August 11

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.

Events

• 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins.
• 2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
• 106 – The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
• 355 – Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
• 490 – Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River, near Milan.
• 1332 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor: Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
• 1473 – The Battle of Otlukbeli: Mehmed the Conqueror of the Ottoman Empire decisively defeats Uzun Hassan of Aq Qoyunlu.
• 1675 – Franco-Dutch War: Forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
• 1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
• 1804 – Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
• 1812 – Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
• 1813 – In Colombia, Juan del Corral declares the independence of Antioquia.
• 1858 – The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
• 1898 – Spanish–American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
• 1918 – World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.
• 1919 – The constitution of the Weimar Republic is adopted.
• 1920 – The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
• 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
• 1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
• 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.
• 1945 – Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five.
• 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.
• 1952 – Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
• 1959 – Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
• 1960 – Chad declares independence.
• 1961 – The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
• 1962 – Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
• 1965 – Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
• 1968 – The last steam hauled train runs on British Rail
• 1972 – Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
• 1975 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
• 1979 – Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
• 1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.
• 1984 – "We begin bombing in five minutes" – United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.
• 1999 – The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.
• 2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
• 2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
• 2006 – The oil tanker M/T Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
• 2012 – At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.

Births

• 1467 – Mary of York (d. 1482)
• 1648 – Jeremiah Shepard, American minister (d. 1720)
• 1667 – Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Italian wife of Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1743)
• 1673 – Richard Mead, English physician and astrologer (d. 1754)
• 1718 – Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-English general and politician, 22nd Governor of Quebec (d. 1791)
• 1722 – Richard Brocklesby, English physician (d. 1797)
• 1748 – Joseph Schuster, German composer (d. 1812)
• 1778 – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Prussian gymnast, educator, and politician (d. 1852)
• 1794 – James B. Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869)
• 1807 – David Rice Atchison, American general, lawyer, and politician (d. 1886)
• 1808 – William W. Chapman, American lawyer and politician (d. 1892)
• 1825 – István Türr, Hungarian soldier, architect, and engineer, co-designed the Corinth Canal (d. 1908)
• 1833 – Robert G. Ingersoll, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 1899)
• 1833 – Kido Takayoshi, Japanese politician (d. 1877)
• 1836 – Warren Brown, American historian and politician (d. 1919)
• 1837 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French politician, 4th President of the French Republic (d. 1894)
• 1855 – John Hodges, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
• 1858 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930)
• 1860 – Ottó Bláthy, Hungarian engineer and chess player (d. 1939)
• 1869 – Hale Holden, American businessman (d. 1940)
• 1870 – Tom Richardson, English cricketer (d. 1912)
• 1875 – Daniel Soubeyran, French rower (d. 1959)
• 1877 – Adolph M. Christianson, American judge (d. 1954)
• 1878 – Oliver W. F. Lodge, English poet and author (d. 1955)
• 1881 – Aleksander Aberg, Estonian wrestler (d. 1920)
• 1884 – Hermann Wlach, Austrian actor (d. 1962)
• 1885 – Stephen Butterworth, English physicist (d. 1958)
• 1891 – Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian architect and educator (d. 1962)
