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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 11th of August 0355 | EVENT | Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II. |
| 11th of August 1755 | EVENT | Charles Lawrence gives expulsion orders to remove the Acadians from Nova Scotia beginning the Great Upheaval. |
| 11th of August 1786 | EVENT | Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia |
| 11th of August 1804 | EVENT | Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria. |
| 11th of August 1858 | EVENT | The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren. |
| 11th of August 1898 | EVENT | Spanish-American War: American troops enter the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. |
| 11th of August 1918 | EVENT | World War I: the Battle of Amiens ends. |
| 11th of August 1919 | EVENT | The constitution of the Weimar Republic is adopted. |
| 11th of August 1920 | EVENT | The Latvia-Bolshevist Russia peace treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed. |
| 11th of August 1929 | EVENT | 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. |
| 11th of August 1934 | EVENT | The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island. |
| 11th of August 1942 | EVENT | 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. |
| 11th of August 1952 | EVENT | Hussein is proclaimed King of Jordan. |
| 11th of August 1960 | EVENT | Chad declares independence. |
| 11th of August 1965 | EVENT | Race riots (the Watts riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California. |
| 11th of August 1972 | EVENT | Vietnam War: the last United States ground combat unit departs South Vietnam. |
| 11th of August 1975 | EVENT | East Timor: Governor Mario 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. |
| 11th of August 1982 | EVENT | A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo to Honolulu, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers. |
| 11th of August 1999 | EVENT | The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one. |
| 11th of August 2003 | EVENT | A heat wave in Paris results in temperatures rising to 112 ?F (44 ?C), leaving about 144 people dead. |
| 11th of August 2003 | EVENT | Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand. |
| 11th of August 2003 | EVENT | NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history. |
| 11th of August 1467 | BIRTHDAY | Mary of York, English princess (d. 1482) |
| 11th of August 1648 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremiah Shepard, American minister (d. 1720) |
| 11th of August 1667 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Florentine patroness of the arts, the last scion of the House of Medici (d. 1743) |
| 11th of August 1673 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Mead, English physician (d. 1754) |
| 11th of August 1718 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (d. 1791) |
| 11th of August 1722 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Brocklesby, English physician (d. 1797) |
| 11th of August 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, German (Prussian) gymnastics educator and nationalist (d. 1852) |
| 11th of August 1794 | BIRTHDAY | James Barton Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869) |
| 11th of August 1807 | BIRTHDAY | David Rice Atchison, American politician (d. 1886) |
| 11th of August 1808 | BIRTHDAY | William W. Chapman, American politician (d. 1892) |
| 11th of August 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and soldier (d. 1899) |
| 11th of August 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Kido Takayoshi, Japanese politician (d. 1877) |
| 11th of August 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Brown, American politician (d. 1919) |
| 11th of August 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Francois Sadi Carnot, French statesman (d. 1894) |
| 11th of August 1855 | BIRTHDAY | John Hodges, Australian cricketer (d. 1933) |
| 11th of August 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician, Nobel Laureate (d. 1930) |
| 11th of August 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Gaston Doumergue, President of the French Third Republic (d. 1937) |
| 11th of August 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Richardson, English cricketer (d. 1912) |
| 11th of August 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Kijuro Shidehara, 44th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1951) |
| 11th of August 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Adolph M. Christianson, American judge, Justice and Chief Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (d. 1954) |
| 11th of August 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver W F Lodge, English poet and writer (d. 1955) |
| 11th of August 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (d. 1978) |
| 11th of August 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Archie Wiles, West Indian cricketer (d. 1957) |
| 11th of August 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (d. 1962) |
| 11th of August 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Enid Blyton, English author (d. 1968) |
| 11th of August 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Bogan, American poet (d. 1970) |
| 11th of August 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (d. 1994) |
| 11th of August 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986) |
| 11th of August 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Lloyd Nolan, American actor (d. 1985) |
| 11th of August 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (d. 2002) |
| 11th of August 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (d. 1989) |
| 11th of August 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Yuji Koseki, Japanese composer (d. 1989) |
