Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 11
Births
[edit]- 1744 - Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (d. 1818) (pictured)
- 1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (d. 1881)
- 1885 - George Smith Patton, Jr., American general (d. 1945)
- 1922 - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., American novelist (d. 2007)
- 1962 - Demi Moore, American actress
- 1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
Deaths
[edit]- 1831 - Nat Turner, American slave rebel (b. 1800)
- 1855 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
- 1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (hanged)
- 1938 - Typhoid Mary, carrier of the typhoid disease (b. 1869)
- 1976 - Alexander Calder, American artist (b. 1898)
- 2004 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929)