2026
Wilhelm Oncken
1838 – 1905
William Waynflete
1398 – 1486
Yehuda Lapidot
1928 – 2026
A. V. Wells
1856 – 1918
Abhi Bhattacharya
1921 – 1993
Alan G. Sharp
1929 – 2016
Aleksey Dolgorukov
1767 – 1834
Alexander Romanovich
1952 – 2026
Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.
1892 – 1984
Alfred Lee Loomis
1887 – 1975
Alphonse Osbert
1857 – 1939
Alva Woods
1794 – 1887
Ambrosio Padilla
1910 – 1996
Andrew Smith
1797 – 1872
André Lemierre
1875 – 1956
Anthony McAuliffe
1898 – 1975
Arnold Zellner
1927 – 2010
Arthur G. Crane
1877 – 1955
Arthur R. Wilson
1894 – 1956
Barbara Borchardt
1956 – 2023
Barratt O'Hara
1882 – 1969
Bartolomé Montalvo
1769 – 1846
Benedict Joseph Fenwick
1782 – 1846
Benjamin Franklin Meyers
1833 – 1918
Bill Woodfull
1897 – 1965
Bob Shamansky
1927 – 2011
Carlos Ferraro
1953 – 2025
Cecile Pineda
1932 – 2022
Charles Cooper Penrose Fitzgerald
1841 – 1921
Charles R. Meyer
1911 – 2001
Charles S. Venable
1827 – 1900
Charles Seymour
1885 – 1963
Charles Thomas Menoher
1862 – 1930
Charles Wright
1811 – 1885
Chaudhary Brahm Prakash Yadav
1918 – 1993
Christian Fouchet
1911 – 1974
Clarence D. Martin
1886 – 1955
Daisy Sweeney
1920 – 2017
Dan Rostenkowski
1928 – 2010
David Tomassoni
1952 – 2022
Davood Parsa-Pajouh
1941 – 2015
Debaprasad Sarbadhikari
1862 – 1935
Diego Ramírez de Fuenleal
1459 – 1537
E. V. Boulger
1846 – 1910
Edouard Louis Dubufe
1819 – 1883
Edwin E. Bryant
1835 – 1903
Emilio Betti
1890 – 1968
Ettore Bignone
1879 – 1953
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
1921 – 2009
Ferdinand Bellermann
1814 – 1889
Francisco Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral
1844 – 1923
Franciszek Kareu
1731 – 1802
Frank Seiberling
1859 – 1955
Franz Nissl
1860 – 1919
Franz Schwechten
1841 – 1924
Frederic Calland Williams
1911 – 1977
Frederik Nannestad
1693 – 1774
Friedrich von Canitz
1654 – 1699
Galfry Gatacre
1907 – 1983
Geneviève Asse
1923 – 2021
Geoffrey Nunberg
1945 – 2020
George Streisinger
1927 – 1984
Georges Florovsky
1893 – 1979
Georgy Kondratyev
1887 – 1958
Gerry McGeer
1888 – 1947
Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo
1917 – 1989
Gracie Pfost
1906 – 1965
Hanae Mori
1926 – 2022
Hans Graf von Bülow
1774 – 1825
Harold Ackroyd
1877 – 1917
Heidi Schelhowe
1949 – 2021
Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller
1859 – 1941
Henry Hitchcock
1792 – 1839
Henry James Pye
1745 – 1813
Herb Brooks
1937 – 2003
Herb Pomeroy
1930 – 2007
Hermann Settegast
1819 – 1908
Hideyoshi Obata
1890 – 1944
Howard Jarvis
1903 – 1986
Ion Barbu
1895 – 1961
Irawati Karve
1905 – 1970
Ivan Dmitriyevich Yakushkin
1793 – 1857
Ivan Unkovsky
1822 – 1886
J. E. Casely Hayford
1866 – 1930
James B. Dunn
1927 – 2016
James R. Allen
1925 – 1992
James Wilson
1805 – 1860
Jamini Bhushan Ray
1879 – 1926
Jan Czeczot
1796 – 1847
Jean de Chantelauze
1787 – 1859
Johann Tetzel
1465 – 1519
Johannes Cornelis Wienecke
1872 – 1945
Johannes Lundson
1867 – 1939
John Howard Lawson
1894 – 1977
John Hunyadi
1407 – 1456
John S. Bull
1934 – 2008
Joseph Honoré Simon Beau
1806 – 1865
Joshua Clayton
1744 – 1798
Joshua Field
1786 – 1863
Karel Berman
1919 – 1995
Kent J. Carroll
1926 – 2019
Kettil Karlsson
1433 – 1465
Khalil bey Khasmammadov
1873 – 1945
Leonard Figg
1923 – 2014
Leopold Mannes
1899 – 1964
Les Dye
1916 – 2000
Li Weihan
1896 – 1984
Ljubomir Marić
1878 – 1960
Lluís Maria Xirinacs
1932 – 2007
Marco Borradori
1959 – 2021
Marie-Joseph Peyre
1730 – 1785
Marius Girard
1838 – 1906
Marshall Hall
1790 – 1857
Mary Karooro Okurut
1954 – 2025
Maximilian Egon II, Prince of Fürstenberg
1863 – 1941
Merrill Edwards Gates
1848 – 1922
Michael E. Krauss
1934 – 2019
Miguel Uribe Turbay
1986 – 2025
Mike Douglas
1921 – 2006
Mikhail Vodopyanov
1899 – 1980
Milo M. Acker
1853 – 1922
Miroslav Tetter
1938 – 2021
Muhammad Hafeez Qureshi
1930 – 2007
Nicholas of Cusa
1401 – 1464
Noel Treanor
1950 – 2024
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