Anniversaries 11 August
Birth
![Richard Mead photo]()
British physician
1673–1754
![Robert G. Ingersoll photo]()
Union United States Army officer
1833–1899
![Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt photo]()
American writer
1836–1919
![Charles Henry Fowler photo]()
American bishop
1837–1908
![Benjamin Tillman photo]()
American politician
1847–1918
![Eleftherios Venizelos photo]()
Greek politician
1864–1936
![Rodolfo Graziani photo]()
Italian general
1882–1955
![Edgar Zilsel photo]()
Austrian historian and philosopher
1891–1944
![Hugh MacDiarmid photo]()
Scottish poet, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve
1892–1978
![Elmer Eric Schattschneider photo]()
American political scientist
1892–1971
![Erwin Chargaff photo]()
Ukrinian-born biochemist who emigrated to the United States
1905–2002
![Paolo Monti photo]()
Italian photographer
1908–1982
![George C. Homans photo]()
American sociologist
1910–1989
![Robert Sidney Foster photo]()
British Colonial governor
1913–2005
![Nathalia Crane photo]()
American writer
1913–1998
![Sebastian de Grazia photo]()
American writer
1917–2000
![Alex Haley photo]()
African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
1921–1992
![Carl Rowan photo]()
American journalist
1925–2000
![Aaron Klug photo]()
British chemist and biophysicist
1926–2018
![Jerry Falwell photo]()
American evangelical pastor, televangelist, and conservativ…
1933–2007
![Andre Dubus photo]()
Novelist, short story writer, teacher
1936–1999
![George Ellis photo]()
cosmologist from South Africa
1939
![Phil Liggett photo]()
sports journalist, commentator
1943
![Pervez Musharraf photo]()
10th President of Pakistan
1943
![Ian McDiarmid photo]()
Scottish actor and stage director
1944
![Joanna Cole photo]()
American children's books author
1944
![Marilyn vos Savant photo]()
US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer
1946
![Steve Wozniak photo]()
American inventor, computer engineer and programmer
1950
![Dominique Bourg photo]()
French philosopher, specialist of sustainability
1953
![David Brooks photo]()
American journalist, commentator and editor
1961
![Shinji Mikami photo]()
Japanese video game designer
1965
![Joe Rogan photo]()
American martial artist, podcaster, sports commentator and …
1967
![Luis Lacalle Pou photo]()
42nd and current president of Uruguay
1973
![Kristin Armstrong photo]()
American road bicycle racer
1973
![Ben Gibbard photo]()
American singer, songwriter and guitarist
1976
![Pavel 183 photo]()
Russian street artist
1983–2013
![Tomi Lahren photo]()
American television and online video host
1992
Death
![Nicholas of Cusa photo]()
German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer
1401–1464
![Johann Tetzel photo]()
German Dominican friar and seller of indulgences
1460–1519
![Thaddeus Stevens photo]()
American politician
1792–1868
![John Henry Newman photo]()
English cleric and cardinal
1801–1890
![Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton photo]()
British politician and poet
1809–1885
![Andrew Carnegie photo]()
American businessman and philanthropist
1835–1919
![William Watson (poet) photo]()
English poet, born 1858
1858–1935
![Edith Wharton photo]()
American novelist, short story writer, designer
1862–1937
![Charles E. Sorensen photo]()
American businessman
1881–1968
![John Howard Lawson photo]()
American politician
1894–1977
![Anthony McAuliffe photo]()
American general
1898–1975
![Jan Tschichold photo]()
German graphic designer
1902–1974
![Jackson Pollock photo]()
American artist
1912–1956
![Eunice Kennedy Shriver photo]()
sister of John F. Kennedy and founder of Camp Shriver
1921–2009
![V.S. Naipaul photo]()
Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Nepalese ancestry
1932–2018
![David Hull photo]()
American philosopher
1935–2010
![Harold Wallace Rosenthal photo]()
American terrorist victim
1947–1976
![Robin Williams photo]()
American actor and stand-up comedian
1951–2014
