On This Day
Sunday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
February 11 1968
Born on This Day
Adèle Haenel🇫🇷
actor · b. 1989
Adelheid Popp🇦🇹
deceasedjournalist · 1869–1939
Days lived
25,590
Alexander von Puttkamer🇩🇪
musician · b. 1973
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Alexandra Neldel🇩🇪
German actress · b. 1976
Allysin Chaynes🇺🇸
actor · b. 1979
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Andriy Lunin
association football player · b. 1999
Annelise Kretschmer🇩🇪
deceasedGerman photographer (1903–1987) · 1903–1987
Days lived
30,864
Audrey Peters🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actress (1927-2019) · 1927–2019
Days lived
33,775
Bogdan Bălan🇷🇴
French rugby union footballer · b. 1980
Burt Reynolds
deceasedactor · 1936–2018
Days lived
30,158
Carlo Carrà🇮🇹
deceasedartist · 1881–1966
Days lived
31,106
Cēzars Ozers🇷🇺
deceasedOlympic basketball player (1937–2023) · 1937–2023
Days lived
31,678
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Cheick Fantamady Diarra🇫🇷
Malian and French footballer · b. 1992
Damian Lewis🇬🇧
Television actor · b. 1971
Dianna Russini🇺🇸
Editor · b. 1983
Dieter Eppler🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1927–2008) · 1927–2008
Days lived
29,646
Dino (Lee Chan)🇰🇷
K-pop Idol (SEVENTEEN) · b. 1999
Douglas Davies🇬🇧
British theologian · b. 1947
Days alive
7,670
Else Lasker-Schüler🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1869–1945
Days lived
27,738
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Gary North🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican historian and author (1942–2022) · 1942–2022
Days lived
29,233
Gene Vincent🇺🇸
deceasedsinger-songwriter · 1935–1971
Days lived
13,392
Gerhard Glogowski🇩🇪
German politician · b. 1943
Days alive
9,131
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Gerry Goffin🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1939–2014
Days lived
27,522
Giuseppe De Santis🇮🇹
deceasedItalian film director (1917–1997) · 1917–1997
Days lived
29,314
Harold Gilman
deceasedartist · 1876–1919
Days lived
15,706
Ian Porterfield🇬🇧
deceasedfootball player · 1946–2007
Days lived
22,492
Ikuhiro Kiyota🇯🇵
film director · b. 1986
Immy Schell🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian actress (1935-1992) · 1935–1992
Days lived
21,004
Isaiah Mustafa🇺🇸
actor · b. 1974
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Jacques Corrèze🇫🇷
deceasedFrench politician and businessman (1912-1991) · 1912–1991
Days lived
28,990
Jaroslav Špaček🇨🇿
athlete · b. 1974
Jennifer Aniston
television actor · b. 1969
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican film director, screenwriter, and producer (1909-1993) · 1909–1993
Days lived
30,675
Kelly Rowland
singer · b. 1981
Ken Shamrock🇺🇸
American mixed martial artist, professional wrestler and actor · b. 1964
Days alive
1,461
Khalid
singer · b. 1998
Leó Szilárd🇭🇺
deceasedscientist · 1898–1964
Days lived
24,214
Leslie Nielsen🇨🇦
deceasedEuropean-Canadian/American businessman, entrepreneur, actor, producer and comedian (1926–2010) · 1926–2010
Days lived
30,971
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Lisa Martinek🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1972–2019
Days lived
17,304
Mathieu Nicolas🇫🇷
French rugby union player · b. 1987
Michael Scott
deceasedActor · 1945–2025
Days lived
29,280
Mike Markkula
Actor · b. 1942
Days alive
9,496
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Mike Shinoda🇺🇸
singer · b. 1977
Milka Hartman🇦🇹
deceasedmusician · 1902–1997
Days lived
34,817
Patrik Kühnen🇩🇪
German tennis player · b. 1966
Days alive
730
Peter Leonhard Braun🇩🇪
German radio producer · b. 1929
Days alive
14,244
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Q'orianka Kilcher🇺🇸
American actress · b. 1990
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Rafael van der Vaart
Dutch association football player (born 1983) · b. 1983
Rosé
singer · b. 1997
Rosé (Park Chaeyoung)🇳🇿
K-pop Idol (BLACKPINK) · b. 1997
Rudolf Bauer🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1889–1953
Days lived
23,334
Saana Saarteinen🇫🇮
Finnish female tennis player · b. 1993
Shawn Lee
