August 11 facts for kids

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.

August 11th is a day filled with many interesting events throughout history. From ancient calendars starting to important discoveries and the birth of famous people, this date has seen a lot happen!

Events

Ancient Times (Before 1600)

• 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar began. This calendar was used by ancient civilizations like the Maya in Central America.
• 2492 BC – A traditional story says that Hayk, the founder of the Armenian nation, defeated a mythical figure named Bel.
• AD 106 – A part of Dacia (which is now Romania) became a Roman province. It was called Roman Dacia.
• AD 117 – Hadrian was named Roman emperor. This happened just two days after the previous emperor, Trajan, passed away.
• 355 – Claudius Silvanus declared himself Roman Emperor. He was accused of treason against Emperor Constantius II.
• 490 – In the Battle of Adda, the Goths led by Theodoric the Great and Alaric II defeated the army of Odoacer near Milan.
• 923 – The Qarmatians from Bahrayn attacked and robbed the city of Basra.
• 1315 – The Great Famine of Europe was so bad that even the King of England struggled to buy bread.
• 1332 – During the Wars of Scottish Independence, the Scots, led by Domhnall II, Earl of Mar, were defeated by Edward Balliol at the Battle of Dupplin Moor.
• 1473 – In the Battle of Otlukbeli, Mehmed the Conqueror of the Ottoman Empire won a big victory against Uzun Hassan of Aq Qoyunlu.
• 1492 – Rodrigo de Borja was chosen to be the head of the Catholic Church. He became known as Pope Alexander VI.

Modern History (1601–1900)

• 1675 – In the Franco-Dutch War, forces from the Holy Roman Empire defeated the French army in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
• 1786 – Captain Francis Light started a British colony called Penang in what is now Malaysia.
• 1804 – Francis II took on a new title. He became the first Emperor of Austria.
• 1812 – During the Peninsular War, French soldiers fought against British and Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
• 1813 – In Colombia, Juan del Corral announced that Antioquia was independent.
• 1858 – The Eiger mountain in the Bernese Alps was climbed for the very first time. Charles Barrington made the climb with Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
• 1871 – A large explosion of guncotton happened in Stowmarket, England, killing 28 people.
• 1898 – In the Spanish–American War, American troops entered the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

Recent Times (1901–Present)

• 1918 – World War I: The Battle of Amiens came to an end.
• 1919 – Germany's Weimar Constitution was officially signed into law.
• 1920 – The 1920 Cork hunger strike began in Ireland. This event sadly led to the deaths of three Irish Republicans, including the Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney.
• 1920 – The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty was signed. This agreement ended the Latvian War of Independence and recognized Latvia's independence from Russia.
• 1929 – Babe Ruth became the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career. He hit this milestone at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
• 1934 – The first regular prisoners arrived at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
• 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received a patent for a new communication system. This system later became important for technologies like wireless phones and Wi-Fi.
• 1952 – Hussein bin Talal was announced as the King of Jordan.
• 1959 – Sheremetyevo International Airport opened in Russia. It is now the second-largest airport in the country.
• 1960 – Chad declared its independence from France.
• 1961 – Former Portuguese areas in India, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, were joined together. They formed the Union Territory called Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
• 1962 – Vostok 3 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev became the first person to float in microgravity (weightlessness).
• 1965 – Race riots, known as the Watts Riots, started in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
• 1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts were released from their three-week quarantine. They had just returned from their historic trip to the Moon.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit left South Vietnam.
• 1975 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires left the capital city of Dili. This happened after a coup and the start of a civil war between two groups, UDT and Fretilin.
• 1979 – Two Aeroflot planes collided in the air over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk. All 178 people on both planes died.
• 1984 – United States President Ronald Reagan made a joke while preparing for a radio address. He said, "We begin bombing in five minutes" as a sound check.
• 1988 – A meeting in Afghanistan led to the creation of Al-Qaeda. Key figures like Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif and Osama bin Laden were present.
• 1991 – Nickelodeon launched its very first "Nicktoons" shows. These included Doug, Rugrats, and Ren & Stimpy.
• 1992 – The Mall of America opened in Bloomington, Minnesota. At the time, it was the largest shopping mall in the United States.
• 2003 – NATO took over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan. This was NATO's first big operation outside Europe in its history.
• 2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, also known as Hambali, was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
• 2006 – The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sank off the coast of the Philippines. This caused the country's worst oil spill.
• 2012 – More than 300 people died and 3,000 were hurt in two earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
• 2023 – Luna 25 launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.

