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February 11
is the 42nd day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 323 days remaining until the end of the year (324 in
leap years
).
- 1953
? President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
refuses clemency appeal for
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
- 1953 ? The
Soviet Union
breaks off diplomatic relations with
Israel
.
- 1961
? Trial of
Adolf Eichmann
begins in
Jerusalem
.
- 1963
?
The Beatles
record 10 tracks for their first album,
Please Please Me
.
- 1964
? At the
Washington, DC
Coliseum,
The Beatles
have their 1st live appearance in the
United States
.
- 1964 ?
Greeks
and
Turks
begin fighting in
Limassol
,
Cyprus
.
- 1964 ? The
Republic of China
(
Taiwan
) breaks off diplomatic relations with
France
.
- 1968
?
Israeli
-
Jordanian
border clashes.
- 1968 ?
Madison Square Garden
III closes and Madison Square Garden IV opens in
New York City
.
- 1971
?
US
,
UK
,
USSR
, others sign
Seabed Treaty
outlawing
nuclear weapons
in international waters.
- 1973
?
Vietnam War
: First release of American
prisoners of war
from
Vietnam
takes place.
- 1975
-
Margaret Thatcher
becomes leader of the
Conservative Party
. This will lead to her becoming
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
in
1979
.
- 1978
?
Censorship
:
China
lifts a ban on works by
Aristotle
,
Shakespeare
and
Dickens
.
- 1979
?
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
seizes power in
Iran
.
- 1981
? 100,000 gallons (380 m
3
) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of
TVA
Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in
Tennessee
, contaminating 8 workers.
- 1986
? Rights activist
Anatoly Scharansky
, released by the
USSR
, leaves the country.
- 1987
?
Philippines
constitution goes into effect.
- 1990
?
James "Buster" Douglas
KOs
Mike Tyson
to win
heavyweight
boxing
crown.
- 1990 ?
Nelson Mandela
, a political prisoner for 27 years, is freed from Victor Verster prison outside
Cape Town
,
South Africa
.
- 1991
?
UNPO
, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, forms in
The Hague
,
Netherlands
.
- 1992
? Art band
The KLF
subvert the
United Kingdom
's
BRIT Awards
.
- 1999
?
Pluto
, a planet with an irregular orbit, changes from the eighth to ninth planet farthest from the
sun
. It had been the eighth farthest since
1979
. It is downgraded to a
dwarf planet
in
2006
.
- 1261
-
Otto III, Duke of Bavaria
(died
1312
)
- 1377
- King
Ladislaus of Naples
(died
1414
)
- 1380
?
Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini
,
Italian
humanist (died
1459
)
- 1466
?
Elizabeth of York
, consort of King
Henry VII of England
(died
1503
)
- 1535
?
Pope Gregory XIV
(died
1591
)
- 1568
?
Honore d'Urfe
,
French
writer (died
1625
)
- 1657
-
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontanelle
, French
scientist
and writer (died
1757
)
- 1715
-
Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland
, British collector of art and nature specimens (died
1785
)
- 1755
?
Albert Christoph Dies
, German composer (died
1822
)
- 1764
?
Marie-Joseph de Chenier
, French poet (died
1611
)
- 1776
?
Ioannis Kapodistrias
,
Greek
diplomat and Head of State (died
1836
)
- 1780
?
Karoline von Gunderode
, poet (died
1806
)
- 1800
?
William Henry Fox Talbot
, English photographic pioneer (died
1877
)
- 1802
?
Lydia Child
, novelist and
abolitionist
(died
1880
)
- 1812
?
Benjamin Franklin Sands
, Commander (Union Navy) (died
1883
)
- 1812
?
Alexander Hamilton Stephens
, Vice President of the
Confederate States of America
, (died
1883
)
- 1813
?
Otto Ludwig
, German novelist, playwright, critic (died
1865
)
- 1819
?
Samuel Parkman Tuckerman
, composer (died
1890
)
- 1821
?
Auguste Edouard Mariette
, French
Egyptologist
(died
1881
)
- 1830
?
Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf
, musician (died
1913
)
- 1833
?
Melville Weston Fuller
, 8th
Chief Justice of the United States
(died
1910
)
- 1839
?
Josiah Willard Gibbs
, theoretical physicist,
chemist
(died
1903
)
- 1847
?
Thomas Alva Edison
, inventor (died
1931
)
- 1860
?
Rachilde
(Marguerite Vallette-Eymery),
French
writer (died
1953
)
- 1863
-
John F. Fitzgerald
, American politician (died
1950
)
- 1869
?
Helene Kroller-Muller
, Dutch museum founder and patron of the arts (died
1939
)
- 1869
?
Else Lasker-Schuler
, lyricist, dramatist and narrator (died
1945
)
- 1873
?
Feodor Chaliapin
, Russian singer (died
1938
)
- 1874
?
Elsa Beskow
(Maartman),
Swedish
children's book and
fairy tale
writer, (died
1953
)
- 1881
?
Arthur Davidson
, American businessman (d.
1950
)
- 1887
?
John van Melle
,
South African
writer (died
1953
)
- 1894
?
Alfonso Leng
, Chilean composer (died
1974
)
- 1897
-
Colgate W. Darden
,
Governor
of
Virginia
(died
1981
)
- 1898
?
Leo Szilard
, Hungarian physicist, peace activist (died
1964
)
- 1900
?
Hans-Georg Gadamer
, German philosopher (died
2002
)
- 1902
?
Arne Jacobsen
, Danish architect and designer (died
1971
)
- 1903
?
Hans Redlich
, composer (d.
1968
)
- 1904
? Sir
Keith Holyoake
, 26th
Prime Minister of New Zealand
(died
1983
)
- 1904 -
Clarence W. Meadows
,
Governor
of
West Virginia
(died
1961
)
- 1908
?
Vivian Fuchs
, British geologist, explorer (died
1999
)
- 1908 -
Philip Dunne
, American
screenwriter
,
director
and
producer
(died
1992
)
- 1909
?
Max Baer
(The Livermore Larruper), American boxer and actor (died
1959
)
- 1909 ?
Joseph Mankiewicz
, director (died
1993
)
- 1911
?
Alec Cairncross
, chancellor of the
University of Glasgow
(d.
1998
)
- 1912
?
Roy Fuller
, English poet and novelist (died
1991
)
- 1912 ?
Rudolf Firkusny
, Czech-American pianist (died
1994
)
- 1914
?
Matt Dennis
, American singer (died
2002
)
- 1914 ?
Menelaos Pallantios
, composer
- 1915
?
Patrick Leigh Fermor
, English writer (died
2011
)
- 1915 ?
Mervyn Levy
, British artist, critic (died
1996
)
- 1915 ?
Haakon Stotijn
, Dutch oboist
- 1916
?
Joseph Alioto
,
Mayor
of
San Francisco
,
California
(died
1998
)
- 1916 ?
Bernice Levin Neugarten
, social scientist, gerontologist
- 1917
?
Sidney Sheldon
, American writer (died
2007
)
- 1917 -
Giuseppe Santis
, Italian film director (died
1997
)
- 1919
?
Gretchen Fraser
, American slalom
skier
(died
1994
)
- 1919 ?
Eva Gabor
, Hungarian actress (died
1995
)
- 1919 -
Anne-Stine Ingstad
, Norwegian
archaeologist
(died
1997
)
- 1919 ?
Eddie Robinson
,
college football
coach.
- 1920
? King
Farouk I of Egypt
(died
1965
)
- 1920 ?
Daniel Galouye
, American
science fiction
writer
(died
2006
)
- 1920 ?
Billy Halop
, American actor (died
1976
)
- 1920 ?
Paul Peter Piech
, artist (died
1996
)
- 1921
?
Lloyd Bentsen
, American politician (died
2006
)
- 1921 -
Jacques Friedel
, French
physicist
(died
2014
)
- 1921 -
Ottavio Missoni
, Italian hurdler and fashion designer (died
2013
)
- 1922
?
