# August 11

* August 11 in recent years
* 2024 (Sunday)
* 2023 (Friday)
* 2022 (Thursday)
* 2021 (Wednesday)
* 2020 (Tuesday)
* 2019 (Sunday)
* 2018 (Saturday)
* 2017 (Friday)
* 2016 (Thursday)
* 2015 (Tuesday)
August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 142 days remain until the end of the year.

## Events
### Pre-1600

* 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, 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.
* 117 – Hadrian is proclaimed Roman emperor, two days after Trajan's death.
* 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.
* 923 – The Qarmatians of Bahrayn capture and pillage the city of Basra.
* 1315 – The Great Famine of Europe becomes so dire that even the king of England has difficulties buying bread for himself and his entourage.
* 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.
* 1492 – Rodrigo de Borja is elected as Head of the Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Alexander VI.

### 1601–1900

* 1675 – Franco-Dutch War: Forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
* 1685 – Morean War: The 49-day Siege of Coron ends with the surrender and massacre of its garrison by the Venetians.
* 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.
* 1871 – An explosion of guncotton occurs in Stowmarket, England, killing 28.
* 1898 – Spanish–American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

### 1901–present

* 1918 – World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.
* 1919 – Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.
* 1920 – The 1920 Cork hunger strike begins which eventually results in the deaths of three Irish Republicans including the Lord Mayor of Cork Terence MacSwiney.
* 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, two-way radio communications, and Wi-Fi.
* 1945 – Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five.
* 1952 – Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
* 1959 – Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
* 1960 – Chad declares independence from France.
* 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.
* 1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the Moon.
* 1972 – Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
* 1973 – At the 1520 Sedgwick Avenue apartment building in The Bronx, New York, DJ Kool Herc hosts a house party widely considered to mark the birthplace of hip hop culture and music. DJ Kool Herc demonstrates a new technique of beat juggling and Coke La Rock performs a new style of vocal performance called rapping.
* 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 passenger and injuring 15 others.
* 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.
* 1988 – A meeting between Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan culminates in the formation of Al-Qaeda.
* 1991 – Nickelodeon's first line of “Nicktoons” (Doug, Rugrats & Ren & Stimpy) premiere on the channel.
* 1992 – The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota opens. At the time the largest shopping mall in the United States.
* 2000 – An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries.
* 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 MT 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.
* 2017 – At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt.
* 2023 – Luna 25 launches from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.

## Births
### Pre-1600

* 1086 – Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1125)
* 1384 – Yolande of Aragon (d. 1442)
* 1472 – Nikolaus von Schönberg, Catholic cardinal (d. 1537)
* 1510 – Margaret Paleologa, Sovereign Marchioness of Montferrat (d. 1566)

### 1601–1900

* 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)
* 1816 – Frederick Innes, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1882)
* 1833 – Robert G. Ingersoll, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 1899)
* 1833 – Kido Takayoshi, Japanese samurai and politician (d. 1877)
* 1836 – Warren Brown, American historian and politician (d. 1919)
* 1837 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French engineer and 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)
* 1870 – Tom Richardson, English cricketer (d. 1912)
* 1874 – Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg (d. 1953)
* 1877 – Adolph M. Christianson, American lawyer and 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-Swiss actor (d. 1962)
* 1885 – Stephen Butterworth, English physicist and engineer (d. 1958)
* 1891 – Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian architect and educator (d. 1962)
* 1891 – Edgar Zilsel, Austrian historian and philosopher of science, linked to the Vienna Circle (d. 1944)
* 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 – Charley Paddock, American sprinter (d. 1943)
* 1900 – Philip Phillips, American archaeologist and scholar (d. 1994)

