Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 11

Births

• 1807 - David Rice Atchison, American politician (d. 1886)
• 1897 - Enid Blyton, English author (d. 1968)
• 1921 - Alex Haley, American historian (d. 1992)
• 1933 - Jerry Falwell, American preacher and politician (d. 2007)
• 1943 - Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general and leader (d. 2023)
• 1946 - Óscar Berger, President of Guatemala
• 1950 - Steve Wozniak, American computer pioneer
• 1953 - Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler
• 1976 - Ben Gibbard, American musician (Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service)

Deaths

• 1456 - John Hunyadi, Regent of Kingdom of Hungary (b. 1387)
• 1890 - John Henry Cardinal Newman, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1801)
• 1919 - Andrew Carnegie, (pictured) Scottish-born industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1835)
• 1956 - Jackson Pollock, American artist (b. 1912)
• 1994 - Peter Cushing, British actor (b. 1913)