Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 11

Births

 * 1657 – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (d. 1757) (pictured)
 * 1800 – William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographer (d. 1877)
 * 1847 – Thomas Edison, American inventor (d. 1931)
 * 1919 – Eva Gabor, Hungarian-born actress (d. 1995)
 * 1926 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor (d. 2010)
 * 1935 – Gene Vincent, American musician (d. 1971)
 * 1962 – Sheryl Crow, American musician
 * 1969 – Jennifer Aniston, American actress

Deaths

 * 1650 – René Descartes, French philosopher (b. 1596)
 * 1797 – Antoine Dauvergne, French composer (b. 1713)
 * 1868 – Léon Foucault, French astronomer (b. 1819)
 * 1963 – Sylvia Plath, American writer (b. 1932)