Tudor Jarda
, composer
- 1923
?
Ronald Arculus
, British diplomat
- 1924
?
Mary Tregear
, Chinese-British Oriental art historian (died
2010
)
- 1924 -
Budge Patty
, American
tennis
player
- 1925
?
Peter Berger
, British Vice-Admiral (died
2003
)
- 1925 ?
Virginia E. Johnson
, American doctor and sexologist (died
2013
)
- 1925 ?
Kim Stanley
, American actress (died
2001
)
- 1926
?
Paul Bocuse
, French chef (died
2018
)
- 1926 ?
Alexander Gibson
, British conductor and founder of the
Scottish Opera
(died
1995
)
- 1926 ?
Leslie Nielsen
, Canadian-American actor (died
2010
)
- 1927
-
Albano Harguindeguy
, Argentine military (died
2012
)
- 1928
?
Gotthilf Fischer
, German choirmaster
- 1928 ?
Archibald Forster
, CEO (
Esso
UK)
- 1928 ?
Conrad Janis
, American actor
- 1929
-
Albert Azaryan
,
Armenian
gymnast
- 1929 ?
Leonard Kastle
, American composer (died
2011
)
- 1931
?
Larry Merchant
, American writer,
boxing
commentator
- 1932
?
Jerome Lowenthal
, American pianist, professor
- 1932 -
Dennis Skinner
, English politician
- 1934
?
Tina Louise
, American singer, actress and writer
- 1934 ?
Francesco Pennisi
, composer
- 1934 ?
Mary Quant
, British
fashion
designer
- 1934 ?
John Surtees
, British
race car
driver (died
2017
)
- 1934 -
Mel Carnahan
, 51st
Governor
of
Missouri
- 1935
?
Bent Lorentzen
, composer
- 1936
?
Burt Reynolds
, American actor
- 1937
?
Lodewijk Boer
, Dutch
violinist
, playwright
- 1937 ?
Marilyn Butler
, Rector of
Exeter College, Oxford
- 1937 ?
Peter Lashley
, West Indies cricketer
- 1937 ?
Bill Lawry
,
Australian
cricketer
- 1937 -
Mauro Staccioli
, Italian sculptor (died
2018
)
- 1938
?
Bevan Congdon
, New Zealand
cricketer
(died
2018
)
- 1938 ?
Willy Correa de Oliveira
, composer
- 1938 -
Mohammed Gammoudi
,
Tunisian
athlete
- 1938 ?
Manuel Noriega
, Panamanian general and dictator (died
2017
)
- 1939
?
Gerry Goffin
, American lyricist (died
2014
)
- 1939 ?
Jane Yolen
, American
science fiction
writer
- 1940
?
Bobby Picket
, American musician (died
2007
)
- 1940 -
Mick Staton
, American politician (died
2014
)
- 1941
?
Sergio Mendes
, Brazilian musician and songwriter
- 1942
?
Otis Clay
, American gospel and R&B singer (died
2016
)
- 1943
?
Iain Cameron
, British brigadier
- 1943 -
Gerhard Glogowski
, German politician
- 1943 -
Joselito
, Spanish singer
- 1943 -
Serge Lama
, French singer
- 1944
?
Buddhadev Dasgupta
, Indian movie director
- 1944 ?
Bert Greene
,
golfer
- 1944 -
Mike Oxley
, American politician (died
2016
)
- 1945
-
Ralph Doubell
, Australian athlete
- 1945 -
Burhan Ghalioun
, French-Syrian
professor
of
sociology
- 1946
?
Ian Porterfield
, British footballer (died
2007
)
- 1947
?
Yukio Hatoyama
, former
Prime Minister of Japan
- 1947 -
Derek Shulman
, Scottish
musician
- 1948
-
Chris Rush
, American comedian, actor and writer
- 1948 -
Yoshihito, Prince Katsura
of
Japan
(died
2014
)
- 1953
?