### 1901–present

* 1902 – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)
* 1902 – Lloyd Nolan, American actor (d. 1985)
* 1902 – Christian de Castries, French general (d. 1991)
* 1905 – Erwin Chargaff, Austrian-American biochemist and academic (d. 2002)
* 1905 – Ernst Jaakson, Estonian diplomat (d. 1998)
* 1907 – Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer and lawyer (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)
* 1911 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Thai field marshal and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2004)
* 1912 – Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer and academic (d. 1954)
* 1912 – Raphael Blau, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1996)
* 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, English-Belgian race car driver and trumpet player (d. 1956)
* 1919 – Luis Olmo, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and manager (d. 2017)
* 1920 – Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (d. 2006)
* 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 and actor (d. 2015)
* 1925 – Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 2006)
* 1925 – Arlene Dahl, American actress, businesswoman and writer (d. 2021)
* 1926 – Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
* 1927 – Raymond Leppard, English harpsichord player and conductor (d. 2019)
* 1927 – Stuart Rosenberg, American director and producer (d. 2007)
* 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 television host (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 (d. 2015)
* 1936 – Andre Dubus, American short story writer, essayist, and memoirist (d. 1999)
* 1936 – Bill Monbouquette, American baseball player and coach (d. 2015)
* 1936 – Jonathan Spence, English-American historian and academic (d. 2021)
* 1937 – Anna Massey, English actress (d. 2011)
* 1937 – Patrick Joseph McGovern, American businessman, founded International Data Group (d. 2014)
* 1939 – James Mancham, first President of Seychelles (d. 2017)
* 1939 – Ronnie Dawson, American singer and guitarist (d. 2003)
* 1940 – Glenys Page, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2012)
* 1941 – John Ellison, American-Canadian musician and songwriter
* 1942 – Mike Hugg, English drummer and keyboard player
* 1942 – Otis Taylor, American football player (d. 2023)
* 1943 – Jim Kale, Canadian bass player
* 1943 – Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general and politician, 10th President of Pakistan (d. 2023)
* 1943 – Denis Payton, English saxophonist (d. 2006)
* 1944 – Martin Linton, Swedish-English journalist and politician
* 1944 – Frederick W. Smith, American businessman, founded FedEx
* 1944 – Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor
* 1946 – John Conlee, American singer-songwriter
* 1946 – Marilyn vos Savant, American journalist and author
* 1947 – Theo de Jong, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager
* 1947 – Georgios Karatzaferis, Greek journalist and politician
* 1947 – Wilma van den Berg, Dutch sprinter
* 1948 – Don Boyd, Scottish director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1949 – Eric Carmen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2024)
* 1949 – Tim Hutchinson, American lawyer and politician
* 1949 – Ian Charleson, Scottish-English actor and singer (d. 1990)
* 1950 – Erik Brann, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (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.
* 1952 – Reid Blackburn, American photographer (d. 1980)
* 1952 – Bob Mothersbaugh, American singer, guitarist, and producer
* 1953 – Hulk Hogan, American wrestler
* 1953 – Wijda Mazereeuw, Dutch swimmer
* 1954 – Bryan Bassett, American guitarist
* 1954 – Vance Heafner, American golfer and coach (d. 2012)
* 1954 – Joe Jackson, English singer-songwriter and musician
* 1954 – Tarmo Rüütli, Estonian footballer, coach, and manager
* 1954 – Yashpal Sharma, Indian cricketer and umpire (d. 2021)
* 1955 – Marc Bureau, Canadian politician, 16th Mayor of Gatineau
* 1955 – Sylvia Hermon, Northern Irish academic and politician
* 1956 – Pierre-Louis Lions, French mathematician and academic
* 1957 – Ian Stuart Donaldson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)
* 1957 – Masayoshi Son, Japanese technology entrepreneur and investor
* 1958 – Steven Pokere, New Zealand rugby player
* 1958 – Jah Wobble, English singer-songwriter and bass player
* 1959 – Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (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 – Suniel Shetty, Indian actor and film producer
* 1962 – Brian Azzarello, American author
* 1962 – Charles Cecil, English video game designer and co-founded Revolution Software
* 1962 – John Micklethwait, English journalist and author
* 1962 – Rob Minkoff, American director and producer
* 1963 – Hiromi Makihara, Japanese baseball player
* 1964 – Jim Lee, South Korean-American author and illustrator
* 1964 – Grant Waite, New Zealand golfer
* 1965 – Marc Bergevin, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
* 1965 – Embeth Davidtz, American actress
* 1965 – Viola Davis, American actress
* 1966 – Nigel Martyn, English footballer and coach
* 1966 – Juan María Solare, Argentinian pianist and composer
* 1967 – Massimiliano Allegri, Italian footballer and manager
* 1967 – Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1967 – Joe Rogan, American actor, comedian, and television host
* 1967 – Petter Wettre, Norwegian saxophonist and composer
* 1968 – Anna Gunn, American actress
* 1968 – Sophie Okonedo, British actress
* 1968 – Charlie Sexton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1970 – Dirk Hannemann, German footballer and manager
* 1970 – Gianluca Pessotto, Italian footballer
* 1971 – Alejandra Barros, Mexican actress and screenwriter
* 1971 – Tommy Mooney, English footballer
* 1973 – Kristin Armstrong, American cyclist
* 1974 – Marie-France Dubreuil, Canadian figure skater
* 1974 – Hadiqa Kiani, Pakistani singer, songwriter and philanthropist
* 1974 – Audrey Mestre, French biologist and diver (d. 2002)
* 1974 – Carolyn Murphy, American model and actress
* 1975 – Chris Cummings, Canadian singer-songwriter
* 1976 – Iván Córdoba, Colombian footballer and manager
* 1976 – Bubba Crosby, American baseball player
* 1976 – Will Friedle, American actor and screenwriter
* 1976 – Ben Gibbard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1976 – Ľubomír Višňovský, Slovak ice hockey player
* 1977 – Gemma Hayes, Irish singer-songwriter
* 1977 – Dênio Martins, Brazilian footballer
* 1978 – Spyros Gogolos, Greek footballer
* 1978 – Charlotte Leslie, British politician
* 1978 – Lillian Nakate, Ugandan politician
* 1978 – Isy Suttie, English comedian, musician, actress, and writer
* 1979 – Walter Ayoví, Ecuadorian footballer
* 1980 – Daniel Lloyd, English cyclist and sportscaster
* 1980 – Lee Suggs, American football player
* 1981 – Daniel Poohl, Swedish journalist
* 1982 – Andy Lee, American football player
* 1983 – Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor
* 1983 – Luke Lewis, Australian rugby league player
* 1983 – Pavel 183, Russian painter (d. 2013)
* 1984 – Mojtaba Abedini, Iranian Olympic fencer
* 1984 – Melky Cabrera, Dominican baseball player
* 1984 – Lucas di Grassi, Brazilian race car driver
* 1985 – Jacqueline Fernandez, Bahraini–Sri Lankan actress
* 1985 – Asher Roth, American rapper
* 1986 – Mokhtar Benmoussa, Algerian footballer
* 1986 – Hélène Defrance, French sailor
* 1986 – Pablo Sandoval, Venezuelan baseball player
* 1987 – Dany N'Guessan, French footballer
* 1987 – Drew Storen, American baseball player
* 1988 – Rabeh Al-Hussaini, Filipino basketball player
* 1988 – Patty Mills, Australian basketball player
* 1988 – Mustafa Pektemek, Turkish footballer
* 1989 – Junior Heffernan, Irish cyclist and triathlete (d. 2013)
* 1989 – Sebastian Huke, German footballer
* 1990 – Lenka Juríková, Slovak tennis player
* 1991 – Cristian Tello, Spanish footballer
* 1992 – Tomi Lahren, American conservative political commentator
* 1993 – Alyson Stoner, American actor, singer, and dancer
* 1994 – Storm Sanders, Australian tennis player
* 1994 – Anton Cooper, New Zealand cross-country cyclist
* 1994 – Joseph Barbato, French footballer
* 1994 – Song I-han, South Korean singer
* 1995 – Brad Binder, South African motorcycle racer
* 1997 – Sarah Clelland, Scottish footballer
* 1999 – Gregoria Mariska Tunjung, Indonesian badminton player
* 1999 – Changbin, South Korean rapper
* 2001 – Moyuka Uchijima, Japanese tennis player
* 2002 – Marvin Harrison Jr., American football player

