May 11 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on May 11, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♉︎ Taurus
Apr 20 – May 20
Birth stone
Emerald
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
How common
#298 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous May 11 birthdays
Jean-Léon Gérôme · French painter and sculptor1824
Charles W. Fairbanks · American politician; Vice President of the United1852
Theodore von Kármán · Hungarian-American mathematician1881
Irving Berlin · American composer and lyricist1888
Martha Graham · American dancer and choreographer1894
Pridi Banomyong · Thai prime minister1900
Salvador Dalí · Spanish artist1904
Camilo José Cela · Spanish writer1916
Richard Feynman · American theoretical physicist1918
Antony Hewish · English physicist and radio astronomer1924
Edsger W. Dijkstra · Dutch computer scientist1930
Natasha Richardson · British actress1963
Sue Gardner · Canadian journalist1967
Laetitia Casta · French actress and model1978
Daisuke Matsui · Japanese association football player1981
Andrés Iniesta · Spanish footballer and manager1984
Giovani dos Santos · Mexican association football player1989
Thibaut Courtois · Belgian association football player1992
Lana Condor · Vietnamese-American actress1997
Sabrina Carpenter · American singer-songwriter and actress1999
On this day in history
1858Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
1880A land dispute between the Southern Pacific Railroad and settlers in Hanford, California, turned deadly when a gun battle broke out, leaving seven dead.
1910Glacier National Park was established in the U.S. state of Montana.
2010David Cameron took office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed the country's first coalition government since the Second World War.
1973Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg's charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times are dismissed.
1981Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats (performers pictured), opened at the New London Theatre.
1997Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in six games to become the first chess computer to win a match against a world champion.
1998India began the Pokhran-II nuclear-weapons test, its first since the Smiling Buddha test 24 years earlier.
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