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As of June 2019, Blyton was the fourth-most translated author.
Famous Birthdays on August 11
1897 — Enid Blyton
English author, poet, and educator (died 1968)
August 11 has 206 recorded notable births across history, from 1086 to 2002. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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1086 – 2002
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Major events on August 11
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- 1984 "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio. Source
- 1991 Nickelodeon's first line of "Nicktoons" (Doug, Rugrats & Ren & Stimpy) premiere on the channel. Source
- 1962 Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity. Source
- 1920 The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence. Source
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In January 1964, they had their first UK top-ten single, "Glad All Over", which knocked the Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" off the top of the UK Singles Chart.
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Anna Massey won a BAFTA Best Actress Award for the role of Edith Hope in the 1986 TV adaptation of Anita Brookner's novel Hotel du Lac, a role that one of her co-stars, Julia McKenzie, has said "could have been written for her".
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In 2007, he became the third Indigenous basketball player to play for the Australian national team.
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Pablo Sandoval hit three home runs in Game 1 of the 2012 World Series, becoming the fourth player to hit three home runs in a World Series game, leading to his being named that year's World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP).
More major people born on August 11
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1943
Denis Payton
English saxophonist (died 2006)
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1937
Anna Massey
English actress (died 2011)
Anna Raymond Massey was an English actress. She won a BAFTA Best Actress Award for the role of Edith Hope in the 1986 TV adaptation of Anita Brookner's novel Hotel du Lac, a role that one of her co-stars, Julia…
1988
Patty Mills
Australian basketball player
Patrick Sammie Mills is an Australian professional basketball player who last played for La Laguna Tenerife of the Liga ACB.
1986
Pablo Sandoval
Venezuelan baseball player
Pablo Emilio Sandoval Reyes is a Venezuelan-American professional baseball third baseman.
1967
Enrique Bunbury
Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist
Enrique Ortiz de Landázuri Izarduy, best known as Enrique Bunbury, is a Spanish singer and songwriter.
1892
Hugh MacDiarmid
Scottish poet and linguist (died 1978)
Christopher Murray Grieve, best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid, was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure.
1962
Charles Cecil
English video game designer and co-founded Revolution Software
Charles Cecil is a British video game designer and co-founder of Revolution Software.
1909
Uku Masing
Estonian philosopher and theologian (died 1985)
Uku Masing was an Estonian polymath who contributed to theology, oriental studies, philosophy, poetry, folklore and to the field of ethnology. He was a significant figure in Estonian religious philosophy.
1870
Tom Richardson
English cricketer (died 1912)
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1953
Wijda Mazereeuw
Dutch swimmer
Wijda Mazereeuw is a retired swimmer from the Netherlands. Individually she competed in the 200 m and 400 m medley event at the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke at the 1976 Summer Olympics,…
1947
Georgios Karatzaferis
Greek journalist and politician
Georgios Karatzaferis is a Greek politician, a former member of the Hellenic Parliament and the former president of the Popular Orthodox Rally.
1994
Song I-han
South Korean singer
Song Byeong-hwa, known professionally as Song I-han (송이한), is a South Korean singer-songwriter.
1959
László Szlávics
Jr., Hungarian sculptor
László Szlávics is a Hungarian sculptor and medallic artist. He publishes his works under the names László, ifj. Szlávics or Laszlo Szlavics Jr.László Szlávics jr. has set several new norms in Hungarian medallic art.
1929
Manabendra Mukhopadhyay
Indian singer (died 1992)
Manabendra Mukhopadhyay was an Indian singer and music composer in Bengali films.
1807
David Rice Atchison
American general, lawyer, and politician (died 1886)
David Rice Atchison was a mid-19th-century Democratic United States Senator from Missouri. He served as president pro tempore of the United States Senate for six years.
1922
John "Mule" Miles
American baseball player (died 2013)
John "Mule" Miles was an American professional baseball player who played with the Chicago American Giants of the Negro leagues from 1946 to 1949.
1961
David Brooks
American journalist and author
David Brooks is a Canadian-born American book author and political and cultural commentator.
1718
Frederick Haldimand
Swiss-English general and politician, 22nd Governor of Quebec (died 1791)
Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Haldimand, KB was a Swiss army officer and colonial administrator best known for his service in the British Army in North America during the Seven Years' War and the American…
1921
Alex Haley
American historian and author (died 1992)
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family.