| 11th of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Thanom Kittikachorn, 10th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2004) |
| 11th of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (d. 1954) |
| 11th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Angus Wilson, British novelist (d. 1991) |
| 11th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Dupuis, French Canadian actor (d. 1976) |
| 11th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Scheffing, American professional baseball player and manager (d. 1985) |
| 11th of August 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Silva, American parapsychologist (d. 1999) |
| 11th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (d. 1956) |
| 11th of August 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Ginette Neveu, French violinist (d. 1949) |
| 11th of August 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Olmo, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 11th of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002) |
| 11th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Haley, American historian (d. 1992) |
| 11th of August 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Chambers, American television reporter |
| 11th of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Douglas, American entertainer (d. 2006) |
| 11th of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006) |
| 11th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Claus von Bulow, Danish-born British socialite |
| 11th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Laureate |
| 11th of August 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Leppard, English conductor |
| 11th of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Arlene Dahl, American actress |
| 11th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Soles, Canadian actor and television personality |
| 11th of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Arrabal, Spanish writer |
| 11th of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Israel Asper, Canadian tax lawyer (d. 2003) |
| 11th of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | John Gorrie, English director |
| 11th of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Eisenman, American architect |
| 11th of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Falwell, American preacher and televangelist (d. 2007) |
| 11th of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (d. 1999) |
| 11th of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Dubus, American short-story writer (d. 1999) |
| 11th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Branko Stanovnik, Slovenian chemist |
| 11th of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Dawson, American rockabilly performer (d. 2003) |
| 11th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Lennie Pond, American NASCAR driver |
| 11th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Hugg, British drummer, keyboardist and vocalist (Manfred Mann) |
| 11th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Abigail Folger, American heiress and Manson murder victim (d. 1969) |
| 11th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Stefania Toczyska, Polish mezzo-soprano |
| 11th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani politician |
| 11th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick W. Smith, American entrepreneur |
| 11th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor |
| 11th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | John Conlee, American country music singer |
| 11th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Marilyn vos Savant, American newspaper columnist |
| 11th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Karatzaferis, Greek politician |
| 11th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Palach, Czechoslovakian student protester (d. 1969) |
| 11th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Carmen, American singer and guitarist (Raspberries) |
| 11th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Hutchinson, American politician |
| 11th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Gennidy Nikonov, Russian weapon engineer, designer of the AN-94 attack rifle (d. 2003) |
| 11th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Brann, American guitarist (Iron Butterfly) (d. 2003) |
| 11th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Wozniak, American computer pioneer |
| 11th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Bilodeau, Canadian actor and comedian |
| 11th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Manfred Kruger, German footballer |
| 11th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Mothersbaugh AKA Bob 1, American guitarist (Devo) |
| 11th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Holland, American Pop Rock singer |
| 11th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler |
| 11th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Maria Solare, Argentine composer |
| 11th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Jackson, English singer |
| 11th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Yashpal Sharma, Indian cricketer |
| 11th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Mottu Vara Narasimha Rao, Indian cricketer |
| 11th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvia Hermon, British politician |
| 11th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Bureau, Canadian politician |
| 11th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre-Louis Lions, French mathematician |
| 11th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Stuart Donaldson, British singer (Skrewdriver) (d. 1993) |
| 11th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jah Wobble, English bassist |
| 11th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian guitarist and singer-songwriter (Soda Stereo) |
| 11th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Yoshiaki Murakami, Japanese investor |