Jeb Bush
, American politician, former
Governor
of
Florida
- 1953
?
Philip Anglim
, American actor
- 1954
-
Wesley Strick
, American
screenwriter
- 1955
-
Anneli Jaatteenmaki
, former
Prime Minister
of
Finland
- 1956
-
Catherine Hickland
, American
actress
and
singer
- 1959
-
Bradley Cole
, American actor
- 1959 -
Harold J. Greene
, American
general
(died
2014
)
- 1959 -
Deborah Meaden
, British
businesswoman
- 1960
-
Richard Mastracchio
, American
engineer
and
astronaut
- 1960 -
Momus
, Scottish
musician
,
writer
and
journalist
- 1961
?
Mary Docter
,
speed skater
- 1961 ?
Carey Lowell
, American actress
- 1962
-
Tammy Baldwin
, American politician,
United States
Senator
for
Wisconsin
- 1962 ?
Sheryl Crow
, American musician
- 1964
?
Sarah Palin
, American politician, former
Governor
of
Alaska
- 1964 -
Adrian Hasler
,
Prime Minister of Liechtenstein
- 1964 -
Ken Shamrock
, American
professional wrestler
and martial artist
- 1966
-
Dieudonne M'bala M'bala
, controversial French
comedian
- 1969
?
Jennifer Aniston
, American actress
- 1970
?
Alistair Brown
, English
cricketer
- 1971
-
Damian Lewis
, English actor
- 1972
-
Dennis McManaman
, English
footballer
- 1972 -
Kelly Slater
, American
surfer
- 1973
-
Varg Vikernes
, Norwegian musician
- 1974
?
D'Angelo
, singer
- 1974 -
Nick Barmby
, English
footballer
- 1974 ?
Alex Jones
, American radio host
- 1974 -
Jaroslav Spacek
, Czech
ice hockey
player
- 1975
?
Chuck Watanabe
, American kayaker
- 1977
-
Mike Shinoda
, American musician
- 1979
?
Brandy Norwood
, American singer and actress
- 1980
?
Natasha Bobo
, actress
- 1980 ?
Mark Bresciano
, Australian footballer
- 1980 ?
Matthew Lawrence
, American actor
- 1981
?
Kelly Rowland
, American singer (
Destiny's Child
)
- 1982
?
Neil Robertson
, Australian
snooker
player
- 1982 -
Natalie Dormer
, British actress
- 1983
?
Rafael van der Vaart
, Dutch
footballer
- 1983 -
Huang Shengyi
, Chinese
actress
- 1984
-
Maxime Talbot
, Canadian
ice hockey
player
- 1985
-
Sarah Butler
, American actress
- 1987
-
Lembi Vaher
,
Estonian
pole vaulter
- 1987 -
Ebba Busch Thor
, Swedish politician
- 1988
-
Junjun
, Chinese-Japanese singer
- 1990
-
Javier Aquino
, Mexican footballer
- 1990 -
Princess Ayah bint Al Faisal
, of
Jordan
- 1990 -
Go Ara
, South Korean
actress
- 1990 -
Q'orianka Kilcher
, American actress
- 1990 -
Hwang Chan-sung
, South Korean
singer
,
rapper
and
actor
- 1991
-
Georgia May Foote
, British actress
- 1991 -
Nikola Mirotic
, Montenegrin-Spanish
basketball
player
- 1991 -
Christofer Drew
, American
singer
and
composer
- 1992
?
Taylor Lautner
, American actor
- 1992 -
Georgia Groome
, British actress
- 1993
-
Ben McLemore
, American
basketball
player
- 1994
-
Dominic Janes
, American actor
- 1996
-
Jonathan Tah
, German
footballer
- 55
-
Britannicus
, son of
Claudius
(b.
41
)
- 244
-
Gordian III
, Roman Emperor
- 641
?
Heraclius
, Emperor of Byzantium in
610
?
641
(born ca.
575
)
- 731
?
Pope Gregory II
- 821
? Saint
Benedict of Aniane
(born ca.