Actor · b. 1990
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Sheryl Crow🇺🇸
singer-songwriter · b. 1962
Days alive
2,191
Sonia Rolland
Actor · b. 1981
Stanko Bloudek
deceasedfigure skater, discus thrower, football executive and engineer (1890–1959) · 1890–1959
Days lived
25,489
Takeshi Obata🇯🇵
Japanese manga artist (born 1969) · b. 1969
Taylor Lautner🇺🇸
actor · b. 1992
Thomas Edison🇺🇸
deceasedEngineer · 1847–1931
Days lived
30,929
Yang Bin🇨🇳
Chinese businessman and tax evader · b. 1963
Days alive
1,826
Died on This Day
Anne Cuneo🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss journalist (1936-2015) · 1936–2015
Days lived
28,647
Christian Bérard🇫🇷
deceasedFrench artist, fashion illustrator, and designer (1902-1949) · 1902–1949
Days lived
16,977
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Frank Herbert🇺🇸
deceasedwriter · 1920–1986
Days lived
23,867
Harry Arnold🇸🇪
deceasedSwedish jazz saxophonist and bandleader (1920–1971) · 1920–1971
Days lived
18,450
James Bryant Conant🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican chemist (1893–1978) · 1893–1978
Days lived
31,002
Katsuya Nomura🇯🇵
deceasedfilm director · 1935–2020
Days lived
30,908
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Kelvin Kiptum
deceasedathletics competitor · 1999–2024
Days lived
8,837
Lee J. Cobb
deceasedActor · 1911–1976
Days lived
23,441
Ludwig Nolden🇩🇪
deceasedGerman association football player (1935–2024) · 1935–2024
Days lived
32,271
Patsy O'Connell Sherman🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican chemist · 1930–2008
Days lived
28,273
Roberto Mangas🇲🇽
deceasedMexican alpinist · 1914–1982
Days lived
24,862
Rudolf Hilferding🇦🇹
deceasedwriter · 1877–1941
Days lived
23,195
Sergei Eisenstein🇱🇻
deceasedSoviet filmmaker (1898–1948) · 1898–1948
Days lived
18,281
Simon Brehm🇸🇪
deceasedrapper · 1921–1967
Days lived
16,478
Sylvia Plath🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican poet and writer (1932–1963) · 1932–1963
Days lived
11,064
Tadeusz Dembończyk🇵🇱
deceasedPolish weightlifter · 1955–2004
Days lived
17,582
Teddy Bill🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian actor (1900–1949) · 1900–1949
Days lived
17,617
Victor Klemperer🇵🇱
deceasedpolitician · 1881–1960
Days lived
28,613
Vladimir Smirnov🇷🇺
deceasedscientist · 1887–1974
Days lived
31,657
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Whitney Houston🇺🇸
deceasedSinger · 1963–2012
Days lived
17,718
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,043
Gertrude W. Hoffmann🇩🇪
deceasedcharacter actress (1871-1968) · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,335
Camille Huysmans🇧🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,338
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Rudolph Dirks🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,290
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Arthur Mallwitz🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
Helen Keller🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,714
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Sergeant Reckless🇺🇸
deceasedMongolian mare · 1948–1968
Days lived
7,438
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,887
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,584
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,157
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,599
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,565
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,199
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,643
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,295
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,094
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,608
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,626
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,295
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,647
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,190
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,100
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,077
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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