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The 11t o August is the 223t day o the year (224t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 142 days bidin.
Events
1960 : Banner o Chad
1999 : Solar eclipse ower Fraunce
Births
Christiaan Eijkman
Ian McDiarmid
1086 - Henry V, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1125 )
1667 - Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici (d. 1743 )
1778 - John Christian Schetky , Scots marine penter (d. 1874 )
1779 - David Landsborough , Scots clergyman an naituralist (d. 1854 )
1858 - Christiaan Eijkman , Dutch medicinar (d. 1930 )
1882 - Norman Boyd Kinnear , Scots zoologist an ornithologist (d. 1957 )
1892 - Hugh MacDiarmid , Scots poet (d. 1978 )
1897 - Enid Blyton , Inglis writer (d. 1968 )
1913 - Andy Beattie , Scots fitbawer (d. 1983 )
1926 - Aaron Klug , Lithuanie-born Breetish chemist (d. 2018 )
1943 - Pervez Musharraf , Pakistani general an politeecian, 10t Preses o Pakistan
1944 - Ian McDiarmid , Scots actor
1949 - Ian Charleson , Scots actor (d. 1990 )
1950 - Steve Wozniak , American computer pioneer, inventor an businessman
1953 - Hulk Hogan , American professional wrestler, actor, telly personality, entrepreneur an muisicker
1965 - Viola Davis , American actress
1965 - Robert Fleck , Scots fitbawer
1969 - Ashley Jensen , Scots actress
1973 - Luis Lacalle Pou , Uruguayan politeecian, Preses o Uruguay
1974 - Neil McCann , Scots fitbawer an manager
1981 - Sandi Thom , Scots sangster an sangwriter
1983 - Chris Hemsworth , Australie actor
1992 - Heuss l'Enfoiré (Karim Djeriou), French rapper
Daiths
2014 : Tributes tae Robin Williams
1332 - Thomas Randolph, 2nt Yerl o Moray , Scots militar commander
1870 - John Adamson , Scots medicinar, fotografer an pheesicist (b. 1809 )
1872 - Andrew Smith , Scots surgeon, splorer, ethnologist an zoologist (b. 1797 )
1919 - Andrew Carnegie , Scots-American industrialist an philanthropist (b. 1835 )
1956 - Jackson Pollock , American penter (b. 1912 )
1957 - Norman Boyd Kinnear , Scots zoologist an ornithologist (b. 1882 )
1972 - Max Theiler , Sooth African-American virologist (b. 1899 )
2014 - Robin Williams , American actor an comedian (b. 1951 )
2018 - V. S. Naipaul , Trinidadian-Breetish writer (b. 1932 )
Halidays
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