747
)
- 824
?
Pope Paschal I
- 1141
?
Hugo of St. Victor
, philosopher, theologian, mystic
- 1160
-
Minamoto no Yoshitomo
, Japanese general (born
1123
)
- 1503
?
Elizabeth of York
, consort of King
Henry VII of England
(born
1466
)
- 1543
?
Ahmed Gran
, sultan of
Adal
- 1622
?
Alfonso Fontanelli
, composer
- 1626
-
Pietro Cataldi
, Italian
mathematician
(born
1552
)
- 1650
?
Rene Descartes
, French
philosopher
(born
1596
)
- 1685
?
David Teniers III
, Flemish painter (born
1638
)
- 1713
-
Jahandar Shah
,
Mughal Emperor
(born
1664
)
- 1762
?
Johann Tobias Krebs
, composer (born
1690
)
- 1763
?
William Shenstone
, poet (born
1714
)
- 1795
-
Carl Michael Bellman
, Swedish poet and composer (born
1740
)
- 1797
?
Antoine Dauvergne
, composer (born
1713
)
- 1806
?
Vicente Martin y Soler
, composer
- 1829
-
Alexander Griboyedov
, Russian
diplomat
,
playwright
,
poet
and
composer
(born
1795
)
- 1841
?
J H Ferdinand Olivier
, German painter
- 1848
-
Thomas Cole
, British-American painter (born
1801
)
- 1862
?
Elizabeth Siddal
,
poet
and
artist
(born
1829
)
- 1868
?
Leon Foucault
, French
astronomer
(born
1819
)
- 1870
?
Leopold Eugen Mechura
, composer
- 1871
?
Gaspard Theodore Ignace de la Fontaine
, Luxembourg politician
- 1879
?
Honore Daumier
, caricaturist/painter (born
1808
)
- 1879
?
Willem J van Zeggelen
, Dutch writer
- 1882
?
Gustav Schmidt
, composer (born
1874
)
- 1892
?
Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni
, composer
- 1894
?
Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera
, composer
- 1903
?
Henryk Szulc
, composer
- 1907
?
Peter J Savelberg
, Dutch monastery founder
- 1911
?
Albert von Rothschild
, baron, Austrian banker
- 1917
-
Oswaldo Cruz
, Brazilian
physician
(born
1872
)
- 1918
-
Taytou Betul
, Empress of
Ethiopia
(born
1851
)
- 1922
?
Gerardus J P Bolland
, Dutch philosopher
- 1931
?
Charles Algernon Parsons
, British inventor (born
1854
)
- 1937
-
Walter Burley Griffin
, American
architect
and city planner (born
1876
)
- 1939
?
Franz Schmidt
, Austrian composer (born
1874
)
- 1940
?
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
, Scottish writer and Governor-General of
Canada
(born
1875
)
- 1942
-
Jamnalal Bajaj
, Indian industrialist, philanthropist and independence activist (born
1884
)
- 1945
?
Al Dubin
, Swiss songwriter (born
1891
)
- 1945
?
J S H Lokerman
, Dutch resistance fighter
- 1948
?
Sergei Eisenstein
, Russian
movie director
(born
1898
)
- 1958
-
Ernest Jones
, British
neurologist
and
psychoanalyst
(born
1879
)
- 1959
?
Marshall Teague
,
race car
driver (born
1922
)
- 1960
?
Ernst von Dohnanyi
, Hungarian conductor (b.
1877
)
- 1960
-
Victor Klemperer
, German writer (born
1881
)
- 1961
?
Eduard R Verkade
, Dutch actor, director
- 1963
?
Sylvia Plath
, American poet, novelist (born
1932
)
- 1968
?
Howard Lindsay
, playwright (born
1888
)
- 1970
?
Emil Abranyi
, composer
- 1971
?
Whitney Young Jr
,
National Urban League
director
- 1972
?
Jan Wils
, architect (born
1891
)
- 1973
?
Hans D Jensen
, German physicist (born
1907
)
- 1975
-
Richard Ratsimandrava
,
President
of
Madagascar
(born
1931
)
- 1976
?
