On this day: 11 August
Events, births and deaths on 11 August. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Miguel Uribe Turbay
- Deaths · Danielle Spencer
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Aaron Klug
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1086 · Births · Henry V
Events · 24
- 480 BCE(Julian date)Battle of Thermopylae — battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece
- 923(Julian date)Sack of Basra — 923 sack
- 1473(Julian date)Battle of Otlukbeli — 1473 battle between the Aq Qoyunlu and the Ottoman Empire
- 1675Battle of Konzer Brücke — 1675 battle
- 1786George Town — capital city of the Malaysian state of Penang
- 1804Emperor of Austria — hereditary ruler of the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire
- 1812Battle of Majadahonda — 1812 battle of the Peninsular War
- 1920Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty (1920) — The peace Treaty between Soviet Russia and Latvia, signed on August 11, 1920 in Riga
- 1934Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary — prison in the San Francisco Bay
- 1945Kraków pogrom — anti-Jewish riot in Kraków right after the Holocaust
- 1960Chad — sovereign state in central Africa
- 1965Watts riots — 1965 riots in Los Angeles, United States
- 1973hip-hop — rhythmic music accompanied by rhyming speech
- 1975East Timorese civil war — 1975 civil war
- 19791979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision — 1979 aviation accident
- 1982Pan Am Flight 830 — terrorist bombing
- 1984We begin bombing in five minutes — joke made by President Reagan during the Cold War
- 1991Doug — animated television series
- 19991999 Salt Lake City tornado — F2 Tornado that impacted downtown Salt Lake in 1999
- 2000Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 — air rage incident resulting in death of disruptive passenger
- 20122012 East Azerbaijan earthquakes — earthquake in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
- 2017Alexandria train collision — Transportation accident in Egypt
- 2019
- 20242024 Summer Olympics closing ceremony — closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
Births · 60
- 1086(Julian date)Henry V — King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor, the fourth and last ruler of the Salian dynasty
- 1384(Julian date)Yolanda de Aragon — Infanta de Aragon, titular queen consort of Naples, French noble (1384-1442)
- 1667Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici — Wife of Johann Wilhelm Palatine Elector (1667-1743)
- 1778Friedrich Ludwig Jahn — German educator, writer and politician (1778-1852)
- 1833Robert Green Ingersoll — American lawyer, orator, and politician (1833-1899)
- 1833Kido Takayoshi — Japanese samurai of the Mito Domain and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (1833-1877)
- 1837Sadi Carnot — 5th president of France (1837–1894)
- 1858Christiaan Eijkman — Dutch physician (1858–1930)
- 1892Władysław Anders — Polish general, politician and national hero (1892–1970)
- 1892Eiji Yoshikawa — Japanese historical novelist (1892–1962)
- 1892Hugh MacDiarmid — Scottish poet, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (1892–1978)
- 1897Enid Blyton — English author (1897–1968)
- 1900Charley Paddock — American athlete and Olympic gold medalist (1900-1943)
- 1902Alfredo Binda — Italian cyclist
- 1902Lloyd Nolan — American actor (1902-1985)
- 1905Erwin Chargaff — Ukrainian-born biochemist who emigrated to the United States (1905–2002)
- 1911Thanom Kittikachorn — Prime Minister of Thailand from 1958 and 1963 to 1973
- 1913Angus Wilson — British author (1913–1991)
- 1921Alex Haley — American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist (1921–1992)
- 1925Arlene Dahl — American actress (1925–2021)
- 1926Aaron Klug — British chemist and biophysicist
- 1932Fernando Arrabal — Spanish writer and actor resident in France (born 1932)
- 1932Peter Eisenman — American architect (born 1932)
- 1933Jerzy Grotowski — Polish theatre director
- 1933Jerry Falwell — American evangelical pastor, televangelist, and conservative political commentator
Deaths · 60
- 223Jia Xu — Cao Wei politician and official (147-223)
- 353(Julian date)Magnentius — Ancient Roman emperor (303-353)
- 449Flavian of Constantinople — 5th-century Archbishop of Constantinople
- 1204(Julian date)Guttorm of Norway — King of Norway
- 1253(Julian date)Clare of Assisi — Italian saint (1194–1253)
- 1259(Julian date)Möngke Khan — Fourth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire
- 1456(Julian date)John Hunyadi — Regent-Governor of the Kingdom of Hungary, 1446–1453
- 1464(Julian date)Nicholas of Cusa — German philosopher (1401 – 1464)
- 1494(Julian date)Hans Memling — German/Flemish painter (c. 1430–1494)
- 1519(Julian date)Johann Tetzel — German Dominican friar and seller of indulgences 1460-1519
- 1578(Julian date)Pedro Nunes — Portuguese mathematician (1502–1578)
- 1614Lavinia Fontana — Italian painter (1552–1614)
- 1656Ottavio Piccolomini — Italian general (1599-1656)
- 1851Lorenz Oken — German naturalist (1779-1851)
- 1854Macedonio Melloni — Italian physicist (1798–1854)
- 1868Thaddeus Stevens — American statesman (1792–1868)
- 1868Halfdan Kjerulf — Norwegian composer (1815–1868)
- 1890John Henry Newman — English cleric and cardinal (1801–1890)
- 1892Enrico Betti — Italian mathematician (1823-1892)
- 1908Khudiram Bose — Indian revolutionary (1889-1908)
- 1919Andrew Carnegie — Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)
- 1936Blas Infante — Andalusian politician (1885–1936)
- 1937Edith Wharton — American writer and designer (1862–1937)
- 1939Siegfried Flesch — Austrian fencer (1872-1939)
- 1939Jean Bugatti — Italian engineer (1909-1939)
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