• 1892 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet and linguist (d. 1978)
• 1892 – Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese author (d. 1962)
• 1897 – Enid Blyton, English author, poet, and educator (d. 1968)
• 1897 – Louise Bogan, American poet and critic (d. 1970)
• 1898 – Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1968)
• 1900 – Philip Phillips, American archaeologist and scholar (d. 1994)
• 1902 – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)
• 1902 – Lloyd Nolan, American actor and singer (d. 1985)
• 1905 – Erwin Chargaff, Austrian-American biochemist and academic (d. 2002)
• 1905 – Ernst Jaakson, Estonian diplomat (d. 1998)
• 1907 – Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (d. 1989)
• 1908 – Don Freeman, American author and illustrator (d. 1978)
• 1908 – Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (d. 1999)
• 1909 – Yūji Koseki, Japanese composer (d. 1989)
• 1909 – Uku Masing, Estonian philosopher and theologian (d. 1985)
• 1912 – Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer and academic (d. 1954)
• 1912 – Raphael Blau, American screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Thai field marshal and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2004)
• 1913 – Paul Dupuis, Canadian actor (d. 1976)
• 1913 – Bob Scheffing, American baseball player and manager (d. 1985)
• 1913 – Angus Wilson, English author and academic (d. 1991)
• 1915 – Morris Weiss, American author and illustrator (d. 2014)
• 1916 – Johnny Claes, Belgian race car driver (d. 1956)
• 1919 – Ginette Neveu, French violinist (d. 1949)
• 1919 – Luis Olmo, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1920 – Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002)
• 1921 – Alex Haley, American historian and author (d. 1992)
• 1922 – John "Mule" Miles, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Stan Chambers, American journalist
• 1925 – Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
• 1925 – Arlene Dahl, American actress and singer
• 1925 – Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1926 – Claus von Bülow, Danish-English lawyer
• 1927 – Raymond Leppard, English harpsichord player and conductor
• 1927 – Stuart Rosenberg, American director and producer (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Paul Soles, Canadian actor and producer
• 1932 – Fernando Arrabal, Spanish actor, director, and playwright
• 1932 – Izzy Asper, Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician, founded Canwest (d. 2003)
• 1932 – Geoffrey Cass, English businessman
• 1932 – Peter Eisenman, American architect, designed the City of Culture of Galicia
• 1932 – John Gorrie, English director and screenwriter
• 1933 – Jerry Falwell, American minister and evangelist (d. 2007)
• 1933 – Jerzy Grotowski, Polish director and producer (d. 1999)
• 1933 – Tamás Vásáry, Hungarian pianist and conductor
• 1934 – Bob Hepple, South African lawyer and academic
• 1936 – Andre Dubus, American author (d. 1999)
• 1936 – Jonathan Spence, English-American historian and academic
• 1937 – Anna Massey, English actress (d. 2011)
• 1937 – Patrick Joseph McGovern, American businessman, founded IDG (d. 2014)
• 1939 – Ronnie Dawson, American singer and guitarist (d. 2003)
• 1940 – Lennie Pond, American race car driver
• 1941 – Alla Kushnir, Russian–Israeli chess player (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Mike Hugg, English drummer and keyboard player (Manfred Mann and The Manfreds)
• 1943 – Abigail Folger, American heiress and activist (d. 1969)
• 1943 – Jim Kale, Canadian bass player (The Guess Who)
• 1943 – Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general and politician, 10th President of Pakistan
• 1943 – Denis Payton, English saxophonist (The Dave Clark Five) (d. 2006)
• 1944 – Hans Knudsen, Danish canoe racer
• 1944 – Martin Linton, Swedish-English politician
• 1944 – Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor and director
• 1944 – Frederick W. Smith, American businessman, founded FedEx
• 1946 – John Conlee, American singer
• 1946 – Marilyn vos Savant, American journalist and author
• 1947 – Theo de Jong, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager
• 1947 – Georgios Karatzaferis, Greek politician
• 1948 – Don Boyd, Scottish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1948 – Jan Palach, Czech activist (d. 1969)
• 1949 – Eric Carmen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Raspberries)
• 1949 – Tim Hutchinson, American lawyer and politician
• 1950 – Elya Baskin, Latvian-American actor
• 1950 – Erik Brann, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Iron Butterfly) (d. 2003)
• 1950 – Gennadiy Nikonov, Russian engineer, designed the AN-94 rifle (d. 2003)
• 1950 – Steve Wozniak, American computer scientist and programmer, co-founded Apple Inc.