| 11th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Ehlo, American basketball player |
| 11th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | David Brooks, American journalist and author |
| 11th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Ennis Whatley, American basketball player |
| 11th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Shaul Karnain, Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 11th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Hiromi Makihara, Japanese baseball player |
| 11th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Lee, Korean comic book artist |
| 11th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel A. Nunez, Jr., American actor |
| 11th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Nikki Randall, American pornographic actress |
| 11th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Bergevin, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 11th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Viola Davis, American actress |
| 11th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Shinji Mikami, Japanese video game designer (Resident Evil) |
| 11th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Embeth Davidtz, American actress |
| 11th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Duane Martin, American actor |
| 11th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Martyn, English footballer |
| 11th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer |
| 11th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Rogan, American television host, comedian, commentator and actor |
| 11th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Collin Chou, Taiwanese actor |
| 11th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Maleson, Brazilian bobsledder |
| 11th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist terrorist (d. 2009) |
| 11th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Jensen, British actress |
| 11th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Teresa Pavlinek, Canadian actress |
| 11th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Mooney, English football player |
| 11th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Clarke, American model |
| 11th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Alejandra Barros, Mexican actress |
| 11th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathon Prandi, American model |
| 11th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Carolyn Murphy, American model |
| 11th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Harman, British actor |
| 11th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Hadiqa Kiyani, Pakistani singer |
| 11th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Audrey Mestre, French diver (d. 2002) |
| 11th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Kira Kener, American pornographic actress |
| 11th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Marie-France Dubreuil, Canadian figure skater |
| 11th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Anju Jain, Indian cricketer |
| 11th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Davey von Bohlen, American guitarist and vocalist (The Promise Ring, Maritime) |
| 11th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Cordoba, Colombian footballer |
| 11th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Bubba Crosby, American baseball player |
| 11th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Will Friedle, American actor |
| 11th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Erick Lindgren, American poker player |
| 11th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Gibbard, American guitarist and singer-songwriter (Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service) |
| 11th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Lubomir Visnovsky, Slovak ice hockey player |
| 11th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Gemma Hayes, Irish singer |
| 11th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Denio, Brazilian footballer |
| 11th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Spyros Gogolos, Greek footballer |
| 11th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Amber Mariano, American reality television personality |
| 11th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jermain Taylor, American boxer |
| 11th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Aggeliki Daliani, Greek actress |
| 11th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Suggs, American football player |
| 11th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Lloyd, British cyclist |
| 11th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Fiona Sit, Hong Kong singer and actress |
| 11th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Sandi Thom, Scottish singer |
| 11th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Halsall, British actor |
| 11th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor |
| 11th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Melky Cabrera, Dominican baseball player |
| 11th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Lucas di Grassi, Brazilian racing driver |
| 11th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Katie Rees, American beauty pageant contestant |
| 11th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | J-Boog, American singer (B2K) |
| 11th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Asher Roth, American rapper |
| 11th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Grace Adams-Short, Big Brother 7 UK contestant |
| 11th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Keogh, Irish footballer |
| 11th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Kaori Fukuhara, Japanese voice actress |
