August 11th, 1927

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Born on August 11th, 1927 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
Born on August 11th, 1927: When to retire?
What happened on August 11th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on August 11th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (August 1927)

Born on August 11th, 1927

Weekday

Thursday

August 11th, 1927 was a Thursday.

Age

People born on August 11th, 1927 will turn 97 this year (2024), in exactly 109 days .

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

July 23rd, 1927 - August 23rd, 1927

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 35,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 679 days, exactly on March 4th, 2026, people who were born on August 11th, 1927 will be 36,000 days old!

35,321 Days

5,045 Weeks

1,160 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

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Born on August 11th, 1927: When to retire?

Birth

67 80

Childhood & Education 20 Years

Work 47 Years

Retirement 13 Years

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What happened on August 11th?

August 11th, 1999

Ken Levine's System Shock 2 was released to mediocre sales, but was critically acclaimed and highly influenced subsequent first-person shooter game design.

August 11th, 1973

At a party in New York City, Jamaican musician DJ Kool Herc (pictured) began rapping during an extended break, laying the foundation for hip hop music.

August 11th, 1952

King Talal of Jordan was forced to abdicate due to mental illness and was succeeded by his eldest son Hussein .

August 11th, 1945

Amid rumors of kidnappings of children by Jews in Kraków, a crowd of Poles took part in a pogrom, resulting in at least one death.

August 11th, 1929

The first Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic, the oldest and largest African-American parade in the United States, was held in Chicago.

August 11th, 1786

Francis Light founded George Town, the first British settlement in Southeast Asia and the present-day capital of the Malaysian state of Penang.

August 11th, 1492

The first papal conclave to be held in the Sistine Chapel elected Roderic Borja as Pope Alexander VI to succeed Innocent VIII.

August 11th, 1309

Reconquista: Aragonese forces led by King James II landed on the coast of Almería, beginning an ultimately unsuccessful siege of the city, then held by the Emirate of Granada.

August 11th, 1991

Nickelodeon’s very first line of “Nicktoons” (Doug, Rugrats & Ren & Stimpy) premiere on the channel.

August 11th, 2023

Luna 25 launches from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.

August 11th, 2006

The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.

August 11th, 2003

Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.

August 11th, 1992

The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota opens. At the time the largest shopping mall in the United States.

August 11th, 1982

A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others.

August 11th, 1975

East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 11th

Born on August 11th, 1927

Raymond Leppard

British conductor and harpsichordist (1927-2019)

*August 11th, 1927, London †October 22nd, 2019, Indianapolis

Giancarlo Astrua

Italian road bicycle racer

*August 11th, 1927, Graglia †July 29th, 2010, Biella

Stuart Rosenberg

American film director

*August 11th, 1927, Brooklyn †March 15th, 2007, Beverly Hills

Jim Doran

American football player (1927-1994)

*August 11th, 1927, Beaver †June 30th, 1994, Lake City

Pentti Holappa

Finnish writer (1927-2017)

*August 11th, 1927, Ylikiiminki †October 10th, 2017, Helsinki

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 11th?

David Rubenstein

American businessman

*August 11th, 1949, Baltimore

Rosemarie Müller-Streisand

German church historian and theologian

*August 11th, 1923, Berlin †June 26th, 2020, Berlin

Jean Parker

American actress

*August 11th, 1915, Deer Lodge †November 30th, 2005, Woodland Hills

Jah Wobble

English bassist, recording artist, songwriter

*August 11th, 1958, Stepney

Laila Dåvøy

Norwegian politician

*August 11th, 1948, Bergen

Aaron Klug

British chemist and biophysicist

*August 11th, 1926, Želva †November 20th, 2018, Cambridge

Greysia Polii

Indonesian badminton player

*August 11th, 1987, Jakarta

Gregoria Mariska Tunjung

Badminton player

*August 11th, 1999, Wonogiri

Joy Mogensen

Danish politician

*August 11th, 1980, Toronto

Viola Davis

American actress and producer (born 1965)

*August 11th, 1965, St. Matthews

Eric Carmen

American singer-songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist (1949–2024)

*August 11th, 1949, Cleveland †March 10th, 2024, Lyndhurst

Heuss l'Enfoiré

French rapper

*August 11th, 1992, Villeneuve-la-Garenne

Ian McDiarmid

Scottish actor and stage director

*August 11th, 1944, Carnoustie

Steve Wozniak

American–Serbian computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.