• 1951 – Vincent Bilodeau, Canadian actor
• 1952 – Reid Blackburn, American photographer (d. 1980)
• 1952 – Manfred Krüger, German footballer
• 1952 – Bob Mothersbaugh, American singer, guitarist, and producer (Devo)
• 1953 – Hulk Hogan, American wrestler and actor
• 1953 – Wijda Mazereeuw, Dutch swimmer
• 1954 – Vance Heafner, American golfer (d. 2012)
• 1954 – Joe Jackson, English singer-songwriter
• 1954 – M. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian cricketer and coach
• 1954 – Tarmo Rüütli, Estonian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1954 – Yashpal Sharma, Indian cricketer and umpire
• 1955 – Marc Bureau, Canadian politician, 16th Mayor of Gatineau
• 1955 – Sylvia Hermon, Irish academic and politician
• 1956 – Pierre-Louis Lions, French mathematician and academic
• 1957 – Ian Stuart Donaldson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Skrewdriver) (d. 1993)
• 1958 – Jah Wobble, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Public Image Ltd and The Damage Manual)
• 1959 – Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Soda Stereo) (d. 2014)
• 1959 – Yoshiaki Murakami, Japanese businessman
• 1959 – Taraki Sivaram, Sri Lankan journalist and author (d. 2005)
• 1959 – Richard Scudamore, English businessman
• 1959 – László Szlávics, Jr., Hungarian sculptor
• 1961 – David Brooks, American journalist and author
• 1961 – Craig Ehlo, American basketball player and coach
• 1961 – Jukka Tapanimäki, Finnish game programmer (d. 2000)
• 1962 – Brian Azzarello, American author
• 1962 – Charles Cecil, English video game designer and co-founded Revolution Software
• 1962 – Uvais Karnain, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1962 – John Micklethwait, English journalist
• 1962 – Rob Minkoff, American director and producer
• 1962 – Ennis Whatley, American basketball player
• 1963 – Hiromi Makihara, Japanese baseball player
• 1964 – Jim Lee, South Korean-American author and illustrator
• 1964 – Miguel A. Núñez, Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Nikki Randall, American porn actress
• 1965 – Marc Bergevin, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1965 – Embeth Davidtz, American actress
• 1965 – Viola Davis, American actress
• 1965 – Duane Martin, American actor and producer
• 1965 – Shinji Mikami, Japanese video game designer, created Resident Evil
• 1966 – Nigel Martyn, English footballer and coach
• 1966 – Juan María Solare, Argentinian pianist and composer
• 1967 – Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Héroes del Silencio)
• 1967 – Collin Chou, Taiwanese actor and martial artist
• 1967 – Eric Maleson, Brazilian bobsled racer, founded the Brazilian Ice Sports Federation
• 1967 – Joe Rogan, American comedian, actor, and television host
• 1968 – Anna Gunn, American actress
• 1968 – Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau
• 1968 – Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian terrorist (d. 2009)
• 1968 – Charlie Sexton, American guitarist, singer and songwriter
• 1969 – Ashley Jensen, Scottish actress
• 1969 – Toomas Kivisild, Estonian geneticist
• 1969 – Ago Markvardt, Estonian skier
• 1970 – Dirk Hannemann, German footballer and manager
• 1970 – Ali Shaheed Muhammad, American rapper and producer (A Tribe Called Quest, The Ummah, and Lucy Pearl)
• 1970 – Teresa Pavlinek, Canadian actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Alejandra Barros, Mexican actress
• 1971 – Julie Clarke, American model and actress
• 1971 – Tommy Mooney, English footballer
• 1972 – Jonathon Prandi, American model and actor
• 1973 – Nigel Harman, English actor
• 1973 – Carolyn Murphy, American model and actress
• 1974 – Marie-France Dubreuil, Canadian figure skater
• 1974 – Anju Jain, Indian cricketer and coach
• 1974 – Kira Kener, American porn actress
• 1974 – Hadiqa Kiani, Pakistani singer-songwriter and model
• 1974 – Chris Messina, American actor
• 1974 – Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr., American singer
• 1974 – Audrey Mestre, French biologist and diver (d. 2002)
• 1975 – Davey von Bohlen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cap'n Jazz, The Promise Ring, Maritime, and Vermont)
• 1976 – Iván Córdoba, Colombian footballer and manager
• 1976 – Bubba Crosby, American baseball player
• 1976 – Will Friedle, American actor
• 1976 – Ben Gibbard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, and ¡All-Time Quarterback!)
