What happened on August 11 ?

480 BC - Leonidas, King of Sparta

353 - Magnentius, Roman usurper

449 - Flavian, patriarch of Constantinople

897 - Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona

1204 - King Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199)

1253 - Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (b. 1194)

1456 - John Hunyadi, Regent of Kingdom of Hungary (b. 1387)

1464 - Nicholas of Cusa, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1401)

1519 - Johann Tetzel, German opponent of the Reformation (b. 1465)

1563 - Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer

1578 - Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (b. 1502)

1614 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)

1656 - Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (b. 1599)

1676 - Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German writer (b. 1621)

1774 - Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (b. 1722)

1813 - Henry James Pye, English poet (b. 1745)

1851 - Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (b. 1779)

1854 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (b. 1798)

1890 - John Henry Cardinal Newman, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1801)

1892 - Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)

1919 - Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1835)

1937 - Edith Wharton, American author (b. 1862)

1939 - Jean Bugatti, Italian automobile designer (b. 1909)

1953 - Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver (b. 1892)

1956 - Jackson Pollock, American artist (b. 1912)

1961 - Antanas ?k?ma, Lithuanian writer, stage actor and director (b. 1910)

1972 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)

1973 - Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)

1984 - Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (b. 1892)

1988 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)

1994 - Peter Cushing, British actor (b. 1913)

1996 - Rafael Kubelik, Czech-born conductor and composer (b. 1914)

2003 - Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923)

2003 - Herb Brooks, American hockey coach (b. 1937)