*August 11th, 1950, San Jose

David Henry Hwang

American playwright

*August 11th, 1957, Los Angeles

Alyson Stoner

American actor, singer and dancer

*August 11th, 1993, Toledo

Chris Hemsworth

Australian actor (born 1983)

*August 11th, 1983, Melbourne

Sophie Okonedo

British actress

*August 11th, 1968, London

Elena Kitić

Serbian pop singer

*August 11th, 1997, Hanover

Ben Gibbard

American singer, songwriter and guitarist

*August 11th, 1976, Bremerton

Same year
Born in 1927

Shirley Fry

American tennis and badminton player

*June 30th, 1927, Akron †July 13th, 2021, Naples

John Boardman

British classical archaeologist (born 1927)

*August 20th, 1927, London Borough of Redbridge

Hansjürgen Müller-Beck

German prehistorian

*August 13th, 1927, Apolda †August 2nd, 2018, Bern

Roger Moore

English actor (1927–2017)

*October 14th, 1927, Stockwell †May 23rd, 2017, Crans-Montana

Bhumibol Adulyadej

King of Thailand

*December 5th, 1927, Mount Auburn Hospital †October 13th, 2016, Siriraj Hospital

Benedict XVI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013 (1927–2022)

*April 16th, 1927, Birth house of Benedict XVI †December 31st, 2022, Mater Ecclesiae Monastery

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)

*March 6th, 1927, Aracataca †April 17th, 2014, Mexico City

Harry Belafonte

American singer and actor (1927–2023)

*March 1st, 1927, Harlem †April 25th, 2023, Upper West Side

Johannes Georg Seidel

*May 16th, 1927, Dresden †August 26th, 2017

Günter Guillaume

Stasi officer

*February 1st, 1927, Berlin †April 10th, 1995, Petershagen-Eggersdorf

Werner Liebrich

German footballer (1927–1995)

*January 18th, 1927, Kaiserslautern †March 20th, 1995, Kaiserslautern

Lothar Dräger

German comics writer

*January 19th, 1927, Grambow †July 9th, 2016, Potsdam

Claude Taittinger

French businessperson

*October 2nd, 1927, Paris †January 3rd, 2022, Paris

Erika Simon

German classical archaeologist (1927-2019)

*June 27th, 1927, Rheingönheim †February 15th, 2019, Würzburg

Horst Rudolf Abe

German medical historian (1927-2006)

*October 12th, 1927, Erfurt †February 27th, 2006, Erfurt

Günter Grass

German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015)

*October 16th, 1927, Free City of Danzig †April 13th, 2015, Lübeck

Hans Wußing

German historian of mathematics

*October 15th, 1927, Waldheim †April 26th, 2011, Leipzig

Uta Ranke-Heinemann

German Catholic theologian and author; World's first woman to hold a chair in Catholic theology

*October 2nd, 1927, Essen †March 25th, 2021, Essen

Rosalynn Carter

First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981

*August 18th, 1927, Plains †November 19th, 2023, Plains

Kika de la Garza

American politician (1927-2017)

*September 22nd, 1927, Mercedes †March 13th, 2017, McAllen

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on August 11th

Fixed holidays (Christian Feast Day) which are celebrated on August 11th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XI.VIII.MCMXXVII

11.8.1927

Legend

M = 1000

CM = 900

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Born on August 11th, 1927
Future birthdays

99

2026Tuesday, August 11th

100

2027Wednesday, August 11th

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1927 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
August 1927

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August 11th, 1927

Born on August 11th, 1927

Weekday

Thursday

Age

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 35,000 days old!

35,321 Days

5,045 Weeks

1,160 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

Born on August 11th, 1927: When to retire?

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What happened on August 11th?

Ken Levine's System Shock 2 was released to mediocre sales, but was critically acclaimed and highly influenced subsequent first-person shooter game design.

At a party in New York City, Jamaican musician DJ Kool Herc (pictured) began rapping during an extended break, laying the foundation for hip hop music.

King Talal of Jordan was forced to abdicate due to mental illness and was succeeded by his eldest son Hussein .

Amid rumors of kidnappings of children by Jews in Kraków, a crowd of Poles took part in a pogrom, resulting in at least one death.

The first Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic, the oldest and largest African-American parade in the United States, was held in Chicago.

Francis Light founded George Town, the first British settlement in Southeast Asia and the present-day capital of the Malaysian state of Penang.

The first papal conclave to be held in the Sistine Chapel elected Roderic Borja as Pope Alexander VI to succeed Innocent VIII.

Reconquista: Aragonese forces led by King James II landed on the coast of Almería, beginning an ultimately unsuccessful siege of the city, then held by the Emirate of Granada.

Nickelodeon’s very first line of “Nicktoons” (Doug, Rugrats & Ren & Stimpy) premiere on the channel.

Luna 25 launches from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.

The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.

Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.

The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota opens. At the time the largest shopping mall in the United States.

A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others.

East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 11th

Born on August 11th, 1927

British conductor and harpsichordist (1927-2019)

Italian road bicycle racer

American film director

American football player (1927-1994)

Finnish writer (1927-2017)

Same Day Who's birthday is on August 11th?

Same year Born in 1927

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on August 11th

Athracht

Clare of Assisi

Gaugericus

John Henry Newman (Church of England)

Philomena

Susanna

Taurinus of Évreux

Tiburtius and Chromatius

August 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Flag Day (Pakistan)

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Chad from France in 1960.

Mountain Day (Japan)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

11.8.1927

Legend

Born on August 11th, 1927 Future birthdays

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Leap year

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 35,000 days old!

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 11th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 11th?

Same year
Born in 1927

Born on August 11th, 1927
Future birthdays

Calendar
August 1927

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31	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
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