• 1976 – Jhong Hilario, Filipino actor and dancer
• 1976 – Tõnis Kalde, Estonian footballer
• 1976 – Erick Lindgren, American poker player
• 1976 – Ľubomír Višňovský, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1977 – Gemma Hayes, Irish singer-songwriter
• 1977 – Dênio Martins, Brazilian footballer
• 1978 – Spyros Gogolos, Greek footballer
• 1978 – Hannes Kaasik, Estonian footballer and referee
• 1978 – Chris Kelly, American rapper (Kris Kross) (d. 2013)
• 1978 – Charlotte Leslie, English politician
• 1978 – Amber Mariano, American television personality, winner of Survivor: All-Stars
• 1978 – Jermain Taylor, American boxer
• 1979 – Walter Ayoví, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1979 – Aggeliki Daliani, Greek actress
• 1980 – Daniel Lloyd, English cyclist
• 1980 – Lee Suggs, American football player
• 1981 – Fiona Sit, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1981 – Sandi Thom, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1982 – Alan Halsall, English actor
• 1982 – Wilko Risser, Namibian footballer
• 1983 – Pavel 183, Russian painter (d. 2013)
• 1983 – Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor
• 1984 – Melky Cabrera, Dominican baseball player
• 1984 – Lucas di Grassi, Brazilian race car driver
• 1984 – Kaire Palmaru, Estonian footballer
• 1984 – Katie Rees, American model, Miss Nevada USA 2007
• 1985 – J-Boog, American rapper, producer, and actor (B2K)
• 1985 – Asher Roth, American rapper
• 1985 – Jacqueline Fernandez, Sri Lankan model and actress
• 1986 – Mokhtar Benmoussa, Algerian footballer
• 1986 – Kaori Fukuhara, Japanese voice actress
• 1986 – Richard Keogh, English-Irish footballer
• 1986 – Pablo Sandoval, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1987 – Maris Mägi, Estonian sprinter
• 1987 – Dany N'Guessan, French footballer
• 1987 – Drew Storen, American baseball player
• 1988 – Patty Mills, Australian basketball player
• 1989 – Gui Gui, Taiwanese singer and actress (Hey Girl)
• 1989 – Sebastian Huke, German footballer
• 1989 – Rebekah Kim, South Korean singer, dancer, model and rapper (After School)
• 1990 – Lenka Juríková, Slovak tennis player
• 1991 – Cristian Tello, Spanish footballer
• 1993 – Gita Gutawa, Indonesian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1993 – Sean McGinty, English-Irish footballer
• 1993 – Alyson Stoner, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1994 – Rand Saad, Iraqi archer
• 1994 – Storm Sanders, Australian tennis player

Deaths

• 223 – Jia Xu, Chinese politician (b. 147)
• 353 – Magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303)
• 449 – Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople
• 1204 – Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199)
• 1259 – Möngke Khan, Mongolian emperor (b. 1208)
• 1456 – John Hunyadi, Hungarian general (b. 1387)
• 1464 – Nicholas of Cusa, German cardinal and mystic (b. 1401)
• 1494 – Hans Memling, Flemish painter (b. 1430)
• 1519 – Johann Tetzel, German preacher (b. 1465)
• 1563 – Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer (b. 1500)
• 1578 – Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician and cosmographer(b. 1502)
• 1596 – Hamnet Shakespeare, English son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)
• 1614 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)
• 1656 – Ottavio Piccolomini, Austrian-Italian field marshal (b. 1599)
• 1774 – Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche, French physician and author (b. 1722)
• 1813 – Henry James Pye, English poet and politician (b. 1745)
• 1851 – Lorenz Oken, German botanist, biologist, and ornithologist (b. 1779)
• 1854 – Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1798)
• 1868 – Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer (b. 1815)
• 1886 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet and playwright (b. 1843)
• 1890 – John Henry Newman, English cardinal (b. 1801)
• 1892 – Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1813)
• 1903 – Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican sociologist, philosopher, and lawyer (b. 1839)
• 1908 – Khudiram Bose, Indian activist (b. 1889)
• 1919 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Carnegie Steel Company and Carnegie Hall (b. 1835)
• 1921 – Mary Sumner, English philanthropist, founded the Mothers' Union (b. 1828)