## Deaths
### Pre-1600

* 223 – Jia Xu, Chinese politician and strategist (b. 147)
* 353 – Magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303)
* 449 – Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople
* 632 – Rusticula, abbess of Arles
* 919 – Dhuka al-Rumi, Abbasid governor of Egypt
* 979 – Gero, Count of Alsleben
* 991 – Byrhtnoth, English soldier (b. 956)
* 1044 – Sokkate, king of the Pagan dynasty of Burma (b. 1001)
* 1204 – Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199)
* 1253 – Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (b. 1194)
* 1259 – Möngke Khan, Mongolian emperor (b. 1208)
* 1268 – Agnes of Faucigny, Dame ruler of Faucigny, Countess consort of Savoy
* 1332 – Domhnall II, Earl of Mar
* 1332 – Robert II Keith, Marischal of Scotland
* 1332 – Thomas Randolph, 2nd Earl of Moray
* 1332 – Murdoch III, Earl of Menteith
* 1332 – Robert Bruce, Lord of Liddesdale
* 1456 – John Hunyadi, Hungarian general and politician (b. 1387)
* 1464 – Nicholas of Cusa, German cardinal and mystic (b. 1401)
* 1465 – Kettil Karlsson, regent of Sweden and Bishop of Linköping (b. 1433)
* 1486 – William Waynflete, English Lord Chancellor and bishop of Winchester (b. c. 1398)
* 1494 – Hans Memling, German-Belgian painter (b. 1430)
* 1519 – Johann Tetzel, German preacher (b. 1465)
* 1556 – John Bell, English bishop
* 1563 – Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer and educator (b. 1500)
* 1578 – Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician and academic (b. 1502)
* 1596 – Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)

