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Aug 11 1600

Paul Hallmann German composer born in Friedland (d. 1650)

Aug 11 1613

Cristoph Kaldenbach Prussian poet and composer born in wiebodzin Poland (d. 1698)

Aug 11 1635

Thomas Betterton British actor and dramatist (Coriolanus) born in London England (d. 1710)

Aug 11 1667

Anna Maria Luisa de Medici last of the Medicis (d. 1743)

Aug 11 1673

Richard Mead physician born in London England

Aug 11 1718

Sir Frederick Haldimand Swiss-born British colonial governor (d. 1791)

Aug 11 1720

Martin Gerbert German composer music historian and abbot born in Horb am Neckar (d. 1793)

Aug 11 1722

Richard Brocklesby English physician (d. 1797)

Aug 11 1737

Joseph Nollekins sculptor born in London England

Aug 11 1778

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn German educator and founder of the turnverein (gymnastics) movement born in Lanz Brandenburg Prussia (d. 1852)

Aug 11 1794

James Barton Longacre American engraver (d. 1869)

Aug 11 1799

Joachim de Barrande French paleontologistgeologist

Aug 11 1805

Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude Dutch judgemember of parliament

Aug 11 1807

David Rice Atchison American politician (possibly served as President of the United States on March 3 1849) born in Lexington Kentucky (d. 1886)

Aug 11 1811

Judah P Benjamin US lawyerminister of Confederacy navy [or Aug 6]

Aug 11 1823

Charlotte Mary Yonge England writer (Heir of Redclyffe)

Aug 11 1828

Edward Saloman American politician Governor of Wisconsin (1862-64) born in Strbeck Prussian Saxony (d. 1909)

Aug 11 1832

Thomas Ogden Osbord American lawyer diplomat and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Licking County Ohio (d. 1904)

Aug 11 1833

Robert Green Ingersoll NY authorpoliticianagnostic (Att Gen-R-Ill)

Aug 11 1836

Cato M. Guldberg Norwegian mathematician and chemist (law of mass action) born in Christiania Norway (d. 1902)

Aug 11 1837

Marie Franois Sadi Carnot President of France (1887-94) born in Limoges France (d. 1894)

Aug 11 1860

Alfred Coville French historian (Lesson etats de Normandie)

Aug 11 1862

Carrie Jacobs Bond Janesville Wisc songwriter (I Love You Truly)

Aug 11 1867

Hobart Bosworth American actor (Woman of Affairs Big Parade) born in Marietta Ohio (d. 1943)

Aug 11 1867

Joseph M Weber comediansinger (Weber & Lewis Fields)

Aug 11 1870

Tom Richardson England cricket fast bowler (88 Test wickets) born in Byfleet England (d. 1912)

Aug 11 1872

Shidehara Kijuro Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1951)

Aug 11 1873

John Rosamond Johnson Fla co-composer (Lift Every Voice & Sing)

Aug 11 1877

Adolph M. Christianson justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (d. 1954)

Aug 11 1882

Rodolfo Graziani Italian Marshal fascist and Viceroy of Italian East Africa born in Filettino Italy (d. 1955)

Aug 11 1883

Ernst Stadler German poet (Der Aufbruch) born in Colmar Alsace-Lorraine (d. 1914)

Aug 11 1888

Owen Nares [Ramsay] British actor and manager (Maiden Erleigh) born in Maiden Erlegh Berks England (d. 1943)

Aug 11 1892

Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) Scotland poet (Scots Unbound)

Aug 11 3114 BC The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations notably the Mayans begins

Aug 11 2492 BC Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.

Aug 11 1304 Sea battle of Zierikzee Franco-Holland forces defeat Flemish fleet

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