Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 11

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[edit] Births

• 1657 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (d. 1757) (pictured)
• 1800 - William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographer (d. 1877)
• 1847 - Thomas Edison, American inventor (d. 1931)
• 1919 - Eva Gabor, Hungarian-born actress (d. 1995)
• 1926 - Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor
• 1935 - Gene Vincent, American musician (d. 1971)
• 1962 - Sheryl Crow, American musician
• 1969 - Jennifer Aniston, American actress

[edit] Deaths

• 1650 - René Descartes, French philosopher (b. 1596)
• 1797 - Antoine Dauvergne, French composer (b. 1713)
• 1868 - Léon Foucault, French astronomer (b. 1819)
• 1963 - Sylvia Plath, American writer (b. 1932)