August 11
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Art and culture
- 1919 - Constitution of Weimar Republic adopted
- 1966 - John Lennon holds a press conference in Chicago apologizing for stating that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus".
- 1984 - United States President Ronald Reagan, during a voice check for a radio broadcast remarks "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes".
Births
- 1932 - Fernando Arrabal, Spanish writer
- 1933 - Jerry Falwell, American preacher (d. 2007)
Deaths
- 1937 - Edith Wharton, American author (b. 1862)
- 1939 - Jean Bugatti, Italian automobile designer (b. 1909)
- 1953 - Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver (b. 1892)
- 1956 - Jackson Pollock, American artist (b. 1912)
- 1961 - Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian writer, stage actor and director (b. 1910)
- 1972 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1899)
- 1974 - Jan Tschichold, German typographer (b. 1902)
- 1980 - Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)
- 1982 - Tom Drake, American actor (b. 1918)
- 1984 - Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (b. 1892)
- 1984 - Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player (b. 1916)
- 1988 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)
- 1991 - J. D. McDuffie, NASCAR driver (b. 1939)
- 1994 - Peter Cushing, British actor (b. 1913)
- 1995 - Phil Harris, American singer, songwriter, and comedian (b. 1904)
- 1996 - Rafael Kubelík, Czech-born conductor and composer (b. 1914)
- 2000 - Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer (b. 1916)
- 2001 - Percy Stallard, English racing cyclist (b. 1909)
- 2002 - Galen Rowell, photographer and climber (b. 1940)
- 2003 - Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923)
- 2003 - Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach (b. 1937)
- 2005 - James Booth, English actor (b. 1927)
- 2006 - Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1925)
Notes
- Fernando Arrabal
- Jackson Pollock
- Jindřich Štyrský
- Richard Monckton Milnes
- Edith Wharton
- Hans Memling
- Peter Cushing
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