The 223rd day of the year, the 224th in a leap year

Born on 11 August

Every 11 August birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Leo, in every time zone.

Star sign
LeoFire, fixed, ruled by the Sun.
Birthstone
Peridot, Spinel, SardonyxThe 1912 list gave Sardonyx and Peridot.
Birth flower
Gladiolus, PoppyUsually taken today to mean strength of character and remembrance.
Most common weekdays
Thursday and Tuesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where the sun stands on 11 August. The marked arc is every position it has held on 11 August, midnight to midnight UTC, in any year since 1920.

Your year

Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 11 August in any year.

Which weekday 11 August falls on

Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 11 August falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Tuesday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Sunday 15.

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How common a birthday 11 August is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,849 babies were born on 11 August in each year of the twenty, making it the 87th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.

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Born on 11 August

18 people born on 11 August, from English Wikipedia's list of births on this day, chosen and ordered by how many Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have a page about them.
NameYearsKnown for
Pervez Musharraf1943–2023Pakistani soldier and politician
Steve Wozniak1950–American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
Chris Hemsworth1983–Australian actor
Enid Blyton1897–1968English author
Hulk Hogan1953–2025American professional wrestler, actor and television personality
Viola Davis1965–American actress and producer
Christiaan Eijkman1858–1930Dutch physician
Aaron Klug1926–2018British chemist and biophysicist
Sadi Carnot1837–18945th president of France
Massimiliano Allegri1967–Italian association football manager and former player
Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor1086–1125King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor, the fourth and last ruler of the Salian dynasty
Jacqueline Fernandez1985–Sri Lankan actress
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899American lawyer, orator, and politician
Joe Rogan1967–American broadcaster, comedian, and actor
Alex Haley1921–1992American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
Anna Gunn1968–American actress
Iván Córdoba1976–Colombian footballer
Masayoshi Son1957–Japanese businessman

Died on 11 August

12 people who died on 11 August, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Robin Williams1951–2014American actor and comedian
Jackson Pollock1912–1956American painter
Andrew Carnegie1835–1919Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist
V. S. Naipaul1932–2018Trinidadian-British writer
Edith Wharton1862–1937American writer and designer
Nicholas of Cusa1401–1464German philosopher
Clare of Assisi1194–1253Italian saint
John Henry Newman1801–1890English cleric and cardinal
Max Theiler1899–1972South African-American virologist and doctor
Möngke Khan1209–1259Fourth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire
Lydia Koidula1843–1886Estonian poet
Peter Cushing1913–1994British actor

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