| 11th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Pablo Sandoval, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 11th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Dany N'Guessan, French footballer |
| 11th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Drew Storen, American baseball player |
| 11th of August 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Alyson Stoner, American actress, model, singer and dancer |
| 11th of August 0353 | DEATH | Magnentius, Roman usurper (Born 303) |
| 11th of August 0449 | DEATH | Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople (birth year unknown) |
| 11th of August 0897 | DEATH | Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona (birth year unknown) |
| 11th of August 1204 | DEATH | King Guttorm of Norway (Born 1199) |
| 11th of August 1253 | DEATH | Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (Born 1194) |
| 11th of August 1259 | DEATH | Mongke Khan, Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (Born c. 1208) |
| 11th of August 1456 | DEATH | John Hunyadi, regent of Hungary (Born 1387) |
| 11th of August 1464 | DEATH | Nicholas of Cusa, German philosopher and mathematician (Born 1401) |
| 11th of August 1494 | DEATH | Hans Memling, Flemish painter (Born c. 1430) |
| 11th of August 1519 | DEATH | Johann Tetzel, German opponent of the Reformation (Born 1465) |
| 11th of August 1563 | DEATH | Bartolome de Escobedo, Spanish composer (Born c. 1500) |
| 11th of August 1578 | DEATH | Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (Born 1502) |
| 11th of August 1596 | DEATH | Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare (Born 1585) |
| 11th of August 1614 | DEATH | Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (Born 1552) |
| 11th of August 1656 | DEATH | Ottavio Piccolomini, Austrian-Italian field marshal (Born 1599) |
| 11th of August 1774 | DEATH | Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (Born 1722) |
| 11th of August 1813 | DEATH | Henry James Pye, English poet (Born 1745) |
| 11th of August 1851 | DEATH | Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (Born 1779) |
| 11th of August 1854 | DEATH | Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (Born 1798) |
| 11th of August 1886 | DEATH | Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (Born 1843) |
| 11th of August 1890 | DEATH | John Henry Newman, English Catholic cardinal (Born 1801) |
| 11th of August 1892 | DEATH | Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (Born 1813) |
| 11th of August 1903 | DEATH | Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (Born 1839) |
| 11th of August 1908 | DEATH | Khudiram Bose, Indian freedom fighter (Born 1889) |
| 11th of August 1919 | DEATH | Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist (Born 1835) |
| 11th of August 1936 | DEATH | Blas Infante, Spanish writer and politician (Born 1885) |
| 11th of August 1937 | DEATH | Edith Wharton, American novelist and designer (Born 1862) |
| 11th of August 1939 | DEATH | Jean Bugatti, Italian automobile designer (Born 1909) |
| 11th of August 1953 | DEATH | Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver (Born 1892) |
| 11th of August 1954 | DEATH | Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (Born 1886) |
| 11th of August 1956 | DEATH | Jackson Pollock, American artist (Born 1912) |
| 11th of August 1961 | DEATH | Antanas Skema, Lithuanian writer, actor and director (Born 1910) |
| 11th of August 1965 | DEATH | Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer (Born 1897) |
| 11th of August 1972 | DEATH | Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Laureate (Born 1899) |
| 11th of August 1974 | DEATH | Jan Tschichold, German typographer (Born 1902) |
| 11th of August 1974 | DEATH | Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan musicologist and composer (Born 1887) |
| 11th of August 1975 | DEATH | Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Belarusian-born Israeli Zionist political figure, wife of Zalman Shazar (Born 1885) |
| 11th of August 1980 | DEATH | Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (Born 1910) |
| 11th of August 1982 | DEATH | Tom Drake, American actor (Born 1918) |
| 11th of August 1984 | DEATH | Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., American publisher (Born 1892) |
| 11th of August 1984 | DEATH | Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian : born German chess player (Born 1916) |
| 11th of August 1988 | DEATH | Anne Ramsey, American actress (Born 1929) |
| 11th of August 1991 | DEATH | J. D. McDuffie, American NASCAR driver (Born 1938) |
| 11th of August 1994 | DEATH | Peter Cushing, British actor (Born 1913) |
| 11th of August 1995 | DEATH | Phil Harris, American singer and comedian (Born 1904) |
| 11th of August 1996 | DEATH | Rafael Kubelik, Czech conductor and composer (Born 1914) |
| 11th of August 1996 | DEATH | Mel Taylor, American drummer (The Ventures) (Born 1933) |
| 11th of August 1996 | DEATH | Baba Vanga, Macedonian-born Bulgarian prophet, mystic, clairvoyant and herbalist (Born 1911) |
| 11th of August 2000 | DEATH | Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer (Born 1916) |
| 11th of August 2001 | DEATH | Percy Stallard, English cyclist (Born 1909) |
| 11th of August 2002 | DEATH | Galen Rowell, American photographer and mountain climber (Born 1940) |
| 11th of August 2003 | DEATH | Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (Born 1923) |
| 11th of August 2003 | DEATH | Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach (Born 1937) |
| 11th of August 2005 | DEATH | James Booth, English actor (Born 1927) |
| 11th of August 2006 | DEATH | Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (Born 1925) |
| 11th of August 2009 | DEATH | Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American founder of the Special Olympics, sister of John F. Kennedy (Born 1921) |
| 11th of August 2010 | DEATH | Markus Liebherr, German-born Swiss owner of Southampton Football Club (Born 1948) |