Lee J Cobb
, actor (born
1911
)
- 1976 ?
Alexander Lippisch
, German
aerodynamicist
(born
1894
)
- 1977
?
Louis Beel
,
Prime Minister
of the
Netherlands
(
1946
?
1948
,
1958
?
1959
) (born
1902
)
- 1977 -
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
, 5th
President of Pakistan
(born
1905
)
- 1978
?
James B Conant
, headmaster of
Harvard University
- 1978
-
Harry Martinson
, Swedish writer (born
1904
)
- 1982
?
Eleanor Powell
, actress, dancer (born
1912
)
- 1982 ?
Takashi Shimura
, Japanese actor (born
1905
)
- 1985
?
Henry Hathaway
American actor, director (born
1898
)
- 1985 ?
Ulysses Simpson Kay
, composer
- 1985
?
Heinz Eric Roemheld
, composer (born
1901
)
- 1986
?
Frank Herbert
,
science fiction
writer
(born
1920
)
- 1989
?
George O'Hanlon
, American actor, director (born
1912
)
- 1991
?
Oscar Nitzchke
, German architect
- 1993
-
Robert W. Holley
, American
scientist
(born
1922
)
- 1993
?
George A Stephen
, inventor
- 1994
?
Neil Bonnett
,
NASCAR
driver (born
1946
)
- 1994 ?
Sorrell Brooke
, actor
- 1994 ?
William Conrad
, actor
- 1994 -
Paul Feyerabend
, Austrian
philosopher
(born
1924
)
- 1996
?
Kebby Musokotwane
,
Prime Minister
of
Zambia
(born
1946
)
- 1996 ?
Cyril Poole
, English cricket player
- 1996 ?
Amelia Rosselli
, poet
- 2000
?
Roger Vadim
,
French
director (born
1928
)
- 2000 -
Jacqueline Auriol
, French
pilot
(born
1917
)
- 2003
?
Arndt Brause
,
Schlager
singer
- 2003 ?
Daniel Toscan du Plantier
, movie producer
- 2006
-
Peter Benchley
, American writer (born
1940
)
- 2008
?
Tom Lantos
, American politician (born
1928
)
- 2008 -
Alfredo Reinado
,
East Timorese
rebel leader (born
1967
)
- 2010
?
Alexander McQueen
, British fashion designer (born
1969
)
- 2010 ?
Irina Arkhipova
, Russian singer (born
1925
)
- 2011
-
Bo Carpelan
, Finnish writer (born
1926
)
- 2011 ?
Bad News Brown
,
Canadian
musician
(born
1977
)
- 2012
?
Whitney Houston
, American singer and actress (born
1963
)
- 2014
-
Alice Babs
, Swedish singer (born
1924
)
- 2015
-
Roger Hanin
, French
actor
and
director
(born
1925
)
- 2015 -
Bob Simon
, American
journalist
(born
1941
)
- 2015 -
Jerry Tarkanian
, American
basketball
player (born
1930
)
- 2015 -
Anne Cuneo
, Swiss
journalist
and writer (born
1936
)
- 2016
-
Kevin Randleman
, American mixed martial arts fighter and wrestler (born
1971
)
- 2017
-
Chavo Guerrero Sr.
, American
professional wrestler
(born
1949
)
- 2017 -
Fab Melo
, Brazilian
basketball
player (born
1990
)
- 2017 -
Jiro Taniguchi
, Japanese
manga
artist (born
1947
)
- 2017 -
Harvey Lichtenstein
, American arts administrator (born
1929
)
- 2018
-
Asma Jahangir
, Pakistani lawyer (born
1952
)
- 2018 -
Vic Damone
, American singer and actor (born
1928
)
- 2018 -
Jon D. Fox
, American politician (born
1947
)
- 2018 -
Jan Maxwell
, American actress (born
1956
)
- 2018 -
Nicholas Shehadie
, Australian
rugby
player (born
1925
)