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In the early part of his UFC career, Shamrock was named "The World's Most Dangerous Man" by ABC News in a special called "The World's Most Dangerous Things".
Famous Birthdays on February 11
1964 — Ken Shamrock
American martial artist and wrestler
February 11 has 176 recorded notable births across history, from 1380 to 2002. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on February 11
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- 1861 American Civil War: The United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state. Source
- 1946 The New Testament of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first significant challenge to the Authorized King James Version, is published. Source
- 1979 The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Source
- 1971 Cold War: The Seabed Arms Control Treaty opens for signature, outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters. Source
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Khalid signed with Courtney Stewart's Right Hand Music Group, an imprint of RCA Records to release his 2016 debut single, "Location" and its 2017 follow-up, "Young Dumb & Broke".
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Laurent Duvernay-Tardif played university football and attended medical school at McGill University in Montreal before being selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the sixth round of the 2014 NFL draft and playing six years on the team.
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Josh Jacobs played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide and was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the first round of the 2019 NFL draft.
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Melville Weston Fuller was an American politician, attorney, and jurist who served as the eighth chief justice of the United States from 1888 until his death in 1910.
More major people born on February 11
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1998
Khalid
American singer and songwriter
Khalid Donnel Robinson is an American singer and songwriter from El Paso, Texas.
1991
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif
Canadian football player and medical doctor
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is a Canadian physician and former professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL).
1998
Josh Jacobs
American football player
Joshua Cordell Jacobs is an American professional football running back for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL).
1833
Melville Fuller
American lawyer and jurist, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (died 1910)
Melville Weston Fuller was an American politician, attorney, and jurist who served as the eighth chief justice of the United States from 1888 until his death in 1910.
1839
Josiah Willard Gibbs
American physicist (died 1903)
Josiah Willard Gibbs was an American mechanical engineer and scientist who made fundamental theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics.
1800
Henry Fox Talbot
English photographer and politician, invented the calotype (died 1877)
William Henry Fox Talbot was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries.
1959
Roberto Moreno
Brazilian race car driver
Roberto Pupo Moreno is a Brazilian former racing driver. He participated in 75 Formula One Grands Prix, achieved one podium, and scored a total of fifteen championship points.
1888
John Warren Davis
American educator, college administrator, and civil rights leader (died 1980)
John Warren Davis was an American educator, college administrator, and civil rights leader.
1624
Ivan Ančić
Croatian Franciscan and religious writer (died 1685)
Ivan Ančić was a Croatian Franciscan priest and religious writer in the Catholic Revival tradition.
1987
Ellen van Dijk
Dutch cyclist
Eleonora Maria "Ellen" van Dijk is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Lidl–Trek. Besides road cycling she was also a track cyclist until 2012.
1896
Claire Myers Owens
American author (died 1983)
Claire Myers Owens (1896–1983) was an American novelist, essayist, and poet. She wrote a novel and several autobiographical books about spirituality and her experiences with Zen Buddhism.
1981
Kelly Rowland
American singer and actress
Kelendria Trene "Kelly" Rowland is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as a member of Destiny's Child, one of the world's best-selling girl groups.
1380
Poggio Bracciolini
Italian scholar and translator (died 1459)
Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, usually referred to simply as Poggio Bracciolini, was an Italian scholar and an early Renaissance humanist.
1919
Eva Gabor
Hungarian-American actress (died 1995)
Eva Gabor was a Hungarian born American actress and socialite.
1917
Sidney Sheldon
American author and screenwriter (died 2007)
Sidney Sheldon was an American writer. He was prominent in the 1940s and 50s, first working on Broadway plays, and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947),…
1898
Leo Szilard
Hungarian-American physicist and academic (died 1964)
Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-born American physicist, biologist and inventor who made numerous important discoveries in nuclear physics and the biological sciences.
1909
Max Baer
American boxer and actor (died 1959)
Maximilian Adelbert Baer Sr. was an American professional boxer and the world heavyweight champion from June 14, 1934, to June 13, 1935. He was known in his time as the Livermore Larupper and Madcap Maxie.
1971
Damian Lewis
English actor
Damian Watcyn Lewis is a British actor and musician. He rose to prominence portraying U.S. Army Major Richard Winters in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers.
1935
Gene Vincent
American singer and guitarist (died 1971)
Vincent Eugene Craddock, known as Gene Vincent, was an American rock and roll musician who pioneered the style of rockabilly.