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)