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This is a list of selected February 11 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit.
February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; ... [22] 1901–present. 1903 ... killing 77 people.
1700 - Birth of Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (d. 1782) 1807 - Birth of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist (d. 1889) 1834 - Birth of Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907) 1856 - Death of Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (b. 1773) 1906 - Birth of Chester Carlson, American physicist and inventor (d ...
15 February 1786 – Cat's Eye Nebula discovered; 18 February 1838 – Ernst Mach's birthday; 11 February 1847 – Thomas Edison's birthday; 23 February 1855 – Carl Friedrich Gauss's death; 22 February 1875 – Heinrich Hertz's birthday; 28 February 1901 – Linus Pauling's birthday; 18 February 1967 – J. Robert Oppenheimer's death
1939 – In one of the most famous errors in lexicography, the erroneous word "dord" was discovered in Webster's New International Dictionary by an editor. 1974 – The British election ended in a hung parliament after the Liberal Party , under Jeremy Thorpe , achieved their highest ever number of votes.
Matt Dennis (February 11, 1914 –June 21, 2002), American arranger, bandleader, and composer, would have turned 110 this year. John Mills Sr. (February 11, 1882 –December 08, 1967), (born John Hutchinson Mills) American vocalist and saxophonist with Mills Brothers, would have turned 142 this year.
Famous people born on Leap Day. Leap Day babies make up a small percentage of the population, but several notable people have been born on Feb. 29 in even-numbered years. Here are a few notable names:
The site was updated to its current format in November 7, 2012, by Evan Britton, [7] who has since described the website as "Wikipedia for Generation Z". [8] [7] Famous Birthdays originally focused on more traditional celebrities (such as actors, athletes, musicians, etc.), but has since expanded to also feature internet personalities. [2]