Births

Famous People Born Before 1900

• 1086 – Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1125)
• 1384 – Yolande of Aragon (died 1442)
• 1472 – Nikolaus von Schönberg, a Catholic cardinal (died 1537)
• 1510 – Margaret Paleologa, a powerful marchioness (died 1566)
• 1673 – Richard Mead, an English doctor and astrologer (died 1754)
• 1718 – Frederick Haldimand, a Swiss-English general and politician (died 1791)
• 1722 – Richard Brocklesby, an English physician (died 1797)
• 1748 – Joseph Schuster, a German composer (died 1812)
• 1778 – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, a Prussian gymnast and educator (died 1852)
• 1794 – James B. Longacre, an American engraver (died 1869)
• 1807 – David Rice Atchison, an American general and politician (died 1886)
• 1808 – William W. Chapman, an American lawyer and politician (died 1892)
• 1816 – Frederick Innes, a Scottish-Australian politician (died 1882)
• 1833 – Robert G. Ingersoll, an American soldier and lawyer (died 1899)
• 1833 – Kido Takayoshi, a Japanese samurai and politician (died 1877)
• 1836 – Warren Brown, an American historian (died 1919)
• 1837 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, a French engineer and president (died 1894)
• 1855 – John Hodges, an Australian cricketer (died 1933)
• 1858 – Christiaan Eijkman, a Dutch physician who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (died 1930)
• 1860 – Ottó Bláthy, a Hungarian engineer and chess player (died 1939)
• 1870 – Tom Richardson, an English cricketer (died 1912)
• 1874 – Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg (died 1953)
• 1877 – Adolph M. Christianson, an American lawyer and judge (died 1954)
• 1878 – Oliver W. F. Lodge, an English poet and author (died 1955)
• 1881 – Aleksander Aberg, an Estonian wrestler (died 1920)
• 1884 – Hermann Wlach, an Austrian-Swiss actor (died 1962)
• 1885 – Stephen Butterworth, an English physicist and engineer (died 1958)
• 1891 – Stancho Belkovski, a Bulgarian architect (died 1962)
• 1891 – Edgar Zilsel, an Austrian historian and philosopher (died 1944)
• 1892 – Hugh MacDiarmid, a Scottish poet (died 1978)
• 1892 – Eiji Yoshikawa, a Japanese author (died 1962)
• 1897 – Enid Blyton, a famous English author of children's books (died 1968)
• 1897 – Louise Bogan, an American poet (died 1970)
• 1898 – Peter Mohr Dam, a Faroese educator and politician (died 1968)
• 1900 – Charley Paddock, an American sprinter (died 1943)
• 1900 – Philip Phillips, an American archaeologist (died 1994)

Notable Births (1901–Present)

• 1902 – Alfredo Binda, an Italian cyclist (died 1986)
• 1902 – Lloyd Nolan, an American actor (died 1985)
• 1902 – Christian de Castries, a French general (died 1991)
• 1905 – Erwin Chargaff, an Austrian-American biochemist (died 2002)
• 1905 – Ernst Jaakson, an Estonian diplomat (died 1998)
• 1907 – Ted a'Beckett, an Australian cricketer (died 1989)
• 1908 – Don Freeman, an American author and illustrator (died 1978)
• 1908 – Torgny T:son Segerstedt, a Swedish sociologist (died 1999)
• 1909 – Yūji Koseki, a Japanese composer (died 1989)
• 1909 – Uku Masing, an Estonian philosopher (died 1985)
• 1911 – Thanom Kittikachorn, a Thai field marshal and prime minister (died 2004)
• 1912 – Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, a German astronomer (died 1954)
• 1912 – Raphael Blau, an American screenwriter (died 1996)
• 1913 – Paul Dupuis, a Canadian actor (died 1976)
• 1913 – Bob Scheffing, an American baseball player (died 1985)
• 1913 – Angus Wilson, an English author (died 1991)
• 1915 – Morris Weiss, an American author and illustrator (died 2014)
• 1916 – Johnny Claes, an English-Belgian race car driver (died 1956)
• 1919 – Luis Olmo, a Puerto Rican-American baseball player (died 2017)
• 1920 – Mike Douglas, an American singer and talk show host (died 2006)
• 1920 – Chuck Rayner, a Canadian ice hockey player (died 2002)
• 1921 – Alex Haley, an American historian and author (died 1992)
• 1922 – John "Mule" Miles, an American baseball player (died 2013)
• 1923 – Stan Chambers, an American journalist (died 2015)
• 1925 – Floyd Curry, a Canadian ice hockey player (died 2006)
• 1925 – Arlene Dahl, an American actress (died 2021)
• 1926 – Aaron Klug, a Lithuanian-English chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 2018)
• 1927 – Raymond Leppard, an English conductor (died 2019)
• 1927 – Stuart Rosenberg, an American director (died 2007)
• 1932 – Fernando Arrabal, a Spanish actor and playwright
• 1932 – Izzy Asper, a Canadian businessman (died 2003)
• 1932 – Geoffrey Cass, an English businessman
• 1932 – Peter Eisenman, an American architect
• 1932 – John Gorrie, an English director
• 1933 – Jerry Falwell, an American minister (died 2007)
• 1933 – Jerzy Grotowski, a Polish director (died 1999)
• 1933 – Tamás Vásáry, a Hungarian pianist
• 1934 – Bob Hepple, a South African lawyer (died 2015)
• 1936 – Andre Dubus, an American writer (died 1999)
• 1936 – Bill Monbouquette, an American baseball player (died 2015)
• 1936 – Jonathan Spence, an English-American historian (died 2021)
• 1937 – Anna Massey, an English actress (died 2011)
• 1937 – Patrick Joseph McGovern, an American businessman (died 2014)
• 1939 – James Mancham, the first President of Seychelles (died 2017)
• 1939 – Ronnie Dawson, an American singer (died 2003)
• 1940 – Glenys Page, a New Zealand cricketer (died 2012)
• 1941 – John Ellison, an American-Canadian musician
• 1942 – Mike Hugg, an English drummer
• 1942 – Otis Taylor, an American football player (died 2023)
• 1943 – Jim Kale, a Canadian bass player
• 1943 – Pervez Musharraf, a Pakistani general and president (died 2023)
• 1943 – Denis Payton, an English saxophonist (died 2006)
• 1944 – Martin Linton, a Swedish-English journalist
• 1944 – Frederick W. Smith, an American businessman who founded FedEx
• 1944 – Ian McDiarmid, a Scottish actor
• 1946 – John Conlee, an American singer-songwriter
• 1946 – Marilyn vos Savant, an American journalist
• 1947 – Theo de Jong, a Dutch footballer and coach
• 1947 – Georgios Karatzaferis, a Greek journalist and politician
• 1947 – Wilma van den Berg, a Dutch sprinter
• 1948 – Don Boyd, a Scottish director
• 1949 – Eric Carmen, an American singer-songwriter (died 2024)
• 1949 – Tim Hutchinson, an American lawyer and politician
• 1949 – Ian Charleson, a Scottish-English actor (died 1990)
• 1950 – Erik Brann, an American singer-songwriter (died 2003)
• 1950 – Gennadiy Nikonov, a Russian engineer (died 2003)
• 1950 – Steve Wozniak, an American computer scientist who co-founded Apple Inc.
• 1952 – Reid Blackburn, an American photographer (died 1980)
• 1952 – Bob Mothersbaugh, an American singer and guitarist
• 1953 – Hulk Hogan, an American wrestler
• 1953 – Wijda Mazereeuw, a Dutch swimmer
• 1954 – Bryan Bassett, an American guitarist
• 1954 – Vance Heafner, an American golfer (died 2012)
• 1954 – Joe Jackson, an English singer-songwriter
• 1954 – Tarmo Rüütli, an Estonian footballer and coach
• 1954 – Yashpal Sharma, an Indian cricketer (died 2021)
• 1955 – Marc Bureau, a Canadian politician
• 1955 – Sylvia Hermon, a Northern Irish politician
• 1956 – Pierre-Louis Lions, a French mathematician
• 1957 – Ian Stuart Donaldson, an English singer-songwriter (died 1993)
• 1957 – Masayoshi Son, a Japanese technology entrepreneur
• 1958 – Steven Pokere, a New Zealand rugby player
• 1958 – Jah Wobble, an English singer-songwriter
• 1959 – Gustavo Cerati, an Argentinian singer-songwriter (died 2014)
• 1959 – Yoshiaki Murakami, a Japanese businessman
• 1959 – Taraki Sivaram, a Sri Lankan journalist (died 2005)
• 1959 – Richard Scudamore, an English businessman
• 1959 – László Szlávics, Jr., a Hungarian sculptor
• 1961 – David Brooks, an American journalist
• 1961 – Craig Ehlo, an American basketball player
• 1962 – Brian Azzarello, an American author
• 1962 – Charles Cecil, an English video game designer
• 1962 – John Micklethwait, an English journalist
• 1962 – Rob Minkoff, an American director
• 1963 – Hiromi Makihara, a Japanese baseball player
• 1964 – Jim Lee, a South Korean-American author and illustrator
• 1964 – Grant Waite, a New Zealand golfer
• 1965 – Marc Bergevin, a Canadian ice hockey player
• 1965 – Embeth Davidtz, an American actress
• 1965 – Viola Davis, an American actress
• 1966 – Nigel Martyn, an English footballer
• 1966 – Juan María Solare, an Argentinian pianist
• 1967 – Massimiliano Allegri, an Italian footballer and manager
• 1967 – Enrique Bunbury, a Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1967 – Joe Rogan, an American actor and comedian
• 1967 – Petter Wettre, a Norwegian saxophonist
• 1968 – Anna Gunn, an American actress
• 1968 – Sophie Okonedo, a British actress
• 1968 – Charlie Sexton, an American singer-songwriter
• 1970 – Dirk Hannemann, a German footballer
• 1970 – Gianluca Pessotto, an Italian footballer
• 1971 – Alejandra Barros, a Mexican actress
• 1971 – Tommy Mooney, an English footballer
• 1973 – Kristin Armstrong, an American cyclist
• 1974 – Marie-France Dubreuil, a Canadian figure skater
• 1974 – Hadiqa Kiani, a Pakistani singer
• 1974 – Audrey Mestre, a French diver (died 2002)
• 1974 – Carolyn Murphy, an American model
• 1975 – Chris Cummings, a Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1976 – Iván Córdoba, a Colombian footballer
• 1976 – Bubba Crosby, an American baseball player
• 1976 – Will Friedle, an American actor
• 1976 – Ben Gibbard, an American singer-songwriter
• 1976 – Ľubomír Višňovský, a Slovak ice hockey player
• 1977 – Gemma Hayes, an Irish singer-songwriter
• 1977 – Dênio Martins, a Brazilian footballer
• 1978 – Spyros Gogolos, a Greek footballer
• 1978 – Charlotte Leslie, a British politician
• 1978 – Lillian Nakate, a Ugandan politician
• 1978 – Isy Suttie, an English comedian and actress
• 1979 – Walter Ayoví, an Ecuadorian footballer
• 1980 – Daniel Lloyd, an English cyclist
• 1980 – Lee Suggs, an American football player
• 1981 – Daniel Poohl, a Swedish journalist
• 1982 – Andy Lee, an American football player
• 1983 – Chris Hemsworth, an Australian actor
• 1983 – Luke Lewis, an Australian rugby league player
• 1983 – Pavel 183, a Russian painter (died 2013)
• 1984 – Mojtaba Abedini, an Iranian Olympic fencer
• 1984 – Melky Cabrera, a Dominican baseball player
• 1984 – Lucas di Grassi, a Brazilian race car driver
• 1985 – Jacqueline Fernandez, a Bahraini–Sri Lankan actress
• 1985 – Asher Roth, an American rapper
• 1986 – Mokhtar Benmoussa, an Algerian footballer
• 1986 – Hélène Defrance, a French sailor
• 1986 – Pablo Sandoval, a Venezuelan baseball player
• 1987 – Dany N'Guessan, a French footballer
• 1987 – Drew Storen, an American baseball player
• 1988 – Rabeh Al-Hussaini, a Filipino basketball player
• 1988 – Patty Mills, an Australian basketball player
• 1988 – Mustafa Pektemek, a Turkish footballer
• 1989 – Junior Heffernan, an Irish cyclist (died 2013)
• 1989 – Sebastian Huke, a German footballer
• 1990 – Lenka Juríková, a Slovak tennis player
• 1991 – Cristian Tello, a Spanish footballer
• 1992 – Tomi Lahren, an American political commentator
• 1993 – Alyson Stoner, an American actor and singer
• 1994 – Storm Sanders, an Australian tennis player
• 1994 – Anton Cooper, a New Zealand cyclist
• 1994 – Joseph Barbato, a French footballer
• 1994 – Song I-han, a South Korean singer
• 1995 – Brad Binder, a South African motorcycle racer
• 1997 – Sarah Clelland, a Scottish footballer
• 1999 – Gregoria Mariska Tunjung, an Indonesian badminton player
• 2001 – Moyuka Uchijima, a Japanese tennis player

Deaths

Historical Figures Who Died Before 1900

• 223 – Jia Xu, a Chinese politician (born 147)
• 353 – Magnentius, a Roman ruler (born 303)
• 449 – Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople
• 632 – Rusticula, an abbess
• 919 – Dhuka al-Rumi, an Abbasid governor
• 979 – Gero, Count of Alsleben
• 991 – Byrhtnoth, an English soldier (born 956)
• 1044 – Sokkate, a king of Burma (born 1001)
• 1204 – Guttorm of Norway (born 1199)
• 1253 – Clare of Assisi, an Italian saint (born 1194)
• 1259 – Möngke Khan, a Mongolian emperor (born 1208)
• 1268 – Agnes of Faucigny, a countess
• 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, a Scottish lord
• 1456 – John Hunyadi, a Hungarian general (born 1387)
• 1464 – Nicholas of Cusa, a German cardinal (born 1401)
• 1465 – Kettil Karlsson, a regent of Sweden (born 1433)
• 1486 – William Waynflete, an English Lord Chancellor (born c. 1398)
• 1494 – Hans Memling, a German-Belgian painter (born 1430)
• 1519 – Johann Tetzel, a German preacher (born 1465)
• 1556 – John Bell, an English bishop
• 1563 – Bartolomé de Escobedo, a Spanish composer (born 1500)
• 1578 – Pedro Nunes, a Portuguese mathematician (born 1502)
• 1596 – Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare (born 1585)
• 1614 – Lavinia Fontana, an Italian painter (born 1552)
• 1656 – Ottavio Piccolomini, an Austrian-Italian field marshal (born 1599)
• 1725 – Prince Vittorio Amedeo Theodore of Savoy (born 1723)
• 1774 – Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche, a French physician (born 1722)
• 1813 – Henry James Pye, an English poet (born 1745)
• 1851 – Lorenz Oken, a German botanist (born 1779)
• 1854 – Macedonio Melloni, an Italian physicist (born 1798)
• 1868 – Halfdan Kjerulf, a Norwegian composer (born 1815)
• 1886 – Lydia Koidula, an Estonian poet (born 1843)
• 1890 – John Henry Newman, an English cardinal (born 1801)
• 1892 – Enrico Betti, an Italian mathematician (born 1813)

People Who Died Recently (1901–Present)

• 1903 – Eugenio María de Hostos, a Puerto Rican-American sociologist (born 1839)
• 1908 – Khudiram Bose, an Indian revolutionary (born 1889)
• 1919 – Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist (born 1835)
• 1921 – Mary Sumner, an English philanthropist (born 1828)
• 1936 – Blas Infante, a Spanish historian (born 1885)
• 1937 – Edith Wharton, an American novelist (born 1862)
• 1939 – Jean Bugatti, a German-Italian engineer (born 1909)
• 1939 – Siegfried Flesch, an Austrian fencer (born 1872)
• 1945 – Stefan Jaracz, a Polish actor (born 1883)
• 1953 – Tazio Nuvolari, an Italian race car driver (born 1892)
• 1956 – Jackson Pollock, an American painter (born 1912)
• 1961 – Antanas Škėma, a Lithuanian-American author (born 1910)
• 1963 – Otto Wahle, an Austrian-American swimmer (born 1879)
• 1965 – Bill Woodfull, an Australian cricketer (born 1897)
• 1969 – Miriam Licette, an English soprano (born 1885)
• 1972 – Max Theiler, a South African-American virologist who won a Nobel Prize (born 1899)
• 1974 – Vicente Emilio Sojo, a Venezuelan composer (born 1887)
• 1977 – Frederic Calland Williams, a British co-inventor of early computer memory (born 1911)
• 1978 – Berta Ruck, a Welsh romance novelist (born 1878)
• 1979 – J. G. Farrell, an English author (born 1935)
• 1980 – Paul Robert, a French dictionary maker (born 1910)
• 1982 – Tom Drake, an American actor (born 1918)
• 1984 – Alfred A. Knopf Sr., an American publisher (born 1892)
• 1984 – Paul Felix Schmidt, an Estonian–American chemist and chess player (born 1916)
• 1986 – János Drapál, a Hungarian motorcycle racer (born 1948)
• 1988 – Anne Ramsey, an American actress (born 1929)
• 1989 – John Meillon, an Australian actor (born 1934)
• 1991 – J. D. McDuffie, an American race car driver (born 1938)
• 1994 – Peter Cushing, an English actor (born 1913)
• 1995 – Phil Harris, an American singer and actor (born 1904)
• 1996 – Rafael Kubelík, a Czech conductor (born 1914)
• 1996 – Ambrosio Padilla, a Filipino basketball player and politician (born 1910)
• 2000 – Jean Papineau-Couture, a Canadian composer (born 1916)
• 2001 – Percy Stallard, an English cyclist (born 1909)
• 2002 – Galen Rowell, an American photographer and mountaineer (born 1940)
• 2003 – Armand Borel, a Swiss-American mathematician (born 1923)
• 2003 – Herb Brooks, an American ice hockey coach (born 1937)
• 2006 – Mike Douglas, an American singer and talk show host (born 1920)
• 2008 – George Furth, an American actor and playwright (born 1932)
• 2008 – Dursun Karataş, a Turkish political leader (born 1952)
• 2009 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, an American activist who founded the Special Olympics (born 1921)
• 2010 – James Mourilyan Tanner, a British doctor (born 1920)
• 2012 – Red Bastien, an American wrestler (born 1931)
• 2012 – Michael Dokes, an American boxer (born 1958)
• 2012 – Lucy Gallardo, an Argentinian-Mexican actress (born 1929)
• 2013 – Raymond Delisle, a French cyclist (born 1943)
• 2013 – Zafar Futehally, an Indian ornithologist (born 1919)
• 2013 – David Howard, an English ballet dancer (born 1937)
• 2014 – Vladimir Beara, a Croatian footballer (born 1928)
• 2014 – Raymond Gravel, a Canadian priest and politician (born 1952)
• 2014 – Kika Szaszkiewiczowa, a Polish author (born 1917)
• 2014 – Robin Williams, a famous American actor and comedian (born 1951)
• 2015 – Serge Collot, a French viola player (born 1923)
• 2015 – Harald Nielsen, a Danish footballer (born 1941)
• 2015 – Richard Oriani, an American engineer (born 1920)
• 2017 – Yisrael Kristal, a Polish-Israeli supercentenarian and Holocaust survivor (born 1903)
• 2017 – Segun Bucknor, a Nigerian musician (born 1946)
• 2018 – V S Naipaul, a British writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature (born 1932)
• 2019 – Sergio Obeso Rivera, a Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1931)
• 2020 – Trini Lopez, an American singer and guitarist (born 1937)
• 2020 – Sumner Redstone, an American billionaire businessman (born 1923)
• 2022 – Anne Heche, an American actress (born 1969)
• 2022 – Hanae Mori, a Japanese fashion designer (born 1926)
• 2023 – Mike Ahern, an Australian politician (born 1942)

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)