### 1601–1900

* 1614 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)
* 1656 – Ottavio Piccolomini, Austrian-Italian field marshal (b. 1599)
* 1725 – Prince Vittorio Amedeo Theodore of Savoy (b. 1723)
* 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 pianist and composer (b. 1815)
* 1886 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet and playwright (b. 1843)
* 1890 – John Henry Newman, English cardinal and theologian (b. 1801)
* 1892 – Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1813)

### 1901–present

* 1903 – Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican-American sociologist, philosopher, and lawyer (b. 1839)
* 1908 – Khudiram Bose, Indian Bengali revolutionary (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 novelist and short story writer (b. 1862)
* 1939 – Jean Bugatti, German-Italian engineer (b. 1909)
* 1939 – Siegfried Flesch, Austrian fencer (b. 1872)
* 1945 – Stefan Jaracz, Polish actor and theater producer (b. 1883)
* 1953 – Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1892)
* 1956 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (b. 1912)
* 1961 – Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian-American author, playwright, actor, and director (b. 1910)
* 1963 – Otto Wahle, Austrian-American swimmer and coach (b. 1879)
* 1965 – Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer and educator (b. 1897)
* 1969 – Miriam Licette, English soprano and educator (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)
* 1977 – Frederic Calland Williams, British co-inventor of the Williams-Kilborn tube, used for memory in early computer systems (b. 1911)
* 1978 – Berta Ruck, Indian-born Welsh romance novelist (b. 1878)
* 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 chemist and chess player (b. 1916)
* 1986 – János Drapál, Hungarian motorcycle racer (b. 1948)
* 1988 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)
* 1989 – John Meillon, Australian actor (b. 1934)
* 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 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1914)
* 1996 – Ambrosio Padilla, Filipino basketball player and politician (b. 1910)
* 2000 – Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer and academic (b. 1916)
* 2001 – Percy Stallard, English cyclist and coach (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)
* 2006 – Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1920)
* 2008 – George Furth, American actor and playwright (b. 1932)
* 2008 – Dursun Karataş, founding leader of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front (DHKP-C) in Turkey (b. 1952)
* 2009 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, founded the Special Olympics (b. 1921)
* 2010 – James Mourilyan Tanner, British paediatric endocrinologist (b. 1920)
* 2012 – Red Bastien, American wrestler, trainer, and promoter (b. 1931)
* 2012 – Michael Dokes, American boxer (b. 1958)
* 2012 – Lucy Gallardo, Argentinian-Mexican actress and screenwriter (b. 1929)
* 2013 – Raymond Delisle, French cyclist (b. 1943)
* 2013 – Zafar Futehally, Indian ornithologist and author (b. 1919)
* 2013 – David Howard, English ballet dancer and educator (b. 1937)
* 2014 – Vladimir Beara, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1928)
* 2014 – Raymond Gravel, Canadian priest and politician (b. 1952)
* 2014 – Kika Szaszkiewiczowa, Polish author and blogger (b. 1917)
* 2014 – Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (b. 1951)
* 2015 – Serge Collot, French viola player and educator (b. 1923)
* 2015 – Harald Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (b. 1941)
* 2015 – Richard Oriani, Salvadoran-American metallurgist and engineer (b. 1920)
* 2017 – Yisrael Kristal, Polish-Israeli supercentenarian; oldest living Holocaust survivor and one of the ten oldest men ever (b. 1903)
* 2017 – Segun Bucknor, Nigerian musician and journalist (b. 1946)
* 2018 – V S Naipaul, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
* 2019 – Sergio Obeso Rivera, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1931)
* 2020 – Trini Lopez, American singer and guitarist (b. 1937)
* 2020 – Sumner Redstone, American billionaire businessman (b. 1923)
* 2022 – Anne Heche, American actress (b. 1969)
* 2022 – Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer (b. 1926)
* 2023 – Mike Ahern, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Queensland (b. 1942)
* 2024 – Ángel Salazar, Cuban-American comedian and actor (b. 1956)
* 2024 – Noël Treanor, Irish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1950)

## Holidays and observances

* Christian Feast Day:
** Athracht
** Clare of Assisi
** Gaugericus
** John Henry Newman (Church of England)
** Philomena
** Susanna
** Taurinus of Évreux
** Tiburtius and Chromatius
** August 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
* Flag Day (Pakistan)
* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Chad from France in 1960.
* Mountain Day (Japan)