• 1936 – Blas Infante, Spanish historian and politician (b. 1885)
• 1937 – Edith Wharton, American author (b. 1862)
• 1939 – Jean Bugatti, German-Italian engineer (b. 1909)
• 1939 – Siegfried Flesch, Austrian fencer (b. 1872)
• 1953 – Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver (b. 1892)
• 1954 – Santo Trafficante, Sr., Italian-American mobster (b. 1886)
• 1956 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (b. 1912)
• 1961 – Antanas Škėma, Polish-American actor, director, playwright, and author (b. 1910)
• 1963 – Otto Wahle, Austrian swimmer (b. 1879)
• 1965 – Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer and educator (b. 1897)
• 1969 – Miriam Licette, English soprano (b. 1885)
• 1972 – Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1974 – Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan conductor and composer (b. 1887)
• 1974 – Jan Tschichold, German typographer (b. 1902)
• 1975 – Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Belarusian wife of Zalman Shazar (b. 1885)
• 1979 – J. G. Farrell, English author (b. 1935)
• 1980 – Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)
• 1982 – Tom Drake, American actor and singer (b. 1918)
• 1984 – Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., American publisher, founded Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (b. 1892)
• 1984 – Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–American chess player (b. 1916)
• 1986 – János Drapál, Hungarian motorcycle racer (b. 1948)
• 1988 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)
• 1991 – J. D. McDuffie, American race car driver (b. 1938)
• 1994 – Peter Cushing, English actor (b. 1913)
• 1995 – Phil Harris, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1904)
• 1996 – Tassos Isaac, Cypriot activist (b. 1972)
• 1996 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1914)
• 1996 – Mel Taylor, American drummer (The Ventures) (b. 1933)
• 1996 – Baba Vanga, Bulgarian mystic (b. 1911)
• 2000 – Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer and academic (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Percy Stallard, English cyclist (b. 1909)
• 2002 – Galen Rowell, American photographer and mountaineer (b. 1940)
• 2003 – Armand Borel, Swiss-American mathematician and academic (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Herb Brooks, American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1937)
• 2004 – K. Arulanandan, Ceylon-American engineer and academic (b. 1925)
• 2005 – James Booth, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, founded the Special Olympics (b. 1921)
• 2010 – Bruno Schleinstein, German actor (b. 1932)
• 2011 – Jani Lane, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Warrant and Saints of the Underground) (b. 1964)
• 2012 – Red Bastien, American wrestler (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Michael Dokes, American boxer (b. 1958)
• 2012 – Lucy Gallardo, Argentinian-Mexican actress and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Von Freeman, American saxophonist (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Heidi Holland, South African journalist and author (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, Indian linguist and academic (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Bill Rafferty, American comedian and game show host (b. 1944)
• 2013 – George Barasch, American union leader (b. 1910)
• 2013 – Raymond Delisle, French cyclist (b. 1943)
• 2013 – Zafar Futehally, Indian ornithologist (b. 1919)
• 2013 – David Howard, English ballet dancer and educator (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Henry Polic II, American actor (b. 1945)
• 2014 – Vladimir Beara, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Vol Dooley, American police officer (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Raymond Gravel, Canadian priest and politician (b. 1952)
• 2014 – Kika Szaszkiewiczowa, Polish blogger (b. 1917)
• 2014 – Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (b. 1951)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Athracht
  • Clare of Assisi
  • Fiacre
  • Gaugericus
  • John Henry Newman (Church of England)
  • Philomena
  • Susanna
  • Taurinus of Évreux
  • Tiburtius and Chromatius
  • August 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Chad from France in 1960.

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada