February 11
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Art and culture
- 1952 - L'Anticoncept premieres in Paris, France.
- 1978 - Censorship: the People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens.
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Births
- 1380 - Poggio, Italian Renaissance humanist autor (Facetiae) (d. 1459)
- 1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor-lightbulb (d. 1931)
- 1860 - Rachilde, French author (d. 1953)
- 1881 - Carlo Carrà, Italian futurist painter (d. 1966)
- 1900 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (d. 2002)
- 1902 - Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect (d. 1971)
- 1917 - Giuseppe De Santis, Italian film director (Bitter Rice) (d. 1997)
- 1934 - Mary Quant, English fashion designer (d. 2023)
- 1950 - Rochelle Fleming, American vocalist (First Choice)
- 1960 - Nick Currie, Scottish musician (AKA Momus)
- 1962 - Sheryl Crow, American musician
- 1966 - Tenor Saw, Jamaican dancehall singer (d. 1988)
- 1974 - D'Angelo, American singer
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Deaths
- 1650 - René Descartes, French philosopher (b. 1596)
- 1685 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (b. 1638)
- 1829 - Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (b. 1795)
- 1848 - Thomas Cole, American artist (b. 1801)
- 1947 - Edith Maude Hull, British author (The Sheik) (b. 1880)
- 1948 - Sergei Eisenstein, Latvian film director (b. 1898)
- 1954 - Olga Khokhlova, Ukrainian-Russian dancer, first wife of Pablo Picasso (b. 1891)
- 1963 - Sylvia Plath, American writer (b. 1932)
- 2000 - Roger Vadim, French director (b. 1928)
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