What Happened In August 1911 In History

Historical Events for August, 1911

• 21st » The 'Mona Lisa' is art theft e.g stolen by a Musée du Louvre named Louvre employee.
• 29th » Ishi, considered the last Native Americans in the United States known as Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1911

• 1st » Jackie Ormes, American cartoonist (d. 1985)
• 3rd » Alex McCrindle, Scottish actor (d. 1990)
• 5th » Robert Taylor (actor) or Robert Taylor, American actor and singer (d. 1969)
• 6th » Lucille Ball, American actress, singer, and producer (d. 1989)
• 6th » Norman Gordon, South African cricketer (d. 2014)
• 6th » Constance Heaven, English author and actress (d. 1995)
• 7th » István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician (d. 1979)
• 7th » Nicholas Ray, American director and screenwriter (d. 1979)
• 8th » Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (d. 2002)
• 9th » William Alfred Fowler, American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics or Nobel Laureate (d. 1996)
• 9th » Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (d. 2001)
• 10th » Leonidas Andrianopoulos, Greek footballer (d. 2011)
• 10th » A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian and author (d. 1993)
• 12th » Cantinflas, Mexican actor, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1993)
• 13th » William Bernbach, American advertiser, co-founded DDB Worldwide (d. 1982)
• 14th » Jan Koetsier, Dutch composer and conductor (d.2006)
• 14th » Vethathiri Maharishi, Indian spiritual leader (d. 2006)
• 16th » E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (d. 1977)
• 17th » Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (d. 1995)
• 17th » Martin Sandberger, German colonel and lawyer (d. 2010)
• 18th » Amelia Boynton Robinson, American activist
• 19th » Anna Terruwe, Dutch psychiatrist and author (d. 2004)
• 23rd » Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski-jumper (d. 1998)
• 24th » Viktor Barna, Hungarian-English table tennis player (d. 1972)
• 24th » Lofty England, English engineer and manager (d. 1995)
• 24th » Durward Kirby, American television host and announcer (d. 2000)
• 24th » Michel Pablo, Egyptian-Greek Trotskyist leader (d. 1996)
• 25th » Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Minister of Defence (Vietnam) known as Minister of Defence for Vietnam (d. 2013)
• 26th » Otto Binder, American author and screenwriter (d. 1974)
• 27th » Kay Walsh, English actress, singer and dancer (d. 2005)
• 28th » Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and diplomat, 5th Secretary General of NATO (d. 2002)
• 31st » Edward Brongersma, Dutch journalist and politician (d. 1998)
• 31st » Arsenio Rodríguez, Cuban-American Tres (instrument) e.g tres player, composer, and bandleader (d. 1970)

Famous Deaths for August 1911

• 1st » Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (b. 1852)
• 1st » Samuel Arza Davenport, American lawyer and politician (b. 1843)
• 5th » Bob Caruthers, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1864)
• 8th » William P. Frye, American lawyer and politician (b. 1830)
• 16th » Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (b. 1830)

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