History Births on May 11

Matt Leinart, American football player

#Matt_Leinart

Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter (d. 1912)

#Harriet_Quimby

Willie Applegarth, English-American sprinter (d. 1958)

#Willie_Applegarth

Steve Bono, American football player

#Steve_Bono

Lise de Baissac, Mauritian-born SOE agent, war hero (d. 2004)

#Lise_de_Baissac

Nirj Deva, Sri Lankan-English politician

#Nirj_Deva

Eric Burdon, English musician

#Eric_Burdon

Irving Berlin, Belarusian-American pianist and composer (d. 1989)

#Irving_Berlin

Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician (d. 2016)

#Hildegard_Hamm-Brücher

Gene Savoy, American explorer, author, and scholar (d. 2007)

#Gene_Savoy

Jeremy Paxman, English journalist and author

#Jeremy_Paxman

Mitch Healey, Australian rugby league player and coach

#Mitch_Healey

Kardinal Offishall, American rapper and record producer/executive

#Kardinal_Offishall

Lim Seul-ong, South Korean singer and actor

#Lim_Seul-ong

Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer

#Andrés_Iniesta

Pablo Sarabia, Spanish footballer

#Pablo_Sarabia

Maurice Harkless, American-Puerto Rican basketball player

#Maurice_Harkless

José Mariano Salas, Mexican general and politician. President (1846, 1859) Regent during the Second Mexican Empire (d. 1867)

#José_Mariano_Salas

Edward J. King, American football player and politician, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2006)

#Edward_J._King

Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer and academic (d. 1955)

#Josip_Štolcer-Slavenski

Niwa Nagashige, Japanese daimy? (d. 1637)

#Niwa_Nagashige

Brad Marchand, Canadian ice hockey player

#Brad_Marchand

Helge Løvland, Norwegian decathlete (d. 1984)

#Helge_Løvland

Laetitia Casta, French model and actress

#Laetitia_Casta

Francisco Cordero, Dominican-American baseball player

#Francisco_Cordero

Hagos Gebrhiwet, Ethiopian runner

#Hagos_Gebrhiwet

Kaitlyn Dias, American actress and voice artist

#Kaitlyn_Dias

Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist and academic (d. 2002)

#Edsger_W._Dijkstra

Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)

#Martha_Graham

Ed Stelmach, Canadian farmer and politician, 13th Premier of Alberta

#Ed_Stelmach

Jeremy Maclin, American football player

#Jeremy_Maclin

Tomáš Dvo?ák, Czech decathlete and coach

#Tomáš_Dvo?ák

Ildikó Újlaky-Rejt?, Hungarian Olympic and world champion foil fencer

#Ildikó_Újlaky-Rejt?

Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (d. 1932)

#Jack_Blackham

Bobby Roode, Canadian professional wrestler

#Bobby_Roode

Bobby Witt, American baseball player

#Bobby_Witt

Louis Farrakhan, American religious leader

#Louis_Farrakhan

Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (d. 1985)

#Phil_Silvers

Victor Matfield, South African rugby player, coach, and sportscaster

#Victor_Matfield

Simon Vroemen, Dutch runner

#Simon_Vroemen

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (d. 1840):94

#Johann_Friedrich_Blumenbach

Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (d. 1978)

#Jacques_Brugnon

Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist and author (d. 2007)

#Francisco_Umbral

Rose Ausländer, Ukrainian-English poet and author (d. 1988):7

#Rose_Ausländer

John Gregory, English footballer and manager

#John_Gregory_(footballer)

Mike Nesbitt, Northern Irish journalist and politician

#Mike_Nesbitt

Holly Valance, Australian actress, singer and model

#Holly_Valance

Cam Newton, American football player

#Cam_Newton

Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral (d. 1945)

#Willis_Augustus_Lee

Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player and manager (d. 1993)

#Charlie_Gehringer

Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and singer (d. 2013)

#Cory_Monteith

Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1944)

#Jan_van_Gilse

Gladys Rockmore Davis, American painter (d. 1967)

#Gladys_Rockmore_Davis

Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician (d. 1893)

#Jean-Jacques_Challet-Venel

Richard Feynman, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)

#Richard_Feynman

Paul Nash, British painter (d. 1946)

#Paul_Nash_(artist)

Jim Jeffords, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 2014)

#Jim_Jeffords

William Grant Still, American composer and conductor (d. 1978)

#William_Grant_Still

Miguel Veloso, Portuguese footballer

#Miguel_Veloso

Bernard Fox, British actor (d. 2016)

#Bernard_Fox_(actor)

Charles W. Fairbanks, American journalist and politician, 26th United States Vice President (d. 1918)

#Charles_W._Fairbanks

Gelson Martins, Portuguese footballer

#Gelson_Martins

Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)

#Camilo_José_Cela

Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (d. 1963)

#Theodore_von_Kármán

Narendra Patel, Baron Patel, Tanzanian-English obstetrician, academic, and politician

#Narendra_Patel,_Baron_Patel

Thibaut Courtois, Belgian footballer

#Thibaut_Courtois

Giovani dos Santos, Mexican footballer

#Giovani_dos_Santos

Abou Diaby, French footballer

#Abou_Diaby

Al Cabrera, Spanish-Cuban baseball player and manager (d. 1964)

#Al_Cabrera

Sabrina Carpenter, American singer and actress

#Sabrina_Carpenter

Monica Ro?u, Romanian gymnast

Steven Sotloff, American-Israeli journalist (d. 2014)

Pablo Gabriel García, Uruguayan footballer

Darren Ward, English-Welsh footballer and coach

Tsuyoshi Ogata, Japanese runner

Jason Queally, English cyclist

Harold Ford, Jr., American lawyer and politician

Alberto García Aspe, Mexican footballer and manager

Floyd Youmans, American baseball player, coach, and manager

John DeStefano, Jr., American politician, 49th Mayor of New Haven

Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (d. 2014)

Jack Cantoni, French rugby player (d. 2013)

John Benaud, Australian cricketer

Nancy Greene, Canadian skier and politician

Ian Redpath, Australian cricketer and coach

Valentino Garavani, Italian fashion designer

Stanley Elkin, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1995)

Antony Hewish, English astronomer and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Robin Barbour, Scottish minister and author (d. 2014)

Saadat Hasan Manto, Indian-Pakistani author and screenwriter (d. 1955)

Mitchell Sharp, Canadian economist and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Finance (d. 2004)

Rip Sewell, American baseball player and coach (d. 1989)

Catherine Bauer Wurster, American architect and public housing advocate (d. 1964)

Robert E. Gross, American businessman (d. 1961)

Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer and author (d. 1943)

Archibald Warden, English tennis player (d. 1943)

Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, German organist (d. 1739)